doing the challenges helps alot aswell. I've been really shit at this game only a while ago and by training fast castle build order etc I took off. (still not really good since I haven't been playing too much lately but by training basic build orders to boost your start a little and learn about some important mechanics you can improve your skill level a lot within days)
The new DE game have tutorials on how to make some micro elements of the game. How to build more villager or how to start fast in the dark age, how to rush and deffend. if start to use more ctrl, to watch the minimap and explore more in the beginig you will become stronger playes. I recomend you to play only on one map so you would know what to expect from the beginning!
It doesn't matter. We have been playing for the fun of it and learning history in the process. In my 22 years of gameplay, I have not once played online. Just Campaigns and various game modes against AI. That's just for fun and also gives me the luxury to save and load whenever I need to take a break.
1/ Keep making villagers 2/ Scout your map 3/ Take your boar 4/ Learn to play dark age efficiently 5/ Basic hotkeys 6/ Command queuing 7/ Dont trade too soon
A few that helped me up my game A LOT (still a beginner!): - Just queue new villagers to wood. At first, when told to never stop training villagers, it can get a bit overwhelming what to do with all of them. Just put them on wood, stop thinking too much about it, train more, and focus on other things. Need more food? Just grab a lot of them out of the woodline and put them on farms. Instant dozen villagers on food without needing to wait. - Create A LOT of military buildings. I used to just have 1 barracks, 1 archery range, 1 stable. I could never make enough military to defend myself when raided. Wood is easy to get, and you usually float thousands anyway. Instead of making 1 barracks, make 8. You'll be able to make an army instantly. - From feudal onwards, have a few defensive units protecting your villagers. I used to group all my army in a single place when creating them. This meant every time I was atacked they had to run all across the base to defend. By the time they got there the damage was done. By having small groups of Archers/Skirmishers/Spearmen near villagers, I can now stall the raid until reinforcements get there. - Once you have enough villagers (50-60%) of you max population, attack your enemies and NEVER stop making military units. Later in the game, used to just sit on my army and have them idle. Whenever I went to attack, they got killed and that was the end of it. So I had to train a whole new army back home before attacking again. This just gives your opponent a chance to recover. Instead, continously make new units, and set the gather points at the enemy base. You have a lot of resources by this point, so the units that get killed are instantly replaced by new units. (Excercise good unit selection too, of course!)
Damn I remember when I was a kid and playing AoE2(original) was so hard, I could'nt even finish any campaign besides William Wallace. So when Age of Mythology released, I loved the game, cause it was way more easy than AoE2. But now after a good amount of years, I finally understand why so many players got stuck with AoE2, this game was made in a time when games were not supposed to be easy or for everyone, it was supposed to be unique.
ya should've played the ps2 version of aoe2. that version was even harder than the pc variant ^^. in the french missions e.g. the enemy priests were able to convert jean d'arc. she also couldn't slowly heal herself. in the last mission you had weaker soldiers than in the pc version (simple bowmen instead of crossbowmen) and so on and so on.
I really wouldn't consider AoM to be an easier game. The only "simplification" it did is that town centers can only be placed to dedicated spots, otherwise it's still very much the same game mechanically. AoE2 just has more content and better aged visuals.
@@noodleknight7924 In my experience, it is easier, at least the campaign, like I said, I could'nt even finish any campaign besides William Wallace in AoE2, but I finished the whole AoM when I was young. Some mechanically that make AoM easier: infinite farms, no dodging arrows, counter units are not so OP and siege units are not so great when we have mythological units. Cause I was stupid and I liked to create just one type of unit, for example, an army of Myrmidons. And I was not so coordenate, so I found myself frustrated a lot of times when in AoE2 my whole army died against a mangonel and sometimes by my own mangonel 😢
Forgot the most important one. You don't have to upgrade everything. While upgrades are important, upgrading to like champions when you focus on paladins are a waste of resources. Surprisingly many who think winning the tech stats are the best.
@@Pyke64 armor and damage works like this: you've got 7 attack and hit someone with 3 armor -> he'll take 4 damage (if he has more armor than you've got attack damage then you'll deal 1 damage no matter how much higher his armor is than your attack) Now let's say he's got 60 health and takes 4 damage with each hit -> he'll die after 15 hits. Now if he's done one armor upgrade and got only one single armor more he'll take only 3 damage per hit instead of 4 which means he'll survive 5 more hits. Upgrading attack works the other way around obviously ;) Upgrading armor and damage is one of the most important things you should do to increase your units power a shitton next to the unit upgrades themselves.
@@Pyke64 the rule of thumb is, you have to have a lot of x unit type before the upgrades are worth more than just buying more of that unit. actual units are always more important than upgrades
8. Don't be shy about making lots of extra production buildings! I can't tell you how long I spent playing AoE with exactly one of each kind of building, or maybe two or three if I was really trying to ramp up production. If you're sitting on thousands and thousands of wood and you're trying to produce units out of a single building, it's often worth it to make like ten of that building so you can mass up your units a lot faster. 9. Keep an eye on how many resources you have. Resources in the bank are resources that you're not reinvesting into your empire, so unless you're saving for something it's usually hurting you if you're floating massive amounts of resources. Keeping an eye on your resource totals will also give you an early warning if your economy is unbalanced and you might want to shift villagers to a different resource, sell some resources at the market, etc. It took me way too long to figure this out!
