HD与AOFE团队合作译文：终止与Hidden Path的合作，SkyBox Labs和AOFE团队接手

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Hello Age of Empires fans!
Greetings from the Microsoft Age of Empires team.
微软帝国时代团队向大家问好！
Today I want to discuss some development changes coming to the Age of Empires II: HD production teams,
今天我想讨论一下关于帝国时代2HD开发团队未来的发展变化，
give a peek into some of the processes involved in game development, and hopefully plant the seed of excitement for the future.
重新审视游戏界发展状况，并为未来播下希望的种子。
Make sure to read through for some awesome announcements!
来阅读这篇文章，这是超棒的预告。
First off, I apologize for the delay in updates published for the title since 2.3. I’ve been just as restless as the community, but haven’t been able to communicate what’s been happening until now. Fortunately with the floodgates opening here, we should be able to return to regular updates and a lot more information.
首先为HD2.3补丁的推出发布抱歉，我们全体都很着急，但还是不知道现在到底怎么回事。未来我们应该回到有规律地发布补丁和消息的状态。
As many of you know, over the past year we have been working closely with Hidden Path Entertainment for the development of Age of Empires II: HD Edition.
就像许多人知道的，过去我们和Hidden Path（以下简称HP）公司走的很近，为的是帝国时代2HD的发布。
As an experienced studio located a short drive from our offices, with developers who worked on the original title, Hidden Path was the obvious choice to partner with.
选择和HP搭档是个很好很棒的决定，（HP有接触过帝国时代源代码的人）
They’ve been a great partner, and it has been truly astonishing to observe how they’ve managed to take such antiquated code and rebuild it for modern PCs.
他们成为了一个很棒的合作者，我觉得他们能把这么旧的代码研究懂并重建帝国时代是非常令人惊讶的。
However, development time isn’t an infinite resource, and unfortunately Hidden Path’s availability ended in May. Those who have been following Hidden Path may recall their Defense Grid 2 announcement, and we’re incredibly excited to see that game come to life. While we are sad to see them go, I do want to say that it’s been a pleasure working with Hidden Path over the last year, and making this game a reality!
但是新事物是不能持久的，并且与HP的合作将在五月就终止了。他们要忙于另一款游戏，我们很悲伤他们走了，我非常想说和HP去年一起工作很高兴，并且让HD成真了！

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So what does this mean for Age of Empires II: HD? 这对于HD来说意味着什么？
Through the spring as production and patch development have been cranking along, we looked at our upcoming schedule and determined that with the game maintaining a high level of popularity since it was announced, we wanted to do more.
今天春季HD发布，看看我们的计划，自从游戏发布，游戏人数保持高位，我们想做的更多。
That meant finding a development team to pick up the torch from Hidden Path and carry it forward. It has been painful being unable to share details until everything was signed, but I’m proud today to announce that we’ve been working with SkyBox Labs to ensure that AOE II HD’s future is brighter than ever.
那意味着要再找一个团队接替HP进行游戏开发，直到工作完成就不能分享细节是痛苦的，但是我今天感到很骄傲来宣布我们已经和SkyBox Labs（以下简称SBL)合作来确保HD光明的未来。
The SkyBox Labs team is comprised of industry veterans that have worked on hit RTS games in the past, including the Command & Conquer series. They are excited to be involved with the next chapter of the Age of Empires franchise and build off the great work from Hidden Path.
SBL拥有在即时战略游戏界工作多年的能手，包括《命令与征服系列》他们对于接替HP加入帝国时代工作感到非常兴奋。

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We’ve already transitioned the latest code and processes between development teams, but I want to reiterate that we’ll continue providing patches and support for the product. During this overlap period, there has been be a delay in our update cycle as people get ramped up but we should see changes rolling out of the pipeline immediately.
我们已经转化了最新的代码，但我想重申，我们将继续提供补丁和支持。在这个过渡期，可能会延迟更新周期。
There’s a lot more we’ll be doing with the game, but before we get to that, we wanted to take an opportunity to focus on the development teams. First, from Hidden Path:
我们将在这个款游戏上付出更多，但是在我们做到那之前，我们想找个适当的实际来专注于开发团队。

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"We were honored to be chosen to help with the development of Age of Empires II: HD. With members of the original development team here at our studio, it made this update very exciting for our team," explained Jeff Pobst, CEO at Hidden Path Entertainment. "We accomplished a lot during the scope of the project and are excited to hear that Microsoft has brought on SkyBox Labs to continue working on AOE II: HD"

我们很荣幸被选中参与到HD的开发，我们中有源代码的开发人员，更新HD让我们团队非常兴奋。HP的CEO Jeff Pobst解释道。
在进行这个项目开发时我们熟练了很多，SBL将继续我们的工作，我们很高兴。

HP如是说

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The team here at Microsoft was fortunate to work closely with Jeff and the rest of the folks at HPE throughout the project, and it has been a great experience. They have an incredible amount of talent within the studio, and we can’t wait to see where they take Defense Grid 2!
这段看不懂~orz

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SkyBox Labs is a game studio headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, that develops for console, mobile, tablet, and PC. The studio has over 30 industry experts on staff with experience in developing RTS, Sports and Racing games. SkyBox Labs’ first new IP, Dragon Arena, is planned for release this summer.
SBL是一个总部在加拿大的游戏团队，致力于多平台开发。他们拥有30多为即时战略，体育，竞技游戏的开发专家。今夏他们将发布新游戏Dragon Arena

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You asked, We Heard
你说的我们都听到了
After looking through the community’s desires, there are a number of areas we’d like to focus on with future development.
纵观论坛上的建议，我们有很多地方要注意。
To help us do so, we are thrilled to announce a new partnership with the team behind the community driven Forgotten Empires project.
我很高兴地宣布一个新的合作产生了，就是和AOFE（被遗忘的帝国）开发团队的合作。
We’ll be providing an official announcement with specifics in the coming weeks, but this an exciting time to be an Age of Empires fan! Development teams spend quite a bit of time creating games, but there have been dedicated community members tinkering under the hood for the last decade. Working with the FE team will allow us to focus on improving what the community has been deemed most important over the years!

