Just moments after I uploaded this Rubenstock disconnected... 98 Hours! The follow up video will be coming after we gather all the exciting moments... Looks like I jinxed it LOL!
This is probably the only time in AoE history that we have an example of actual siege warfare in the game. Maybe not to starve the person out of food or water per say, but same concept.
@@hafor2846 I guess Rubenstock, as a proper scandinavian, is going on a viking to make sure the bill for internet and energy will be in time. Usual part time viking jobs. Pretty common over here. 11
In case u didn't know, there was one time when Rubenstock was thinking of ordering some tacos for Andre so he has to go away for a big dump. Ans then there was sleep deprived andre and chat that named all 4 of the viking survivors and created official back stories for them.
@@Mr-Galaxy They were 4 Norwegian warriors who died a glorious death and woke up in Valhalla, just to find out that the legends were lies: No golden halls and endless feasts, they are just pawns in a game between 2 retarded entities. And of course, there are those fuck*ng sky trumpets, blaring and blaring each time someone touch something or someone else.
I'm both amazed and terrified that this is even possible. Not to mention the fact AOE2 is even stable enough to run an online game for that long without disconnecting. Truly impressive for a 20+ year old game.
@@sigurdtheblue A 20 year old game that has been upgraded 2.5 years ago, as far as I know it still runs on the same old code, just with new stuff added on
@@tetst_54546 Problem is keeping old code up to date with newer versions of operating systems and libraries. I'm sure there has been plenty of refactoring and straight up rewriting certain components.
His date is like so what have you been up to lately. He: I am in a stalemate with this crazy Romanian. That sob is hiding in his castle but I will burn it down and kill everyone on sight. She: ah... Alright then.
@@simonst5487 its when berbers fought goths and vikings in iberia right before incan mercenaries offered to build offensive towers which then turned the war into kind of a stalemate
You mean that time when irl a guy on a horse ran back and forth dodging arrows with someone from the clergy chanting nearby, while people clanked swords on the stone walls of a medieval castle until it fell over.
@@LeGrandJohnson that is exactly what ended the stalemate my friend. Tarik bin Ziyad went under the gothic mainbase castle and clanked his sword into the castle a thousand times. Too bad they didn't get murder holes.
It would have been even better if Rubenstock was not actually planning on being away for 3 days, but rather that that was all a ruse to get Andre to let down his guard.
I loved every second of these few days! Everyone was so hyped. Maybe it doesn't seem like much for a random bypasser, but seeing everyone joined together and united seeing a single game and expecting it's outcome was a very enjoyable time for me and big part of community! Thanks T90 for the video, always enjoy your content!
"Andre just loses one of his two castles" - that was his third castle. "Rubenstock goes in for his last castle" - he had two castles 12:40 "with one castle remaining" as we look at two castles Love your content T90, this time slightly too quick to get it out.
A couple of days in someone in chat asked Rudi if he had the opportunity to take shower breaks, and he said in the most sober Finnish accent; "I went to the sauna already".
@@stevenglikin3219 That is the just the way it is. In AOE, the game time is faster than real time. If you watch or play any game, you will easily notice that. To get the real time spent, you divide the game time by 1.7.
I'd thought about this situation before but never before have I seen it even get close to this. Amazing. Might have to call in Microsoft to officially call this one a draw.
i just played an 14 hour game but it was with a group of 8 friends so we saved the game and played the 14 hour game in 2 days we all had covid so could not leave the house and it was winter break!
Stupid question, fairly new to AoE here, but how do you save the game and exit without taking an automatic loss for the person/team who quits first? I was once so tired from playing a game into the night that I saved it, then exited, heard the loud screeching in my headset signifying I had "lost" the game versus the AI. I loaded the game the next day and won but not credited with a win since the system already recorded a loss for the game. I've only been playing for about 3 months so far.
@@UncleEarl97 not a stupid question,,, i am also new so i might not be the best person to ask but if it is not a ranked game then it will not stay on your history as wins or losses
it was going to be either ISP, Electricity outage, CPU overheating or server maintenance.. what we didn't get to witness though was if there was some Y2K factor past 99:59:59 D':
I think Andre heard that Reubenstock would be out for a few days so he found out where he lived, drove there, broke into the basement and flipped the main breaker, then went back to his car to make sure Reubenstock was really DC'd. You'd have to admit, that would be a big brain move. All's fair in warfare.
