#1276 UpdatedAge of Empires II: Definitive Edition Build 36906 + Enhanced Graphics Pack

Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition completes the celebration of one of the most beloved real-time strategy franchises in definitive form with enhanced features and modernized gameplay. Command mighty civilizations from across Europe and the Americas or jump to the battlefields of Asia in stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics and fully enhanced audio. Now featuring Continued. 20 years ago, Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings released to worldwide acclaim. Today, a new remastered edition hits the shelves, promising modernized graphics.

Genres/Tags: Strategy, RTS, Isometric, 2D
Companies: Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, Wicked Witch Software, Xbox Game Studios
Languages: RUS/ENG/MULTI14
Original Size: 38.6 GB
Repack Size: from 6.5 GB [Selective Download]

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Aoe 2 Definitive Edition Download

Repack Features

Based on Age.of.Empires.II.Definitive.Edition.Build.36906-CODEX ISO: codex-age.of.empires.ii.definitive.edition.build.36906.iso (34,402,500,608 bytes)
Missing language packs (6.6 GB) added, thanks to Skiminok!
Game version – Build 36906; Enhanced Graphics Pack is included and available as an optional download
100% Lossless & MD5 Perfect: all files are identical to originals after installation
NOTHING ripped, NOTHING re-encoded
Selective Download feature: you can skip downloading and installing of Enhanced Graphics Pack and voiceovers you don’t need
Significantly smaller archive size (compressed from cumulative 38.6 to 6.5~22.1 GB, depending on selected components)
Installation takes (main game without EGP): ~10 minutes on 8-threads CPU; ~20 minutes on 4-threads CPU
Installation with EGP is ~3 times longer
After-install integrity check so you could make sure that everything installed properly
HDD space after installation: up to 46 GB
Language can be changed in game settings
Repack uses XTool library by Razor12911
At least 2 GB of free RAM (inc. virtual) required for installing this repack

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition celebrates the 20th anniversary of one of the most popular strategy games ever with stunning 4K Ultra HD graphics, a new and fully remastered soundtrack, and brand-new content, “The Last Khans” with 3 new campaigns and 4 new civilizations.

Explore all the original campaigns like never before as well as the best-selling expansions, spanning over 200 hours of gameplay and 1,000 years of human history. Head online to challenge other players with 35 different civilizations in your quest for world domination throughout the ages.

Choose your path to greatness with this definitive remaster to one of the most beloved strategy games of all time.

Enhanced Graphics Pack

The Enhanced Graphics Pack increases Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition to ultra-high fidelity resolution. Before you attempt to install, please make sure that your system requirements meet or exceed the minimum specs for this content: 2.4 Ghz i5 or greater or AMD equivalent, 8 GB RAM, Nvidia® GTX 650 / AMD HD 5850 or better

You can skip downloading of Enhanced Graphics Pack and voiceover files or you don’t need. Here is the list of selective/optional files:

fg-optional-hd-pack.bin (Download only if you have an Ultra HD display, otherwise it’s pretty useless)
fg-selective-english.bin (REQUIRED for all languages withour their own voiceovers)
fg-selective-all-non-english.bin (REQUIRED for all languages but English)
fg-selective-chinese.bin
fg-selective-french.bin
fg-selective-german.bin
fg-selective-italian.bin
fg-selective-korean.bin
fg-selective-brazilian.bin
fg-selective-spanish.bin
fg-selective-mexican.bin

In example, if you want to launch the game w/p EGP and with Spanish UI/Subtitles/Voiceovers – skip all “selective/optional” files, but download fg-selective-spanish.bin & all main files (01-11).

Backwards Compatibility

This repack is NOT backwards compatible with previous AoE2DE repack.

BTW, the game works under Windows 7, but is freaking memory hungry. Eats around 5-6 GB of RAM w/o Ultra textures and >10 GB with Ultra textures on a freshly created game map. So if you experience crashes, you should buy more RAM or increase page file at least.

When it first came out in 1999, I played a lot of Age of Empires 2. Its blend of historical real-time strategy, with detailed rock-paper-scissors military unit management made it one of my favorite games of all time. I love the rhythm of having my villagers collect resources while I improve the village’s defenses, build and upgrade its soldiery, and ultimately launch invasions of my enemies.

So when an updated HD version came out in 2013, I gave it a try. I was disappointed. Although it was a decent update, which offered a lot of modding tools and a general visual improvement, it didn’t catch my imagination. It was, in essence, a nostalgia play.

A new version, called Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition, has captivated me entirely. Developer Forgotten Empires and Xbox Game Studios have done a fantastic job of taking a 20-year-old game and making it feel fresh. Although it’s really the same game, the Definitive Edition has made enough changes to make it feel like new, especially while we wait for Age of Empires 4 to arrive.

Age of Empires 2: Definitive Edition looks better than ever before, with support for 4K resolution. It has a richer color palette, better lighting, and a host of redesigned units and buildings. I’m especially taken by the way buildings crumble to the ground when they finally succumb to siege. The ability to zoom in on the action is nicely implemented.

Music and voice acting have also been updated, giving the game a more grandiose feeling, especially during the campaigns, which are heavily narrated.

All the old campaigns have been included, with updates, as well as a new campaign based on the waning days of the Khanate. This includes four new civilizations and three story campaigns that offer a rewarding challenge.

In one new campaign, there’s a timed challenge that pits Tamerlane (aka Timur) against the heavily fortified city of Delhi. It’s reasonably easy to use catapults to get past the outer walls, but the city’s cramped streets are heavily defended by war elephants. Unit management becomes more difficult as the enemy takes out my seriously vulnerable bombardment units, leaving me unable to destroy the city’s last citadel. As I say, it’s a nicely designed challenge.

New campaigns offer a solid challenge

New game modes have also been added, including one called Empire Wars, which drops the player into a town with a ready-made population of villagers, all busily collecting a balanced portfolio of food, wood, gold, and stone. This takes the chores out of the early game, for those who tire of such things.

Much-needed game-control improvements have also been added. Unit queues are now more efficient.

Each building in Age of Empires games builds multiple types of units. Stables, for example, can build light cavalry, heavy cavalry, scouts, camel riders, and more. In the past, I could only queue up one type at a time — say, 10 knights — and then go back and queue up the next desired units. Now I can queue in any order. It’s nice to create archers and spearmen alternatively, so that I have a more balanced ranged army right from its creation.

Civilians can also be instructed to construct certain buildings

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