It's been pointed out to me that knights aren't actually weak to conversions. Knights (and even elephants) get converted at the same rate as other units, it's just that their high cost makes them worse to lose to monks. Scouts and eagles are still resistant, however.
@Boxy_17 ай бұрын
Cool
@businessclown4453 жыл бұрын
Im just out here trying to make my city look organized
@photocide173 жыл бұрын
Same
@aurawolf6643 жыл бұрын
even on campaign missions i still try and take the time to make pretty cities :) which means im usually neglecting my military LOL
@arsnakehert3 жыл бұрын
This is how is always played AoE, too, lol Now I'm trying to get good at, uh, winning matches
@akl8442 жыл бұрын
trueeeee
@jonjay75122 жыл бұрын
I’ve been playing this game off and on for 20+ years. Are you telling me that having your city look pristine isn’t the point of the game? 🤯
@TheKaos19883 жыл бұрын
Played AoE 1 and 2 as a kid when they first came out. Went on with life as I grew up, got married and had kids, and this month finally bought a PC for myself (been a casual console gamer for years). Pleasantly surprised how far AoE2 has come, its a gorgeous game now, and is cemented in my heart. Its the first game I bought for my new PC, love it.
@fredericoluiz61733 жыл бұрын
Welcome back!
@fawvertyler3 жыл бұрын
TheKaos1988 weird we living parallel lines, I could’ve written this comment lmao
@MaxUgly3 жыл бұрын
My dad had all the box sets, aoe 1 and 2. We did not have a LAN set up so we connected over the parallel port. Nostalgia! It all started with a demo disc with the William Wallace campaign. I forget if that came with our gateway 2000 or a magazine or what..... EDIT: you guys remember the MSN Gaming Zone and 56k modems? Then it went to voobly once MSN shut down I believe. I was so excited when the HD version came out and then DE knocked it out of the park. The community is thriving, new features and civs, tournaments! Comparing the old days to now with my gigabit internet and 4k capable computer, technology is amazing!
@superhans852 жыл бұрын
Judging by your name we are the same age. I'm in the same boat only I never grew out of gaming. Its always been my hobby which I've managed to fit into my life. This game is always a classic tho and the remaster has been done very well
@bbokgomu54222 жыл бұрын
Welcome back broooo!!
@Fonz03 жыл бұрын
I played this game for the last 20 years just for fun and when I watch videos like this I realize I've been doing it wrong my whole life lmao
@apf32902 жыл бұрын
Depends if you simply want to play a fun game, OR, be the absolute god of AOE2 . Calculating everything like he does makes the game boring and repetitive.
@asdf25933 жыл бұрын
I found myself taking notes on this as if I was back in college, then it dawned on me that this is far better quality than most of those lectures back then that I actually PAID for
@MikhalisBramouell3 жыл бұрын
Truth
@nymets11044 жыл бұрын
Its obvious a LOT of work and planning went into this, thank you Survivalist!
@ADCFproductions2 жыл бұрын
it's the Penske file!
@Welyn3 жыл бұрын
this is a really good guide, well done!
@nithinnedumparambil14143 жыл бұрын
ayyo welyn watching you stream aoe2 was legit the only reason i wanted to play again
@ake85483 жыл бұрын
Dang, never thought i would see my favorite rust youtuber here
@ahmedh91033 жыл бұрын
You play age of empires????
@gwaaky263 жыл бұрын
hi there
@fudoq3 жыл бұрын
Lol i wanna see you playing aoe2
@SurvivalistAoE4 жыл бұрын
0:00 - Intro 2:59 - Standard Opening 3:55 - Overview of each of the 4 Resources 6:13 - Basic Scouting 8:05 - Boar Luring 10:07 - Walling 12:13 - Hotkeys 14:22 - Basic Unit Counters 16:01 - Control Group your Scout
@semihklcgedik72393 жыл бұрын
good job 🧨
@jg22832 жыл бұрын
Just a heads up you should pin this to the top
@SurvivalistAoE2 жыл бұрын
@@jg2283 I can only have one pinned comment and the other one is more relevant. The timestamps are in the description :D
@jg22832 жыл бұрын
@@SurvivalistAoE you don't have any pinned comments
@SurvivalistAoE2 жыл бұрын
@@jg2283 OH dang, you're right. I was sure I pinned the comment that I made earlier to clarify some things. Thanks.
