The New Arena Is Here And It Is Actually SO GOOD!! 

The player base dropping could also just be a byproduct of Elden Ring hype

Oh yeah, Spain re-appears pretty late in European history. In the dark ages the powers of Europe barely stopped the Ummayad dynasties advance into France, and spain+portugal spent like 600 years under Muslim rule. The reconquista starts during most of our familiar nations imperial ages, but Portugal would be the fist to re-emerge. Speaking of two nations that are very connected, Portugal and Japan actually were pretty heavily connected because of how Portugal's influence actually twisted the Sengoku Jidai: Portuguese interactions with southern japan greatly influenced the civil war there, by introducing guns, artillery, and new armor forging techniques to the islands (The guns mattered a lot more then the others.) Japans period of isolation actually started because Portugal started trying to make alliances with a few Japanese clans (IE: The otomo)+spreading Christianity, which scared the hell out of the newly established shogunate.

4:25 Either the Abbey of Kings has a UI bug, or they changed its healing rate since the original PUP patch notes. Because on March 10th, it looked like "Abbey of Kings healing rate increased from 4 health/1.5 seconds to 6 health/ 1 second".

OMG!!! Arena was my fav map in aoe2 I was 1200 but in this map I could beat 1400 players xD I cant wait to play in this arenaaaa

Sometimes these hour long games are perfect for me when I want to relax a little and just appreciate the game

Polynesians could easily have villagers that can cross water without transport ships. Those kinda civs are hard to balance for non-water maps though.

Sick, I remember playing arena and regicide as a kid! I wonder if those cool masks could be added to the collection of maps for the ladder and ranked.

34:30 - tc for emergency repairs, since the tech is still bugged after 6 month after release or simply they didnt fix the techtree

Love the arena map, it makes it where the individual is able to get up into an age or position where they don't have to worry about getting sniped or taken out in the first 4 minutes of the game. This way they can build and strategies enough where they want to go.

Seeing this game I am confirmed in my feeling that Regnitz with only 2 spaces is not a good nerf. I really think it would've been better to allow 3, but just reduce the gold income per relic. Maybe each one 200g/m. Or 300-250-150. Something like that. Fighting for that 3rd relic is very fun

I wonder how would Mongols play on this map. You can't do any early raiding until you get rams/siege towers. But you can easily control the center of the map in Feudal; which I think you can leverage into utilizing silver tree traders. But how much of a boom is that; and how long can you hold it? I reckon Mongols would want to end the game by castle or early imperial; as they have several disadvantages late game since they aren't able to replace the stone walls, nor put down keeps; and they have worse trebs making it difficult to counter enemy walls and keeps. Although their improved techs does make their siege and armies pretty decent.

absolutely agree, many people don't do ladder (so then there little left for them in the game), mainly bcs they lose to Feudal rush all the time... Arena is something thy might enjoy a lot!

Great game. Loved the hail Mary at the end

For blocking the gate against towers you could create an airlock with a second backwards gate. That way you can still get through, but enemies would drop down in the airlock and be met with a couple stone towers.

As a portuguese, I really like the idea of Portugal having a chance of being introduced in AoE4 soon! The thing is... I hope they don´t make Portugal a total "water maps civ" (for historical reasons). That would suck, because I would love to play with my nation, but I don´t really like water maps xD

These are the kind of games I am looking for, I am looking forward to these additions

I never liked Arena in AoE2 but I’m still happy to see it. Have fun, Arena players 🙏

Wow this game was amazing thanks drongo

feel like it's weird how the scout can see over the stone walls. maybe it's a good thing for the rest of the game, I haven't played it enough to gauge the balance consequences of shutting down LOS by enemy stone walls in general, but I feel like it would make sense here at least - gives you more space to cook up strats in secret behind the walls - kinda the point of arena

honestly it would be wild if they added a zone of control that u had to cap like a sacred site behind the gates. Make the siege towers actually latch on to walls but make them die fast as hell to stone towers.

someone : can you stop saying the f-word?? Drongo : f-word is part of my culture.

If you play mongols or the rus on this map, would you also get a stone wall?

