/vst/ — Age Of Mythology Thread

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPwlmDZ3n7g
For the Aztecs...WAR is a divine Duty.

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anyone want inspections?

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>>2382969
they're okay, I need to get a better handle on their blood harvesting

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>I just destroyed a city. With my freaking mind!
I bet this mission is a real bitch on Ludicrous

>sort of unfucked Blood DLC by making skeletons turn white, adding darker blood and letting you change the size of blood pools
nice
>some skeletons are fucked (aztec scorpions leave behind human skeletons kek)
>first Aztec mission is immersive, as the city gets destroyed your framerate also gets destroyed
ngl I dislike this one, too much happening for the introducion
>next are eeh ok, nothing special but fun
>Kastor going awoooga after seeing the Aztec princess
based
>Kamina
uhh wtf, is Gargarensis' sis going to show up next?

Seems like a cool campaign so far, I'm liking this story split so we can have all the gods at play and not just have to fight other Aztecs all the time
Surprised to see Kastor so early, that's fun
>>2383148
Also glad that they put in bones getting bleached, better late than never

>>2383150
>Inb4 skeletons aren't the only thing getting bleached with this DLC

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Coomer bro what do we think of Coatlicue

Why is Kastor using God's name now
Also I'm tired of the old cast, all their dialogue is "haha old friend"

Someone here definitely wants to fuck Kamos' daughter
>>2383261
Do they ever bring up the fact that Ajax died and got resurrected?
I guess that did happen in a different DLC...

>>2383148
>>2383150
but ancient greeks and aztecs were like 2000 years apart!!!

>>2383282
t. Samurai posting from his Norse temple

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I'm now convinced the devs are trying their best but they're either mediocre or unexperienced or just really bad at noticing/ thinking about details
>Map itself is full of neat scripts, modified units, even a snowman as an easteregg
>Supposed to be a "no build" mission, but you eventually fight enough Fafnirs to get 2K gold, while having access to Norse infantry and having 250 wood
>You can just build a market, build a village center and some villagers, you can put about half on food/wood each (no gold on the map) and abuse the gold trickle you get from the Aztec gold dropsite to get some extra gold without the market, and eventually you can get full upgrades for all units and a Titan
Same shit with every post-retold addition, they're all....decent but they always feel half-assed and it takes devs a few months to fix the biggest issues and even then it's not 100% where it should be.
This example is just a nitpick because I think it was funny and it made me feel smart and not retarded to figure it out

>>2383292
I was thinking of complimenting that level specifically, it was pretty fun, reminds me of Warcraft 3 maps with all the scripts and easter eggs (I enjoyed walking into the cave only to get literally blown the fuck out)
I did have that thought of using the ulfsarks to build stuff but figured it was a no-build so any forces I had would be sufficient, but maybe on a Ludicrous run I'll give that a shot, ideally before it's patched out
If it was another level, I think it'd be a problem, but considering you're at the 53 minute mark it's just another gag, a nice bonus for being patient for no real reason

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Kamina sexo

>Chiron deadsplaining Ajax
Were the campaign writers not able to buy the China DLC or did they just decide not to bring it up and potentially confuse customers who didn't buy the China DLC
I felt a nostalgic happiness seeing Chiron again

>>2383267
Not yet, but Kastor mentioned Ajax's hair is getting greyer and despite that their ages never got changed from the Titans.
The new Aztec princess is also 24 just like Kastor (btw Kastor's purpose in the story is to suffer from brown fever so severe it guides all of his decisions, I hope he gets his white boy summer and cucks the Aztec BF because he's feeling neutered and stupid at the moment).
Idk if the devs think this shit is meant to take place in the same year as the Titans or if they want me to believe that because that's retarded.
>Kastor fucks up, frees the Titans, makes up for it and gets a pimp scepter and becomes hyperborean kang in nuAtlantis
>Ajax dies and comes back to life or some shit, btw he's in China and Japan
>btw he came back and now Kamos' daughter we never heard of has a massive pirate fleet that is strong enough to threaten fucking Kastor the kang of nuAtlantis, Amanra (no, not Queen anymore cause she's the only Egyptian there) and Ajax
>btw we now take this random ass sky passage into Norse land and apparently during the past few hours Loki did something or some shit and all giants are bigger, btw Eitri has Mjolnir for some reason and it's all fucked up and we never get to see it for the rest of the mission but it's implied Eitri is wielding it (kek wtf)
>Ajax has dementia, he acts like he hasn't seen anyone else in a really long time despite saving Japan like 2 days ago and China a week before that, and Kastor is now his best friend or something despite Ajax wanting to kill Kastor a month ago
yeah yeah story never mattered but it's legit retarded now (retolded?)

