Spirit of the Law vs AoE4 Hardest AI 

This is also known as the "Me and my little brother against my dad" setup back in the day... :P

Spirit: so today I’ll be facing the hardest AI. Me: oh cool this’ll be a challenge Spirit: and I’ll add in another AI to help him Me: *goes back to losing to easy AI*

I love the little things in this game. Like how the units yell when enemies are coming

I like how the voice lines add to the subtitles

"The thing is, though, they're all, well, maybe not all, but mostly pros trying to grind for a tournament and I don't really want to waste their time." Challenging SotL confirmed to be futile! Is there any actual proof of him ever having lost a game?

"Just 1 hardest AI is a little too easy for me" ok Viper no need to brag. I can only beat 1 easy AI

I'm fairly sure the camera also splits the difference when you select a group that has units in several places on the map in AoE2, rather than jumping to the most recent addition.

The hardest A.I. will never be as ruthless as when Spirit called the choice between the two English landmarks "a reading comprehension test." Edit: Whenever I hear him talk about "milling deer" I get a terrifying vision of a deer attached to a milling machine....

The most important take-away from this whole game is knowing how much wood income you need to sustain Longbowmen from the Council Hall.

Hey, Spirit, I was wondering if AoE 4 does well enough are you thinking about making Civ overviews? The Civ Overviews are some of the most interesting videos on the platform, and seeing them for AoE 4 would be dope!

I’m surprised siege towers work that way. I thought they would setup against an opponent’s wall and function like a gatehouse allowing footsoldiers to move on and off the wall from that point.

SOTL was attacking the AI before the game even started

Is it just me or both viper and spirit make the hardest AI of AOE 4 look like the hard AI of age of conquerors?

Cant wait for Spirits analysis videos on each civs.. And i like how i learnt a bit of history from each 1 of them.

*doesn't get double bit axe* "Why do I need so many on wood?"

Sotl : *"Age of empires"* YT : *"Age of vampires"* Ok youtube, you do you. Ngl, that sounds quite good though. Imagine RTS game with vampires xD

Id love to see some of your Mongol gameplay. I really liked playing them and was super excited to play some more when it launched. I learned however I am absolutely horrible at the game, so much to learn.

Different difficulty AIs in the same match? Best game ever!

I like the lightning that comes from the sky, i the hate the lack of waypoints to know where your units are going to when you click on them.

I am sooo happy it just released for the public!

Happy that you main the Mongols, as they are my main faction as well and I think there will be many nuances to be found for their play (that you will hopefully find and highlight).

It's time The game is out to the masses

“I hardest AI isn’t hard enough for me” Me: Getting absolutely stomped by the normal AI

Everytime you post man I'm like, "Oooo gonna be watchin Spirit of the Law tonight" shits enjoyable and educational for my null aoe2 skills.

That poor lamb running around with the scout 🥺

*Select all Military:* Ctrl + M (or Ctrl, Shift + C) Also, when I want to pump out as many of one unit from a specific building, I hotkey that building to 9 or something (ctrl + 9), and then just tap 9, and hold down Q to queue all of that unit. Nice playthrough, man. You make me feel so useless at this game, haha.

Scouts can hunt deer with ranged atk, and they can also pick up the corpses and bring them back to your base. So no point to not build your mill at the berries, which you can't move.

I think the main purpose for siege towers is to drop some units near enemy archers firing from the top and cut them down. If there aren't any you can run down the gates , but dropping only 8 units at a time seems a bit slow otherwise.

Oh yeah and speaking of hotkeys, I found one major annoyance during the stress test. They swapped the buttons and hotkeys for the lumber camp and mining camp compared to AoE2. I constantly built mining camps by accident near tree lines and such, my muscle memory let me down. Not as much letdown as the design team regarding hotkeys in AoE4 though. XD

Love the continious yells by the scout whenever she spots something

The scaling of units compared to buildings compared to siege units and then those walls looks ridiculous

I don’t even have the game but im super hyped for the civ reviews

the siege towers work fine, you were just being silly with them. You tried to offload your soldiers in a wall section that was already fully occupied by your archers. All you had to do was to just offload them into the next wall section.

