Making a Realm that Tries to Kill You | Tutorial | Age of Wonders 4 

Is Age of Wonder 4 a sandbox game more like Civilization, or will there be a story/campaign mode?

@@pailofstars It will have both

is there also a invasion mode? or a pssiblity to form an alliance with the demonprince or ice queen? i love to become a vassal of the voidbringer invaders in invasion mode back in age of wonders planetfall, hopefully age of wonders 4 will also give us the choice to join a invading force, the dmeonprince looks perfect for this and for the balance, every other leader will declare permanent war if you choose to become the vassal and help the demon prince to invade the world side by side.

I love how you tilted the video for this! Lmao Also this looks absolutely amazing, you guys are awesome, I’m definitely gonna pre-order this.

Hello. Thank you for the video. I have a question, if that's alright, on start settings from advanced set up. In some of the other videos, the settings have something called a handicap for the player-players. If one is playing in multiplayer, would one be able to modulate difficulty for different players by selecting varying handicaps? Or is there some other way to differentiate difficulty for players on the same map?

Your video feels like you had some galleons of coffee before. You always seem in a hurry. This videos is only scratching the surface of the realms options too. I am no so impressed as all the others seem to be. Please take some more time while showing and explaining in future videos!

@@Goemoe_ unfortunately I only have 5 minutes of time. I am being economical with my time.

@@PotatoMcWhiskey Sorry to hear this, so Paradox is to blame. I apologize, for the minimum of time they offered you you really covered much :)

Can't wait to play AoW4. Man, this looks awesome. Btw, Saw what you did there with the sneaky cup of tea. But I believe the spiffing brit will eventually find a way to say how perfectly balanced Age of Wonders 4 is.

I Suggest AOW3 too. even old it really good cheap and have Fantasy Vibes as AOW4

You should be able to find AOW3 for cheap (5 euros with DLC) It is also worth the shot at that price. Clearly planetfall has mechanics closer to this AOW4 since it was the testing ground for some of the changes but AOW3 is worth it nonetheless.

That’s exactly what I’m doing, I fired up planetfall just so I could get used to the mechanics. And tbh I’m enjoying it a lot more now than I did when I picked it up initially

AoW3 is good for 1vs1 and has one of the best communities, Planetfall is VERY limited as some races are unplayable - both are fine for single player

I have played a ton of AOW3, but I don't recommend you buy it now. The mechanics are far behind AoW Planetfall, and while it was brilliant, that was a long time ago. The series has had big leaps in development with each product. If Planetfall doesn't strain your budget, sure, get it. It's great and learning the mechanics will give you a head start on AoW4. But AoW4 seems to be improving on everything in Planetfall that I had any issues with. So you could also hold out because, yeah, like you say, AoW4 looks dynamite from these previews. If you can't wait for 4x fantasy fix, get AoW3 with both expansions. You won't like the halflings, but get that expansion anyway.

Several actually, since there's not really a set Deathworld format. "Pain comes in many flavors."

Now all we need are catachan devils and all is well in the world

There are way more scenarios based on earlier screenshots, peobably they are unlockable through pantheon perhaps?

@@L4sz10 Yeah it seems like there something like 4-5 unique scenarios that unlock through the Pantheon, that also unlocks new precense traits. Presense seem to basically set a realm up with a scenario, like the Pretender Kings or Arctica realms shown here. We know of one that sets up a demon king too.

@@JrnSon I would prefer more official ones. English is not my native language so I'd prefer more content in mine (even so I definitely will check out some story mods) 😉

I hope the Pantheon system retain the good rogue-lite aspects of the Empire from Planetfall, so we have a reason to play on the hardest maps for larger prizes.

​@@Tentacl I'm also hoping that the Empire equivalent will be available right away instead to two xpacs in.

@@Washeek What I struggle with the most in Planetfall is lacking an overarching winning strategy and not being able to tell whether or not you're on track to victory. Usually what happens is that I think I'm progressing fast enough only to discover that the enemy faction(s) have out-paced me. I haven't yet won a single map, and the game has no way of letting me know where I'm really going wrong. There are so many interlocking factors at play that it's overwhelming. The game does fine with showing me how to operate individual mechanics, but not with how it will all fit together into a working strategy.

@@AynenMakino There isn't really any magic tomfoolery that you need to be exploiting to win - as long as you're making the most value out of your resources as you can, you'll usually win, the ai in planetfall isn't very tough. Planetfall is very much a 4X game, expansion is key - as many colonizers and free cities as possible, take cosmite nodes as soon as possible, clear and annex as many landmarks as possible, as few wasted turns as possible, make full use of the strategic improvements that buff your units, use food-sharing to jumpstart small colonies, etc etc. Although all the systems in 4 are different, it's very much the same 'kind' of game.

@@AynenMakino I hear ya. I think you're right that it doesn't really do that. I'm coming from the point of long standing fan of the series, so a lot of stuff I'm doing automatically, even if there's additional features like the research and unit modifications it somehow still all clicks to me. I've definitely approached every game in the series with the mindset of achieveing small intermediate goals and I'm 99% sure that approach is wrong, because there are not that many random pieces. In any case, the lower AI difficulties are very timid and even if they seem like they have a lot, they rarely actually do, focusing more on quantity, than quality. Some screenshots were recently posted where players beat four times their own number of units, just by bringing more advanced unit types and kitting them with mods that synergize properly. But there's definitely a period of discovery with each new installment of AoW that might not be to everyone's liking.

