Hello everyone! In case you haven't watched my review of the Return of Rome DLC, you can check it out here: kzread.info/dash/bejne/dJeBsciyerSbl6Q.html I will wrap up my coverage of RoR with the next video, which will be a guide of this new game mode for those who are unfamiliar with AoE1. Cheers!

@LouisT0108

Жыл бұрын

What about ROWSHEEP? Does it works?

Getting cocky as a kid with your BigDaddy only to have the computer convert it super fast with mass Priests was a genuine "oh shit!" moment.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Priests countering cars in AoE since 1998. 11

@DCdabest

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob Cars are notorious for having no strong religious convictions, it's true.

@octapusxft

Жыл бұрын

The A.I. priests always terrified me in AoE1. On my first approach of an enemy city, the enemy priests popped out of the fog of war and started chanting while the tower started firing balista bolts at me. Back then I was ignorant enough to have set my enemies as allies so I could not attack them outside of ground attacks. So I used to think that I need to make my priest sing for the towers to work

@OsakaLover

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob The power of WOLOLO knows no bounds and no mercy...

@Naritus_

Жыл бұрын

I had similar occur when the AI converted a Hoyohoyo buffed priest as a kid. And fun fact, if you use the cheat, then research the HP upgrade, it just DOUBLES their HP in the original game. The next 2 hours of madness were hilarious after the fact. 😂

Great video! A side effect of dark rain was that those archers could walk over water and JACK BE NIMBLE was one of my favourites as well. The flying cows and vills spinning or flying like superman from a catapult were really fun to shoot at your opponents.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Ah, I forgot to talk about JACK BE NIMBLE! I know that it currently doesn't work in ROR, because I tried it, it didn't work, then I forgot to talk about it in the script. If they introduce it sometime later, I'll make a quick unlisted video and link it here. :)

@foxnyl4141

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob Thanks for the info : )

Man, i LOVE the photonman run animation, i wish some infantry had that animation.. Units like champions just calmly walk into battle

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Yeah these men are on a mission 11

@user-xo9um6ri5y

Жыл бұрын

Ironically running into eachother was a corner stone in classical antiquity battles, then the Romans discovered that they can just let the enemy run towards them, get tired and offer less resistance while being sworded.

@GarkKahn

Жыл бұрын

​@@user-xo9um6ri5y Also throwing something at them previously if you can

@sebaaullador1292

Жыл бұрын

@@user-xo9um6ri5y yeah, but you have units like woad raiders that seems to just walk really fast, they should have a run animation

@DiocletianLarius

Жыл бұрын

@@user-xo9um6ri5y I think that's just a common myth, we know celts sometimes fought in tight phalanx-like formations (as Caesar explained in Commentarii de Bello Gallico) and the Greeks literally invented and used (along with all other hellenized peoples) the phalanx and popularized the pike/sarissa formations. Running into each other was dumb even by "barbarian" standards, nobody clever enough would charge against a shield wall or a testudo unless you have some kind of heavy cavalry or elephants (and even then, it's more clever to just attack the rear of the formation, never the front). Romans actually surpassed those slow-moving formations by being much more mobile and agile, a lesson they themselves learned after fighting other Italic cultures, specially the Samnites.

after 26 years, i just found out about the stormbilly cheat unit

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

For me, it was Convert This! I didn't know St. Francis existed haha! :D

@Harmulus

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob Jack be nimble!

@BurningReaper

Жыл бұрын

​@@AgeofNoob I didn't know about either sheeesh

@lifes40123

Жыл бұрын

Mandela effect confirmed. You and me are from different parallel universe where stormbilly didnt exist

@pinkerman1844

Жыл бұрын

aguante argentina viejo

I wish that photon man had the red laser machine gun that it had in the original, rather than projectiles. But I'm glad that he exists at all.

Cheat units always make me think that these were assets that got made during the very early design process before there was clear decision about what kind of theme the game was meant to have.

@GepardenK

Жыл бұрын

I wonder what direction they were considering with Pow!

@DCdabest

Жыл бұрын

@@GepardenK Could have been something that was rigged up to be a motorcycle unit with a gun. If I remember correctly the original Age of Empires team were considering a scifi/fantasy game theme before deciding on making it historical. A very early program of the very earliest seed of Age of Empires was a tank game.

