Happy New Year folks! A few months in the making, I was finally able to finish this video and share these tips with you folks - be sure to share it with your friends! Thank you for the support in the past two years, and more awesome content coming in 2023. Take care and stay healthy everyone! Cheers.
I know that you are currently taking a break from making content for AOE4, but I just wanted to let you know that this videos, and many other ones about this game, have been so much more helpful than any video from other content creators. Thank you for all you did!
extra tip: Establish a proper frontline. One mistake that I've seen even pro player make every now and then, at least in FFA games, is having their entire army production behind their main base walls, but the army itself, is currently fighting an opponent across the map. Your reinforcements will spend ages to get to the front, and being worth the resources you spent on them. By the time they DO get there, it may be too late for them to make a difference anyway. Get some villagers to the front, and build a military camp! Not, like. a singular barracks, archery range and a stable. Nah, get as many as you can, while still being able to actually use them once they're built.
This is actually a decent intro to aoe4, gives me an idea of what game mechanics are important in it relative to aoe2. Solid video! Was checking your channel since I still await the day you find the free time and desire to host AoNCup4 and was watching old vods for nostalgia :)
AoN Cup might return one day, you never know. :) Thanks for tuning in for so long my friend. P.S.: A dedicated channel for AoE2 specifically will be announced soon. :)
I only just figured out your tip about remembering to have fun in the game rather than just coupling my worth as a player to wins v losses. That is by far the most important tip in the list.
Dude I started playing on harder for my first 10 games I was so fucking pissed so I went back down to hard and have been actually winning it’s kinda crazy the campaign is wild on harder and hard
The tip about high APM being superficial was spot on. I used to play against high diamond ranked Protoss players in SC2 who barely scratched 100apm while I was reaching 200+ and they were absolutely crushing me.
Shift + Number adds selected units to the control grouping rather than deleting the previous grouping and creating a new one, great for adding reinforcements at the base to your micro manage groups
That is a great video and with great tips. I had no idea of the control+click thing. I always double click and I hate how sometimes I miss the second clicks cuz of the hit boxes. One tip I would like to add also is to have one or more practice partners that have a similar skill level, it helps loads. Specially if your practice partner plays the civ you struggle against.
Thank you! And that's a great tip, thanks for sharing. Practice with folks around or slightly above your level helps you identify your mistakes easier indeed. :)
Tip 51. You can select a unit and una Shift+a pre existing control group number and this unit will be inserted in the existing control group, works also for inserting a group into a existing group
one thing about speed is fumbling with the controls or being distracted which is something that takes practice to overcome. as for the minimap, it would be nice if we could make it a bit bigger
i discovered you channel when searching about painting guides for my lansquenet armies on the board I do not regret to enter a unrelated video of a game i dont play
I would include that shift+building 8 farms around farms (or tcs) makes a lot of idle time of all those villagers, you have to manually click each of them on separate farm to make them build it all faster (might save about 10+ seconds of idle time)
I should've mentioned in the video that after doing the shift click, you can select all villagers and right click a farm again. While they will waste time with the first one, they'll disburse after for the remaining 7. Definitely still saves a ton of time compared to doing it manually.
Thanks for the tip. The Tip 11 as very helpful because i only garrison units by using the TC bell! Using the hotkey T on villagers make sure my economy dont get all freeze when i under attack! Thanks a lot
Thanks for the insight. Ballistas work great against cannons but i also use light horsemen , they can travel quickly and finishes them off. Also i use them to lure enemies into a good spot for archers haha or mass catapults
Huh, I didn't know Ctrl+click selected all units of the same type. I can use that tip cos I've been fumbling around fights with double-click and it's been a bit of a struggle lmao
I’ve only played like 5 or 6 ranked games in the year that I’ve owned the game, mainly because I’ve only won 1 or 2 and I DO get that anxiety of getting outplayed or straight whooped 1v1 online lol. Hoping this gives me renewed motivation to jump back into ranked!
How much of this applies to console players? I mean obviously the commands and such won’t apply but I’m wondering if there’s a similar type of key bind or command and such that console players can use as well. A sort of substitute from the computer controls
Non-control based tips are all transferable! So ignore tips like Ctrl or Shift click ones, but the rest that applies to the game and its mechanics should apply to both sets of players. :)
I’ve beat all the civilizations on absurd with the English on every map, and I do it first by protecting my village with a ton of castles and a lot of bowmen. After that I build 25 stables outside the enemy camp and queue 200+ of them and keep attacking in waves. On absurd I have to block off in walled sections using the trebuchets to clear the path in front of me.
