In the ancient days a priest was going to a enemy soldier, took them aside and convinced them in secret to now follow their god... but now... Now the priest have learned the power of PREACHING TO THE MASSES!
Glad to see Relic is back on true RTS genre, Dawn of War and Company of Heroes was a blast to play. Hopefully they'll make DOW IV in it true RTS form once again
Disclaimer: this only worked because the other players were unaware of the new ways of the WOLOLO. If the enemy monk is holding a relic near you: KILL HIM! How it works: it's actually the relic that converts - you need to hold one with a monk. Once you start the conversion, there's no turning back and your monk can't move. Whether the conversion is successful or not, there's a cooldown timer on the relic after you hit the button. Not only all that, but if your relic is in the battlefield instead of in a monastery/landmark you're losing a good amount of gold! Useful video on monks (and other valuable gameplay tips) by Top Khan: ua-cam.com/video/WDgZt8Ix0WA/v-deo.html
Two things: having played both in the closed and open beta, I can tell you, gameplay is absolutely ON POINT, they have fixed and balanced a ton of things and made it a really enjoyable experience. Fun is absolutely granted on AoE IV. The only aspect I still have issues with is the simplistic UI, but enough members of the community have already complained and pointed out this flaw, so here's hoping that they will listen to us and deliver a solid product on day 1. Fingers crossed!
Yep! It definitely is a lot of fun already, and super stable for a beta, though I'd like to see some Quality of Life improvements that I'm sure will come. I actually like the UI, but it could use some additional color coding. You're guaranteed to have fun though, totally agree!
no, no and no, having played the game for 100+ hours now, AOE 4 is nowhere near finished, it needs bigger maps for up to atleast 12+ players so you can play with all your friends, like in the previous games, its still very simplistic wich is not necesarily a bad thing, but RELEASED with NO CUSTOM GAMES? and no map editor, big fail. its coming but the game is still in early access imo.
@@jagers88 Can't disagree there! I also have 100+ hours including the betas (a bit more than I should at this point lol). Having a TON of fun, tbh, but it was a bummer not having the scenario editor from the start...
This and age three gives me anxiety about not knowing what units are on the map. With AOE 2 you know the basic universal units and the unique units and how to counter.
tbh, everything just looks indistinguishable, I couldn't tell a bunch of houses from a unit production building at first sight. how does anyone call that good design?
@@rakowozz You cant pickup relics till 3rd age, I'm fairly certain. Tried to get 3 relics early so they were prepared for the super-monastery as soon as it was finished and I could not pick them up. Might be miss remembering tho.
Its not the monk that converts, it's the relic that they hold that converts. (Notice that the relics have a very high cooldown time, and doing so slows down the monk's movespeed further-I also think that it's a "channeling" action, which cannot be cancelled once pressed.)
some people would think that this is op but in all honesty against people that have a lot of apm these priests are dead in a matter of seconds and then you lose an important relic
Topzera, meu parça. Já comprei aqui, só esperando lançar pra meter lançada em cu de cavaleiro desavisado. E faz mercado depois, aí kkkk (Eu nunca faço, esqueço)
@@rakowozz pior que entendo ele, sempre esqueço do mercado KKKK o jogo tá bom demais mesmo, to muito ansioso pro lançamento, vou realmente me dedicar pra participar de campeonatos!
Haha it sure looks that way. But this only happened 'cause the other players were totally unaware of this new mechanic. It's actually almost impossible to convert other units, since your monk is a huge target and the enemy is proactively targeting him. Notice Green tried to convert me but I just wouldn't let him
@@rakowozz So you basically need two monks with relics, one to catch one from the battlefield and to sandwatch the enemy, to have a decent chance converting his units.
