@@coryhafer7285 he tended to place them wildly in the old days in late game and the mill like half a screen away, but it ist mostly more of a meme than anything
I've played AoE2 literally near my whole life. It is the reason I chose the studies and eventual profession I did. To say it was an influential game is an understatement
@@darkfangnightcrow I never said I didn't know that was the case? I was just saying how it's crazy that a game that was originally released 24 years ago is still actively played and developed for.
@@darkfangnightcrowit's kind of absurd how many games try for a competitive scene and design a game around eSports and yet it's old weird stuff like aoe and cs somehow managing to crush it
@@imreloadin Precisely and the fact that they updated the Persians with a free update keeps the game fresh, for the multiplayer and campaign and scenario editor, the game is well worth its asking price.
I played this game in '99 when it first came out as a pre-teen. I still remember the opening cutscene, with the king grabbing the chess piece. Now in 2023, I'm finishing up the latest campaign DLC and trying to chase all those achievements. Love this game.
AoE 2 is such an iconic game, even though I'm also terrible at it. Watching some old pro like Daut play AoE 2 feels like watching some genius general like Caesar do their thing. Well, until Daut tries to build a forward castle with 5 villagers.
still blows my mind that the little medieval game I played as a kid with the silly things like dodge vipers with machine guns, and greased up guys with no clothes on, is still being robustly played and developed today. same with that pretty cool little multiplayer mod for Half-Life
There's a reason why AoE2 still has a competitive scene while so many other RTS games are lost to history. It's because it's got something more than the sum of its parts. It's like chess, it doesnt need fancy graphics, it doesnt need slick animations. The gameplay is tight, the strategies and meta ever changing. It's just a damn good game.
AoE2 has a bunch'a campaigns for non-tryhards as well as this medieval appeal (that Stronghold and others have) which attracts lots of history nerds and hobbyists(it _is_ interesting, after all) Really hit the most popular period in history with this game I like tea but I have never drank Yorkshire tea What is it like?
I love the game for many years having grown up with it.. but damn unit pathing feels off, didn't play for a while and now it really seems worse than it used to be. Hoping theres a fix for that soon
99% sure the way this works is: In AoE2 when a monk picks up a relic a new unit is actually spawned in place of the old one, called monk with relic. When you normally touch the church with a monk with relic, 2 triggers go off 1. the monk with relic -> monk, and 2. generate a relic inside the church. So I assume that the triggers are queued when you select the church and there is a check to cancel the triggers if a move order is given, but not for dropping the relic. Thus both triggers go off and monk -> monk, and relic is generated. Seems like the fix is to find the trigger cancel code when move order is given and copy paste / rereference it in the relic drop order.
I don't think it's a separate unit (That's a lot of programming overhead). Instead it would just be a carry item state like villagers and other units use. In terms of the bug, what is likely is happening is there is a special monk action to drop the relic in the church, but on completion it doesn't check if the monk has a relic (because the code assume that they have one to be able to trigger the action), it only "removes" the relic they are carrying and adds a new relic to the church, but because they are not currently holding a relic, the original relic doesn't get removed
@@Oshroth If you make a custom map, you can actually drop in "Monk With Relic" as a separate unit from "Monk", something you can't do with any other carry item state unit.
@@RobertJW yeah I was gonna say, I used to mess around with the scenario maker and make my own maps and scenarios, and I very much remember there being a monk unit and monk with relic unit
@@RobertJWisn't the monk the only unit that can carry an object? You can spawn a monk carrying a relic because it's not the same as a monk not carrying one, which would make things different when creating a scenario or something. Edit I've double checked the tech tree, and I cannot found any other unit that can carry items, so unless I'm blind, I'm guessing when talking about units with carry item state, you mean units like konniks, ships and rams, but those would be a totally different thing. If they had to add every single variation of every unit that can "carry" another unit, you would have hundreds of useless copies of units
@@RobertJW Except that no other units in the game have a name change like monks do. Villagers regardless of what they are carrying still remain villagers, right?
AOE2 was my first video game. I remember being like 3 and my dad would sit me on his lap and let me play with him. One of the best memories of my childhood
I remember going to my aunt's house where they had the game. As soon as I would get there I would ask to join the PC and play Age. Then I would sink in that fantasy world for hours without end, it was magical. I would mess with the Custom Game settings and start very random games and get fascinated.
@@Felix_EN yeah two weeks of awareness and reports prior to the patch release from playing the preview build and another full week after release into the wild. Rapid scenes from forgotten empires
AoE II is an absolute masterpiece, but I can't help but have a soft spot for AoE III. Something about the whole exploring new lands, finding new people, and then colonising them that gets me in the mood for more tea.
EU4 is like that too, but it is wayyyy more complex. For one thing, the map is the entire planet, minus a few tiny specks of islands that were too small to add, and for another, the game has a ton of unique mechanics, and the mechanics can change simply based on which country you choose to play as. Not only that, but the AI is much more skillful than in some RTS games, and will actively try to stop you if you expand too quickly, and they form alliances and guarantee the independence of small nations to keep you from expanding into lands you and the AI share an interest in. Another unique thing, every single nation has its own culture, and forming an empire allows you to unite your culture group, which gives you more bang for your buck for each province you take of your culture. The coolest thing is that it is entirely possible in that game to conquer the entire planet, either directly or through Dominions (vassals).
@@kronosomni2805 I'll tell you what I tell all the EU4 ppl: I don't want to learn a PhD's worth of mechanics to play a single nation in a videogame! Not that I haven't tried mind you... xD
@@Yehnsei I will say the same thing that everyone else would say, and it used to bug me, but it's all about practice, you could play 2000 hours of the game and you would still be learning more about the flow of the game and new mechanics.
@@Yehnsei I wrote a guide on how to play EU4 ASAP. Mind you it's quite outdated now and was only for vanilla anyway. But the long&short is the alerts at the top will guide you through 95% of what you need to do.
