That's the power of hotkeys. For example, I recently learned about putting one to all tcs (and that works for the starting one aswell) for the vill queue, and the usefullness of it to keep the vill production while you are attacking without changing the sight. And because of that I realized that Hera uses it that way (watch it when he starts attacking red, and adds some vills in the tc - up to the left - but you dont see the cam showing it, because of the method that i said)
That's the experience of a pro shining through. He's lost too many games before because he took his eyes off a palisade only for it to get the jump on his archers.
I played this game religiously when I was 5-6 years old. I just remembered it existed and it took me forever to even find out what it was called. I dont think I never found out about pvp/pve. Just had fun watching the little guys so wherever I clicked. Can't wait to start playing again
lol, I'm 800 ELO, but back in the early 2000's I 1v3ed my friends and destroyed them. My brother was super pissed because we spawned next to each other and he was the first person I destroyed. I was all about the mangudai rush, kill all villagers, retreat, then come back and destroy the base. After that they banned AoE II at LAN parties.
How do you do that? I always wonder if I could beat someone like Hera if there were two "me's", one on macro, one on micro. The answer is Hera because I do very little micro. Maybe I could beat a top player, but not Hera, Lierrey, or Viper.
@@ringofasho7721 We did a tower rush. The dark age is pretty easy. In feudal age we actually divided controlling the army and shared eco. So each of use were attacking 2 players. The AI is bad at handling a tower rush.
It's great that you do these! They're both funny and informative :D Not to mention good training for the community to play against someone famous for fun :D
@@dreadedTanker3173 I dont exactly understand what youre tryna say but yeah, you need practice to be good at anything and an insane amounts of it to be world class at it.
Can I just say holy moly right now? I played age 2 as a kid, and only just discovered the tournaments on UA-cam.,I've watched a few and it they were all with a commentator viewing as a spectator.,this is the first time I've seen a video from a pro's perspective and I'm flat out keeping up...don't know how they do it, but I'm very impressed 😂
I'd like to see an analysis of games like this to determine how many clicks and troop movements are made that are entirely unnecessary. Like clicking 20 times on the town center to build a villager when they don't have enough food. Seems like they're making it a lot more chaotic than it needs to be.
@@rhalfik you can already see how they look like on the dawn of the dukes steam page trailer video, idk about stats though i think it's just a small upgrade over regular hussars comparable to imp skirms vs elite skirms, surely magyar huszars will remain the strongest hussar
thanks for keeping this game alive i started my video game journey by watching my uncle play this game, am so happy this game is still a thing in 2023 i loved this game sooo much
Not even Hera can do it against 4 extreme AI. Humans and specially this type of elos, don't reach the level of intense destruction, build capacity and resistance AI has.
Maybe a dumb question… but what would have happened if at the very beginning they sent all 4 of their scouts against him? Would that just be an insta scrush that he wouldn’t have been able to deal with? Was there a treaty in place?
Reminds me of when I once ended up on the bots' side by accident in a custom game in LoL vs a bunch of newbies, picked old Eve and went 43/2/9 or such. Twas intense.
I miei complimenti, ottima partita... :-) Non sono un Pro e ti ringrazio perché ho imparato molto guardandoti giocare. Buona fortuna per le prossime sfide.
One thing i love about this kind of games is to witness and enjoy the battles. But being a pro looks more like clicking all over the map i could barely see anything even though i know it will work...
It’s the speed and efficiency of the build from from the start that sets the pros apart. Of course, use of troops, but it’s the aggressive build up that defines foundation of skill imho
I love how the archer micro is exactly like playing an ad carry in league of legends down to accidentally cancelling attacks. That macro was nuts though
been watching aquafps play aoe2 and ive been really wanting to play but I have no real knowledge of the game so ive been watching different aoe2 videos you are by far the craziest player ive seen so far hard to even keep up with what you're doing
Holy hell...I've only every watched T90 casts on youtube, never seen from an actual player's POV...I got dizzy. How do you keep all of your units straight in your head?! The apm is insane!
