I love how Aussie goes from professional casting in the beginning to manic impressions and commentary by the end😂

@theoneandonlyCQ

2 жыл бұрын

The impressions killed me😂Almost felt like he was losing his damn mind

@Leeway4434

2 жыл бұрын

The white castle meme was spicy

I just started playing AoE4 (my first RTS game) a couple days and I can't believe that I've been missing out on this stuff my whole life.

@flyingrocketman2837

2 жыл бұрын

Welcome brother! My first PC game that I ever played was AOE when I was 8. Fell in love, glad you get to feel the same thing!

@catbert7

2 жыл бұрын

Your 1st!? You better under 10 years old ;P Next up, Starcraft, Warcraft, Command and Conquer, Planetary Annihilation, They Are Billions, Supreme Commander, Majesty, Stronghold, Ashes of the Singularity, Myth, Age of Mythology, Kingdom, Grim Nights...

@andrewm8583

2 жыл бұрын

@@catbert7 I’m 16 lol. Always played fps shooters/survival games. I’ll check these out

@catbert7

2 жыл бұрын

@@andrewm8583 I wish you luck in your rehab ;D

@vzdragon

2 жыл бұрын

Wow to relive me discovering RTS games. You're in for a treat. Some other suggestions Rise of Nations, and Act of Aggression, CnC Kanes Wrath

I think it's great that they removed score. I come from sc2 and people would rebel if you wanted to introduce something like that there. Knowing your position in the game is a skill. Judging whether you are ahead and can attack or if you should play defense and try to catch up is an intuition that should be developed.

@Marth667

2 жыл бұрын

It also stops a reactionary surrender if your behind in ladder which is all too common in aoe2

@SirLich

2 жыл бұрын

I don't disagree, but there is some skill in it! If you watch tier-1 players in AOE2, they watch score bumps as a way of judging things like age-ups (small drop when upgrade starts). But yeah in general its just a low-skill scouting replacement.

@HeloisGevit

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree, score only stressed me out and was a big distraction, also felt quite gamey and cheap. Without it intelligence scouting and game sense is more important.

@Payneonline

2 жыл бұрын

If score was in SC2, the legend and meme of IdrA insta resigning to Huk's hallucinations would have never been born

@thelucidjoe

2 жыл бұрын

@@Payneonline You mean IdrA? That was indeed a legendary play written into the storied annals of SC2 early days lol.

I love the sound of gunpower in this game. Also nice to see China actually get gunpowder, a long time running joke for AoE2.

@The_Art_of_AI_888

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, The country that invented gun and gunpowder finally got its gunpowder units LOL!

@cassiuscyparissus5567

2 жыл бұрын

@@The_Art_of_AI_888 *nation

@AaronBeSpeedy

2 жыл бұрын

I love the Chinese in Rise of Nations with their Fire Lancers unique unit. You get them an age earlier than any other civilization and they are mechanically really unique and intense. I think a lot of games are scared to embrace the terror that chinese gunpowder brought to warfare.

@MyOuchies

2 жыл бұрын

@@cassiuscyparissus5567 empire, or nation-state ***

@dreamcrusher112

2 жыл бұрын

@@cassiuscyparissus5567 Polity

In hindsight, yeah there was some sloppy decisions, but hot dog, this was a crazy match to see. Very entertaining.

"If there's a will, there's a waypoint." true gamer words

Villagers chopping wood in the middle of the frigging battlefield "This fine"

Great commentary. I was hooked from the beginning. I never thought talking about herding digital sheep could draw my interest, but here I am with a new favorite show.

@anteusleone

2 жыл бұрын

New favorite show xD

watching all of this back later is gonna be so funny. We got great players going absolutely crazy over a gold mine but they won’t capture essentially free holy sites or relics for passive gold generation lol

In my opinion, there's way too much talk about nerfs in this game. From my perspective, what aoe4 has done right is to make very powerful civilization that are very different as well. If a particular part of a civ is powerful in one way, that doesn't necessarily mean it needs a nerf. It's better to lift up the civilizations that trail too far behind in the ways that make them unique. Nerfs may need to happen at some point, but not always.

@SendarSlayer

2 жыл бұрын

Interestingly you've actually talked about a design philosophy that a lot of studios follow. Instead of nerfing what's strong, you buff what's weak. But honestly, we don't know the balance yet. Until people are used to the game and know all the tricks I don't think it's smart to nerf or buff anything.

@jamazzle

2 жыл бұрын

Some devs needs to read this asap before ruining the balance

@ZiggyGWDev

2 жыл бұрын

Don't hold your breath for that. Relic will give the same unit 3 significant nerfs in the same patch making it go from overpowered to unplayable overnight. Not only that they will be months behind the meta and put out nerfs for strategies that have ceased to be problematic long ago. I'm not trying to be a hater. In fact I love CoH and DoW. But the truth is the post launch support for all their games is basically non-existent. For AOE4 most balance patches will probably ship with DLC.