Played 1 at my buddy’s growing up and own 2 and 3. 2 is by far my favorite age of empires game. Probably because I remember sinking so many hours into the campaign, skirmishes and a ton of time creating custom campaigns and my own story lines.
Played Age 1-3 and Mythology when they came out. Mythology is the best for Cheesy weird combos with insane literal God Powers, but I do like the way Age 3 gave villagers and units better AI, and allowed resource gathering to occur in real time, without the need to deposit resources. All great fun games, glad to see you enjoying them too :)
My only real exposure to AoE2 was way WAY back in highschool which was basically 2 whole ages ago in and of itself. Some cleaver sausage at school discovered that not only was there a fully playable version of the game available for download on Microsoft's website but that even the low spec toasters in our computer lab were more than capable of smoothly running the game and could connect for full LAN matches. I'm fairly certain more time was spent playing AoE2 than actually doing any schoolwork.
I remember when AoE 2 came out. It absoloute blew my mind due to one simple thing, the arrows staying in the ground for a while after a volley. It may sound daft but I was 8 at the time and that was a pretty cool leap in gaming for me
Age of Empires 2 was the first video game I bought as a kid. I remember playing the demo of it for hours on end on the family's PC in the living room. Reason why I became really into William Wallace at one point and hated Brave Heart cus of how historically inaccurate it was portraying him. Think I was about 10 when I finally got this game. Never got good at it, never did pvp, never finished any of the campaigns outside tutorail one. But I sitll love it. It also helped me learn to type fast, typing in all those cheat codes. cheese steak jimmy's. how do you turn this thing on.
@@thespiffingbrit Oh yes, I had a printed out sheet with all the codes lying next to me when I was 12. It is also how I learned how to use CTRL+C and CTRL+V. Have to spam "Cheese Steak Jimmy's" fast! 11
So in Australia in the early 2000’s, nearly every child received a free copy of Age of Empires with their breakfast cereal as the Gods of Kellogg deemed it necessary. And it was Good. Legit It was the best promo and I’ve loved the franchise ever since. Would love you to play these games!
I've this game, been a favorite since I was a teen. I don't know if you know, Brit, but in the old AOE2 you can send trade carts to defeated enemies markets. Money money money money!
I still play this game from time to time. I'm working my way through all of the campaigns they have released and it's very impressive how they're still putting out solid, unique content that blends right in with the original stuff. None of it feels out of place. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but this game is truly special.
Do this with the new civs that just got realeased. Their special fortified chirches become mini castles with multiple relics in them. And only cost wood to build
somehow yesterday i felt the urge to play this exact game for the first time in YEARS the unrivaled (tea based) power of this video was SO BIG that it reached back in time! Not even shocked to be honest.
I love how you have a Yorkshire tea affiliate link! Props to them for supporting one of their best advocates. Yorkshire tea is objectively the best. I will tolerate PG tips at the office but if somebody offers me a tetley’s or, god forbid, a typhoo, I’d rather shit in my hands and clap.
congratulations on getting those affiliate links. You are actually the main reason I bought Yorkshire Tea Gold from an import shop, and I gotta say, it is far better than most other black tea blends I tried!
Nice! I was literally watching some of your old AoE2 videos last night! Started playing with friends yesterday and plan to play again tonight. This video could not have come at a better time lol
I always forget that my first spiff video was right off the tail of watching t90 vids, and there was just one in my feed for intercontinental ballistic missiles in aoe2. The absolute range on those units is still bafflingly insane to me.
Love the videos Spiff! Look forward to them every upload! Coming from a Brit office worker with a secret supply of Yorkshire gold! Keep up the exemplary work for the British empire and the true QUEEN
I've played AoE 1 and 2 as well as Age of Mythology. I remember beating the first one and getting a rocket launching car or making superfast monks. The games were amazing for their time and still are.
I played Age of Empires I, Rise of Rome, and Age of Empires 2 back in the day. We'd network it with friends and family members to have a great time. I'm so glad it's still around and gets some love now and then
I was introduced to the AOE series probably back in 2007-ish and played it all throughout my childhood. AOE2 is and always will be my favorite, and it's the only one I play nowadays, but I also have huge amounts of hours of AOE1, AOE3, and Age of Mythology. I will definitely be playing the AoM remake when it gets released.
I love all the age games, but aoe2 holds a special place in my heart, ive played it since i was 5 and still play it to this day plus watch a lot of t90s videos, it would be AMAZING to see you ever get into one of his community games with exploding kings, that would be collab of the decade
One of my first memories is my dad teaching me to play Age of Empires, the very first one. So it's all a nostalgia trip for me, and each game evokes different memories, all of them the kind of warm memory you cling to But if I had to pick one, it's probably AoE3... Okay listen, I get it xD But for me it's about family. My family takes family quite seriously, gathering from across the world for Christmas every year. And us grandkids didn't always get along... Until we started LANing AoE3. And we still do that sometimes, as a bunch of 23 year old we set up a lan with same computers we had over a decade ago Perfection
I first started in Age of Empires from a demo disk that had several games on it. Demo as in it was just a partial version of AoE1. That game is one of my favorite games of all time, but I did not play as much AoE2 growing up. I played it more as an adult. This video reminds me of my favorite AoE1 mission, which I believe is an early Babylonian mission where you start with a single unit, a Priest (basically the same thing as a Monk) and you have to build an army big enough to take over from that 1 unit. You can't build any more of them, but the conversion thing has always been super-strong. Also in one of my few online games I played in AoE1, I built priests to try to stop an opponent's rush, but expected low-level infantry and instead they sent Chariots. Chariots in AoE1 are highly resistant to conversion. However, I happened to convert his first couple of chariots instantly anyway. He still ran me over a few minutes later (because I'm bad at multiplayer as well) but it was a very memorable moment.