Actually in my experience the woolo is MUCH weaker compared to aoe2. In aoe2 if you got a bunch of monks and good APM,you can click fast and convert half the enemy hvy cav/elephants(range is pretty great to 9 unupgraded,12 upgraded) in aoe4 you need a relic to convert(so no constant monk spam and conversions like the AI likes to do in aoe2),your monk becomes super visible and vulnerable when he activates the wooolo(in most realistic game situations the monk will be sniped by archer/siege fire,these guys in the clip really didnt seem to have a clue about this mechanic and didnt try at all to counter),the woolo has a huge 120s cooldown and even if you dont have any ranged units to snipe a monk hiding behind his army in a choke point(which is litteraly the situation in which this strat would be most viable),you still have more than enough time to move your melee units out of conversion range. I actually like this new woolo,I deffinetly wont miss constant monks/conversion spam by AI in aoe2(maybe war elephants will be viable again?),it's a far more clutch move now and you could potentialy make some really big plays with it,but what I like about it is that woolo in aoe4 could basicly only work if your enemy makes a big mistake to ignore the woolo,so it's a thing that can be used to punish a player who gets distracted,but if you are watching your army and are carefull of it,you would probably never loose any units to it.
@@megaslayercho Agreed! Also, relics are an important economic device. Taking them on the battlefield instead is a loss to your economy (especially as Holy Roman Empire)
Hi santaras, you can’t choose your own color yet, but there is an option in the settings: under GAME, it’s "Player Colors" - it’s Team Based by default, but I chose Unique instead. This was a 2v2, but the color are still random
I gotta say, because of the visuals I was VERY skeptic of the game. But it totally grew on me, it's incredibly fun, I'm in real abstinence since the betas. Been rewatching a few matches I recorded hahah
@@takkiejakkie5458 exactly what iam saying all day long, we dont need 4th remake of age of empires 2 ( original, HD, DE ..) we needed new game with different mechanism and we got it , iam satisfied.
@@SkiLLess1986 what different mechanism? it's doing nothing new. it's combining all 3 previous titles into a bland mash. combined with wrong 3d perspective just creates a cheaply looking 3d rts. if this game wasn't called age of empires nobody would know it's related.
Oh, it can really be a game changer, but this was early days... they weren't aware of the new Wololo! It's been a while since I last converted enemies =/
Hahah it does look funny. But with some suspension of disbelief… turns out those are actually Scouts, who can barely kill villagers. The only other unit they counter, really, are other Scouts
It's very hard to understand what is happening compared to more easy to follow strategy games like aoe2 and starcraft 2. Very high detail level, tiny units, hard to follow terrain features, too large trees, too realistic building size etc are contributing to this. It's the Empire Earth fallacy where a small subsection of playerbase will prefer more realistic graphics but the game can never become the most popular game due to hard to follow visuals. Looks fantastic for casual singleplayer though!
After 60+ hours (scratch that it's been 100+ already lol) with the game, my perception did a full 180, I’m used to it now. But I recall the initial impression in the community being quite negative about the graphics! Some people clamored for even more realistic graphics (a là Manor Lords, an UE indie game), but I think I can see how that could hurt competitive
Oh, and you mentioned unit size! It's notably been changed in comparison to the first game trailers. The result is a lot of buildings feel out of scale, though it might even help legibility
This honestly looks almost exactly like aoe3, which is not bad! aoe3 is actually a good game, but aoe4 is not really the "next gen RTS" some people expected it to be
They played it maybe a bit to save... mechanics are mostly a mix from the best of AoE2 and even Age of Mythology... and AoE3. But in the end we get a product what is maybe not the giant Next Gen thing... but the best out of the old with a new touch. More of a soft Reboot than a big new game... but a good one.
no it doesnt, aoe3 has way better graphics if you ask me, the no manned artillery is a big no. first off all I dont like any reflection of ao2 looks way to cartoonish
The game is a lot of fun to play but I think its a "little" less fun to watch than AOE2. The UI needs a little bit more work and so does the graphics. Dark age could be longer but they do keep it in castle for a fair amount of time. I wouldn't mind a few more troops either. its "almost" there though and shaping up to be great!
You know that one thing that annoys the crap out of me are the priests in the older AOE games, man, those guys really are annoying, thank god now it's different
![TheViper Faces A Defensive MASTERPIECE [AoE4]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/BLUpj9_E8Xs/mqdefault.jpg)
The gunpowder sounds are really satisfying
Sound design in this game is superb (except for the TC ding ding, of course), the dynamic music is a great touch too
@@rakowozz Relic was always good at that, the Company of Heroes also has an amazing sound design.
