Massive thanks to everyone who has gotten something positive out of this tutorial, I'm really pleased you find it useful :) And don't forget, there is a part 2 right here - th-cam.com/video/WfkBgjzDUJA/w-d-xo.html
Totally useful. I wish someone told me this right when I started playing. Also, I find the following tricks very useful, especially in the beginning of the game: - Learn to garrison units with control-click, and use garrison instead of making the units walk around a building, especially a civic center, then set a rally point where you want them to go and unload. All units of a single type can be unloaded with shift-click, and all units with pressing U. E.g. very useful when the initial women are standing on the opposite side from the berries. - Hotkeys for queueing units correspond to the buttons you see when a building or group is selected in the ZXCV row of the keyboard. Click on CC and Shift-Z for the first 5 women to be created, etc.
Very many thanks. I specifically picked these three tips because like you, these would have been so handy to know right when I first picked up the game. And absolutely, all of your suggestions are on my list for future tutorials, particularly the little intricacies for garrisoning and unloading :)
Thanks a lot, now controls does make sense. Been battling wth the AI as I'm still trying to get familiar with the game control in general. This facilitate the process for me a lot . Thanks 🙏
thank you :) Very happy to see people still finding this tutorial useful. Don't forget to check out part 2, and my recent set of tutorials about build orders.
Congratulations dude, you obviously have a more natural aptitude for the game, maybe for RTS games in general. Evidently you would benefit from a more advanced tutorial than this one.
That is really great news, dude :) If you found that tip useful then the tutorial has justified it's existence. And if it's helped one person then I'm sure it may help others. I'm very pleased :) And please do feel free to suggest anything you'd like to see a future tutorial about. Very many thanks :)
No problem, mate, glad to be of help - there is a lot in 0AD that isn't widely advertised and easy to miss, so you are not alone :) Hope it helps bring your game up to the next level.
As a long time AOE 2 player and more broad, RTS fan, good to see so far nothing to extreme, mostly the batch mechanic from the tips which takes some time to get used to.
Hi mate, welcome to the 0AD party! Broadly speaking the game shares many features that will probably be familiar to you as a player of other RTS games, especially AOE2, but it has its own style and feel of gameplay too. Glad you found the tips useful, hope you continue to enjoy the game.
@@0ADNewbieRush Yeah, I found about this game a few days ago and have been messing around with it. Has very much the same base game but with enough changes to put it in its own subset. similarly to the star wars version of ages, Galactic Battlegrounds where the base game is there and excluding reskin/theme change there were enough gameplay tweaks (like shield generators, infinite food wildlife farms, early relic capture and aircraft such as the tie fighter, x-wing and y-wing) Figured I would watch the tips videos you had because that was what came up when I looked for gameplay after I heard of it and was curious how general vs specific you were getting with tips.
@@0ADNewbieRush I also do have a question for you, which faction would you say plays more similarly to the byzantines from AOE2? Me and my dad both played Byzantines as they were best able to weather the storm until something happened that made an opening for a counter attack with that sweet sweet building hp bonus and the pretty strong calvary.
I am a compettive AoE 2 player and I might give 0AD a try. I played 0AD a year ago on single player. I like some of its features of 0 AD. All those tricks seem somewhat familiar to me. The only issue is that I don´t know if 0AD gives great gameplay, but I hope to find out where playing 0AD is about.
Hello. Thanks for watching and your comment, much appreciated. I only came to 0AD as I was short of cash and was looking for a free alternative to AOE, having liked playing it way back in the day. About 4 years on I'm still playing! I actually got AOE 2 DE just before Christmas, but I really struggled with it - I kept finding that I'd rather be playing 0AD. The games are much more varied I find, whereas with AOE2 you kind of always know how the first 5 minutes of a game will go. With 0AD you have to take into account the civ, the map, the terrain and the biome as to how you're going to build out and expand your economy. In truth they've become very different playing experiences, but I feel there is much more scope for expression in 0AD. Give it another go, I'm sure you'll get into it, and have a look at some of my other replays to get an idea of how differently some of the top players approach their tactics. :)
@Letswaveabook I’m glad you moved to 0AD. I see you online fairly often! I hope you’re enjoying 0AD - can you let us know how you’ve liked it so far compared to AoE2 and such? I have been trying to spread the word of 0AD on youtube to AoE fans and I hope some people will try 0AD. Is 0AD gaining popularity? Sorry for all these questions at once but I hope you can answer when you’re ready! 0AD Newbie Rush I’d like to hear your views and opinions on all this as well!
