Changing the Japanese bonus to say "33% faster" must be the crowning achievement of Spirit's career

@VivekGawande1

3 жыл бұрын

Nah the peak achievement is proving that t90 farms aren't that bad

@mattender8323

3 жыл бұрын

@@VivekGawande1 What about the Penguin scout though.

@MB-pc1xp

3 жыл бұрын

Maybe stupid question - but what was it before? Just "faster" without a %?

@Gabrol

3 жыл бұрын

@@MB-pc1xp 25% iirc

@benfoote9945

3 жыл бұрын

The numbers are finally correct! He must have been so happy!

“Defensive buildings no longer prioritize enemy buildings over units.” Finally they’ll attack the incoming units instead of the mining camp

@KaoticPhoenix

3 жыл бұрын

Queuing Trebs might be useful too, finally it will attack Castles instead of mining camps when I'm not looking 11

@tomassmith2088

3 жыл бұрын

@@KaoticPhoenix warwolf trebs might just be monsters

@noprisoners8

3 жыл бұрын

I'll believe it when I see it in my own games 11

@lijger1

3 жыл бұрын

This I discovered the hard way yesterday.

@ParlonsAstronomie

3 жыл бұрын

Or now.they will target the castle builder instead of the building castle. That's a big.change

Can confirm someone saw your video on the Antarctica world map to include the Penguin 👍

@arcan762

3 жыл бұрын

Peanuts are neither peas or nuts 🤔

@sambam8213

3 жыл бұрын

“Defensive buildings no longer prioritize enemy buildings over units.” Finally they’ll attack the incoming units instead of the mining camp

Can’t believe how popular and relevant this game still is. It makes me so happy that my favorite childhood game is going strong. Can’t wait to scout with some penguins soon. Thanks for the breakdown Spirit!

@VarenvelDarakus

3 жыл бұрын

Crazy what continued support and patches can do to good game.

@dnl_mp4

3 жыл бұрын

* cries in Age of Empires 3 DE *

@BratislavMetulski

3 жыл бұрын

meanwhile nobody talks about Tiberian Sun anymore 😂

@ryanborn7026

3 жыл бұрын

literally AoEII:C is the first game I ever played

@BratislavMetulski

3 жыл бұрын

@Al Smith naaa... its because the rts genre died a glorious death in the early 2000s. industry pushed to hard into 3d instead of good gameplay. thats why C&C died in the end. Most famous games left are AoE, SC2 and Dawn of War 1 (the only 3d title that made it). fun fact: so many people crying how generals 2 never came... and so many people who doesnt play Act of War... a game that out performed generals on every level 😅

When i saw % changes and penguin as scout i thought - "mhm, devs watch SotL" xD

@Bzhydack

3 жыл бұрын

Devs also read all forums, balance changes are the proove: Cheaper Cathaphract upgrade, or now faster training time of Genoese or boosted acc for Janisary, all of them were requested by players.

I'm not sure who to even ask, or where to ask the devs, but I have an obscure change me and my friends wish they would add - the ability to fight different levels of AI at the same time. That is, my friends and I like to team up to fight computers, but you can only select the same difficulty - it would be cool to be able to fight say, one extreme and two hard AI's but that option doesn't seem to exist. I don't know if it would be a hard fix for the devs, but it sure would seem to match other games which allow independent AI difficulty selection

@tomc.5704

3 жыл бұрын

I would definitely support this

@navataru

3 жыл бұрын

I have wanted this feature to exist since AOE 2 CD version. Because my friends and I are all on different levels and I'd love to be able to have AI matching our levels.

@Jullechiller

3 жыл бұрын

yes! yes! i missed this so many times!

@integralinsanity1641

3 жыл бұрын

Sounds Great

@Christmas-Jacket

2 жыл бұрын

They did it on AoE4, so it’s weird they don’t have it here on AoE2

the funny thing about UI changes is that it was just last week in the pylon show that starcraft2 people were pointing out how bad the sc2 menus are, and how obnoxious it is to navigate through several screens before queueing up for a game, and also that it should be more straightfoward like AOE2 menus. well, now both games are closer in that regard hahah. Nice video btw!

