Top Tips for NEW PLAYERS! Age of Empires 2 XBOX Guide 

Reminder: This video is dedicated for brand new players, so this doesn't showcase the best micro intensive builds. My Advanced Tutorial goes over unit control groups, queuing movements, advanced controls, and more: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-nKX9uZon4bI.html

I INSTANTLY subscribed when you said the town center looks like it’s going Super Saiyan

I’m so happy you’re supporting this on Xbox. Very rare.

I found this video to be quite useful, one thing that I recommend at the very beginning is to build 2 houses with your starter villagers. The micro is extremely different than on pc so your build order might not be exactly the same as on pc but could be a great base to jump from

I always start with building houses first to spawn more villagers. More villagers means more productivity and resources. Then I work as quickly as I can to build my military offense or defense. Each civilization has its own strengths and weaknesses so you want to choose one suited for the map. For example if the map has plenty of water then I would go with the Vikings, their navy (longboats) are unmatched. If the map is mostly land then my favorites are the Persians their Elite Elephants are almost unstoppable. Anyway that's my tips have fun!

Yea I definitely feel what killbot is saying, I normally select 2-3 vills and then ill pre setup house buildings one after the other, before they even start working on the first they'll have 14 houses queued and waiting for those hammers. And then keep up the mass farming/ gathering nodes nearby. Once you hit a new age, hit research upgrades so your rss output increases as you continue throughout the ages. And you can scan for stone/gold nodes outside your vision line, and follow with a few kill troops to defend those vills.

Thanks, appreciate this series of videos. Loving this game so far, the controller adaption is awesome.

Good video mate, helpful for me as not played since early 2000s, keep em coming

not here to back seat or anything just thought i would like to share my opinion to some of the new players coming in here, note that i haven't even played this game online nor have i played in quite some time but i have watched some pro games in the past, i believe the most optimal opening strategy would be to make 2 vills build a house and make the other one also build a house since if you dont have atleast one house and the start of the game you can only train 1 vill before getting housed which in result leads to tc idle time which isn't good especially for really early game, good video tho! keep it up.

Thanks for this video. I’m just getting in to this game and this helps with the frustration. I appreciate it.

I have loved this game since release....like...decades...and to see it released on Console just bring many memories back. Nice vid man.👍

Dude, soooo many hours of my life went into this game when I was in high school. I used to tell my mom, "but it has a lot of historical information I learn when I play. It's got Joan of Arc and Genghis Khan in it!"

Good introduction video! I agree with the others about the build order start but then again you never stated that you're showing the optimal build order start. 17:40 Important point I'd like to add regarding differences between civilisations is that civilisations always lack certain common technologies and units. The difference in common unit and technology availability will affect your approach to the game far more than unique units and unique techs.

There is an effort made, but the build order is not efficient New players, my console allies, AOE2 has a very meta way of playing the dark age for every civ. AOE2 is a difficult game to play online and win. First 3 vills build 2 houses, bring livestock as close to TC as possible. Queue vills onto livestock, and rally 6 total villagers onto the food. If you want to understand the game, watch pro players like Viper, Hera, Daut, MBL, etc. Hera has a good tutorial series. Spirit of The Law is also a good AOE2 creator

This was oddly satisfying to watch. Thanks for the vid. Been playing DE and loving the nostalgia. Haven't played this game since I was young!

Just downloaded this today, so pumped it’s been years, glad they kept it original!

How do you separate them when you have them in a squad and you need to pull out the cavalry

You need to really work on your build order. Maximize all the short cuts. It's key to hit the right buildings at the right time to Maximize your defense and attacks. You can chain commands to your villagers by holding left trigger.

Great video. I also found out that Loom research from Town Center is very important. Villagers are more resistant to hits.

is it wise to upgrade up to imperal time or should I focus more on building a defense and recrute troops,walls and towers?

Haven’t played this game or any RTS in years. This has been very helpful to get me back into it. Thank you! 🤘🏻

Appreciate the vid brotha

Thanks 😊

I shared this to my non-aoe playing friends, in hopes that they'll at least try it. 🤞wololo

Can u select mini map and jump from place to place instead of dragging the screen? Also how do you garrison troops and villagers?

Can someone tell me what settings to put in place in order to start off with just a town centre and a few villagers please?

Hi!, Good video!, I'm playing but I can't find the way to put a unit into a castle or tower, do you know how?