Cannot stress hotkeys enough. Most helpful would be: 1) TC + create vil hotkeys 2) Assign a scout to a group via ctrl+ and selecting it with 3) Build house, lumber camp, mining camp 4) Select military buildings 5) (Extra) select mill, blacksmith, market, monastary, university
I think you should also notice that there are 5 small challenges for increasing your skills in advancing to Feudal Age, Early Rush, Crisis Managment under attack, Fast advancing to Castle Age and so on.
Look bro i’m kinda starting to learn the game again cuz I haven’t played in like 6 years and i wanted to learn again so i watched some of your tutorials you made a year ago and I absolutely loved them but unfortunately you haven’t completed them so can you do every new player in the world a favour and finish the tutorial because they are seriously the best tutorials i’ve seen on youtube
The game has an Art of War section where you play scenarios designed to improve your proficiency in basic aspects of the game. You should check that out if you haven't found it already.
I'm a bit skeptical about these tips. I've never ever taken the boar and can take up to moderate A.I. (Havent done Deffinitive edition moderate yet) Usualy have about 25/30% of the populations as villagers instead of his recommended 60% I'm a bit slow in building and economy BUT i am always able to dominate 5 to 7 standard A.I. against me. So in the end. Are they usefull? Yes. Nescesary? Not really
@@cherrydragon3120 Trust in Zacc, try playing like this against an extreme AI and see how it goes for you. I'd also recommend his video on why the boar is SO important, I think you may feel the need to sit down.
@@cherrydragon3120 the tips are a bit more skewed towards playing against other players, even though he does mention on the Race Selection tip that it doesnt really matter for that.
Here's a small tip for new players. Playing as Britons is really easy to start with... sure there are other civs that are beginner friendly too, but damn do I recommend Britons. Back in the day I used to play AoE2 with my brother and mom. She hardly knew anything BUT Britons and may I add she always wrecked me or my older brother whenever we went for a attack... Not knowing what units/upgrades to go when against those pesky Longbowmen could make your day really shitty. And yes even though my mom used to hate playing against each other, she non than less always won having literally the basic knowledge of the game. Experienced players must be shaking their heads right now, but try to go back when you started playing and had no idea about some mechanics. Now imagine Longbowmen behind a wall... I hope you see the beginner's struggle right there :^)
if you are going against someone who is playing britons, make rams which will soak up all the arrow fire and kill the archers with skirms or cavalry. onager and siege onager can one shot those archers too, but they do outrange them, so be careful.
I think on Black forest British are the easy one. On open maps maybe the Hunsa and on all other maps are the Franks. I don't think the new player should try water maps so much but i don't know to have easy water civ.
@@k0pera When you talk about it, I used to play tons of water maps with my brother or mom, or with friends since none of us were playing it competetively. My mom especially loved to make defences alongside the coasts that even germans from ww2 would be jealous. I guess nowdays most of people play competetively whatever they get their hands on... when I think about it... tons of people don't know how to NOT play competetively. Even game like Oldschool Runescape is nowdays only about being the most efficient, having the right gear for right situation and always do something instead of freely exploring the game. Same goes with AoE or even Age of Mythology. When I decided to play some games via Gameranger every single game there was this one guy that talked shit, went the easiest and strongest race/god, always tried rushing the unexperienced players and when I for fun searched "Age of Mythology what is the most op god" the first thing that I found was a forum where a comment from 2004 said it the best "what's the point of bringing up the talk about OPness?" only confirming my feeling of people not playing casualy anymore. What's the point I'm trying to make? Well... there is none, just remembering when people I knew including me used to have fun whilst playing games like AoE or Runescape.
Thanks, Zero! I haven't played for 15 years but have been watching a lot of games for the last couple of years. I came back for DE and am having a blast, even though it's super hard...
Friend just bought me this game on steam. He preached to me that I have to play it. Keep in mind I don’t like over the head games especially when you have to build. So on here to see what tips I should know before playing. Thanks for making the video
I use shift click with my scout to que up movement, spreading slowing out from my base in a circular or spiral pattern. It means I don't have to pay to much attention to it and frees up my time.
I've played AOE since I was a kid, but goddamn, I am too slow at gathering resources to keep up in multiplayer, especially since I've gotten back into it. That 60% number will really help. I always worry I'm wasting food on villagers and end up not getting enough. And I never knew about the command queue feature. Cheers, man.
I have been playing AoE (since 1997) and man! the UI, micro management and general upgrades has made the game more playable. I still remember the days in AoE 1 (before Patch 1.0c) where I will be clueless where my villagers went missing, only to find them idle hiding behind a forest! This is by far the best franchise I have ever played!
I dont know why i feel like it is extremely difficult for me transitioning to this game from age of mythology. The basics of the games are similar but it has this different momentum that keeps me from improving in this game.
Thanks so much ZeroEmpires for all your effort and passion you put into this. Love your videos and startet learning from you when I got back into the HD version. Really hyped for DE as you, T90 and some others really boost this community to its limits and beyond.
Holyy I am so happy I bought the new version after 15+ years since I last played. The improved user-experience alone makes a great game even better. My playing style - set a bunch of enemies to easy on the same team vs me and defend with thousands of walls. Sometimes need to use a few cheats here or there to maintain this lavish lifestyle.