@JohnFromAccounting

2 жыл бұрын

I can definitely say that some landmarks need to be changed because they're not effective. A few units like Landsknecht are too weak, but otherwise the factions are different, rather than better or worse.

@atrias144

2 жыл бұрын

​@@SendarSlayer That's pretty much what I'd like to see but especially in respect to what makes each civilization unique. For example, if Delhi Sultanate proves to be weaker as Drongo theorized in his tier list video, maybe give scholars the additional ability to each reduce research cost a bit (say like -1% for example which really stacks up by the end of the game). In that way, you make Delhi more viable while also emphasizing their unique playstyle! Just one example I thought of but I'm sure the concept could be applied to any civ the way they've designed them.

Like I said during stream, Boit should have went his unique men at arms. They're faster then normal MMA and cheaper then lancers, you can mass them and push into the longbowmen who also are slower then normal archers, with trebs as back up to siege the castles down. This was pretty early on in the games release if I recall and I'm sure people know better now. Entertaining game however that absolutely has to be said, even if I did have my head in my hands by the end xD

@dodododatdatdat

2 жыл бұрын

Yea look i dont play this game and these guys would beat me blindfolded. But the constant rally into those longbows was painfull to watch

@depression6768

2 жыл бұрын

Agree, even Palace Guards can't directly go to take down enemy archers, but they are so efficient in cost for how much damage they make and how tanky they are, while also not vulnerable to sniper's spear spam. Another thing is that Chinese archer is inferior to English longbowman, while at the same time costing Boit tons of wood, which is precious in making all his superior siege units, super great game regardless for both players

"Your middle name is Longbowmen, your uncle died in a war and he was a Longbowmen." had me😂😂😂

I love AoE4 games that go into late game. It's so cool seeing the gunpowder come out along with massive battles.

Bit of tip for spectator mode is that you can press F1 to select every military production building of the player you are focused on. That way you can see entire military production/research queue that are active right now. Same goes for economic buildings as well when you press F2. F3 is for blacksmiths. F4 is for landmarks.

The pain of Boit having that treb right next to the town center but not winning for 20 minutes.

one of the closest action packed games I have seen yet

Am I the only one who had massive "Battle of Verdun" vibes during this 1hour medieval-mayhem?^^

Holy crap! That was one epic hour of epicness and endless epic battles! I'm in love!!

@32.50, I thought that the Chinese were doing a flanking attack and it turns out to be tiny villagers in hats dropping in a castle! Right in the middle of a fierce battle! Oh my God!

For the British campaign I had all my civs on food and wood, only spend gold on upgrading Spearman and archers and went full soviet style sending hordes of these cheap units at the enemy positions. The AI had no chance.

Drongo I've been watching boit make questionable decisions for over an hour... I didn't believe believe a second. I feel like the sneaky landmark victory must have been an A click accident.

I gotta say, your commentary is very enjoyable, even after one hour of gameplay. Good job!

"more units coming in to reproduce .... " 🎼Love is in the air 🎼 😂

@BrokeWrench

2 жыл бұрын

Bow chicka bow wow

0:34: Out-of-context gold right here xD

It looks hilarious and takes so long because they don't have a "feel" how late game plays out in AoE 4 where gold are plenty (from trade routes, relics and sacred sites) and also the counter is very important in late game units. They tried to apply the usual AoE2 late game mindset with cheap units and few expensive gunpower cannons to overcome enemy base, which indeed is boring after awhile.

@NotFlappy12

2 жыл бұрын

Boit is from AoM, where trading works essentially the same as in aoe 4, so that's not really what's going on

@Adrian-mw7us

2 жыл бұрын

Boit wasn't buying cheap units. He was going full handcannons and knights for a good portion of the game, which are often unbeatable in large numbers. Yet he still lost to Sniper's trash

@whiskizyo2067

2 жыл бұрын

horses siege and archers vs horses siege and archers - with slight variances in stats. boring

@aryank3014

2 жыл бұрын

Bro, gold is infinite when you're the English.

@aryank3014

2 жыл бұрын

@@Adrian-mw7us trash? The Longbowmen are pretty good.

How many chances do you want to win: Boit: Yes.

This was such a dogfight, tons of action.. amazing game! Also big kudos to Aussie_Drongo for excellent commentary. You are awesome man!

33:00 that is so representative of the Chinese. LOL

Man. I need more and more Drongo Casts.

36:50 I love that he didn't notice the bombard hahaha

All i wanted this entire game was a few nests of bees on that longbow mass!

@Muenni

2 жыл бұрын

@@heartsickruben I mean, we did get to see some nob on longboi action, especially near the end.

@dave8204

2 жыл бұрын

Odd that he was very successful with the first ones then seemed to forget about them,could have made all the difference.