@@0ADNewbieRush I hope that 0AD is gaining popularity. What do you think MysticJim? Have you noticed an influx of new players lately?? I’ve been trying to share the game with as many people as possible (friends or strangers) on youtube and
@@tbone8358 A game of Age of Empires 2 has always had different sub-communities in the online community, mostly based on maps. So you had arabia players, arena players, Nomad (TG) players, Black forrest TG players, Custom scenario players(search on youtube for example to Age of Empires II CBA for an explaination) and the land nomad FFA community. So even though it is all the same game, everybody finds something different there. That probably will be the same for 0ad and I can only judge for the way I like to play the game. I am not a big fan of team games, but others are. We can't say that one person has better taste than the other. Personally, I dislike the build order focused play and that is what arabia brings you on AoE2. For 0ad there is more variation in opening situations and that is good. Also I think it is kind of unrealistic if winning requires to destroy all buildings and units of your opponent and in 0ad we can capture buildings. Also the citizen soldier is something unique to 0ad. A rotating camera is also a very nice, since in AoE2 there is not way of selecting a palisade that is right behind a castle, and that has serious consequences. So 0ad has its merits, but AoE2 is a still legend. It also needs to be said that wine2.0 used to run AoE2 on voobly excellently, but later versions had trouble. For AoE 2, I felt that I reached a point where if I wanted to get better at AoE2, I had to invest a lot of time in things that I didn't enjoy, like practicing archer micro and build orders. Currently there are 36 players on voobly rated above 2k who play regulary. When I peaked I was 1900 rated as an arena player. I reached 1950 once, but that was a lucky strike. So I guess that if I were commited to playing AoE2 at voobly, I could be somewhere in the top 100 on that platform. At this very moment, there are 1100 AoE2 players oline at voobly. Wether 0ad is gaining popularity is something I am not sure of. It is not as if there is a lot of change within the top 100 leaderboard. MisticJim has reached 500 subs on youtube, but Tom0AD has 2.2k and is currently inactive. I would say 0ADs popularity hasn't noticably improved.
Thanks for all your advice! A 0AD English channel with different types of video, I found what I was looking for! Just a question, do you know a website, forum, discord channel (etc...) which is a 0AD community?
Many thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. In terms of 0AD community, good starting point is the official forums - wildfiregames.com/forum/ - there a few discords, but not a lot of activity on them. Do check out the official Social Media channels as well for news and updates.
@@0ADNewbieRush thanks! I am looking forward to more 1v1 or 2v2 content. Please upload more of your self-casts if you would, I really enjoy watching you play and critique yourself!
Thank you, got small practical fine tunes from this tutorial. By the way, have not found a way to split groups. Is there way to split like 8 group into two 4 groups?
Glad to be of help 😊 it's always feels like the opponent is practising black arts when you think your doing okay only find they've got double your population, but keep going - there are a multitude of tricks and techniques to discover. Always watch your replays, analyse what they did and never stop learning 😊
I just started a few days ago and how is it that EVRY SINGLE TIME i start a new game with an AI player i get raided with like 15 horses and 25 infantry while im still working on getting resources with my poor 10 infantry. i ragequit so often now.
This doesn't help me very much T-T, please do a tutorial explaining the unique mechanics of 0 A.D as those are what new players will find difficult. No offfense!
No hostility felt, dude. I didn't come to 0AD from an RTS background, as such, it's purely the things I found out later - some by accident, some by other tutorials. All of the tips were not intuitive to me, and quite a few others have expressed their gratitude for presenting them in this order and manner. It's all subjective, ultimately, but no-one unaware of these tips is going to even remotely compete with anyone that does know about them, so it's going to be useful to someone 😊
@@0ADNewbieRush Good to know :D I know text can sometimes come across differently lol just wanted to say again that your content is great and I could listen to you talk about 0 a.d all day !
@@sean-michaelconroy7686 That's cool, dude. My whole channel, although I do sometimes focus on some top players, will always have a slant towards newer players. As such, there may well be a series of tutorials further down the line going into these little details like buildings or certain units, but there probably will be more emphasis on these things that a lot of people assume everyone knows, but in reality, quite a few people simply don't. I'd completely recommend the Tom 0AD channel for much more detailed and technical guides to economy, civs and units.
