I left some time around a year ago. I didn't really rage quit or anything, just stopped booting it up. It feels like the last time you went outdoor to play with childhood friends. You didn't know it was the last time. Someday you just realized you stopped.

News of Vikings arrival brings me back. I left just after they rework siege, and now, one year later, everything is so much better. Springald used to be the must-have. Springald fights were just as intense as tank battle in Fury, the movie. Now, the system is much better with Springald against melee, Mango against ranged.

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And not just game design, I think my mindset changed after a year. I'm no longer a kid who thinks he should have won every match. AOE4 is complex, even to pros. I'm just exploring this vast, unknown land of strategies and skills. In a way, I enjoy the journey now.

I'm just so glad that this game is still alive, and not only so, still kicking. Sure they will need to balance the new civs for a while until it's fine-tuned. But look, we got Vikings, Saga and berserkers. We got Japanese, samurais and their women. We got Knight Templars, Teuton and God wills it. We are eating well. Appreciate it, really.

I watched Beasty’s video about the new DLC features, and apparently, he isn’t a fan of the auto-queue. I recall seeing another video of his in the past where he supported the idea of an auto-queue, provided there was some sort of penalty—for instance, if enabling it meant that units or villagers were produced, say, X% slower. But what does the community think about this? My take is that while it certainly makes things easier for new players, it also shifts the game's core dynamic; since this is a game that demands constant attention and multi task, forgetting to build villagers while you’re busy defending or attacking is actually part of the gameplay experience.

I think the approach of creating a single civ with an auto-queue feature—especially one with broad appeal, like the Vikings—is interesting, as it could attract new players. However, it will need to be very well balanced; we’ll see how that turns out. Furthermore, I agree with Beasty that we shouldn’t automate everything, nor should we automate the other civilizations.

Check this dude, talk about unlucky!

https://aoe4world.com/players/25569481-DOPE

The poor dude's computer crashed 46 times in a row today over a couple of hours before he finally got to play with his best friends, who are kindly helping him regain his lost points. Fortunately for him, one of his best friends is a beast, a 3000+ MMR dude who would wipe the floor with all the pros easily. He will be back in no time, unless his PC breaks down again the next day, mysteriously crashing again.

Seriously, how can you even crash a game 46 times in like 3 hours? Whatever happened to the dodge penalty? There is clearly a bug here, a way for them to skip the dodge penalty.

Fixing this bug, which has been around for years, would help a little bit, or not.

Started playing again a month ago, platinum is not a fun place

hey again — i posted about the daily quiz a while back, and since then i’ve added three more little games 🙂

• Unit of the Day — guess the hidden unit in 6 tries. each guess gives you clues about its civ, type, cost and more, so you can narrow it down.
• Which Is Higher? — two units, one question: which one has the higher stat? see how long you can keep your streak going before confidently picking the wrong one lol
• Sheep Hunt — scout through the fog and collect sheep before time runs out. apparently collecting sheep in actual matches wasn’t enough.

just some quick things to play when you feel like a bit of AoE4 without committing to a whole match.

i also included a screenshot of the guide tab as a reminder of the other stuff in there — tech trees, community build orders, unit/civ comparisons, production plans and the battle simulator.

if you try the games, let me know how you get on! curious to see which one people enjoy most.

link: https://aoe4analyzer.app/download

This profile, which is supposedly #50 in teams, conq 3 with 48% winrate, seems to be constantly playing with his 2 bronze teammates (which are probably smurfing given they have 9/10 wins), but still never lose more than a single point ? And seem to win 80 points on average, despite winning against people that have half his elo ?

Last picture is genuinely crazy, +65 despite the +426 mmr.

He is taking no risk and the game keeps rewarding him for it ? Is he supposed to be #1 or something ? Cause he isn't that good tbh

What the fuck is going on in this matchmaking

In any other game, if you're playing with your lower elo teammates, you're losing more points and win less points, why is it the complete opposite here ?

Tell me your experience and why you chose to play this game

Hello Guys
I was playing with my brother and we played 2 times in a row against the same guys(both in ranked), first game we won and the second we won (and that one was hard) and yet the game doesn’t count it as a win and we never won any point
Has someone had this to happen ? Is it normal ?

Does this happen automatically?

For example, if I have the White Tower, School of Cavalry, or Burgrave Palace, and I select all production buildings (landmark is selected). Does it balance it all equally? How does that work if certain landmarks are more efficient and I queue up a large number of units? Do you lose efficiency b/c it's "equally" spreading to less efficient basic buildings?

Appreciate any insight!

Hey y'all!

Ever since I was a kid, I've dreamed of playing Age of Empires on the go, and it finally happened 😀. As far as I know, I'm the first to get Age of Empires IV running on Android. The video is from my AYN Thor, an Android handheld with a Snapdragon 8 Gen 2.

It runs through GameNative, an app that plays your Steam games on Android, with a patched emulator and graphics driver I put together for it. AoE IV runs at about 60 FPS early in a 1v1 and about 47 FPS late in a 51-minute game, and you play it with the controller through the game's own controller UI. AoE II DE runs too, at a steady 60 FPS, and people who had been stuck on its splash screen for weeks now have it running on their own phones.

You need your own copy of the game on Steam. Everything else is free and open source, with a step-by-step guide:

https://github.com/tarikbc/ageofempires-android

Happy to answer questions in the comments!

What age range are you in?

Mead is delicious and apiaries are awesome.

I will be naked bee skepping until Age IV.

How important is relic denial as a feudal all in player?

