definitive edition easily adds another 20 years to the lifespan of this game

Trebuchets automatically pack and unpack when you tell them to do something.

Shift+Del or as history calls it: The Black Death 1347 - 1353

I am one of those people who played the campaigns and loved them, then went online and got roflstomped. The Art of War tutorials were a pleasant surprise.

The achievements are really good now, they are fun challenges like "destroy your town center at the beginning of the game and still win" or " gather 20 sheep in a random map game.", instead of crap like "play 5,000 times against the Persians" or "destroy 10,000 buildings"

When Spirit gets married, will he become a Spirit-in-law or Spirit of the law-in-law? These are the questions

my favorite new feature is how you can now manually lower your rank without having to play worse, by simply picking any civ that isn't cumans.

My top 1 feature is spirit's content upload boost by 1500% in the definitive edition age.

SotL (2:30): "... feature that probably took one minute to implement..." every programmer: "You ungrateful users!, Why don't you implement it yourself next time!"

Just being able to rotate the gates is enough of a reason to get the new version lol.

Who else didn't notice you could play with the embers? : o

"Super easy, barely an inconvenience" Loved it!

I haven’t played this game in years, but I’ve been thoroughly enjoying the vids mate!

I was afraid DE was just gonna be a graphics update, but all these QoL features are honestly great and I'm glad I bought it.

- showing an extra feature - showing awesome features I missed - watching SotL pllay with the ambers This video is a solid 11/10

Hey guys spirit of the content here

#1 Aegis now works for farms

1:56 Unexpected Screen Rant reference EDIT: Pitch meeting*

Microsoft in 5 years: We are announcing Age of Empires 2 Final Final Ultra Definitive Edition

My favorite it's the addition of colorblind modes. Now, I can play play on an 8 players map, without mixing Yellow and Green player, or missing orange units on the green minimap

You mentioned rotate gates with mouse but forgot: - Gate foundations issue refund for unbuilt portion of wall segments they were placed over (0% built = 100% refund). - Diagonal gates no longer require extra wall segments on their posts. Also variables and player attribute effects in the editor!!

"It can do all sorts of things." *Tells AI to 69*

Auto reseeding at the mill is the best feature hands down. Second is the new waypoints when collecting relics.

These improvements are so handy. I personally like the mixed queues, how you can tell villagers to build different buildings before tasking them back on a resource, and the villager counter (total villagers and the ones on each resources).

I never played Starcraft, AOE2 or Empire Earth online because I never really understood rushing(defending against it specifically), so adding the advanced tutorials will probably help some people.

Alot of features were brought over from Age of Mythology. I especially love the wall building in AOM, building in AOM is really smooth and it straightens the terrain out, lowering or raising it to fit where you placed your structure.

The units' animation and showing how the buildings get destroyed are incredible to look at. I didn't know about queuing up units while selecting multiple buildings was a thing. I will use that a lot now

Is funny how many of these features were already implemented since Age of Mythology.

"When you play online, people generally expect you to know certain things." Looking at you, my Black Forest 4v4 team that didn't understand me flaring three enemy armies coming into my base meant "fucking help me."

I'm getting used to Global Queuing and it's pretty handy in trash wars to know that you are producing all the time with just a glance

I feel like the option to select only military units when there are villagers around should have been on that list. It's a pretty good QoL feature for casuals like me who's used to Rise of Nations :P Now if only there was an automatic exploration hotkey.

Last time I was this early you could have multiple villagers on the same farm, hunt crocodiles, train axemen and started without a scout.

Am I the only one who love the new extended Civs theme ? (Mongol especially)

2:31 This feature already existed, at least in the retail version of AoE2.

2:00 That reference was T I G H T !

Rewatching this old video and Spirit was on point with Empire Wars prediction

Have you seen the feature where the game removes Spirit of the Law's intro? I wish they never added that feature!

4:15 - Ho boy, Jonestown-simulators, here we go!

