I'm assuming it was an item that was tested with briefly and discarded. Stuff in that state is not guaranteed to be complete.

Hey, MattP! Remember me?

Do you know that AoK graphics were used in a game called Evony Online? And do you know that they are being used to advertise games that look nothing like it?

BF_Tanks? Never heard of the guy.. nope. un-huh... :P

Yeah, we know all about Civony/Evony swiping the graphics. It's been reported to Microsoft multiple times since 2009. Are they still doing it? What other games are swiping them? I believe Microsoft cares, but most instances don't get reported to somewhere in Microsoft that would actually do something about them.

Matt! What do you do for a living now(if you're willing to tell us)?

I make games. Currently I am working on CounterStrike:Global Offensive.

Still going strong, awesome I bet working on the new CS is quite different from anything you've done in the past, I assume it must be quite challenging. I hope you're having fun with the dev team. I'll certainly be giving GO a try - isn't there a beta out or something?

So you're still at Valve? I think I read somewhere in this thread that you are no longer with your employer, but I might have jumbled it with the post saying that you're at Valve.

No I'm not at Valve anymore. I am at Hidden Path, which is just down the street and happens to have been working on CS:Go for the past three years. It's a small industry.

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Cool, I've played a lot of counterstrike in previous years. I think it was the best online fps, untill cod4 was released, which was graphically and technically much better. I'm certainly interested how a modern counterstrike will look.

Matt, I'm Tanks_FST.

And I am not aware of any games swiping the graphics but there have been facebook adverts that use obvious AoK screenshots instead of actual gameplay..

ES_MattP , do you (and the team) mind to use ADS in any upcoming CS games ?

BF_Tanks: Is that your Steam ID?

Fanica: what is ADS? In game advertising?

I believe he meant Aim Down Sight, the more precise targeting of enemies.

@MattP: No, A long time ago we were emailing each other, last time you were here and answering questions and you worked for Valve. Tanks_FST was my forum-name, BF_Tanks@yahoo and jake_anderson_007@hotmail where my email addresses used. I believe our emails stopped when you asked me to email you on a different adress to keep things seperate from your current employers email or something.

@BF_Tanks: Thanks, an my apologies for spacing and forgetting that.

Wow! There’s a lot of interesting information here. Would you mind posting on the AoE Heaven forums some time, Mr. Pritchard? We’d be quite interested in knowing more about the features which were abandoned.

Crossbowman: When I have some time, I'll come over there and see what's up in the AoE forums. At the moment, I am pretty saturated.

So , the aim down sights will be used in any CS games ?

I feel like it's very unrealistic without it. I mean, in real life you can't aim very good holding your gun that way.

Someone said that new civilisations couldnt be added but how come this is done in Forgotten Empires?

Also @Matt do you have any advice about transfering maps from AOE to AOE2? Because i've done this for some maps putting them in the scenerio folder, and some work when opened but others just crash :S

oh yeah definetly for AOE too, I'd be interesting to see some pre-release shots of that too - I still make scenerios for that game

Someone said that new civilisations couldnt be added but how come this is done in Forgotten Empires?

It requires exe editing, which isn't included in any of the modding tools.

Jackrum, this site might interest you if you're looking for pre-release shots of Age of Empires games.

And so it begins

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Everything starts to fit together now

Video says not available to my country. What kind of bs is that