Damn, this game is so fcking awesome ! I so happy I've lived to see this and can have fun in that game

Man this commentator makes this game x100 times as entertaining

41:24 the villagers chucked their axes at that cannon lol

42:59 Nob Squads are so powerful the transcend games

Bro Sniper is a god. He was down on gold sources for about 80% of the game and still managed to win with exclusively trash units

@JDHeijmans

2 жыл бұрын

English have an unique tech that generates gold from farms. Sniper had lots of farms

I think Isengard could be used for cheezy castle drops. 1) You get perfect castle earlyer then other civs 2) You potentially got early pressure maa or longbows dispatchments covering it 3) You've got forward network of keeps buff with it

The commentary in this video is just first class. An absolute delight to listen to. SUBBED. :)

I like the mix of casting / teaching

What a game! MVP - That wolf dog! :D

Awesome casting. tyvm Kay btw: Yes. Aoe4 needs to in-put a production tab when watching a game.

This video was incredible! you are so underrated that it pisses me off! keep up the fantastic work!

A friend of mine tried Rise of Rome on my PC a very long time ago, his first villager died to a boar, he was scarred for life!! Never played games again :D

Lack of culverin or springalds for those bombards/trebuchets was one of the mistakes both players did. Usually one culverin is more than enough if you can protect it. So you dont need 15 vils always repairing your castle.

The underground logging operation

That was a great game, holy crap

For some reason the Chinese play keep throwing his gold into handcannons while clearly the English player doesn't waste too much gold into man-at-arms.

Good Cast, your enthusiasm shines.

42:47 "I'd really love to see some knobs out" 🤣

The match is absolute bonker. Drongo is also great caster.

Best AOE match i have ever seen !

Game of resilience and focus! True masterpiece!!

I played with the sniper AOE the other day! It was awesome

Love the connect the dots!!! haha

Castle in your face! Haha that was crazy and swesome

Great channel! Loving the videos

"I'm not a mathematician, but i know numbers when I see them"

that underground logging operation in the north of the map by sniper..hehe

You might have realised this already, but when casting a game like this if you want to see if they have made a certain building, you can click on any of their vills to check.

dude i don't play the game but I stumbled on your channel and my god is it good. cheers

The caster is really good. Thanks

The word of the day is Cognizant. Brought to you by the letter C.

Hes gonna have roadrash after that loved it lol

Epic game. Much mor entertaining than those early rush jobs that end after 20 mins. And ace commentary.

Bombastic Match! Wow 🔥🙏

You can see how many landmarks you've destroyed in the top left! Don't forget your objectives!!!

These two are kings at taking awful engagements.

what a game! boit totally have the game control even though he lost

Just 15 firelancers could end the game. I can't believe they couldn't see it.

thanks for that game.. u have a nice way to tellus the fight.. gratz

the classic forward market

“You must become one with the game”

bro, you hella funny with your movie quotes.

"sneaky backdoor siege"....yeahhhh

"We both love the Chinese." Hello yeah CIA......these guys right here ;p

I didn't realize supervisors tripled production speed! I wish you could hide the dynasty button when you play Chinese tho, I always click it like a pleb when I try to micro

Looks like there is a Bombard coming out here, That is a wrong unit my friend! You need Nest of bees and you needed them yesterday! Actually Golden Commentary.. I thought he was biased at first for his friend Boit but actually he's quite neutral. Awesome commentary👏👏

best aoe4 cast ive seen so far. subscribed o7

What a great game and great commentary.

+3 and it's called Iron Clad for the English Man at Arms :)

Oh my! Its most brutal game i have ever seen

I love your casting style. It is entertaining, informative, educative and funny.

1:00:39 - When Drongo starts getting tired.

I would have loved to see the stats at the ends, what a game

I literally can’t wait to play this game. My computer is coming in a week and this will be the first thing I get on it.

@stequality

2 жыл бұрын

And it’s all you will need for a while to !! It’s a good game well worth the buy I’m aware of the cost but you will get your money’s worth going to war !

50% hp isnt as strong at lets say 25% more damage for seige. Since in the situations where your seige gets overrun it will just survive a slight moment longer.

Sheep tactics, are paramount to a military Victory - SunTzu

Always better to run out of wood, never into wood. That's bad.

This was fantastic

21:00 OMG 90 workers on 21 minutes....

I was wondering, what if advancing ages was chocked on points rather than resources? Also, I wanted to see more rustic vanguard action longer in early ages. Idk...

Love to see an Akira The Don remix.

This has my 100% support

Lol, dinesty, you mean dine-esty

English reminded me of the Mayans in aoe2, killer archers

the commentary on this was soooo hilarious Drongo! hahah you really just had fun haha I could feel it. This game gets me as excited as you are haha. excellent game and cast!

After seeing that 25vil castle, I think that building go up slower when under attack. Building a castle up in five seconds into enemy army's face is just too stupid to be an actual viable strat :D

Great commentary, even better lesson, and I don't even own AOE4.

Don’t forget the ladies too! 😆

that was some low elo legends stuff