@olikas10003 жыл бұрын
I've never touched the game, but after youtube started recommending me videos for it, I've been getting interested. The game looks really overwhelming to me, but this video got me a step closer to finally trying it! I love the way you present information - a lot of it in a (relatively) lenghty video, but I can understand every bit of it, even if I've never even played the game before. Cheers!
@mattwithahat38573 жыл бұрын
Maybe play the campaigns first and try to pick up the game from there? They are actually quite fun and may take several hundred hours to play through :D They play very differently than a standard game, but you can start learning the hotkeys and how to micro there.
@Jimmy911ism2 жыл бұрын
I watch these videos and others, plus games high and low elo, to form an idea of how to play effectively. I've only played vs AI, around 2004/2005 last time and soon lost interest; playing vs others online is the way to go and I wish I'd done that. I've got to get the internet connected for the flat. I know my mobile phone internet won't cut it. When I buy the latest AOE2 game and a monitor, I'll practise my deer pushing and boar luring / laming. I never did that before, always building a mill near a herd or between two boars! I don't know if deer pushing would be more efficient, but I suspect you're better off actually scouting with your scout. Boar luring looks more efficient than taking 9 vills and building a mill outside. I can practise this before I get the internet on. I think outposts are crucial for spotting vills coming to trush you, which I've no experience of. So much to experiment with.
@ConnorMacFar2 жыл бұрын
Just play it!
@pablogauna37803 жыл бұрын
Gee, what a LEGENDARY tutorial. Just backin playing since more than a decade!
@kimkwangseokfan4 жыл бұрын
I started playing aoe2 about 2 months ago, and basically this guide wouldve saved me about 3 weeks worth of trial and error :o For a game that has such a great, generous community behind it there is such a paucity of simple guides like this for noobs like myself, so thank you and I hope you keep making videos!
@yamcha1113 жыл бұрын
this is like applying for a job and seeing you don't meat the minimum requirements
@joshuahall12683 жыл бұрын
I love how thorough you are. You added a lot of simple things that I haven’t heard other casters mention that I found really helpful, things like “build that first house in between the two villagers.” Thanks!!
@SurvivalistAoE3 жыл бұрын
You can even send one of the two villagers to work on sheep before the house is complete. As long as the house % === villager %, then you're good to send one of the villagers to work since villagers and houses both create in 25 seconds. This can give you like +2 food. It also starts the decay process a bit faster, so maybe it's better to chop like 2 wood at a straggler instead.
@Jimmy911ism2 жыл бұрын
@@SurvivalistAoE 2 food. That's a Snickers at most.
@YAN-983 жыл бұрын
I've just started learning aoe2 a few months ago and have been poring over every piece of info I can find on it and trying my best to categorize it, its such an interesting game. But god damn is this video and its further parts catharsis. So thorough, but prioritized and concise. I bet writing the outline for this was satisfying as hell lol
@DruzhinaAoE4 жыл бұрын
Incredibly indepth! Had to check this out thinking it could be useful for some new players in my group, didn't expect to learn so much myself! This is the best beginner guide I've seen so far :)
@SurvivalistAoE4 жыл бұрын
Nice! Great to hear since I was worried that I was being too brief with my explanations. Maybe I'm just getting right to the point :D The next parts will be about 15 minutes as well.
