This reminds me of when the game was new new. I played online and was bad-mostly bad. Got a 1v1 with a random dude and got DESTROYED. The guy took the next 4 hours to play games with me and give me a ton of advice. I still remember it today and am still super grateful that he helped me get better at one of my favourite games ever! Seriously, whoever you are/were, thanks again 20 years later!
I've played the game when it first came out and bought the definite edition 2 weeks back. Your story about being destroyed every time could be mine. I always run behind in growth. Wish I had someone who could give me some tips
@@birisuandrei2866 this brings me to a splendid idea to nerf villagers. every idle villager will be consuming one food/one wood per [time] (maybe 5 seconds idle time?) instead of producing resources.
@@the_rover1 lol, that would just slow the game down unnecessarily why not at least make it so that if a villager is idle for 5 minutes straight, it turns into a noble(King unit) and the noble gives you gold in exchange for food & Wood over time like a relic. Might as well make it a map with almost no gold.
@@birisuandrei2866 if your villager turns into a noble/king producing gold, the game automatically turns into regicide mode. if that noble or king gets killed, you lose. sounds fair to me lmao
This is actually inspiring, seeing that there are actual people worse then me. Watching matches of top players gives you this feeling that you have no place in online games.
I feel ya, we need someone to take the mantle and do for AOE what Winter did for SC2, make us believe that you dont actually need that much skill to climb the ladder, and as this game shows : more shit beats less shit, dont worry about compositions until you nailed the rest of the game
Ikr, feels kinda good to see you're not the worst player ever. But the game is all about trials and errors so there's a learning gap between players, if you play non-stop for years you'll be like Viper at some point.
I remember when I first started getting competitive and going for yolo plays. I used to sit back and wait till I was "ready" also -- but that lets the other guy get "ready" too. I had another guy who was basically equal to me. Like disturbingly equal. We has a castle age fight with 3 knights against 3 knights in a 1v1. I turned the game by making the choice to build a single monk. The healing and converting 100% won me the game. We both hard castle rushed each other and tried to knight the other's eco, and we hit it basically at the exact same time. He was smart too, and tried to use light cav on me to get the monk etc. Its probably the most stressful and micro-intensive game I ever had in AoE. Felt more like league of legends or something. lol. I respect red's single monk. lol.
So some minutes ago they just wiped out an entire cavalry army, trebed an enemy castle, secured a castle position and are looking down on a defenseless town doing formation stuff in a terrorizing manner than all of a sudden down the hill they became pacifists?
@@jeffreylmAu when they saw the innocent peasants, they realised that their war was folly. "Villagers farm like this at our base" they say "are we so different?" Sadly the peasants themselves were not so kind to the invading force...
“This war has torn our two peoples apart for too long. We will lay down our weapons, and our enemies will see that this whole sordid affair was in folly. We will be greeted as brothers.”
@@autodidacticartisan first off 8 month old thread^^ secondly don't you know that there are SEVERAL english spellings? Practical examples inc, colour ( brittish english/ color ( american english ), Honour ( brittish english )/Honor ( american english....note the extra u and these aren't the only examples. Add words such as torch which in brittish english translates to flashlight. And yes there are situations where s gets replaced by c as well. Don't even get me going on internet slang english where native americans spell that as dat. You were saying again?
@Shubunkin44 its a waste of everyones time if u dont. yeah dont resign too early but u know when its over and dragging the game on for no reason out of spite is rude and extra.
I thought it was impossible to lose to moderate. I don't see how you can lose. Moderate will attack once and then give up, and it usually doesn't even attack with enough force to do substantial damage.
@@TheNewMaxico a trick is to confuse the AI with odd maps like Cup for instance. I can easily beat AI on hard on Cup because it doesn't understand the map. Not so easy on Arabia.
The low elo series it's the best. Being someone below 1000 myself I find it really useful. Also there's some basic stuff that I do know and it's so funny to see what they do.
How did you guys get so bad? I mean I know this is a bit of a meme and everything and I dont know if youre just getting old or something but there's tons of people that today just watch streams and are terrible at games, both kids and adults. Like in the past kids would kick ass on games that would be difficult today like SMB3 and stuff.
@@ActionableFreedom SMB3 is a completely different game that requires a totally different set of skills that most people won't find to come naturally to them.
It is strange indeed, I think is because we can relate to this way more. These are way more funner to view, I'm laughing my ass off and also with no disrespect. Good times.
