My dad, 60yo, plays arena vs AI all the time. He always picks Tatars iirc. He has wonder victory on and fortifies his base with a cluster of castles before building a wonder and let the AI stream it's units into his castles. Castles are usually filled with a bunch of Keshiks to deal with trebs or rams but they go right back in when the siege is gone. I just checked, he has 2.5k hours in DE and I'm sure at least 95% of it is this exact game mode.
One of my buddies built a mod that disables trebs, bbc, and cannon galleons and we use that preset with every bot game we play (there are 4 of us, always us vs AI). Its nice because we can turtle pretty well and crank up the bot difficulty xD
when I was a kid I used to use scenario editor to make my base completely surrounded by cliffs with towers and just watch the ai helplessly try to attack, simpler times lol
My over 60 year old father plays tower defense in AoE2 like this, except he just picks byzantines and builds wall mazes for them. I wish he recorded his games but he wouldn't want them shared anyways.
I used to create whacky scenarios in the first Age of Empires. My favorite was the one where I was allied with all the other seven players and they were all enemied to each other. I didn't have a town center or units, but a bunch of mirror towers all over the map. They covered literally every spot. The AI would than play the game normally, fighting each other. I would sometimes have a market hidden somewhere and unlimited ressources to give out ressources to my favorites, or to help those who nearly got killed. Once I got bored of them fighting each other, I would enemy them and watch my towers destroy everything they had built.
That's what games are for. To screw around and have fun. Not everybody is looking for a challenge. I wish more games would understand that and not give me fetch quests. Btw I am now looking forward to the new AoE2 dlc, because it is so much AoE1
No joke, I feel inspired. This has the potential to be a new feature, no forget that, a new series... no, actually... a new channel. Know what? It needs a new account. This needs tournament play. T90 - we are in.
I genuinely wondered what if they took death match but literally made it infinite resources. Probably too much for a tournament but it'd be fun if T90 set up a show match between two top players on infinite resources 500 pop.
@@minikawildflower I think pro players would find an ideal number of villagers to rebuild forever and it would last a looong time (micro would not even come into question I feel). If he made it with players of 800-1000 ELO, then maybe it would be fun.
How about Weird Settings Wednesday? Just anything weird or unusual like this particular game, doesn't have to be against AI. There are plenty of game modes after all.
One of my favorite custom scenarios I used to make was a 8 player FFA and give every player about 20 petards in an empty field. I was so satisfying to see all of the explosions. It made it even better when I figured out how to change the setting "all visible" so I didn't miss any explosions.
When I was a kid I would make a scenario that had my base on top of a hill that was surrounded by cliffs and a moat. There was one bridge that connected it to the land and the only way up was to weave around the cliffs up three levels, all with bombard towers and castles above it. All was well until the AI came in with trebs and my units had to take the weaving path down to them lol
As someone who usually exclusively plays against bots I would be thrilled about the possibility of being unknowingly casted by anyone really. I'm kind of not great at the game but I feel like it would help grant myself and others who struggle on mid-late eco some pointers (that tends to be my issue) I've been thinking about making submissions in the discord but I keep forgetting to actually record and submit? I'll have to figure out how that works later lol
Would love to see some less “pro” games as I myself am fairly new to the game and would help me to grow as a player getting tips that might be well known .
the lady, my friend, and myself still daily do this. 5 bots against us, 45 minute treaty random map we pick, and repeat. still just as fun as when i was 12
90% of my AoE games to this day consist of all historically accurate settings, be it civs, regions and maps replicating battle events, wars and campaigns of the histories I am studying. Be it European wars, Muslim invasions , Asian wars, the crusades , the Reconquista , the Viking age , Age of discovery in the new world , all battles that are historically based and I love it. Be it single player or MP with my friends always against the Moderate to hard AI. I crave to play all of the campaigns, but I will only do so once we have cultural/regional/historical unit skins for the A,B,S units of each civ.
yeah :D Comp Stomp "barbarians vs civilized" where we play as Ports/Italians/Britons etc surviving vs a team of huns/mongols/cumans etc. Or the other way around, survive and build a civ of your own as the goths/franks etc under the decadent slvaeowning byzantine/italian/persian empires. It's kind of why I wish there were good regional skins e.g. meso Pikemen and Xbows that looked a little more mesoamerican rather than blatantly european (but done well and sublty so it is easy to tell which unit is which rather than most regional modpacks which were a mess, a guy on Reddit did a middle-eastern sprite set and it was really good as it was subtle so a pike was deffo a pike yet it had the middle-eastern headgear/clothing so it would fit in in a scenario. ES gotta hire him and do more regions)
This reminds me of back when I gamed and didn't know any english so I just trial and error my way through the menus and come up with these kinds of things to get enjoyment out a a game I didn't know any of the mechanics at all.