First there was forest nothing, followed by greatest hits such as ring nothing and everything nothing maps.... But now get ready for TIME nothing, THE MOVIE! An AoE DE game cast by the legendary T90! Coming sometime 2022 (when they finish the game)
Imagine if they started a week before New Year's and continue the game another week into the next year, imagine the billing by T90, "Longest multi-year AoE2 game ever!".
As I finished watching this video went to twitch and after couple minutes Rubenstock internet or something suddenly dropped and also disconnected from the game, giving andre the win. 11
Since you seem to have not checked up on the game since '06, are you aware that there are actually two "updated versions" of AoE 2 available? HD Edition from 2013 and the amazing Definitive Edition from I believe 2020 (or 2019?). Updated graphics, some QoL improvements and a ton of new civilizations.
"this is not a cash game, this is not a tournament" lol...imagine this in a tournament. XD anyway, this will be history.... call the guinness book of records!
Might be a Guiness World Record upcoming. Or maybe a timeout, if there is any on the server system, if there is maybe a random line in the code saying that the game cannot last more than X hours :D Thanks T90 for sharing that, and more globally take the time to get videos extract from both players's stream, cuz getting the content, on such a long video, might take a lot of time.
It's easy to miss because it's not what draws your attention at the time, but Rubenstock's monk goes down to a stray arrow from the castle at 8:47 as it's shooting at the hussar. Even Rubenstock himself doesn't catch it as it happens, but a few people in his chat do.
What a historical game. The longest one is the history of multiplayer RTS. It needs to go to Guinness Book of Records, it doesn't happen twice in a lifetime. I watched first 5 hours from Rubenstock POV and it was so tense, even watching the replay and knowing the result. It's a massive coincidence that Rubenstock saved a woodline until Andre was out of wood and pushed back with the extra wood from a tough spot.
You know, I would be interested in what it would look like if a game was actually developed around the idea of a single match lasting multiple days. Of course, players would need to be able to exit the game without resigning the match, but it would be interesting. It would be especially interesting to see what kind of gameplay mechanics such a game would have. The obvious problem would be players obsessively checking the game and going full gamer mode, so of course the mechanics would have to address that. Would be cool to see either way.
Thanks T90 for sharing this! Just absurdly awesome. Faith in humanity restored, lol. Side note: Anybody know any good casters for any of the Command&Conquer franchise? I.e., C&C, RA, and/or Generals? Or even, AoM, Starcraft, Warcraft, Halo Wars? T90, i know you say you suck at those games, but i think many of us would still love to watch you learn, and progress, within those games. Im sure many in your community would be willing to help as well. Most "top-fown" RTS games are pretty much the same. I'd say AoE is the most complicated, so the fact you've got so much time into this game means you should be able to transition into any of the others with relative ease. I mean, most of those games only have 1 - 2 resources, and 2 - 3 "civilizations" with limited tech trees, if any. It's mostly about build orders and unit comp. (Wait... that sounds familiar!)
