I recently purchased Age of Empires 2 (HD), and perhaps the first thing I noticed which is different to the original disk game, is that the AI seems incapable of mobilising troops in formation as the player can.
This makes for a very poor attack as the AI forces reach my defences in a 'trickle', making them extremely easy too deal with.
My questions are:
- Is this an isolated problem? As I have found no other mention of this
online. - How could this possibly be fixed?
Platform data (If for whatever reason relevant):
- windows 7
- 4GB RAM
- Intel i5
Best Answer
You're not alone; I've noticed this a lot as well. This is just a quirk of the AI in HD Edition. The AI doesn't know how to select formations (since it doesn't have a mouse to do so), so it is much easier for it to select units one at a time to move them. Unfortunately what this means is that attacks are much easier to pick off since it's easier to focus on one unit at a time. My suggestion would be to either try using the Conquerors AI, or to download some AI mods from the Steam Workshop or Age of Empires 2 Heaven (these are manual downloads but are usually pretty easy to install).