When I was a kid, I'd spend hours playing AOE, AOE2, and Galactic Battlegrounds against the AI. Always Deathmatch, because early game eco is boring. I'd also make custom scenarios where I'd make tournaments to see what were the best units in the game, including campaign heroes. I remember in Galactic Battlegrounds, the 4 best individual ranged infantry units in the game were Senator Palpatine, Jango Fett, Attichitcuk, and Mara Jade. The latter 3 had a rock-paper-scissors thing going. Attichitcuk was strongest, and would beat Jango. But Mara Jade had cloak, so she'd hit and run Attichitcuk to death. But Jango had detection, so he'd beat her. And Palpatine just beat all three. It would be fun to see a Vs AI series, not for any kind of regular casts, but just to showcase the fun ways people find to play against the AI.
In AoE 1 I used to make scenarios where I was against 7 bots, but I had the entire roster of heroes and would sweep across the map destroying the bots before they could build up. My favourite hero unit was the Flying Dutchman, a catapult trireme which can sail on both land and sea. I also made a map inspired by gladiator battles, the map was flat and had hundreds of units of every kind and every player, all scattered at random. In the corner I had a big squad of Legions behind a gate to clear up any survivors. I can really see the appeal of these settings. The combat and strategy of AoE appeal to me, but I hate the eco management side.
I know I'm late af to this discussion, but I used to love setting up bridges over rivers, because they'd lead right into a fortified wall and guard tower gatehouse that I'd set up. And then there'd be little cliffs with one-tile gaps in them for more guard towers, and then there'd be loads of archers and castles beyond that. Good times.
T90... Day9 used to do these games in Broodwar and SC2 where its a team game 3v3 or 4v4 and each person can only use a single unit. This reminded me of that and it might be kinda fun to see some of those games in AoE2.
This reminds me of something I usually did as a kid in the original game. Ally with all the AIs, use cheat code for instant build and resources, build thousands of castles all over the map and everywhere in AIs bases and then change them into enemy
Anybody ever remember the senarios that were advantures? Like you'd select a unit and travel a cross a custom map? Those were sweet and I eventually got into creating my own. I spend hundreds of hours tailoring special events and triggers and what not. Ahhh.... Nostalgic
LMAO this is what I do all the time, I hate playing competitively so I just play campaigns or skirmishes with whatever wacky settings and team combinations I feel like at the time.
There are some pretty fun AI Custom Lobbies out there. I’ve been hosting weird maps, like the Special Maps and such (and Team Islands) 4v4s :D Black Forest vs. Extreme AI 4v4 is basically “Wall Up or Die”, that can be fun. Fatslob strat works wonders to buy time.
As a kid I would always play mediterranean, easy, with the aegis cheat on (so the ai wouldnt resign), then I would type in chat "do you wanna be my friend?" and ally them, but they wouldnt ally back :( the messages the ai made when it lost made me feel bad sometimes XD
I love how you appreciate everyone's way of enjoying this game. I remember having a blast as a kid picking regicide and choosing a map where the enemy had a castle close to the shore and I would kill the king with a fleet of galleons and bombard canons.
I remember I would play 2v2 with AI and play Britons. I would rush to Elite Longbowman and send him into my allies base. Then I would delete my entire base to see how long I could help my ally in a 2 v 1 with a single archer!!! Never once won, but I never wanted too, I just imagined what that archer was thinking!
Reminds me of the community games that i played a few years ago (back in the voobly days). I got high right before the game every time, and i kept laughing my A off to the nooby mistakes I did. Good times :D
so glad this made it to youtube, i started watching this while sitting in line at the dispensary today on facebook, was happy to open youtube when i get home and get to see it on a big screen
I used to make custom tower defense games in the scenario editor. I'd have vils up on cliffs with a snaking path through the middle, and I'd use triggers to have Gaia tribute resources to me as I killed enemy units, but my villagers could only build towers or castles (had all other buildings disabled), and I had a university and blacksmith elsewhere in the map for buying upgrades. Then I would just spawn in enemy units with more triggers and task them to make their way through the path between the cliffs to try and kill my TC at the end of it. I spent a LOT of time optimizing and playtesting it until I was so sure it was as challenging but fair as possible. Good times.