Its not that the number of players have been dropping off, its just that I bought the game tried running it and realized I need more RAM So hopefully April onwards I can jump right back on the wagon.

Now we just need that WALL guy to start playing this map and have some popcorn

I would like to see a water themed DLC, with byzantines, venice, swdes and japan

Do the rus start with stone walls as well or are they still restricted to palisades ?

The only map where siege tower isn’t a meme but no one uses when scaling walls early early and into the base through their own gate and maybe battering ram inside would be crazy

I'm curious, would Mongol and Rus have stone wall too? Or There is something else on them?

12:39 favorite scene of the video

With the bug fixes and balance changes I think pulling people back in to try again could be very effective. Hopefully they will also have added in new maps + killed feudal stone walls by then

THIS MAP LOOKS SO FUN! I CANT WAIT!!!

That backward gate hurts my soul lol

If they made a paid DLC it would split the player base making quick matches take longer to find and even more players would leave the game

Szalami1 in my opinion is one of the most feared players to go against, I would be interested in seeing him in a team game.

thats so funny to see as aoe2 player the map is in there since 2011 i believe

Are they ever going to bring back the custom build mode where you can put thousands of units on a map and battle it out?

Great game, I'd love to see the Ottoman Empire added.

I absolutely loved this game and this made me keep my hopes high for this game, as the community comes to our rescue in changing the way this game is meant to be played!

ok that Salami & cheese joke killed me

This map is more of a close approach to maps in sc2, no randomness... which can be good once in a while but definitely not something you wanna/should play always, else strategies will not be as variable.

I hope this game is more fast paced.

Is this map only a 1o1 Map, or is it for 2vs2 aswell?

Never played AOE4. Watched a bunch of casts on RU-vid though. Mainly play Starcraft 2. But, I like watching casts of RTS Games.

I feel like English DOES need a cap on how much Gold per minute they can get overall from farms. No other civ can compete in long games like this otherwise.

Arena looks like awesome and more funny than normal map

spain and Galleons and they were definitly the country that traded THE MOST for a while

THE PIPE TRAIN,!!! lmao!!!

Given the civs we currently have are all from the same time frame of history (roughly), I think it's likely we're to see more of the same, like the Lithuanian-Polish Empire, Byzantines over Ottomans as they were later, or maybe even the Seljuk Empire. I doubt we'd see the Habsburgs or the Austro-Hungarian Empire as they'd be too similar to HRE. Koreans and Japanese might be possible, but I think that's likely an outside shot personally.

Do mongols get stone walls too? That would be super easy mode

the other reason they have to make it free is it will split the player base even more

This is a really good game.. my but is,, that the walls come down to easily.. they really have to have a Bigger hit rate especially the stone walls..

when will this update be available?

THIS IS GREAT

Note how the HRE villagers carry 42! food!!

Druids, we need some majick

The DLC doesn't have to be free. Not the single player content at the very least. You have to realize, most people who played the game, finished the single player content and moved on. The single player experience was solid when the game launched. There were no crashes or connection issues with that (and I realize how ludicrous it is to put "connection" and "single player" in the same sentence, but it is what it is). For all it's faults AoEIV released in a better single player state than AoE2:DE and AoE3:DE, which had some game-breaking bugs. Especially AoE3:DE, which could actually crash in later campaigns and delete your progress. Ideally, when they release new civs, they'd let them be used in ranked for free and then sell the campaign content related to the civs as well as the option to use them in custom games. I don't know if the sales numbers were good or not for the game, but it was on the top sellers on steam at the very least when it launched, so I'd guess it wasn't horrible. That would let people try the new civs out, but at the same time limit them to just ranked mode, which is always starving for new or returning people. It would also funnel some people into multiplayer, who enjoyed it, but got burnt out because of the springald meta or mongol tower rushes or just general bugs and imbalances which are way better now. I see reddit posts asking about the current state of the game pop up semi-occasionally, so the interest is clearly still there, but people are cautious - my guess is they loved the game, but got burned and are afraid if they get burned again they may never get the urge to try it once more, hence the cautious approach. My ideal DLC for the game would be two new civs with campaigns and mastery trees, as well as a campaign for one of the four release civs, who didn't get a campaign on launch, somewhere around 15-20eur price range. This would be very similar to how AoE2:DE releases their DLCs, which is a fair price with enough content to have someone who uninstalled the game get the urge to install it again. (You probably wouldn't install it for a short 4-5hour dlc if you were a single player casual who uninstalled it, thus you wouldn't buy it, but for 3 campaigns it would start to make sense).