@@veganstoiclinuxwarriormonk8187 I remember when I was around 10, i played whit my brother in 1v1, I was just building a huge city whit unused farm for hours... good old times !
The general build order is to click feudal and send the boar villagers to the stragglers after they finish with the second lure and ideally have them build horse collar farms.
@@nicermog My usual build order is put 7 on sheep, 3 on wood, and then add another 2 to forage, 1 to build more houses, and 3 more for assistance with boars. I finish off by sending the 12 food vills to mill and as soon as I finish the stragglers, build my first lumber camp. The rest of my vills during that time will be lumber camp vills. After I deplete the forage bushes, then I finally build farms.
Once any tree not connected to another is cut, you can build over it without collecting all 100 wood. It only takes two chops. If your worried about wasting the 100 wood ask yourself how likely is it your going to chop every tree available? Hardly ever 1v1, even on Arabia.
"Reminds me of a simpler time", honestly why I have trouble getting into ranked/competitive RTS games. Build orders and timing absolutely make for a more efficient game, but it's so much more mechanical and almost .. less fun? For me?
@@shujinkoMK Never gonna play ranked for that reason. I enjoy the hour-long slugfests of two armies going through a meat grinder and just playing the game much more than just winning the game in 15 minutes because I raided all the opponent's villagers.
As a relatively new player with ranked anxiety, I want to say thank you for making these low elo casts. They legitimately help me with my reluctance to jump into ranked, and make me want to play more.
Im nowhere near an AoE god, I can barely call myself a beginner lol. But it kills my soul watching both of them put all their siege in front of their armies xD "Oh I'm getting attacked? Better hold em off with my trebs so that my paladin can escape!"
You know what? These low ELO legend videos are interesting and fun to watch 90% thanks to your "like-a-jerk" comments, laughs, sighs and emotional expressions. So just be emotional as you have been.
I love watching your videos when I'm sad. They're calm, methodical, the same thing every time. You're voice is relaxing and pleasant, you're nice, you don't shit on bad moves, everything gets noticed and mentioned. The overall formulaic and relaxing quality makes it very therapeutic to me.
When I was a kid I used to play Franks mostly because of their strong paladins, cheep castles and free farm upgrades. Build walls, make castles and towers, defend, push with mostly paladins and trebs. Also I mostly forgot about my blacksmith upgrades until the late game. When not playing campaigns I usually played against an easy AI, made about 30 villagers and felt good. I had 1 production building of each type at a time, because why spend precious resources on on extra, when you have all the time to build up an army behind your walls? Also I think I had 30 villagers habit due to original game campaigns, where you had 75 population limit. And also due to Age of Empires I experience. I never ever used any keyboard hotkeys and had a slow reaction on idle villagers. Instead I collected all the relics I possibly could. Besides Franks I loved byzantines, britons, teutons and persians (for war elephants, of course). These low elo players somewhat remind me about those days, although I was too shy to try and play multiplayer. I have a feeling that they are rather young themselves, although I may be wrong of course.
I love watching these matches because it reminds me of when my friend and I verse each other and just chill out and enjoy the game for what it is without crazy pressure to build up quick.
Simpler times yes. I member. I played most rts games in a roleplaying fashion in the past, still kind of do. Multiplayer games were fun especially in lotr but now people just all do the same optimised stuff, FeelsBadMan. You had to learn yourself and enjoyed doing it, now learning a game is like a university course.
What I've seen sometimes is that the "one big fight" doesn't end. Noobs with decent economic output just continue throwing more and more men into the meat grinder.
those were the really fun days playing age2: you played with a bunch of friends on local network. nobody was good. you kind of explored to game during the match. found out new things. at some point things escalated and there was a big battle with random units :)
This guys are total Chads, I remember that when I started playing enclose myself inside tons of walls and towers and quietly waited for the enemy to attack my base
That's the funniest AOE video I've ever seen in my life. Thank You T90. You're the best. I'm also learning English from your videos. I'm russian native speaker)
17:09 Thanks for your words, I’ve been watching your videos since during December and I’ve always been a casual single player but after seeing/hearing this I might give a chance to online mode.
Ichigoblack123456789 - The Walking Dead: Well I just started playing ranked matches, it has been bad but I expected it, even though my rank has dropped drastically, I still get paired against really experienced players, most likely smurfers I believe? But it has been really fun too, I won my first solo game like an hour ago on gold fiber, the thing is I haven’t played constantly until today, but T90 is a great shoutcaster and I’ve been learning a lot from his videos, what I find difficult is the macro, it’ll take time to get used to it. Wish I could play against other players that have the same gameplay level as me though, great experience don’t get me wrong, T90 really motivated me!