Pro tip: make sure you can defend your camp. Although villagers and resources are important, a few military units or towers can save the day if someone comes knocking early
Tips some people apparently learned: •Don't build villagers after dark age. •Pigs are scary and much stronger than wolves. Avoid at all costs. •Fast feudal into defensive militia is an excellent strategy. Make sure to build like 8 of them and get supplies afterwards. People who go up with over 15 villagers are doing it wrong. •Build houses when you reach the pop cap. When you do, stop what you're doing and send like 10 villagers to build about 60 of them. Don't wall with houses though. You need nice efficient street layouts for a walkable city. •Castles are important. Build like 6 of them in your town by buying stone from the market. They should have overlapping fields of fire but not enough to hit units attacking the other castle. In melee. Wouldn't want to friendly fire on the defenders. •Spears and skirms are top tier raiding units. •you need like 30 villagers to make a castle in your base. Don't risk it though if the castle is on the other side of the map. Castle drops need like, 1 or 2 villagers max. •Dark age villagers are only 50 food. Some of them may die but that's a sacrifice you're willing to make. •Walls are an alternative to building an army. Slap down a full palisade on Arabia and nobody will be able to bother you. •Docks are for maps like islands or migration. You don't need to dock if your opponent is on the same landmass. Fishing ships are 50% more resources than a villager for a strictly worse economic unit. •Techs are really useful. You should get every tech as soon as you have the resources. Don't read what they do. There are too many for that.
Thanks this is very helpfull, im definetly not new to the game but i havnt played AoE2 for a very long time, i used to play AoE3 a lot but that also was long time ago now with DE beeing released im very happy i can go back to this game which remindes me of my chilhood so many great moments in this game im lovin it:D
I played the game for 20 years now. #6 however is a really useful trick even I didn't really think of. It only works since DE though, so it's quite new. Everything else is really well explained and 100% correct :)
Thanks for making this excellent tips video! Really helpful ones I hadn't considered before with when to purchase trade carts and I didn't even know you could queue building construction then put villagers back to work. I managed to loose a match today after an AI alllied player captured all of the relics then the human person I was playing destroyed their village and sneaked all of the relics back to their base and waited until late in the game to place them all in their monastry which was surrounded by castles!
Also, don't wait until you have a large army. While you are gearing up, you opponent is aswell. Delaying your attack only gives your opponent a chance to be the one attacking, rather than being attacked.
i used malay, versus goth extreme AI... i kept up with the extreme AI, i even got more military than the AI in the mid game. When i thought i was gonna win... the AI changed its army compositions and attacked me from the other choke point which i had no army to defend. I can win against 2 HD AI, but the new Extreme AI really plays like a human. Simply Elephant and Trash Unit spam of Malay cannot defeat it……
Cheers on the tips! Not played Age of Empires 2 since a year or 2 after it came out. Loved it, but not tried any of the more recent AOE2 releases. Stoked to give this one a trt.
Need more vills? The default town center hotkey is 'H' and the default create villager hotkey is 'a'. Just type 'hahahahahaha' and you're queueing up six new villagers ('haaaaaa' works as well, but for a single town center).
I never had the chance to play the original aoe games when i was younger, the closest I ever got was the star wars galactic battlegrounds game which I played the hell out as a kid so I'm pretty excited to finally give this game and the first game as well a go.
Just got this today! I always played 3 but i am really liking this. U cant just smash any unit into a base and destroy building and all in a sec like in aoe3 since all units can siege i see now why people say that was a mistake. Seem u need alot more micro in this one replanting farms and all
Thank you very much very useful to know been playing this game for about a decade now and just jumping into the new version and am trying to get more serious the video really helped escpecially as I ddn't yet know you could command cue or hotkey or even that trading was a good idea
i played age of empires 2 as a kid, and have around 700 hours rn on the 2013 edition ( and a little on voobly) and I seriously never knew the command queue as its shown here.. I only her used it to have my scout move to different spots. damn.
The new queue system is Definitive Edition exclusive. In any other version, you could only queue where your units moved (i.e. early scout around the TC) and nothing else. So no worries, you weren't missing out!
60% should be villagers ? Wow, i play AoE since the vanilla release, but i never noticed this... in every game (only Singleplayer) i only got 20-30 of them. Now i realise how bad i am in this Game, thank you :(
I've done the same thing! I was flabbergasted when the "art of war" tutorial made me created over one hundred villagers. I was really not expecting that
3. Scout your map: there is a unique button for your first explorer to do this automatically. You may also want to use 6. Command Queuing for this. 4. Don't feel overwhelmed: be the goat in the middle of the battle. And forget about William Wallace a go for The Art of War.
As a old skool player, sheep are enough and boars etc. Don't do them unless it is necessary. Farming is the way to go, upgrade mills and have multiple lumber mills and quarry so you can upgrade 2 things at a time. Multi everything 🤣🤫
Not gonna lie. In 2000 when i first got Aok and was playing on Zone.com in the Custom Scenario Rooms there was no UA-cam and no strat videos. All that existed then were websites and forums, 56k and cable modems. Cant believe there are so many ppl still playing this game, myself included. Never played a game quite like aoe
this 60 percent pop being vill is a new thing, i never needed that many in the past, 9 for each resource, and then once all gold and stone are gone, kill them off, you have enough to finish the game by then
The game looks good. It reminds me of age of mythology now which I think is a very good thing. Since aom died and aoe3 isn't my thing this might just be what i'm looking for. Helpful vid.
