How do you speed up/slow down the game?

[Anderson]

I cannot find the buttons to control game speed, the way you can in AoE2. I want to slow the game down while i learn.

[Saica-Fox]

u cant

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Yeah, you can't slow it down. It's suppose to be really fast. You need to be very quick with management and building armies also attacking/ defending. Is like Company of Heroes, everything is very fast. Think super quick is the best advice.
The game is easy to learn but not easy to master.

[Anderson]

really.......that is very odd.
I am not looking for advice, I just don't enjoy the fast spam fiesta. Did the devs seriously not include such a basic feature? AoE2 DE has this.

Shame. I want to play a more relaxing skirmish (or campaign), where I can think a bit about what is happening.

[Intentional Fowl]

I don't know if I'd personally play the game like that, but I agree, it's a weird thing to not include, given they've included it in the past. And it is probably preferable to a lot of people.

[[{******---Dead4Life---******}]]

Originally posted by Anderson:

really.......that is very odd.
I am not looking for advice, I just don't enjoy the fast spam fiesta. Did the devs seriously not include such a basic feature? AoE2 DE has this.

Shame. I want to play a more relaxing skirmish (or campaign), where I can think a bit about what is happening.

Yeah, this was a bold decision. Maybe with a feature patch it could change.

[Fluke]

So...this has been asked in various threads now but not really answered: in the Game Settings there *are* 2 keys assigned to Game Speed.
= and - (plus and minus).

Problem for me is: they do not change Game Speed. I have assigned secondary keys for them and those do not work either. For me it is 'make or break' so I am staying inside the 2 hours but I have enough time left to test anything anyone here can come up with?

Maybe it is a bug with making a Profile, and it works fine with Default Settings?

It does suprise me so many people say there are no such keys. Could it be there are different Key Bindings options for different platforms?

Very curious; hope someone has an answer :)

[dresoccer4]

Originally posted by Fluke:

So...this has been asked in various threads now but not really answered: in the Game Settings there *are* 2 keys assigned to Game Speed.
= and - (plus and minus).

Problem for me is: they do not change Game Speed. I have assigned secondary keys for them and those do not work either. For me it is 'make or break' so I am staying inside the 2 hours but I have enough time left to test anything anyone here can come up with?

Maybe it is a bug with making a Profile, and it works fine with Default Settings?

It does suprise me so many people say there are no such keys. Could it be there are different Key Bindings options for different platforms?

Very curious; hope someone has an answer :)

this is for replay only

[Fluke]

Tyvm Dre! This piece of info was not included in that thread I read.
Well refund hope they fix it and get it again I guess. Moldy Oldies need their time with...certain...things ;p.

[mikejenkin]

I'm totally Pxxxed Off with AoE IV, have over a thousand hours in III, bought IV and it is just stupidly fast with no option to adjust speed. I would never have bought it if I had known as I have arthritis in my hands and the completely unrealistic speed of IV ruins the gameplay for me, just so stupid watching these units race across the screen faster than Olympic Gold Medals winners. So Disappointing!

[Fluke]

Hey Mike,

I found something interesting a while back: 'Advanced Game Settings' (my only mod). I do not remember if this is something I downloaded in-game or from a place like Nexusmods.

Personally I hope its speed settings, which only go to about 70% (over three individual aspects of the game) will soon allow us to further reduce game speed, because as soon as I have more than one (control) group in AoE IV things are just not allowing me to have a fun relaxed game experience, where I can think rather than quick-react.

One of the first RTS I played was Empire Earth with, I think, 10 speed settings.
I now play Sins of a Solar Empire II and it also has a multitude of speed settings.
AoE IV: one wonders why not? I hardly play it because of this, and therefore cannot recommend it.

Thinking is not such a bad thing. In moderation ;)

Fluke