13:00 i guess thats what he learrned in the army. Solders have to walk up and down the "barracks" all the day to get strong :-) Is drill the correct englisch term for that?
At 30:32 T90Official forgot that in AoE as an easter egg camels also receive bonus damage from heated shot like ships cause a camel is also called the "ship of the desert". The red player simply wanted to make his castle strong against camels. So the red player simply did not realize that his opponent cannot make camels as a Franks. That was the red player's real mistake there. XDD
Nah it's because he saw blue had a monk in the chokepoint. He was worried blue would convert his camels and use them against him, so he planned ahead the prevent that possibility!
I've never played AoE and only discovered this channel 2 months ago. This is might be the first gaming video I've CRIED laughing twice! That ram getting annihilated by the camels and then red losing their whole army to vils and a few troops was amazing
This series reminded me of my childhood. Played a lot of AoE with no idea what I'm doing. I just bought DE and I'll give it a try with a bit more understanding (not very much).
I just found your channel a couple of days ago and you inspired me reinstall AoE2 which I've played for a long time (since the original release actually). However, I never played competitively on the internet and the funny thing about this video is that they both do a lot of what I still do when playing, although I'm much better at controlling my units in battle. It's kind of ridiculous to realize that you're still a complete noob even after playing a game intermittently for about 20 years! But I like the fact that even if you're amused by their lack of skill, you never humiliate them. You laugh with them and not of them. And I think that inherent respect that you within you is what makes you a great and entertaining host.
I've watched this channel for 2 years now, this is absolutely the most dramatic, skillful, and entertaining game ever. We need these guys in the hidden cup 3!
If you ever get worried that people get offended by you roasting their games, just remember that pub casts are some of the most successful videos out there across many games. My favourite one ever is from Purge casts a pub ep 17
The most wholesome bit in this whole thing is when T90 said 'Type a kappa in chat if your micro is also like a 140-year-old Federer' and a FLOOD of kappas follow. With you on that one.
I haven’t played this game for probably 20 years haha, I’ve been really enjoying watching your vids the last week. I even downloaded the game again, happy times gaming down memory lane, keep up the good work mate and thanks.
T90, I cant believe this. I finally started playing AOE2 after a decade of not playing since seeing one of your videos. After watching this, I am playing multiplayer from now on!!
28:45 Default hotkey to build a farm is a-a; to build an outpost is s-a. If he was already on the military building screen, it makes pretty good sense.
Yet when i tried to play I was instantly pitted against pros. Every time. I gave up ever playing multiplayer again because there's too many no lifers that just like to rofl stomp new and amateur players.
Watching those games makes mw feel like a pro... But i really suck at microing my troops and keeping my Eco up after mid Castle Age... Looks like i am one of the "ok" elo legends
This was the absolute best video to watch as a new player. I've watched a lot of your other videos, but seeing you point out these flaws was priceless. I hope I can find more!
The number one tip I have that T90 never mentions, Turn on tool tips they will help you SO much, they tell you what upgrades do when you mouse over them and the basics for units.
This reminds me of when the game was new new. I played online and was bad-mostly bad. Got a 1v1 with a random dude and got DESTROYED. The guy took the next 4 hours to play games with me and give me a ton of advice. I still remember it today and am still super grateful that he helped me get better at one of my favourite games ever!
Seriously, whoever you are/were, thanks again 20 years later!
Plot twist: you would still lose against these absolute chads today
That was vipers dad
I've played the game when it first came out and bought the definite edition 2 weeks back. Your story about being destroyed every time could be mine. I always run behind in growth. Wish I had someone who could give me some tips
I had the same experience a few years ago
That's how it is done.
How to balance your production buildings in 1v1:
- 1 Barracks
- 1 Range
- 1 Stable
- 1 Castle
- 2 Markets
Well the 2nd market is obviously in case the 1st one is destroyed by petards, duh
Still beats 3 ranges on a neutral island
build a church to get a monk healer, but don't take relics, not even those in your own town
also always make frank cav archers
Clearly a noob. I prefer infinte barracks to keep producing from at least 3 of them
Those villagers aren’t idle. They’re just supervising
they're power napping. you actually have to research that.
(in a house, fyi)
Villagers who do nothing are definitely nobility. Nobility doesn't work.