I dont know why im here because i dont even play AoE4 lmao maybe because UA-cam knows im looking for new RTS to play. Still good video and tips! I still prefer how AoE2 stills looks and plays the better (the remastered)
I would love to know the hotkeys for the Xbox x. I switched to keyboard and mouse, but the settings only show the hotkeys and controls for the controller
Spirit of the law did a great lancasters law video. Id recommend that till AoN makes his own video. As for monks picking up relics? Did they change that when i wasnt looking? Last i played, i wasnt able to rally pick up relic and put in building. I could rally move next to building. But not put inaide building(while prelate doesnt yet have relic).
In warcraft, theres a way to have a unit immediately follow your champion once theyve spawned, is there such a thing in AOE? Like have them follow your army right away?
I am a beginner and just bought age of empire IV anniversary edition but when i try to play skimmish there is no ottoman empire that i can choose do i have to unlock ottoman empire first if so how
I agree with what you last about it being a game, don't stress too much about it and enjoy it. But I think it will be harder for some to do that after you just mentioned pro gamers tournament with a prize pool of 300k. This is why I steer clear of pro-player content because I get competitive and stress too much about it. Something to consider for those who are like me.
Regarding tip 46: you can select "select only" in the settings and then use the focus hotkey to jump to the location of the selected group. This helped me a lot.
It's still a mix. The ~50/50 rule still stands, with some leeway either side depending on your army comp and civ. The idea is that you shouldn't run out of resources while trying to stay pop capped with your army.
If you double click number 1 if that's what you set your men to, the camera will center to them, but if you click once you have to manually move your camera.
it would be very helpful, if you have a playlist on your channel, where these beginner videos are grouped together. if I want to find all the videos you mentioned in this one, it's really hard to pick them out of all your 158 AoE IV videos.
ngl I need tips 11, I played AoE2, AoE3 and age of mythology way back ago when I was just entered Junior High and I remember whenever in danger you could click the bell icon in TC and all villager will automatically seek shelter, now when I played AoE4 my villager were attacked and I want to have them seek shelter but couldn't find the bell button or equivalent of that in the TC which ended in half of my villager died while I scramble to click each villager to enter TC, Outpost or Castle manually
Great video! As for the first tip, is there a guide for when certain high level strategies counter others? If I see my enemy going to a second TC, how do I know rather to go for a second myself, rush castle or attack all in? Also, regarding tip 46, I do believe you can double tap a control group key to center on them
hi, i'm new to this type of games i've like 50 hours on aoe4 but one big problem for me is that beeing aware that i'm a complete noob, i keep beeing playing against lvl 300+ players even in ranked. I wanna learn beeing better but also wanna have fun overhall and it's not fun at all to get shit on every single game. Does anybody know if there's a way change mm system? Or shall i just keep getting rolled untill i get better and probably leave the game before this.
Yes, there's no bad time to play online. You'll likely lose your first few games as the game calibrates your skill level, but should be fine thereafter. :)
![TheViper Faces A Defensive MASTERPIECE [AoE4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BLUpj9_E8Xs/mqdefault.jpg)
Happy New Year folks! A few months in the making, I was finally able to finish this video and share these tips with you folks - be sure to share it with your friends!
Thank you for the support in the past two years, and more awesome content coming in 2023. Take care and stay healthy everyone! Cheers.
I know that you are currently taking a break from making content for AOE4, but I just wanted to let you know that this videos, and many other ones about this game, have been so much more helpful than any video from other content creators. Thank you for all you did!
Cheers; glad you found them useful. :)
extra tip:
Establish a proper frontline.
One mistake that I've seen even pro player make every now and then, at least in FFA games, is having their entire army production behind their main base walls, but the army itself, is currently fighting an opponent across the map.
Your reinforcements will spend ages to get to the front, and being worth the resources you spent on them. By the time they DO get there, it may be too late for them to make a difference anyway.
Get some villagers to the front, and build a military camp!
Not, like. a singular barracks, archery range and a stable. Nah, get as many as you can, while still being able to actually use them once they're built.