@@0ADNewbieRush Ya, I am good mean the opposite of I am evil. I am well is the opposite of I am sick. It's a good day. Is not the same as It's a well day (not that anyone says that. LOL) . Or I feel well is like I don't feel sick but I feel good is that I don't feel evil. They are not the same word. It is odd, I know. Look them up a good online dictionary. I did well, as in,, I did well on a test. I did good is like I didn't do any evil. I did good on a test just doesn't make any sense at all.
Dude, the English language, in its true dictionary form has these foibles. Yes, if I were writing a formal declaration, a business letter or academic essay, I'd totally conform to them. But that kind of writing or speaking is extremely dry and purely functional. But the spoken language evolves, most often locally through regional dialect, and increasingly through modern online communication. Words strict meanings often get changed by mass adoption. I'd also argue that good is more likely to mean the opposite of bad, not evil. As in I did good in a test as opposed to doing 'badly.' And well can be used interchangeablely - 'well done' is a common congratulation for someone who has done something good or something very well. It's also a superlative, 'I like my steak well done' as in cooked thoroughly. Or ' I smoked some good s**t and I got well hammered' - as in I was extremely inebriated!
Thanks dude. It's very difficult when you first start, especially if like me, you're not a natural RTS player. But it does get easier the longer you play. Do check out all the tutorials you can find, there is always a new trick to help you improve :) I wish you luck, mate
@@0ADNewbieRush I played aoe 3 which bit easier I think, I just install Linux yesterday and saw the game from snapcraft. Thank you I'll subscribe your channel.
Massive thanks to everyone who has gotten something positive out of this tutorial, I'm really pleased you find it useful :) And don't forget, there is a part 2 right here - th-cam.com/video/WfkBgjzDUJA/w-d-xo.html
Totally useful. I wish someone told me this right when I started playing.
Also, I find the following tricks very useful, especially in the beginning of the game:
- Learn to garrison units with control-click, and use garrison instead of making the units walk around a building, especially a civic center, then set a rally point where you want them to go and unload. All units of a single type can be unloaded with shift-click, and all units with pressing U. E.g. very useful when the initial women are standing on the opposite side from the berries.
- Hotkeys for queueing units correspond to the buttons you see when a building or group is selected in the ZXCV row of the keyboard. Click on CC and Shift-Z for the first 5 women to be created, etc.
Very many thanks. I specifically picked these three tips because like you, these would have been so handy to know right when I first picked up the game. And absolutely, all of your suggestions are on my list for future tutorials, particularly the little intricacies for garrisoning and unloading :)
That's why even I put very easy on bots, they still produce that much soldiers LMAO didn't know you can do that. Thanks a lot
Many thanks, hope it helps you out going forward. 😊
Thanks for the tips, decided to start playing 0 A.D.
Wow, that's brilliant news! Best of luck with it, maybe we'll see one of your future games on the show one day? :) Many thanks
Thanks a lot, now controls does make sense. Been battling wth the AI as I'm still trying to get familiar with the game control in general. This facilitate the process for me a lot . Thanks 🙏
This helps a lot I always focus on fighting and raiding and forget about my resources!
Many thanks, glad you found it useful :) And make sure you check out the follow up tutorial. th-cam.com/video/WfkBgjzDUJA/w-d-xo.html
This is very helpful, never played rts games before this. very helpful video
Really happy you found it useful. Best of luck!
That is a great help looking forward to start playing, thank you.
Thanks. This is very helpful
thank you :) Very happy to see people still finding this tutorial useful. Don't forget to check out part 2, and my recent set of tutorials about build orders.
Good tips! Thanks. I just started playing 0AD and this was very informative video.
Thanks dude, much appreciated
all of this i learnt in the game with how to play and learnt first time by just trying
Congratulations dude, you obviously have a more natural aptitude for the game, maybe for RTS games in general. Evidently you would benefit from a more advanced tutorial than this one.
Thanks a lot! It's a total game changer. Cheers!
Brilliant stuff, mate, glad you found it helpful :)
I just started 0 AD for my playthroughs, thanks for the tips man! I failed on my first few playthroughs LOL
Hi, massive thanks and much appreciated. Keep going - it's an easy game to play but very difficult to master, but you never stop learning 🙂
5:50 oh great. the trick with create shortcuts for goups was new for me :thumsUp:
That is really great news, dude :) If you found that tip useful then the tutorial has justified it's existence. And if it's helped one person then I'm sure it may help others. I'm very pleased :) And please do feel free to suggest anything you'd like to see a future tutorial about. Very many thanks :)
Nicely done, jim
Thanks mate. Don't forget, there is a second tutorial video with further tips as well :)
How did I not know about control groups? Thank you, Jim!