@@birisuandrei2866 this brings me to a splendid idea to nerf villagers. every idle villager will be consuming one food/one wood per [time] (maybe 5 seconds idle time?) instead of producing resources.
@@the_rover1 lol, that would just slow the game down unnecessarily why not at least make it so that if a villager is idle for 5 minutes straight, it turns into a noble(King unit) and the noble gives you gold in exchange for food & Wood over time like a relic.
Might as well make it a map with almost no gold.
@@birisuandrei2866 if your villager turns into a noble/king producing gold, the game automatically turns into regicide mode. if that noble or king gets killed, you lose.
sounds fair to me lmao
This is actually inspiring, seeing that there are actual people worse then me. Watching matches of top players gives you this feeling that you have no place in online games.
I feel ya, we need someone to take the mantle and do for AOE what Winter did for SC2, make us believe that you dont actually need that much skill to climb the ladder, and as this game shows : more shit beats less shit, dont worry about compositions until you nailed the rest of the game
nice to know there are people as bad as me playing online,
just need to lose enough to drop the default elo to about a thousand :-)
Ikr, feels kinda good to see you're not the worst player ever. But the game is all about trials and errors so there's a learning gap between players, if you play non-stop for years you'll be like Viper at some point.
I remember when I first started getting competitive and going for yolo plays. I used to sit back and wait till I was "ready" also -- but that lets the other guy get "ready" too. I had another guy who was basically equal to me. Like disturbingly equal. We has a castle age fight with 3 knights against 3 knights in a 1v1. I turned the game by making the choice to build a single monk. The healing and converting 100% won me the game.
We both hard castle rushed each other and tried to knight the other's eco, and we hit it basically at the exact same time. He was smart too, and tried to use light cav on me to get the monk etc. Its probably the most stressful and micro-intensive game I ever had in AoE. Felt more like league of legends or something. lol.
I respect red's single monk. lol.
@@EstiDeColiss Yeah that's the beauty of match making, you're always up against somebody comparable, and as you learn you go up in the ranks.
53:55 this broke my damn heart, holy shit, those poor units slaughtered like that because of their pacifistic beliefs.
So some minutes ago they just wiped out an entire cavalry army, trebed an enemy castle, secured a castle position and are looking down on a defenseless town doing formation stuff in a terrorizing manner than all of a sudden down the hill they became pacifists?
@@jeffreylmAu when they saw the innocent peasants, they realised that their war was folly. "Villagers farm like this at our base" they say "are we so different?" Sadly the peasants themselves were not so kind to the invading force...
@@jeffreylmAu I mean... yeah, exactly all of that probably made them reflect on their actions and change their ways
@@jeffreylmAu it's called a change of heart. or a heel face turn for the good (wait, is that a thing? xD)
“This war has torn our two peoples apart for too long. We will lay down our weapons, and our enemies will see that this whole sordid affair was in folly. We will be greeted as brothers.”
I love that i am sitting in my chair laughing at this game and knowing in the back of my mind both of them would beat me with ease xd
Well with that attitude, even I could beat you.
@@bigdiccmarty9335 OK admiral private general calm down
@@twm1423 that's Sir Admiral Private General to you.
@@bigdiccmarty9335 sorry sir can I lick your boots if its not too much trouble
@@twm1423 *it's
To be fair they played balls out, all guns blazing with no walls on BF. They've earned my respect
black forrest without 4 layers of stone walls herecy...herecy I say.
@Dt Snizzley Did someone say Exterminatus?
@@Solus749 heresy is a tech in the game how can you not spell it
@@autodidacticartisan first off 8 month old thread^^ secondly don't you know that there are SEVERAL english spellings?
Practical examples inc, colour ( brittish english/ color ( american english ), Honour ( brittish english )/Honor ( american english....note the extra u and these aren't the only examples.
Add words such as torch which in brittish english translates to flashlight. And yes there are situations where s gets replaced by c as well.
Don't even get me going on internet slang english where native americans spell that as dat. You were saying again?
@@Solus749 hahaha omg too funny
"What are the odds that blue doesn't resign until his last villager is killed?"
*>implying he would ever resign like a coward.*
What you think he Is? A frenchie?
I never resign unless I'm 4 v 1 and want to start a new game, because I lost most of my buildings.
@Shubunkin44 its a waste of everyones time if u dont. yeah dont resign too early but u know when its over and dragging the game on for no reason out of spite is rude and extra.
