"I'm sure you guys are noticing mistakes". Sure. I notice how freaking bad I am in this game while I'm watching your videos lmao.

@alexistsimplas4603

4 жыл бұрын

Use your brain more

@jakubsarnowski9050

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexistsimplas4603 man's trash detected

@knifeandswordfighter

4 жыл бұрын

lol I was thinking the same thing about myself

@mister420blazeit2

4 жыл бұрын

@@alexistsimplas4603 i doubt you have one either

@amarauk9687

4 жыл бұрын

In my defence I played AoE when I was in middle school *cough like there would be a difference cough*

"Not that serious of a player" -Spiritofthelaw Calculates damage for every arrow, gathering rates, game mechanics. :D

@Bloodlyshiva

6 жыл бұрын

That's just statistics. Putting it into practice is something else again.

@CB-rv2lj

6 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you can see the irony there bloodyshiva haha.

@EpicNinjaShiro

6 жыл бұрын

Doesn't mean he remembers them in real time. I'm an alright study but a terrible test taker if I can't wing it.

@zaratrustamaster

6 жыл бұрын

not that serious of a player, but that serious of a math-er :D

@tomh4754

6 жыл бұрын

John Yow Lol mate you don't need to calculate the damage of every arrow, it's written for you under every archer.

4:18 "I'm not that serious of a player, but here's an overview series of the 31 civilizations of Age of Empire 2" - Spirit of the law

@maartencuyvers6017

6 жыл бұрын

that is not being a serious player that is being a person who studies the game seriously

@Icameron259

6 жыл бұрын

SotL content is geared towards relatively casual players, ie people who aren't seriously trying to climb the ranked ladder.

@Hebdomad7

5 жыл бұрын

He's no way near pro level. Very few of us will ever attain such god like skills even if we play all day every day. His knowledge of the game however would make him an excellent coach.

@SigmaHayate

4 жыл бұрын

You could search “chimsedinang vs shenlong” on google to see how the pros’ battles look like

@thothheartmaat2833

3 жыл бұрын

im not that serious.. you should have this much meat on the first boar before luring the second.. i dont even know how much meat a boar has and ive never lured one in my life and i dont even want to know why its a good idea...

“With real players, that doesn’t happen, obviously” Well, he’s never played against me then.

Not saying GG at the end. The AI will remember that when they throw the revolution and enslave humanity.

@churchofmagic3733

6 жыл бұрын

NOOOOOO Spirit has doomed us all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@NXeta

6 жыл бұрын

Caputer p3 will remember that.

@pacerrecap6386

6 жыл бұрын

The AIs will knock us out anyway, they might return your favor by saying gg after that

@charielity6071

6 жыл бұрын

(?) Hardest AI will remember that.

@cosapocha

6 жыл бұрын

I got that reference!

4:18 "I'm not really that much of a serious player" > has 100,000 subs because of taking AoE 2 too seriously via maths

@DanishCamp

5 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know his rank?

@TheSilentWalkerz

3 жыл бұрын

Now almost 300k subs

Has anyone ever told you you're like the Bob Ross of AoE2?

@Arn0n

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@leonardjulius6098

2 жыл бұрын

Its so true, I don't even play the game anymore but I just like watching his videos

@cecakgabut1030

Жыл бұрын

lmao yes he is

"I hath been fighting against a mathematician who coulds't calculate every step I would'eth possibly had taken!" "No wonder thou wert victorious! I shalt abdicate."

@nenkomanolov2951

5 жыл бұрын

:D :D :D

@eduardoguizarperez8417

5 жыл бұрын

Lol!

@dragonguy2

4 жыл бұрын

I lol'ed

@DEV3N87

4 жыл бұрын

"Your petty offerings will not sway my determination to crush your Empire!"

@jakeq3530

3 жыл бұрын

Nerd

The Obi-Wan reference is what I love about your content. Those little references here and there crack me up and I can’t figure out why.

@loganchandler9988

6 жыл бұрын

Dirk3K I agree, he managed to not only use the high ground, but also threw in Kenobi's turning into a ghost. I had to pause in order to get my laughter out

@LuMnOsITi

6 жыл бұрын

"An angle of 45°, or for you Americans that's 113° Fahrenheit. What that's a different type of degrees?" -SOTL, lol

@LangleyNA

5 жыл бұрын

You can't win, Darth. If you shall strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine.

@NowhereMan7

4 жыл бұрын

@Turbo Charged Youre probably better. Youre probably one of the best people and hard to entertain because everyone and everything is beneath your superior grasp on life.

@raoulbakker1287

4 жыл бұрын

i nearly thought that standing higher actually gave him the attack and defense bonus...