@cristiandanielgonzalez7362

3 жыл бұрын

Hey bro, you know where I can find the historical battles? With the new IU I can't find them.

Aww, I kinda liked the old incorrect percentages. It had become a running joke on the channel.

@dj_koen1265

3 жыл бұрын

Those little things have their own kind of charm in a way

@daydodog

3 жыл бұрын

same, i preferred them broken

@legonut78

3 жыл бұрын

How is this better? Now it says Incas build farms 100 percent faster. That makes no sense. Can someone explain this math behind this change?

@unuseranonyme

3 жыл бұрын

@@legonut78 it means 2x more faster. it is the construction speed which is increased not the construction time decreased ;)

0:15 "Let's take a look." *No intro music... "Feels sad man..."

@mrm8896

3 жыл бұрын

O

@michaelandreipalon359

3 жыл бұрын

No Supremacy villager beating down that Cobra Car too...

@Squaretable22

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking "wheres the Let's Check It Out"

I bet one million dollar that my vills will still finish walls outside the base. Obviously impossible to change that.

@ucanbalinalar

3 жыл бұрын

They just want to make sure that it also looks good from the outside

@ignaciootondo8732

3 жыл бұрын

I hate that 11

@Fitzibutzi

3 жыл бұрын

@crsdask8er You know what you could do? Just programm the question:" Is my vill building a palisade wall? Yes? Then finish the wall standing closest to the starting tc position." Shouldnt be that hard.

@phelrim7326

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fitzibutzi Nope, this won't do. Won't be correct every time and would lead to very ambiguous behaviour in some situations.

@RKBock

3 жыл бұрын

@@Fitzibutzi quick-walling during a raid would be a nightmare

Double clicking only selecting idle villagers is going to be such a life saver!

@16semiquavers

3 жыл бұрын

I hope they add an option sometime with "all villagers in the small area" or "all villagers on screen collecting a particular resource"

@Cra3ier

3 жыл бұрын

@@16semiquavers you won't want all your lumberjacks to go farming do you?

@ZYK736521

3 жыл бұрын

I still use the . command to select a single idle villager, I think is a bit more practical with practice

Finally, an "OR" condition in the triggers, I've been waiting 20 years for that... :)

@tomaszsmol3920

3 жыл бұрын

Probably was still worth to wait:)

@zonetropper

3 жыл бұрын

I dont get why cant they let us custom trigger support

>t90: casts viper's mayan-saracen combo with obsidian arrows >devs : "nerf it down!"

@gabrielblacklock3921

3 жыл бұрын

Most epic team game ever lol

@Mihawk07

3 жыл бұрын

Link for the stream please

@pranjaljoshi995

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mihawk07 kzread.info/dash/bejne/X4dhxc2yeKi1qrQ.html

@Mihawk07

3 жыл бұрын

@@pranjaljoshi995 Thanks. A sick match. Archers melting down castles and almost 2 shoot the stone walls hahaha

@gabrielblacklock3921

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mihawk07 kzread.info/dash/bejne/dImJs6yHeL2XoNI.html

Very Important: Quick Play uses Standard victory conditions, meaning there are Relic Capture and Wonder victories. I just lost my first Quick Play match because I'm so used to Conquest victory that I completely blanked when the opponent built a Wonder and didn't notice until after I lost 11.

@ikiry0830

3 жыл бұрын

That's nice. Always Conquest All The Time is something that I often get a little tired of.

@Cra3ier

3 жыл бұрын

@@ikiry0830 there's also Regicide mode, killing king is fun! Or to have your king fled in the deep sea on a transport ship. 11

@punbug4721

3 жыл бұрын

oof lol F's in chat for Devon

@ryanborn7026

3 жыл бұрын

the wonder the wonder the, oh

Thanks for talking about the UI! It feels like they tried to go for a more accessible menu for new players and ended up just cluttering up everything and making it unpractical.

