More Age of Darkness content please, do tips for an efficient build path and good way on claiming the map early on without impalers (they dont come cheap 😢 ) also scouting for good chokepoints.
I don't know if you discover it later in the video, but if you click on one of your fishing ports, there's a set of arrows top corner, so you can swap to the next one. Makes it easier to grab all the nets in one go and return to your start place after the collection.
im glad to see you return to this game, ive been enjoying it a lot. i think it has the potential to outshine TAB if the developers are committed, personally.
Started practicing now this genre of RTS just got me hooked, ”They are bilions/Alien Marauder”I’m not particulary good yet though, AM has been the easiest
The amount of micro-managing seems insane, especially with a hero like that. I can see the benefits if the hero respawns, but for the hardest difficulty ranged one would be imho the best. Then again, my TAB runs are almost exclusively done with snipers, so I'm biased lol
Yeah, melee Heros ultimately run into the same problem that Mutants did in TAB. Why would I use this strong melee unit who has to take damage to work, when I can just spam rangers/snipers and never take damage. Bonus points if the melee unit doesn't do comparable damage either cause your Frontline can only be so big before melees stop fitting in it
I personally found her a bit easier than the other hero, because at like level 6 you have 3-4 guards and your ultimate heals them all and revives them to full on top of buffing them all a bunch. Then I focused heavy on ranged units since she was just practically handing me free melee units. I've never gotten far in this one because I can feel the early access aspect bringing this one down, it DOES need more work done but I so much enjoy the setting and atmosphere of this to Alien Marauder. They are billions is way cooler than both, because they did a great job with unit voicelines. But without classy charm involved, I still think this one is my favorite setting.
They are billions was very rough at first. We are looking at it now 2+ years after the fact with the polish and refinement. Alien marauders is good. It might be too much like TAB. Almost a carbon copy reskin with a few additions. Hopefully they keep adding more because it definitely captures the feel of TAB with a new coat of paint. Age of darkness is similar to both in design. I feel however the game itself is too easy. The day to day is pretty much risk free. Mob density feels fairly low. The only risk comes during the death knight waves which in general are fairly easy to defend against. You can expand fairly risk free.
You always do the same thing with melee units in this game... make 1 or 2 of them, see them get concaved by 3-6 enemies at once and die, then declare them not good and stop making them. For melee units in this style of strategy game to be effective, you need enough of them to form a proper surface/phalanx. That limits the number of enemies that can hit any one unit, and going from 3-6 enemies hitting a unit to only 1-2 in a game with active regen makes a huge difference.
It's definitely true he does that, but melee units in RTS always have a scaling problem past a breakpoint. You just don't need melees if you have a death ball of ranged units, cause after a certain amount of melees they can't reach the targets anymore, which is when you transition to a ranged playstyle. For some people, like him, it's just better to go ranged and stay ranged cause it makes more sense to him. I do agree that the melees would work better if he used more than two, though. It's just painfully unviable for tower defense death nights like this, so you have to split your money between a melee army by preference, or a ranged army by convenience (and it's a lot of convenience) Sorry for rambling.
@@opfragile He lost balls of 6-10 archers to two volleys from light AoE units that only tickle melee units, multiple times. What he's doing is like trying to play Zerg without Zerglings because "they die too much."
@@Qlmmb2086 why are you knit picking a guy who’s played a handful of this game? Age of darkness is easy. And you can beat it anyway you want. He’s already beaten nightmare once so stop talking to him like he doesn’t know what he’s doing
@@rsjrx Because I like him, and like to watch him game, but get a little frustrated when he ignores major game mechanics. If anything, when he's learning a new game is the appropriate time to bring these "nit picks" up. He doesn't need you to defend him from criticism; he's gonna be just fine.
Watched for the fourth time haha, I agree, hope the champion was ranged, cuz the summon bodyguard fits so perfectly well since they charge so eagerly while doing 2nd skill then charging like HEAL BOMBS. Guess the devs wants to encourage us to have melee units or a melee champ the least.
Is this game worth to buy now?I watched your video before,you said the game still has many things need to improve,do they fix them or improve them to make the game nice to play or worth it's price?
well the game is still in it's early state, i saw they are trying to add stuff by the end of the month like idk what, for the moment i will say no , only if there is a discount, i bought it but still melee units are way to weak, the ai needs some love, pathfinding needs too, but from the release date till now it looks very very promising. Just to understand the game is very nice, chalenging but it misses a few things. I'd say you could come back in a few months to see real results , maybe by the end of july-august it will be worth the price and to play it, after like 1-2 more big updates. If you want to support the dev's buy it , it will be worth in a few months with campaign, more units etc
@Mimi a lot of games are copy paste but are not the same , like dota and lol they are the same but they are not the same . The games are in the specific gen, age of darkness is like they are billions but is not it has it's own mechanic.