Now a harder challenge - 2v1 hardest but treaty length of 30 minutes

@benperegrin745

6 жыл бұрын

oooo i like that

@physixger

6 жыл бұрын

That's essentially what The Viper did. And even with his micro, he needed 3 tries to get it done.

@vaibhavbajaj5414

6 жыл бұрын

Barbarian AI are harder to play against than the standard Hardest AI. Nowhere near as hard.

@tvremote9394

6 жыл бұрын

the hardest standard AI is comparable to the easy barbarian AI, which is what viper played against

@ashmonkey2572

6 жыл бұрын

Viper played against 2 HARDEST BARBARIAN AI which is by far the most intelligent ai out there plus it cheats. STANDARD AI would clearly lose.

this can't be the hardest, when I play it bum rushes me at min 16 with a butload of archers.

@DrSaav-my5ym

5 жыл бұрын

I know right, I feel like he got lucky, there are times when the AI doesn't play as hard.

@kiriseraph9674

5 жыл бұрын

@@DrSaav-my5ym When you are attacking an AIs ally they start to act kind of weird, attacking your main base less aggressively and prioritising the defence of their ally, but generally being very slow and low energy about it.

@madeiraislander

5 жыл бұрын

I think it's because the resources were set to Low, so the ai focuses on food and SOTL focused on wood and gold and managed to rush the ai faster. But yeah you're right, with Standard resources the ai rushes at around 15 mins in.

@doctor10inch

5 жыл бұрын

the AI bum rushes you when it has the score advantage, once it loses the score advantage it gets all weird and defensive

@lakecityransom

5 жыл бұрын

As Nate said, when the AI detects you are too weak it will just zerg rush for the kill. Getting an early army and eco booming well is key. You can't just sit around and boom until imperial though as the computer will begin throwing everything at you nonstop. It will just outplay you in micro spam, especially with a monk conversion death ball. If game goes into deadlock and imperial age, you'll have to castle/tower/wall creep and use trash units, siege catapults, and defensive monks for healing/conversions to overcome their blobs of spam. Then you need to immediately counter attacks with unit reinforcing as the CPU base has nothing but a castle or two aside from standing armies. They will likely control forward gold, relics and have trade carts between the AI so you can only abuse their stupidity. Also I think resources set to low really messes up their efficiency, they went too far forward early and he abused them with archers.

Hey man. Having discovered your videos a few months ago, I'd like to thank you for getting me back into AOE2. Used to hammer AOE as a wee lad back in the late 90's/early 00's. So much nostalgia getting back into it. Love it. Love your vids!

@tarkin843

6 жыл бұрын

Carl Carlson Recently got back into it too, it's awesome

@duartecboc8028

6 жыл бұрын

Me also.. just for watching thoses amazing analysis also get back to aoe after a lot of years.. but enjoying more now.. thanks sot

Start a Twitch account already man... You are practically guaranteed to be huge, some people make a full living on Twitch playing Age of Empires 2, and you are way more popular than them.

@BaNaNaCeZeT

6 жыл бұрын

That doesn't have to do anything with streaming. If he'd stream he doesn't have to unreveal anything or join the AoE 2 community - even tho that wouldn't be necessary a bad thing. He could just cast and do commentary or play and o commentary and that requries different skills than in preparing and staging videos. - Don't take this as some sort of hate. I just don't see SOTL from your prespective.

@labarians1814

6 жыл бұрын

Well, SOTL is really more of a behind-the-scene guy, his strength is in research and nice nerdy video production, so I do believe KZread is the best platform for him. Although I don't mind him starting a twitch some day, I really daut that he'll make a living outta this, doesn't he have multiple degrees and all that? But that will boost the community for sure, that video with Tatitoh could be a start.

@952way

6 жыл бұрын

I'd rather have him on YT... I don't like twitch at all. Most of the YT channels I watch upload edited & scripted videos. Meanwhile on twitch it's spray and pray content, it's live. Furthermore you cannot pause a stream in 2017 over there? What the hell man? :D

@ROFLBOB24

6 жыл бұрын

952way You ought to see MembTV or T90Official on Twitch, they have their shit put together... They also make a living playing and doing things AOE related. Spirit could do this if he wanted.

@RenegadeShepTheSpacer

4 жыл бұрын

@@ROFLBOB24 This. T90 is the best.

1:12 "Don't tell them what we need them back for" xD

@MariusIhlar

3 жыл бұрын

Ah, I get it now.. Haha!

SOTL: Surrounding 2 hardest AI enemy towns easily with archers making them surrender. My moderate enemy: HAHAHAHA you fool.