i used to love playing Age of Empires 2 while travelling South America cos it seemed like it was on nearly every computer in every internet cafe. My general tactic was to as quickly as possible build walls as close to the enemy as possible to block them from getting most of the resources... make tons of archer towers to defend it... enough to consistently kill all attackers. Then try to take their resources first.. dont mine the ones close to you.. do the ones far away... in mid to late game you start using your own resources while they have run out completely.. thats when you attack.. im talking about fighting ai though not multiplayer with humans.. it probably wouldnt work against other humans
5 friends playing vs AI "buddy! I am being overrun! Send some military!" "_dont worry, I have a plan_!" *Bvuilds 3 layer deep wall, blocking all of my trade* *I actually survive the extremr DE AI onslaught* "Buddy! You'll regret this!" Yeah this game makes memories Backstabby memories are the funniest though
BTW someone actually visited every church that claimed to have a piece of the true cross of christ. He documented the size of each. When he was done he added the volume of each piece together and compared it to the volume of the assumed size of the cross. His calculations showed a significant amount of the cross was missing. What people always miss is, most pieces of the cross are basically a splinter. So what the monk was actually doing was cutting off a tiny piece of the relic and delivering that as a piece, over and over again. It's still a piece, so it's still a relic.
For AOE multi-player the key is trade carts. To start build 50 villagers and 50 carts, build your markets as far from each other as possible to gain as much gold as possible. Use the other 100 population for troops. Back when I was playing on a Lan I woukd typically get 200,000 to 300,000 gold in a three hour game. When there are no trees left on black forest, and the only way to make resourses is to spend gold, having 150 trade carts and 20 castles to make janisaries means even when you lose an entire army a new one magical appears.
As a kid I never could get into AoEII myself, but did play the hell out of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Clone campaigns which ran on the AoEII engine. It's basically a 1 for 1 "clone" of AOEII with the additions of Jedi and aerial units. Super fun, had a blast with it!
My favorite AoE is easily III. I'm actually a little salty that II is so popular because it came at the cost of support for III. We did get the DE recently but then it was straight on to IV after that. III is so well paced, and the home city, which threw II players for a loop, provides a really cool mechanic for timing pushes/defenses.
the competitive scene really suffered with the release of 4, the others remained pretty stable. Even 1, which by this point is pretty much Vietnams national sport.
As a child of the 80's (I know the game didnt come out then. Just showing my age) I remember playing Age of Empires II when it was first released. Fantastic game then and I'm still playing the series today. I really enjoyed AOE 2 but I fondly remember AOE 3 as well. Another great video as always and I look forward to the next.
There's probably _some_ way to try it, but, yeah, "try it for yourselves!" stopped being easy a week before release. It's nice that AoE2 tends to get patches quickly for when something is a game-breaking exploit like this.
I got to know about this bug about 12-18 hours after discovery and was able to replicate. Due to that I did not play ranked for a day or two. Bug was fixed in that period, so yeah, AoE2 devs work pretty fast))
Glad to see my favorite tea enthusiast playing my favorite game for now almost a quarter of century. Its insane that this game has remained as big as it is for this long, but if youve played you know how well deserved it is and thank you Microsoft for all the recent moves and the seemingly endless stream of fresh content. Cheers.
For me AOE2 is the best game I have ever seen or played. Been watching competitive for years, played the original, and started again with DE. Love that you made a video about it. In the past there was also a nice relic bug with one civilization, giving their calvary unlimited attack. Gotta love the ancient coding of this game though :)
Age of Empires 2 was my childhood. My gamer parents got to actually play while my sibling and I just fought over the sheep, building beautiful pens for them. As I got older we actually started to play together . And now I still recommend it to my friends. We love goofing around with the 256x mod. Thanks for introducing us to that one, Spiff!
Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings was the very first computer game I played (that wasn't an educational toddlers game). I remember watching the intro cinematic and thinking it was the coolest, most epic thing ever; the chess game-turned battlefield, the castle besieged by trebuchets and mounted knights, the tragedy of war as the lone survivor drops a wooden king-piece in resignation... I also remember not knowing that you had to _unpack_ the trebuchets in the game to make them attack things. So began my more than 20-year love of all things "strategy".
AoE 2 is definitely the best, however I do like 3 only because you are able to revolt and become America and just spam a never ending horde of Minutemen. For every one killed 2 take his place. (Literally just focus all your resources towards food producing factories because the Minutemen only cost like 50 food I think)
Favorite AoE? Age of Empires 1 Demo version, Rise of rome dlc. This legendary map when you play Carthago vs yellow&red Rome, and you have units to find, on yellow Roman island, hidden in mountains. That was my first RTS game contact on very young age, so nostalgic... and this music!
Although we started with AOE, I spent hours and hours and hours playing AOE2 in college. We'd have a biweekly inter-dorm challenge. After I graduated some of us kept it up for a few years. Hard to believe almost 25 years later its been remastered and people are playing it.
Grew up playing AoE Gold and AoE2 Conquerers with my sister and dad. Even played the demo version on those game demo discs you used to get with PC magazines. Good Times. To this day I still have the soundtrack stuck in my head and go listen to the OST from time to time.
Spiff, you finally did it! You finally got Yorkshire Tea Gold to sponsor you! How marvelous! Cheers, mate 👍🏼 I hope you get over your cold soon! Yorkshire 🍵 is just the thing you need to get you back in shape
I knew you were a man of culture! I picked up aoe2:de 2-3 years ago again and play online ranked for fun. I actually just played a game vs AI with my brother who just bought it! Long live AOE2
I've played AOE 2 and 3, loved 2 the most by far and loved the El Cid and Montezuma campaigns the most, also loved most of the conqueror's battle thingies especially Agincourt
Just started playing AoE2 a week ago and have been having a blast! Convinced my friends to start playing with me and im excited to try out this new “feature” on them :)
The first (and only) game i ever received from my parents (it was from mom to be precise) was AoE on it's original cd that i still have stored and hidden somewhere :) . I believe she got it in work as a part of bulk win98 sale (or smth like that). Till this day i remember how i launched this game for the fisrt time - the graphics (seen on my 1024x768 vga crt monitor), animations, music, sound... everything was ust superb and for that i still remember that game. But from gaming point of view i love AoE2 (and i still play it from time to time).