One thing I usually do..I still do this nowadays, mainly in campaign is that I build a maze made of walls, and put one/two castles behind it and garrison them with 20 cav archer/arbalest. The AI would not destroy the maze because the path is open, so they would walk inside it and I could either shoot them dead or convert them with monks. I would also make a section at the end/middle which I put troops there and make essentially a mini battle arena/pit. I'll also build gate at each layer and lock it for my own convenient way to exit my base.
I used to build a map with nothing but grass and fill it with all 8 players with lots of different units fighting battles. Once I filled the entire map up, with different fighting units I hit play and watch it all play out. I then would tweak it, sometimes add in different "areas" like a "desert area" or "forest area" and units to suit that area (like cavs for the 1st eg and longbowman, archers etc for the 2nd eg). Otherwise, I used to play normally with 8 AI on normal (original normal) and build my base into a fortress and just wait.
In this scenario I would build like 50 Castles as close to my opponent as the treaty allows before it ends, but I guess in the same scenario I would be high so who's to say I would stick to that plan.
When I was kid, I would often play against AI on highest difficulty setting and with 25 population limit. Once my monks get into action, and I convert AI's hard working villagers, it becomes really clueless and finally resigns.😁
I had a feeling what the strategy might be from the beginning. My friend that got me into AOE II exclusively chose Huns and exclusively built Paladins. And usually capped pop before attacking. Which is how I learned to eventually beat him, by putting the pressure on early.
I used to (and sometimes still do) play 8 player diplomacy maps with the largest map and highest pop count. At first I would play a little sim city and make my base nice and pretty, then I would make allies with some of the a.i. and just slog it out. I would have games last hours. I would rarely finish one in a single sitting, so I would save the game and come back. I was so happy to see a 500 pop limit and a bigger maximum map with definitive edition. It's nice seeing aoe2 played in a non meta way. I had tons more fun playing with crazy settings than the standard/typical settings.
This is just like me playing this game as a little kid. Spam paladins against the AI until they're dead. Getting a nice full surround on a castle was the most satisfying thing. I only played Byzantines with All Techs on for some reason too.
I used to create scenarios recreating the lord of the rings movies, and stage Minas Tirth and Helm's Deep battles. The AI never cooperated so I had to learn all the scenario tools to create units for it CBA style so it would actually do something.
I do something like this to collect the challenge rewards. Tiny or Small map. Civ: Random (usually) AI: Standard Resources: Infinite Map: Visible Starting Age: Dark Empire Wars No treaty
I too, usually went to the scenario editor, made a random map, gave myself a couple of heroes, 99999 of all resources and the computer 500, and unlocked all tech. Then played like “normal”. Not a huge fan of managing the economy lmao
I'm primarily a campaign and skirmish player, it's just more chill to play against a moderate or hard/tough AI. You don't need to worry about every milisecond, you can spend more time making simcity bases, and a kinda roleplaying thing (civilized vs barbarian e.g. team games italians/ports/spanish vs mongols/huns/etc, or the other way around - freedom vs decadent e.g. playing as goths fighting for your freedom under the heel of the slaveowning byzantines. But never played such a thing online lol where someone would spectate me keep choosing the house hotkey every time until I get a house that lines up with the rest. lol. Maybe he's used to Starcraft or something where you had to play a multiplayer game but just close all positions other than the AI to play skirmish. Or just got bored of waiting for a player and picked AI. Of course it's still fun to play against a real human and get a real challenge, and you realise just how different it is to play vs a real human. AI's cheat in a way because they are everywhere at once, you can never catch a group of sleeping xbows off guard with a mangonel shot because the AI is looking elsewhere. But again you can leave a bunch of vills safely gold mining or chopping wood in 1 corner of the map and never worry about it because you know the AI will never harass you instead throwing all its units at your castle. Never liked post-imp treaty though what's the fun in just building 20 stables and shift-clicking paladin all match ?
I used to play on rivers so there was 1 chokepoint, stone wall it, put down about 15 towers and throw monks behind it. Preferably against an elephant civ and I'd convert all their elephants into my own army. Beat them down with their own units always felt good.
i love to upgrade my civ to max tech... soo i build maps that they are islands with bots in each island, them enter it at dark age and upgrade everthing in cannon tower strats to defense, them clean all possible AI on them own island, was insane cool at that point LOL
Looks like standard difficulty for the AI, though the AI at all levels love their camps, just not always to the same extent on every map. I sometimes feel bad doing stuff like this when I want to play but am too tired to play "properly". I usually feel bad because I think I'm not practicing my build orders.