This is really unrelated, but why did you remove your intro song from your videos?

can you do it vs the updated hardest AI? ;)

Try pressing F1, F2, F3, and F4, it cycles through selecting all of various building types, then you can just click on the variety you want to work with.

You can sorta select all TCs by pressing F4. It will also select all landmarks and if you try to queue villagers, it would distribute the queue among all of the structures that can produce villagers.

If you control+click on the unit in a group it will isolate that unit If you shift click it will remove them from the larger group. So shift click vills to leave them out of army movement. Control click to select them to build something.

i m in love with the voice actors

More, please. I can't get enough of this

After few games I must say its realy like Age of Mythology (visual and gameplay mechanics) without monsters. And I love it. Sound design is so pleasent to ears. Also for those who want more gritty AoE RTS check out Ancestors legacy. Its excelent game and units have over 1000 different combat animations!

So far, I've been enjoying the game, though some of the controls are gonna take a bit to get used to. Now if I may add, the Hotkey for "Select all idle military" is Ctrl+, by default. (for some reason you can't set it to Shift, but oh well.) Sadly, there's no hotkey for selecting only Villagers at this moment, but I guess for now if we were to select units+villagers, we can Shift+click their icons in the UI to deselect them, or Ctrl+Click the unit icon we want it to select only that unit type.

even easiest sees the whole map, play on revealed map to see how it cheats, because it sends units where it cant/couldnt see. Did you build up heavily ? No attack. No defenses ? Assaults, where there is nothing defending, like trade. This is standard relic cheating ai. Their standard troll procedure in previous games (CoH, 2, DoW 2,3 = line of sight evasion.for troll sake) A few months before Western Front armies, they implemented a non-vision cheater, where they would explore and react, without prior knowledge, so ambushes were possible. WFA released and all the AI progress was reverted. In CoH 2 for example trying to ambush an AI is impossible, it does make mistakes but otherwise evades your line of sight without seeing your units.

I have one question how the hell did you do that farm spam around the mills? Also they should really make siege towers that you just park them on towers and units automatically deposit themselves onto the walls.

I played quite a bit and I'm not bad at it. I started mostly with bottom tier civs like Dheli and Abbasid until I being able to win 1vs1 more often than not. It helped me to avoid some of the sloppiness and traps that you often can get away with top tier civs, especially in the beginning. It helps to pick weaker civs because it forces you to really use counters and be cost effective as much as possible (unless you have another goal behind a specific engagement obviously). Not to mention leaning to manage your eco under early pressure from players with better/more mobile civs. If you get to castle age with a desirable number of villagers and ressources, you really survived the worst and it's time to increase pressure with a balanced army. Having a small army composed of archers, crossbows and spears around is ALWAYS a good idea if you can imho. But honestly, it feels like a downgrade from current AoE2 DE in basically every way. It's boring; but at the same time AoE2 is an insane exception in gaming, especially multiplayer and for the new content/remake. It's the definition of a game that has a foundation that stood the test of time... It's not really fair to compare it to something more generic like AoE 4. Even the graphics. It's not the worst, but not that far from 2000 and late RTS with 3d models. In AoE2 it feels like a moving painting :D. If you don't like micro and economy management, AoE 4 is a good choice I think.

CTRL+Shift+C will select all military units. You can see all the keybinds if you make a custom keybind profile under advanced.

I don't know if my game is bugged or what but i tried skirmish against a easy A.i today to try and learn the game. The description was an easy A.i with light attacks and small armies or something like that. 3min into the game i had a army of around 60 units in my base.

1v2 as Holy Roman Empire with the 2 AI on hardest with Roman Empires 400% infantry keep is so overpowered lol

I love to hear the women yelling!

How do you build so many farms at once with one worker? at 15:19

hardest ai too easy for you and here i was struggling to survive easiest lmao

35:22 I have never seen a AI make wall before.