>>2383303
You can actually find Mjolnir in a cave to the right of the starting area, frozen on the ground
Which is a bit weird because it's implied that Eitri is wielding it to break the Loki statues but I guess they just made the Giant Giant model and called it a day
I'm not super bothered by the overarching continuity of the AoM world or whatever because it's about as messy as a multi-mythological world could get but I figured Ajax being dead and coming back was a funny enough gag that they'd carry it through
I guess I should just be glad to see the whole gang again (minus Arkantos), I was expecting any non-Aztec characters to have a much smaller role than this

>>2383294
It is fun, like I said most of the new content is solid, but it's frustrating how often the devs make stupid minor mistakes like this one.
Just in general they seem committed to actually make what people want but they always fuck up something really small but obvious that makes them look amateurish or lacking.
Like the whole Demeter Myth Units/ Hera/Amazon thing, or the blood DLC being really botched.
It's as if they are very close to making something really good everytime but lack the vision or imagination or talent to actually see it through and only ever get 90% of the way there until players or whatever come up with the rest of the concepts needed to make it feel complete.

>>2383311
>until players or whatever come up with the rest of the concepts needed to make it feel complete.
I'm happy that they're responding and putting some work in to fix things instead of doing nothing at all, it would've been super easy to just drop all this content and then disappear
Obviously it's not ideal but the current landscape of videogames is so fucking abysmal I'll appreciate any effort
Maybe they'll get their act together if they ever end up making a Sumeria DLC or something

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>No alternate art for Aztec like Japanese had for Tsukuyomi & Ame-no-Uzume.
Shame.

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>inane object (original game)
>inane object (definitive edition)

>>2383320
Yeah I'm pretty disappointed by some of these one line Aztec descriptions
I appreciate the skeleton god standing off to the side in the Hades level has a full bio though

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Ra's unlocked for me today.
Egyptian really got the short end of the stick, makes me wonder if they are going to bother doing more of these in the future.

Oh I didn't realize there was an AoM thread
I think the Aztecs in AoM might be bugged
There's almost never life force for my warrior priests to collect and that means that I can only get favor from sacrificing settlers (only viable lategame).
The Civ feels rather weak overall with their core early-game units all being quite brittle like I'm playing Egyptians but without the almost-free favor and woodless buildings
At least they have a universal drop site that's pretty cheap

>>2383330
Weird, my warrior priests gather favor just fine
I did notice the pathing is a bit fucked, I think the new ambush stuff is causing issues there
Wouldn't be surprised if there was a hotfix in the works already

>>2383320
Video games used to have required reading and were made by intelligent people. Now they're made by slave labour in India.

>>2383301
>>2383303
>>2383267
Ajax never died. He was just passing through the underworld.

>>2383148
At least they're listening to the feedback.
The prismatic blood still looks retarded tho

>>2383360
I could've sworn there was a line about it, but it has been a while since I played the Chinese campaign
Got a screenshot or something? I could be convinced, though I'm pretty sure Setna is definitely dead

Aztec campaign voice acting feels really fucking flat.