My team at work got very into AOE2 and all of us started playing and training and improving. Nearly all of us were tournament level players, (not necessarily winners, but still good). It was an interesting year.
Wololo, I play AOE2 and it is probably my favorite game of all time. Thanks for making this video and bringing more views to AOE2. Love the T90 farms reference
I'm just slightly older than the game and hell yes I play it every couple years for a while still. The only games as timeless in their basegame without any sequels are Tetris and Minecraft imho
Age of empires II was a childhood favourite - me and my cousin used to clear entire maps of resources and then have full on wars that would last for hours - completed all the campaigns as well… And even made some custom campaigns with the campaign creator…. Had a solid group of friends who would LAN AOE as well… and last Boxing Day picked up a PC laptop on a big sale to mostly be able to run the AOE remasters
Nooo! I’m glad you finally have an affiliate link, but I actually bought Yorkshire gold recently thanks to you before such a link existed 😢. Next time! My Russian tea loving boyfriend enjoys the flavor a lot.
*Wololo*
Also apologies on the delivery for this video i have a cold!!! Future videos should have less sniffing brit
Wololo
Rogan?
Yeah, way, you should see ze other guy
Wololo!
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What the man says is true I’m afraid…
Time for a Legend of Spiff video
Can't wait for Hidden Cup 5!
@@Suzume175 Not even Sun Tzu could devise that one!
Low ELO, high exploitation?
About Slough?
Using Aztecs is also a great idea, as their relics produce 33% more gold, and super buff monks with extra hp for every monastery tech
Never did I expect to see a Spiffing Brit video and have him call out T90's farm placements on it.
T90 did once coach me on proper farm placement. I can tell you that I have retained none of his really useful knowledge
I've seen other AoE2 players mention T90 and farms. Is he really that wild with his placements?
@@coryhafer7285 it's a meme more then anything. Pretty sure Khmer farm bonus was made with him in mind tho' 🤣
@@coryhafer7285 he tended to place them wildly in the old days in late game and the mill like half a screen away, but it ist mostly more of a meme than anything
Ahhh I love when my favorite channels cross over
When spiff said "Jeez, make your own money exploit," I felt that in my soul.
I've played AoE2 literally near my whole life. It is the reason I chose the studies and eventual profession I did. To say it was an influential game is an understatement
May I know your profession?
What profession is that? Battle monk?
Farmer
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Camel
Love me some AoE II. I still can't believe that this game is actually still having DLC created for it with the Definitive Edition.
If you've seen how big the competitive AOE DE is you'd understand
@@darkfangnightcrow I never said I didn't know that was the case? I was just saying how it's crazy that a game that was originally released 24 years ago is still actively played and developed for.
@@darkfangnightcrowit's kind of absurd how many games try for a competitive scene and design a game around eSports and yet it's old weird stuff like aoe and cs somehow managing to crush it
Good game mechanics and a dedicated dev team is hard to find these days.
@@imreloadin Precisely and the fact that they updated the Persians with a free update keeps the game fresh, for the multiplayer and campaign and scenario editor, the game is well worth its asking price.
I played this game in '99 when it first came out as a pre-teen. I still remember the opening cutscene, with the king grabbing the chess piece. Now in 2023, I'm finishing up the latest campaign DLC and trying to chase all those achievements. Love this game.
I'm waiting for the next DLC so I have more achievements to do ⚔
AoE 2 is such an iconic game, even though I'm also terrible at it. Watching some old pro like Daut play AoE 2 feels like watching some genius general like Caesar do their thing. Well, until Daut tries to build a forward castle with 5 villagers.
It's only a Daut Castle if it's lost before completion, but after being 90% complete.
DauT castle mod is great btw :P
DauT Castle!
The truth hurts.
It doesn’t actually work anymore. Monk just stops walking.
Been playing AoE II since it was released, and it is my favorite AoE game.
Not technically an AoE game, but Age of Mythology is the one I really fell in love with
@@Soren59 yep. Best music, cool and unique units, god powers, 3D…
still blows my mind that the little medieval game I played as a kid with the silly things like dodge vipers with machine guns, and greased up guys with no clothes on, is still being robustly played and developed today. same with that pretty cool little multiplayer mod for Half-Life
or some of the crazy Doom mods.
There's a reason why AoE2 still has a competitive scene while so many other RTS games are lost to history. It's because it's got something more than the sum of its parts. It's like chess, it doesnt need fancy graphics, it doesnt need slick animations. The gameplay is tight, the strategies and meta ever changing. It's just a damn good game.
also everybody likes wolololo
Btw, in DE it got good graphics. That is obvious if we look at HD edition. So, AoE2 has everything)))
@@Usernameby4539Indeed, watching an enemy castle slowly implode in a cloud of dust and rubble is one of the all-time high points of gaming! 😁
AoE2 has a bunch'a campaigns for non-tryhards as well as this medieval appeal (that Stronghold and others have) which attracts lots of history nerds and hobbyists(it _is_ interesting, after all)
Really hit the most popular period in history with this game
I like tea but I have never drank Yorkshire tea
What is it like?