Celts: Nerfed *Sad Hoang Noises*

@joaquinriosrodriguez7316

3 жыл бұрын

At least palisade walls are weaker so the men at arms isn't that bad.

@nguyenquantran3340

3 жыл бұрын

Just saw him using Spanish instead of Celts in his stream :(

@AlanDeAnda1

3 жыл бұрын

I think Hoang not gonna change at all, since celt siege still is strong.

I think the architecture option should change with the civ but allow you to change it to another if desired. They could also add a checkbox to sync architecture with civ selection.

December Patch: Penguins now get attack upgrade after Castle age Jan Update : to balance things, sheeps cows Ducks Birds can also attack. Feb update: it was unfair for wolfs to die in hand of ducks and penguins,so new patch gives weapons guns cannons to Penguins birds cows after powdery research March: game became to much animal dominated so new Game play: humanw vs animal's.

Hiding the mod manager, history, and options all in the little cog is just.... ugh.

@BlackViperMWG

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I had trouble finding the options. At least make the new menu look toggleable.

@Halvtooth

3 жыл бұрын

All they needed to do was add one button for quick play, instead the changed the whole thing.

@Ben24soccer

3 жыл бұрын

I agree

@AleksanderDrako

3 жыл бұрын

Honestly it's just a waste of space. And counter-intuitive, even Unreal Tournament 1999 menu despite being just a huge wallpaper with oldschool option bar at top to get around seems to works better then having one random menu randomly hidden in the different part of the screen Maybe also put Exit right next to the option also as a small icon just to make miss clicking more prominent? For me menu has to be simple: You have a list of actions with exit and credits at the very bottom, and space for other shits. It's not a mobile game to have a huge clickable icons. I swear in not so far past it felt standardised like WASD controls.

@mricardo96

3 жыл бұрын

I can't find my replays in this new UI, really annoying

Trade workshop has a function now! Yayyy

@MrAsaqe

3 жыл бұрын

Wait wut? Didn't notice in the video

@ruthswann88

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrAsaqe At the very beginning, in the battle royale gamemode

@MrAsaqe

3 жыл бұрын

@Emre Vural I was hoping they let players build discount feitorias as a late game gold resource where food is less important than gold

@Fikuw

3 жыл бұрын

Been waiting 20 years for that XD!

@foxseven600

3 жыл бұрын

is the multiplayer need to unlock?

Did someone already check if the 30% faster techs is actually 30% or 42% faster? 11

@Reluxthelegend

3 жыл бұрын

also is the bulgarians 80% faster or 400% faster?

@Tpoleful

3 жыл бұрын

Dude, someone found out the Sultans tech from Indians actually speed up relic gold by 17% instead of 10%. Aoe2 Researchers be crazy.

@Fixnown

3 жыл бұрын

@@Tpoleful they fixed that

They really need to go back to the drawing board with the UI. It's a clear downgrade. But I'm super happy the Italians have had a buff!

@TheLazyBubbles

3 жыл бұрын

You have to click more to get anywhere. I really do not like it.

Having architecture as an option in the scenario editor allows for more creative options. It's a good thing.

The penguin being added is the most importand change and definitely the most needed.

Finally! Portuguese are getting more love. Ever since they were added back in AOE2 HD, I always loved playing them. Their cheaper units and long list of techs, plus accurate gun powder units made them one of my favorites even with certain down sides. This 30 percent research speed feels like a much needed bonus for a civ that takes awhile to catch to everyone else including the early game civs that could steam roll you.

@SIGNOR-G

3 жыл бұрын

Now imagine their bonus combined with bulgarians and malians team bonuses...

Fantastic overview, but I can't help but notice the perfect timing at 5:57, looks like the Siege Ram is being crushed by the falling Barracks

@danfelbm

3 жыл бұрын

I noticed the same thing!

When I saw the fixed percentages, I shed a tear for all the preaking SOTL has been doing over the years. :D

Thanks for taking the time to put this together!!

Spirit was refreshing the AoE site all night long to get first to the changelog! Man, you are so fast with these videos, since DE came.