My two buddies and I play 3 v 5 moderate AI on Michi (? the map with the huge wood line dividing teams) and build up to post imp full trade full army and then break through wood line and let all hell break loose. It's awesome lol
My buddy's and I on Friday nights do 3v3 post imperial starts normal resources against hardest and extreme Ai's it's a blast, we just like trying the different civs, I started making maps for us, made a water amazon tunnel recently was a blast
This reminded me of the AI from when Age of Empires 2 first came out - before even Conquerors expansion. If you set the game on the easiest difficulty the AI would often just all resign at the start, for stupid reasons. lIke saying they only had male villagers.
When you have infinite resources and a treaty, why do you collect resources???? Just build like 3 TC's produce villagers and build military, that's it nothing else really needed, maybe walls or towers... :D Especially with HUN's, because you don't even need houses :D
The way i enjoyed fights vs bots was making 3 v 3 v 2 and i'd always place myself in the middle then create stalemate between barbarian AI's however i could and then just go 50 barracks,50 stables,50 archery ranges and only queue all the halbs and hussars on 1000 pop Super sadly in DE barbarians and 1000 pop mods are bugged so i have to settle with expert AI and 500 pop
actually a solid strat for these settings! you cant be faster than the ai you cant strive them from ressources ai has a way of cheating by knowing that you have army. so it doesnt die to a drush every single time while not dying to fc all the time. so by waiting shortly before the treaty the ai reacts to "no military from opponent" then outproducing the strongest unit which even wins a 1v1 against its counterunit. If the player would have produced and maybe even build earlier or presentet himself with loads of buildings and points, the ai reaction would have been more military. Not beatable under the castlefire. legit the best strat to outsmart the ai
My dad, 60yo, plays arena vs AI all the time. He always picks Tatars iirc. He has wonder victory on and fortifies his base with a cluster of castles before building a wonder and let the AI stream it's units into his castles. Castles are usually filled with a bunch of Keshiks to deal with trebs or rams but they go right back in when the siege is gone.
I just checked, he has 2.5k hours in DE and I'm sure at least 95% of it is this exact game mode.
Dad needs to be casted by T90
This reminds me that these games are meant to be fun designed to be enjoyed our own way
Boomers will pick up random games and invest thousands of hours on the strangest settings
The amount of time I've spent doing Amazon Tunnel vs Hard AI tiny map
One of my buddies built a mod that disables trebs, bbc, and cannon galleons and we use that preset with every bot game we play (there are 4 of us, always us vs AI). Its nice because we can turtle pretty well and crank up the bot difficulty xD
when I was a kid I used to use scenario editor to make my base completely surrounded by cliffs with towers and just watch the ai helplessly try to attack, simpler times lol
My over 60 year old father plays tower defense in AoE2 like this, except he just picks byzantines and builds wall mazes for them. I wish he recorded his games but he wouldn't want them shared anyways.
Everybody did this, I guess =D
I did that in normal games, just build tonnes of walls and towers and castles and sometimes mazes, letting the Ai keep running into my fortress.
@@spanzotab What swell fella
When I was a kid I would open the scenario editor and pit different heroes against each other. Thems was some good times!
Alarmist media: AI will kill us all!
TBHImHighLol: Hold my bong. I got this.
I love how blue's apm spiked every time they went back to click on the paladin button some more
This is the same feeling as when watching low elo legends for the first time. beautiful
I used to create whacky scenarios in the first Age of Empires.
My favorite was the one where I was allied with all the other seven players and they were all enemied to each other. I didn't have a town center or units, but a bunch of mirror towers all over the map. They covered literally every spot.
The AI would than play the game normally, fighting each other. I would sometimes have a market hidden somewhere and unlimited ressources to give out ressources to my favorites, or to help those who nearly got killed.
Once I got bored of them fighting each other, I would enemy them and watch my towers destroy everything they had built.
That's what games are for. To screw around and have fun. Not everybody is looking for a challenge. I wish more games would understand that and not give me fetch quests. Btw I am now looking forward to the new AoE2 dlc, because it is so much AoE1
This kinda makes me wanna see a team tournament except each team is 1 ai and 1 pro player. If the ai resigns then that team looses
Spirit of the Law wins the whole thing because he has the deepest understanding of the Extreme AI lol
AoE2 escort mission lmao
The extreme AI would have probably destroyed blue. With infinity res, the extreme AI is pretty insane with production
No joke, I feel inspired. This has the potential to be a new feature, no forget that, a new series... no, actually... a new channel. Know what? It needs a new account. This needs tournament play. T90 - we are in.