Anyone who played as a kid, on release, 10 years ago, or even yesterday should buy this game. It's unbelievably good. It's an upgrade in every way. Guaranteed dozens and dozens more hours with AoE2 yet again in my life 😂
I pre bought it. But my old laptop died! I need a newer and better computer to play it anyways. Black friday is on the way! Sucks because I have to wait even longer now. :(
Its been forever since i've played but while I would say I am great at economy (generally I get the best economy score at-least in my team, or even in the game if I don't get destroyed to early) I suck at military. Of-course this is generally because I don't build enough military units. I for some reason build a small amount of military buildings instead o the absolute mass of buildings I see some people build and as a result I always get over whelmed. Even though I know this I still for some reason just can't build more then a handful of military.
This isnt a tips and tricks for new players, this is a tips and tricks foe bad players. Real beginners need to know the real basics like where to place lumbercamps and farms
Coming from StarCraft, the only thing that bothers me is how to make production working. But I guess it's just the matter of remapping "select all X" buildings to easily accessible hotkeys...
Hey guys!! I recently got the game because of the quarantine , this was a very wise decision :) I used to play this game more than 10 years ago, but I played it against the computer not real people. I am scared but also I feel that I would learn a lot if I play with real people. Do you have any suggestions? Tips? Advices? Of what is to come once you start playing against real people? Is there like a level separation that would keep me safe and won’t be killed that soon? As you can see I am a scary cat :( please help!
It's kind of refreshing how many people say they suck at this game. It makes me feel average. I have a lot of trouble with transitioning my food resources. I eat up all the meat then I suddenly need farms and I find out that I haven't been making food for a while when I run out. And if I remember to do that, I don't have any wood. If I have lots of both, I have no gold. If I have lots of everything, I don't have an army and I'm getting attacked. If I have an army, it's been an hour and I haven't attacked anything.
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Learning all I can so I am able to surprise my husband with a match. It will be my first game. He has been playing since high school.
thats so sweet
Wifey of the year award
Please let us know how it goes!
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Best wife fr 😂😂😂
I mean I'm not exactly new, I've been playing for like 17 years but i still suck so i bet this is gonna be useful
doing the challenges helps alot aswell. I've been really shit at this game only a while ago and by training fast castle build order etc I took off. (still not really good since I haven't been playing too much lately but by training basic build orders to boost your start a little and learn about some important mechanics you can improve your skill level a lot within days)
The new DE game have tutorials on how to make some micro elements of the game. How to build more villager or how to start fast in the dark age, how to rush and deffend. if start to use more ctrl, to watch the minimap and explore more in the beginig you will become stronger playes. I recomend you to play only on one map so you would know what to expect from the beginning!
same bro, i suck on online matches. vs Extreme Ai i do ok.
Same lol, I first got this game almost 20 years ago!
It doesn't matter. We have been playing for the fun of it and learning history in the process. In my 22 years of gameplay, I have not once played online. Just Campaigns and various game modes against AI. That's just for fun and also gives me the luxury to save and load whenever I need to take a break.
1/ Keep making villagers
2/ Scout your map
3/ Take your boar
4/ Learn to play dark age efficiently
5/ Basic hotkeys
6/ Command queuing
7/ Dont trade too soon
How do you play the dark age correctly?
@@thisguy1413By following build orders. Just google "AOE2 build orders" and find the one that best suits your gameplay.
A few that helped me up my game A LOT (still a beginner!):
- Just queue new villagers to wood. At first, when told to never stop training villagers, it can get a bit overwhelming what to do with all of them. Just put them on wood, stop thinking too much about it, train more, and focus on other things. Need more food? Just grab a lot of them out of the woodline and put them on farms. Instant dozen villagers on food without needing to wait.
- Create A LOT of military buildings. I used to just have 1 barracks, 1 archery range, 1 stable. I could never make enough military to defend myself when raided. Wood is easy to get, and you usually float thousands anyway. Instead of making 1 barracks, make 8. You'll be able to make an army instantly.
- From feudal onwards, have a few defensive units protecting your villagers. I used to group all my army in a single place when creating them. This meant every time I was atacked they had to run all across the base to defend. By the time they got there the damage was done. By having small groups of Archers/Skirmishers/Spearmen near villagers, I can now stall the raid until reinforcements get there.
- Once you have enough villagers (50-60%) of you max population, attack your enemies and NEVER stop making military units. Later in the game, used to just sit on my army and have them idle. Whenever I went to attack, they got killed and that was the end of it. So I had to train a whole new army back home before attacking again. This just gives your opponent a chance to recover. Instead, continously make new units, and set the gather points at the enemy base. You have a lot of resources by this point, so the units that get killed are instantly replaced by new units. (Excercise good unit selection too, of course!)
keep military away from villagers, though as if you don't you will bring your villagers into battle when you need to select those soldiers xD
@@liberator48 not when you select the whole group and shift click ;)
Damn I remember when I was a kid and playing AoE2(original) was so hard, I could'nt even finish any campaign besides William Wallace. So when Age of Mythology released, I loved the game, cause it was way more easy than AoE2. But now after a good amount of years, I finally understand why so many players got stuck with AoE2, this game was made in a time when games were not supposed to be easy or for everyone, it was supposed to be unique.
ya should've played the ps2 version of aoe2. that version was even harder than the pc variant ^^. in the french missions e.g. the enemy priests were able to convert jean d'arc. she also couldn't slowly heal herself. in the last mission you had weaker soldiers than in the pc version (simple bowmen instead of crossbowmen) and so on and so on.
couldn´t finish the cleansing of the loire when I was a child lol
@@Daxter250 I actually had no idea there was a ps2 version.
