Happy New Year folks! A few months in the making, I was finally able to finish this video and share these tips with you folks - be sure to share it with your friends! Thank you for the support in the past two years, and more awesome content coming in 2023. Take care and stay healthy everyone! Cheers.
I know that you are currently taking a break from making content for AOE4, but I just wanted to let you know that this videos, and many other ones about this game, have been so much more helpful than any video from other content creators. Thank you for all you did!
@@AgeofNoobyes brother in Christ you are a big help and I know I’m 5 months late but we miss you and want more content hopefully you come back god bless 🎉
extra tip: Establish a proper frontline. One mistake that I've seen even pro player make every now and then, at least in FFA games, is having their entire army production behind their main base walls, but the army itself, is currently fighting an opponent across the map. Your reinforcements will spend ages to get to the front, and being worth the resources you spent on them. By the time they DO get there, it may be too late for them to make a difference anyway. Get some villagers to the front, and build a military camp! Not, like. a singular barracks, archery range and a stable. Nah, get as many as you can, while still being able to actually use them once they're built.
This is actually a decent intro to aoe4, gives me an idea of what game mechanics are important in it relative to aoe2. Solid video! Was checking your channel since I still await the day you find the free time and desire to host AoNCup4 and was watching old vods for nostalgia :)
AoN Cup might return one day, you never know. :) Thanks for tuning in for so long my friend. P.S.: A dedicated channel for AoE2 specifically will be announced soon. :)
The tip about high APM being superficial was spot on. I used to play against high diamond ranked Protoss players in SC2 who barely scratched 100apm while I was reaching 200+ and they were absolutely crushing me.
That is a great video and with great tips. I had no idea of the control+click thing. I always double click and I hate how sometimes I miss the second clicks cuz of the hit boxes. One tip I would like to add also is to have one or more practice partners that have a similar skill level, it helps loads. Specially if your practice partner plays the civ you struggle against.
Thank you! And that's a great tip, thanks for sharing. Practice with folks around or slightly above your level helps you identify your mistakes easier indeed. :)
I only just figured out your tip about remembering to have fun in the game rather than just coupling my worth as a player to wins v losses. That is by far the most important tip in the list.
Tip 51. You can select a unit and una Shift+a pre existing control group number and this unit will be inserted in the existing control group, works also for inserting a group into a existing group
Shift + Number adds selected units to the control grouping rather than deleting the previous grouping and creating a new one, great for adding reinforcements at the base to your micro manage groups
one thing about speed is fumbling with the controls or being distracted which is something that takes practice to overcome. as for the minimap, it would be nice if we could make it a bit bigger
Thanks for the insight. Ballistas work great against cannons but i also use light horsemen , they can travel quickly and finishes them off. Also i use them to lure enemies into a good spot for archers haha or mass catapults
I’ve only played like 5 or 6 ranked games in the year that I’ve owned the game, mainly because I’ve only won 1 or 2 and I DO get that anxiety of getting outplayed or straight whooped 1v1 online lol. Hoping this gives me renewed motivation to jump back into ranked!
Thanks for the tip. The Tip 11 as very helpful because i only garrison units by using the TC bell! Using the hotkey T on villagers make sure my economy dont get all freeze when i under attack! Thanks a lot
i discovered you channel when searching about painting guides for my lansquenet armies on the board I do not regret to enter a unrelated video of a game i dont play
I dont know why im here because i dont even play AoE4 lmao maybe because RU-vid knows im looking for new RTS to play. Still good video and tips! I still prefer how AoE2 stills looks and plays the better (the remastered)
Huh, I didn't know Ctrl+click selected all units of the same type. I can use that tip cos I've been fumbling around fights with double-click and it's been a bit of a struggle lmao
I’ve beat all the civilizations on absurd with the English on every map, and I do it first by protecting my village with a ton of castles and a lot of bowmen. After that I build 25 stables outside the enemy camp and queue 200+ of them and keep attacking in waves. On absurd I have to block off in walled sections using the trebuchets to clear the path in front of me.