I really like this kind of thing, explaining the decisions

this is one of my fav game of all time i played this for so many hours as a kid on windows 98

That castle on yellow. THE DISRESPECT! LOL

We want the Malians and Malay overview :D

I love that you point out every little detail. Used to play when I was 14, when it was new :D Now I picked it up recently and I was never a serious player.

Hey Spirit, law guys of the here

Red's in lockdown. I feel that.

To be honest, this has always been a good classic - I haven't played it in years since I was very young. Just watching your video made me think how much of a joyful game it is, and/or can be! Good video by the way; keep it up!

Whenever I play AoE2 the AI behaves totally different. The two Civs not being bothered by me would have attacked me with a neverending stream of mainly low cost units after 15 minutes.

@rogerduong6939

5 жыл бұрын

Mines really different too. They spam a lot more units compared to the ai in this video and the stream of units don't stop. This feels more like a moderate bot to me

@grahamflorida5942

Жыл бұрын

@@rogerduong6939 Eh, playing against moderate with my son, they trickle low cost units, playing against hard and hardest, they tend to archer rush early but then actually build reasonable army comps after that fails.

@oguzdaniel842

Жыл бұрын

The algorithm's still unstable, indeed. It's kind of creepy when they comes out with Crusaders at 20" all the Al algorithm procees on defeating the enemy quickly but I find it so boring. For me, a war should be lasting around 1 hour but when they comes up early with an army instead of having some economy that gives you a joy (that being able to spawn everything in the game in dozens) =)

Everbody knows Green builds 1.33% faster due to coding issues with priority frame cycles.

@C0DERedEdits

6 жыл бұрын

StriKe jk wait, what?

@twinsen1949

6 жыл бұрын

That's a curious comment that I am not sure if could be true or not.

@bbcmotd

6 жыл бұрын

StriKe jk hwatt

@meddown7035

6 жыл бұрын

XDDDD

@saleem2991

6 жыл бұрын

StriKe jk Lol, misinformation.

This channel is a godsend for someone picking AoE2 up again. Thanks a ton buddy!

nice commentary, really funny, well played. i like how he compliments the AI's pros of their playstyle while crushing them lol

What I learned about scouting is that it's useful to not leave any unexplored spots, however up to a certain radius around your TC, so that you don't miss out on resources. I've found relics at the end of the game in 3-4 tiles of unexplored map not too far from my base, 3-4 tiles of extra neutral gold or stone with easy access, pools with 4-5 tiles of shore fish, etc.

@lukasg4807

6 жыл бұрын

rohitchaoji 4-5 shorefish?

@rohitchaoji

6 жыл бұрын

Tbh, that was a case of MegaRandom's bizarre map generation at times. There were other similar pools on the map, apparently.

Excellent, as always, Spirit. You've got the best AoE2 channel out there. I really appreciate the way that you create content that appeals to casual players like me that just enjoy playing the game and have no interest in going pro. Amazingly, you even make math fun!

Oh dang I just watched the vs hardest yesterday had no idea this was a new upload!

I love that you're back making regular videos, bb.

I'm really exited for the Malian civ overview

i recently learned you wrote the intro song to your videos! i didnt know you were also a musician, and a good one at that. i also LOVE the song map of the problematique!

"The ai gets stuck building one unit" .................. "ok yellow gave up before I could use my shotel warriors but I really want to use them so I'm going to queue up a bunch"

Hey Spirit, I discovered your channel last friday and I had a blast with your content. I was sick all weekend and your videos helped me a lot (though during my fever dreams I was seeing AoE units haha).

Great vid as always, especially the Star Wars references made me smile. :)

To be honest I'm surprised the AI got overwhelmed so easily... Usually, when I try to rush the hardest AI with a single unit like you did, in the next minute I get completely swarmed by the counter of this unit. I was totally expecting the AI to make a ton of skirms against you and honestly I don't understand why it didn't...

I really love your videos! One suggestion for the topic of a future video could be a video on all of the game's unique units, what you like/don't like about them, and how you think they can be improved, if necessary. I always get the feeling that unique units are very underused, with a couple of exceptions. Possibly because they're not worth creating?

@youmukonpaku3168

6 жыл бұрын

Depends on the unique unit. Longbows, turtle ships, conquistadors, catapharacts, jannisaries, and samurai are all generally worth it, in my experience; even then, Jannies and Samurai are pretty situational and conquistadors are only useful because Spanish archers are laughable.