On any island or fortress map, byzantine empire.. I used to do 1v7 Expert. No gamer but I did play this from it's creation to about 2007 when I stopped playing video games but this was the best.
Is it common for people to play without having "Explored" selected, I think I did that literally one time and determined I was never going to play again where I legitimately had to scout with my horse and sheep.
These are great and I hope you do them more, maybe with twitch-subs so you can aim at Sum ~3k elo (either 1vs3 or 1vs4), would be really fun to see what you limit 'Sum Elo' is (and also what is harder, 3 players at 1k or 4 players at 750, how about 2 players at ~1500?) Cheers
@@guanxizheng1418 Not sure if you're serious, but even I can beat 5 500 elo players. They at least have to have a good concept of the dark age or they fall too far behind and die to a rush
I’m pretty late but all of your mods are on the workshop? Trying different texture pack but yours is the only interesting one. Also your movements looks really smooth. Great content tho!
is this video sped up? is this how this game is meant to be played? (i1ve never played, i watch t90 cuz it's an interesting game to watch, first time here in this channel.)
@@gregallan4291 yes. if you set game settings on slow speed, the timer shows the regular time. On "casual" the game and also the timer are going 1.5 faster, on normal speed it going 1.7 times as fast (this is the standard setting for the game and played here) and if you choose "fast speed" the game and the timer are going 2.0 times faster
thats incredible i play since the start of de 1v2 and 1v3 against 3 friends (rated 1.3-4 ish) winning the 1v2s like 20% of times (earlier i won more often) the 1on3 i only won 2 times yet (we play nomad meantime) 1v4 i would have any chance so i pull my hat hera good job
I'm a low elo scrub, but I imagine it's so he can continuously add extra villagers to the deer, rather than diverting ones already at work resulting in a net loss
Did not play this game for 10 years, and i am very competitive in other games "primarily high elo world of warcraft pvp" but i do like AoE more. The problem is, ehile i understand and can follow everythinf you are doing with my eyes and brain i wonder how long does it take to reach that skill? Because i don't want to get into a new competitive scene if it needs a very long time to master. I do have some back ground since i also played somewhat comeptitvely with "generals"i and lord of the rings 1&2 "strategy" in the good old days.
Were there any rules like no scout/vil rush? Cause honestly wouldn't the four of them just be able to send their scouts to Hera's base and kill all his vils or guard his resources so vils couldn't get near him? Then it's just a waiting game until the four of you build up and attack as a group. The least they could have done was take out a few vils to set him back. Edit: This is all just theory as I'm new to the game. Awesome vid and I've been watching your channel trying to learn the game. Love the content. ✌
The skill difference is too wide for this to be effective anyway. Hera is very good at defending so he would have not lost any vils much, and he was first in Feudal. At this elo the four opponents would not be able to micro much, or at the expense of their eco to the extend that it would not have been worth it. I think there are several simple improvements that would make the game much harder for Hera. Like only one of them made skirmishers (and late) when Hera was full archers (skirms counter archers). Going men at arm late vs archers is another mistake (archer counter men at arms, and men at arms are only good as a rush). Walling earlier and going to military earlier would have helped too (at 4v1 they naturally have more eco/pop, they mainly need to avoid taking damage). And as you pointed out coordination was also missing.
LMAO! Why the f would someone unsub due to this game? It was my first time watching you and if I were that type of person, I'd sub to you just because of this video!
I mean seriously. All you need to do is have some kind of feudal aggression and in a 4v1 it doesn't matter how good the player is you just simply can't deal with it.
If you ever do another one of these I would love to take part of it! 😁 I am also a low elo player and learnt everything I know from your channels! 🤙🏼🙌🏼 (JpGalindo)
"I will try not to lose a single unit" in the first 23 seconds. In all honesty, it could be my depression speaking, but beeing that kind of cocky is a whole new level to me.
You know which is the worst part, he has done that before because there is no achievement for beating 3 non IA opponents, you are a beast Hera, good content as always, cheers amigo!