I would say right now this season with the civ i’ve been playing i’ve been pretty much strictly going feudal all in, My average match win is probably in the realm of 20-24 minutes. If it goes past 30 chances are i’ve lost.

I’m just curious since late games seem to be an issue for me i wonder how big of an impact relics are having on my matches.

I’m not gonna lie, I couldn’t even tell you what happens with the relics. I don’t pay any attention to them because chances are i’m not even going to hit castle before the match is over. Should i be leaving a couple units on the relics around the map just to make sure my opponent doesn’t get them? How many units should i put on each relic? Which unit would be best?

Bolster your defenses with the Sacred Grove in
Age of Empires IV - Raiders of the North.

Unique to Vikings, this Religious Building regenerates health when no enemies are nearby, and increases the armor of nearby units.

Can anyone help me? My in game name is Timixa.

I have been playing English after coming back this season and I am just getting raided to death EVERY SINGLE GAME.

Sure I make lots of little mistakes but I can see my opponents making lots too. Just aoe 4 things ya know.

Even when I win it feels like I should’ve gotten destroyed at some point in the game and my opponent just didn’t capitalise on it

I’ve watched my games back and watched guides and I really can’t see a main problem that is getting me killed, I just don’t ever get enough units going after the 2tc

I would greatly appreciate any tips or tricks

Hey everyone!

This Halloween, I decided to make a full zombie escape mod, inspired by the old CS 1.6 Zombie Plague / Zombie Escape maps.

The main idea is that you have to run through the map and try to get out alive while hordes of zombies chase you the whole way. I wanted to bring that same feeling of a relentless chase to AOE IV, adapting it to the game’s controls and combat.

So I added five playable classes:

• Knight who can push through the horde
• Landsknecht who can cut down zombies around him in one swing
• Crossbowman with explosive bolts and Molotovs
• Musketeer with the sickest gunpowder weapon of them all
• Monk, the most fun to play! he can summon roots from the ground to push zombies back or slow them down

Also COMPLETLY new features with the mod:

• Blood! Actual blood splatters and decals
• Full ragdoll physics for zombies
• Custom zombie AI

I’d love to hear what you think!

You’ll be able to see the mod in action on the biggest GAMER Corvinus1 stream later this Halloween

P.S. I haven’t managed to get in touch with the other content creators yet, so if you’re reading this and would like to take part, drop me a DM!

Another thing that these games have (will have) in common is a Civ with Villager auto-queue
Seeing how much of a issue some people see in Villager auto-queue i wanted to show this comparison not only as a fun parallel but also as a sign that this feature can be balanced, unique and interesting

Also want to point out for AoE4 players that AoE3 Ottomans were OP for quite a while (considering lack of patches) and their villager production is one of the main reasons
Because of their auto-queue Ottomans could Age Up to Colonial Age (Feudal) almost faster than any other Civ and Fast Fortress (Castle) or even Fast Industrial (Imperial) are very potent strategies with them (not only because of auto-queue but that's for another story)

Again feel free to ask anything regarding AoE3 specifics - glad to answer any questions!

My previous post with units comparison - AoE4 and AoE3 new Units comparison

Second post, I am malding now lol

My acc name is Timixa. Anyone that can check out my games is greatly appreciated

Just lost back to back to a burgrave, then got dunked on in a 36 min French game

I have 2 questions.

What do I do against hre burger? I tried 2tc and longbow rush. Wasn’t close either time. Yes my macro was a lil off but I’m sure his was too. Gold things

How do you protect your sprawling English eco on dry Arabia? I survived the initial onslaught after getting my 2tc down and was feeling good, but as my base expanded I just couldn’t defend it. There were no walling opportunities so I was just pinned with knights perma running around my base while he was doing whatever the hell he wanted at home

Currently having the time of my life on a 12 game reverse heater (conq1 to plat 3), can you beat that?

Not sure if this is allowed but I’ll try anyhow. I have been trying to get to Conq in 1v1 ranked since game release. Highest I made it was diamond III last season thanks to some coaching by Xardas as well as others who helped which were awesome but I am always looking for more advice.

Now I’m at diamond II this season and feel like I’m hitting a plateau again. I would do coaching again but just not enough time and honestly I’d rather be playing alone in my basement like the neck beard that I truly am. I only get to play 1-2 games max per night so it’s tough to even sit down and review replays. What I’m asking the community for is to review at least some of my games, write up some tips or things I need to work on and help me get to conq. I’ll pick the top 3 responses.
-First place will get new dlc or 15$ cash.
-Second place 5$.
-Third place 5$.

Additionally,
If I get to conq I from your advice or I felt that it helped the most, I will GLADLY buy you the next dlc or any dlc you want or work something out.

If you doing it for the love of the game then feel free to donate.

As for my profile(https://aoe4world.com/players/76561197992632881). Name is Panda- water monster with long neck as in-game pic since apparently I picked the most original name so it’s hard to find in game).

I’m a KT main for the past two seasons pretty much with ~ 150 games. My main strat is dark age aggression going into 1 tc feudal agro. I 2tc against English and HOL.

I need the most help against jap, gh, rus, and ottomans. I also need help on water maps. My recent water games I feel like I’m just ass against other diamonds and low conqs.

Open to any and all advice though( such as: should I even be dicking around with dark age ???). I think I’ve watched every single KT video on YouTube but always open to learning more. If you want to use me for a video or stream go right ahead.

Thank you in advance. I’ll close the “contest” on midnight EST of October 28th( day before dlc release). Cheers and can’t wait for dlc release !
-Panda.