This is actually a decent intro to aoe4, gives me an idea of what game mechanics are important in it relative to aoe2. Solid video! Was checking your channel since I still await the day you find the free time and desire to host AoNCup4 and was watching old vods for nostalgia :)
AoN Cup might return one day, you never know. :) Thanks for tuning in for so long my friend. P.S.: A dedicated channel for AoE2 specifically will be announced soon. :)
I only just figured out your tip about remembering to have fun in the game rather than just coupling my worth as a player to wins v losses. That is by far the most important tip in the list.
You say speed doesn't matter but the intermediate AI say different
😅😅 facts they will raid us quick as fck 😂😂😂
Play on harder difficulty I started with hard AI and within 2-3 hours of failing I was forced to learn how the game works 💪
Dude I started playing on harder for my first 10 games I was so fucking pissed so I went back down to hard and have been actually winning it’s kinda crazy the campaign is wild on harder and hard
Intermediate AI is too easy. Even "Hard" is too easy. I start having trouble when it is "Hardest". The other levels are just impossible for me yet.
The tip about high APM being superficial was spot on. I used to play against high diamond ranked Protoss players in SC2 who barely scratched 100apm while I was reaching 200+ and they were absolutely crushing me.
Shift + Number adds selected units to the control grouping rather than deleting the previous grouping and creating a new one, great for adding reinforcements at the base to your micro manage groups
Thanks!
That is a great video and with great tips. I had no idea of the control+click thing. I always double click and I hate how sometimes I miss the second clicks cuz of the hit boxes.
One tip I would like to add also is to have one or more practice partners that have a similar skill level, it helps loads. Specially if your practice partner plays the civ you struggle against.
Thank you! And that's a great tip, thanks for sharing. Practice with folks around or slightly above your level helps you identify your mistakes easier indeed. :)
Thanks a lot. Keep up the good work! greetings from Brazil.
Thank you for the support!
One of the best guides I saw on UA-cam for games in general... Great work!
I always wish this game went farther in the future i wish there was a RTS like it with this quality.
I have played the game since launch and sat through 19 min to find what i needed, thanks for the tip
Tip 51. You can select a unit and una Shift+a pre existing control group number and this unit will be inserted in the existing control group, works also for inserting a group into a existing group
I just bought this game a week ago I wish I would have got it sooner. I'm hooked!! Still finishing the campaigns
I used to play AoE 1 back in the day. Finally got the new one. This helped a ton. Thanks
Going from the first one to the fourth is a huge leap lol
Playing this game series for years and still learning lots of things, thanks brothr
Wow. Well worth the long wait! 👍❤️❤️❤️
Glad you liked it my friend. Thanks for tuning in as usual!
I would love to see Top 50 Tips for Advanced Players one day 🤓
Don't think there can be that many tips for top players :D But I can actually interview pro players and make a list for Diamond+ players one day
@@AgeofNoob that sounds good to me!
How? This is Age of Noob. His expertise only reach so far 😔
@AgeofNoob please do!
one thing about speed is fumbling with the controls or being distracted which is something that takes practice to overcome. as for the minimap, it would be nice if we could make it a bit bigger
press "M"
there are 3 sizes to cycle through for minimap sizes
default controls at least
Your channel is so high quality, definitely underrated. Hope you grow a lot with time. 👍
I appreciate that!
I didn’t know the difference between attack command and manually clicking to attack. Thank you! Nice video again
Np! Glad it was helpful
Just bought the game, casually played AOE, AOE 2, AOE 3 but that was eons ago. Thanks for the tips.
GL in the game and welcome to the community!
Wow I’ve been playing this game for over a year and found several tips on here. Subscribing now
Love the cinematics. Great work!
Man your videos are fantastic. Really enjoy them!
Thank you for tuning in!
Sheeeeeet ill beat ai easy yet, looking forward to the rest of your vids. Great stuff!
Hoarding resources is my worst habit in this game. I’m sitting on +1k resources as a fallback in case I need to go defensive.
Great content here! Thanks for the tips and keep it like this, you're already my aoe4 reference channel
Thank you!
i discovered you channel when searching about painting guides for my lansquenet armies on the board I do not regret to enter a unrelated video of a game i dont play
I would include that shift+building 8 farms around farms (or tcs) makes a lot of idle time of all those villagers, you have to manually click each of them on separate farm to make them build it all faster (might save about 10+ seconds of idle time)
I should've mentioned in the video that after doing the shift click, you can select all villagers and right click a farm again. While they will waste time with the first one, they'll disburse after for the remaining 7. Definitely still saves a ton of time compared to doing it manually.