@BayWa4eva

Жыл бұрын

​@@DCdabest lucky us that at the end they didn't get inspired by ea abandoning command and conquer completely. (c&c 3 still has active players and tournament despite this)

@konsumkind99

Жыл бұрын

Cheats are mostly done at the end, when the graphics team has not much left to do and playtesting takes place :D but i like your version more

@daredemontriple6

Жыл бұрын

Also, back when Age I came out, the stress and time constraints on dev teams were *a lot* more lax than they are today. A lot of cheats, easter eggs, etc came from simple jokes between guys in the office. Every office finds time for a bit of banter, but few offices have the skillsets to really develop it beyond just a funny idea. But you put a bunch of game devs in a room and give them reasonable goals and deadlines, you can be damn sure they'll use the excess time to make all manner of wonderful things - this then combines with the relatively easy-going approach towards games back then such that these stupid little projects would often get approved by the bossman because hey why not, it's a laugh! These days devs are under a lot more pressure and rarely have the time to muck around like this. That also means when they finally get home they're also far less inclined to work on little pet projects - as opposed to just putting their feet up and monging-out in-front of the TV

Man, those cheats takes me back. I didn't really mess around with them much in the later games, but loved doing tactical strikes on ancient civs with a team of robots and laser troopers supported by nuke troopers and ICBMs 🤣

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

AoE1's cheats are definitely better than AoE2's for sure (bar the Cobra Car). AoE1 was my first AoE as well, so I do go back decades too :) Cheers

Great compilation! It's great to see also this element being upgraded and included in RoR expansion. In 1DE I didn't use them that much, but in 1997 I certainly used them a lot for... hmm, research. 4:43 It's kinda, partially, present in AoE III:DE too, but only as a skin for the US hero explorer unit.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Ah I didn't know they made a skin for AoE3! Thanks for sharing

The “Dark Reign” cheat may well be a reference to the 90s rts of the same name. Forgotten classic that one.

@fgregerfeaxcwfeffece

Жыл бұрын

Thought so to, but like many old RTS it did not really age that well. But yeah for the time it was among the better titles. The game that was hit the worst by unfortunate timing was Battle Realms in my opinion. It was released when Microsoft flooded everything with free Aoe2 copies with everything remotely connected to stuff they sold.

Dark rain archers can walk on water Use hoyo hoyo before upgrading treble techs for 1200 HP and even more speed Also, Jack be nimble (cows and Superman villagers for catapult projectiles) Upsideflintmobile (speedy chariots) I hope they add those One thing about Medusa is that at one stage I think villagers needed to be tasked to attack something so that they are villagers when they die. Farmers, miners, fishermen, lumberjacks, foragers just died , unless they changed things

@noxious8

Жыл бұрын

They had to be 'villagers' not 'workers'. So it's best to get fresh dudes for the cheat

When you develop Mysticism in Temple AFTER using hoyohoyo cheat your priests hp will double to 1200. It was at least true for Vanilla AOE

@DCdabest

Жыл бұрын

This was the best. Doubling my stats and then stacking the techs on top of that was great fun.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

It also works in RoR! Just tested. :)

I remember when I was a kid, playing with photon mans (after I was definitely going to lose a game), and suddenly one of my photon mans was converted by the enemy. It was hell, it would constantly kill someone and disappear again.

I almost forgot how bonkers AOE1 cheats were! I would have loved to see "King Arthur" available in AOE2... It would make much more sense! Anyway, thanks for the vid, as always :)

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Since the assets were built by the devs, I'm pretty sure someone can make an AoE2 mod that we can install tbh, just like other cosmetic mods in the workshop. Cheers. :)

i sometimes did that, spawn 2 squads of 12 photons with 4 emc guys and 1 mech. and thats all you had. basicly you were stranded troopers trying to proctect their camp, you cant advance age and have to survive on a 1v7 and cant rush them, with only your main building and some huts.

I just wonder if the only hero that in the original game had his own skin, the hero Jason, will also be updated, I'm nostalgic for him because it's the one I used to create missions when I made maps as a child

@user-yg5yk2kg7d

Жыл бұрын

is this true? i never noticed that!

