This was BY FAR the worst April Fool’s joke I’ve ever seen, period. It’s not even a joke, it’s just plain and idiotic trolling by that cunt of a modmaker. I don’t see ANYTHING that’s remotely funny about having hundreds of sheep textures on random tiles that make it close to impossible to tell the “real” sheep (except from the minimap).
It’s not like Valve putting hats on characters and chickens during festive seasons or an app developer making a retro look for a day (see: NovaLauncher Holomode) because this was beyond a purely cosmetic change – this ruined gameplay. To the apologists and happy overly-positive people who think this is funny and “take a chill pill, it’s only a day”, it’s people like you guys who encourage retarded behavior in AOE2 HD like idiots going AFK for over 20 mins during a multiplayer match.
This joke was about as funny as if a browser extension maker decides to render all the buttons in your browser unclickable for a day except an invisible 1×1 pixel click zone on the edge, without telling you, and you have to find out by reading what some users say, who try to comfort you by saying “It’s just a prank bro!!”.
TLDR: Gamebreaking trolling like this “joke” should not be encouraged – unsubscribe from this dickwad “Clarktron’s Alignment Grid” mod and get yourself another grid mod and report this mod to Steam for malicious behavior.