>>2383331
Yeah playing with Aztecs some more, I think I was just expecting bigger spikes of favor when they collected.
It feels like a pittance vs what Norse can do IMO, with Norse heroes not needing re-investment to be good at killing MU's (and they're not guaranteed to die in a short period after).
The description of Aztec settlers says they're cheaper than other civs to make up for the fact that they're supposed to be sacrificed every so often, but that doesn't seem to be true. They're 50F just like Greeks, Norse, and Egyptians. I don't know what Chinese or Nip vills cost but I assume they're the same.

>referring to units that actually exist in their reality as "myth units"
what did they mean by this?

>The old crew and the princess just chill out with Mictlantecuhtli for a few days.
Ngl, gave me a quite a chuckle.

>>2383261
Next main antagonist, duh

Speaking of which, I wonder of they're now planning to do a bigger campaign and somehow unite Yan Feifeng (plus Houyi and Cangjie), Yausko and co. with the OG gang properly to face a larger threat.

>>2383423
>boy I bet somebody was fired for that blunder
It's about as deep as a saturday morning cartoon, autism less, enjoy more

I know we're taking the new patch with a new pantheon with a grain of salt but THIRTY-FOUR PERCENT winrate, Amaterasu was already 65% at this point after Japanese launch.

ngl I did some spreadsheet crunching and on face value Aztecs look undertuned, but tbf so does Egyptian on paper and they don't suffer.

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what's her fucking problem?

>>2383439
Give it more time, the aztec are more convoluted than the japanese were
Also doesn't help that their mechanisms and units are just facelifted from other factions and the "tutorial" lie to you in its entirety

>they gain favor by collecting life force from fallen foes and devotion (it's just the norse favor generation with extra steps and the blood sacrifice is a terrible way to generate favor)
>they don't rely on walls and siege engines, instead using towers and traps (they can build walls just like the norses and they have a giant common myth unit that is just a catapult in disguise, also their towers doesn't produce "dread")
>they don't ride horses instead they field fast infantry (they show fucking panther riders in the same shot and their "spearman" is considered a counter-cavalry)

This is giving me flashback of Tale of the Dragon

>>2383323
Zeus not having one is extremely weird so i think they will have some more of these

>>2383382
Much better than Chinese

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which way White man?

>>2383292
Reminds me of that one Chinese mission where you choose your starting base, since the dev's didn't remove the ability to build a wonder that mission.

>>2383505
2>1>>>3 ill still take 3 over a white roastie hag anytime though.

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So, give it to me straight anons: Is the snek semen demon goddess' art AI or not?

>>2383620
It's hard to say. AI art keeps getting better, but she's depicted wearing dismembered hands on a necklace, so...

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Mating press.

>>2383687
I've yet to even make this unit while skirmishing against the AI. Either I have a decent unit comp and am pushing, or I'm dead before Mythic hits.

>>2383700
It's a really strong unit but what you said, Aztecs don't get to Mythic.
Shorn Ones say they're just anti-infantry but they actually trade well against anything but lots of archers, basically anything they can reach. They're honestly closer to being Samurai but better.

Does Arkantos bitch slap his son for letting white boy summer get to his head

>>2383628
does it matter if you can't tell?

The Aztec campaign has a very interesting take on how gods work in this universe. They didn't tend to just chill in smaller forms around humans like this.

>Ajax outright tells the Aztec princess that Kastor has "daddy issues" and implies he's Kastor's daddy now while Kastor bitches "nooo not in front of my crush"
ok this one got me, they still flanderized the shit out of everyone but this one landed

>>2383433
I'm surprised they haven't added them to Gauntlet mode at least
>>2383505
Itza cute
>>2383771
I like it, having the gods running around getting into mischief tends to make for fun myths, and in the campaigns it's usually a highlight
>Whenever Athena shows up
>Arkantos showing up in Titans
>Loki as Skult
>Osiris for one cutscene
Obviously they shouldn't show up all the time and ruin the mystique but it's cool when it happens

>>2383771
>Loki

>>2383786
fucking kek
I guess I have to play through the campaigns and catch up now

>>2383725
>hung out with literal nubian queen amanra
you know his ass was hoping for the same damn thing

Is there a gallery of all the Aztec unit and building models anywhere?