@@KorsAir1987 Love CoH
wait till they implement gunpowder smell * - *
Every thing about it is so satisfying
In the ancient days a priest was going to a enemy soldier, took them aside and convinced them in secret to now follow their god... but now...
Now the priest have learned the power of PREACHING TO THE MASSES!
Yes. He now uses a TV :D
With the help of new technolgy : )
yep: preaching and converting during a fight. absurd!
wil the "technical stress test" hit all four corners of the screen?
Yeah, like a windows xp screensaver
@@senaris its microsoft so i wouldnt be surprised they just copy pasted the code xD
Is for stress you :v
@@PatricMB While stealing it from the DVD in the first place hahah
The sound design in this game is very good.
Probably one of the strongest parts in the game right now. Great sound. And music!
Except for the town hall bell. Glad the devs say they will fix that soon.
Everybody is a gangster untill wololo becomes an area of effect.
Glad to see Relic is back on true RTS genre, Dawn of War and Company of Heroes was a blast to play. Hopefully they'll make DOW IV in it true RTS form once again
Green wanted SO MUCH to pull off that aoe conversion lmao.
Disclaimer: this only worked because the other players were unaware of the new ways of the WOLOLO. If the enemy monk is holding a relic near you: KILL HIM!
How it works: it's actually the relic that converts - you need to hold one with a monk. Once you start the conversion, there's no turning back and your monk can't move. Whether the conversion is successful or not, there's a cooldown timer on the relic after you hit the button. Not only all that, but if your relic is in the battlefield instead of in a monastery/landmark you're losing a good amount of gold!
Useful video on monks (and other valuable gameplay tips) by Top Khan: ua-cam.com/video/WDgZt8Ix0WA/v-deo.html
If the enemy has a monk, kill him. Relic or not.
That's what green was trying to do...no?
@@0pt618 Yea! But only after I converted his scouts. Yellow didn't take notice, though
Wololo!
@@rakowozz ehr no. He attacked you with 6 scouts INSTANTLY. When 6 scouts cannot take out a monk in time it's defently some stupid sht.
Two things: having played both in the closed and open beta, I can tell you, gameplay is absolutely ON POINT, they have fixed and balanced a ton of things and made it a really enjoyable experience. Fun is absolutely granted on AoE IV.
The only aspect I still have issues with is the simplistic UI, but enough members of the community have already complained and pointed out this flaw, so here's hoping that they will listen to us and deliver a solid product on day 1. Fingers crossed!
Yep! It definitely is a lot of fun already, and super stable for a beta, though I'd like to see some Quality of Life improvements that I'm sure will come. I actually like the UI, but it could use some additional color coding.
You're guaranteed to have fun though, totally agree!
community still can make mod for the ui right if dev doesnt change it?
Exactly! Perfection right now!
One more tweak tho Auto-scout option
no, no and no, having played the game for 100+ hours now, AOE 4 is nowhere near finished, it needs bigger maps for up to atleast 12+ players so you can play with all your friends, like in the previous games, its still very simplistic wich is not necesarily a bad thing, but RELEASED with NO CUSTOM GAMES? and no map editor, big fail. its coming but the game is still in early access imo.
@@jagers88 Can't disagree there! I also have 100+ hours including the betas (a bit more than I should at this point lol). Having a TON of fun, tbh, but it was a bummer not having the scenario editor from the start...
Can't wait to see the twisted stuff pro-players will do with this online.
2:15 Remember gandalf voice vs saruman
*Enemies refuse to be converted*
Prelate: "So you have chosen death..."
That one villager was like "Yo wtf"
My man wipped out that reverse uno card lmao
Places a plain ol' building: MAGIC YELLOW STRIPES FALLING FROM THE SKY!!!
Converts an entire enemy battalion: Just another day in the office...
Don't look for realism in an AOE game
Aaaamigo que hermoso que se ve ese Lanzapiedra en la colina. Tremendo
Those walls look great
I get battle of middle earth vibes, from this gameplay.
This and age three gives me anxiety about not knowing what units are on the map. With AOE 2 you know the basic universal units and the unique units and how to counter.
AoE4 actually uses the same universal units and counters like spears vs horses etc. Nothing like AoE3 which makes ME hate it.