It does have a tournament, it is called deathmatch.
I genuinely wondered what if they took death match but literally made it infinite resources. Probably too much for a tournament but it'd be fun if T90 set up a show match between two top players on infinite resources 500 pop.
@@minikawildflower I think pro players would find an ideal number of villagers to rebuild forever and it would last a looong time (micro would not even come into question I feel).
If he made it with players of 800-1000 ELO, then maybe it would be fun.
@@75353866 True, with 1k ELO it could be absolute chaos. Maybe for a community game!
How about Weird Settings Wednesday? Just anything weird or unusual like this particular game, doesn't have to be against AI. There are plenty of game modes after all.
One of my favorite custom scenarios I used to make was a 8 player FFA and give every player about 20 petards in an empty field. I was so satisfying to see all of the explosions. It made it even better when I figured out how to change the setting "all visible" so I didn't miss any explosions.
T90, we need an update on those 2 guys who played vs AI 2v2v2 only.
When I was a kid I would make a scenario that had my base on top of a hill that was surrounded by cliffs and a moat. There was one bridge that connected it to the land and the only way up was to weave around the cliffs up three levels, all with bombard towers and castles above it. All was well until the AI came in with trebs and my units had to take the weaving path down to them lol
As someone who usually exclusively plays against bots I would be thrilled about the possibility of being unknowingly casted by anyone really. I'm kind of not great at the game but I feel like it would help grant myself and others who struggle on mid-late eco some pointers (that tends to be my issue) I've been thinking about making submissions in the discord but I keep forgetting to actually record and submit? I'll have to figure out how that works later lol
Same, I can get early eco off the ground, but then I just get overwhelmed hahaha
Would love to see some less “pro” games as I myself am fairly new to the game and would help me to grow as a player getting tips that might be well known .
the lady, my friend, and myself still daily do this. 5 bots against us, 45 minute treaty random map we pick, and repeat. still just as fun as when i was 12
90% of my AoE games to this day consist of all historically accurate settings, be it civs, regions and maps replicating battle events, wars and campaigns of the histories I am studying.
Be it European wars, Muslim invasions , Asian wars, the crusades , the Reconquista , the Viking age , Age of discovery in the new world , all battles that are historically based and I love it.
Be it single player or MP with my friends always against the Moderate to hard AI.
I crave to play all of the campaigns, but I will only do so once we have cultural/regional/historical unit skins for the A,B,S units of each civ.
yeah :D Comp Stomp "barbarians vs civilized" where we play as Ports/Italians/Britons etc surviving vs a team of huns/mongols/cumans etc. Or the other way around, survive and build a civ of your own as the goths/franks etc under the decadent slvaeowning byzantine/italian/persian empires.
It's kind of why I wish there were good regional skins e.g. meso Pikemen and Xbows that looked a little more mesoamerican rather than blatantly european (but done well and sublty so it is easy to tell which unit is which rather than most regional modpacks which were a mess, a guy on Reddit did a middle-eastern sprite set and it was really good as it was subtle so a pike was deffo a pike yet it had the middle-eastern headgear/clothing so it would fit in in a scenario. ES gotta hire him and do more regions)
This reminds me of back when I gamed and didn't know any english so I just trial and error my way through the menus and come up with these kinds of things to get enjoyment out a a game I didn't know any of the mechanics at all.
Man he just like me frfr
AoE hits different when the edible kicks in
When I was a kid, I'd spend hours playing AOE, AOE2, and Galactic Battlegrounds against the AI. Always Deathmatch, because early game eco is boring.
I'd also make custom scenarios where I'd make tournaments to see what were the best units in the game, including campaign heroes. I remember in Galactic Battlegrounds, the 4 best individual ranged infantry units in the game were Senator Palpatine, Jango Fett, Attichitcuk, and Mara Jade. The latter 3 had a rock-paper-scissors thing going. Attichitcuk was strongest, and would beat Jango. But Mara Jade had cloak, so she'd hit and run Attichitcuk to death. But Jango had detection, so he'd beat her. And Palpatine just beat all three.
It would be fun to see a Vs AI series, not for any kind of regular casts, but just to showcase the fun ways people find to play against the AI.
