Jagged fonts?

[𝕕 𝕣 𝕒 𝕜 𝕒]

The fonts are terrible and have some weird jaggies as shown in pictures. I tested on 2 different displays. Windows scaling is off. Switching to second font doesn't help.

Any ideas?

https://imgur.com/a/YlO2SmZ

[Rei dos Vermes]

Yes, the font scaling looks awlful in this game, aliased and blurried in places. I wish there was a mod to fix it, but apparently most people can't see the issue.

[Krist0fh]

I have the same problem. It's horrible, the old AOE had better and more legible fonts than this one.

[DMg Halt]

Never noticed the "jaggies" until you posted this. What resolution are you on?

[Danek]

Problem is screen resolution.
I have testet this game on two different devices, and four monitors.

On my main PC (1080p) and Surface Go2 (1280p) fonts looks terrible. Tried it on my friends monitor with 1440p - a little better, but still ugly as hell.
Only with my TV (with 4K), fonts looks sharp, maybe not as good as it was with AoE2 HD, but finally it is something acceptable.

Conclusion - font scaling in this game is trerrible, and Microsoft should do something with it.

[DMg Halt]

If enough people complain about it, they will probably fix it. But I wouldn't speculate by saying this was plain laziness or poor game development standards, but rather something that was overlooked when working on the more important aspects of the game.

[Zolk Ironblood]

are you talking about the serifs? or the blurriness because you made the picture bigger?

[Danek]

Originally posted by DMg Halt:

If enough people complain about it, they will probably fix it. But I wouldn't speculate by saying this was plain laziness or poor game development standards, but rather something that was overlooked when working on the more important aspects of the game.

I think the problem is in game engine itself - it is propably tested and optimalized for 4K displays, and fonts are scaled down for lesser resolutions. Maybe developers didnt make different sets of fonts for each resolution, thinking, that scaling will be enough - it is not.
Unfortunately effects are ugly and sometimes font looks unreadable, especialy on other languages added recently to the game (they have worse font, witch you cant change like in eanglish translation).

[DMg Halt]

I agree, sometimes the number 3 looks like the number 8. You can't tell sometimes unless you squint your eyes and get really close to the screen.

[Zolk Ironblood]

turn on sans serif font...

[Lilim]

I have the same problem .

Originally posted by Zolk Ironblood:

turn on sans serif font...

They already tried that and it didn't help:

Originally posted by 𝕕 𝕣 𝕒 𝕜 𝕒:

Switching to second font doesn't help.

[aoe_scout]

This issue is now being tracked, thank you for the report.