Thanks. very useful

It's good, but the lack of camera rotation makes it hard to place items when your view is obstructed, unit reaction times are too slow and clearing things like small forests takes far too long even when fully upgraded. Also, the A.I builds everywhere so i'm having to build a military first in order to contain it and stop it building on my doorstep.

i have a question i try too buy the game but it says not playable on this device a xbox series s i have should i update or is age of empires not playable on xbox series s ?

Great video and info! I have a question and can’t figure out how I did it..on the village presets I had made where I controlled the amount of villagers I wanted in each resource…I got to add or take away small little tabs from the circle or add them, it was awesome but can’t figure out how I got a custom one and not the preset ones…any idea?

I know their is a way to temporary disable farms on the economy wheel but I don’t know how to. Does anyone know the button/how to disable farms?

Really happy you are going over this game for console players and PC, thanks for your work! Are you going to go over the Advanced Control Layout in the Settings Menu? Allows for control groups.

Hey! I have a problem/question if anyone could help me? I cant seem to be able to change diplomacy from ally --> enemy, it always reverts back to ally again whenever I try to change it in diplomacy tab. (By clicking X button to untick the "ally" box there.) What I should do? Is it a bug or am I doing something wrong? (This is in a campaign mission where you are supposed to choose one of two tribes to make war on in ordet to finnish the mission.) 🚩Edit: Found the answer if anyone else have the same issue. Click on s building or a unit of the player you want to change stance with. Then you HOLD RT button. There you have the option to change diplomacy✌️

How do you flip buildings on the grid? And how do you paste and copy several buildings at one time? Can’t find it in the cluttered ‘help index’.

Been watching your videos in halo wars for a while. Subscribed for AOE. Keep grinding young grasshopper

Upgrade all your units as early as possible and note a specific number of unit types are required for different attacks you want to destroy a town center I'll say you need at least 14 units you want to destroy a castle you're going to need at least one trebuchet and around 25 units try to be quick with your micromanaging because your enemy will quickly upgrade in fortify and possibly be aggressive early before you're ready this isn't a game of fishing you should never just be relaxed going slow and casually if you are frantically fortifying multitasking and preparing you will likely be either undefeatable or a force to reckon with

My scout cavalry died during attack. How to build more ?

I remember playing on a super old dell computer and actually puting the disc in...

Does this Xbox version have the option to make your own game

Smart, finally got my friends to download AoE2 now that its on gamepass since we got hooked on halowars 2 but there was no free for all. Perfect timing.

How do you rotate buildings?

I downloaded the game today and LOVED IT.

Bring back battle for middle earth 2

Will you be doing any campaign mode guides anytime soon? if so that'd be great.

Yooo at the very end right there didn’t know you can double tape a building and select all those buildings to build that’s very clutch should help a lot

Good stuff! There is no way really to zoom further in than what’s possible by default, is there? Sometimes it’s be fun to be able to see things up close :)

How do you auto scout with controller?

Does anyone know where the train militia icon is? It’s asking me to highlight the “train militia” and press a three times. When I select the barracks all I see is man-at-arms I do not see train militia anywhere.

Is there a way to create a custom match where it would be me and a friend against ai but not the co-op campaign as I want to start from scratch like at the start of this video?

These are great for basics, but look to professional players for a better idea of how to start a game, build orders and the uses units have within the game so you don't use the wrong units against the enemy units.

6 sheep 4 wood 1 boar house mill 3 more on berries lure deer new vils to food under tc 18th vil makes barracks go to straggler 2 to gold loom feudal 3 militia move from food to wood until you have 10 in feudal upgrade men at arms build range make archers 4 on gold to sustain production double bit axe make farms build blacksmith research fletching

Any vids for players that are 950-1000 Elo, or are we just hard capped against our PC opponents ability to micro

One of the best console RTS games till this day is Lord of the rings Battle for Middle Earth 2 why aren't people trying to get this on x box it runs smooth and is perfect for console

Good video for newer players. How do I grab certain villagers (not all) and send them to a gathering point?

hello X. I'm a big fan started watching you for HW2 so glad yur doing 5his game.🥰 Now I'm only 27 secs in and u may address this but plz plz make a ho5key guide for controller. I'm getting back 5o mouse and key in 5his game but 5hink it's possible to be decent on control. there r guides y3s but NOT YOURS! I'm on series s no pc atm😭 bu5 screw getting better on key if u find the time to make yur own hockey's on controller cuz yu great sir understand the pain on sticks. I got like above avg on hw2(as Cas not much rank but vs ppl not ai) ne ways that's all... ohh and as always ty for yur time in content!

Hopefully get to play against you someday!

