To be fair spectating in Age of Empires 2 would actually be a realistic way to cheat without getting caught. If you had 1 computer playing the game and a second computer spectating your game then yea you can know exactly what your opponent is doing at all times. Having that ability is game breaking and in truth how often does it actually happen? There is no way to realistically know who is spectating. If someone had a second account on a cheaper computer they could spectate and have a realistic cheat way to win games. If you know what your opponent is doing it is really easy to kill your opponent. To get upset at red for calling out a way to cheat then you are saying its perfectly ok to cheat.

T90 now I can't download your video in high quality why I always watch them downloaded now I have to buy premium 😢

Come to India tooo

Here I am hoping that one day you happen to spectate one of my games, I don't even care if I make a fool of myself. Being the butt of a T90 LowElo joke would be like a badge of honour, I would just hope I could make people laugh.

Lets stay real here t90 isnt saying its okay to cheat This is a 400 elo game Blue was scouting red, red wasnt Red didnt use a super stealthy tactic or smth If you really want to cheat - there are likely better options than a several minute delay and handling 2 devices to see what your oppo does (i guess a map reveal hack with a dmr device would be undetectable, but im taking that from tarkov cheater exposing vids...) Youd also need to buy the game twice - a hack would prolly be more cost efficient too Red clearly was just having a bad day The "i will report" was just uncalled - like t90 said I sometimes watch random games too, it can be fun and ive never seen someone react like red@@jordancambridge4106

This is peak comedy

I dont play the game, can you just join random games to watch?

@@Graymenn Yeah.

@@Shindo13371 why would they allow that? It seems like you can easily exploit that

@@Graymenn It's on something like a 2-3 minute delay. I suppose there are still things you could do with it but all-in-all it's just never been a problem so there's no public will to change it. This isn't the only game that has this system too. In DOTA you can also spectate public ranked. Also has a several minute delay. Also, not really a problem.

Happened to me as well. On Migration, the map I like. I am LEL, so it felt good.

What is smurfing

​@@ebonymercury6701High level players creating new accounts for the sole purpose of destroying lower level players

I got kicked from servers a buncha times for "hacking".

@@ebonymercury6701 making new accounts when your high elo to stomp on noobs

I lol'd too!

I've re-listened a couple of times and I think chat was right.

That was the funniest thing

My stomach churned a little bit when he gave chat the guilty embarrassed denial. It gave me traumatic flashbacks to when I was a MS/HS teacher. Super funny, but T90 has my sympathies.

Did a triple rewind on that one

Buckfuckfire

Lmao

I kind of figured they had some practice with the ai at some point. Before I go online, I want to consistently beat a hard ai (DE version or AoC at least). Right now I can consistently defeat a DE moderate AI with both Incas, Saracens, and Vietnamese.

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you must be sarcastic. If not, the sheep block was obviously the player selecting everyone to the boar incl sheep

@@aarongreem4142 you don't learn that with AI. You learn that by watching T90 etc. and I think yes, that's why people get better.

​@@jemand8462good for build order and hard PC rushes usually earlier than these guys have

Was going to post this too. For shame, T90!!

Most of the time bots are the spectators

Sometimes the spectator is me, random guy, not casting. Just watching, for fun!

lol why would that be a thing?@@skipper472

im watching random ranked games too

that's actually nice :) Sad that there's no way to communicate between spectators and players at least after the game though.@@tinyman1144

Blue was doomed by then IMO, you pretty much have to outnumber janissaries or use siege/monks; blue's eco, military and tech were all too behind for any of that.

Shamon

fucking lolled way too hard on this one.

If you just ignore and never look at the ELO you'll have a lot of fun. The opponent will always be as good as you, no matter how low or high your elo is, so just quit the race for ELO and have fun.

Hera recently published a video called "Are You Afraid To Play Ranked?" where he summarizes several fears new players have - as I do, since I never had the courage for years. 🙂 There was one obvious yet interesting point - once you stabilize to your real ELO, an inherent property of any ranked system is that you HAVE to lose approximately 50% of the time (unless you're top 10 player). That's why ranked plays are not exactly tempting for me - guaranteed 50% of losses. 😀 I like beating AI (currently on Hard), not gonna lie. 😁

@@eriqborg It entirely depends on what you want from the game anyways. I used to play a lot of pvp games when I was younger but nowadays I just play games to chill a bit. Whatever you have most fun with.