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First video on the channel with over half a million views! Might do a second edition like this 👀
Yes !!!!
Yes please id love to watch oder 2v6 with viper ;^)
Every game should have ranked 1v4
They are all missing out.
i bet that me and my friend, both 1350 beat you together
was massive fun to watch the masta-pizza
Pro Player: USES SHEEP TO EXPLORE THE MAP*
Also the sheep: "hey fella, theres gold two miles to that direction"
gold is found in rivers, grass need water, sheep like grass therefore sheep will find gold
Me: I'm gonna get better in AoE II.
Me watching this crazy click spam: DEPRESSION INTESIFIES
hahaha so true man
all I have is negative thoughts
Just play AoE IV and you'll be alright :)
U should check out pro's playing starcraft XDDDD
This is just an attempt on reaching the level of multitasking that the AI has
Every time I watch a Pro play I feel like I need to watch it in slow motion with descriptions to understand what is going on.
That's the power of hotkeys. For example, I recently learned about putting one to all tcs (and that works for the starting one aswell) for the vill queue, and the usefullness of it to keep the vill production while you are attacking without changing the sight. And because of that I realized that Hera uses it that way (watch it when he starts attacking red, and adds some vills in the tc - up to the left - but you dont see the cam showing it, because of the method that i said)
me too man, me too, wtf is going on?
@@damianarg3315 tcs?
@@AlguienEnSuCasa town centres
Pros have overclocked multithreaded brain
Hera microing his xbows against a palisade like a god
That palisade never stood a chance
That's the experience of a pro shining through. He's lost too many games before because he took his eyes off a palisade only for it to get the jump on his archers.
Back when I was a noob I fought 7vs1 against Tatoh and we lost lol
@Ankush Thakur na not really, people over all have just increased there gameplay.
I played this game religiously when I was 5-6 years old. I just remembered it existed and it took me forever to even find out what it was called. I dont think I never found out about pvp/pve. Just had fun watching the little guys so wherever I clicked. Can't wait to start playing again
Hope you have fun! I played as a kid and I still play now and then
lol, I'm 800 ELO, but back in the early 2000's I 1v3ed my friends and destroyed them. My brother was super pissed because we spawned next to each other and he was the first person I destroyed. I was all about the mangudai rush, kill all villagers, retreat, then come back and destroy the base. After that they banned AoE II at LAN parties.
mangudai is not rushing ....... usually comes out by imperial age
If 1000 is "beginner" then I must be some sort of semi-sentient slug barely capable of life.
I’m worse than even that 😂
A buddy and I beat 4 extreme AI on Arabia. We were controlling the same team. We called it a 1.5 v 4 victory.
You could also call it half a hera vs 4 😂
How do you do that? I always wonder if I could beat someone like Hera if there were two "me's", one on macro, one on micro. The answer is Hera because I do very little micro. Maybe I could beat a top player, but not Hera, Lierrey, or Viper.
@@ringofasho7721 We did a tower rush. The dark age is pretty easy. In feudal age we actually divided controlling the army and shared eco. So each of use were attacking 2 players. The AI is bad at handling a tower rush.
Didn't Viper try this exact challenge all the time and failed?
@@timothymurray677 what is a tower rush?
It's great that you do these! They're both funny and informative :D Not to mention good training for the community to play against someone famous for fun :D
Holy Shi7, I’ve seen Hera play on a T90 cast but watching from his own PoV is insane! The speed and accuracy is just incredible!
He's 10 times faster than me. I like to decorate my concentr- er... cities.
@@scintillam_dei ._.
Its easy. Use hot keys, or have no life like this guy. Imagine doing this full time hes probably never outside
@@7484ufjcuruejd Who hurt you, friend? Why are you hating on people for being good at what they like to do
@@dreadedTanker3173 I dont exactly understand what youre tryna say but yeah, you need practice to be good at anything and an insane amounts of it to be world class at it.