No problem, mate, glad to be of help - there is a lot in 0AD that isn't widely advertised and easy to miss, so you are not alone :) Hope it helps bring your game up to the next level.
As a long time AOE 2 player and more broad, RTS fan, good to see so far nothing to extreme, mostly the batch mechanic from the tips which takes some time to get used to.
Hi mate, welcome to the 0AD party! Broadly speaking the game shares many features that will probably be familiar to you as a player of other RTS games, especially AOE2, but it has its own style and feel of gameplay too. Glad you found the tips useful, hope you continue to enjoy the game.
@@0ADNewbieRush Yeah, I found about this game a few days ago and have been messing around with it. Has very much the same base game but with enough changes to put it in its own subset.
similarly to the star wars version of ages, Galactic Battlegrounds where the base game is there and excluding reskin/theme change there were enough gameplay tweaks (like shield generators, infinite food wildlife farms, early relic capture and aircraft such as the tie fighter, x-wing and y-wing)
Figured I would watch the tips videos you had because that was what came up when I looked for gameplay after I heard of it and was curious how general vs specific you were getting with tips.
@@0ADNewbieRush I also do have a question for you, which faction would you say plays more similarly to the byzantines from AOE2? Me and my dad both played Byzantines as they were best able to weather the storm until something happened that made an opening for a counter attack with that sweet sweet building hp bonus and the pretty strong calvary.
Very usefull tips, the earlier u know this stuff, the faster u get better.
I wish I knew this sooner when started playing rts kkkkkkk
Amazing l, thank you!
I am a compettive AoE 2 player and I might give 0AD a try. I played 0AD a year ago on single player. I like some of its features of 0 AD. All those tricks seem somewhat familiar to me. The only issue is that I don´t know if 0AD gives great gameplay, but I hope to find out where playing 0AD is about.
Hello. Thanks for watching and your comment, much appreciated. I only came to 0AD as I was short of cash and was looking for a free alternative to AOE, having liked playing it way back in the day. About 4 years on I'm still playing! I actually got AOE 2 DE just before Christmas, but I really struggled with it - I kept finding that I'd rather be playing 0AD. The games are much more varied I find, whereas with AOE2 you kind of always know how the first 5 minutes of a game will go. With 0AD you have to take into account the civ, the map, the terrain and the biome as to how you're going to build out and expand your economy. In truth they've become very different playing experiences, but I feel there is much more scope for expression in 0AD. Give it another go, I'm sure you'll get into it, and have a look at some of my other replays to get an idea of how differently some of the top players approach their tactics. :)
@Letswaveabook I’m glad you moved to 0AD. I see you online fairly often! I hope you’re enjoying 0AD - can you let us know how you’ve liked it so far compared to AoE2 and such? I have been trying to spread the word of 0AD on youtube to AoE fans and I hope some people will try 0AD. Is 0AD gaining popularity? Sorry for all these questions at once but I hope you can answer when you’re ready!
0AD Newbie Rush I’d like to hear your views and opinions on all this as well!
@@0ADNewbieRush I hope that 0AD is gaining popularity. What do you think MysticJim? Have you noticed an influx of new players lately?? I’ve been trying to share the game with as many people as possible (friends or strangers) on youtube and
@@tbone8358 A game of Age of Empires 2 has always had different sub-communities in the online community, mostly based on maps. So you had arabia players, arena players, Nomad (TG) players, Black forrest TG players, Custom scenario players(search on youtube for example to Age of Empires II CBA for an explaination) and the land nomad FFA community. So even though it is all the same game, everybody finds something different there. That probably will be the same for 0ad and I can only judge for the way I like to play the game. I am not a big fan of team games, but others are. We can't say that one person has better taste than the other.
Personally, I dislike the build order focused play and that is what arabia brings you on AoE2. For 0ad there is more variation in opening situations and that is good. Also I think it is kind of unrealistic if winning requires to destroy all buildings and units of your opponent and in 0ad we can capture buildings. Also the citizen soldier is something unique to 0ad. A rotating camera is also a very nice, since in AoE2 there is not way of selecting a palisade that is right behind a castle, and that has serious consequences. So 0ad has its merits, but AoE2 is a still legend. It also needs to be said that wine2.0 used to run AoE2 on voobly excellently, but later versions had trouble.