@DruzhinaAoE4 жыл бұрын
@@SurvivalistAoE It's perfect! Looking forward to the next part
@Bigred101014 жыл бұрын
Mate this video is amazing! I play with a few of my mates who are quite good and this definitely helped to show how they are able to expand so quickly, definitely going to be implementing all of this stuff!
@dgoek3 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the dude who added subtitles in Spanish!
@NobodyAgeofEmpires24 жыл бұрын
Best guide I've seen, period!
@SkepticalOptimst Жыл бұрын
Such a brilliant series. I come back to it time and again, and I take something helpful from each video every time I watch. Thanks so much for the hard work you put in, mate!
@TheKringgle10 ай бұрын
Thanks a bunch for the guide. Only played aoe2 when i was like 7 in 2005 and just found out its popping 2 days ago.
@bigblue32213 жыл бұрын
Just found this game after 20 years . I am loving it. Thanks for the video
@BlueBirdgg3 жыл бұрын
those tutorials are better than SotL and Hera tutorials. Great content Survivalist
@brianfox3403 жыл бұрын
Oh my god, I am downloading the game, and clicked on so many videos looking for something at this level. It's shockingly hard to find. Thank you.
@kunhaoho8349 Жыл бұрын
誰翻中文的 好讚喔 這部,精確地說了很多秘密數字 !! 我以前常常研究這個讓效益最佳化
@thescottishtraveller3 жыл бұрын
Although I didn't find anything in here that I didn't already know, I realise how much time this all must have taken and how useful it would be to newer players. Thanks for uploading this!
@SurvivalistAoE3 жыл бұрын
This was more of an introduction for newer players. Parts 2-4 should have at least some things that you might not know yet!
@Qfungi3 жыл бұрын
you beat me first round of Red Bull Wololo, I was disappointed but now i dont feel so bad :P
@teemo-kawaii34232 жыл бұрын
I came to this game first but only for a month until aoe4 came out. I've been playing aoe4 ever since. I'm a noob at both games and at rts in general. But I've managed to understand aoe4 for a bit, and now I don't really like the siege meta of aoe4 anymore. So I'm returning to this game. Call it returning but I haven't actually played this game that much in the beginning. I was looking for a sophisticated, but still noob-friendly guide. And I found it. Thank you so much.
@OverGiraffe-zl1qs2 жыл бұрын
I signed in to like, subscribe, and comment! Great stuff -- thank you for putting in the time for all of us!
@alexxx4434 Жыл бұрын
Great outlook, not just for AoE, but RTS in general.
@E.Johansson6 ай бұрын
One of the best guides I’ve seen on YT. Thanks
@harrij.95423 жыл бұрын
Your video really puts the fun back to the fundamentals !
@pdv4573 жыл бұрын
ive seen many aoe guides, this one is the best
@RuprechtCasimus3 жыл бұрын
I've been playing Age of Empires II for years now (only casually and mostly single player mode though) and still - these don't feel like fundamentals, more like advanced pro-techniques. But well, now I see the reason of losing every multiplayer match... Still I really appreciate the hard work you put into this :D
@SurvivalistAoE3 жыл бұрын
Fundamentals for improving if you want to get into multiplayer at least :D
@jedimindtrix21422 жыл бұрын
They very much are fundamentals. Anyone who wants to compete at any level has to know a basic opening build order for any RTS game. Starcraft 2 for example has a bunch of different ways to open the game. You will learn it if you actually try. Just write the build order or order in which you do the things you open with down until you get the whole process down to muscle memory.
@burakguvencc3 жыл бұрын
Time to time i watch your streams, but never saw your guides. Thanks for that. Very helpful videos.
@j.p.691 Жыл бұрын
Great series man, you match your video quality with guys like Hera oder Spirit of the Law! Thanks for the effort you took!
@rolloden344 Жыл бұрын
A brilliant guide. Thank you! I'm so glad I found this one. Literally tons of priceless information here!