I mean...there are tons of casters for Starcraft 2 and if you want to go for Starcraft 1, there is no alternative to the casting archon of Tastosis (Artosis and Tasteless). For SC2 there are those two and people like RotterdaM, DeMusliM or ZombieGrub, to name just a few. For Warcraft...there are the guys from Back2Warcraft and some people of the old guard like Khaldor or fischieee. Really depends on the language. If you understand german, there were many more "Back in the day", like orc1sh or the younger ones like Donathan or Balnazza (can't name any for C&C though, sorry ._. played most of them, but was never interested in its esports aspects)
I once played a ludicrous size map against 5 AI players on super hard (modified Ai) and basically used up almost all the entire maps resources Stone Gold and Trees. My strategy to win was as such. Early game was Basically FATSLOB method until I could get to imperial age.. then created a Y shape funnel for enemy troops to pour in being bombarded from both sides by rows of towers and castles. Each castle was surrounded by housewalls or other buildings to prevent them from easily being taken down by a random Ram Rush of which there were several. As for trebuchet I had multiple gates in my walls so I could quickly send in Paladins or Champions to rush in and take out their seige before retreating back . As the game progressed I made multiple auxiliary bases and would surround each small town with two layers of wood walls then each base had a dozen of each military building.. archery range, stable and barracks and 1 monestary for healing. I then expanded each based and made a grid pattern of walls across the whole map then when an enemy would attack I would attack their base from the back or side forcing them to return back to their base to defend it. When they returned back I would pick off a few troops with horse archers or onnagers from a walled position then run back to base. Little by little I'd edge my way in while at the same time I made sure to target their trade carts as a priority to cut them off from both resources and trade. After I was able to defeat one AI I made sure to preserve one of their markets to trade with and I heavily defended it. Then after each enemy push I tightened my grasp over their resources and would build another row of walls and housewalls .. then in a checkerboard pattern I'd place the housewalls in such a way to deny the enemy the advantage of surrounding my units with their calvary.. this allowed for me to target them with archers and scorpions from a point of safety. The last part was the hardest because near the end they wouldn't go on a long journey to get to my main base allowing me an opportunity to stike . Instead they hunkered down waiting for me to attack. But judging by their unit composition they were not short on gold having had a long time to stock up. So then because they wouldn't leave their base I would attack from the left side with cheap garbage units.. and then I'd send in a dozen or so bombard cannons to take out 1 or 2 buildings before they would divert back and quickly take out my bombards.. then I'd alternate the composition. Producing garbage on the right and bombards on the left.. then I did the same thing top and bottom.. and built walls closer and closer until they ran out of resources and had no place left to run to to get more, so even if they had escaped the box I trapped them in, I had already used up all the resources on the map outside the box making their efforts worthless. Props to the maker of the Ai because it didn't give up it fought until the very last pesant was killed 👏 👌 👍 It took me 27 hours
Never seen an AoE2 map so devastated of resources. It is like empty badly made fan map. When I played as a kid I was thinking about how the map would be ruined when I chop all the wood, but then that never happened for me. Also would have been nice to have some trees slowly growing. Imagine having an epic battle for a young tree at the other end of the map :D
can't even imagine. Last night when I was winning but didn't have enough gold to make siege, my opponent wouldn't resign, I went on tilt, lost some units to a mangonel, and ran out of gold. At that point instead of fighting a trash war I built towers and garrisoned them with all 85 villagers, went afk and made the opponent spend 35 minutes cleaning it up just to prove that my time was worth more than his. He apparently didn't know about spies either. I was surprised how long it took.
In german Warcraft 3, in the EPS no less (like german championship that offered a lot of money for the time), a player named Eric just build lots of towers, wrote "have fun" to his opponent and went afk. To this day that is one of the weirdest Esports-things that ever happened...
The fact that you can even get a match THIS close just goes to show that the AoE2 DE team do have something right... and a crapload of people to make it work ofc.
For me, it should have been a draw. I know Ruben has a different sight on this, but both cannot defeat the other one, as long as they are not afk. I think Andre was saying, that he offered Ruben a draw, but he didn't want to. IF this is true (I did NOT have confirmation), I am happy with Andre winning it. But, form a competetive point of view, it should be a draw in my oppinion. BUT I am happy that it happened, it was so funny and stupid tbh :D
this game is going to be written down in the history books. from this moment forwards you will never be able to mention AOE2 without talking about Andre vs Rubenstock in February 2022.
I used to go hang out with friends at this guitar shop in town, and the owner was a super chill old guy who played this all day on a completely overkill gaming rig behind the counter, he also repaired computers on the side.
Was actually reading articles on this from random sites for the past two days. First itwas a 55 hour game, next one was a 70+ game, and now T90s vid saying 95 hours. Is actually the most famous aoe2 game out there
(Xylor) Nice video T90! I appreciate and enjoy you keeping us up to date with what's going on, and finding the best quality and entertaining clips. Epic! Congrats to these players. I also acknowledge it beats my longest ever game, (vs legend Isit). keep up the good work! :D
age of empires, modern siege warfare. No sleep. No work. Food budget. Maybe even going to your opponents house to unplug his internet. You never know what can happen in a siege
Until Ruben's monk was alive he could try to hit once and run with his camel. I know it would take thousends of hits to destroy the castle but with his micro it was doable. Now I read that he was disconnected, unlucky...
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Just moments after I uploaded this Rubenstock disconnected... 98 Hours! The follow up video will be coming after we gather all the exciting moments... Looks like I jinxed it LOL!