Meanwhile, me, an intellectual, losing to moderate AI 1v1
@nallen100 The AI may be slow but it actually knows what it's doing. Unlike us intellectuals.
I thought it was impossible to lose to moderate. I don't see how you can lose. Moderate will attack once and then give up, and it usually doesn't even attack with enough force to do substantial damage.
moderate is fucking strong man
@@TheNewMaxico a trick is to confuse the AI with odd maps like Cup for instance. I can easily beat AI on hard on Cup because it doesn't understand the map. Not so easy on Arabia.
@@nicermog well yea, i beat extreme AI on the fucking nile map but that doesnt count
Confession: Sometimes, on a land map, if there's even a small pond, I will build a dock just to research all upgrades.
Same! Just to get the research % stat as high as possible at the end.
You monster
Not gonna lie if my team is winning I'll do that to have the highest percent just to flex on my teammates 😄
I do that if im playing malay for some cheap food
Sometimes I build ships in the ponds ;p They can be like cheap towers if you have long range ships XD
I just checked the ranking of Droogiz, he is currently rank 17.530 out of 17.649. I am not sure if we will ever see a lower Low elo legend.
amazing
Challenge accepted.
Dedication
holy shit I would be in the lower 100?
@@offsdexter2 blue
"Can you see their APM?"
"I can see it *very* clearly."
and by 'it' you mean their one action per minute, right?
Minutes per action?
Biggest burn of the cast
The low elo series it's the best. Being someone below 1000 myself I find it really useful. Also there's some basic stuff that I do know and it's so funny to see what they do.
i used to be sub 800, now im slowly climbing my way back up to 1000. i've just recently surpassed 900
@@TheNewMaxico Do not confident cause itis hard to pass 900. I did cause I could micro the mangonels
@@aer9498 i can micro the Scouts, is that Good enough?
@@TheNewMaxico while dealing with eco?
@@aer9498 sure
Watches low elo legends
Me: Wow, I'm way better than these people
Me after playing 1 multiplayer game: No I'm not
How did you guys get so bad?
I mean I know this is a bit of a meme and everything and I dont know if youre just getting old or something but there's tons of people that today just watch streams and are terrible at games, both kids and adults. Like in the past kids would kick ass on games that would be difficult today like SMB3 and stuff.
@@ActionableFreedom SMB3 is a completely different game that requires a totally different set of skills that most people won't find to come naturally to them.
@@ActionableFreedom Boomer mentality, look at wow classic, game version known for its supposed high difficulty when actually it's the opposite
@@ActionableFreedom you want skill thats what esports are for..... or destiny 2 pvp players
12:30 they're running drills and training exercises for when the real battle stars, you know for ultimate roleplay
When me and my friends played against each other on LAN back in the early 2000s we never attacked before everyone was in imperial age :p
Simplier times
And when we are at imperial age ; small skirmiches at best before calling the GG !
That was the way.
This was my first ever LAN game.
scout rush go brrrrr
This is actually more interesting then watching pro-gamers 😂
By far
It is strange indeed, I think is because we can relate to this way more. These are way more funner to view, I'm laughing my ass off and also with no disrespect. Good times.
The Pros are predictable meta, these guys are all over the place and random and it's way more interesting.
This is how I played Age of empires back before I started watching SotL
Me too bro
Same, lol
11:30 probably thinks it's more efficient to put the blacksmith exactly next to the barracks for ultimate roleplay
yeah people forget that at low enough elo, the game becomes 50% simcity experience.
@@veganstoiclinuxwarriormonk8187 I remember when I was around 10, i played whit my brother in 1v1, I was just building a huge city whit unused farm for hours... good old times !
Roleplaying in those kind of games is so good. I am always saddened to see that go away as pro players mercilessly abuse the game's mechanics.
@@Supernoxus they lose the soul of the game
You have to build the blacksmith first so that your soldiers can have weapons.
I chop the stragglers too, here is the reason: they get in the way of perfect farms.
The general build order is to click feudal and send the boar villagers to the stragglers after they finish with the second lure and ideally have them build horse collar farms.
@@nicermog My usual build order is put 7 on sheep, 3 on wood, and then add another 2 to forage, 1 to build more houses, and 3 more for assistance with boars. I finish off by sending the 12 food vills to mill and as soon as I finish the stragglers, build my first lumber camp. The rest of my vills during that time will be lumber camp vills. After I deplete the forage bushes, then I finally build farms.
You can build farms on top of stragglers as soon as they are cut down. No need to take the 100 wood out of the tree.
