Age of Empires IV’s Min Spec Mode Gives More Players More Opportunities to Play

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For nearly 25 years, the Age of Empires series has been delighting millions of real-time strategy fans around the world. With a focus on real historical events dating all the way back to the Stone Age, the series tasks players with determining how those events played out, allowing them to experience history as it was or create a new history of their own. It’s clearly resonated with fans, selling millions of copies over the years.

 

 

With that in mind, the teams at developer World’s Edge and Relic Entertainment knew that they had big shoes to fill in developing the upcoming Age of Empires IV. However, they knew it wasn’t enough just to create a game that not only checked all the requisite real-time strategy boxes but also delivered an experience that exceeded fans’ expectations. The teams knew that they needed to go above and beyond to let more people than ever play.

 

 

Enter Min Spec Mode, which will allow players on older and lower-powered machines to experience Age of Empires IV. This mode is triggered via a combination of in-game settings, which are made with help from an auto-detection system when you first launch the game and can be referenced or tweaked from the settings menu. 

 

 

 

 

“When looking to bring this new game to the franchise, we knew we needed to support a diverse set of PC configuration,” said Michael Mann, Executive Producer at World’s Edge. “Even looking forward to the next few years, we expect 50% or more of our player base will be playing on machines that use the low spec renderer.”

 

 

A large part of that player base is still playing games like Age of Empires II and Age of Empires III, which were released in 1999 and 2005, respectively. Age of Empires is also a very global franchise, and machine specs vary widely across the world. Some regions that are very active in playing the Age franchise also tend to have lower spec’d machines for a variety of reasons. Southeast Asia and Latin America are two regions that have very passionate and still-thriving Age of Empires communities, and the developers wanted to make sure that the people who still play Age of Empires II and Age of Empires III today can enjoy Age of Empires IV.

 

 

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