@leonardo_pandaboff

3 жыл бұрын

I think it was all day long, because spirit lives in Australia if I'm not mistaking.

@camellivesmatter

3 жыл бұрын

@@leonardo_pandaboff He's Canadian. I don't know if he actually lives in Canada though.

@KaoticPhoenix

3 жыл бұрын

He's commented on Vancouver before but not sure if it's because that's where he lives

Love your videos man, I'm always referring them to my noob mates, love the simplicity and detail you put in!

FINALLY Civs are ordered alphabetically from left to right first, then top to bottom, instead of the other way around.

Completely agree with the UI complaints.

@azilbersher

3 жыл бұрын

If they could just double the speed of the menu transitions it would go a long way.

@Cra3ier

3 жыл бұрын

@@azilbersher yes just make it faster, my old pc lags and it's taking longer seeing the new UI

SotL diligently explaining the new concept of what a Battle Royale is, is the most precious thing I thought I'd experience today.

I love the fact this channel is not dead

You had me until 13:33 when you said “work in progress” 😂

Thank you for the concise overview!

I went from never even considering playing Tartars to playing them all day yesterday. The two extra sheep makes Feudal age so much smoother and allows you to bank up more wood before you inevitably build all your farms.

Thanks for the great summary SotL!

Excellent breakdown of this update!

Thanks for the run down SOTL! Would love a video about the best value elite upgrade for unique units sometime if you would be interested.

Actually I think the architecture thing might be for allowing fictional civ stuff. For instance, if you wanted a civ to have the bonus and unique unit from the Britons, but wanted them to have Japanese structures. As someone with a conworld I feel like I might tool around with making a scenario set inside of it, given I have a map that I could easily turn into a (perhaps unbalanced) map.

Long Live Age II. I was 9 when it came out. I'm now 30 and it's going stronger than ever.

Shift queueing every individual section of wall is my favourite small thing in this update. I can't overstate how annoying it was to try and build multiple segments with shift before this update

@qwerty222999

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't you just tell the villager to build the nearest wall, and then let them have at it at the rest on their own? Are you a masochist?

@ImSquiggs

3 жыл бұрын

@@qwerty222999 Unfortunately that would not always work! They would get lost sometimes in the middle, building sections they had to run around the wall to complete or locking themselves in dumb areas between houses or trees. And most annoyingly of all -- you couldn't tell them to return to work afterwards! So sometimes I would actually click on every single section of wall if I had the downtime, just to make sure I didn't lose track of that little guy after he was done.

@qwerty222999

3 жыл бұрын

@@ImSquiggs Villager becomes idle, and you return them to work. I don't have any fix for villagers getting stuck, only that it may just also happen with manual shift queuing, who knows.

@ImSquiggs

3 жыл бұрын

@@qwerty222999 Well either way I don't have to worry about any of it anymore, because they fixed it! Woop!

Really helpful overview, thanks SOTL :D

THANK YOU FOR MENTIONING THE MAIN MENU The new civ selection is pretty much the only thing thats an upgrade. The main menu is just a curse from god.

YES, THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THE UI the main menu looks liks some free to play game

Thank you for your work!

I actually love the manual architecture selection - as I love to play Britons on homemade maps, but love the teutonic/viking etc. architecture more than what the Britons are usually showed with! :)

The editor stuff is my favorite. I needed it because I'm awful at it but I love it.

I saw the patch, but didn't realize it was that big. That makes this and War Thunder to both have major updates.

@fakepivot

3 жыл бұрын

i installed it and checked it out and then proceed to uninstalled it.. fancy cloud could not make that game any less suffering than before for me.. shame.

@fenny1578

3 жыл бұрын

Big DCS patch this week with the F-14A too, lol

@fakepivot

3 жыл бұрын

@@fenny1578 need to get into DCS.. but scared of technicality

@fenny1578

3 жыл бұрын

@@fakepivot Take the plunge my man, it's not so bad once you get started. There's tons of good videos, pdfs, and communities to help. Honestly AOE spooks me way more than anything in DCS lmao

@MicroageHD

3 жыл бұрын

War Thunder is the shadow of it's former self.