It makes sense that T90 doesn’t understand that. Have ya seen his farms?
Once any tree not connected to another is cut, you can build over it without collecting all 100 wood. It only takes two chops. If your worried about wasting the 100 wood ask yourself how likely is it your going to chop every tree available?
Hardly ever 1v1, even on Arabia.
"Can you see their APM"
I'm pretty sure at 500 ELO you can see their APM by marking each action on a tally.
More like Minutes Per Action
"Blue could deny that with his scout"
>implying anyone is scouting in castle age in a 500 ELO blackforest game.
"Reminds me of a simpler time", honestly why I have trouble getting into ranked/competitive RTS games. Build orders and timing absolutely make for a more efficient game, but it's so much more mechanical and almost .. less fun? For me?
Play like you want, If you lose a lot you are going against people that are not max efficiency so same style
Agreed. I love the game but hate its meta. The most efficient way to win is to raid early, effectively preventing the opponent from playing the game.
@@shujinkoMK Never gonna play ranked for that reason. I enjoy the hour-long slugfests of two armies going through a meat grinder and just playing the game much more than just winning the game in 15 minutes because I raided all the opponent's villagers.
@@shujinkoMK Try ranked Arena matches. Booming up to 40-45mins is the norm.
Try matches where one can only advance to castle age and there is a possibility to ask a ceasefire. That enables casual, long and fun games.
54:10 Narrator: "It was a bad time for the soldiers to make one minute of silence for the death of Joan of Arc."
underrated comment 😂
As a relatively new player with ranked anxiety, I want to say thank you for making these low elo casts.
They legitimately help me with my reluctance to jump into ranked, and make me want to play more.
Im nowhere near an AoE god, I can barely call myself a beginner lol. But it kills my soul watching both of them put all their siege in front of their armies xD "Oh I'm getting attacked? Better hold em off with my trebs so that my paladin can escape!"
T90 sugarcoating their mistakes with 'out of the game' logics is hilarious XD
Yeah lmao that's top level satire right there.
The no attack stance massacre was absolutely brutal to watch, but also unfortunately the funniest moment in this game for me
Camels are ships of the desert so heated shot works here
In AOC heated shot actually worked against camels.
Bwhahaha good one😂😂
Tahmeed Tajwar wait did they fixed it in DE
@@Brutian96 They fixed it in African Kingdoms a while ago.
Franks don't have Camels tho
The endgame had me on the edge of my seat for all the wrong reasons. Beautiful.
"I want to upgrade these dudes somehow, so let's click it" that was me way back in the day.
"Red cares for the men in his country"
One minute later, Red send all his troops to massacre.... that's a special caring XD
I love this, it feels so organic and natural, it actually feels like two towns in the Middle Ages , not a high grade competitive Rugby match.
"He died in 62" got me haha
I’ve never laughed so hard when red had his units on stand ground
You know what? These low ELO legend videos are interesting and fun to watch 90% thanks to your "like-a-jerk" comments, laughs, sighs and emotional expressions. So just be emotional as you have been.
I love watching your videos when I'm sad. They're calm, methodical, the same thing every time. You're voice is relaxing and pleasant, you're nice, you don't shit on bad moves, everything gets noticed and mentioned.
The overall formulaic and relaxing quality makes it very therapeutic to me.
16:55 great sentiment. I felt too intimidated by watching pros play and was amazed at how well I could do on ranked matches once I finally tried :D
T90bully is back
Ok
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@@nachoelkongchetmadre7057 hi hi
“We May very well be looking at players who do not have hotkeys....”
I’d be surprised if they have keyboards...
When I was a kid I used to play Franks mostly because of their strong paladins, cheep castles and free farm upgrades. Build walls, make castles and towers, defend, push with mostly paladins and trebs. Also I mostly forgot about my blacksmith upgrades until the late game. When not playing campaigns I usually played against an easy AI, made about 30 villagers and felt good. I had 1 production building of each type at a time, because why spend precious resources on on extra, when you have all the time to build up an army behind your walls? Also I think I had 30 villagers habit due to original game campaigns, where you had 75 population limit. And also due to Age of Empires I experience. I never ever used any keyboard hotkeys and had a slow reaction on idle villagers. Instead I collected all the relics I possibly could. Besides Franks I loved byzantines, britons, teutons and persians (for war elephants, of course).
These low elo players somewhat remind me about those days, although I was too shy to try and play multiplayer. I have a feeling that they are rather young themselves, although I may be wrong of course.