@Patchnote2.02 жыл бұрын
What a great video. This is definitely going to be my go to for new players! I also really liked that eco upgrade hotkey trick. Alt+Z is my lumber camp, but I've kept the upgrade at Q. It might not be any slower, but I like how Alt+ZZ is more natural.
@SurvivalistAoE2 жыл бұрын
Yeah, you get used to ctrl + zz and then ctrl + xx pretty quickly (or alt, whichever you prefer)
@SkepticalOptimst3 жыл бұрын
Really great job, mate. This lesson is extremely informative and easy to follow. Without question, I'm better at aoe2 because of it.
@MrMMisCrazy3 жыл бұрын
thanks for your time and effort =) Stumbled over your content via twitch and i love it
@Joe-jc5ol Жыл бұрын
I'd say rewatch all your games, even the ones you won. I won my first ranked match today, was brutal. I rewatched it and realized some mistakes I made, some wrong assumptions I had and missed opportunities.
@1985tris14 жыл бұрын
Always good to see people trying to give some tutorials. I am not bad at using limited hotkeys for say getting vills to build which building. some like gate build always stumps me As I do not use it enough. I think almost always I Have regretted using gates as they come down So fast. Better off deleting a section ans putting the Wooden wall up or a house to plug it. That usually happems on golden pit In early castle. I definately could improve on grouping units/ doing more patrol for melee units and hot Key select for builings into unit production.
@SurvivalistAoE4 жыл бұрын
Just try to use one new hotkey per day and you'll eventually know all of the useful ones!
@unimportantcommenter43563 жыл бұрын
I liked your video, and I'd like to expand the tips slightly with a few ideas: 1. During Boar luring, if you dont want to use the garisoning technique, you should send your Villagers out of the luring villagers path, and task the vills to shoot the boar, when the boar is 3 tiles away from the TC. Send them preferably to the southern part of the TC, and task the luring vill to stick close and underneath the TC 2. With Hotkeys, uniforming the unit hotkeys is also a good idea. I only you the A S D F keys to train units, eaxh key represents where the unit is located, for examlle A trains archers, Light Cav, Militia and Rams. This way, the margin of error is way lower and it is super easy to learn. 3. You ought to hotkey herdables too. Use two herdables for scouting, and use preferably the smaller herdables for scouting (sheep, lama, goat), because they are faster and you dont loose much food in case the enemy scout s, the herdables. 4. If you play on the Conqerors edition of the game, it is a good idea to send your sheep next to the berry-pickers, while hunters gather food from boar. If you do this, the enemy scout has a harder time to steal your sheep, and the sheep wont block your vills from the food-gathering.
@Jimmy911ism2 жыл бұрын
Point 4 sounds good, but you have to harvest sheep early under your TC to create vills quickly. If you do send the last 3 or 4 sheep to your mill, I can see the enemy scout killing them.
@viktorkm97843 жыл бұрын
Idea with lumber camp and mill is very good one, thanks
@danielmcgann864 жыл бұрын
This will help a lot of players. Thanks for the video keep them coming 👍🏻
@NTAD19104 жыл бұрын
I need part 2 now!!! hurry up man! lol. jk. great summary of fundamentals. consider me subscribed!!
@SurvivalistAoE4 жыл бұрын
Working on it!!! :D
@sheldonjohnstone8013 жыл бұрын
Been playing at 1100 ELO for few years, great tips on camp upgrades (especially changing Mill to Ctrl+X) and the set gather point. I’ve killed way to many boars by just right clicking the boar w town centre before the vils finish killing it.
@matthewsouthwell3 жыл бұрын
This is soooooo comprehensive!
@DeJake3 жыл бұрын
Nice vid! I love the pyramid concept, it's great
@JordanmillerceoАй бұрын
This video is excellent! Thank you so much
@MikeEmpires3 жыл бұрын
I wish I could put this stuff in my curriculum.