I really wouldn't consider AoM to be an easier game. The only "simplification" it did is that town centers can only be placed to dedicated spots, otherwise it's still very much the same game mechanically. AoE2 just has more content and better aged visuals.
@@noodleknight7924 In my experience, it is easier, at least the campaign, like I said, I could'nt even finish any campaign besides William Wallace in AoE2, but I finished the whole AoM when I was young. Some mechanically that make AoM easier: infinite farms, no dodging arrows, counter units are not so OP and siege units are not so great when we have mythological units. Cause I was stupid and I liked to create just one type of unit, for example, an army of Myrmidons. And I was not so coordenate, so I found myself frustrated a lot of times when in AoE2 my whole army died against a mangonel and sometimes by my own mangonel 😢
My playing style is set the difficulty to easy and play one game for 4+ hours lmao...
haha thats me aswel lmao
Wait! I am not the only one? lol. I still enjoy playing a lot.
And after I win I'm like "I did very well"
@@SHXRKIEgg HAHA
And bully the AI as much as possible and finally kill them with a huge army... so fun
Forgot the most important one. You don't have to upgrade everything. While upgrades are important, upgrading to like champions when you focus on paladins are a waste of resources. Surprisingly many who think winning the tech stats are the best.
Also making economy and blacksmith upgrades is really important. As a mega noob I never did those.
I usually tend to skip armory upgrades :/
Is that dumb of me?
@@Pyke64 armor and damage works like this: you've got 7 attack and hit someone with 3 armor -> he'll take 4 damage (if he has more armor than you've got attack damage then you'll deal 1 damage no matter how much higher his armor is than your attack)
Now let's say he's got 60 health and takes 4 damage with each hit -> he'll die after 15 hits.
Now if he's done one armor upgrade and got only one single armor more he'll take only 3 damage per hit instead of 4 which means he'll survive 5 more hits.
Upgrading attack works the other way around obviously ;)
Upgrading armor and damage is one of the most important things you should do to increase your units power a shitton next to the unit upgrades themselves.
@@Pyke64 the rule of thumb is, you have to have a lot of x unit type before the upgrades are worth more than just buying more of that unit. actual units are always more important than upgrades
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This is nice to see done for new players. I see a lot of players at my ELO committing errors on point 7 though as well 11.
It's actually a really common "mistake", though I think as long as you're having fun then you're playing the game right no matter what
8. Don't be shy about making lots of extra production buildings! I can't tell you how long I spent playing AoE with exactly one of each kind of building, or maybe two or three if I was really trying to ramp up production. If you're sitting on thousands and thousands of wood and you're trying to produce units out of a single building, it's often worth it to make like ten of that building so you can mass up your units a lot faster.
9. Keep an eye on how many resources you have. Resources in the bank are resources that you're not reinvesting into your empire, so unless you're saving for something it's usually hurting you if you're floating massive amounts of resources. Keeping an eye on your resource totals will also give you an early warning if your economy is unbalanced and you might want to shift villagers to a different resource, sell some resources at the market, etc. It took me way too long to figure this out!
@notstarboard That's really helpful - thanks a lot!
@@david_oliveira71 Sure thing :)
Don't build building too close to the Towncenter or Mill will be also good advice for a new player.
Cannot stress hotkeys enough. Most helpful would be:
1) TC + create vil hotkeys
2) Assign a scout to a group via ctrl+ and selecting it with
3) Build house, lumber camp, mining camp
4) Select military buildings
5) (Extra) select mill, blacksmith, market, monastary, university
I,perssonally,grew up with AoE2.It was the first game I ever played.
Dude that traffic jam at 5:00 is giving me anxiety
I think you should also notice that there are 5 small challenges for increasing your skills in advancing to Feudal Age, Early Rush, Crisis Managment under attack, Fast advancing to Castle Age and so on.
the videos for the challenge missions are absolutely brilliant, I'm loving this game so far
Look bro i’m kinda starting to learn the game again cuz I haven’t played in like 6 years and i wanted to learn again so i watched some of your tutorials you made a year ago and I absolutely loved them but unfortunately you haven’t completed them so can you do every new player in the world a favour and finish the tutorial because they are seriously the best tutorials i’ve seen on youtube
The game has an Art of War section where you play scenarios designed to improve your proficiency in basic aspects of the game. You should check that out if you haven't found it already.
I'm a bit skeptical about these tips.
I've never ever taken the boar and can take up to moderate A.I.
(Havent done Deffinitive edition moderate yet)
Usualy have about 25/30% of the populations as villagers instead of his recommended 60%
I'm a bit slow in building and economy BUT i am always able to dominate 5 to 7 standard A.I. against me. So in the end. Are they usefull? Yes.
Nescesary? Not really
@@cherrydragon3120 Trust in Zacc, try playing like this against an extreme AI and see how it goes for you. I'd also recommend his video on why the boar is SO important, I think you may feel the need to sit down.
@@cherrydragon3120 lmao plays moderate and has the arrogance to doubt zac lmao
@@cherrydragon3120 the tips are a bit more skewed towards playing against other players, even though he does mention on the Race Selection tip that it doesnt really matter for that.
Now I'm downloading this game, I'm really excited to see the new changes that definitive edition has
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@Nonna Urbisness the new ai is terminator
00:55 Don't forget, keep expolring the map!