Either young, or very old. But all that matters is they enjoy the game.
I love watching these matches because it reminds me of when my friend and I verse each other and just chill out and enjoy the game for what it is without crazy pressure to build up quick.
Simpler times yes. I member.
I played most rts games in a roleplaying fashion in the past, still kind of do. Multiplayer games were fun especially in lotr but now people just all do the same optimised stuff, FeelsBadMan. You had to learn yourself and enjoyed doing it, now learning a game is like a university course.
What I've seen sometimes is that the "one big fight" doesn't end. Noobs with decent economic output just continue throwing more and more men into the meat grinder.
makes me think monarchs in the wars of the 19th century were playing on the level of aoe noobs
those were the really fun days playing age2: you played with a bunch of friends on local network. nobody was good. you kind of explored to game during the match. found out new things. at some point things escalated and there was a big battle with random units :)
This guys are total Chads, I remember that when I started playing enclose myself inside tons of walls and towers and quietly waited for the enemy to attack my base
That's the funniest AOE video I've ever seen in my life. Thank You T90. You're the best. I'm also learning English from your videos. I'm russian native speaker)
Hello!
Same experience here :)
19:17 i love that goldminer who has to walk around the entire gold pile AND EVEN THE BOAR to dropp off some gold
17:09 Thanks for your words, I’ve been watching your videos since during December and I’ve always been a casual single player but after seeing/hearing this I might give a chance to online mode.
How it went?
Ichigoblack123456789 - The Walking Dead:
Well I just started playing ranked matches, it has been bad but I expected it, even though my rank has dropped drastically, I still get paired against really experienced players, most likely smurfers I believe?
But it has been really fun too, I won my first solo game like an hour ago on gold fiber, the thing is I haven’t played constantly until today, but T90 is a great shoutcaster and I’ve been learning a lot from his videos, what I find difficult is the macro, it’ll take time to get used to it.
Wish I could play against other players that have the same gameplay level as me though, great experience don’t get me wrong, T90 really motivated me!
I still remember when I thought that having more than 2 TCs was crazy! and when other players did it I couldn't understand
i still don't understand. I myself am very low ELO, pretty much 0 because i've never played an online match because i cannot find any matches.
@@lynxnightcore1720 got the same problem not a soul online. Are there more servers than the ingame at multiplayer?
@@royvandersteen8829 I just cannot find anything. All tabs in multiplayer are empty.
Lynx NightCore try it now, they updated the game a lot. Are you using steam?
Anyway, you should have three 3tcs so you can provide a lot of villagers fast
13:00 i guess thats what he learrned in the army. Solders have to walk up and down the "barracks" all the day to get strong :-) Is drill the correct englisch term for that?
Yes
Drill and train would both be acceptable. Drill would be associated with the military where train could be anyone.
@@jimland4359 THX!
At 30:32 T90Official forgot that in AoE as an easter egg camels also receive bonus damage from heated shot like ships cause a camel is also called the "ship of the desert".
The red player simply wanted to make his castle strong against camels.
So the red player simply did not realize that his opponent cannot make camels as a Franks.
That was the red player's real mistake there.
XDD
Well it's not the case with DE, and Franks don't get the tech either so wouldn't help counter camels anyway.
Nah it's because he saw blue had a monk in the chokepoint. He was worried blue would convert his camels and use them against him, so he planned ahead the prevent that possibility!
"He thought patrol was an upgrade" !!! Hahahaha
"Blue's army is like an expired bag of chex mix" - LOL pure comedic gold right there.
0:40 "Not trying to be a jerk"
**Looks at thumbnail**
yeah, okay..
I've never played AoE and only discovered this channel 2 months ago.
This is might be the first gaming video I've CRIED laughing twice! That ram getting annihilated by the camels and then red losing their whole army to vils and a few troops was amazing
Indeed I am one of those who says, "I could never play online." The computer just trashes me so often.
Probably skalpa62 is from Turkey. In Turkey, cities have number codes (1-81) and Turkish players like to add their city code in nicks.
"I would eat an expired bag of Chex Mix."
-T90, 10/30/20
LIVESTREAM THIS BOIIIIIIIII
This series reminded me of my childhood. Played a lot of AoE with no idea what I'm doing. I just bought DE and I'll give it a try with a bit more understanding (not very much).
36:00 r we gonna ignore the fact that there is a bear attacking vil during the fight XDXDXD ??