It's not quite as bad as aoe3,but yea,it's deffinetly worse than aoe2.
tbh, everything just looks indistinguishable, I couldn't tell a bunch of houses from a unit production building at first sight. how does anyone call that good design?
@@ivoivic2448 Of course, those archery ranges with those archery targets, how can I tell I can produce archers there :( I wish design was better
@@jesuspineda9726 there's a rusty spot on your plate armor sir white knight. you better tend to it, or you might look like an idiot.
at least it needs relic and long cooldown hahah
The sounds are amazing @@
oh my god, this is jaw dropping for rts... really happy with aoe iv
It brought me back to the genre
wololo
The villager: where the f is my husband???
Used to be just wololo. Now it's WOLOLO!
WO-LO-LOOO
dam the Wololo is big in this...
This time wololo actually comes directly from the heavens
That's good to hear
WOLOLO RETURNS!
Thankfully they somehow fixed the firing arrows animations. Sounds in general are on point !
Game is even smoother now, this video was during the stress test (pre-release)!
Eu já odiava os monges do Age 2. Nossa, eu era feliz e nem sabia.
Essa civ (HRE) ainda vai aprontar muito, pois tem "monges" baratos feitos no Town Center. Vai ser interessante de se ver haha
@@rakowozz HRE em todos os aoe é muito op kkk
2:24 "We got a Runner"
wololoooo
feeling stronghold wibes here, and i like it!
That's actually a really cool implementation. High risk, high reward having your relic out on the battlefield instead of collecting gold
It really is! Not only that, you can be delivering your enemy a relic lol. I just put out a new video where it was decisive in a 3v3!
holy wololo!
eae meu brow, verdadeiramente well played
Haha valeu meu bro! Esse ainda era o beta, estávamos todos aprendendo, tá difícil converter assim agora!
Very Good Strategy
Fun Fact: It insta kills enemy troops when you are on max population, no matter the current hp on those enemy troops
Yep! You can’t exceed the pop cap. At least not yet, let’s see what the content creation tools bring next year!
@@rakowozz RIP popcap, that was a great game company
I wonder if you could wololo in a stealth forest on an approaching army 🤔
Wow that hadn't occurred to me! I wonder if the relic stays concealed in the forest too, haven't tested that
Perfectly balanced
wololo on earlier ages, a bit OP, DO NOT ENGAGE, on later ages, reasonable
Yes! Against HRE, since prelates can be made from the start and cheap, you really gotta be careful with them
@@rakowozz You cant pickup relics till 3rd age, I'm fairly certain. Tried to get 3 relics early so they were prepared for the super-monastery as soon as it was finished and I could not pick them up. Might be miss remembering tho.
@@r.rafter1928 No, you're right! The good part is as HRE you can have a bunch of prelates ready to go. I'm surprised by how much I liked this civ!
wuololooo
Word record fastest baptism ever :P
wololololololololo
Yes religion is the strongest weapon.
Nice arrow movement at 1:53
W̸̆̈́͜O̵̬̻̞͛̂̈́ͅL̸̡͔͚͎̑̆͒́̈́Ō̷̡̧͍̤͜L̸̳̞̾̐́͐O̴̧͊̉̀ͅƠ̷̧̪̫̾̇̔Ö̴͔͎́͝Ȯ̸̡̧͍̦̙̓ !!!!
I liked it when i read the "Faz um mercado depois" xD
Hahahah e ele fez!
WOLOLO
foda
It surely does work weird there :D
When the guy was Wololoing you and failed, i was like WoloLOL
What the? In AoE4, conversion has an area of effect? Niiice... Wait for me, I'm buying it! XD
Its not the monk that converts, it's the relic that they hold that converts. (Notice that the relics have a very high cooldown time, and doing so slows down the monk's movespeed further-I also think that it's a "channeling" action, which cannot be cancelled once pressed.)
Nice... Empire Earth 6...
some people would think that this is op but in all honesty against people that have a lot of apm these priests are dead in a matter of seconds and then you lose an important relic
100% accurate
Rus Wololos are going to be insane if they can carry relics.
We can
Look like they took the best of the past games and mixed here and as a result a well made game
That’s been my impression of the game as well!
Wow, the victory text is not even centered in the English version!
