Ultimate Guide To 2k | Reading The Game & Strategizing | Aoe2 DE
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- New version of the Beginner to 2k guide, which i have done back on the old version of the game
(You can watch the old version on this playlist: • Beginner To 2k Guide A... )
in this episode i focus on reading the civ matchup and the map, and then strategizing accordingly
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I feel like such a highly educated low elo legend
I'm a 2k watcher of people playing aoe2
@@EisenEgon noob! I'm over 2.5k watcher. About 1k playing though 😂😂
Same! I am 700 and watching this. 😂😂
Honestly its so impressive you've filmed this whole series in a single day, great job and thanks
killed my throat hahah, np!
That’s what she said…
I just realized that the old curtains have been immortalized through these Guide to 2k series.. 11
Surely, they will be preserved in an AOE2 museum for future generations to be awed and inspired.
@@mosatsoni4324 not exactly... the whole series is a mismatch... u really think that 1000-1100 elo players dont know these things?
@@ishanaqadir8582 yep? Most 1k Elo players just think they know it, but hey theres a reason ure 1.1k right
The greatest AOE educational guide delivers yet again. So much to learn and apply in the game, but hey, one step at a time, right? :)
Hera: Here’s a completely free guide walking you through everything you need to play at a high level
Comments: Lol lower elo players can do this, worthless guide
My good friend Hoang always adapt the stragety to the map !
Can we do the how to get out of 1k again xD My enemies seem to also watch your guides and are apparantly better at using that knowledge. If Hera gets to 100k subs we all gonna be stuck in 1k^^
Very good question! very difficult getting out of that range for me.. have been fluctuating between 1000-1100 ELO for quite some time now.
I feel you! it takes practice , practice and even more patience! you can make it! gg man!
I feel that with all the youtube info lately, the overall skill level has increased
We are all improving together and moving closer to our natural potential, isn't that great? There are truly no magic tricks to permanently put ourselves ahead of competition. Would be boring anyways. The way forward is to try things out and optimize, and improve our game-sense along the way.
This series has been so helpful I’ve jumped from 800 to 1000 elo since watching
Hera booming global elo. Thank you for your dedication.
2.5k elo tutorial: How to keep your brain fresh and nimble after 10h tournament matches. This is what I’m waiting for Hera.
I got to 1200 after watching all your road to 2k videos and a few hours of practice in like 2 weeks (I was a noob before that)
i think it would be better to find a 1500-1600elo player for this, cuz the extreme AI is only around 1200.
lol seriously how you gonna do a 1600 guide vs the AI. So many different ways players react that are missed lessons
The extrem AI is def. not 1200 elo 11
Im 1300 elo i've never lost to the extreme ai, not even close. I would say it's maybe 1050-1100. (1200 could've been true maybe two years ago)
Been playing AOE2 since DE release and stuck at 1900~1930 for about 2 months.. can't wait till 1900 elo guide!
Maybe it’s just your brain that’s getting slow
Great job and very helpful as always! Keep up the good work and thank for the videos!
Great content! It's insane the learning curve of this game
I noticed, that you always go for 3 TCs in your guide. How do you decide when the right time for a 1 TC push is or maybe a more balanced approach with only 1 TC added?
Also, Survivalist, another streamer who hovers around 2k, always says to go 3 on wood to start unless going drush and send the 4th later. What's your opinion on that?
How to deal with enemy's hussar raids if there are no walls. Even placing castles wont help because Hussar is basically a free unit and they dont care if it takes damage
If you got to that point in game and are getting spammed you are screwed since you are talking about late game. If you mean how to deal with scout rush walls and archers the best way.
hera i love this guides to 2k but will by nice if you play againt players, so is more real the feeling of this clases. love from chile my dude
great video as always. becoming the highlight of the week waiting for these. thanks
As a 1500 myself, i would have just deleted the palisade since 2>25, just saying 1111 (EDIT): Great series, i have been watching it and its very helpful !!
I usually lose my military units somewhere in the map. While I try to find them, my woodlines and farms run out. Next thing I know is 50 elephants in my base. Oh yeah, and I forget where I put my production buildings.
Hot keys help a lot
Like P47 said, use hotkeys. You can 'bind' units or buildings to keys, like: CTRL + 1 binds whatever you have selected to the key '1'. Also there are 'standard' (adjustable) hotkeys for almost everything:
- Go to x (Every time you click you select another one you have) works, with all barracks, archery ranges, stables, siege, castles TCs and way more, even lumbercamps
- Select All x (Select all of a certain building) So all barracks or archery ranges.
Check the options -> Controls for all hotkeys. There are hundreds.
I'd recommend using the "Go To" hotkeys and the hotkeys for creating units (like a villager) first
This guide is what I needed in my life, dude...
But how do we click 7 times a second?
I think in the first 3 of the series he continuously stressed to use your hotkeys and set control groups...
Is there a prefered strat when you have exposed gold AND berries? Maybe towers? Maybe going aggressive so you're not attacked. Thanks
Love your work keep it up!