I love the game for many years having grown up with it.. but damn unit pathing feels off, didn't play for a while and now it really seems worse than it used to be. Hoping theres a fix for that soon
99% sure the way this works is: In AoE2 when a monk picks up a relic a new unit is actually spawned in place of the old one, called monk with relic. When you normally touch the church with a monk with relic, 2 triggers go off 1. the monk with relic -> monk, and 2. generate a relic inside the church. So I assume that the triggers are queued when you select the church and there is a check to cancel the triggers if a move order is given, but not for dropping the relic. Thus both triggers go off and monk -> monk, and relic is generated.
Seems like the fix is to find the trigger cancel code when move order is given and copy paste / rereference it in the relic drop order.
I don't think it's a separate unit (That's a lot of programming overhead). Instead it would just be a carry item state like villagers and other units use.
In terms of the bug, what is likely is happening is there is a special monk action to drop the relic in the church, but on completion it doesn't check if the monk has a relic (because the code assume that they have one to be able to trigger the action), it only "removes" the relic they are carrying and adds a new relic to the church, but because they are not currently holding a relic, the original relic doesn't get removed
@@Oshroth If you make a custom map, you can actually drop in "Monk With Relic" as a separate unit from "Monk", something you can't do with any other carry item state unit.
@@RobertJW yeah I was gonna say, I used to mess around with the scenario maker and make my own maps and scenarios, and I very much remember there being a monk unit and monk with relic unit
@@RobertJWisn't the monk the only unit that can carry an object?
You can spawn a monk carrying a relic because it's not the same as a monk not carrying one, which would make things different when creating a scenario or something.
Edit
I've double checked the tech tree, and I cannot found any other unit that can carry items, so unless I'm blind, I'm guessing when talking about units with carry item state, you mean units like konniks, ships and rams, but those would be a totally different thing.
If they had to add every single variation of every unit that can "carry" another unit, you would have hundreds of useless copies of units
@@RobertJW Except that no other units in the game have a name change like monks do. Villagers regardless of what they are carrying still remain villagers, right?
AOE2 was my first video game. I remember being like 3 and my dad would sit me on his lap and let me play with him. One of the best memories of my childhood
I remember going to my aunt's house where they had the game. As soon as I would get there I would ask to join the PC and play Age. Then I would sink in that fantasy world for hours without end, it was magical. I would mess with the Custom Game settings and start very random games and get fascinated.
Responsible of Spiff to make people aware to not abuse this strat online
This was hotfixed pretty fast, don't worry
fixed 24h later last week
that is a hotfix for 24 yrsold game imo @@DissarayJay
@@DissarayJayafter it was abused for a decade.
@@Felix_EN yeah two weeks of awareness and reports prior to the patch release from playing the preview build and another full week after release into the wild. Rapid scenes from forgotten empires
AoE II is an absolute masterpiece, but I can't help but have a soft spot for AoE III.
Something about the whole exploring new lands, finding new people, and then colonising them that gets me in the mood for more tea.
EU4 is like that too, but it is wayyyy more complex. For one thing, the map is the entire planet, minus a few tiny specks of islands that were too small to add, and for another, the game has a ton of unique mechanics, and the mechanics can change simply based on which country you choose to play as. Not only that, but the AI is much more skillful than in some RTS games, and will actively try to stop you if you expand too quickly, and they form alliances and guarantee the independence of small nations to keep you from expanding into lands you and the AI share an interest in. Another unique thing, every single nation has its own culture, and forming an empire allows you to unite your culture group, which gives you more bang for your buck for each province you take of your culture. The coolest thing is that it is entirely possible in that game to conquer the entire planet, either directly or through Dominions (vassals).
@@kronosomni2805 I'll tell you what I tell all the EU4 ppl: I don't want to learn a PhD's worth of mechanics to play a single nation in a videogame!
Not that I haven't tried mind you... xD
@@Yehnsei I will say the same thing that everyone else would say, and it used to bug me, but it's all about practice, you could play 2000 hours of the game and you would still be learning more about the flow of the game and new mechanics.
@@Yehnsei I wrote a guide on how to play EU4 ASAP. Mind you it's quite outdated now and was only for vanilla anyway.
But the long&short is the alerts at the top will guide you through 95% of what you need to do.
Played 1 at my buddy’s growing up and own 2 and 3. 2 is by far my favorite age of empires game. Probably because I remember sinking so many hours into the campaign, skirmishes and a ton of time creating custom campaigns and my own story lines.
Played Age 1-3 and Mythology when they came out. Mythology is the best for Cheesy weird combos with insane literal God Powers, but I do like the way Age 3 gave villagers and units better AI, and allowed resource gathering to occur in real time, without the need to deposit resources. All great fun games, glad to see you enjoying them too :)
My only real exposure to AoE2 was way WAY back in highschool which was basically 2 whole ages ago in and of itself. Some cleaver sausage at school discovered that not only was there a fully playable version of the game available for download on Microsoft's website but that even the low spec toasters in our computer lab were more than capable of smoothly running the game and could connect for full LAN matches. I'm fairly certain more time was spent playing AoE2 than actually doing any schoolwork.
Yes, that's how I first learned about it. I also came across Starcraft in computer lab.
I remember when AoE 2 came out. It absoloute blew my mind due to one simple thing, the arrows staying in the ground for a while after a volley. It may sound daft but I was 8 at the time and that was a pretty cool leap in gaming for me
Do not give your mother in law wood!😂
It might lead to an awkward Thanksgiving if you live in any US state. (EXCLUDING ALABAMA)
Lmao I’m dead 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Is it true in alabama , 3 mother inlaws is normal.
Age of Empires is the reason why along the STEM courses, my history marks were astonishingly good back in school.
Age of Empires 2 was the first video game I bought as a kid. I remember playing the demo of it for hours on end on the family's PC in the living room. Reason why I became really into William Wallace at one point and hated Brave Heart cus of how historically inaccurate it was portraying him. Think I was about 10 when I finally got this game. Never got good at it, never did pvp, never finished any of the campaigns outside tutorail one. But I sitll love it. It also helped me learn to type fast, typing in all those cheat codes. cheese steak jimmy's. how do you turn this thing on.