我们下周将提供完整的官方公告，作为一个帝国时代粉丝好兴奋！开发团队花了非常多的时间创造游戏，但他们还能在这个十年前的游戏引擎上修修补补，和AOFE团队一起工作允许我们了解这些年玩家所认为的最重要的应该改善的内容！

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From Bert “Cysion” Beeckman and the FE team:
来自AOFE团队负责人Cysion：
"Almost 2 years ago, a group of long-standing fans of the game started to explore the limits of the AOE II engine and discovered that those limits had not been reached yet. With a good portion of confidence we expanded our unofficial project with talent around the globe as more people joined our quest to breathe new life into the game. Starting from a group of passionate hobbyists, we expanded our approach into a streamlined development cycle. However, one key player was missing in this whole story, Microsoft.
大约是2年前，一个长久坚持的帝国时代玩家开始探索帝国时代2的游戏引擎限制，并且发现那些限制到现在还没修复。于是我们开始了我们的全球范围的非官方工程，更多的人加入了进来，使这款游戏重获新生。我们疯狂沉迷在这里面，我们拓展了我们的团队，优化游戏结构。
但是，一个关键角色没有出现在这个传奇里——Microsoft

Once we felt like we had created something truly unique, we went ahead and approached Redmond. Little did we know they had a rekindled interest in AOE II as well, with AOE2 HD already under development behind the scenes. Thanks to the shared excitement for the franchise between both parties, we are thrilled to have an opportunity to bring the community’s expertise to AOE II HD!”
当我们觉得我们已经创造了真正独特的东西，我们去找了雷蒙德（负责人）。我知道了一些他们重新燃起了对帝国2的兴趣的信息，随着HD出现在我们的视野中。在两种角色间转换非常兴奋（民间→官方合作），非常荣幸加入HD团队。

Aging up – bring on the new technologies!
You will be able to see things happening immediately.这一切发生很突然
Throughout the summer we’ll be providing a series of patches to the core title to continue improving the game, fix bugs,
improve performance, and more.
今夏我们将发布一些补丁来改善游戏，比如修复BUGs和提高展示水平。
We are currently doing some internal testing with some updated builds (beta patch 2.4) as part of the transition to SkyBox and today will be opening it up to the public.
我们正在做2.4补丁的一些内部测试，今天就公布
In this beta patch we are looking at a few issues introduced previously (control group hotkeys), several game bugs (tech tree scaling), and experimenting with some technically challenging, but often requested features (much larger unit select sizes, changes to internal framerates, pixel vs tile scrolling, etc). Because of the extent of this update, we’ll keep it in beta to get your feedback, then focus on optimizing it with 2.5 to push out to everyone.
2.5补丁将在帧率，画面上都有很多技术性变化。

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来自官网
https://www.ageofempires.com/news.html

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渣翻+忽略部分原文内容的意译

简单一句，Hidden Path终于滚蛋了！AOFE真TM成官方了！OU!三观！

萨默尔

小源 发表于 2013-6-25 19:43
So what does this mean for Age of Empires II: HD? 这对于HD来说意味着什么？
Through the spring as pr ...

命令与征服。。。。

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萨默尔 发表于 2013-6-25 20:35
命令与征服。。。。

输入法的错……

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哎，别高兴太早，说不定现在有钱赚了，aofe团队就不去搞aofe，而只玩HD了。

ericzhu

aofe 是个团队吗？不是只有cysion一人吗

ericzhu

萨默尔 发表于 2013-6-25 23:28
哎，别高兴太早，说不定现在有钱赚了，aofe团队就不去搞aofe，而只玩HD了。

这个应该不会的，AOFE可能会与HD合体。就是说HD加入AOFE的5个新名族以及那些改变。

同时由于有了专业的mod的加入，拥有内核技术的HD新团队即将爆发，制造出更加出彩的帝国2。拥有更多现在mod技术无法实现的新效果。

USC_kiky

ericzhu 发表于 2013-6-26 00:48
aofe 是个团队吗？不是只有cysion一人吗

一个人能做成这样？
破解，场景，战役的导演，考古，编剧，布局者，各种制图建模作曲，ai，翻译和宣传还有一直合作的usetpatch制作者加起来四五十人吧至少。此外平衡测试的高手也有二十多个，虽然他们很少冒泡。即使是内核破解，cysion搞不定的还会让Mr. X来，团队里最神秘的人

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ericzhu 发表于 2013-6-26 00:50
这个应该不会的，AOFE可能会与HD合体。就是说HD加入AOFE的5个新名族以及那些改变。

同时由于有了专业的 ...

好是好，就怕收钱

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萨默尔 发表于 2013-6-26 02:06
好是好，就怕收钱

不要觉得免费天经地义……

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小源 发表于 2013-6-26 21:57
不要觉得免费天经地义……

我想花钱啊，可是延迟那么大，没有局域网，觉得买了没啥用。

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小源 发表于 2013-6-25 20:16
渣翻+忽略部分原文内容的意译

简单一句，Hidden Path终于滚蛋了！AOFE真TM成官方了！OU!三观！

aofe团队比翔鹰论坛里的大神们联盟要厉害么？