@RennieAsh

Жыл бұрын

Hero Jason was basically a chariot rider on foot with a cutlass (?)

pow was without exclamation mark, at least in the original. Also a difference between bigdaddy and big momma, at least back in the day, was that bigdaddy has more damage that also deals splash damages to friendly units. Whereas big momma has no friendly fire. For this reason, I always preferred big momma as large groups of bigdaddy's would end up destroying eachother.

Iirc, og aoe dragons fly towards gold. Nuke trooper with icbm can fire across the map (with attack ground command) For baby prez, maybe try 'pow big mama'' Does 'grantlinkspence' cheat code is here as well? It turns aninal into king variants Also does cheats : 'Jack be nimble', 'upsidflintmobil', 'steroids'

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

• No variation of BabyPrez works unfortunately. • Jack be nimble doesn't work either unfortunately, as I mentioned in another comment. • I already talked about Steroids in the video, it works just fine. • Grantlinkspence works, I forgot to talk about it. :( • Upsidflintmobile works as well. I originally misspelt it as "Upsideflintmobile", so I thought it didn't work. My bad on this!

From what i saw in the video,bigdaddy and photon man isnt even remotely as OP as they were in the original game Photon man fired like 20 shots in a single second and bigdaddy had a huge area of effect

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

You are correct, there OG cheats for those two were stringer.

Hari Kari is for Hera 😂

This is a beautiful video. In quality and memories. Thank you

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome!

dark rain seems fun for a hide and seek game mode you play with your friends.

The version of Age of Empires (the "Gold" version that included both the original AOE and its expansion) I had at the turn of the millennium used the code "Pow Big Mama" to summon the "Babyprez" unit. I don't know if it was a quirky one-off that was unique to the CD I had, a version-wide variant, or if the game just recognized it as an alternative version of "Pow".

@FloosWorld_AoE

Жыл бұрын

The game was coded to spawn babyprez as long as "pow" was included in the code.

okay I love that dragon/creature flying around!

I never knew about the King Arthur cheat as a kid. All those missed opportunities! I expect the Dark Rain cheat is more based on the game Dark Reign, released a month before AoE, where the sniper unit could turn into trees (hence it affects archers here).

@Revan8888

Жыл бұрын

"Good. Deploy the dessicator."

The red dragon from the original gave me multiple jumpscares

The Bigdaddy car is a 1995 Chevy Camaro Z28. Still, I prefer the Shelby Cobra

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

The Cobra is undoubtedly the most iconic AoE cheat of all time!

pow! used to be my absolute favorite. Really hoping it makes a comeback still.

My favorite unit was the Photon Man because I always imagined myself commanding the Clone Army from Star Wars

Could you share what else you found in the editor? New buildings, unit skins, heroes, animals, etc?

There is one cheat with the catapult that makes them throw cows and the superman villager.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

It doesn't work in ROR I'm afraid. Maybe they'll patch it in later perhaps.

I only knew a few of these as a kid because my mom was the one who told me the cheats, and she apparently only knew about half of them according to this list!

I rembember having my Hoyohoyo priests converted by the AI. That was GG!

Zug-209 was my favorite cheat growing up, though this one looks a lot wider than the previous. Zug-209 was a parody of ED-209 from Robocop. Also the new dragon visual is kinda ok, I thought the original one was better.

4:18 - This should have been Vietnamese's civilization bonus 😂

Wasn't there a cheat called 'Superman' which changed the amunition your catapults shot to vills? And there was one that changed it to bovines.

I never knew about the friggin LASERS units.

No "jack be nimble"? I remember making it convert catapults ammunitions into villagers and cows

Glad that bigdaddy got a visual upgrade. Having aoe's most iconic cheat unit only be available in low res was disappointing!

The return of Age of Lasers

Isn't dark rain and refence to the RTS Dark Reign that had a unit that could also do that before RA2.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

I didn't know that game existed lol.. looks like Red Alert!

@Revan8888

Жыл бұрын

​@@AgeofNoob it's a RTS... Like Red Alert, yes... Dark Reign sits alongside C&C, Warcraft Orcs & Humans and Starcraft. If you're under 40, you're probably only familiar with remakes - which Dark Reign never received.

summon unit cheats do spawn them on a TC (aoe2 TC). So, if you don't have a aoe2 tc you can't get them.

will the added cheats work? like "going above and beyond" or "tech tech one two free"?

minute 8:00 that snow falling is new? if not, its a new game mechanic or u edited the video?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

No, snow fall is just something I occasionally add in during editing. It isn't in-game. :)

Does convert unit to TK works on return of rome ? Last time i tested it on alpha test it does work

Have you tried editor? Is aoe1 units and buildings available in aoe2 editor or not?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Partially. Most AoE2 units, buildings, and cosmetics are missing in RoR's editor, but there is a small overlap.

