I totally agree with you. This is the exact reason why I don't play multiplayer. It's a shame really. I would love if the game was still in development or could be modded and then this issue could be fixed. All that would be needed is to give a significant decrease in morale for troops that "stand on each other" or as you say stack. There is nothing wrong with having 7 stacks of cavalry, but to be able to mass them in one tiny spot and not get any penalty for it is not only game breaking, but unrealistic as well. There were huge cavalry charges in that age and the morale damage boost that cavalry has already brings this fact into the game, but you can stack infinite number of cavalry here so the bonus gets "exponential". Another solution could be to decrease the morale damage that cavalry inflicts overall. This could be done more easily from a game development point of view. I don't think that this would be a better solution, but certainly one that could be done. In this case, the only benefit that cavalry would still offer would be its speed of movement. This would still lead to a better outcome than what we have now. Overall, I think the whole game would benefit from some sort of penalty for stacking troops on one another. This was one of the biggest challenges at that time anyway: manauvering these units whithout them getting all dangled up and confused so they stay intact and ready to fight.

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

Great suggestions! It's quite difficult for me to complain here because I DO want big cavalry battles with large charges from all directions but as we can agree, this does not work as intended in the current state of the game. Decreasing morale damage inflicted if many troops are stacked on top of each other is definitely a good suggestion. It would be especially good as a fix in the scenario when all the troops are commanded to fire at once (like in the video when all of the horsemen fire at once on my last grenadier squad). All of them shooting at once causes INSANE morale damage even though realistically all of the troops would have just killed each other from friendly fire (which as far as I'm aware friendly fire is in the game code but simply disabled). Thanks for the comment, it's reassuring to know I'm not the only one frustrated by this.

Aoe2 has the same units becoming more densely packed than they should be on water 🌊, as ships constantly bug out and ignore their collision radius. It is really annoying and makes Galleys much better than they should be.

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

It must be a problem with many games from that time, they were released so long ago that you weren't able to simply release updates and patches every day like most games get today. I've never played AoE but I feel for you.

@ZS-rw4qq

3 ай бұрын

Also there was a time when everyone was just spamming knights in aoe2 and I hated that. No combined arms, tactics, diversions, nothing... They couldn't stack tho

Gosh I would have expected something like this game is 20 years old and that's why

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

Nope multiplayer still works, which is fantastic and other games should take notes

There is some patch that will limit cavalry to 1 by each type.

Dont know how this video got recommended to me but it suddenly gave me the urge to listen to Justin Timberlake for some reason.

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

The most random comment I've ever gotten I think lol

If you wanna play with a noobie that doesn't stack formations,you can count on me.

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

We can definitely play some time! Also, you should make more videos, you get a lot of views on them :)

Do you use mods if you play alone (AI) ? Or you use some game fix get AI is better ? I've been playing on the hardest difficulty for years. And I can just do it

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

I have the 1.4 patch and additional changes created by a guy called ValerBOSS but the site I downloaded it from no longer has it so I can't give a link. Recently I've tried a patch that's available on the Steam community page by a guy called feenix55555 and it improves the AI slightly so I'd recommend that. Unfortunately even with those patches the AI is still not incredibly hard but it's good enough to make the game relaxing and enjoyable

@ragebeast3603

3 ай бұрын

You tried play skirmish with my patch ?@@Sydrooo

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

@@ragebeast3603 video tomorrow ;)

@ragebeast3603

3 ай бұрын

@@Sydrooo ok

"why stack troops right..." Yeah you should go back in time and tell Epaminondas he was cheating

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

I'm not educated in Greek history so I don't quite know the reference, but the thought of Spartans shouting "CHEATER" at him from a distance does sound kinda funny

People are still playing multiplayer for American Conquest, Mainly the HEW Napoleonic mod and the HDN mod for FB and DN, theres an example of a match we played recently here:kzread.info/dash/bejne/kWp71s6uk9LglaQ.html . I dont know the in depth mechanics of Cossacks 2, but it seems somewhat similar since the base games were made by the same developers. Do you people use gameranger for setting up matches?

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

Damn the scale of that battle looks awesome! Yeah it seems very similar and kind of makes me want to check it out for myself. No gameranger; when you load up the game there is a multiplayer lobby where you can start games and people join through that. I'd assume there's maybe a discord server or something but I've played multiplayer very little myself

Seems like a design and balancing problem more than anything, how comes the (game) can't be modded tho?

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

Definitely is a balancing problem, the game was released in 2006 and so getting a patch for it never came I guess. What do you mean the mod can't be modded?

@pacoytal1756

3 ай бұрын

sorry I meant the game haha@@Sydrooo

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

@@pacoytal1756 I assume the game can be modded, especially in single player I myself know how to mod certain aspects but I don't know how it works in multiplayer games; whether both players would need to mod their files or what. It probably can be done but I don't know how to, and even then you'd have to agree with the other players to play with the rebalance

I have this game on steam, but I'm unable to play it, does not start on win11, anyone got it working?

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

If you've not already done so, maybe make a post on the Steam community page, someone there may know and they're more likely to see it than on this video

@ric_reborn

3 ай бұрын

yeah, found some tutorials in the forum, to download an app, but didn't work. so I thought asking in a video of someone who is playing, how you run it, is an older OS?@@Sydrooo

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

@@ric_reborn I run on Windows 10 and it works fine, but this game is very stupid in that on some computers it works and on others it does not for no reason. I would suggest: 1. delete a file called d3d8.dll in the game files 2. go into the game files and find engine.exe, click properties, and click run in compatibility mode Windows XP (try all service packs), then right click engine.exe and run as administrator If both of these don't work then I don't have any other ideas, for some people the game works and unfortunately for others it doesn't :/

@ric_reborn

3 ай бұрын

thank you, It was been years since I played this game. I'm pretty sure I already tested the compatibility mode many times before it never worked. But this time it worked! unbelievable thanks again@@Sydrooo

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

@@ric_reborn Awesome! I hope it continues working for you, would be a shame to not be able to enjoy this game!

stack arty to counter horses get gud

@christh7434

3 ай бұрын

Bro, I never play this game but obviously you don’t get the problem. Cav is most likely the only units able to travel so fast on map hence why it’s op. Seems like a shit hgame for multiplayer though he did the right choice to stay with AI 😂

@Sydrooo

3 ай бұрын

I assume your comment is a joke in which case good one ;) To be fair, if you did get the horseys in a choke point and smack some arty on em then it would probably work lol, don't know how likely that is to happen tho