@syeikhkebab3 жыл бұрын
The efforts creating this video...good job bro, you deserve a sub! Have been playing AOE since i was a lil kid, but yeah not a good player, as long as i can create mass army and huge wall, that was all that matters XD
@SurvivalistAoE3 жыл бұрын
Teutons castles with crenellations vs Hardest AI was always the best.
@samajhdarprani57794 жыл бұрын
Nice work, simple and to the point
@bhuvaneshwar81703 жыл бұрын
oh man so good i was searching for something like this
@0xredact3d3 жыл бұрын
Wow, lots of things to work on. I really appreciate you sharing, thanks!
@Hawk_R63 жыл бұрын
The QWERTY ASDFGH ZXCVB -Grid layout is a cool choice for hot keys as well. I only have to look where the button I need is located on the grid. I knew most of them by heart after a short amount of time.
@freziaplanet41983 жыл бұрын
hello im from age of empires 2 the age of kings so good to know theres more to it than that
@davidkiss88454 жыл бұрын
Looking forward to next parts!
@fayxe34004 жыл бұрын
Very nice and useful video! Keep making these videos! 👍
@diato29932 жыл бұрын
thanks for the video! it's really helpful!
@edibleanimals43924 жыл бұрын
Really great vid!
@alejandropalomino27233 жыл бұрын
ohh this is what i was looking for sometime ago
@sjamesvfx3 жыл бұрын
The correct build order is 4 houses, then 3 barracks (before producing 1 unit). This is the way.
@Coolpeter954 жыл бұрын
Amazing vid bro, subbed and bell’d. Waiting for the next instalment
@sawthemin773 жыл бұрын
In the end , it boils down to ....... MATH !!
@coddaam3 жыл бұрын
Thanks i'm a very casual player and these tips should just put me over the edge against my friends :D
@johnfrisby30382 жыл бұрын
Very helpful video, thanks.
@BuyrukA3 жыл бұрын
9:54 nice clip of you stopping Hoang's boar lame.
@LokirofRoriksted4 жыл бұрын
Awesome, as some okayish player myself I also learned a few things, like gates pierce armor, # of lumberjacks and stuff, the trick with ctrl+z+Z (but i use A as my go to hotkey for all upgrades). Please make a longer version of number of villagers on each resource to make military on 1-3 military buildings, like you explained before where you said 4 on gold to archers, 7 to knights, but what if you're turks (faster gold), or berbers, or portuguese (cheaper), or huns (faster training) of course not everything for specific civs, but at least the first gold mining upgrade, how many villagers on stone for a constant tower rush, stuff like that nvm, I found your site in the comments and it's amazing
@Braxx-Vision3 жыл бұрын
hehe... about to watch this vid, wanna put out.. i generally succeed as an agressive millitaristic expansionist that fortifies massive amounts of territory (way more than my fair share) cutting off resources for my closest neighbors who can't get through my heavily garrisoned walls (as i train up a couple battalions of mixed cavalry to basically Genghis khan everyone.
@corruptedsmurf2603 жыл бұрын
I feel like there is so much I could learn from just fundamental sections like this. Do you have a video (or one planned) that goes into more depth on the fundamentals?
@SurvivalistAoE3 жыл бұрын
You should be able to pick them up pretty quickly just by playing yourself or watching some higher level gameplay.
@PhotonTrooperGaming3 жыл бұрын
Excellent content! High quality content!
@kishi87743 жыл бұрын
you deserve more suscribers, well done video!
@Koba10255 ай бұрын
Since 20 years I have been playing only death match with Britons lol that too with map explored and revealed.
@BodkinArrow4 жыл бұрын
Excellent work, very well done!
@diosn69093 жыл бұрын
Very structured and useful!
@robin97402 жыл бұрын
13:45 TIP to cancel units: If you have the command queues up on the top of the screen and you see you accidentally clicked to produce a certain unit. Ctrl+click on it to cancel its production.