The alternative cheat for "Pow!" that also worked was "austin powers".. tried with that one??

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that didn't work either. Tried all variations and even with and without exclamation marks. Nothing worked.

I am quite sure the expansion was called "rise of Rome" not "return". I also seem to remember that the tricycle cheat was powpowpow, but the last time I played was when the game came out, so I may be wrong...

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Rise of Rome is the expansion from 1998. Return of Rome is the DLC from today. :) I've tried all variations of pow, including yours. It doesn't work I'm afraid.

7:00 Is that a SUPRA?!

what about the one making chariot archers move and shoot faster? Used to be like hoyohoyo but for chariot archers here

@RennieAsh

Жыл бұрын

Upsideflintmobile

1:00 I wonder if they are not "disabled" but require a AOE 2 town center to spawn. And technically the AOE 1 and AOE 2 town centers are considered different buildings. 🤷‍♂

@hylje

Жыл бұрын

RoR is its own dataset, chances are the AoE2 units are not included in it at all. (And vice versa)

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Even if this were true, there is no way to build an AOE2 TC in RoR, not even via the scenario editor I'm afraid.

@EagleTopGaming

Жыл бұрын

When you type the commands do they show up in chat like any other message or do they go through like a normal command just not spawn anything?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

@@EagleTopGaming It's the former.

no pow no party

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Hopefully the devs will add it next patch! :)

Excelente!

Which cheat code was it that makes catapults throw cows and people?

the cheat code, "pow", doesn't have an exclaimation mark at the end. I think that's why it didn't work for you. Try just typing, "pow".

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

I've tried every variation - it doesn't work unfortunately.

Is that a SUPRA?!

Whats the music with flute motif at 6:00 and around?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Far Horizon from Skyrim's OST. :)

how did i only now big daddy, no fog and the ressource cheats all these years D:

If they had not sold 20 billion versions of AoE2 as different games I would praise them for this. But with the situation as is I woudln't even know which of said 20 billion versions this affects since they are named in a very samey way.

the explosion in e=mc2 trooper looks a bit weak. I was hoping to see a nice nuke.

Omg aoe 1 cheats are wild.

Im wondering, does each civ have a unique unit or is everything super generic?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

There are no unique units in RoR, so units are differentiated by civ bonuses.

1:45 those are wyverns though

I still remembered in my match with an ai my BigDaddy got converted fast and i had to create more big daddy just to take out the priests

where's the logo on the car hood btw?

Is that Skyrim music in the background?

sci cheats are fun but I always get bored of those summons quick, I rather have something cool closer to the time period aha, like flying dutchman etc

Oh wow

@Ratciclefan

Жыл бұрын

I never tried using cheats on 1DE, but from what I can tell, there they just reuse the old sprites.

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Yes they do use the old sprites