I've tried Age of Darkness with that new hero. I ended up quitting because her guards kept shoving her into blasters. Did you experience similar issues?
god yes. i had game for 2 days now so started with her first cuz of her power perks sounded more interesting and having extra free soldiers spawn is a huge help in other RTS. but if she ran away from battle they ran away. if she ran into a tight spot, they ran into that tight spot shoving her in further amongst the enemy. 🤦♂
@@KenseiTV after doing nightmare for first time today I feel like they got that timing spot on for nightmare, but I do feel Aelis is much stronger when micro managing, the recent changes to hazy skies certainly have helped balancing, don’t if you seen this youtuber but camgamerjohn I think his name is has been trying nightmare 7.1-7.3 multipliers like how i got no idea and that’s just insane and impossible.
I would like to see your take on the newest changes they made to the game. They rebalanced a lot of things since this playthrough and I think the game is both more challenging and also more user friendly now. They made melee units significantly better by increasing swordsman's health regen and introduced spearmen which have longer range, sit behind your swordsman, and can hit multiple enemies. This makes melee units viable for clearing and speeds up your early game clear substantially. To balance this out they reduced the amount of food farms produce which forces you to expand quicker to support your economy. There are lots of other little changes as well and quality of life updates like re-coloring the units/buildings so they're easier to see. Overall I'm pretty happy with my purchase. The devs are clearly listening to feedback and making good changes while also continuing to improve and flesh out the game as they go. I think the biggest issue now is how long a game takes. Even without pausing, this playthrough took you over 3 hours. That's just too much time for a single game especially if they are going to limit saves. I wish they did what TAB did and allow you to save as many times as you want so you can stop any time, but make it so that the newest save overwrites all previous saves so you can't use your saved game files to re-do something you messed up on. Once they figure out the pacing issue and reduce game length and/or allow more saves I think the game will be in a good spot. Next I just hope they build out either some multiplayer options or story mode/campaign or both to provide some more variety in the content.
I'll have to give it another try at some point in the future. Melee more viable sounds good and quality of life improvements are always welcome. Duration of one run is one of the things I dislike quite a bit. Hopefully we'll get faster pacing in the future
Youre the best AOD player Ive seen, thanks to you i mimic'ed your style and finished nightmare myself, youre amazing thank you
Awesome, I love this game's visuals! I was hoping you would play more.
More Age of Darkness content please, do tips for an efficient build path and good way on claiming the map early on without impalers (they dont come cheap 😢 ) also scouting for good chokepoints.
thx for not only upload won game videos.
I don't know if you discover it later in the video, but if you click on one of your fishing ports, there's a set of arrows top corner, so you can swap to the next one. Makes it easier to grab all the nets in one go and return to your start place after the collection.
im glad to see you return to this game, ive been enjoying it a lot. i think it has the potential to outshine TAB if the developers are committed, personally.
Thanks for this game again. So much Potential :)
Awesome…. Despite the narrow defeat , you did very well . Had you use “pause’, you may win.
Started practicing now this genre of RTS just got me hooked, ”They are bilions/Alien Marauder”I’m not particulary good yet though, AM has been the easiest
The amount of micro-managing seems insane, especially with a hero like that. I can see the benefits if the hero respawns, but for the hardest difficulty ranged one would be imho the best. Then again, my TAB runs are almost exclusively done with snipers, so I'm biased lol
Yeah, melee Heros ultimately run into the same problem that Mutants did in TAB. Why would I use this strong melee unit who has to take damage to work, when I can just spam rangers/snipers and never take damage. Bonus points if the melee unit doesn't do comparable damage either cause your Frontline can only be so big before melees stop fitting in it
I wondered why my runs were harder even on easy - light towers have a wood upkeep now
I personally found her a bit easier than the other hero, because at like level 6 you have 3-4 guards and your ultimate heals them all and revives them to full on top of buffing them all a bunch. Then I focused heavy on ranged units since she was just practically handing me free melee units. I've never gotten far in this one because I can feel the early access aspect bringing this one down, it DOES need more work done but I so much enjoy the setting and atmosphere of this to Alien Marauder. They are billions is way cooler than both, because they did a great job with unit voicelines. But without classy charm involved, I still think this one is my favorite setting.
They are billions was very rough at first. We are looking at it now 2+ years after the fact with the polish and refinement.
Alien marauders is good. It might be too much like TAB. Almost a carbon copy reskin with a few additions. Hopefully they keep adding more because it definitely captures the feel of TAB with a new coat of paint.
Age of darkness is similar to both in design. I feel however the game itself is too easy. The day to day is pretty much risk free. Mob density feels fairly low. The only risk comes during the death knight waves which in general are fairly easy to defend against. You can expand fairly risk free.
The Below Towers are now way better than before, makes the waves easier to conquer :)
More please kind sir 😊
You always do the same thing with melee units in this game... make 1 or 2 of them, see them get concaved by 3-6 enemies at once and die, then declare them not good and stop making them.
For melee units in this style of strategy game to be effective, you need enough of them to form a proper surface/phalanx. That limits the number of enemies that can hit any one unit, and going from 3-6 enemies hitting a unit to only 1-2 in a game with active regen makes a huge difference.