I just found your channel a couple of days ago and you inspired me reinstall AoE2 which I've played for a long time (since the original release actually). However, I never played competitively on the internet and the funny thing about this video is that they both do a lot of what I still do when playing, although I'm much better at controlling my units in battle. It's kind of ridiculous to realize that you're still a complete noob even after playing a game intermittently for about 20 years! But I like the fact that even if you're amused by their lack of skill, you never humiliate them. You laugh with them and not of them. And I think that inherent respect that you within you is what makes you a great and entertaining host.
I think Blue thought Red was going to quit after the Castle went down lol
As for the 62 thing, maybe it's not is birth year? In France, when there's two number in a pseudonym, it's usually the "département" (the county ^^).
I play on "moderate" in HD and this makes me wonder if I should play online...
Players not taking their boars was killing me
Just go ranked and soon you’ll be playing of your level
This is the love in aoe2 not that bullshit pro meta stuff. I love it reminds me of old days.
"The point is you don't need gold and stone in dark age"
*stares in Hoang*
35:00 - 35:20
My favorite AoE clip of all time! Thank you so much, T90
Back in the day, when I used to design my base like a proper city with roads and stuff lol.
2:50 no worries they're just admiring their craftsmanship.
This is further proof that low ELO is so much better to watch than the pros, they make you feel inadiqute. Low ELOers make relate.
"you played 2 hours to die like this?"
I've watched this channel for 2 years now, this is absolutely the most dramatic, skillful, and entertaining game ever. We need these guys in the hidden cup 3!
this gives me hope T90 will cast one of my games one day.
If you ever get worried that people get offended by you roasting their games, just remember that pub casts are some of the most successful videos out there across many games. My favourite one ever is from Purge casts a pub ep 17
34:45 this moment is the best of the entire game
The most wholesome bit in this whole thing is when T90 said 'Type a kappa in chat if your micro is also like a 140-year-old Federer' and a FLOOD of kappas follow. With you on that one.
I'm gonna buy DE on weekend. You conviced me.
T90
The legend says the blue scout is still there, waiting for orders
T90 wants to be educational but throws in so many ironic "tips" that a true low elo player would not understand them.
Blue build a University between the three line and the lumbercamp, so his villagers had to go around the University to drop of the wood.
I have a low ELO game in my records that you can make a lot of laugh! Ask me to send it to you whenever you want m8.
Stavros Mouzaidis do it
Ram: goes for a walk
Camels: YOU PICKED THE WRONG HOUSE FOOL!!!
your casting is legendary :D i laughed way too hard the whole time
I haven’t played this game for probably 20 years haha, I’ve been really enjoying watching your vids the last week. I even downloaded the game again, happy times gaming down memory lane, keep up the good work mate and thanks.
I've never clicked so fast in my life
that gif of you chopping a tree and it cracking in the wrong place. Pure gold.
the moment when you thinkl to yourself: "dayum, these guys are better than me"
#feelsbadman
T90, I cant believe this. I finally started playing AOE2 after a decade of not playing since seeing one of your videos. After watching this, I am playing multiplayer from now on!!
1:01:25 oh thank god it's over, red seemed to believe he had to petard every blue building to the last house.
28:45 Default hotkey to build a farm is a-a; to build an outpost is s-a. If he was already on the military building screen, it makes pretty good sense.
Yet when i tried to play I was instantly pitted against pros. Every time. I gave up ever playing multiplayer again because there's too many no lifers that just like to rofl stomp new and amateur players.
His soldiers aren't on the hill because he's making sure his opponent doesnt know the strength of his forces.
I play 2 matches a day. The first one I lose, the second one I win. And so I am climbing bois. 1041 rn and still rockin'
Hi! Your Low ELO Legends videos are pure gold. They helped me to finally take the jump into multiplayer. I've already won two games. Thanks!!
I'm going to play on a new account and like a pleb to hopefully get some screen time. Hello Hollywood
Play like*
I'm loving how different this is. Literally how we all started back in the day on AoK. Loving how you're cringing inside lmao!
Watching those games makes mw feel like a pro... But i really suck at microing my troops and keeping my Eco up after mid Castle Age...
Looks like i am one of the "ok" elo legends
This was the absolute best video to watch as a new player. I've watched a lot of your other videos, but seeing you point out these flaws was priceless. I hope I can find more!
The number one tip I have that T90 never mentions, Turn on tool tips they will help you SO much, they tell you what upgrades do when you mouse over them and the basics for units.