*thick overacted scottish accent*
I could hear the text
An English outpost, you know what to do *BREAK IT DOWN*
You do have a blacksmith, don't you?
We need sheep!
I'm lucky i started playing AoE2 HD just last month getting practice in and loving it, can't wait to get this
Here's a small tip for new players.
Playing as Britons is really easy to start with... sure there are other civs that are beginner friendly too, but damn do I recommend Britons.
Back in the day I used to play AoE2 with my brother and mom.
She hardly knew anything BUT Britons and may I add she always wrecked me or my older brother whenever we went for a attack...
Not knowing what units/upgrades to go when against those pesky Longbowmen could make your day really shitty.
And yes even though my mom used to hate playing against each other, she non than less always won having literally the basic knowledge of the game.
Experienced players must be shaking their heads right now, but try to go back when you started playing and had no idea about some mechanics.
Now imagine Longbowmen behind a wall... I hope you see the beginner's struggle right there :^)
The Franks are better.
if you are going against someone who is playing britons, make rams which will soak up all the arrow fire and kill the archers with skirms or cavalry. onager and siege onager can one shot those archers too, but they do outrange them, so be careful.
I think on Black forest British are the easy one. On open maps maybe the Hunsa and on all other maps are the Franks. I don't think the new player should try water maps so much but i don't know to have easy water civ.
@@k0pera When you talk about it, I used to play tons of water maps with my brother or mom, or with friends since none of us were playing it competetively.
My mom especially loved to make defences alongside the coasts that even germans from ww2 would be jealous.
I guess nowdays most of people play competetively whatever they get their hands on... when I think about it... tons of people don't know how to NOT play competetively.
Even game like Oldschool Runescape is nowdays only about being the most efficient, having the right gear for right situation and always do something instead of freely exploring the game.
Same goes with AoE or even Age of Mythology.
When I decided to play some games via Gameranger every single game there was this one guy that talked shit, went the easiest and strongest race/god, always tried rushing the unexperienced players and when I for fun searched "Age of Mythology what is the most op god" the first thing that I found was a forum where a comment from 2004 said it the best
"what's the point of bringing up the talk about OPness?" only confirming my feeling of people not playing casualy anymore.
What's the point I'm trying to make?
Well... there is none, just remembering when people I knew including me used to have fun whilst playing games like AoE or Runescape.
You must have had a so fun childhood, if only I had a brother or my mother played with me...
Very helpful, My husband and I play and I've only ever beaten him 3 times. I wanna win! hoping these tips help me for my future battles.
Just downloaded and had no idea what to do. So, thanks for the intro and tips.
Thanks, Zero! I haven't played for 15 years but have been watching a lot of games for the last couple of years. I came back for DE and am having a blast, even though it's super hard...
Just got this through gamepass. Learning as much as I can so I can jump right in.
Friend just bought me this game on steam. He preached to me that I have to play it. Keep in mind I don’t like over the head games especially when you have to build. So on here to see what tips I should know before playing. Thanks for making the video
I use shift click with my scout to que up movement, spreading slowing out from my base in a circular or spiral pattern. It means I don't have to pay to much attention to it and frees up my time.
Not a new player but it’s been so long since playing it so was worth the watch
I've played AOE since I was a kid, but goddamn, I am too slow at gathering resources to keep up in multiplayer, especially since I've gotten back into it. That 60% number will really help. I always worry I'm wasting food on villagers and end up not getting enough. And I never knew about the command queue feature. Cheers, man.
I have been playing AoE (since 1997) and man! the UI, micro management and general upgrades has made the game more playable. I still remember the days in AoE 1 (before Patch 1.0c) where I will be clueless where my villagers went missing, only to find them idle hiding behind a forest! This is by far the best franchise I have ever played!
Same here!
I dont know why i feel like it is extremely difficult for me transitioning to this game from age of mythology. The basics of the games are similar but it has this different momentum that keeps me from improving in this game.
The thing is the amount of micromanagement 5 AoE villagers = 1 AoM villager. So the game pace is way easier to maintain
Mythology was a lot easier, and AOE2 was hard asf, and AOE2R still is. For every 5 AOE2 unit, it's probably worth 1 AOM unit
Just starting playing this on Xbox and these are all good tips. Thank you.
Thanks so much ZeroEmpires for all your effort and passion you put into this. Love your videos and startet learning from you when I got back into the HD version. Really hyped for DE as you, T90 and some others really boost this community to its limits and beyond.
AoE is such a good game, I was a little bit young when it first came out but i'm having so much fun rediscovering it !
Holyy I am so happy I bought the new version after 15+ years since I last played. The improved user-experience alone makes a great game even better.
My playing style - set a bunch of enemies to easy on the same team vs me and defend with thousands of walls. Sometimes need to use a few cheats here or there to maintain this lavish lifestyle.
Just started getting into AOE2. Played AoM growing up, but looking to learn a bunch from your channel soon! Keep it up!
Pro tip: make sure you can defend your camp. Although villagers and resources are important, a few military units or towers can save the day if someone comes knocking early
Played this game for 15 years (on and off) and I'm still awful at it lmao. These tips help a ton
Tips some people apparently learned:
•Don't build villagers after dark age.
•Pigs are scary and much stronger than wolves. Avoid at all costs.
•Fast feudal into defensive militia is an excellent strategy. Make sure to build like 8 of them and get supplies afterwards. People who go up with over 15 villagers are doing it wrong.