In AoE 1 I used to make scenarios where I was against 7 bots, but I had the entire roster of heroes and would sweep across the map destroying the bots before they could build up. My favourite hero unit was the Flying Dutchman, a catapult trireme which can sail on both land and sea. I also made a map inspired by gladiator battles, the map was flat and had hundreds of units of every kind and every player, all scattered at random. In the corner I had a big squad of Legions behind a gate to clear up any survivors.
I can really see the appeal of these settings. The combat and strategy of AoE appeal to me, but I hate the eco management side.
I know I'm late af to this discussion, but I used to love setting up bridges over rivers, because they'd lead right into a fortified wall and guard tower gatehouse that I'd set up. And then there'd be little cliffs with one-tile gaps in them for more guard towers, and then there'd be loads of archers and castles beyond that. Good times.
T90... Day9 used to do these games in Broodwar and SC2 where its a team game 3v3 or 4v4 and each person can only use a single unit. This reminded me of that and it might be kinda fun to see some of those games in AoE2.
Wow thanks for the memories. I liked to always be the Hydralisk guy.
This reminds me of something I usually did as a kid in the original game. Ally with all the AIs, use cheat code for instant build and resources, build thousands of castles all over the map and everywhere in AIs bases and then change them into enemy
Me too! And then right before they’d switch to enemies against me I’d ally with them again
Anybody ever remember the senarios that were advantures? Like you'd select a unit and travel a cross a custom map? Those were sweet and I eventually got into creating my own. I spend hundreds of hours tailoring special events and triggers and what not. Ahhh.... Nostalgic
LMAO this is what I do all the time, I hate playing competitively so I just play campaigns or skirmishes with whatever wacky settings and team combinations I feel like at the time.
There are some pretty fun AI Custom Lobbies out there. I’ve been hosting weird maps, like the Special Maps and such (and Team Islands) 4v4s :D
Black Forest vs. Extreme AI 4v4 is basically “Wall Up or Die”, that can be fun. Fatslob strat works wonders to buy time.
As a kid I would always play mediterranean, easy, with the aegis cheat on (so the ai wouldnt resign), then I would type in chat "do you wanna be my friend?" and ally them, but they wouldnt ally back :( the messages the ai made when it lost made me feel bad sometimes XD
I love how you appreciate everyone's way of enjoying this game. I remember having a blast as a kid picking regicide and choosing a map where the enemy had a castle close to the shore and I would kill the king with a fleet of galleons and bombard canons.
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I remember I would play 2v2 with AI and play Britons. I would rush to Elite Longbowman and send him into my allies base. Then I would delete my entire base to see how long I could help my ally in a 2 v 1 with a single archer!!! Never once won, but I never wanted too, I just imagined what that archer was thinking!
My favourite chill mode like this is the "going above and beyond" cheat. Always satisfying to have light speed hussars trampling the map.
Reminds me of the community games that i played a few years ago (back in the voobly days).
I got high right before the game every time, and i kept laughing my A off to the nooby mistakes I did. Good times :D
Msn gaming zone was da shit
so glad this made it to youtube, i started watching this while sitting in line at the dispensary today on facebook, was happy to open youtube when i get home and get to see it on a big screen
happy 420!
this reminds me of my Mum with her 10,000 hours on Sid Meier's Civilization playing yet another Chieftan game.
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I used to make custom tower defense games in the scenario editor.
I'd have vils up on cliffs with a snaking path through the middle, and I'd use triggers to have Gaia tribute resources to me as I killed enemy units, but my villagers could only build towers or castles (had all other buildings disabled), and I had a university and blacksmith elsewhere in the map for buying upgrades. Then I would just spawn in enemy units with more triggers and task them to make their way through the path between the cliffs to try and kill my TC at the end of it.
I spent a LOT of time optimizing and playtesting it until I was so sure it was as challenging but fair as possible. Good times.
One thing I usually do..I still do this nowadays, mainly in campaign is that I build a maze made of walls, and put one/two castles behind it and garrison them with 20 cav archer/arbalest. The AI would not destroy the maze because the path is open, so they would walk inside it and I could either shoot them dead or convert them with monks. I would also make a section at the end/middle which I put troops there and make essentially a mini battle arena/pit. I'll also build gate at each layer and lock it for my own convenient way to exit my base.
The title made me think he was gonna lose.
I think it would be a fun showmatch to have pros going up against mutiple AIs on similar settings and it is a race to the win
I really love that you cast that kind of games 😂😂😂 keep up the good work lol
I used to build a map with nothing but grass and fill it with all 8 players with lots of different units fighting battles.