God the cheat codes were so fun. Especially in pre modern internet era when they existed as digital myths
@@thespiffingbrit And you never knew which cheats did and did not work since sites weren't that reliable.
@@ZackRToler y'all are taking me back to the days of unmarked DVD copies that your friend swore were legit
Had the demo from a local PC-magazine called "computer for all" well Komputer for some reason.
@@thespiffingbrit Oh yes, I had a printed out sheet with all the codes lying next to me when I was 12.
It is also how I learned how to use CTRL+C and CTRL+V. Have to spam "Cheese Steak Jimmy's" fast!
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So in Australia in the early 2000’s, nearly every child received a free copy of Age of Empires with their breakfast cereal as the Gods of Kellogg deemed it necessary. And it was Good.
Legit It was the best promo and I’ve loved the franchise ever since. Would love you to play these games!
5:30 Now I believe Spiff watches AoE2 casts.
Of course. It's bloody good fun
Even I know of the T90 Farms and I don't even play AoE2.
Prostagma
@@TARDISES But T90 doesn't play Age of Mythology?
@@sokarash Yeah, but AoM was always the one I preferred, so...
@@TARDISES I don't play AoE2, I just watch T90.
I've this game, been a favorite since I was a teen.
I don't know if you know, Brit, but in the old AOE2 you can send trade carts to defeated enemies markets. Money money money money!
I still play this game from time to time. I'm working my way through all of the campaigns they have released and it's very impressive how they're still putting out solid, unique content that blends right in with the original stuff. None of it feels out of place. It may not be everyone's cup of tea, but this game is truly special.
I was an OG player when AoE 2 first came out. Good times. Joanne of Arcs fake French words still stuck in my head.
Do this with the new civs that just got realeased. Their special fortified chirches become mini castles with multiple relics in them. And only cost wood to build
one of them gets extra arrovs for relics, though I am not sure if just for the first
It got patched before the new DLC dropped.
@jakobrosenqvist4691 so this video is outdated already?
I was about to hop in and start a game 😂
its 1 week too late xD@@logistaur
@@logistaur yeah, for a 20 year old game the devs are really on top of things.
The most impressive part of this video is learning that Spiff has affiliate links with Yorkshire Tea after all these years of giving them free promo.
somehow yesterday i felt the urge to play this exact game for the first time in YEARS
the unrivaled (tea based) power of this video was SO BIG that it reached back in time!
Not even shocked to be honest.
I love how you have a Yorkshire tea affiliate link! Props to them for supporting one of their best advocates. Yorkshire tea is objectively the best. I will tolerate PG tips at the office but if somebody offers me a tetley’s or, god forbid, a typhoo, I’d rather shit in my hands and clap.
The power of british ECONOMYY
Make-up shit and print gold the British way
I THINK tea is the way
@@thespiffingbritSouth Sea Bubble 😅
Steal relics and house them in museums, and potentially make forgeries of them
congratulations on getting those affiliate links.
You are actually the main reason I bought Yorkshire Tea Gold from an import shop, and I gotta say, it is far better than most other black tea blends I tried!
You forgot AOE2 is the only game where the community basically ignores the sequels and prefers a 25 year old version
Nice! I was literally watching some of your old AoE2 videos last night! Started playing with friends yesterday and plan to play again tonight. This video could not have come at a better time lol
I always forget that my first spiff video was right off the tail of watching t90 vids, and there was just one in my feed for intercontinental ballistic missiles in aoe2. The absolute range on those units is still bafflingly insane to me.
Love the videos Spiff! Look forward to them every upload! Coming from a Brit office worker with a secret supply of Yorkshire gold! Keep up the exemplary work for the British empire and the true QUEEN
I remember playing AoE somewhere in the late 90s. Blows my mind that its still around to be honest.
Not just around, but thriving.
Devs did an incredible job preserving everything good about the game and every addition/change was for the better. Every remaster should be this good.
I've only ever played AoE II and AoE: Age of Kings, and I have to say, Age of Kings is my favourite because it was one of the games I grew up playing.
It took a ridiculous amount of time to even get the Conquerors expansion, but I had a blast with the vanilla game nontheless
I've played AoE 1 and 2 as well as Age of Mythology. I remember beating the first one and getting a rocket launching car or making superfast monks. The games were amazing for their time and still are.
I played Age of Empires I, Rise of Rome, and Age of Empires 2 back in the day. We'd network it with friends and family members to have a great time. I'm so glad it's still around and gets some love now and then
I was introduced to the AOE series probably back in 2007-ish and played it all throughout my childhood. AOE2 is and always will be my favorite, and it's the only one I play nowadays, but I also have huge amounts of hours of AOE1, AOE3, and Age of Mythology. I will definitely be playing the AoM remake when it gets released.
Congratulations on your Yorkshire Tea partnership, after all those years I’m glad for you.
I love all the age games, but aoe2 holds a special place in my heart, ive played it since i was 5 and still play it to this day plus watch a lot of t90s videos, it would be AMAZING to see you ever get into one of his community games with exploding kings, that would be collab of the decade
forest only or exploding kings, all glitches allowed. i would pay to see a commie game like that with spiff
Guaranteed that Spiff would find an exploit to explode his own king but keep it alive and use it to nuke everyone lol
Age of Empires 2 and mythology were my childhood. 3 was good as well. Haven't tried the original or 4
I played tons AoE 2 as a kid. I was absolute crap at it, but I loved every second. I'd love to see you upload more vids of this game.
Start playing it again!
One of my first memories is my dad teaching me to play Age of Empires, the very first one. So it's all a nostalgia trip for me, and each game evokes different memories, all of them the kind of warm memory you cling to
But if I had to pick one, it's probably AoE3...
