The Game That Created Friendship (Low Elo Legends) 

Friendship didn't exist before this game was played. Thank you for creating friendship.

That was nice. I also had a match lately, where we chatted for a bit afterwards and my opponent (who lives in the same state of my country as we found out) explained how to execute his strategy after I resigned. I was very grateful as it was one of my first ranked games. The AoE2 community is just amazing!

The original physical game came with a quick reference card of important hotkeys, it was like a tri-fold brochure. Really helpful!

This is a certified *"Did we just become best friends?"* moment 😂

imagine if there was a gamemode with hidden civs... you will only find out though scouting and taking notice of the architecture....

T90 "What you want to do is get food then get stone later" Also T90 Giving life advice: "Buy food and then uh, pay rent." Even his advice on life is AoE2 build orders.

As a LEL, I can confirm most action is definitely "just in case." This is particularly true for making spearman early on...just in case they send knights. If they don't, oh well I'll use them later. Another common "just in case" is making multiple barracks/stables/archery ranges before you actually need it, so that when you do get attacked and you're not ready, you can mass those units quickly! T90, just giving you some insight into the mind of a LEL. I'm sure many other LEL do the same haha

I had a game recently that went on for a real long time. We had 5 minute breaks without pausing for smoking, that we both respected. That guy left me with 1 castle and a relic for like an hour and a half while he researched every tech and cook! I didn't feel bad though, I was watching netflix. Cool guy

42:00 that crisp clean thumbnail zoom.

Aoe2 community is wholesome. Other more popular games like starcraft2, CS:GO, GTA Online have extremely toxic communities. Feels really good to be part of aoe2!

13:40 I love how blue's villager is standing next to the stone wall fundament, as if he waits for the enemy to appear and then quickwall them out just in time to say "haha, too slow". xD

It's better to kill 4 animals with one scout than having one kill 4 villagers... 🤣

I think blue is building his military buildings at the back of his base so if he loses his army, he can mass units before sending them in to defend instead of having them be created on the front line and dying to mass red army.

They will see each other when they open their eyes in the following morning.

I started using grid hotkeys in Starcraft 2 and it made complete sense to me. I could remember how the command cards look (or just glance at it), and associate that with my keys, instead of remember what each building and unit's hotkey is. The go-to hotkeys are very important though, and you just need to remember those. I always knew H is Town Center, and I learned Ctrl+V is Castle because I used to spam the "how do you turn this on" cheat code and sometimes I'd go too fast and Ctrl+V when the chat box wasn't up.

LOL! the moment that villagers suddenly decided to attack to the monk hahahaha. it was an iconic moment really like a scene from a famous movie. villagers were exhausted from the torcher of the monk and his cult but they were just staying calm. but then one day the monk decided to take the golden relic of ancient times and melt it down. that was the last straw. they tried to talk and convince the father but he make fun of them and their traditions and so on. a sudden silence...then they attacked at the same time and killed the monk. hahaha such a fascinating moment. hillarious!

Sabaton are the kind of guys who like it when people meme their songs in videos from what I hear.

I wonder if T90 gets a little bit of serotonin every time he predicts what a player needs to do seconds before they do it 20:05

I can confirm that because of taunts many people arent toxic. Like I quitted a shooting game with this being one of the reasons. Everyone is so toxic that there is rarely any teamwork. However aoe has managed to make the community toxic-free which is so good.

BTW (12) is '' AHH (BEing RUSHED) ^^ not I take your town now, come on Tristan aka T90 :p

32:00 No man, things will only get worse in that department.

If I was red with blue having taunted earlier I'd have replied with "your mom's house", this is a 90's game after all.

When the vils surrounded that monk then collectively shanked him I lost my shit laughing. "You came to the wrong neighborhood old man"

the part where there were ghost towns with garrisoned villagers but no raids hurt me physically

Continually appreciate your commentary. I have never spent more than about 10 minutes on others commentary online about aoe or anything else. Your commentary is amazing and extra bonus it's over my favorite game of all time. I love listening while I'm driving or doing the dishes once my wife goes to bed. You're the man, keep it up! I'll keep catching on youtube indefinitely (no FB for me.)

50 games in his first week playing online is pretty crazy. I wish i had that kind of free time.

"Riklépsykopaaaat" Ric le psychopathe = Ric the psychopath Fun how you prononce it xD

I like to ctrl group my army buildings so when i'm in a battle i just press 0 and select all my barracks or castle and start creating new troops. I do that because i never used "go to hotkeys" and this method works pretty well for me, it just is a little annoying having to select all buildings and put them in the same group. I'm also very bad at the game lol.