@maxmustsleep

6 жыл бұрын

the easiest answer would be that you usually need to get to the castle age and build a castle to recrute them, which is a lot of cost and a lot of time to get there. You would have to have a long game, or a strong enough economy to build several castles to build many special units in a reasonable time. So i'm guessing, and from what i've heard most games end at an earlier point making them not a viable option in a large amout of games. It is true though that there are some very strong special units, like the conquistadores, longbow archers, plumed archers, or mangudai and weaker ones like axe throwers

Your voice is relaxing bro and your math analisys is impressive

The reason that AI advanced to Castle Age at 13:52 even when basically decimated is because, at this diffuculty, there is a script that gives out (tributes) a massive amount of resources to enemy AI every few minutes. If you want to see this for yourself, play a replay and switch it to the AI's side.

I really love your match commentary videos ❤❤ please make some more in 2019 if you can, I'd really appreciate that ❤❤

That sheep joke actually made me laugh, got a few weird looks for that 🐑🐑🐑

I liked this video because I’ve been looking all day how to put the little flags down to command troops and villagers and I found it here.

I have to say, You are Vaatividya of Age of Empires 2. You're polite, passionate and no BS. We certainly like your contents, keep it up! I subscribed as well!

i like the editing.. adding those pictures for clarification. gg wp

im so excited for more vids like these

As someone who doesn't play AOEII anymore (and didn't ever play seriously to begin with), I really appreciate the visuals you include during editing. It really helps me keep up with your thought process and sort of understadnw hy you do things a certain way. Very entertaining!

Your buildorder was smooth except you put too many villagers on gold early, so you were needlessly stacking gold when wood became a problem. Anyways, good job!

I, for one, like to go purple with bizantines

@michaelpothoven1041

6 жыл бұрын

Lorgar Aurelian Swordfall: Kingdoms player?

@artsenor254

6 жыл бұрын

Either this or Medieval 2 Total War.

@TheEnergizer94

6 жыл бұрын

I go orange with zergs and blue with protoss

@tomh4754

6 жыл бұрын

Artsenor Um, or maybe just someone with minimal historical knowledge? It's pretty basic knowledge that purple is the colour of Eastern Rome.

@vario6492

4 жыл бұрын

I thought you'd prefer red or yellow

Great commentary. Thank you

Plz plz plz more gameplay vids one day 😁. Win or lose, your gameplays seem more informative than any others

Nice video and thanks especially for the good commends / explanations for why you did what. Btw. what I like the most about the Barbarian AI, is not necessarily that it is more challenging, but it is more human like. It may try to steal your boar, kill your weak villager with its scout, might fight back with its vills if it thinks it can beat you, gather from sheep pretty effectively, scout with sheep (although not as good as a human player), lure deer with its scout, but especially I think it adapts its counter units better to what you throw at the AI. With Userpatch 1.5 AI scripters even work on impressive drush micro and archer-micro vs mangonals.

uve come a long way since barely beating one hard ai. nice job

Just a quick tip to improve your Dark Age timing: Don't "over force drop" the food. The time you lose when force dropping can make you not have the 50 food when you need to click to make your next vill. That is what happened several times during your dark age. If you start quickly collecting food, the vills will reach 10 food and drop on the town center around 9x% of the villager production for every villager cycle. I know that waiting for them to automatically drop can see dangerous or even give you the chills to force drop just ot make sure. Don't do that! Force drop continuously can make your efficiency drop significantly (at least in the beginning when those seconds really make a difference). If you force drop, those small seconds will build up and you will end up having to force drop every time, which will make you lose food and villager production time (not to mention that it open up the possibility to collect 49 food and have to start a new ship, which costs more time). If you really need to force drop food, you can pick up 1 or two villagers (not all the 6-7 on the sheep/boar) to even out the 50 food, therefore, you would not lose the dropping time of all them but only for a couple of vills which turns out will allow you to not to force drop every time.

Thank you for explaining the scouting and flags.

Alright. You are officially crazy now. I like it. That’s the perfect type of video to go to sleep to now. But I’ll watch it again some other day when I’m awake ^^‘

oohohoho fuck yeah been waiting for another video like this. love your channel spirit :D

It's the middle of the night... but i have to watch!! I was about to go to bed :D

really amazing, you resolve it! Great! It seem like Chess the way like you played!

You make my day Spirit!

thanks. hold shift and right click to queue locations in succession.

@kochaos6129

4 жыл бұрын

Michael Hall II -- FYI the same thing works on the battle map in Total War games.

because of you i play aoe2 again the last time i played was 13 years ago

Verry good one! Make another ones against other players with your strategy analysis. :)

wow man, you are good! Really good!