Thanks for the tip. The Tip 11 as very helpful because i only garrison units by using the TC bell! Using the hotkey T on villagers make sure my economy dont get all freeze when i under attack! Thanks a lot
Idle TCs always get me. It’s hard to remember that it doesn’t matter how much damage you do to someone’s economy if yours isn’t growing either.
Thanks for the insight. Ballistas work great against cannons but i also use light horsemen , they can travel quickly and finishes them off. Also i use them to lure enemies into a good spot for archers haha or mass catapults
Thank you for the video! Just got the game and am hopping straight into ranks.. I need to utilize a lot of these pointers! Thank you again !
Finally this Video is Live, have been waiting for this.. :) thanks AON :)
You're welcome 😊
9:06
I need tips for eco balance for photonman please
Was looking for that comment :D
I’m an old AOE player but I’m new to AoE IV, many thanks for your tips, very usefull content .
Magnificent video as always!
really enjoyed the watch.
Thank you - glad you enjoyed! :)
skyrim track caught me off guard, like why do i feel like an adventure rn.
Do I hear Skyrim music in the background?? Love the guide man this should help me a lot
Huh, I didn't know Ctrl+click selected all units of the same type. I can use that tip cos I've been fumbling around fights with double-click and it's been a bit of a struggle lmao
It seems like many have missed the Ctrl+Click feature :D
I’ve only played like 5 or 6 ranked games in the year that I’ve owned the game, mainly because I’ve only won 1 or 2 and I DO get that anxiety of getting outplayed or straight whooped 1v1 online lol. Hoping this gives me renewed motivation to jump back into ranked!
Thanks for the great tips! Happy new Year!
Happy new year to you as well! :)
Happy new year, thank you for your great content!
Np - happy new year to you too!
Really cool video!
Thanks mate - glad you're here again :)
This video was really made at the perfect time as I am recently trying to get into Age of Empires, fantastic video, thank you.
Good video! I don't use Shift Click on Military-building maybe i'll try! What a good therapetic voice when RTS become too stressful
Amazing video. Really informative and precise. Thank you!!!
40 hours in and can confirm I'm still a noob.
How much of this applies to console players? I mean obviously the commands and such won’t apply but I’m wondering if there’s a similar type of key bind or command and such that console players can use as well. A sort of substitute from the computer controls
Non-control based tips are all transferable! So ignore tips like Ctrl or Shift click ones, but the rest that applies to the game and its mechanics should apply to both sets of players. :)
I’ve beat all the civilizations on absurd with the English on every map, and I do it first by protecting my village with a ton of castles and a lot of bowmen. After that I build 25 stables outside the enemy camp and queue 200+ of them and keep attacking in waves. On absurd I have to block off in walled sections using the trebuchets to clear the path in front of me.
Is that the skyrim ambiance music in the background?
Indeed!
I dont know why im here because i dont even play AoE4 lmao maybe because UA-cam knows im looking for new RTS to play. Still good video and tips!
I still prefer how AoE2 stills looks and plays the better (the remastered)
Thanks for this great video and the last tips
i know almost all of them, guess i had to practice them more since iam top 10k in solo but top 1k in teams.
AoN you da best!!!
Best of luck on the ladder - cheers! :)
Awesome and mighty guide! Thank you!
Np!
wow this vidéo is so good , i think you must work very mutch to do it , tnks for your work ^^it s amazing
22:53 i heared stronghold crusader music in background awesome. and thx for tips
I would love to know the hotkeys for the Xbox x. I switched to keyboard and mouse, but the settings only show the hotkeys and controls for the controller
Great video mate!
never get tired of that sweet skyrim soundtrack
what's the future soldier in the 18th rule at 09:06?
Photonman
Spirit of the law did a great lancasters law video. Id recommend that till AoN makes his own video.
As for monks picking up relics? Did they change that when i wasnt looking? Last i played, i wasnt able to rally pick up relic and put in building. I could rally move next to building. But not put inaide building(while prelate doesnt yet have relic).
In warcraft, theres a way to have a unit immediately follow your champion once theyve spawned, is there such a thing in AOE? Like have them follow your army right away?