I thought the title is "Spirit of the Law vs AoE 4 Hardest AI"

What are your thoughts on zoom level?

Tried out the Chinese yesterday... The tax collectors are pretty clutch and hilarious 😂

Holy shit that voice acting on the scout tho

Does anyone know what the deer stones landmark does for the mongols? All it says is it gives "the yam network" wtf that means XD

i guess it's not surprising that the english used to go "ABOOGA"

how did you move your camera like that when attacking the holy roman empire?

Spirit of the law: "I think I'll actually give him an intermediate ally because just one hardest ai is a little bit too easy for me" Me: I think I'll put the ai on Easy.

That unsymmetrical 'Victory' banner is giving me an OCD attack... how could they miss it?

This game is really good, already feels comfortable but with much new to learn

With all the little touches of realism like the context-sensitive unit barks and being able to build siege weapons in the field, the mass aneurysm to free up pop is starting to feel kind of jank. Maybe it would look more appropriate if deleted units just "left", turning gray and non-interactable and then quietly speed-walking off in some direction while fading out.

Wait, you thought Relic would release something close to complete? Where have you been for the past decade.

I just got trashed by the hard ai so respect man

Title: SOTL vs Hardest AI Video: SOTL vs Hardest + Intermediate AI Y u so modest?

What happened to the intro music / cut scene?? 😔

Here I am trying to be A.I. Intermediate and getting my butt kicked. GG. I like your outro song.

Will you make Civ overviews and balance changes videos on AOE4

WOuld it be viable to rush a player with Peasants since they use bows?

I think the big thing you were missing in castle was building rams

The AI remembered how to build walls?

they released the game at the exact date when most universities flood students with midterms ://

Me getting stomped by Hardest: I suck Me finding this video title: Oh it's something good players make vids on beating, maybe I don't suck Spirit: I think I'll add a 2nd AI at Intermediate b/c 1 Hardest will be too easy Me: I suck

they really should make the AI to random option on country

Can someone let me know if AOE4 has a progression system? For example, does finishing single/multi games offer any rewards for playing? An explanation would be nice. Thanks!

Thanks again Spirit

they need to fix walling and so building next to each other make a barrier.

Lol I took so long to get the remastered ii edition that they finally have 4 out

Noob question But how can I get the camera to go to my scout in the control group? Right now it selects the scout. but does not bring the camera to it. Is this an option or a setting in the game?

Looks like the dead unit no longer just disappear now nice

you can control + shift C to select all military but i don't think you can change ethe key bind

So are units now in groups?

more campaign vids pls.

what shortcut do you use for buidling the fields so fast?

This is NOT the same hardest AI I've been playing. What the... Why aren't they amassing more earlier? I would say you're early game unit production is even slower than mine and I ALWAYS feel outnumbered.

Bro today I stayed 2 hours just to beat the hard A.I.

Hello mate! How the f u do that @21:17 building farms? Im a bit neewbie here

Didn't you kill the hardest ai first instead of the intermediate ai like you said?

the way I clicked off of this when I didn't see any elephants

Are vils less likely to go rogue and eat more than one sheep at once (compared to AOE2) or do you still have to watch them?

i just started playing, you are using so many shortcuts, how can i learn them

The camera is a bit too close and the perspective is too strong. If a building is further from center of camera, it looks too different from when it's at centre of camera, making the game overall a lot harder to observe for casual gamers. Compared to e.g. starcraft 2-s camera, where perspective is much less (closer to isometric) and camera seems to be bit further away.

Whoaaa hold up. Did you just say that a single Hardest A.I. is too easy? Damn lol

at 24:37 how does he queue up like 6 trebuchets with only 2 mouse clicks?

Do you ever rotate the camera? See the point in that? I accidentally did that in my tutorial game and was very surprised.

Could you play with another civilization instead of what's available in previous beta tester?

Ctrl + Comma to select all military

7 on Sheep... I CAN'T.. WATCH 😨😂

Thank you for this video. Had to skip the ones on the campaign.