Hello Hera, thanks alot for these videos I learn a ton from these and I am trying to improve as much as I can. I was just missing the lategame army composition. Can u please elaborate a little bit on that based on the civ matchup or how would you decide what to go for? (im thinking if zerks come into play that cav wont be that good right?).
That was a really excellent video
Top guide! You ever think of doing coaching streams?
pre DE nili booked some coaching from hera, there should be some videos on youtbe as well
So if by the time youre getting to rush with scouts or something but they end up being fully walled or almost there and you cant apply pressure should you just switch to fast castle and try to up up for siege as quick as possible?
Such a great video !
Is it possible to go MAA then Scouts ? Or you will lack food ?
The main problem with that is the food cost is too high, you will get to castle age very late. Not to mention that if he is going scouts then you are already behind in numbers and if he is going archers he already has enough of a mass that it's tough to kill them with feudal scouts unless you get armour and bloodlines... Which again will delay castle
I have been watching the whole series but I am not sure if Hera covered shift clicking
Just dropped a sub, thanks for the video!
I'm pretty sure you were not fully walled in this game. There is a hole on your top right lumbercamp from the beginning I think
I just started playing again for the first time in a decade, and I’m around 900 elo doing everything you have outlined in the 1300 elo videos (and I’m stuck).
Has the elo ladder changed, or gotten harder in the last year?
Rewatch your games in Capture Age to see where you think you do it correctly, but you actually aren't. But yes, the ladder has changed a little .
Agree, the numbers there are totally off, they were probably valid only months after game release
Guys I gotta ask, when should you utilize champions? I just cant manage to invest on infantry on time
usually to counter eagles, or to beat skirm/halb compositions
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 are they any good on they own? Even with inf civs I find myself building cav or archer. Guess they are solely there to counter... Thanks hera keep it going👍🏽
@@ahmetcan7979 Champs are almost always just a counter unit. If you go straight champs they'll just be countered by heavy cav or archers most of the time
if you know your opponent has no gold units left and no gold left to make gold units then go champs if you still have gold. It's simply a win. Impossible to beat champs without gold units, they just dominate everything and smash buildings fast too.
Hey Hera, what if my opponent doesn't make any knights or xbows, but just makes a defensive siege workshop and his own mangonels? Won't my knights be completely useless?
How to be 1500-1600 Elo?
*Shows 2k5 execution of forward siege*
Alright then :-)
Real oponent would be way better to show how the people play at this level and what are their weaknesses.
But great video anyway!
Thats my only problem with this series. He was beating extreme ai at the 11/1200 ELO. Wish he would get someone with the right ELO to play against him so you can see how it works in a real game when he's got someone pushing back instead of the ai being easy to beat by this level. I know of course it's a lot more down to listening to what he's telling you, but it would be nice to watch it in action, especially as this episode is about reading the game and making a strategy
Yea it's probably because people were complaining about him "smurfing"
@@snarbolax6962 Hmm, smurfing is ugly, but if it's for this purpose, it should be ok. Or he could just invite someone from this level to play non rated. Many would gladly do so.
@@jimbobandharry3030 daut did basically the same series on voobly against real opponents. Just use the search function "daut2k guide"
I just checked. In Hera's old guide he also played vs real players. Maybe check that out too.
Keep also in mind that everything Hera says also applies to games against real players.
@@jindrakrcmar7628 that was what I was thinking, I'm sure there's a few at those levels who would love to play against him, especially if it means featuring in his series/videos
28:20 why town center and not minig camp?
i will train that... thanks bro
It’s interesting tho, as more people watch this, we’re gonna see 1100-1200 people doing this
anyone know what zoom % hera is on? i feel like my game is super zoomed out
Out of curiosity, how long have you played and how often did you practice to because this good at the game? Played ranked again after practicing against the AI a dozen times but still can't get these builds consistent
do it a dozen more times
Practise the build against the ai till you can do it consistently
What helped for me was learning a feudal rush build order to learn to be agressive and win quickly
Why do you not drop off the wood first when putting down farms with vills cutting stragglers? I feel like if they only get less than 10 wood they might as well have been idle
Farms function in this regard the same as a drop off point, like a Lumbercamp, Mill or Mining Camp. Any resource the villager holds is automatically added to your stock after completing the farm.
@@the_philos5102 you are kidding.. I've been shift tasking villagers to walk to the tc. Well thank you that's amazing
Note that they have to build something though or you can lose the resources, and this works with all resource combinations. Lumberjack -> click to build mining camp = you get the wood they were holding when building is finished. Lumberjack -> click straight on gold = you lose the wood they were holding.
Hey Hera, you were open the whole time at the top right I think?
Can you also play some games with the low-mid ELO guys? One game per ELO range would be amazing and useful. :)
its coming up later in the series!
@@HeraAgeofEmpires2 amazing 🤩 can’t wait for it! Again very useful advices: I have so much more in my head than in my fingers now 😂
Hi Hera love these, pls go magyars more on these
k thx bye
He deployed the pikemen one by one, what if he massed them first like a human would do? With scout and knight as the main army, you would have to retreat and tech switch, but into what? I think relying on onagers to take out pikes is more a 2k ELO thing?
