Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition News

So, you want to rotate buildings in Age of Empires 4? To be fair, quite a few base-building RTS games, and other games besides, let you rotate buildings. For management games and city-building games, rotating buildings is somewhat essential for optimal planning and placement. There are many reasons for both why a player would want to rotate a building, and for why a game would let the building be rotated.

In Age of Empires IV, however, it is currently not possible to rotate a building. You can rotate the camera perspective, so you will be able to see all four sides of any given structure and then some, but in terms of when you place it down on the ground, there's nothing you can do but accept the pre-set rotation.

At the moment, there's no real reason why this would be an issue. Barring legitimate impassable terrain, the ground around a building will mould itself to the structure being placed. A grid system also prevents buildings from overlapping, and when it comes to production buildings like the barracks or stable, units don't appear from any fixed point. If you block up the 'entrance', units will simply spawn from another side instead.

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Историческая стратегия Age of Empires IV от Xbox Game Studios возглавила глобальный чарт самых продаваемых игр в Steam за неделю, завершившуюся 31 октября.

It turns out Age of Empires 4 has been a big hit on Steam. According to SteamDB's data, the brand-new strategy game - which launched late last week - has sailed to the top of the platform's weekly bestsellers for the week ending October 31.

SteamDB shows that Age of Empires IV has nabbed the top two spots on this past week's list of Steam's top-selling games, with the top spot being the main game and the second spot taken by the game's pre-orders. Curiously, the game's sat in the number seven spot of the weekly bestsellers, too, though with the different versions of the game (standard, digital deluxe, and a bundle) being available via the same Steam page, it's likely that these double entries reflect the two different editions - though it's not clear which is which.

Either way, it's an impressive feat for the game. The Age of Empires 4 release date was only October 28, so that means the long-awaited next instalment in the long-running strategy series racked up the biggest number of sales on Steam that week in just three days. The game sits above other big titles such as Amazon's MMO New World, as well as Back 4 Blood, Guardians of the Galaxy, and Football Manager 2022 in the list.

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