I don't remember that laser firing walking mech. At all

@RennieAsh

Жыл бұрын

It was in rise of Rome. Wasn't the strongest unit so it seldom got used I guess

Aoe3: dev forgot me

Really wish we get some of those cheat codes in the actual aoe2: -ICBM now gives +100 range to scorpion or heavy scorpion -You forgot upsideflintmobile will this move to the second game? Wish it does in the second game, cavalry archer or heavy cavalry archer move as fast as cobra car. -bigdaddy is a great cobra car alternative that is best vs castles. -yes we want stormbilly and the pow to make it into both modes -hoyohoyo should come to second game, all monks owned by the player get +600 hitpoints and can apply to any monk you convert or changes ownership to you. -convert this! is another one we want -the medusa and black rider. the medusa cheat code should not change the villager into this "medusa" unit also the cheat code can be renamed and a new medusa cheat code can be made to spawn an actual greek mythology medusa that functions like the age of mythology medusa. Then this cheat code called "villager revenge" (if the ai raids your town they will get punished). Once used, any villager including fake ones like i love the monkey head will spawn the black rider on death. The black rider is to become the strongest cavalry unit in the game and has more stats than any other mounted and archer unit in the game. Hp stronger than gidajan meaning it is at least 999. Attack is stronger than Ghenghis Khan at 30 (also gets 30 bonus vs rams (trebuchets count in this) to make sure they don't resist him). Armor 5/3 + elite cataphract level of anti cavalry bonus damage becomes 5+4/3+6 when fully upgraded (enables all cav archer techs to civs that miss them). Last, the movement speed is as fast as cobra car. If killed will spawn a siege onager or heavy catapult. -big bertha. In aoe2 changes the mangonel line into big bertha which has the following stats: 250 hp, does physical siege damage at 200 attack with the same bonuses as the trebuchet while still keeping the large 5 tile blast radius. Minimum range to be reduced all the way down to zero. "Thought you could sneak under the minimum range and take me out paladin?" -jack be nimble in both games, why not in 2 and bring it to return of rome since aoe3 got it on the ya gotta make do with what a got cheat code...

Can you play AOE on Mac M1?

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤wow!

is the aoe 2 editor available for aoe 1? triggers?

@FloosWorld_AoE

Жыл бұрын

Yes!

Copyright for pow

HOYOHOYO is my favourite cheat ever, i really hope we get something similar one day in aoe2

How do you turn this on

POW ftw!

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

**makes baby noises**

Yo does this game have out of sync error?

Someone sad Baby Prez (pow) is all grown up now, so that's why he's not in the new game.

nice

No Jack be nimble cheat code?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Didn't work in RoR I'm afraid.

Peperoni pizza

the cheat was "pow" not "pow!" iirc, no exclamation mark

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

Tried, but didn't work I'm afraid.

@JoSan3

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob Sad ☹️ I miss the OP baby 👶🚲💥

I believe the removal of the baby was intentional because killing children in a game is forbidden nowadays.

Aoe1 has the best cheats of all the saga.

Nobody's here but us trees!

is it me or are you just in 2.0x the speed as a default setting

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

You probably set the speed at x2 in another video and it carried through. The video speed is fine on my end.

@RennieAsh

Жыл бұрын

Some of the clips are indeed sped up lol

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

@@RennieAsh Some clips are sped up yes, like the Big Bertha one, but he was referring to the whole video I presume. Only a handful of clips have altered speeds to match the narration.

Guyz i have the game but i can't play it... How could u guyz reach the game ?

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

I have early access to this DLC - it will be available to purchase for the public on May 16th. :)

@multitalentedman1284

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob How did u get early access to DLC ? I dont know i alrdy bought it

@AgeofNoob

Жыл бұрын

@@multitalentedman1284 I am an insider. Certain content creators are given early access to review and showcase the game. What I meant about is that the DLC will be available to *play* on the 16th.

@multitalentedman1284

Жыл бұрын

@@AgeofNoob Thx for the answer dude :) Hope u enjoyed the game .

I had no idea but momma was a cheat

Icbm doesn't work on xbox

Every cheat page ON AGE OF EMPIRES 2 listed medusa as one of the available cheat codes. How dissapointed

DOES NO ONE KNOW ABOUT THE NINJACONNOR CHEAT??? Why haven't i never heard or seen anyone else use it? It gives you 10000 for each of the four resources lol.

@slavsquench7693

Жыл бұрын

Thanks, for some reason, this is the only cheat that worked for me 😮

@Mendicant_Bias

Жыл бұрын

@@slavsquench7693 No problem lol. It's just weird i havent't seen anyone mention it here

1:40 Those look more like stupid wyverns.

Layer bug on the southmost villager (he seems to walk behind the blue veggie thing as he walks south). kzread.info/dash/bejne/nJeYqMGTZbedaLA.html

I thought there were no fem villagers in AOE I DE.

I love cheats in games. I miss when almost all of the games had them. Come on devs, do it, it's fun! Learn from AOE, AOE is doing it correctly! :3

ninjaconnor???

TIL: if you're not up to date with the latest AoE cheats then you've been living under a rock

they should fix it then, bigdaddy, big_daddy, bigdada, big_dada and then also for bigmomma + big_momma + bigmommy + big_mommy. lol or not, but I think it would be logical if they did.