Can I just say holy moly right now? I played age 2 as a kid, and only just discovered the tournaments on UA-cam.,I've watched a few and it they were all with a commentator viewing as a spectator.,this is the first time I've seen a video from a pro's perspective and I'm flat out keeping up...don't know how they do it, but I'm very impressed 😂
Well said Mike, Ben here, of house Dover
I'd like to see an analysis of games like this to determine how many clicks and troop movements are made that are entirely unnecessary. Like clicking 20 times on the town center to build a villager when they don't have enough food. Seems like they're making it a lot more chaotic than it needs to be.
It's to keep your APM up so you don't lose focus.
It helps to keep the mind stimulated and keep you in the zone
APM is important for MOBA players as well as RTS players. Watching LS or pros play League is like watching them have a seizure xD
Yeah it's just all about keeping a fast pace going. It become muscle memory at a point
@@gregallan4291 What is APM bro?
Spoiler alert - Poles is going to be Hera's new favorite civ thanks to Winged Hussar.
*input mandatory Sabaton comment*
I hope this new Hussar will be even more winged than the regular hussar and has more flair than the Hungarian one :D
When they arrive?
@@LeandroAR August 10th
@@rhalfik you can already see how they look like on the dawn of the dukes steam page trailer video, idk about stats though i think it's just a small upgrade over regular hussars comparable to imp skirms vs elite skirms, surely magyar huszars will remain the strongest hussar
@@LeandroAR September 12, 1683.
thanks for keeping this game alive i started my video game journey by watching my uncle play this game, am so happy this game is still a thing in 2023 i loved this game sooo much
This is the best thing I have ever seen. This is better than Regicide Rumble, exploding villagers, or anything. We need more of these challanges.
On a much more interesting ginormous realistic map it would be much better.
Loved this game. Keep those coming! Impressive work
The micro really reminds me of league and dota, you almost control the entire group of crossbow like a ranged carry and positioning is everything
Very much respect for 1vs4! It's so pleasing to watch! Can't wait for more!😍
Congrats Hera!!
such a wonderful match. subscribed man, thanks a lot for it
"It's a 1v4, it's just business" Lmao
I watched this video over a year ago and found it incredible of your speed and such. Still find it incredible
Make more such videos!!
Really enjoyed watching 😀
Teal putting in work, mad props to him
This is nuts. I would never want to play this serious. He’s just nonstop clicking
More of this please. My favo together with guess the elo
Not even Hera can do it against 4 extreme AI. Humans and specially this type of elos, don't reach the level of intense destruction, build capacity and resistance AI has.
everyone gangsta till god ai is real
Tactics... ua-cam.com/video/3FHqCqVSS3Y/v-deo.html
What's elo?
lmao. this is great to watch. and actually helped me to learn the game a bit more.
Maybe a dumb question… but what would have happened if at the very beginning they sent all 4 of their scouts against him? Would that just be an insta scrush that he wouldn’t have been able to deal with? Was there a treaty in place?
if they could micro the scouts well and he screws up his eco would get destroyed. but with their skill level, the scouts would probably just die
a better strat would be tc dropping him with 4 players
Scouts are very weak in the dark age. A loomed villager can kill a dark age scout
@@alperisler89hat would actually be funny 😂 his only counter would be to delete his TC and run away or something 😂😂
1 MILLION VIEWS CONGRATS HERA 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
This was really fun to watch.
Great video Hera. Good shit.
Reminds me of when I once ended up on the bots' side by accident in a custom game in LoL vs a bunch of newbies, picked old Eve and went 43/2/9 or such. Twas intense.
I miei complimenti, ottima partita... :-)
Non sono un Pro e ti ringrazio perché ho imparato molto guardandoti giocare. Buona fortuna per le prossime sfide.
One thing i love about this kind of games is to witness and enjoy the battles. But being a pro looks more like clicking all over the map i could barely see anything even though i know it will work...
Watching this brings me so much nostalgia
Congrats Hera on the 1 million views
I can play like this in like 10 seconds spurts. He does it nonstop for the entire video. Always on point. Lol
Good and fun game, @Hera, loved it.