Whoops
The Jinxer strikes again!
since you jinxed it, you should cast it, it's not even that long
FUCK U! This is Välirauha!
You played 98 hours to die like this?
Rubenstock isn't taking a week-end off, he's travelling to Romania to disconnect Andre's power. New meta confirmed!
Hahaha :-D
Extra point to Rubenstock if he dresses up as a Blue Villager to do it!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
@@UncleEarl97 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
😀😝
he went on a date during a ranked game, absolute legend
Didn’t expect to you see you here
@@XeroKarma same feeling lol
Yo didnt know you played/watched aoe2 too man
Never would have thought you'd like AOE2 you JG king
A true chad
This is probably the only time in AoE history that we have an example of actual siege warfare in the game. Maybe not to starve the person out of food or water per say, but same concept.
Where do you think Rubenstock has gone? He's going over to Andre to starve him irl.
@@hafor2846 He took a flight and then he's gunna cut Andre's internet connection
@@hafor2846 I guess Rubenstock, as a proper scandinavian, is going on a viking to make sure the bill for internet and energy will be in time.
Usual part time viking jobs. Pretty common over here. 11
Honestly, it was a war of attrition IRL, too.
@@hafor2846 Nah man, he's gone to cut his power. Age of the geek baby >: ]
In case u didn't know, there was one time when Rubenstock was thinking of ordering some tacos for Andre so he has to go away for a big dump.
Ans then there was sleep deprived andre and chat that named all 4 of the viking survivors and created official back stories for them.
What's the lore for the 4 vikings?
@@Mr-Galaxy They were 4 Norwegian warriors who died a glorious death and woke up in Valhalla, just to find out that the legends were lies: No golden halls and endless feasts, they are just pawns in a game between 2 retarded entities. And of course, there are those fuck*ng sky trumpets, blaring and blaring each time someone touch something or someone else.
Tacos defeat all
Somebody needs to tell this the Internet Historian channel.
Why weren't the Vikings' lores provided?
>Longest ongoing match in aoe2 history
>t90 posts about it
>game ends
lol exactly what happened
@@annaairahala9462 ddos
who won?
Andre from what I can tell
@@kylancook3477 probably because Romania has maybe the best internet access on the planet.
They say if WW3 happens, WW4 will be fought with sticks and stones. This game proves there will be neither sticks nor stones left.
They will fight each other with BAD INTENTIONS
The "Blame it on your ISP" taunt might actually become a reality.
it did
@@victordrouinviallard1700 😭
what is ISP?
@@johny16G internet service provider
@@johny16G ISorrowProductions
I'm both amazed and terrified that this is even possible. Not to mention the fact AOE2 is even stable enough to run an online game for that long without disconnecting. Truly impressive for a 20+ year old game.
More like a 3 year old game.
@@sigurdtheblue A 20 year old game that has been upgraded 2.5 years ago, as far as I know it still runs on the same old code, just with new stuff added on
stable sure, thats why people keep crashing on my ranked games
That is actually why it is so stable. Old software tends to be better than new one since most of the bugs have already been found and fixed. 🙂
@@tetst_54546 Problem is keeping old code up to date with newer versions of operating systems and libraries. I'm sure there has been plenty of refactoring and straight up rewriting certain components.
4:18 "At 4 hours, the Stalemate Age begins"
**tortured Rubenstock noises in the background**
😂😂😂
Laughed so hard at this. His labored groaning is just hilarious 😂
His date is like so what have you been up to lately. He: I am in a stalemate with this crazy Romanian. That sob is hiding in his castle but I will burn it down and kill everyone on sight. She: ah... Alright then.
This is a truly accurate recreation of a historical battle.
WW 1 with no trees left?
@@simonst5487 its when berbers fought goths and vikings in iberia right before incan mercenaries offered to build offensive towers which then turned the war into kind of a stalemate
You mean that time when irl a guy on a horse ran back and forth dodging arrows with someone from the clergy chanting nearby, while people clanked swords on the stone walls of a medieval castle until it fell over.
@@LeGrandJohnson that is exactly what ended the stalemate my friend. Tarik bin Ziyad went under the gothic mainbase castle and clanked his sword into the castle a thousand times. Too bad they didn't get murder holes.
It would have been even better if Rubenstock was not actually planning on being away for 3 days, but rather that that was all a ruse to get Andre to let down his guard.
