Game Version:
101.101.32708.0.0
Microsoft Store Issue:
Playing the first Art of War challenge the game clock runs almost double speed with the Gold medal clock (8 mins is the target) running out in just 4:51. Tried three times, impossible to even get Gold and only just possible to get Bronze. Reproduction Steps:
I think that this is normal. I assume that you stopped the time in real time (with your smartphone for example). But Age of Empires time is not normal time. The in game time runs with 1.7 speed of real time.
So the 8.00min in game are roughly the 4.51min you measured.
I don’t think that it is impossible to get gold, but it is very hard.
All times in game are normalized to 1.0 (slow) speed. It would be confusing, if they would be converted to real life speed. For example knight training time of 30 seconds would be displayed as 30/1.7 = 17.647… seconds.
Btw, it is possible to get gold in all challenges. I just achieved that. But it needed some incredible optimizations and almost perfect play. A lot of pausing helped in this
You can press F11 to bring up the ingame clock.
Age of Empires has always been weird like that, where the “Slow” speed is real time and regular gameplay is faster than normal.
Just play a few thousand games. If you have done that you will be very surprised that all clocks run way to slow.
The pizza says it needs 20min in the oven, but after that it is only half baked. The world gets really confusing, why is the real world only runing at around 60% of the age of empires speed