It's definitely true he does that, but melee units in RTS always have a scaling problem past a breakpoint. You just don't need melees if you have a death ball of ranged units, cause after a certain amount of melees they can't reach the targets anymore, which is when you transition to a ranged playstyle. For some people, like him, it's just better to go ranged and stay ranged cause it makes more sense to him. I do agree that the melees would work better if he used more than two, though. It's just painfully unviable for tower defense death nights like this, so you have to split your money between a melee army by preference, or a ranged army by convenience (and it's a lot of convenience)
Sorry for rambling.
@@opfragile He lost balls of 6-10 archers to two volleys from light AoE units that only tickle melee units, multiple times. What he's doing is like trying to play Zerg without Zerglings because "they die too much."
@@Qlmmb2086 why are you knit picking a guy who’s played a handful of this game? Age of darkness is easy. And you can beat it anyway you want. He’s already beaten nightmare once so stop talking to him like he doesn’t know what he’s doing
@@rsjrx Because I like him, and like to watch him game, but get a little frustrated when he ignores major game mechanics. If anything, when he's learning a new game is the appropriate time to bring these "nit picks" up. He doesn't need you to defend him from criticism; he's gonna be just fine.
Melee units are bad
Do you think age of darkness is as beautiful as they are billions?
A pity you lost her early, you'll have to do another video :P
Watched for the fourth time haha, I agree, hope the champion was ranged, cuz the summon bodyguard fits so perfectly well since they charge so eagerly while doing 2nd skill then charging like HEAL BOMBS. Guess the devs wants to encourage us to have melee units or a melee champ the least.
Close one. Nearly held out.
Hi kensei, noob here, how do you research grand bellower tower?
Is this game worth to buy now?I watched your video before,you said the game still has many things need to improve,do they fix them or improve them to make the game nice to play or worth it's price?
well the game is still in it's early state, i saw they are trying to add stuff by the end of the month like idk what, for the moment i will say no , only if there is a discount, i bought it but still melee units are way to weak, the ai needs some love, pathfinding needs too, but from the release date till now it looks very very promising.
Just to understand the game is very nice, chalenging but it misses a few things. I'd say you could come back in a few months to see real results , maybe by the end of july-august it will be worth the price and to play it, after like 1-2 more big updates.
If you want to support the dev's buy it , it will be worth in a few months with campaign, more units etc
@Mimi a lot of games are copy paste but are not the same , like dota and lol they are the same but they are not the same . The games are in the specific gen, age of darkness is like they are billions but is not it has it's own mechanic.
@Mimi Lol.. have you played it already? It is similar but not a copy paste...
@Mimi lol it is just different.. same as every shooter is similar but different.. did you play it?
@Mimi stay narrow minded 🙌🏼
I've tried Age of Darkness with that new hero. I ended up quitting because her guards kept shoving her into blasters. Did you experience similar issues?
god yes. i had game for 2 days now so started with her first cuz of her power perks sounded more interesting and having extra free soldiers spawn is a huge help in other RTS. but if she ran away from battle they ran away. if she ran into a tight spot, they ran into that tight spot shoving her in further amongst the enemy. 🤦♂
I haven't tried her enough to really have an opinion. I didn't like not being able to control the guards though. It did cause some issues.
Nice!
Your last run was 3:50 hours so about 30 minutes off nightmare.
I checked and 30 mins seems about right. I think it's 4 less days in game
@@KenseiTV after doing nightmare for first time today I feel like they got that timing spot on for nightmare, but I do feel Aelis is much stronger when micro managing, the recent changes to hazy skies certainly have helped balancing, don’t if you seen this youtuber but camgamerjohn I think his name is has been trying nightmare 7.1-7.3 multipliers like how i got no idea and that’s just insane and impossible.
They are billions clone
shouldn't have let the hero died, could have ended the game much earlier
Thats not how this works
Hi, you should articulate more, i barely can hear/understand what you're saying, beside that, nice video, interesting game
Second!
I would like to see your take on the newest changes they made to the game. They rebalanced a lot of things since this playthrough and I think the game is both more challenging and also more user friendly now.
They made melee units significantly better by increasing swordsman's health regen and introduced spearmen which have longer range, sit behind your swordsman, and can hit multiple enemies. This makes melee units viable for clearing and speeds up your early game clear substantially.
To balance this out they reduced the amount of food farms produce which forces you to expand quicker to support your economy.
There are lots of other little changes as well and quality of life updates like re-coloring the units/buildings so they're easier to see. Overall I'm pretty happy with my purchase. The devs are clearly listening to feedback and making good changes while also continuing to improve and flesh out the game as they go.
I think the biggest issue now is how long a game takes. Even without pausing, this playthrough took you over 3 hours. That's just too much time for a single game especially if they are going to limit saves. I wish they did what TAB did and allow you to save as many times as you want so you can stop any time, but make it so that the newest save overwrites all previous saves so you can't use your saved game files to re-do something you messed up on.
Once they figure out the pacing issue and reduce game length and/or allow more saves I think the game will be in a good spot. Next I just hope they build out either some multiplayer options or story mode/campaign or both to provide some more variety in the content.
I'll have to give it another try at some point in the future. Melee more viable sounds good and quality of life improvements are always welcome.
Duration of one run is one of the things I dislike quite a bit. Hopefully we'll get faster pacing in the future