•Build houses when you reach the pop cap. When you do, stop what you're doing and send like 10 villagers to build about 60 of them. Don't wall with houses though. You need nice efficient street layouts for a walkable city.
•Castles are important. Build like 6 of them in your town by buying stone from the market. They should have overlapping fields of fire but not enough to hit units attacking the other castle. In melee. Wouldn't want to friendly fire on the defenders.
•Spears and skirms are top tier raiding units.
•you need like 30 villagers to make a castle in your base. Don't risk it though if the castle is on the other side of the map. Castle drops need like, 1 or 2 villagers max.
•Dark age villagers are only 50 food. Some of them may die but that's a sacrifice you're willing to make.
•Walls are an alternative to building an army. Slap down a full palisade on Arabia and nobody will be able to bother you.
•Docks are for maps like islands or migration. You don't need to dock if your opponent is on the same landmass. Fishing ships are 50% more resources than a villager for a strictly worse economic unit.
•Techs are really useful. You should get every tech as soon as you have the resources. Don't read what they do. There are too many for that.
Thanks this is very helpfull, im definetly not new to the game but i havnt played AoE2 for a very long time, i used to play AoE3 a lot but that also was long time ago now with DE beeing released im very happy i can go back to this game which remindes me of my chilhood so many great moments in this game im lovin it:D
I have been playing AOE since 1997 and it’s still my favourite! ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I have figured out for myself once I can get couple trebuchets it's game over for the enemy. They have saved me so many times
7 tips for new players
: robinhood
cheese steak jimmy's
rock on
lumberjack
marco
polo
how do you turn this on
What polo does?
@@geethacholan9993 removes fog of war so you can see enemies in the map
You can do 4 instead
1. ninjalui
2. marco
3. polo
4. how do you turn this on
I'm an absolute noob, please keep these guides coming!
im not even new but the video quality and the way you explained things is really well done ^^
Started doing the art of war mission and realized how bad I was at the game. Thanks for the videos!
I started any campaign mission and realized how bad I was
I played the game for 20 years now. #6 however is a really useful trick even I didn't really think of. It only works since DE though, so it's quite new. Everything else is really well explained and 100% correct :)
Thanks for making this excellent tips video! Really helpful ones I hadn't considered before with when to purchase trade carts and I didn't even know you could queue building construction then put villagers back to work. I managed to loose a match today after an AI alllied player captured all of the relics then the human person I was playing destroyed their village and sneaked all of the relics back to their base and waited until late in the game to place them all in their monastry which was surrounded by castles!
I didn’t even know command queuing was a thing. So many years wasted.
@@MyDreamWave lol wat? It existed wayyyy back since the first Aoe2
Not for villagers
@@timothysmith9275 nope you can build mutiple houses using shift queue or even set way point queues
@@105tinoto Sure, but that's not nearly as extensive as the feature is now.
Send your scout in 3 layers of spiral around your starting TC, when he's done with that - auto-scout.
Thanks great tips for new players (or returning players like me who have not played AoE2 online since...well like 20 years :D)
I loved the video; very concise and well explained, all the tips are on the nose. Then you!
Also, don't wait until you have a large army. While you are gearing up, you opponent is aswell. Delaying your attack only gives your opponent a chance to be the one attacking, rather than being attacked.
This game literally helped me get an A on my AP euro history class back in hs.
Just started playing this game after years, so thanks for this video mate it's a massive help 👍
i used malay, versus goth extreme AI...
i kept up with the extreme AI, i even got more military than the AI in the mid game.
When i thought i was gonna win...
the AI changed its army compositions and attacked me from the other choke point which i had no army to defend.
I can win against 2 HD AI, but the new Extreme AI really plays like a human.
Simply Elephant and Trash Unit spam of Malay cannot defeat it……
You have to be flexible as well. Change your army when needed
Cheers on the tips! Not played Age of Empires 2 since a year or 2 after it came out. Loved it, but not tried any of the more recent AOE2 releases. Stoked to give this one a trt.
Finally coming to xbox gamepass I was literally looking to see if it was available on xbox and found out its coming to gamepass so happy can't wait
4:23...The Post Office, trying to deliver your Amazon package during Christmas.
that castle at 5:00 is triggering me hard xD.
Its part of the propaganda against trade carts! :D
@@Robert-vk7je call me weird but i like trade ships more :>
@@Daxter250 Hey weird how're you doing?
@@jaecterdn2543 weird obviously ;).
@@Daxter250 get a room
Need more vills? The default town center hotkey is 'H' and the default create villager hotkey is 'a'. Just type 'hahahahahaha' and you're queueing up six new villagers ('haaaaaa' works as well, but for a single town center).
I never had the chance to play the original aoe games when i was younger, the closest I ever got was the star wars galactic battlegrounds game which I played the hell out as a kid so I'm pretty excited to finally give this game and the first game as well a go.
I'm basically relearning what I used to know to do what my 4 yr old self couldn't 10 years ago
Just got this today! I always played 3 but i am really liking this. U cant just smash any unit into a base and destroy building and all in a sec like in aoe3 since all units can siege i see now why people say that was a mistake. Seem u need alot more micro in this one replanting farms and all
well done my man. the hot keys was a game changer
Thank you very much very useful to know been playing this game for about a decade now and just jumping into the new version and am trying to get more serious the video really helped escpecially as I ddn't yet know you could command cue or hotkey or even that trading was a good idea
i played age of empires 2 as a kid, and have around 700 hours rn on the 2013 edition ( and a little on voobly) and I seriously never knew the command queue as its shown here.. I only her used it to have my scout move to different spots. damn.