"I forgot to test it with the Saracen team bonus" xD

2:00 "So you got an original video idea for me?" "Yes Sir I do!"

"Hey boss, the steppe lancer seems kind of op, they can do everything the knight line can while costing just 30 gold. Should I change their cost?" "We don't have time for this, we need to programm an ember minigame!" "HOLY SHIT, I'll be right on it sir"

Two things I would like, an option for Grid Hotkeys, so all hotkeys are mapped based on there position in the task bar realities to the keyboards layout. So the top corner is always [Q] if you're using a the standard Qwerty keyboard. This would also double in allow us to always know what the basic hotkeys are for scenarios that have custom units/abilities as it's based off of geography and not some random letter. The Second would be the ability to enter specific map seeds into the skirmish/multiplayer map lobbies. Yes you can go to the scenario editor, enter in the seed and save the map, but that's a little tedious and no one does it. It would also be nice if at the end of a match they could display the map seed and maybe add a small button that you could click that would copy it onto your clip board so that you could easily paste it down.

I really like the new songs (or extension of the old sounds) for each civilization, I think it gives a very unique feeling when starting a game with each civ

I like how they've incorporated a few features from Age Of Empires 3, can't wait to try it

you forgot the worse change of all. la hire's legendary voice actor was replaced by some average joe middle aged man. that alone is worthy of a death sentence for all the developers. such an insult to the wielder of the dry sword himself

9:50 Everyone playing Cumans and only Cumans in online.

5:14 I LOVE THIS, I never did figure out how to manually shift them, so I would either a) legit just build walls and eyeball where the gate would be, or b) use a different wall or gate to get it into position for whatever I wanted to build.

Greatest thing about Definitive Edition, SOTL uploads more videos. Thanks for all the great content!

what about trebutchet auto unpack when selected to attack buildings outside of their range

U forgot the new extended civ themes, they are amazing!

Nice Ryan George reference with the Super Easy, Barely an Inconvenience line!

Thanks for great teaching about all queue features. Especially, these queue command features reminds me playing AoE3 gameplay habits. 1) Build command, and then press Shift-gather command. (& more...) 2) Queuing Techs. (with training troops first) 3) Displayed Status Research & Training Progress.

dude every time you skip the intro, i have to go to another video, watch the intro and then come back

how did we enjoy HD all this time without embers mechanics? literally unplayable.

I like that hotkeys for the build/tech/formation window are all based on the keyboard and not one hotkey for a specific action

its nice that you can switch what building you gonna build without having to cancel the previous one. for when you missclick a building-hotkey and want to change it to the one you wanted, you dont have to cancel it... feels more fluent now

02:21 the meme never dies

Yesss Lad! 200K already, congratulations man!! #1 Age of empires KZfaqr of all time!

The best thing for me is the command queue. Now i can tell a villager, who built a house/wall to go back and collect ressources after it. That is soooo usefull

"súper easy, barely an inconvenient"😂 thanks for that

I'm getting my laptop tomorrow.. So excited to play😍

Making daily videos after the release of DE is super easy, barely an inconvenience! Never expected to find that reference here on this channel, just makes me appreciate your content even more mister *Spirit Of The References* :D

SotL: Makes a Ryan George reference Me: I see you too are a man of culture

Finally we can queue multiple tech instead waiting for one to finish... Just like other rts games

DEFINITIVE EDITION IS TRULY REMASTER OF A GAME

Congratulations on your 200k subscribers, Spirit of the Law! Well earned! Not playing the game currently, but I enjoy watching your videos a lot! Nice to still be in touch with a game of my childhood.

I wish I could give you another thumbs up for the 'super easy, barely an inconvenience' reference.

So THAT's why my game laggs extremely whenever those particles are on screen! I know they're nice looking but I would prefer to disable them....

I've heard that there is some kind of strategy mini-game attached to Age of Embers II: Definitive Edition. Maybe you should check it out?

