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1. AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT HOW TO
2. AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT INSTALL
3. AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT ARCHIVE
4. AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT ZIP

If it hadn't been a hit, Moulder theorizes, Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer might have never signed off on the billions of dollars in losses that it takes to enter the console space when Ed Fries-who at the time was vice president of game publishing at Microsoft-pitched the idea in 1998. "Then on the other side," he continued, "we had to show that we have the ability as a first-party publisher to deliver a hit game aimed at core gamers-because that's people who buy and play console games."Īge of Empires was the game that fulfilled that second criteria. "One success was the success of DirectX, which showed that we had the chops on the operating system side to deliver technology that made it possible to build great games-and that's what DirectX was." "I believe that there were two big successes that had to happen to Microsoft for the Xbox console to happen," said Moulder. Don’t be afraid of wasting time because the reward is worthwhile.Age's other legacy Age of Empires' greatest legacy may not have anything to do with its continued popularity. Conclusionįor beginners, practicing hotkeys in the editor mode is certainly the fastest and best way to memorize them. Check out the video i posted at the beginning of this guide (skip to 8:57) where I took the typing test. Usually a fast typer has an average of 60 WPM (words per minute), less than that you my friend are not a fast typer yet. It is crucial in any RTS game to have a decent typing speed to manage hotkeys and multi-task faster and while some of you may think they are fast typers. to assign any hotkeys to the technologies/upgrades AoE2 DE lets you assign hotkeys to any building that offer technologies or upgrades to research.īy the default no hotkeys are assigned to upgrades and techs so to configure them go to Options > Hotkeys Then to your left hand side you should click a town center, lumbercamp, etc. Unlike the previous versions of Age of empires 2. Selects your units and switches the camera view at their location.

Only selects your units without switching camera view. There are two ways to employ this hotkey. Now that our army above is set to number 1. Use your mouse to box whatever object(s) or unit(s) you wish to hotkey then for example: CTRL + 1 (select any number from 0 – 9)

AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT HOW TO

How To Set a Hotkey on Unit(s) Object(s)? In Age of Empires 2 Definitive Edition or any previous version, we can set hotkeys to 4 sets of units & objects: We have all these hotkey presets installed automatically.

AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT ARCHIVE

Inside the Archive there a “ HotkeyPack-DE.exe” file, just double click it ( no need to extract it) Then a window like this one appears:

AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT INSTALL

HotkeyPack DE Tool To Install Pro Hotkeys If you’re feeling lazy to manually install the hotkey pack, you can download this little tool from here:

AGE OF EMPIRES 2 REDDIT ZIP

Enter those folders with the random numbers then inside “/profile/” folder extract the hotkey files zip inside them both “76561198079200175” & “76561198286982586”, but if you only have one folder it’s ok. Now inside it you’ll find another folder or more with random numbers e.g.ĥ. Type in: %userprofile%\Games\Age of Empires 2 DEĤ. Download the hotkey files zip: Hotkey-Profiles.zipģ. For that reason I got you covered with a pack of hotkey files which you can either install them yourself manually or use a little app to accomplish it in glimpse of an eye. If you’re new to the hotkey world, It’s recommended to use one of the hotkey presets of pro players.