The new queue system is Definitive Edition exclusive. In any other version, you could only queue where your units moved (i.e. early scout around the TC) and nothing else.
So no worries, you weren't missing out!
This was helpful thanks!
SO MANY TRADE CARTS!!
The TC and idle villager hotkeys are automatically put on mouse with 2 or more buttons
60% should be villagers ? Wow, i play AoE since the vanilla release, but i never noticed this... in every game (only Singleplayer) i only got 20-30 of them. Now i realise how bad i am in this Game, thank you :(
I've done the same thing! I was flabbergasted when the "art of war" tutorial made me created over one hundred villagers. I was really not expecting that
3. Scout your map: there is a unique button for your first explorer to do this automatically. You may also want to use 6. Command Queuing for this.
4. Don't feel overwhelmed: be the goat in the middle of the battle.
And forget about William Wallace a go for The Art of War.
6. Command queuing made my game a lot easier. I didn't know this feature existed.
Do a video for optimal settings for competitive playing the game
Exactly, needed that kind of video
Its crazy that the ad before this video used AoE2 assets and didn't pay a dime for it
As a old skool player, sheep are enough and boars etc. Don't do them unless it is necessary.
Farming is the way to go, upgrade mills and have multiple lumber mills and quarry so you can upgrade 2 things at a time.
Multi everything 🤣🤫
Thanks for your tips, i'm a new player and i must implement your advice
Not gonna lie. In 2000 when i first got Aok and was playing on Zone.com in the Custom Scenario Rooms there was no UA-cam and no strat videos. All that existed then were websites and forums, 56k and cable modems. Cant believe there are so many ppl still playing this game, myself included. Never played a game quite like aoe
Love your work, Zero! 💪🏻
this 60 percent pop being vill is a new thing, i never needed that many in the past, 9 for each resource, and then once all gold and stone are gone, kill them off, you have enough to finish the game by then
Could have mentioned that the longer the tradeline, the better, but apart from that a very nice point to start at :)
great video... it will make the first steps easier, thank you. what do you think is the best point to start playing multiplayer?
The game looks good. It reminds me of age of mythology now which I think is a very good thing.
Since aom died and aoe3 isn't my thing this might just be what i'm looking for. Helpful vid.
Anyone who played as a kid, on release, 10 years ago, or even yesterday should buy this game. It's unbelievably good. It's an upgrade in every way. Guaranteed dozens and dozens more hours with AoE2 yet again in my life 😂
This is actually a pretty good guide. :) Nice 1
Aoe2 de is now on steam bois
Can't wait till i get home
@@russellhammond6428 Same here.
I pre bought it. But my old laptop died! I need a newer and better computer to play it anyways. Black friday is on the way! Sucks because I have to wait even longer now. :(
@@nicon4206 yikes bro hope u get a good deal
20 gigs for the UHD pack what a joke another 1 hour wasted because they decided not to allow us to preload the graphics enhancement packs.
Great video, looking forward to more DE videos
Nice video dude!
It's just so hard to get to the game when you start late. A lot of practice it's like learning a entire new skill ...
last time i playe AoE2 was 19 years ago. Holy fuck im so hyped to play DE :D
Its been forever since i've played but while I would say I am great at economy (generally I get the best economy score at-least in my team, or even in the game if I don't get destroyed to early) I suck at military. Of-course this is generally because I don't build enough military units. I for some reason build a small amount of military buildings instead o the absolute mass of buildings I see some people build and as a result I always get over whelmed. Even though I know this I still for some reason just can't build more then a handful of military.
This isnt a tips and tricks for new players, this is a tips and tricks foe bad players.
Real beginners need to know the real basics like where to place lumbercamps and farms
It’s crazy how different AoE2 is from AoE3
New and preordered it on my series x so yes, some of this will be obveus lol I do play rts games on my laptop.
For the trading, depends on your civ. As Goth i try to trade as fast as possibile with my friends.
Coming from StarCraft, the only thing that bothers me is how to make production working. But I guess it's just the matter of remapping "select all X" buildings to easily accessible hotkeys...
I played this as a kid. Recently played against my brother. I was stomped. He had a castle and I had five militia.
thanks for the Video!
Hope there will be mod for unlimited population caps, and graphical enhancement in unique varieties for every civilizations.
Thanks for nice tips.
Hey guys!! I recently got the game because of the quarantine , this was a very wise decision :)
I used to play this game more than 10 years ago, but I played it against the computer not real people. I am scared but also I feel that I would learn a lot if I play with real people. Do you have any suggestions? Tips? Advices? Of what is to come once you start playing against real people?
Is there like a level separation that would keep me safe and won’t be killed that soon? As you can see I am a scary cat :( please help!
You have to learn some build order firstly then just observe your opponent and be dynamic
It's kind of refreshing how many people say they suck at this game. It makes me feel average.
I have a lot of trouble with transitioning my food resources. I eat up all the meat then I suddenly need farms and I find out that I haven't been making food for a while when I run out.
And if I remember to do that, I don't have any wood.
If I have lots of both, I have no gold.
If I have lots of everything, I don't have an army and I'm getting attacked.
If I have an army, it's been an hour and I haven't attacked anything.
Im ranked 1380. I didnt know shift que task. Ty ZeroEmpires
Excellent!