Once I filled the entire map up, with different fighting units I hit play and watch it all play out.
I then would tweak it, sometimes add in different "areas" like a "desert area" or "forest area" and units to suit that area (like cavs for the 1st eg and longbowman, archers etc for the 2nd eg).
Otherwise, I used to play normally with 8 AI on normal (original normal) and build my base into a fortress and just wait.
In this scenario I would build like 50 Castles as close to my opponent as the treaty allows before it ends, but I guess in the same scenario I would be high so who's to say I would stick to that plan.
My guess is that blue is an AI someone is trying to program.
Yes, 11 year old me played like this. Nostalgia trip. Memory unlocked: master of the templar.
When I was kid, I would often play against AI on highest difficulty setting and with 25 population limit.
Once my monks get into action, and I convert AI's hard working villagers, it becomes really clueless and finally resigns.😁
I had a feeling what the strategy might be from the beginning. My friend that got me into AOE II exclusively chose Huns and exclusively built Paladins. And usually capped pop before attacking. Which is how I learned to eventually beat him, by putting the pressure on early.
I used to (and sometimes still do) play 8 player diplomacy maps with the largest map and highest pop count. At first I would play a little sim city and make my base nice and pretty, then I would make allies with some of the a.i. and just slog it out. I would have games last hours. I would rarely finish one in a single sitting, so I would save the game and come back. I was so happy to see a 500 pop limit and a bigger maximum map with definitive edition.
It's nice seeing aoe2 played in a non meta way. I had tons more fun playing with crazy settings than the standard/typical settings.
This is just like me playing this game as a little kid. Spam paladins against the AI until they're dead. Getting a nice full surround on a castle was the most satisfying thing. I only played Byzantines with All Techs on for some reason too.
T90! That was hilarious and fun. Thank you to the player as well.
New series to go along with Low Elo Legends, and I'm here for it!
WAWEW. What are we even watching.
@@douglaslindsay2911 High solo Legends
me and a couple of people play a lot agaisnt custom extreme AIs and UGC, it's pretty cool how the meta changes so much from what I see in rankeds
In the scenario editor: I used to make hidden retreats with camps where units were standing neatly
When i was a wee kid, I use to play create scenario. No map or terrain just flat world with 99999 resources with 1 TC and 1v1 the ai
I used to create scenarios recreating the lord of the rings movies, and stage Minas Tirth and Helm's Deep battles. The AI never cooperated so I had to learn all the scenario tools to create units for it CBA style so it would actually do something.
Game of the year! But seriously, I did love this. It totally reminds me of how I used to play for fun sometimes.
Good fun! I know I’d be happy just relaxing and enjoying AoE2 playing in this relaxed way.
I do something like this to collect the challenge rewards.
Tiny or Small map.
Civ: Random (usually)
AI: Standard
Resources: Infinite
Map: Visible
Starting Age: Dark
Empire Wars
No treaty
This reminds me of end game rise of nations when you have instant production and just spam tanks until you win 😂 (because you can't micro 😅)
I too, usually went to the scenario editor, made a random map, gave myself a couple of heroes, 99999 of all resources and the computer 500, and unlocked all tech. Then played like “normal”. Not a huge fan of managing the economy lmao
id say i have 500 hours between 3 versions of aoe 2 and maybe 3 ranked games in my life
I'm primarily a campaign and skirmish player, it's just more chill to play against a moderate or hard/tough AI. You don't need to worry about every milisecond, you can spend more time making simcity bases, and a kinda roleplaying thing (civilized vs barbarian e.g. team games italians/ports/spanish vs mongols/huns/etc, or the other way around - freedom vs decadent e.g. playing as goths fighting for your freedom under the heel of the slaveowning byzantines.
But never played such a thing online lol where someone would spectate me keep choosing the house hotkey every time until I get a house that lines up with the rest. lol. Maybe he's used to Starcraft or something where you had to play a multiplayer game but just close all positions other than the AI to play skirmish. Or just got bored of waiting for a player and picked AI.
Of course it's still fun to play against a real human and get a real challenge, and you realise just how different it is to play vs a real human. AI's cheat in a way because they are everywhere at once, you can never catch a group of sleeping xbows off guard with a mangonel shot because the AI is looking elsewhere. But again you can leave a bunch of vills safely gold mining or chopping wood in 1 corner of the map and never worry about it because you know the AI will never harass you instead throwing all its units at your castle.
Never liked post-imp treaty though what's the fun in just building 20 stables and shift-clicking paladin all match ?