ALL TIPS: 1. Strategy/decision making is worth more than action per minute (apm) or being fast at anything 2. Use hotkeys like selecting all idle villagers, etc. to do mundane stuff easier 3. play intro tutorial (if not already done) 4. don't hoard resources - keep less than a few hundred each in early game, lower than 1k in mid-late game 5. don't idle your town center - keep producing villagers 6. make tons of villagers - up to half population (100 in a 200 pop game) 7. avoid idle villagers and idle military - villagers need to be gathering resources and military can patrol or defend resources and villagers 8. be careful with boars - requires 7 or more villagers to take down 1 boar comfortably 9. prioritize food sources - order of fastest to slowest: 1) shoreline fish 2) boars 3) deer 4) sheep/farms 5) berries 10. learn build orders - like openings in chess - can get you faster to feudal age if you execute them well 11. learn to garrison units - esp. villagers - can select villagers and click seek shelter button - then return to work button 12. first town center has significantly more HP than secondaries 13. use scouts efficiently, gather sheep, see what enemies are up to, never idle scouts 14. training a second scout early game 15. refresh lumber camps by building a second one closer to forest to decrease walk times 16. straighter and longer wall sections are cheaper than shorter and multiple section ones - fewer angles saves resources 17. know when to do economic upgrades to resource buildings 18. setup economy for army composition you are targeting 19. only siege units can attack stone walls (except elephants) 20. incomplete stone walls can be destroyed by non-siege units 21. stone gates actually have directions that matter - typically point gate outward from base 22. put thought into wall designs - do not just encircle your base with walls 23. utilize outposts for vision, defend your resources, deny resources to others - upgrade throughout each age 24. use keeps defensively and offensively - defend farms - deny areas of map - less important in imperial age though 25. avoid long production queues - queue units more efficiently 26. pick up relics - extra passive gold - pick up 2-3 relics on way to castle age 27. use attack move command, do by attacking and moving the ground nearest enemy and not specific enemy or building 28. focus fire and kite with range units by attacking and running away from melee range, repeat - good in early-mid game otherwise amass fire 29. don't forget about blacksmith upgrades - prioritize upgrades for units you have now or plan on having soon 30. know your unit counters - e.g. spearmen counters horsemen, etc. 31. understand Lanchester's Law - military units, dmg outputs, outnumbering is important and not linear 32. use springalds against siege units - insane range and dmg against other siege units - must have before imperial age 33. no friendly fire in aoe4 - use weapons against enemies near allies without consequences 34. units take up different amounts of population space - e.g. siege unit is not worth 1 villager etc. 35. heal wounded military units with religious units 36. obtain map control - learn when to gain control/relinquish control 37. build multiple production buildings - not uncommon to have 5-10 buildings of the unit you are training - can train units 5x faster 38. check minimap regularly - helps react faster 39. use market to balance economy when necessary 40. population efficiency matters in late game 41. use rally points - tell units to go somewhere immediately after they are trained 42. utilize fast building trick - example: build a mill and then spam click the mill with farms to auto place them around mill 43. use shift commands more - quickly queue 5 units with holding shift and clicking queue once, or instruct villager to do 2 different things in succession, tell monk to pickup relic and go to monastery immediately, etc. 44. use ctrl+click - selects all of the same unit immediately, helps separate units 45. use control groups - select units and press number or function key to assign units to a group, now those units become a hotkey selector 46. tweak centering options - when hitting hotkeys to select units or groups you can change whether camera follows or does not 47. consider panoramic zoom level - change camera mode setting from classic to panoramic 48. read post game stats - gather insights on what to improve on 49. watch replay of game to see how opponent won against you 50. watch pro tournaments
I used to play AOE4 a lot, grinded 120 hours ranked. Haven't played it for like 1+ years now, and I feel like total noob again, this is what I hate about AOE4. It's not like you can learn it once and than the learning curve is over. :/ I want to get back to it, but I don't wanna re-learn it again :(
I would include that shift+building 8 farms around farms (or tcs) makes a lot of idle time of all those villagers, you have to manually click each of them on separate farm to make them build it all faster (might save about 10+ seconds of idle time)
I should've mentioned in the video that after doing the shift click, you can select all villagers and right click a farm again. While they will waste time with the first one, they'll disburse after for the remaining 7. Definitely still saves a ton of time compared to doing it manually.