Whoa that’s an oversight! To be honest, there are some small details like that that could use more polish
Good ol' AEO, one OP unit to fuck the whole gameplay
AoE 4 wololo is v scary!
area conversion looks too OP
I tried convincing people many times, but I never used word "Wololo" in my conversations, how stupid am I? Thank you for the hint!
Topzera, meu parça. Já comprei aqui, só esperando lançar pra meter lançada em cu de cavaleiro desavisado. E faz mercado depois, aí kkkk (Eu nunca faço, esqueço)
Ahaha o meu parceiro não fez mercado, infelizmente. Tá mto importante agora pra conseguir ouro! O jogo vai estar top
@@rakowozz pior que entendo ele, sempre esqueço do mercado KKKK o jogo tá bom demais mesmo, to muito ansioso pro lançamento, vou realmente me dedicar pra participar de campeonatos!
@@jaberneto Isso aí! Já melhorei meu jogo só de assistir às minhas partidas gravadas (já que não dá pra jogar). Torço por mais um open beta
@@rakowozz cara, boa ideia! Simm, tomara que tenha!
wow this Age Of Empire III remastered sounds particular
This is definitely not an age of empires 3 remastered lmao
@@aymenberhili8218 You got the joke
Ye am laughing pretty hard
no ayoyoyo eyoyo? :(
now monks are OP
That wololo so short
they had guns in idk what year this is 600-1100 ich?
Hey Ritch! I think the whole game is supposed to cover 600 to 1550 more or less
mto bom kkkkkkkk
O jogo tá top demais! Subi outro vídeo tb onde converti uns 20 elefantes num 3v3!
this must be why they got rid of box formation
Hmm good theory, that would definitely complicate things!
o neydi kizzzzzz
1 dude converts like 6 units. Sounds fun to play against. Then he converts like 12 cav again. Balanced.
Haha it sure looks that way. But this only happened 'cause the other players were totally unaware of this new mechanic. It's actually almost impossible to convert other units, since your monk is a huge target and the enemy is proactively targeting him. Notice Green tried to convert me but I just wouldn't let him
@@rakowozz So you basically need two monks with relics, one to catch one from the battlefield and to sandwatch the enemy, to have a decent chance converting his units.
@@jerome6383 Now that's a strategy! I'm curious to see if anything like this is going to be viable even in the competitive scene
Actually in my experience the woolo is MUCH weaker compared to aoe2.
In aoe2 if you got a bunch of monks and good APM,you can click fast and convert half the enemy hvy cav/elephants(range is pretty great to 9 unupgraded,12 upgraded)
in aoe4 you need a relic to convert(so no constant monk spam and conversions like the AI likes to do in aoe2),your monk becomes super visible and vulnerable when he activates the wooolo(in most realistic game situations the monk will be sniped by archer/siege fire,these guys in the clip really didnt seem to have a clue about this mechanic and didnt try at all to counter),the woolo has a huge 120s cooldown and even if you dont have any ranged units to snipe a monk hiding behind his army in a choke point(which is litteraly the situation in which this strat would be most viable),you still have more than enough time to move your melee units out of conversion range.
I actually like this new woolo,I deffinetly wont miss constant monks/conversion spam by AI in aoe2(maybe war elephants will be viable again?),it's a far more clutch move now and you could potentialy make some really big plays with it,but what I like about it is that woolo in aoe4 could basicly only work if your enemy makes a big mistake to ignore the woolo,so it's a thing that can be used to punish a player who gets distracted,but if you are watching your army and are carefull of it,you would probably never loose any units to it.
@@megaslayercho Agreed! Also, relics are an important economic device. Taking them on the battlefield instead is a loss to your economy (especially as Holy Roman Empire)
Faz mercado dps. Bom.
😂😂nic
Ele fez um mercado depois?
Fez! Deu tudo certo haha
@@rakowozz kkkkkk
Caralho mano. O negócio é em área?!
Em área! Porém 1. Você tem que estar segurando uma relíquia 2. O inimigo tem que estar dormindo haha
if AoE was a DOTA 2 mod
tienen poquitos graficos si la andara decian
how are you in diffrent colors?
Hi santaras, you can’t choose your own color yet, but there is an option in the settings: under GAME, it’s "Player Colors" - it’s Team Based by default, but I chose Unique instead. This was a 2v2, but the color are still random
@@rakowozz thanks!