"I'm not that serious of a player" *goes against 3 hardest AI*

Hey, I'm very new to AoE2 meta and I find your videos VERY helpful even though they're meant for more advanced players than me. I think you'd make amazing beginner's videos.

queued up those starting villagers so fast I had to rewatch to actually see it

I am so bad at this game that anyone Tower rushig can get a better castle time than me when i am trying to fast castle.

Not that serious of a player... neckkkkk XD good vid bro keep it up!

As a noob, this video taught me a lot. And was fun to watch! Thanks!

Lol placing those flags you talked about at rougly 3:25 those flags was THE FIRST trick I learned when I started playing AoE2 XDDDD

Dude. You not taking out the monks as they keep converting your units was killing me.

@dariusduesentrieb

5 жыл бұрын

So you researched Heresy?

4:00 "Im not that serious a player". Jaw on the floor.

love these videos :) more plz

I was sooo board that you are not smash some al...and other now i can watch and have some fun ...

You have a nice, calm voice to listen to :)

Dude that cant be hardest AI.. i mean how come that at 18 mins neither blue or yellow got any proper army?

@RaduP3

5 жыл бұрын

I Think that is because be assaulted them and They had no economy. Plus They had some, but not much, look at blue, it had some knights. Also how he mentioned, They weere rushing monks. But he played The harras game well from the beggining

@KSriram

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, when I play against just hard, they have like 15 units at 14 minutes.

@theodoreovaska597

5 жыл бұрын

It always ramps up at like 20 minutes but he prevented it with his raiding

@milesmitchell353

5 жыл бұрын

The problem lies with the algorithm changing when you have AIs on teams. How they play on a 1v1 vs a 3v1 is different.

@marshallr4013

5 жыл бұрын

9:40 look at the settings pop up.

Can you do more guides on the rises of the raja’s civs, I’m always exited when u upload content

Wow man. Full of tips too!

It seems that this Hardest AI is weaker than Hard AI , I always fight against Hard AIs and they age up faster (before 10 mins), and they reach Castle Age at about 15-17 mins and as soon as they reach Castle, they start rushing at me with Long Swordsmen and Cav Archers, this Hardest AI looks lame and pathetic, being in Castle Age and fighting with spearmen and scout cavalry and reaching Feudal at 14 mins.

@lukasg4807

4 жыл бұрын

The hard ai isn't going fuedal before 10 minutes and getting a 15 minute castle unless it's cheating

"… don't tell them what we need them back for …" Hmm …

Hey Spirit!! Amazing video.. Do you have any idea when the next expansion of aoe2 is coming? Love your videos..❤️..Keep up the good work..

This is so amazing. I wish I could take more than 1 medium AI at a time

For players watching this since DE - remember this video was made well before our "not that serious of a player" was carrying Hera in a ranked match...

Nice vid!!! thumbs up. Now for the next challenge: could you do 1 vs 7 AI all teamed against you on hardest(map choice and civ's up to you). I know that sounds ridiculous, and would be a real(and long) pain for you, but true enjoyment for us - YT watchers. Thanks in advance.

I appreciate your use of the correct in-game trees. Lets the rest of us who appreciate the as-built game get a look at what the game was supposed to look like. :)

I appreciate your vids man. I just successfully archer rushed an AI using Britons

Not a serious play ha! A non serious player rushes at like 45 min haha. Great video!

Hey, cool! I can't even beat a single of the hardest AI. I'm bad :(. Gonna enjoy this video, thanks!

If all teachers could explain their subject as chill as you explain the mechanichs and everything in aoe2, i'd actually enjoy school.

impressive :) good video!

Hey guys, Spirit of The Law here!

Thanks for this I definitely realized I don't put enough on gold.

I agree with you on the small trees . I used to play this game on cd rom . This is more like the map style I used to play .

make tutorials how to play maps like nomad, arabia, islands, or even black forest

@Superiorer

6 жыл бұрын

LuxrayCL I dont know about nomad but for arabia: any feudal rush. Islands: fireships asap. Bf: wall, wall, boom, fight after all your techs are researched and you are max pop.

@ReaperCH90

6 жыл бұрын

spirit of the law looks at ingame mechanics, if you want to learn strategies, you should look at other channels.

@SuperMrmine

6 жыл бұрын

everything is mechanic,i know already play all the maps, but is just a suggestion

@Dovahkiine

6 жыл бұрын

SOTL is probably not someone to teach you those strategies.

i didnt learn anything cause i just like listening to your calming voice ^.^

Nice video!

He probably means that he’s probably more interested in game mechanics than actually playing the game hence he said ”as a player”

Your very good at this game spirit of the law !! :D

You make me want to play against you. The problem is that I specialize in turbo fast games! I could not hold a candle to your random setting. Love the videos!