I wouldn’t mind the dlc to have Byzantine, common wealth of Poland and Lithuania, suljuks Turks, the moors, the empire of mali, the kingdom of Ethiopia and Korea

I would love to see Kingdom of Ghana in a DLC. Unique gold production from trade / taxation and plenty of massive African elephants and camels!

damn drongo

All the aoe2 veteran summoning to the game

Bro, for an Aussie bloke, Jesus you can talk.

Greetings sire! Your Stronghold awaits you!

How can I download the mod and play?

often you find him in the del(h)i, but you can also find him in the cheese aisle...............................

is all jizzed up an Aussie saying i have never heard that reference

The stuttering is definitely from modded maps

Castle age? who needs that.. just Abassid dark age siege tower rush lol

can't belive they castrated exodia

For me next civs are just logic, Korean or japanese and oriental empire. Should do that for marketing and players i think both would be agree with that.

i want schottland. thats the viknigs

Yooooo! arena

seems like Age 4 is actually making some good progress towards being worth it (IMHO)

I really don't think they needed to limit reginaltz to 2 relics

Spain, Japan, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and Byzantine :)

Siege tower viable now?

i would love a Japanese civ

I have my eyes on AoE4 since release but didn't buy it yet. If they added a Viking faction I'd be sold in an instant. :D

Greedy build orders: Often you find Salami in a Delhi, but you also find him in a Cheese isle xD Full sandwich

How do I play mongol on this lol

How can we get this map on AOE4 ?

"wait im Drongo" - classic

The order should be: - Vikings - Ottoman - Spanish and/or Portuguese - Dutch - Mali First vikings because they raided at distance very early, think North America, Russia, I believe even Donau and Black Sea. Then Ottomans for controlling the West Asian global market trade. Then Spanish for circumventing the Ottoman levies and expanding to Americas and Phillipines amongst others. Then the Dutch for out pioneering the other nations, fast, early marine tech, capital, trade focused but vulnerable in numbers. After the Dutch it's basically the British which we have with the English and then the Americans... Finally, the dark horse Mali because it's the age of equality and diversity and who doesn't want to dream about African presence with the insane gold production in the Timbuktu town center.

Egyptian won't come because aoe4 focuses more on empires and at that time egypt was under abbasid control after that they were under the ayyubid control so we might see ayyubid sultanante... (I am really excited for the ayyubid horse archers) and we might also see mamluk sultanate . And I would love to see korea and japan...not briniging korea would be sad....I will also love to see ottoman and byzantine heck even a campaign about this two civ would be interesting

hope developers watch the game and fix HRE

if i knew i want that special features early i would have buyed the kings edition :C i cant play ranked... i cant have the new custom mode :C

dont worry :) the player dropoff wont be as bad as in new world atleast :)

yessss! this map is GREAT! NO FREAKING RUSHING haha.

Really bro you r uploading the same match twice I have already watched this match up

Does HRE have the worst passive gold generation compared to Rus and English now?

Well is this map available?

when is this dlc happening

Siege tower ftw!

Change the game border to hexagon or octagon

I am calling it it's going to be the Hanseatic league and Japanese or Malians and Khmer

The V in voila is pronounced like in vile not w btw in french

Aussie I highly doubt they will release region based dlcs, I do not think it is an accident that the civs are pretty evenly distributed between Europe and Asia. Also aoe 2 was super liberal in it's time frame and what they consider 'empires'. Just my two cents. Great job at N4c, I am intrigued by these 'currywurst'

Is the beta still active?

Ah, they added a pinch of starcraft. Nice.

I wil see how chineese drongo gonna play this map

Can we already choose color tho?😂