I loved every second of these few days! Everyone was so hyped. Maybe it doesn't seem like much for a random bypasser, but seeing everyone joined together and united seeing a single game and expecting it's outcome was a very enjoyable time for me and big part of community!
Thanks T90 for the video, always enjoy your content!
Ratio
Hello tucán, good comment
your reference to zugzwang and the whole thermodinamics and entropy speculation was prime content dude
"Andre just loses one of his two castles" - that was his third castle.
"Rubenstock goes in for his last castle" - he had two castles
12:40 "with one castle remaining" as we look at two castles
Love your content T90, this time slightly too quick to get it out.
Haha. That's typical t90 😂
And still entertaining
*12:36
"at the time of recording" probably means audio, which was not recorded at the same time the video was recorded
Finally T90 casts a Nothing-Map again
The legend of nothing nothing.
The game just ended minutes ago, Andre won after Ruben DC'd while sleeping 11
The next strat for both players is gonna be to try and turn off power in their opponents neighborhood
Builds an emp device
The classic imp into a drive by!
Classic Andre.
WWIII results from an AOE game gone wrong.
This actually happened in an online game we played in my country
A couple of days in someone in chat asked Rudi if he had the opportunity to take shower breaks, and he said in the most sober Finnish accent; "I went to the sauna already".
Perkele
98:14:53 it is. So close to the 100 hour mark!! This might be a record that may never be broken.
4 days damn
@@alvinxyz7419 Remember these are game hours. In real time, the game was of around 57 hours. Not that that makes it any less incredible.
I clicked the timer hoping that I would see a vid with the whole 98 hrs :(
@@the_Nameless_One99 what do you mean? why would the time in game move differently than real time?
@@stevenglikin3219 That is the just the way it is. In AOE, the game time is faster than real time. If you watch or play any game, you will easily notice that. To get the real time spent, you divide the game time by 1.7.
Each of their internet providers have an obligation not to miss this epic sponsorship opportunity
Rubenstocks internet disconnected at 98 hours lol
@@archygrey9093 Further proving how great internet is in Romania. At least we got this going which is nice.
I'd thought about this situation before but never before have I seen it even get close to this. Amazing. Might have to call in Microsoft to officially call this one a draw.
i just played an 14 hour game but it was with a group of 8 friends so we saved the game and played the 14 hour game in 2 days we all had covid so could not leave the house and it was winter break!
8 друзей, все играют в АоЕ. Что за суперсилой ты обладаешь? 🤔
@@Gnaeus_domitius the american dream. Best country, in the world
@@Gnaeus_domitius Не слушай это другое дерьмо. Если у него есть еще 8 друзей, которые могут играть в AoE, то это вопреки Америке, а не благодаря ей.
Stupid question, fairly new to AoE here, but how do you save the game and exit without taking an automatic loss for the person/team who quits first? I was once so tired from playing a game into the night that I saved it, then exited, heard the loud screeching in my headset signifying I had "lost" the game versus the AI. I loaded the game the next day and won but not credited with a win since the system already recorded a loss for the game. I've only been playing for about 3 months so far.
@@UncleEarl97 not a stupid question,,, i am also new so i might not be the best person to ask but if it is not a ranked game then it will not stay on your history as wins or losses
The game just ended!! Rubenstock disconnected, a very disappointing and anticlimactic ending... And they were so close to making 100 hours, too! :(
If we're honest, it was the most realistic ending. So I'm not disappointed
"Oh sure blame it on your ISP."
it was going to be either ISP, Electricity outage, CPU overheating or server maintenance.. what we didn't get to witness though was if there was some Y2K factor past 99:59:59 D':
I think Andre heard that Reubenstock would be out for a few days so he found out where he lived, drove there, broke into the basement and flipped the main breaker, then went back to his car to make sure Reubenstock was really DC'd. You'd have to admit, that would be a big brain move. All's fair in warfare.
Omg, could you imagine if a tournament game went this way?
that id love to see lol
I would assume once the Stalemate Age kicked in a tournament organizer would step in and declare a draw.
Tournment games have a specific timer soo at last the person with higher score wins
@@khanuet2220 ,
Some tournaments do... others don't.
T90 you missed the most casual moment at 8:46 when the last monk dies to random flying arrows from the castle
lol 😂😂
Rubenstock thinking ahead, going on a date to get an offspring to take over the game.