I remember when i would load up scenario editors and just use it as a Simcity builder, good times.
I used to play on rivers so there was 1 chokepoint, stone wall it, put down about 15 towers and throw monks behind it. Preferably against an elephant civ and I'd convert all their elephants into my own army. Beat them down with their own units always felt good.
wood adjustment 0
- outstanding move
happy 420 T90 :) and hell ya make it a series, id participate lmao
Dmitry Donstoy was the biggest ever submarine. Fun fact
happy 420
It's almost midnight and I totally forgot that today is the day!!
How old am I that I didn't even know it was 420 today. Sigh... :D Fun video, thanks!
i love to upgrade my civ to max tech... soo i build maps that they are islands with bots in each island, them enter it at dark age and upgrade everthing in cannon tower strats to defense, them clean all possible AI on them own island, was insane cool at that point LOL
Looks like standard difficulty for the AI, though the AI at all levels love their camps, just not always to the same extent on every map.
I sometimes feel bad doing stuff like this when I want to play but am too tired to play "properly". I usually feel bad because I think I'm not practicing my build orders.
lmaooooo happy weed day folks
My two buddies and I play 3 v 5 moderate AI on Michi (? the map with the huge wood line dividing teams) and build up to post imp full trade full army and then break through wood line and let all hell break loose. It's awesome lol
secretly this is actually t90s game haha
Next ai usages is them taking care of all the mundane tasks , but not so ez. Configure the behavior and bind it like ctrl+1 in old days.
My bot play, which I break out once in a blue moon is to give myself the 256x mod against 7 extreme AIs.
Yes. I saw that till the end. I am not even ashamed
i used to make my whacky scenarios so my brother could play against the IA, good old aoe. so fun and nostalgic
My buddy's and I on Friday nights do 3v3 post imperial starts normal resources against hardest and extreme Ai's it's a blast, we just like trying the different civs, I started making maps for us, made a water amazon tunnel recently was a blast
My favorite is to make as many archers as possible and just shoot and scoot.
This reminded me of the AI from when Age of Empires 2 first came out - before even Conquerors expansion. If you set the game on the easiest difficulty the AI would often just all resign at the start, for stupid reasons. lIke saying they only had male villagers.
I remember being in a clan on aoe3 where we would all get high and play only comp stomps. Better times. Shoutout compstomp420
Lol used to play skirmish matches with me and 6 AIs vs 1 AI with mega resources and use Aegis and spam enemy with army xD
The Huns is a sneaky pick with 500 pop because the AI didn't have barely half enough pop space.
That was fun! getting a similar vide to the early LeL days, it's so dumb it's fun
Dude I'm so high this is awesome
Yeah, I'd just enjoy going into the scenario edit in AOE1. I had the gold CD ultimate version that I found in a years sale :)
9:55 IN WAAAAAVEESSS🤘🤘🤘
Now, this was nostalgic
I liked the part where the paladins attacked the red guy
The periodic APM makes me think the guy was tabbing in and out of the game while doing something else.
While hitting the bong, lol.
AI fighting paladin and choosing what to produce in siege workshop: Onager? No. Scorpion? No. Bombard Cannon? No. Ram? Yes.
When you have infinite resources and a treaty, why do you collect resources???? Just build like 3 TC's produce villagers and build military, that's it nothing else really needed, maybe walls or towers... :D
Especially with HUN's, because you don't even need houses :D
The way i enjoyed fights vs bots was making 3 v 3 v 2 and i'd always place myself in the middle then create stalemate between barbarian AI's however i could and then just go 50 barracks,50 stables,50 archery ranges and only queue all the halbs and hussars on 1000 pop
Super sadly in DE barbarians and 1000 pop mods are bugged so i have to settle with expert AI and 500 pop
actually a solid strat for these settings!
you cant be faster than the ai
you cant strive them from ressources
ai has a way of cheating by knowing that you have army. so it doesnt die to a drush every single time while not dying to fc all the time.
so by waiting shortly before the treaty the ai reacts to "no military from opponent"
then outproducing the strongest unit which even wins a 1v1 against its counterunit.
If the player would have produced and maybe even build earlier or presentet himself with loads of buildings and points, the ai reaction would have been more military. Not beatable under the castlefire.
legit the best strat to outsmart the ai
26:16 Apparently blue hit 500 army at some point.
series against bots sounds good to me
Watching this on 4/20 love this
Oh boy imagine if the AI was Extreme.
What in the world is the reason for his vils collecting anything 😂