I am a 90s kid and I would play to the last villager LOL

This is why I love this game. Way less rude people than other games

Red seems to be under the impression that this is a wood selling game

On the topic of hotkeys. About 3 years ago, I hooked up a controller through Steam to AOE2. I filled it with hotkeys on the face buttons and the bumpers/triggers were used to make layers on those hotkeys with shift, alt, and control. Somehow the best Age of Empires I've ever played. Hotkeys are one of the most important things to learn.

i like how red left a path between his farms

Thanks for your efforts, what an angle to look at game and bring a great human touch to gaming. Thanks t90

Computer programmer/emacs+vim user here: for learning hot keys, nothing beats making yourself a cheat sheet. - write down the ones you want to know. Its not great to have the couple of important keys mixed in with 50 you don't care about - memorize a few at a time, starting with most important first - keep this near your computer, or if you don't have a place to keep a physical list, store it as e.g. a text file in an easy to access location.

Taunts are essential in any multiplayer game that allows communication between players. Without the in-game taunt too many players would just revert to actually taunting in chat, which is far worse for BM and more likely to be straight toxic. Its like Planetside 2 having "Your best is my Worse" always spammed when one side beats the other. Better that than them all going into chat to talk shit, ya-know? Gotta think about how players will act now how you want them to

Exploding sheeps will kidnap Tristan

That was awesome! Can we hope for a another mbl co-cast in the future?

I use the default hotkeys for stuff like buildings, such as q-q for house, h to scroll tcs etc. All tcs is mouse4, next idle vil is mouse5 and all idles is tab. The building selection is kind of the grid thing, I have ctrl+a for all castles (or ctrl+shit+a to scroll castles) and from there on it goes to the right (control+s, control+d) up to ctrl+g, then one row below ctrl+y (german layout) to ctrl+c for all stables, markets, monasteries, blacksmiths etc. without any real system, but I just recognize them through muscle memory which works totally fine for me. In fact, I couldn't really tell which hotkey I use for all barracks (pretty sure it is ctrl+s), it's like playing an instrument for me.^^

I must thank you you have helped me quite allt I'm still low elo but still better then i was =,) ❤

37:49 Reds vills building that castle making a perfect wave with their hammers. Oh yeah, that's the sauce right there.

Red got so much control of the middle, we just keep thinking why he just maintain 2 vils on gold...

Only thing I could think of at 42:03 was "Et tu Brutus?"

Great match! Eric really should be on his way up to mid elo legends by now

yeah at the end of my second ranked game as my base got ransacked and it was time for me to resign, i asked the other player for tips and he took lik 3-5 mins helping me out based on what he saw. He advised I build more TCs. Very cool moment.

Still waiting on my Rollercoaster Tycoon video, T90. Not gonna forget.

red keeping half his villagers on wood so he can sell 100 wood for 14 gold every couple of seconds is incredible

That one priest got John Snow'd

I remember in 2017 i met a dude from New Zealand named Linxy on Voobly, dont remember how we met but we became friends for a long time and played many 2v2s. Since im from Argentina our timezones were completely screwed up like i had to stay up from 3AM until 7AM on the weekends to play with him but it was awesome. Sadly due to issues with my pc and university and mental health i stopped playing but i miss those times Linxy if you see this:

holy SHIT YOU KNOW WHAT SABATON IS!

I think the biggest change you need for hotkeys as a beginner is to AT LEAST change any of the 3: 1) Next Idle Villager 2) Next Idle TC 3) Next Idle Military My mouse buttons have 2 additional buttons on it, so I have made it so it I cycle to the next villager and next military unit easy using my extra mouse buttons. 1 and 2 are very important for booming but I went with 1 and 3 for ease of booming and unit movement (trying pincer formations and such) Just my two cents. Hasn't really helped me be a good player yet tho. I still need to adjust myself for a quick and smart resource management. I always have 2 resources booming (usually food and gold/stone). But at least I'm always aware I have idle vils kekw

Wow. Age of Empires 2. It has been decades since I played.

I'm 52 years old, not played aoe2 in 20 years, bought DE a couple of weeks ago, still looking for time to play. Maybe end up on LEL, who knows 🤣🤣

Blue is a military genius

Loving these LeL videos, gives me hope, removing ladder anxiety as im 900 elo xD!

I been costum mapping my hotkeys to varying degrees of success. One button for every buildable would be far better. W for wood walls. CLT + W for stone wall. F for Farm, CLT + F for mill. G for mining camp, L for Lumber camp. Somethings are quicker, other stuff I always forget. I don't have hotkeys for the gates though..

We did it boys, war is no more

Surrendered like a true Frenchman

Halfway through I had to switch to Sabaton music, only to return 1 hour later to finish the video.

First we got t90 complaining about coinage in a 1v1... on a game called Age of Empires, Empires need coins... thus coinage is part of the upgrade order, you're an empire not a flimsy campsite. Now t90 complaining about multiple lumbercamps, so villagers can opt to go not one, not two but THREE lumber camps for extra healthy efficient wood choosing paths, thus improving overall happiness. I'm starting to believe t90 is the real low elo legend here... you need to step up T90.