Following a unit on spawn is not really a thing in AoE, as the closest thing to that are waypoints which are covered in this video. :)
Great video dude.
The Skyrim music goes hard on this haha
Skyrim music makes everything better
I am a beginner and just bought age of empire IV anniversary edition but when i try to play skimmish there is no ottoman empire that i can choose do i have to unlock ottoman empire first if so how
Very helpful :) thanks!
I agree with what you last about it being a game, don't stress too much about it and enjoy it. But I think it will be harder for some to do that after you just mentioned pro gamers tournament with a prize pool of 300k.
This is why I steer clear of pro-player content because I get competitive and stress too much about it. Something to consider for those who are like me.
Regarding tip 46: you can select "select only" in the settings and then use the focus hotkey to jump to the location of the selected group. This helped me a lot.
That's a good point, another way of doing it for sure!
Prob has been mentioned but double pressing individual group hotkeys also focus on those specific groups. Same for town centre.
Question: in the late game is it not better to have fewer villagers and more military units taking up population space?
It's still a mix. The ~50/50 rule still stands, with some leeway either side depending on your army comp and civ.
The idea is that you shouldn't run out of resources while trying to stay pop capped with your army.
If you double click number 1 if that's what you set your men to, the camera will center to them, but if you click once you have to manually move your camera.
it would be very helpful, if you have a playlist on your channel, where these beginner videos are grouped together. if I want to find all the videos you mentioned in this one, it's really hard to pick them out of all your 158 AoE IV videos.
You make a good point; I'll make a playlist soon. Cheers. :)
Wonderful, super helpful video! Thank you for your current, subd!
Thanks for the support :)
How you get the Snow effect in the end of the video @Age of Noob?
It's an effect I added during editing :) Unfortunately, snow cannot be added in-game, but maybe someone can create a mod one day
@@AgeofNoob aah, like that... Alright.. Great editing by the way
@@HeNeverStopsRiding Thanks!
i am one of the slow ones, thank you for.motivating me ❤
ngl I need tips 11, I played AoE2, AoE3 and age of mythology way back ago when I was just entered Junior High and I remember whenever in danger you could click the bell icon in TC and all villager will automatically seek shelter, now when I played AoE4 my villager were attacked and I want to have them seek shelter but couldn't find the bell button or equivalent of that in the TC which ended in half of my villager died while I scramble to click each villager to enter TC, Outpost or Castle manually
Nice use of Knights of Honor 2 and Stronghold Crusader OSTs lol
The skyrim theme ❤️🩹
Amazing video.. I'm new player so I leant many new thing
Welcome aboard!
Great video! As for the first tip, is there a guide for when certain high level strategies counter others? If I see my enemy going to a second TC, how do I know rather to go for a second myself, rush castle or attack all in? Also, regarding tip 46, I do believe you can double tap a control group key to center on them
mehr von den coolen alten Einspieler wären klasse, ansonsten top Format
freu mich auf ein neues Walulis Kapitel
Useful tips ty man
how do i set up a lan match with my bro in the same network as mine?
How do you up the player count. I hate when I play AI. It only lets me do 100
this is the best video for beginner
These are great, just wish the devs would implement active-pause so I wouldn't have to click around like a mad man.
It wouldve been funnier if you followed up #27 with #28 - attack-click to get rid of priority units (ex. siege, high dps units)
What is the song at 4:28?
Great video.
Me, who do not play AoE4: Okay coach I got it!
Maybe one day :D
Can anyone help me? I need to repair my town hall on Xbox. But I have no villagers left. It tells me to repair it but I have no idea how to.
AmazIng video.
Thanks!
Awesome tips.
Glad you liked them!
hi, i'm new to this type of games i've like 50 hours on aoe4 but one big problem for me is that beeing aware that i'm a complete noob, i keep beeing playing against lvl 300+ players even in ranked. I wanna learn beeing better but also wanna have fun overhall and it's not fun at all to get shit on every single game. Does anybody know if there's a way change mm system? Or shall i just keep getting rolled untill i get better and probably leave the game before this.
I’ve finally gotten good enough to consistently beat the intermediate AI. Should I try to play online?
Yes, there's no bad time to play online. You'll likely lose your first few games as the game calibrates your skill level, but should be fine thereafter. :)
THE BEST TIP WAS "Use the attack button". Made all the difference for me to win more matches.
Very good Man ⚔️🛡️
Thank you for your good content sir