It’s the speed and efficiency of the build from from the start that sets the pros apart. Of course, use of troops, but it’s the aggressive build up that defines foundation of skill imho
Congrats for your first video with a million views 🎉
I love how the archer micro is exactly like playing an ad carry in league of legends down to accidentally cancelling attacks. That macro was nuts though
been watching aquafps play aoe2 and ive been really wanting to play but I have no real knowledge of the game so ive been watching different aoe2 videos you are by far the craziest player ive seen so far hard to even keep up with what you're doing
I am speechless. I’ve only played one game so far vs AI on Standard. This dude is nuts (yes I’m bad)
I am still bad at the game though I played for 7 years
Coongrats on the 1M views :)
Holy hell...I've only every watched T90 casts on youtube, never seen from an actual player's POV...I got dizzy. How do you keep all of your units straight in your head?! The apm is insane!
The Link to k1 Channel in description is not working, since his account is suspended
Hahahahaha, this is the single most entertaining game I've EVER WATCHED!!! :)
Cool concept Hera !
The background sounds of selecting people and moving them to work are like bunch of frogs shouting in a pond in rain
On any island or fortress map, byzantine empire.. I used to do 1v7 Expert. No gamer but I did play this from it's creation to about 2007 when I stopped playing video games but this was the best.
Is it common for people to play without having "Explored" selected, I think I did that literally one time and determined I was never going to play again where I legitimately had to scout with my horse and sheep.
I start to think going pro at any game other than this is easy after watching this, like he doesn’t take break
I’m watching this like a sponge and straight soaking in knowledge.
These are great and I hope you do them more, maybe with twitch-subs so you can aim at Sum ~3k elo (either 1vs3 or 1vs4), would be really fun to see what you limit 'Sum Elo' is (and also what is harder, 3 players at 1k or 4 players at 750, how about 2 players at ~1500?)
Cheers
could try 1 player at 2500 and 5 players at 100 elo
@@guanxizheng1418 Not sure if you're serious, but even I can beat 5 500 elo players. They at least have to have a good concept of the dark age or they fall too far behind and die to a rush
2 1500s completely impossible.
one 700 elo can defeat two 400 elo players easy. Belive me guys, the youtube concept of a begginer in aoe 2 is not right at all.....
age of empire 2 definative edition doesn't start after downloading from Microsoft store..do you have any soultion
Never played AOE in my life but this was fun to watch
I’m pretty late but all of your mods are on the workshop?
Trying different texture pack but yours is the only interesting one. Also your movements looks really smooth.
Great content tho!
man if only teal made that many skirmisher instead of archers
is this video sped up? is this how this game is meant to be played?
(i1ve never played, i watch t90 cuz it's an interesting game to watch, first time here in this channel.)
no, this is the regular game speed
@@faultier3215 The timer is going fast?
@@gregallan4291 yes. if you set game settings on slow speed, the timer shows the regular time. On "casual" the game and also the timer are going 1.5 faster, on normal speed it going 1.7 times as fast (this is the standard setting for the game and played here) and if you choose "fast speed" the game and the timer are going 2.0 times faster
I love that animated intro
I love that you use effectively the same strat that is used to cheese extreme ai 111
Holy shit this guy moves fast. And precise. Damn. What mouse is he using?
thats incredible i play since the start of de 1v2 and 1v3 against 3 friends (rated 1.3-4 ish) winning the 1v2s like 20% of times (earlier i won more often) the 1on3 i only won 2 times yet (we play nomad meantime) 1v4 i would have any chance so i pull my hat hera good job
you had way too much fun with this xD
The scoutin with single click at the start was like that to give them some advantage?
What's the timer above heras facecam for?
Sees videos like this on UA-cam : back to hard AI campaign missions it is.
27 minute double bit axe...
Strange way to challenge yourself
Teal needed to be loved with Ethiopian Siege Onagers at the end
Why did you push your deer (ostrich) to town center, when you had villagers near the mill closer?