Just a comment on command queues, if your villager is already doing something, you can shift click him to do the next thing without stopping his current action. For example in 5:08 he could build the mining camp with shift click and the villager won't stop building the house

I had a game the other day where I couldn't place a gate on a wall cos I didn't know how to rotate it. I watched this vid 3 days too late but I'm definitely grateful 😅

Literally just came from a ryan George vid xD

It's free scenario estate, I'm literally giving you the trigger.

Damn I might sound spoiled but I had like 80% of these features playing Age of Mythology as a kid. Didn't know AoE2 had so many features missing back then which I thought were standard

The feature for autosave also applies for random maps, which is probably my favourite thing. I once had all my army ready and just as I was advancing the game crashed. It made me really happy to discover it had been autosaved

#11: Those embers seem to be a large part of the reason I can't play this game on Linux. I get like 1fpm on the main menu, but the settings screen works fine.

0:50 what? that's not true. with a fishing ship you could just click on a dead fishing trap and the ship would rebuild it. ya simply gotta be quick before the dead fishing trap vanishes.

The hotkey button works a little differently for buildings now, for example: If I want to build a lumber camp and accidentally press "E", I don't need to cancel the command, press Q and R again, I can just press R and it will scroll to the right building. I am not sure if this is an update, but it sure does make laying buildings easier...

4:16 "YOU HAVE FAILED ME FOR THE LAST TIME!"

i played the original for years, never paid a cent. as an older, more responsible gamer, I bought AOE2 DE immediately

I wish they had released this instead of the HD remake. I can't justify buying the game again, sorry.

Finally someone makes a rundown of the new scenario editor features

Queing the monk to deposit the relic was mindblowing for me 🤯

Damn't seeing how many vills are on which resource was one of the few things age of empires 3 was better Maybe i should start aoe2 de more and just deal with the grapics, even when i don't like them as mutch as the aoe 2 hd ones

I like the comedic ending about the embers! 😂 Great job SotL!

My favorite feature is frequent spirit of the law videos.

Empire wars in interesting as you don't need to make a specific scenario to play and can be used with random maps and give you some villagers and a town instead of choosing a castle age start with only 3-10 starting villagers, town center and scout. Yes copy triggers is great along with those new features. And lots of quality of life improvements, farms fish traps, and ordering villagers and other units to do stuff. Rotate gates is nice to finally control gates without needing to put palisade walls first and diagonal gates are better since their sides are now preventing anyone from going through them.

Nice to see im not the only one wasting so much time playing with the particle effects!!

#12 - 200% extra Spirit of the Law content :D

The graphics and zoom option absolutely own me. Also shift+a, or, as politicians would diplomatically tell you - you are all drafted for a world war.

My fav new feature that wasn't mentioned is the music from history menu. When u browsing it u'll notice that civ themes r now play in sync with BGM rather than just laying it out on u. Trying to make coolest original soundtrack with this feature is another fun mini game u can play.

Love the super easy reference. Love Ryan's channel... and yours of course

Congrats to the first Aoe2-Content-Maker, who beat 200.000 subscribers, you earned it, SOTL!

I think the gold edition of Age of Empires (A box set pre the HD reamke containing AoE 1 and II + Expansion) contained at least a video tutorial on how to do a few things in multyplayer, like getting quick into feudal age or something, but they were somewhat hidden in the replays.

I want to add on another hotkey features. As we can select CTRL 1-0 for 10 quick hotkey we set in the game, next to the commanding / build order menu at the bottom part, you notice there is a "+" sign button at the middle of the bottom screen. You can select the units you want to add into that screen, so you can quick click to split all of the units in formation, or counter attack.

Nice to see aoe 2 getting some of the ui improvements present in aoe 3

Shoutout to that super easy barely an inconvenience reference

number 0:- spirit daily uploads

Highlighting a cool channel reference was super easy, barely an inconvenience!

Wow. I don't even play RTS much because I always suck at them (especially the micromanagement) and even though I own the original and 2013 edition, this is such a significant overhaul that I will definitely be getting this.