Thanks for the video. On xbox console how do you change to advanced controller so you can group troops. I can only manage to get the search wheel come up and not the group troops wheel. Thanks 👍🏻

Check out why I’m getting into age of empire knowing I should’ve been on this game : first game like this I ever played command n conquer then world of Warcraft so because of those game I’m so loving this game right now thanks for the tips great video

Thanks for the tips…the headache begins when you have to transport troops across water clicking the units and dropping them off can get annoying

I can't even get passed the last battle in the tutorial 😂

I wish someone would make an updated guide video for the 3rd Joan of Arc mission

Just seems so hard when you watch the pros play with hot keys and everything just feel like a absolute noob all the time

And one last thing mr. X thank you thank you thank you thank you for being the first video in 2-4 hrs watch time to finally w/o specifically searching to talk about the freaking economy presets you are a legend you ain't got to be a million percent right I like your content so much because you do your best to cover all bases for everyone please do not stop one rts's especially the few that get to come to console thank you thank you if you ever did Stellaris I'll watch all that to I understand that's a 4X but still understand I'm not the only one for these types of games I'll choose you over any of the RU-vidr even more experienced ones I watch a spec for Stellaris but he's on PC I know you be a busy man but I'm telling you your services would be greatly greatly appreciate it in that game too sorry if it would only be by me

2 on food immediately one on building a house immediately otherwise you'll get housed

I LOL at 13:40🤣

I'm struggling with enemy ships. They overwhelm me pretty early on. Any tips?

If you guys want to cheese like hard fucking core against random bots just focus on building villagers for farms and wood (I usually have around 50 by 18 minutes)then build a scout army of 10-15 as fast as possible. After that rush the enemy and focus on villagers. If you can take out 15-20 villagers before 20 minutes you won that’s check mate. This is also around the time where you want to consider going for some gold incase they fend off the first wave and need to upgrade to knights. I don’t always get a lot of villagers buts it’s enough. This game is really all about who can get the most resources the fastest. More resources = big army. Take out their villagers they can’t build anything or gather. I don’t know how this would work against pros but it seems to work well against randoms. Undefeated after 17 games with this strategy.

Xbox version has keyboard and mouse support too!

Wish this would stay on game pass!

I'm just here to find out how to rotate my gates.. lol

A really good start-up strategy for a instant booming economy immediately build a Mill and three or four houses have your peasants start building Farms get Lumber Mills ready mining camps ready everything economic micromanage and bounce back and forth quickly trying to establish everything and under 3 minutes by five minutes you should have around 15 to 20 civilians then just set your pie chart to balanced by 8 minutes and you can advance your civilization and have over 1,000 resources in every category from their build two or three Barracks or Stables and spam a bunch of units that only require meat and wood then build a castle near the front line of combat a wall directly around the castle Bill a few trebuchet set your units to guard them and begin your assault I play games online and win in less than 30 minutes usually every time

Anyone else having trouble playing any campaigns? All of them are locked for me

So...would you say air is OP in Age of Empires 2?

Love RTS games but found the tiny characters and lack of zoom too off putting, funny they say in the intro if you're having trouble to zoom in..zoom in increases it like 5% lol could be a great game but they could have replaced the units with clouds and would have made no difference as you can't see anything but life bars anyway. Too each their own but it wasn't for me.

This game is great on Xbox. Hope we get AOE 4 next on Xbox.

My game on XS is so laggy. It’s almost impossible to play. I have turned my setting to low. Even when I just play the campaigns. Online is a shit show for latency.

Shit reminds me of stronghold

I'm only watching this to see how the hell you play AOE with a controller lol

Is this game multi-player?

This is more like a tutorial than it is tips, a bit of a noob tutorial at that.

I'm sorry, but what qualifies you to give tips to new players? 11

Lots of moving curser around, lots of talking but not a lot of explanation

Useless trivia. I was hoping to learn how to group units.

This game should not be on Xbox One there needs to be a cap limit too much lag destroys the game you will never have a chance against PC players it's stupid don't cross play it's f****** stupid

Very nostalgic

Don't listen to this kid. He doesn't know much, if anything about the game. When he sent his scout out to explore, which normally uncovers the fog on the map, he placed individual waypoints. Duh. He obviously doesn't know that the scout has an "Auto Scout" feature. You turn this on by selecting your scout and pressing Y. The fact that he doesn't know this BASIC gameplay mechanic, shows how little he actually knows. Now, I'm sure he'll respond and say that he knew about this feature all along, but if he did, he would've used it. There are RU-vidrs that really know the game. Go watch them if you want to learn.