I’ve always wondered what happened when both players ran completely out of resources
First there was forest nothing, followed by greatest hits such as ring nothing and everything nothing maps....
But now get ready for TIME nothing, THE MOVIE!
An AoE DE game cast by the legendary T90!
Coming sometime 2022
(when they finish the game)
Imagine if they started a week before New Year's and continue the game another week into the next year, imagine the billing by T90, "Longest multi-year AoE2 game ever!".
I've never seen this level of stubbornness LOL
Respect given!
Glad to have witnessed that game live, sad it's over. It'll leave a hole in my life.
As I finished watching this video went to twitch and after couple minutes Rubenstock internet or something suddenly dropped and also disconnected from the game, giving andre the win. 11
This is crazy. I haven't played aoe2 since like 06,. Did a quick search today for the game and found this. Amazing following still, makes me happy
Since you seem to have not checked up on the game since '06, are you aware that there are actually two "updated versions" of AoE 2 available? HD Edition from 2013 and the amazing Definitive Edition from I believe 2020 (or 2019?). Updated graphics, some QoL improvements and a ton of new civilizations.
Now this like a real war, spanning for long periods of time, attacking while your enemies take a nap
Verdun is one of the worst trench warfare
AoE 2 : DE Top1: "hold my beer"
"this is not a cash game, this is not a tournament" lol...imagine this in a tournament. XD anyway, this will be history.... call the guinness book of records!
Ironically this is the longest break from age of empires they've taken.
In video game time this is like a 10 years war type of feel and that’s awesome
When the resource diminished, it feels like it's my first time seeing both sides of a war perform guerilla warfare, a syimetric asymetric warfare.
This is not a stalemate.
It's a "draw by insufficient mate material".
or 50 hours rule
The king doesnt want to get involved
Might be a Guiness World Record upcoming. Or maybe a timeout, if there is any on the server system, if there is maybe a random line in the code saying that the game cannot last more than X hours :D
Thanks T90 for sharing that, and more globally take the time to get videos extract from both players's stream, cuz getting the content, on such a long video, might take a lot of time.
It's easy to miss because it's not what draws your attention at the time, but Rubenstock's monk goes down to a stray arrow from the castle at 8:47 as it's shooting at the hussar. Even Rubenstock himself doesn't catch it as it happens, but a few people in his chat do.
What a historical game. The longest one is the history of multiplayer RTS. It needs to go to Guinness Book of Records, it doesn't happen twice in a lifetime. I watched first 5 hours from Rubenstock POV and it was so tense, even watching the replay and knowing the result. It's a massive coincidence that Rubenstock saved a woodline until Andre was out of wood and pushed back with the extra wood from a tough spot.
You know, I would be interested in what it would look like if a game was actually developed around the idea of a single match lasting multiple days. Of course, players would need to be able to exit the game without resigning the match, but it would be interesting. It would be especially interesting to see what kind of gameplay mechanics such a game would have. The obvious problem would be players obsessively checking the game and going full gamer mode, so of course the mechanics would have to address that. Would be cool to see either way.
Mad respect to Andre and Rubenstock for committing so wholeheartedly to Having No Life.
Legends
Alternate title: "Two most stubborn AoE2 players face each other"
the constant waiting for someone to make a move was exhilarating, that was peak aoe content
As another comment pointed out, this is actually what a real life siege is, starve the other one to death, until they can't keep holding and resign
At the start, everyone was well feed, and having plentiful resources.
Later on, the black plague hits, and even a horse is good enough stew.
It's Leningrad all over again
@@sab0403 you mean Stalingrad? :-B
Thanks T90 for sharing this! Just absurdly awesome. Faith in humanity restored, lol.
Side note: Anybody know any good casters for any of the Command&Conquer franchise? I.e., C&C, RA, and/or Generals? Or even, AoM, Starcraft, Warcraft, Halo Wars?
T90, i know you say you suck at those games, but i think many of us would still love to watch you learn, and progress, within those games. Im sure many in your community would be willing to help as well. Most "top-fown" RTS games are pretty much the same. I'd say AoE is the most complicated, so the fact you've got so much time into this game means you should be able to transition into any of the others with relative ease. I mean, most of those games only have 1 - 2 resources, and 2 - 3 "civilizations" with limited tech trees, if any. It's mostly about build orders and unit comp. (Wait... that sounds familiar!)