I agree with what you last about it being a game, don't stress too much about it and enjoy it. But I think it will be harder for some to do that after you just mentioned pro gamers tournament with a prize pool of 300k. This is why I steer clear of pro-player content because I get competitive and stress too much about it. Something to consider for those who are like me.
If you double click number 1 if that's what you set your men to, the camera will center to them, but if you click once you have to manually move your camera.
Spirit of the law did a great lancasters law video. Id recommend that till AoN makes his own video. As for monks picking up relics? Did they change that when i wasnt looking? Last i played, i wasnt able to rally pick up relic and put in building. I could rally move next to building. But not put inaide building(while prelate doesnt yet have relic).
Regarding tip 46: you can select "select only" in the settings and then use the focus hotkey to jump to the location of the selected group. This helped me a lot.
it would be very helpful, if you have a playlist on your channel, where these beginner videos are grouped together. if I want to find all the videos you mentioned in this one, it's really hard to pick them out of all your 158 AoE IV videos.
Great video! As for the first tip, is there a guide for when certain high level strategies counter others? If I see my enemy going to a second TC, how do I know rather to go for a second myself, rush castle or attack all in? Also, regarding tip 46, I do believe you can double tap a control group key to center on them
Yes, there's no bad time to play online. You'll likely lose your first few games as the game calibrates your skill level, but should be fine thereafter. :)
ngl I need tips 11, I played AoE2, AoE3 and age of mythology way back ago when I was just entered Junior High and I remember whenever in danger you could click the bell icon in TC and all villager will automatically seek shelter, now when I played AoE4 my villager were attacked and I want to have them seek shelter but couldn't find the bell button or equivalent of that in the TC which ended in half of my villager died while I scramble to click each villager to enter TC, Outpost or Castle manually
A bad player can lose to a slow player but two equal players are decided by speed. There is a clear advantage to those using keyboard over controller for example.
I strongly disagree about the optimal number of villagers. The hard AI generally trains between 50-55, and I've found that to be a good number that brings in plenty of resources. More than that and you're just hamstringing your military. I have beaten the hardest AI with this tactic.
Wrong, the AI is really weak compared to a human player. You will never get on full population vs a intermediate human player on open maps, as he will constantly attack you and both players will loose units you need to replace, which works better with a stronger economy. On closed maps the stronger eco will win because of reaching higher ages faster and then bleeding you dry with better units and constantly replacing them, while you can't with your weaker economy.
It's still a mix. The ~50/50 rule still stands, with some leeway either side depending on your army comp and civ. The idea is that you shouldn't run out of resources while trying to stay pop capped with your army.
I would love to know the hotkeys for the Xbox x. I switched to keyboard and mouse, but the settings only show the hotkeys and controls for the controller
I am a beginner and just bought age of empire IV anniversary edition but when i try to play skimmish there is no ottoman empire that i can choose do i have to unlock ottoman empire first if so how
In warcraft, theres a way to have a unit immediately follow your champion once theyve spawned, is there such a thing in AOE? Like have them follow your army right away?
How much of this applies to console players? I mean obviously the commands and such won’t apply but I’m wondering if there’s a similar type of key bind or command and such that console players can use as well. A sort of substitute from the computer controls
Non-control based tips are all transferable! So ignore tips like Ctrl or Shift click ones, but the rest that applies to the game and its mechanics should apply to both sets of players. :)
@@AgeofNoob haven't memorised KoH2 music yet, but I won't ever forget the masterpiece of soundtrack the first part had. I was a bit disappointed that they haven't included the old soundtrack 🥲