Assuming, of course, he is reasonably walled and you can't just raid lonely villagers...
@@tekas He wouldn't have to tech switch perse. Hera had mangonals and scorpions, with an attack ground you'd able to kill or lower their health. Also, you don't really need to fight the pikes when they're not a thread. Just presure the walls with mangonels and knights, just attack the pikes with siege and run with your knights. Use the mobility. Unless he has siege attacking you with pikes, there's almost never a good reason to take a straight up fight against pikes when you have only cav.
That said, if you see he has 3 barracks pumping out just pikes for defense, a forward archery range is always a good option. In the video, Hera had spare wood. He used most of it for more stables, but he could have build an archery range or two and just start getting some skirms out. Keep in mind you're now creating knights, vils and skirms which all cost food - so you need more and more on food. Also skirms wouldn't need a defense upgrade if they're only there for killing the pikes.
But as always, it all depends. Scouting is the most important!
Just dropped a sub, your videos are great. Thank you dude. 😁
wait, its the old curtains?
What if opponent goes for premill drush and fully walls. Then goes for archers behind. What should be the strategy?
Even with scouts, what if quick wall all of his resources, what should be my reaction?
Another scenario is, he comes with 3m@a+1spear. Vs 3 scouts, what should I do?
you can villager attack mate if necessary. no much diff in dark age
Defending any sort of drush is just making sure he's unable to idle or do much @ your resources. Make sure to scout your opponent and watch the score (good indicator for premill drush) - should be quite high, with all he scouting and military. 3 m@a + spear probably requires an archery transition. If he went m@a chances are he's not walled the moment you saw them arrive. Also try and get hits in on the militia with scouts or vils before they become man at arms
Today this guy would be 1200 ELO
Bro how do i subscribe on twitch, and also im proud of you as an arab you are making us proud.
Go to twitch and search for Hera and you'll find the subscribe button on his channel's homepage
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Hera: Super serious modem, trying to explain deep mechanics of the game, what decision-making is important even in the early stage of the game
Twitch chat: Hera OnlyFans!
i disagree, 1100 do have BO and use them!
after the initial BO we fall apart, but till then we are legends... made it to 1250 at the moment though. 🤘
You should really put the parts in your title
What 50k special?
Curtains Kreygasm
Since pinkemen are useless against scoots at feodal, what do we do against scoots?
ur own scouts or archers. A few spears is ok though
go scouts and see how your enemy beats it. yea and i dont think pinkmen are the best counter to cav. you should try pikemen.
@@vasiapapatidi9287 Are you sure? TheViper use Yellowmen though I cannot use Pinkmen? :D
Spearman in feudal can definity work. Just make sure they are on DEFENSIVE stance. That way, you put them at a resource or location to protect and they can't be lured away. In the video the AI just ran after the scouts and never caught up. If you have a couple spears on locations like berries and woodline on defence they will go back to that position each time, making it harder for the scouts to dodge them like hera did i the video
you fully wall your base, there is no other way. Spears can help protect your villagers that are doing the walling.
I have the knowledge of a 1500 elo player but my practical is 500
Hi hera pls play vs real opponents
Playing vs AI have no sense, this is nothing like this ELO... always seems easy and perfect when nobody attack u.. good try anyway
and then for example, imagine when there are players like me with going forward with army and 2-3 vils to make towers in addition ^^ :D yeah this AI games are really not representative in real 1vs 1 games even at a 1200 level ^^ #realtalk
It's not about how the game is played. The point is to explain what you should do. There's no point in explaining a game VS a player, as every single game is different. Let's say he goes against a player that is fully walled but he is able to get in, you could say: "But what if you didn't?". Or a player going forward but Hera sees it: "But what if you didn't??"... It's not about showing you how to do a specific scenario. It's about telling you what to do and how to do it. It's a VERY general explanation which you can use in your game.
please get a player on this level next time, ai is just dumb
the reason i havent is just to save time. I did this whole series one shot. Next episode is rec review of an 18xx player tho, so no more AI after this
Will all the guide to 2k be against an ai that doesn't even wall? you always have content with great ideas, but lazy execution
I'd not call this 'lazy execution'. The point is explaining, not showing you how to play. Every game is different so showing it V a player is just 1 scenario from thousands. Even if he played vs a player, you can ask for 20 different scenario's where the player did another build, walled out the scouts, made archers, did a drush or anything else. He's telling us about the essentials which can be used in most games instead of showing 1 scenario.
@@mrkirby8622 what you are saying can be done in 1 minute with a bullet points list. here the intent is to show a real case execution, and of course every game is different, but no 1500 elo plays like the ai.
people do these things at 1000 elo... the way u play.. how is it different from the 2500 ELO hera.. there is no handicap involved... the main difference is not (not knowing) it is execution and speed... which u cannot teach.... u are still playing it like a pro not a 1600 elo player (semi pro)... not saying that there is nothing to learn from this series...