@@Washeek It doesn't help, then, that Planetfall was my entry into the series. Perhaps it just isn't the ideal jumping off point?

@@AynenMakino In a sense it is a good point - it being a spin-off from the story/setting/lore perspective, introducing some radical and never-before-seen features. But it also retained a core that is more visible and easier understood in previous titles, particularly AoW 3 being simpler in many regards. In any case it's always barely been a 4x and the core of the game is the turn based tactical combat and the games insofar have been geared towards that. It expects you to play aggressively, to explore as much as you can and cleverly pick your battles, but keep fighting something. The game rewards that style of play, but you need to know who to fight, what to leave alone until later and when to engage in diplomacy options. And for me, with every new title, it's always been a matter of a bit of trial and error. It's not a game where you can just wait for your city to grow for forty turns doing virtually nothing else. Your heroes need to be out there supported by your units, getting into scraps, getting that sweet XP and loot and rewards that feedback into your economy to provide you with more units that you can throw into the meatgrinder. And it's not advised to throw numbers at a problem without a plan. Enemies (typically neutral stacks at the beginning) need to be studied for weaknesses and strengths and countered. Zones for future exapansion need to be scouted and cleared, neutral factions have to be found and interacted with as soon as possible. All of these actions inform your research - do you need to cross a lot of rivers? Is your economy struggling in some particular resource? Are you fighting a neutral side that requires a certain mod for your units to raise effectiveness? Until you grow familiar with your options, you will struggle and do a lot of reading, but it is very satisfying when it pays off. It's also pretty good idea to leave the empire quests active and follow the quest objectives. If you can do it fast enough there are rewards and if not, it still informs your overall strategy towards one of the victory conditions, the quests are color coded. Honestly, as a veteran it almost feels like somebody telling you what to do just before you were going to do it. "Hey, would be good to have at least 5 experienced units", "Hey would be good to befriend some dwelling", "Hey, would be good to get rid of some nearby spawners".

Let hope there is a dimensional poker game event in aow4. I need that egg.

Green Hell

Yeah that's a great idea!

They are both presented to be in the game from the beginning!

@@nerrti2073 amazing, thanks for increasing my hype haha :)

Hi, what do you mean by complicated? Are there some games you've tried and found complicated?

@Washeek_Honey like their other game stellaris. I found out that it was more about management than actual gameplay. And it was very difficult to remember to do the thousands of things that they wanted to keep up with. I know that this game is going to have some management to it as well but I hope that it's not to complicated.

@@thetruth3611 Then you may be delighted to hear that Stellaris is done by a completely different studio and Age of Wonders is a continuation of a long standing series conceived when these guys were still independent. Also, I've found out in the previous games, that just following the event system notification in each turn allowed me to streamline the gameplay - this army hasn't moved yet, this city is not producing anything, you could recruit a hero now etc. But ofcourse chances still are that the game may be outside your comfort zone. Give it a try I think, you'll quickly find out...

the devs will anounce later if and when there will be crossplay. Though, no idea when they tell us more, probably around release.

They, are? Production has nothing to do with research in this game.

@@st8113 Doesn't game speed affect both the same way? Did I miss something?

@@arrowbro Oh, I see. Didn't realise that was what you meant.

Yes, you can let the AI take over and battle for you while watching. Devs said so in one of their streams

@@Hlieyto TY! Must have missed it.

In the video on PotatoMcWhiskey's own channel, a trait "No Free Cities" is visible in the menu, so I think that's a confirmation.

I've heard that the AOW 4 campaign can be played with a custom faction, and it's tailored for that kind of experience.

Yes, there is! It's called Pantheon here,they even added some other features as well!

@@L4sz10 That is good to know. Thanks 🙂

@@lionelwhiskerknot anytime!

Not yet. Many of us hope for this button too

Mage fauna supposedly functions on all animals and imo dire penguins have been classed as animals in AoW3, so I think you're right.

Yep, Karissa, Fangir, Artica are confirmed.

Yes, most long term layers of the series have a story about losing to an infestation of vampire penguins 😂

Not upon release. But they said that they are thinking about adding it down the line, "thinking" being the operative word here.

@@presentprogressive8780 Isn't that usually up to Sony/Microsoft? I always thought cross-platform play was more of an issue of beaurocracy than any technical challenge.

you should wait for release then. the devs said they will coment on it later. I guess they tell us more around release.

Yes

@@L4sz10 Thanks ^^

​@@brianlopez5728 you're welcome ^^

Yep

@@L4sz10 Thanks ^^

@@user-nt1sg7dk9g you're welcome ^^

Five.

@@L4sz10 i need more story

@@totalice734 according to devs, they are pretty long the way they are.

@@L4sz10 if they are longer then age of wonders 3, then it is good

Forms just being effectively profile pictures is definitely.. sad. I get it, they're doing a multiverse thing, all possible options, etc etc etc. But I like my fantasy to feel like fantasy. I like to live up to the fantasy presented by a cohesive racial identity, and trait picknmix just doesn't do that. Gonna play it and love it anyway, I'm sure.

I think the cities will show their progression a bit more than in AoW3 with wizard towers etc. So maybe in late game you will be amazed with their splendour.

I am not alone, yay. He is indeed way too fast.