I'm still waiting for Top 5 Naval Civs video from you, SotL

That kind of UI change like they did with the main menu seems popular with developers these days ... but I think I agree on both what you found good (the Civ selection) and bad (most of the other stuff, especially the animations imo) in it.

I think you undersell how good that Tartar bonus is on the additional town centers. Extra TCs means you have to put down more farms to support vil production, but the extra sheep will help delay that just a bit. I would love to see an analysis on exactly how much it helps.

Spirit of the law is telling Microsoft what numbers to change, LEGEND!

I just want a way to revert to the original AOE2 Menu

@morgs5118

3 жыл бұрын

And the old victory music

@Cra3ier

3 жыл бұрын

Please for god's sake, my father asked me yesterday, where are my shields?

Thanks Spirit I didn't even realize they added all those Civilization balance changes. Also I agree I was kinda appalled at the main menu when I first opened it and how they made some things way harder, and harder to find. But you highlighted all the good changes they made as well. Devs better watch this and takes notes 11

GOD IS GOOD. They Added so much nice stuff. FRICK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !

Thank you so much! 😃👍

The tatars sheep bonus is quite nice for a FC two TC drop. Dropping two new TCs saves you the cost (and build time) of 2.4 farms with horse-collar (before rot) and allows you to go straight to food instead of having to wait for wood to seed farms. So I certainly wouldn't say that only the first TC's sheep are very useful

That new civ list is glorious. Give me a few more years and I may actually learn all the civ icons now.

thanks for the content!

08:34 Cannon Galleon: Hii 08:35 Cannon Galleon: Byee

Gosh i havent played this game in years, might have to play it again

Saw Hera's and Viper's overview first, however, they both missed the most important upgrade which of course SOTL mentions - namely penguin scout. That's why we love SOTL :)

Spirit Of The Law uploads a video in my birthday? nice B)

Picked up DE a week ago, super new to this game. As a new player I agree with what you said about the UI. Making a player click multiple times to get to the game they want is always a negative, no matter how "streamlined" you make it. I didn't even realise the strange options/news placement, but I also agree that is a strange decision and should be swapped. That being said the new civ menu is awesome to help me work out what each civ does, and I'm looking forward to trying the quick play! Thanks for your vids, helped me out a heap getting started with aoe2!

I do wonder what this change means for battle elephants, thought you might cover it.. "Increased the collision size multiplier for Elephant units to match that of other cavalry and ranged units."

@derikaem8021

3 жыл бұрын

Me2

Tatar sheep spawning is SO nice in feudal. It's too much for me to micro in castle age (1k elo), but not needing farms right away really helped me with walling and getting my blacksmith and stables up smoothly.

Totally agree on UI changes and extra clicks, no idea why they would change anything there!

Great video man

5:56 Poor Ram, the building collapsed on it :(

I already read the patch notes, and I am here just because wanted to listen to SOTL talk about them.

Don't know if I missed that you mentioned it, but one of the major improvements here for me was that you can cancel the production of units (and techs) in the global queue. I tend to queue up a lot of vills and this makes it a lot easier to cancel some to get upgrades for example, or cancel misclicked militia etc.

As a Portuguese player, I approve of this patch.

@nagyonbalogh

3 жыл бұрын

I hear you brother. I like to chabge civs often but Portugal will always remain my number one :) Nothing beats shooting the crap out of everybody after arquebus :)

Dude! I love it!! Now I can easily select a civ to play on! Can u do triggers lessons pls?

I hadn't noticed units moving backwards till I had a monk moonwalk across my screen. I just sat there in awe for 30 seconds.

Great vid, cheers

Yes! Finally I am able to see at a glance what the civilization does when selecting it. Lot's of good changes and indeed some that make less sense but I should pick it up again and give it a go!

I take back my comment about SotL not having to do Patch video's. This is very good content.