Jajaja is amazing i do it this for save me :v
Se foder, mano. Hahahahahaahaha.
wish they kept the gritty and realistic graphic style from AoE 2, just with improved textures and effects.
I gotta say, because of the visuals I was VERY skeptic of the game. But it totally grew on me, it's incredibly fun, I'm in real abstinence since the betas. Been rewatching a few matches I recorded hahah
i dont, its perfect
Let AoE2 be AoE2 and AoE4 be AoE4. The isometric and semi-realistic style of AoE2 is unique and should be.
@@takkiejakkie5458 exactly what iam saying all day long, we dont need 4th remake of age of empires 2 ( original, HD, DE ..) we needed new game with different mechanism and we got it , iam satisfied.
@@SkiLLess1986 what different mechanism? it's doing nothing new. it's combining all 3 previous titles into a bland mash. combined with wrong 3d perspective just creates a cheaply looking 3d rts.
if this game wasn't called age of empires nobody would know it's related.
Lets introduce more bullshits.
faz um mercado dps
absurd. this game is getting a "roll the dice".
Oh, it can really be a game changer, but this was early days... they weren't aware of the new Wololo! It's been a while since I last converted enemies =/
So the cannon still does not require control by humans? LOL..
is it better than age of empire 3?
Hey Mat, I haven’t played 3 myself, but many pro players from the AoE3 community have already migrated to 4!
a la verga
Age of empires online 2 ?
Age of empires 4
A bit insane how a group of knights can't kill a guy in a dress.
Hahah it does look funny. But with some suspension of disbelief… turns out those are actually Scouts, who can barely kill villagers. The only other unit they counter, really, are other Scouts
lmfao
Is there a german faction ?
Due to to the timeframe the game covers, the closest we'll get is the one I'm playing in the video: Holy Roman Empire!
It's very hard to understand what is happening compared to more easy to follow strategy games like aoe2 and starcraft 2. Very high detail level, tiny units, hard to follow terrain features, too large trees, too realistic building size etc are contributing to this. It's the Empire Earth fallacy where a small subsection of playerbase will prefer more realistic graphics but the game can never become the most popular game due to hard to follow visuals. Looks fantastic for casual singleplayer though!
After 60+ hours (scratch that it's been 100+ already lol) with the game, my perception did a full 180, I’m used to it now. But I recall the initial impression in the community being quite negative about the graphics! Some people clamored for even more realistic graphics (a là Manor Lords, an UE indie game), but I think I can see how that could hurt competitive
Oh, and you mentioned unit size! It's notably been changed in comparison to the first game trailers. The result is a lot of buildings feel out of scale, though it might even help legibility
This honestly looks almost exactly like aoe3, which is not bad! aoe3 is actually a good game, but aoe4 is not really the "next gen RTS" some people expected it to be
They played it maybe a bit to save... mechanics are mostly a mix from the best of AoE2 and even Age of Mythology... and AoE3. But in the end we get a product what is maybe not the giant Next Gen thing... but the best out of the old with a new touch. More of a soft Reboot than a big new game... but a good one.
no it doesnt, aoe3 has way better graphics if you ask me, the no manned artillery is a big no. first off all I dont like any reflection of ao2 looks way to cartoonish
@@1MillSaviour I agree, I still can't understand why AOE 3 graphics are better than AOE 4. It's been like 15 years come on.
monk op pls nerf
Boreyt etwas orbeyt zu tuen
Haha as an HRE main this is one of my mottos now
@@rakowozz Gehorsamkeit zu Tugend ist ein Segen!
The game is a lot of fun to play but I think its a "little" less fun to watch than AOE2. The UI needs a little bit more work and so does the graphics. Dark age could be longer but they do keep it in castle for a fair amount of time. I wouldn't mind a few more troops either. its "almost" there though and shaping up to be great!
Great analysis, I agree. It's likely to improve over time, I think it's a solid base already!
You know that one thing that annoys the crap out of me are the priests in the older AOE games, man, those guys really are annoying, thank god now it's different
I play AoE since forst one, but this was too mutch XD
I do think it's too easy. Like just be sure to bring a monk & try to convert the enemy...