I'm a low elo scrub, but I imagine it's so he can continuously add extra villagers to the deer, rather than diverting ones already at work resulting in a net loss
How much games till your keyboard break? O_o
Did not play this game for 10 years, and i am very competitive in other games "primarily high elo world of warcraft pvp" but i do like AoE more. The problem is, ehile i understand and can follow everythinf you are doing with my eyes and brain i wonder how long does it take to reach that skill? Because i don't want to get into a new competitive scene if it needs a very long time to master.
I do have some back ground since i also played somewhat comeptitvely with "generals"i and lord of the rings 1&2 "strategy" in the good old days.
So I installed AOE 2 and searched gameplay guide. Well this was not I was expecting.
from where you guys get this version of that game ?
hell yeah Jambi92 def a fellow Tool fan!
The algorithm has chosen this video 🎉
Does anyone know what is the song at the beginning of the video?
Holy fuck the scout herding the ostrich was next level.
anyone know the song at the beginning of the vid plz
This is fun to watch.
Were there any rules like no scout/vil rush? Cause honestly wouldn't the four of them just be able to send their scouts to Hera's base and kill all his vils or guard his resources so vils couldn't get near him? Then it's just a waiting game until the four of you build up and attack as a group. The least they could have done was take out a few vils to set him back.
Edit: This is all just theory as I'm new to the game. Awesome vid and I've been watching your channel trying to learn the game. Love the content. ✌
The skill difference is too wide for this to be effective anyway. Hera is very good at defending so he would have not lost any vils much, and he was first in Feudal. At this elo the four opponents would not be able to micro much, or at the expense of their eco to the extend that it would not have been worth it.
I think there are several simple improvements that would make the game much harder for Hera. Like only one of them made skirmishers (and late) when Hera was full archers (skirms counter archers). Going men at arm late vs archers is another mistake (archer counter men at arms, and men at arms are only good as a rush). Walling earlier and going to military earlier would have helped too (at 4v1 they naturally have more eco/pop, they mainly need to avoid taking damage). And as you pointed out coordination was also missing.
Intro cracked me up. XD
LMAO! Why the f would someone unsub due to this game? It was my first time watching you and if I were that type of person, I'd sub to you just because of this video!
me at 15:19 rn
those archers have great timing to find the still constructing town center, barrack and castle.
16:20 another poor castle that will never beat the tallest building record of its time.
best strategy: 1 go for dark age aggression, 1 go for scouts, 1 go for archers, 1 go for FC Knights. No way Hera could win.
just guard his resources and you win by attrition. Red was wiped out without any of the other players trying to apply pressure.
I mean seriously. All you need to do is have some kind of feudal aggression and in a 4v1 it doesn't matter how good the player is you just simply can't deal with it.
@@thesnackbandit haha yeah any sort of aggression really
If you ever do another one of these I would love to take part of it! 😁 I am also a low elo player and learnt everything I know from your channels! 🤙🏼🙌🏼 (JpGalindo)
What is the purpose of frantically clinking on 1000 things to accomplish something that could have been done quicker in 2 or 3 clicks?
warming up the fingers
Bro. the way this guy is playing gaves me headache, its soo awesome
"I will try not to lose a single unit" in the first 23 seconds. In all honesty, it could be my depression speaking, but beeing that kind of cocky is a whole new level to me.
How many days does a mouse last?
NIce Intro you got there
You know which is the worst part, he has done that before because there is no achievement for beating 3 non IA opponents, you are a beast Hera, good content as always, cheers amigo!
There’s an achievement for that! Playing 1 v 3
@@Geert_Stradmeijer yeah i know, what i meant was that the achievement was already unlocked cause it didn't pop up 11
@@miguelmarinblanco6367 Oh I understand! :)
Wait what did green do at the 33:49 mark that earned the respect? All I saw was teal delete theirs own castle
Why you put workser to town center and back to shoot birb?
i dont understand letting a sheep rot and then luring an osterich, killing it, then letting it rot?
Whoa how do you demolish buildings like you did when you tried to trap that scout in the beginning
This is too much for my brain to process