Someone once told me I was cheating for having a fast feudal time lol

I typed "advanced to feudal age" in the chat, as a joke. He accused me of cheating then resigned. I managed to explain to him after the match though 11

@@crownofglory1264 when Starcraft 2 first came out once in a while I'd type something like [Error Code 401: Player Out of Sync] and lift my command center off to a corner somewhere. I had a couple times where someone would scout where my main should be and disconnect after they couldn't find me.

What you do to survive until Legionaries?

There used to be a slight problem with people forcing games to desync and drop once they started to lose, but this was way before definitive edition back in the days of voobly so I don't know if that's possible anymore. The fix used to be to absolutely spam the chat which either kept the game online or sometimes made it so only the cheater dropped so you would get the win lol

I'd argue that hotkeys + basic game sense gets you 700 800 elo

I still don't use hotkeys at 1100 elo well that's a lie, I use three hotkeys. Patrol, attack ground, and garrison

​@@tinyman1144No grouping ? :O

@@ReadyF0RHeady Rarely. I mean to group my barracks all together by imperial age but A, I forget and B, most my games end in the castle age

@@tinyman1144 try Control grouping armies man IT feels so smooth you become Micro god

should be next to timer in game...

Most of the time, it is an aoe2 analytics bot that is doing the spectating. Not a real human.

@@skipper472 ahhhh fascinating!

When I spectated once, they chatted and asked who the noob watching was😂

Because the game tells you when there're spectators.

@@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm does it pop up as a message or is it some kind of sign that shows or what? How does the game tell?

@@highparadise11 See where the clock is. Above that will there be a "x spectators are watching" if there're spectators.

@@GrandArchPriestOfTheAlgorithm great thx

Seeing their up times... I suspect you wouldn't struggle.

They just made it harder to find a specific game. Now instead of searching a player name you gotta load a few pages of games then narrow it down by map and manually click through to find the game.

did you just admit to be a cheater?

Are you helping a self reported cheater?@@seancsnm

I agree. It's a bit strange to have roman centurions charging down spanish conquistadors.

the game doesnt play in just a small time, like a few decades, but rather a few centuries Vikings ended at around 900 Still there are full plated paladins and gunpowder in game America wasnt conquered by the spanish when there were vikings, but vikings found north amerika way earlier (vinlandsaga) I also believe its for some nostalgic reasons since return of rome has aoe1 rise of rome in the package

@@deutscher1a Vikings is just popularised name for mostly nordic conquerers. They could have replaced it with "Danes" or "Danish" who definitely still existed during the Spanish conquest of South America. Rome however is a name of an empire with a clear start and end date. If it is for nostalgia then I get it.. Who doesn't love playing as the Roman Empire.

Viking is more a profession raider would work for that, and its not just danes Swedes and norwegians are more famous for it The christianisation and baptism by sword did put a clear end to the viking era I wouldnt say that swedes during the 30 year war were vikings, just cause theyre swedish... During the barbarossa campaign you have the hre-ogn which is a roman empire@@kasper7203

What I really dislike is that the civilizations just don't respect the actual civilization. For starters, all villagers are caucasian european brunettes, almost none of the units look different depending on the civ, and all the civs share at least some technologies they definitely didn't have. Like Aztecs having trebuchets or things like that. At least they don't have horses.

Some people just want to live a simple life, farm and slowly build an empire peacefully.

Probably they were planning for lategame(ish), just didn't know what to do with eco after clicking up to feudal. And seemingly intended to play defensively, but are not confident enough with walling.

Common problem with lower elo players is panicking and not knowing what to spend resources on, they just focus on managing villagers but forget to spend

@@Addictivemeh I'd say it's rather not having much of a game plan. For a noob like myself, city defenses are intimidating, so the only way to actually destroy the opponent's base (aside from something extremely cheesy in Dark Age) is to get to Castle Age+, build an army with siege and mow it down. And while bombards/trebuchets are destroying the castle/tc, the entire army is waiting and protecting them. Early harassment is just means to an end, probably denying the woodline or raiding misplaced farms is as far as it goes. This is also why you see the town bell so often - vils go in, army goes out. At higher levels of play people are consistently taking trades, it's much more about avoiding float and actually getting some use out of resources. Just spending is not enough - see the recent massed MAA video for evidence. Tech upgrades are useless if you have 0 army, but a huge army that just sits idle at base is even more useless. I guess at low levels plays are much more... defensive? As in, trying not to lose the game as opposed to actively trying to win it, which requires at least some understanding of the enemy's situation.

and in both turks win

and even this one all the turk players win