@SurvivalistAoE2 жыл бұрын
They may have added this feature after this video came out.
@robin97402 жыл бұрын
@@SurvivalistAoE Yeah, this feature did not exist at the time. I just wanted to add it since I use it often as I tend to missclick.
@SurvivalistAoE2 жыл бұрын
@@robin9740 Just be careful not to cancel imp!
@ijhuana3 жыл бұрын
Great guide mate!!
@mr.nifler46023 жыл бұрын
Thank you! This helped me so much!👍
@swisstravellearth6232 Жыл бұрын
Great insights and tips. However, I am not so sure about boar stealing as a foundamentals. What about fish, using the mini map and use civ bonuses in Dark Age?
@muffinspuffinsEE3 жыл бұрын
Insane amout of work. Thank you!!
@infinteuniverse3 жыл бұрын
bro, you inspire me to try to become a chess streamer sometime in the future. I used to love playing chess back in the day and peaked at ~1900 ELO. That's not that good compared to GrandMasters, but I'm better than 98% of the player base and can teach everyone worse than me. Meanwhile, it would take a couple of years for me to get anywhere near 2k in AOE2. That, and AOE2 fucks my wrist up bad.
@jn1mrgn3 жыл бұрын
So now I know more about "resourzes".
@SQ973 жыл бұрын
This video is really good rezource!
@neltronz Жыл бұрын
Me - *watches guide for strategies and tips* - "I understand now" Also me - *Places town center in enemies base*
@SurvivalistAoE Жыл бұрын
Truly a high tier strategy.
@thisdino87803 жыл бұрын
Thumbs up for this Intro Jokes with boar (lurers) i guess
@roaldthamesen5333 жыл бұрын
Please make the video about Units and Counters. That'll be super lovely.
@SurvivalistAoE3 жыл бұрын
I've been thinking about that for a future project. It's just a really broad topic. Would probably end up being at least 1 hour on its own.
@MaxUgly3 жыл бұрын
Hey, this channel is awesome! Subbed! I am going to reccomend you to any new player as well as SOTL and t90 low elo legends.
@tom.mk7_1513 жыл бұрын
Houses houses houses *Laughs in Hun main*
@pragadeeshwar9234 жыл бұрын
Waiting for part 2 🔥
@ryan__nz3 жыл бұрын
A fellow salesforce dev? Excellent vid man
@petermari82994 жыл бұрын
came, watched, subscribed :)
@petersmythe64622 ай бұрын
I actually hadn't played the game in awhile and forgot I should build a house with 2 vills. I had been queing a villager and loom while building a house with 1 villager and gathering sheep. I wonder if that's part of why I'm always 150 points behind in dark age and lost 100 ELO.
@vbgamer463 жыл бұрын
Great video. I need to get good a hotkeys.
@petermari82994 жыл бұрын
the problem isi when you are 30+ is that you want to get better in the game you love and played since 99 but that damn work (and all the other stuff) won`t let you to get enough time to practice ;(
@SurvivalistAoE4 жыл бұрын
Yep, life gets in the way for most people. But for me, no gf no problems 111111
@petermari82994 жыл бұрын
@@SurvivalistAoE that`s why I divorced before DE came out 11
@SurvivalistAoE4 жыл бұрын
@@petermari8299 1111
@dimasdwikaizzulb4 жыл бұрын
It really helps, thank you.
@CaptMeMo_350 Жыл бұрын
very much appreciated
@ilbene79222 жыл бұрын
The problem with chainging hot keys is that then you should change all the others and i never understand how should i change the others I would like a full description of all the changes needed if possible
@halukgul64083 жыл бұрын
this is insane value
@okidoki59222 жыл бұрын
absolute chad.
@SurvivalistAoE2 жыл бұрын
heh
@noahliasam74073 жыл бұрын
Noice thanks!!! And I thought I was good enough, but the moderate Ai didn't turn out to be.