The Complete Beginner Guide to Age of Empires 4 

Sounds about right for us English. We love our reading comprehension!

It really is like that though

@@hatimzeineddine8723 yep, I did find this annoying during testing, but I guess you pick it up as you play more.

😂

Was just playing and was like why would I ever build the healing one

Really?? Good tip!

Yooooo thanks Jahrazz

I wish they went over that in the tutorial, seems like a key feature to leave out.

Nice, but do you then need to go hunting through all of your garrisoning buildings to find the ones to send back to work?

@@Sids1192 no, there's another key which automatically sends them back to wherever they were working :)

ngl this channel is what made me want to come back and play again aoe the quality of his videos is stellar

It's impressive watching the pros play who are trying to git gud but don't know about half of the mechanics and just play like it's AOE2 without thinking. I hope they also watch this video, they really need to.

@@ryugaminesatomi9683 same

I am still unsure! I 100000% see what you mean, but at the same time the simple, clear and linear, logic design of these ones just massages some nice spots on my brain. Hopefully in the future they will release new ones more stylish but leave a option in to maintain the ones there now

To me the icons themselves feel fine but I take issue in the UI design itself, as in older games when an army was selected you could see the HP of individual units as well as the total amount of units in the army. I do agree that it is nice to be able to tell at a glance how many units of different types you have in the selected group but I would still prefer to be able to see their individual HP. I know you see their HP by looking at the bar ontop of the physical unit but it takes way longer to select the units that way.

@@dragonlloux The thing is that they all look too much the same and it's much hardet to distinguish them from one another than it was on previous aoe games (or any rts who hasn't make the mistake of making all icons look the same)

actually the new ones are nicer and better

agreed. The UI is my least favorite part. It's just a little to sleek and modern to me, feels more like controlling an empire through a simulator than through an office or command post. I hope we'll see some solid options for UI mods etc. I understand why some people prefer the new style, but it'd be really nice to have options.

Gotta love AOE 6 lol

@@TBPetitP haha that made me giggle.

i just bought this game maybe 5 days ago and wtf why does it not have treaty for??? i always like to have it, also why is there so little mode options is there something im not seeing??

Age of Empires 3 Definitive Edition 1 vs 6 vs 1 skirmish - Gameplay (PC) - Match 32 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1TBRXXTYaz0.html

I don't think the Scout unit in AOE4 is good against anything military. The Horseman unit has a specific bonus against Light Ranged units, making them very good at taking out archers, crossbowmen, cavalry archers and handcannoneers.

@@cybersteel8 I think he meant horseman. He said scout as in the aoe2 equivalent. Skirm is to archer as scout is to horseman.

@@aintfalco7968 yes but horseman also cost wood

Sort of. AOE4 Archers attack faster and have longer range than crossbows to the point they pretty much deal the same dps if hitting a target neither gets a bonus against. Compare that to AOE2 skirmishers who basically only do 1 damage to anything they don't counter. AOE4 Archers also lack the armor skirmishers have.

Archers do 1 damage to knights and 1-3 to men at arms. That's a skirmisher just wearing a disguise.

How did you manage that

Diagree i thoroughly enjoyed the stress test and will buy the game at releqse. I will expect sotl to make more aoe4 contenr. He obviously will because there is ablot to talk about

@@user-kx6wl8hz8v yeah, sounds like a manchild

@@user-kx6wl8hz8v already crying that he wont be making as much about aoe 2? :'(

@@user-kx6wl8hz8v have you tried the game yourself?

@@user-kx6wl8hz8v Having played the technical stress test I think AoE4 will be successful in the short term and in casual play at least as it feels really nice to play (Not having building hotkeys, set aside... Bit bummed about that). But in terms of professional play I am a bit unsure, as the game did stick pretty close to what the older games in the franchise do but still experiments quite a bit with new mechanics like more varied civs and walkable walls etc... Also the game balance felt a bit lob sided in the technical stress test and I feel like certains civs overperform by quite a margin but this be fixed by just tweaking the numbers a bit. Also one thing I have to mention having played both AoE2 and AoE4 (Not a AoE3 player) is that AoE4 feels "slower" but faster at the same time. A lot of the functions like gather rate have been increased and units feel like they walk a tiny bit slower than before, this might be because the game now runs at real time and not sped up by a factor of 1,7 as AoE2 does. AoE4 has more in-depth economy as well, no longer will you just be like "I want to make x amount of [Insert unit here] so I need x amount of villagers collecting this resource" as there are now more ways than one to get resources (civ dependent) for example the Rus can hunt animals to get gold and the Mongols get Food, Wood and gold by burning enemy buildings. Also the influence mechanic, I would have liked to see it used more in the game but pretty much every civ in the game has at least some type of building that has an influence "aura" for example and probably the most substantial, the Abbasids - They have an aura of influence around their landmark that they build at the start of the game that expands every time you construct a building in it (All buildings touched by the aura will make it bigger as well as contribrute towards the golden age bonus) and the more buildings you have inside the influence the higher your golden age bonus will be, like faster unit production and higher villager gather rates. A more mundane bonus would be the English farms being able generate gold if they are adjacent to a mill. A bit worrying is how the devs have reacted to some feedback like people said that the game is too zoomed in and would like to zoom the camera out a bit more and this has been answered by "BuT YoU CaNt PlAy ThE GaMe ThAT WaY", which is a bit odd as the camera already zooms out near hilly terrain so... A bit ranty all over the place comment but bellow you have a TLDR TLDR AoE4 feels a lot like playing AoE2 but with a bit more depth in some areas and a bit more in others. I would recommend to at least try the game if you can get over the graphics (In my opinion they are not bad but are a bit cartoony, and I can see why some people don't like them). Game will probably see loads of casual play but most likely wont get pro players too interested.

Funfact: one of the original designers of AoE 1 (Bruce Shelley) worked with Sid Meier on the first Civilization before moving on to make Age :)