I mean...there are tons of casters for Starcraft 2 and if you want to go for Starcraft 1, there is no alternative to the casting archon of Tastosis (Artosis and Tasteless). For SC2 there are those two and people like RotterdaM, DeMusliM or ZombieGrub, to name just a few.
For Warcraft...there are the guys from Back2Warcraft and some people of the old guard like Khaldor or fischieee. Really depends on the language. If you understand german, there were many more "Back in the day", like orc1sh or the younger ones like Donathan or Balnazza
(can't name any for C&C though, sorry ._. played most of them, but was never interested in its esports aspects)
Holy shit! This is a legendary gaming history moment! Great that you are documenting it.
This game went from Post-Imerial to Post-Apocalyptic X'D
there's no way I could have a game that long without my internet dropping at least once for a minute.
You know the "you played two hours to die like this?" taunt? Seems obsolete now.
- If this was EVE Online, someone would have had their power lines cut by now. 🤣 AOE2 players are far more chivalrous.
This is the clearest sign I can think of that AoEII needs stalemate-rules :D
This is like the heat death of the universe.
I once played a ludicrous size map against 5 AI players on super hard (modified Ai) and basically used up almost all the entire maps resources Stone Gold and Trees. My strategy to win was as such. Early game was Basically FATSLOB method until I could get to imperial age.. then created a Y shape funnel for enemy troops to pour in being bombarded from both sides by rows of towers and castles. Each castle was surrounded by housewalls or other buildings to prevent them from easily being taken down by a random Ram Rush of which there were several. As for trebuchet I had multiple gates in my walls so I could quickly send in Paladins or Champions to rush in and take out their seige before retreating back . As the game progressed I made multiple auxiliary bases and would surround each small town with two layers of wood walls then each base had a dozen of each military building.. archery range, stable and barracks and 1 monestary for healing. I then expanded each based and made a grid pattern of walls across the whole map then when an enemy would attack I would attack their base from the back or side forcing them to return back to their base to defend it. When they returned back I would pick off a few troops with horse archers or onnagers from a walled position then run back to base. Little by little I'd edge my way in while at the same time I made sure to target their trade carts as a priority to cut them off from both resources and trade. After I was able to defeat one AI I made sure to preserve one of their markets to trade with and I heavily defended it. Then after each enemy push I tightened my grasp over their resources and would build another row of walls and housewalls .. then in a checkerboard pattern I'd place the housewalls in such a way to deny the enemy the advantage of surrounding my units with their calvary.. this allowed for me to target them with archers and scorpions from a point of safety. The last part was the hardest because near the end they wouldn't go on a long journey to get to my main base allowing me an opportunity to stike . Instead they hunkered down waiting for me to attack. But judging by their unit composition they were not short on gold having had a long time to stock up. So then because they wouldn't leave their base I would attack from the left side with cheap garbage units.. and then I'd send in a dozen or so bombard cannons to take out 1 or 2 buildings before they would divert back and quickly take out my bombards.. then I'd alternate the composition. Producing garbage on the right and bombards on the left.. then I did the same thing top and bottom.. and built walls closer and closer until they ran out of resources and had no place left to run to to get more, so even if they had escaped the box I trapped them in, I had already used up all the resources on the map outside the box making their efforts worthless.
Props to the maker of the Ai because it didn't give up it fought until the very last pesant was killed 👏 👌 👍
It took me 27 hours
IRL hours or game-time hours? :-)
THIS is Gaming History, you can't denie this fact. This should've been in the newspaper around the world.
Please at least cast the full first few hours, up until the stalemate began! We need to see how it got like this!
you see kids, this is what mutually assured destruction looks like
This is the most epic and crazy thing that has ever happened in the aoe2 community.
Never seen an AoE2 map so devastated of resources. It is like empty badly made fan map. When I played as a kid I was thinking about how the map would be ruined when I chop all the wood, but then that never happened for me. Also would have been nice to have some trees slowly growing. Imagine having an epic battle for a young tree at the other end of the map :D
can't even imagine. Last night when I was winning but didn't have enough gold to make siege, my opponent wouldn't resign, I went on tilt, lost some units to a mangonel, and ran out of gold. At that point instead of fighting a trash war I built towers and garrisoned them with all 85 villagers, went afk and made the opponent spend 35 minutes cleaning it up just to prove that my time was worth more than his.