I am Lithuanian, and here's a bit of an unrealistic thing: If you are a king commanding your troops, they should probably talk to you more formally, no? In Lithuanian, if someone is higher rank, to be formal, they should adress them in plural. We have a plural and singular versions of words when addressing someone, for example "You"... would be like "You all" or something like that in english.

default mapping for hotkeys seems so much more intuitive based on the icon locations... QQ for house... QA for farms, WS for quickwall etc. End of the day it's player preference

I think Blue played very well for what they did.

I'm reading it as "Le Psychopath"

Saw this live and it was epic. Loved this match a lot

"Corner boy pt2" Isn't it Neutral Milk Hotel song?

Do most people play aoe2 de online directly through the game software or is it through third party software? Thanks.

have been watching these vids lately. use to love aoe as a kid and making me want to install the game (if i find it). lots of laughs,and interesting info on how to be efficient. but i do have a question about something that bothers me. while streeming is there a delay towards game time? because i've seen a couple vids where players react to what the streemer says. if not,then i wouldn't want to play online

16 13 At this point i agree about the hotkeys,i never had like monastery or university hotkey but unit groups,farms,idles and houses were absolute must + loomed villager scouting is OP because you can kill enemy's deers and that's alot of food for them to lose + you can make outposts and small bases around the map to confuse

the wholesome ending

Hotkeys are good to know, and give a significant edge over clickers, though it's probably more important to have good instincts and game sense. I've had games with hotkey warriors who crap the bed taking bad fights, as well as clicker noobs who've come in clutch with just the right unit at the right spot.

For easy play, what 2 unit comp are the best? and at what civ them at it best?

T90 really loves hotkeys

Hii. May i know what's the easiest way to play online with other players? i need some instructions. I'm bored of playing with bots :(.

24:21 best hotkey is ctrl+w.. if you want stone wall ctrl shift+w but uou don’t really need hot key for that ever.

I also once chatted with someone after a game and we added each other in Steam... never wrote or played together again 😅🙈

8:21 T90-Berry: "Wheelbarrow is _" Did you mean "cute" here or "queued" ? 11

Red's worst mistake (IMO) is selling all his wood while keeping so many villagers on wood. Look at 30:50 for example, he has 47 vils on wood and only 15 on gold (while controlling the middle !), and just sold (AGAIN) a ton of his wood for a tiny amount of gold.

Rick the Psychopath. He changed ch for k in psychopath and fully confused you.

When do you stream??

Red IS French. The way he wrote its name is just a "gangsta" way to write psychopath.

I always congrats the other player when they do well

Which version of the game is this ? A voobly one or an actual game ?

T90 sounds like Seamus from Freedom Toons and Common Sense Soap Box.

T-⁹⁰ , you said you don't know how long we will watch you? I've been playing this since I was a teen, I don't think we are going anywhere. Keep up the awesome content.

RTS Role,Troll,Soldier!

love the mention of sabaton, it sucks that people in the US don't like them

I'd be really interested to know what your hotkeys are

And the Franks petards arrived!!!

My actual favorite game of all time is Rails Across America, which no one ever played or has heard of. I'm pretty sure I am the only one who ever bought it. The graphics are not bad at all, but it's like a board game. They actually didn't even need to be as good as they are, because what makes it fun is the gameplay. Same with AOE. I actually prefer HD version.

Hey I noticed you mentioned your hot key set up is on your wall and then you also mentioned the grid hotkey doesnt work how you like it. Would you be willing to send a picture of your cheat sheet or help me out with hotkeys. Im a Low elo legend and have been watching you for a couple months and youve inspiried me to try online but im scared to without hotkeys. Thanks again for all the work you put in your videos and thanks for the help!? ~Sho

I realize the game isnt over yet... BUT you should start a live cast of the Ruben x Andre game. The action is insane right now.

does T90 have a discord?

It's good to be relaxed about losing in ranked, but it's the only way to play. Getting a good build order is the key. With the Cuman 2 TC boom I can play into 1250 elo, any other civ and I'll drop down to 1050. So if I need a pick me up after losing to much, I'll dust off the cumans.

I made it weird. Story of T90's life. LUL

hearing that T90 has BP for a pallisade hotkey has made me extremely confident that the default build hotkeys are probably better than anything he has. As for the gotounit/building hotkeys those might not be as good idk

I don't understand how LEL can have idle villagers like this. I am pretty much OCD with the idle villager hotkey.

The sermon on the mount goes wrong. 42:05

I will tell you, I am NOT nice when I lose sometimes lmao

So, as a new guy to playing we use the DE one from steam to be an active member of this who shibokal