This game too hard .

[Bright]

This game too hard . I feel unfriend for beginner to play.

[Bright]

I delete this game. I ask people how to play but I still play bad. Everything , whole the thing. all stuff. They are not become better for me. Bye Bye . I play 1 years but I still play bad. I am very thank you everyone teach me how to play. 黑子 , jui , 柏翰 . I am very thank you guy patience . One day , I will come to this game again.
ah , This game really is hard for me. i give up .

[Lorenz_iPsum]

i'm sorry bro

[sp00ky]

There is no obligation to play against other people. You can play vs AI, and you can play allied with other players against AI and it's tons of fun.

I just lost like 4 games in a row today, and it leaves a bad taste, but it's a game after all and you can just shut down the pc, or play another games for a while until you feel like playing again.

All in all, no matter what game you play just remember is a game and you are supposed to have fun.

[Dredd]

Watch replays on youtube best way to learn. You can also try "War Selection
pengyou <3 it's free and more casual

[Elmer]

Originally posted by sp00ky:

There is no obligation to play against other people. You can play vs AI, and you can play allied with other players against AI and it's tons of fun.

I just lost like 4 games in a row today, and it leaves a bad taste, but it's a game after all and you can just shut down the pc, or play another games for a while until you feel like playing again.

All in all, no matter what game you play just remember is a game and you are supposed to have fun.

I agree. I only play against the AI. And if I'm playing as, say, the Russians, and am new to them, I'll set the difficulty to easy just to see how they operate. Offensive and defensive strengths and weaknesses. How well the economy works. The AI? It seems to get a bit better with every update. My game, my pace, my fun!

[againer]

Try Age of Empires IV. It's much easier than this game (the developers deliberately made it easier) and has more content creators making videos and write-ups for the game.

[Bright]

Originally posted by AbsoluteWorstN00b:

Try Age of Empires IV. It's much easier than this game (the developers deliberately made it easier) and has more content creators making videos and write-ups for the game.

I think that i maybe be able to try .

[Gwotyng]

This game is not hard. It just made simple designs look complex. And the toxic players who randomly abuse their teammates let this game die faster too.

Tried AoE4 but I don't like its hotkeys. I might wait for Elden Ring and switch to CoH3 later.

[Lieutenant]

Don't give up, Learn from Pros, I've got for each civ, Checkout this playlist, Might Help!
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3HThp_VzCx-FE9AND6C_EQ/playlists

[Ark-Angel]

RTS games arent for everyone but I think this is easier than Age of empires 2 and 4

[sp00ky]

Originally posted by Ark-Angel:

RTS games arent for everyone but I think this is easier than Age of empires 2 and 4

The issue with AoE2 is that you can commit like 20 minutes of your time on a bad build order, and then find out on minute 21 that you will lose. It's a fantastic game but it takes way more patience to master. AoE3 seems a bit more micro intensive however, specially how on top of your vills you have to be regarding herding hunts. I like playing AI on AoE2, for me it's pretty challenging, and playing the campaigns on the new coop mode with a friend is a blast.

I haven't tried aoe4 yet as I can't make it run on linux. so I can't comment. It looks cool altough it seems it has it's fair share of criticism regarding balance.

Originally posted by Elmer:

I agree. I only play against the AI. And if I'm playing as, say, the Russians, and am new to them, I'll set the difficulty to easy just to see how they operate. Offensive and defensive strengths and weaknesses. How well the economy works. The AI? It seems to get a bit better with every update. My game, my pace, my fun!

I wish the AI would try different strats and build orders to be able to practice counters against popular build orders online.

That being said, sometimes just a plain FFA with 4 or 6 AI on very hard is super fun.

Another thing I like about this game is the sheer amount of civs and how different they are, I haven't even tried the USA and Mexico yet.

[Tingo]

你可以先打AI練習阿，當你可以成功跟專家級單挑後，去玩多人遊戲就沒問題了。

[pombruv]

I found the Single Player AI too aggressive also. But then, I'm very old and I just like to relax when playing a game and there's nothing more relaxing than having a better than even chance of winning :) I tried the EASY setting but the AI was still rushing me in the early game and I really don't like that - no fun for me. Eventually I had a look at the AI directory in the game. There are personality files which govern the reactions of each enemy. For instance, akbar.personality governs the actions of the Indian nation. If you Open this file with notepad you can edit it. I changed one line:

<rushboom>-1</rushboom> I changed that to: <rushboom>-0.2</rushboom>

Then I added a completely new line which was:

<offensedefense>-1.0</offensedefense>

Then save the akbar.personality file and play the game by setting India as your AI opponent.

You will find personality files for all the AI opponents and you can edit those too.

BE WARNED. If you stuff it up you will have to reinstall the game to get back to the old files. Although you could save all the original files to a new name as a backup? Nah. easier to reinstall.

If you do the above you will find India becomes very passive - unless you attack them or get too close - then they will swarm unless you've built up a really good attack force.

There are also dozens of other ways to affect the AI in much the same way (limiting artillery production, limiting gathering, etc. etc. You just have to look at the files and figure it out like I did. You can also use the same methods to make the AI much harder and much more aggressive if you like that sort of thing. Have fun :)

[pombruv]

Just played a full game with the above edit and it was great for me. The AI left me pretty much alone while I built my settlement and then my army. I think I built about 90 units. Then I took them on a march to where I figured the enemy was. He was. It was a fantastic battle. He had more units than me but I had lots of rocket launchers. After a long skirmish where I smashed all his buildings I only had one rocket launcher left and with that I killed the last enemy and won the game. I really enjoyed it. But I tweaked the numbers again to make it a touch easier. I made the boomrush parameter 0.4 and the offensedefense parameter became -0.8. The next game was much better for me. Anyway, it shows you can make this game suitable for even the most useless player (like me). I will now edit the other AI players and try a game with a few more enemies.

[Elmer]

HA!HA!HA! You sound like me! Age and all! But for now I'm ok with the AI. Except for the carib map where ships loaded with troops are fishing. Fishing is one thing. With embarked troops is another. If I attack, the ships will sit there and take the hits till they sink or pivot away then pivot back. In the old AOE 3, if I put up a defensive strong point at the edge of the water, ships would attack it and debark troops right there - to be destroyed. Then it would figure out how to respond and debark troops and attack from land out of range. Pretty much now the AI will send ship after ship on the same course to be destroyed by that strong point and whatever I have reinforcing it. But, I do love this game! And I get surprised and pleased when two or more of my AI opponents attack me at he same time.