Age of Empires 4 - The New Black Forest Is Awesome 

The moment you realize all of these games that you're uploading happened two weeks ago.

The legend of Fatslop will continue in AOE4 with HRE and this Blackforest map

"We live in a bloody swamp!! We need all the land we can get!!" I'm greatly looking forward to getting my hands on the release version!

Gotta say man, props to you for all the content off of the back of the AOE4 stress test - I really hope you continue doing this into the long term. I've not enjoyed watching RTS casted games this much since I was really into SC2! Keep up the good work!!

The big dead space in the bottom of the map and the pocket ponds are a different way to reach the same idea of a closed map than the OG Black Forest but I think it looks great.

I think 1 of the biggest issues that they need to fix is the map being more balanced losing because your opponent has all the resources on the other side of the map is kinda rough.

Yay! Thanks for showing us about the game features! You're doing great!

There was definitely a chance for the english player, but it's super tempting to play into a civs strength even if the enemy civ has easy counters

It's off putting that some of the buildings are not to scale, for example the door on the barracks is half the size of an infantry unit.

Good stuff man, your views nearly jumped 2.5x thanks to AoE4 content. Hope your channel will be at the top when the game goes popular at release.

I just realised that this is the first time I've seen the full revealed BF map of AOE4 since the Stress Test did not have an option to view the full map post game.

Are you able to enable fog of war so you know for sure what another player has scouted?

Aussie saw a banger of a match with beastyqt v blackwidow on a water map yesterday.. get it casted:) Thanks for the games man.

I can't stop playing this map, I really should do some others but I just love Black Forest

Yeah i had a lot of fun on this black forest, pond was stink as though and a few bin chickens got me berries.

In this AOE you can expote so much your Civ ... You really have more sense of strategy and I love it!!

So ever since the beta Ive been curious about the man at arms. Is that unit just overtuned or is it supposed to stomp everything else? I mean usually units do 'ok' against units they will get crushed by, but against the man at arms they do literally nothing at all.

i loved this map during the open beta.

I love how he come close to leaking but changed

I feel like Black Forest should have a lot of stealth forests in them as well. Or maybe we could have a stealth forest Black Forest variant?

how were you able to play this, its not even out yet to public?

Black Forest on large size maps is mind blowingly good!

Difficult map. Easy to get walled in early on, gotta be proactive about it!

yeah i love the new black forest ambushing and stuff

Is this a closed beta or something? or just old videos from the demo?

They should bring back icons like in AOE 3. The new ones look so similar to each other

So fishing boats make food faster than farms around a food mill?

I really liked this map but I hate the fact that you have to place your initial woodline absurdly far from your initial town center.

From the matches I have watched the games are too short. Its just getting interesting and then GG.

Would be hilarious if someone managed to dig into that fat patch of wood and built an entire city inside. With trees preventing vision as outside layer and a miniature entrance that expanded inside it would be an invisible city no one would expect. After a big assault on the enemy, you fail to deliver a finishing blow and delete everything outside of the invisible city. You'd wait for the enemy to move against you. They'd find an empty starter area and think you gave up, but the game glitched and he's stuck alone on the map. If the enemy quits to get out and file a bug report you land a free win and hate mail after the opponent sees on revealed post game map that you had an entire city up. :D

it's like Warcraft 2 to Warcraft 3 feeling

Hey Aussie, what is your outro music. It has serious vibes

Well Hello, what's up my mate🙂🙂

I love AoE 4's Black Forest map but hope that they fix map generation as the Shoreline Fish sometimes doesn't spawn at the coast :/

Not enough trees!

nice game

Caught this one nice and early

4th age of empire and still those units had not figured out how to walk through a forest

How can u still play

I like aoe4 a lot from what I played, but early game rushes feel so weird. it feels like theres no effective counter to early maa and rams other than even earlier longbows or maa yourself. Maybe they'll change how Delhi and the Abbasids play at release but I just dont see how they could deal with it. This also extends to Mongol early knights because oof feudal spears were just ineffective in the closed beta against that.

Is this simtom the Microsoft flight simulator simtom?

can't wait for forest nothing on ladder!

What graphics settings did you play the game in ?

oi nahh what a tease.. i wann play it

I dn't know why but this game looks so cold. Do you guys feel the same?

can you still play the game?

this dude drongo hella high lol

Well, these 2 dudes play much better than the 2 devs at the lastest stream

How did he win?? I'm so lost.

My bets on Zertan

someone please answer meee how are people playing the game if the stress test is over? I want to test it on my laptop first b4 I buy it

"It's not cheating, but it's Age of Empires, and that's close enough" :D

The only thing I am not a fan of is the unit limit of 200 still and as in cossacks 3 you cant just automate food from the water and its a limited supply

Lancesters laws ftw

Am i wrong but i can see a lo of Starcraft 2 in AoE 4

cant wait til they add Vikings to do Fatslob in AoE4

Was wondering how are you still playing!?!? But I guess these were recorded 2weeks ago?

Is farm reseeding a thing in this game or do farms produce infinite resources?

I think you miscounted the fish. I think they both had 10k

Simt0m with literally zero micro at 9:35…

is this pre recorded or he still has beta?

This game hasn't advanced as one would think. Feels like the same game 6+ years ago but with better graphics.

So what exactly the Blue player had to do so he can win this ? It felt like an impossible game for him which is a bit worrying about the balance of the game.

Haha it's symptom

MEN at arms :gachibass:

Idk, black forest was my least favorite. I just expected hideable trees, and i prefer open maps

hi

aoe4 should have camera location and fully customizable hotkeys.

Thanks for this video! I miss the AoE3 contents quite much though... :(

The Longbow is so underwhelming compared to Age2... Damage is poor and range kinda meeeh. I wish they where a tier 3 unit with more damage, range and higher costs.

So this game features fish... that you can count.... and swamps... that are... over there.... LOL

simt-zero-muh

So wait, the map spawns with uneven amounts of resources on either side? How the FUCK is that balanced??

I don't like the anticlimactic endings in most of the matches. Seems to be a lack of come back mechanics.

not cheating :D he just having Viper start :D all the time better map :D

Wtf? They just quit in the middle of the battle?

18 people are not fans of Black Forest!

Mhm I feel like resources need to be spread out better in smaller individual amounts. Like 4 spread out 2k gold stones instead of 8k gold stones. Similar issue with food. Fishing, hunting, and berries provide so much food that it makes farms irrelevant for a lot of games. Why invest wood into farms when there is 15k of free food which will last you a big chunk of the game.

Its pronounced simt0m

my problem with this age of empires... is that it doesn't really feel like a next gen age of empires... neither in looks or in concept... there is really nothing new about this iteration other than the capture points... and minor technology variations, added playable groups.

Man, everyone playing anything BUT the Chinese, and I don't frigging blame them. HRE got 40% gather rate, and the Chinese are like: *tax tax* built your fourth Landmark? Here, now you can build this hhhhhhuge mill that increases farm gather rate by 15%, good luck placing it *tax tax*

This game doesn't look like an AAA title lol. Microsoft hired the wrong studio to work on this prestige series.

This game is so slow and boring. I’m still distraught over AoE 2 remastered (AoE4)

Age of Empire 2 Definitive edition still the real AOE

NERF HRE PLZZ !

I was really looking forward to aoe 4 but it looks so ugly D:

hyperbole much

Black Forest is my least favourite AoE2 map considerably, just so stagnant. Works so much better on AoE4

Aoe2 definitive edition is still the better game.

simptom is so bad at this game, did he ever win a match?

god this game looks like garbage.