He apparently didn't know about spies either. I was surprised how long it took.
In german Warcraft 3, in the EPS no less (like german championship that offered a lot of money for the time), a player named Eric just build lots of towers, wrote "have fun" to his opponent and went afk.
To this day that is one of the weirdest Esports-things that ever happened...
That Hussar dodging the castle arrows is true dedication.
The fact that you can even get a match THIS close just goes to show that the AoE2 DE team do have something right... and a crapload of people to make it work ofc.
This game is a modern art piece on the subjectivity of value, entitled "11 ranked points"
Thank you for saving us hours and hours and hours to find the highlights and explain!
This is like a real war with real sieges and everything. Lol.
98:14:53 - Andre Won, Ruben got Steam Vibe checked i think.
Yea
For me, it should have been a draw. I know Ruben has a different sight on this, but both cannot defeat the other one, as long as they are not afk.
I think Andre was saying, that he offered Ruben a draw, but he didn't want to. IF this is true (I did NOT have confirmation), I am happy with Andre winning it. But, form a competetive point of view, it should be a draw in my oppinion.
BUT I am happy that it happened, it was so funny and stupid tbh :D
Can you offer a draw in AoE 2? I didn't know that!
@@ottokarl5427 You can't.
Andre fell asleep 3 times during a ranked match against Ruben and still won. What a legend!
Someone needs to put this save data in a record book.
2 out of the three top streams on Twitch for AoE are them lmaooo
this game is going to be written down in the history books. from this moment forwards you will never be able to mention AOE2 without talking about Andre vs Rubenstock in February 2022.
I know that feel, I'm a FFA addicted, my longest has been 17h, but this deserves some true respect, I wish I was on it tho.
6:10 "if both players are at the computer"
me, the other player: *orders pizza for opposing team*
This 98 hour virtual war between two players lasted LONGER than the Anglo-Zanzibar war of less than an hour (!)
Deep in your heart you know you'd love to play a game like this
I would have the game sound on maximum on my speakers so that the attack alarm bell would wake me up. hahaha
Having auto reseed on their farms is what caused the draw, since they no longer had the wood to rebuild their monastary to recollect their relics.
This is why trees should very slowly grow back lol
I just started watching the longest game ever video from you, what a coincidence
This is amazing.
Still waiting on my Rollercoaster Tycoon video, T90. Never gonna forget.
I used to go hang out with friends at this guitar shop in town, and the owner was a super chill old guy who played this all day on a completely overkill gaming rig behind the counter, he also repaired computers on the side.
I went to their livestream few days ago and couldn't understand what exactly was happening... now I know 😂 thx for the video amazing crazy game 🤣🤣
Pretty sure Andre will win as Rubenstock's aggression will get his pop killed off.
A weird ass game and of course Rubenstock had to have some part in it :D
Always build a trebuchet and keep it garrisoned in your castle.
lol. You gave away intel info for both players :-D. Not that they need it. GREAT CONTENT. Thx for breathing life into AOE2 mate.
This game shows the concept of siege pretty well, which suits for the spirit of age of empires.
Let's go chop some green cubes
Was actually reading articles on this from random sites for the past two days. First itwas a 55 hour game, next one was a 70+ game, and now T90s vid saying 95 hours. Is actually the most famous aoe2 game out there
I though this was going to be a staged game when I saw the title, but it's actually a real game that had genuine reasons to end up like this :)
Legend has it, they are still playing till today.
(Xylor) Nice video T90! I appreciate and enjoy you keeping us up to date with what's going on, and finding the best quality and entertaining clips. Epic! Congrats to these players. I also acknowledge it beats my longest ever game, (vs legend Isit). keep up the good work! :D
The legend of Stalemate
Shoot, I wanted to highlight this, but I guess everybody already knows it! Haha nice one!
This is why we should reseed forests around the world. So we don't run out of wood to kill each other
age of empires, modern siege warfare. No sleep. No work. Food budget. Maybe even going to your opponents house to unplug his internet. You never know what can happen in a siege
Until Ruben's monk was alive he could try to hit once and run with his camel. I know it would take thousends of hits to destroy the castle but with his micro it was doable. Now I read that he was disconnected, unlucky...