I hope next patch they add a setting to reveal hidden bonuses in all help/tips text! :D

I’m a huge fan of the update and love nearly all the changes

I’m so happy for the quick play mode 😁

No update for the Spanish because everyone knows they are PERFECTION. They are the martini of civs. Perfect for any occasion. _please play spanish responsibly_

@antonioescamilla5553

3 жыл бұрын

Insert the Spanish Guitar song

@tomassmith2088

3 жыл бұрын

I don't always fc into UU, but when I do, I prefer the Spanish

@teutonichealingfortress

3 жыл бұрын

They buffed spanish canon gals by allowing the tech for faster firing rate effect it Alucard: Haven't you heard the new sensation sweeping the nation? B*****s Love Canons~

@tomassmith2088

3 жыл бұрын

@@teutonichealingfortress cannon gallons in 9x civ bonus will be nuts

@michaelandreipalon359

3 жыл бұрын

@@teutonichealingfortress Ah, a fellow Hellsing Ultimate Abridged fan. How do you do, sir/madam?

Spirit of the Law, best guy ever!

11:11 "ctrl-z" to cancel the last made unit command could maybe be useful.

@Mathemarius

3 жыл бұрын

So you can use that to hide a castle? Build it, delete it, wait for your enemy to come, press ctrl+z 😆

@IgnacioRamoss

3 жыл бұрын

now you can! ctrl+click on the unit in the top left queue cancels it

@levih.2158

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mathemarius I haven't really thought it through, but I don't think that would be a problem. Deleting a castle isn't a unit command. I mean commands like move, build, garrison, etc. So for example if you make a 'build' command and press ctrl-z right after, the worker goes back to whatever they were doing before the command and the foundation maybe just stays or maybe gets deleted as if you deleted it.

@levih.2158

3 жыл бұрын

@@IgnacioRamoss 'creat unit' isn't a unit command as I meant it. I mean commands like move, build, garrison, etc.

I know I'm just being a grumpy old man, but I hate the prominence of the news on the main menu screen. You come to that screen to play a game, not to read the news. If you want AoE news, follow their twitter!

@jimtim1144

3 жыл бұрын

Personally I do not mind the news thing I just mind that it took the place of the civ's history. Which I see the history as one of the most cool things and should have been kept on the main menu not thrown off to the side like it is some sort of trash thing noone cares about. :(

I’m kinda excited with the architecture select part.

holy shit. will age of empires 2 actually have the modern use of SHIFT implemented in its entirety? i can't wait.

@TheTattorack

3 жыл бұрын

Shift? What is that? Never heard of it.

The walls... so many years..

Great video

My only gripe is that I miss the shields for single and multiplayer... I loved that design and reminds me of old Age of Conquerors.

I really like the ability to keep architecture the same even when switching faction, it allows you to keep a consistent architecture even when using a variety of factions, unless I’m missing something

if it continues like this for the koreans then when i play my old conquerors disc, I will get very confused

That monk update is huge

i love this, i recently bought the game and now i can try multiplayer much easyer

Massive update :) Some really good stuff. Curious to try the Tatars with that bonus, and yeah tricky to navigate the menus at first, but very quickly you get it and appreciate the updates. Another update appears to have improved the connection quality. Before, it would disconnect if the internet dropped for a very slight moment. And wouldn't reconnect. It was so, so sensitive. In some countries, this is a major problem. I think about 10%+ of my games are disconnections cos my internet is fast enough (25mbps) but maybe not 100% stable enough. Most games are fine, I've never had this problem in anywhere near this amount with any other game. AOE2 was by far the worst. If this continues to work, it's a massive, massive thing to make it properly playable for me and many of us with slight internet issues, needing to use VPNs, etc. etc. Played a few games already, no disconnections. Nice one devs! And that penguin is amazing :p

Good imporovement on the basic King of the Hill style competition, CTF style is the best.

Ive been using the original aoe 2 for a while now but i will get de next time i go the shop. It looks so cool.

Last time I was this early, the conquerors expansion was the newest.

Portuguese are probably going to be OP in the x256 mod now with that across-the-board boost in tech research time