Okay listen, I get it xD
But for me it's about family. My family takes family quite seriously, gathering from across the world for Christmas every year. And us grandkids didn't always get along... Until we started LANing AoE3. And we still do that sometimes, as a bunch of 23 year old we set up a lan with same computers we had over a decade ago
Perfection
I first started in Age of Empires from a demo disk that had several games on it. Demo as in it was just a partial version of AoE1. That game is one of my favorite games of all time, but I did not play as much AoE2 growing up. I played it more as an adult. This video reminds me of my favorite AoE1 mission, which I believe is an early Babylonian mission where you start with a single unit, a Priest (basically the same thing as a Monk) and you have to build an army big enough to take over from that 1 unit. You can't build any more of them, but the conversion thing has always been super-strong. Also in one of my few online games I played in AoE1, I built priests to try to stop an opponent's rush, but expected low-level infantry and instead they sent Chariots. Chariots in AoE1 are highly resistant to conversion. However, I happened to convert his first couple of chariots instantly anyway.
He still ran me over a few minutes later (because I'm bad at multiplayer as well) but it was a very memorable moment.
Spiff's buttery British accent is so smooth my coffee turned to tea
BRITAIN!!!🐦🐦🐦 🇬🇧 🇬🇧🇬🇧
i used to love playing Age of Empires 2 while travelling South America cos it seemed like it was on nearly every computer in every internet cafe. My general tactic was to as quickly as possible build walls as close to the enemy as possible to block them from getting most of the resources... make tons of archer towers to defend it... enough to consistently kill all attackers. Then try to take their resources first.. dont mine the ones close to you.. do the ones far away... in mid to late game you start using your own resources while they have run out completely.. thats when you attack.. im talking about fighting ai though not multiplayer with humans.. it probably wouldnt work against other humans
Imagine being good at this game.
Literally impossible
@@thespiffingbrit Not impossible. It's just a case of, "There's always a bigger fish," like being the best at Tetris, SSB, painting or dancing.
You'll be loved by you viewers and hated by your friends.
Love the fact that Yorkshire tea finally decided to start paying their biggest asset. You deserve it, Mr. Britt
One love ❤️
It's been so long but God do I have some great memories
5 friends playing vs AI
"buddy! I am being overrun! Send some military!"
"_dont worry, I have a plan_!"
*Bvuilds 3 layer deep wall, blocking all of my trade*
*I actually survive the extremr DE AI onslaught*
"Buddy! You'll regret this!"
Yeah this game makes memories
Backstabby memories are the funniest though
As a Spaniard that I am, I can confirm that we also duplicate relics with monks in real life.
BTW someone actually visited every church that claimed to have a piece of the true cross of christ. He documented the size of each.
When he was done he added the volume of each piece together and compared it to the volume of the assumed size of the cross.
His calculations showed a significant amount of the cross was missing.
What people always miss is, most pieces of the cross are basically a splinter.
So what the monk was actually doing was cutting off a tiny piece of the relic and delivering that as a piece, over and over again. It's still a piece, so it's still a relic.
Could be worse. Could be distributing specks of sawdust.
For AOE multi-player the key is trade carts. To start build 50 villagers and 50 carts, build your markets as far from each other as possible to gain as much gold as possible. Use the other 100 population for troops. Back when I was playing on a Lan I woukd typically get 200,000 to 300,000 gold in a three hour game. When there are no trees left on black forest, and the only way to make resourses is to spend gold, having 150 trade carts and 20 castles to make janisaries means even when you lose an entire army a new one magical appears.
And have a spanish ally
@@pavise6333 -Indians- Hindustanis (and now Persians) also work
Isn't there a Civ that has faster working Markets nowadays?
@@The-jy3yq Yup, Bohemians. 80% faster prod
This is moon advice. 120 vills minimum
@@The-jy3yqBengalis with 10% food generation on the trade is also strong especially when there are no resources anymore on the map
My favorite mission was the first mission of the voices of Babylon campaign in AOE1 where you just get 1 monk and use it to convert the enemy army
Mine is age of empires 4, it used to be aoe2 but in aoe4 the different civs have more "personality" imo with their unique game mechanics and such.
As a kid I never could get into AoEII myself, but did play the hell out of Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds Clone campaigns which ran on the AoEII engine. It's basically a 1 for 1 "clone" of AOEII with the additions of Jedi and aerial units. Super fun, had a blast with it!
My favorite AoE is easily III. I'm actually a little salty that II is so popular because it came at the cost of support for III. We did get the DE recently but then it was straight on to IV after that. III is so well paced, and the home city, which threw II players for a loop, provides a really cool mechanic for timing pushes/defenses.
the competitive scene really suffered with the release of 4, the others remained pretty stable. Even 1, which by this point is pretty much Vietnams national sport.
As a child of the 80's (I know the game didnt come out then. Just showing my age) I remember playing Age of Empires II when it was first released. Fantastic game then and I'm still playing the series today. I really enjoyed AOE 2 but I fondly remember AOE 3 as well.
Another great video as always and I look forward to the next.
For those that want to try this, it's been patched out
There's probably _some_ way to try it, but, yeah, "try it for yourselves!" stopped being easy a week before release. It's nice that AoE2 tends to get patches quickly for when something is a game-breaking exploit like this.
I got to know about this bug about 12-18 hours after discovery and was able to replicate. Due to that I did not play ranked for a day or two.
Bug was fixed in that period, so yeah, AoE2 devs work pretty fast))
Thanks! I was so confused as to why it wasn't working when I tried it
It seems like every game developer is subscribed to Spiffs channel so that they can fix the newest exploits right away! :D
dang
Glad to see my favorite tea enthusiast playing my favorite game for now almost a quarter of century. Its insane that this game has remained as big as it is for this long, but if youve played you know how well deserved it is and thank you Microsoft for all the recent moves and the seemingly endless stream of fresh content. Cheers.
For me AOE2 is the best game I have ever seen or played. Been watching competitive for years, played the original, and started again with DE. Love that you made a video about it. In the past there was also a nice relic bug with one civilization, giving their calvary unlimited attack. Gotta love the ancient coding of this game though :)
Age of Empires 2 was my childhood. My gamer parents got to actually play while my sibling and I just fought over the sheep, building beautiful pens for them. As I got older we actually started to play together . And now I still recommend it to my friends. We love goofing around with the 256x mod. Thanks for introducing us to that one, Spiff!
Imagine doing this exploit with the Lithuanians, where you get +1 attack on your cavalry for each relic you control
It only works with 4-5 replica, they can't gain more attack then that.
Sandy Petersen was so committed to historical fact that he gave the player the ability to pull holy relics out of thin air.
Sadly now they patched it :(
Oh my. I'm so glad I've been reminded to have a nice cup of tea. Isn't tea so lovely? Thanks, Spiffing Brit.
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I played age of empires 2 with my mother on our very first computer.
It was a Windows Millennium.
Age of Empires 2: Age of Kings was the very first computer game I played (that wasn't an educational toddlers game).
I remember watching the intro cinematic and thinking it was the coolest, most epic thing ever; the chess game-turned battlefield, the castle besieged by trebuchets and mounted knights, the tragedy of war as the lone survivor drops a wooden king-piece in resignation... I also remember not knowing that you had to _unpack_ the trebuchets in the game to make them attack things.
So began my more than 20-year love of all things "strategy".
Used to play AoE 2. Would have played more had I known it was this balanced with no exploits.
i swear spiff is getting more and more unhinged everytime he uploads, love it
AoE 2 is definitely the best, however I do like 3 only because you are able to revolt and become America and just spam a never ending horde of Minutemen. For every one killed 2 take his place.
(Literally just focus all your resources towards food producing factories because the Minutemen only cost like 50 food I think)
It's like a Zerg rush, except the Zergs are packing heat
Favorite AoE? Age of Empires 1 Demo version, Rise of rome dlc. This legendary map when you play Carthago vs yellow&red Rome, and you have units to find, on yellow Roman island, hidden in mountains. That was my first RTS game contact on very young age, so nostalgic... and this music!
Although we started with AOE, I spent hours and hours and hours playing AOE2 in college. We'd have a biweekly inter-dorm challenge. After I graduated some of us kept it up for a few years. Hard to believe almost 25 years later its been remastered and people are playing it.
Honestly spiffining brit i hope you continue to find exploits in our beloved games and i hope i can get this game soon
I've been involved in the aoe2 community since 1999. I love this game and the community.
Grew up playing AoE Gold and AoE2 Conquerers with my sister and dad. Even played the demo version on those game demo discs you used to get with PC magazines. Good Times. To this day I still have the soundtrack stuck in my head and go listen to the OST from time to time.
Spiff, you finally did it! You finally got Yorkshire Tea Gold to sponsor you! How marvelous! Cheers, mate 👍🏼 I hope you get over your cold soon! Yorkshire 🍵 is just the thing you need to get you back in shape
I knew you were a man of culture! I picked up aoe2:de 2-3 years ago again and play online ranked for fun. I actually just played a game vs AI with my brother who just bought it! Long live AOE2
I've played AOE 2 and 3, loved 2 the most by far and loved the El Cid and Montezuma campaigns the most, also loved most of the conqueror's battle thingies especially Agincourt
Was obsessed with AoE II as a kid and although I don't have a copy any more you better believe it's on my steam wishlist!
Just started playing AoE2 a week ago and have been having a blast! Convinced my friends to start playing with me and im excited to try out this new “feature” on them :)
Don't try it, it has been alrady patched out a week ago
I can't believe Spiff actually got affiliate links for Yorkshire Tea😂
I love your partnership with Yorkshire Tea Gold, lmao. Memed into reality!
I was just thinking of getting some Yorkshire tea, but now that you’ve got a link I made sure to use it.
The first (and only) game i ever received from my parents (it was from mom to be precise) was AoE on it's original cd that i still have stored and hidden somewhere :) . I believe she got it in work as a part of bulk win98 sale (or smth like that). Till this day i remember how i launched this game for the fisrt time - the graphics (seen on my 1024x768 vga crt monitor), animations, music, sound... everything was ust superb and for that i still remember that game. But from gaming point of view i love AoE2 (and i still play it from time to time).
My team at work got very into AOE2 and all of us started playing and training and improving. Nearly all of us were tournament level players, (not necessarily winners, but still good). It was an interesting year.
"Wololo" is up there with the Sonic drowning music for the Pavlovian terror it inspires.
I like the way this one was made, I like the post commentary.... had good pacing. Just wanted to say.
Played 2, 3 and 4. Grew up playing 2 when the internet was down, forgot 3, and play 4 now. 4 is currently my favorite, but I still love the second.
Wololo, I play AOE2 and it is probably my favorite game of all time. Thanks for making this video and bringing more views to AOE2. Love the T90 farms reference
I'm just slightly older than the game and hell yes I play it every couple years for a while still. The only games as timeless in their basegame without any sequels are Tetris and Minecraft imho
I love Age of Empires II man great video. I suck at AoE too lol I feel your pain. Love the videos man keep up the great work
Age of empires II was a childhood favourite - me and my cousin used to clear entire maps of resources and then have full on wars that would last for hours - completed all the campaigns as well… And even made some custom campaigns with the campaign creator…. Had a solid group of friends who would LAN AOE as well… and last Boxing Day picked up a PC laptop on a big sale to mostly be able to run the AOE remasters
Nooo! I’m glad you finally have an affiliate link, but I actually bought Yorkshire gold recently thanks to you before such a link existed 😢. Next time! My Russian tea loving boyfriend enjoys the flavor a lot.