For AoE 2, I felt that I reached a point where if I wanted to get better at AoE2, I had to invest a lot of time in things that I didn't enjoy, like practicing archer micro and build orders. Currently there are 36 players on voobly rated above 2k who play regulary. When I peaked I was 1900 rated as an arena player. I reached 1950 once, but that was a lucky strike. So I guess that if I were commited to playing AoE2 at voobly, I could be somewhere in the top 100 on that platform. At this very moment, there are 1100 AoE2 players oline at voobly.
Wether 0ad is gaining popularity is something I am not sure of. It is not as if there is a lot of change within the top 100 leaderboard. MisticJim has reached 500 subs on youtube, but Tom0AD has 2.2k and is currently inactive. I would say 0ADs popularity hasn't noticably improved.
Thanks for all your advice!
A 0AD English channel with different types of video, I found what I was looking for!
Just a question, do you know a website, forum, discord channel (etc...) which is a 0AD community?
Many thanks for your kind words, much appreciated. In terms of 0AD community, good starting point is the official forums - wildfiregames.com/forum/ - there a few discords, but not a lot of activity on them. Do check out the official Social Media channels as well for news and updates.
Wow this is content!
Welcome to the party, dude, there is a fair bit of content!
@@0ADNewbieRush thanks! I am looking forward to more 1v1 or 2v2 content. Please upload more of your self-casts if you would, I really enjoy watching you play and critique yourself!
Thanks
Thank you, got small practical fine tunes from this tutorial. By the way, have not found a way to split groups. Is there way to split like 8 group into two 4 groups?
this game is cool, but is so fast, its also insane
im very new to 0ad so at 4:35 how do you queue up multiple structures being built?
This will help me or sure.
very helpful I just started playing and was wondering why is it that so many people have more soldiers in such a small amount of time
Glad to be of help 😊 it's always feels like the opponent is practising black arts when you think your doing okay only find they've got double your population, but keep going - there are a multitude of tricks and techniques to discover. Always watch your replays, analyse what they did and never stop learning 😊
I just started a few days ago and how is it that EVRY SINGLE TIME i start a new game with an AI player i get raided with like 15 horses and 25 infantry while im still working on getting resources with my poor 10 infantry. i ragequit so often now.
This doesn't help me very much T-T, please do a tutorial explaining the unique mechanics of 0 A.D as those are what new players will find difficult. No offfense!
No hostility felt, dude. I didn't come to 0AD from an RTS background, as such, it's purely the things I found out later - some by accident, some by other tutorials. All of the tips were not intuitive to me, and quite a few others have expressed their gratitude for presenting them in this order and manner. It's all subjective, ultimately, but no-one unaware of these tips is going to even remotely compete with anyone that does know about them, so it's going to be useful to someone 😊
@@0ADNewbieRush Good to know :D I know text can sometimes come across differently lol just wanted to say again that your content is great and I could listen to you talk about 0 a.d all day !
@@sean-michaelconroy7686 That's cool, dude. My whole channel, although I do sometimes focus on some top players, will always have a slant towards newer players. As such, there may well be a series of tutorials further down the line going into these little details like buildings or certain units, but there probably will be more emphasis on these things that a lot of people assume everyone knows, but in reality, quite a few people simply don't. I'd completely recommend the Tom 0AD channel for much more detailed and technical guides to economy, civs and units.
is there a hotkey to FIND all idle workers? :) Furthermore is there a hotkey to find all units? Like Strg A for example? :)
The aging manual gives these hotkeys automatically - trac.wildfiregames.com/wiki/HotKeys and there is the option to set custom keys too.
Great tut but learn the difference between good and well!
Um...I know one starts with G and the other starts with W. Any other specific differences I need to be aware of? 😀
@@0ADNewbieRush Ya, I am good mean the opposite of I am evil. I am well is the opposite of I am sick. It's a good day. Is not the same as It's a well day (not that anyone says that. LOL) . Or I feel well is like I don't feel sick but I feel good is that I don't feel evil. They are not the same word. It is odd, I know. Look them up a good online dictionary.
I did well, as in,, I did well on a test. I did good is like I didn't do any evil. I did good on a test just doesn't make any sense at all.
Dude, the English language, in its true dictionary form has these foibles. Yes, if I were writing a formal declaration, a business letter or academic essay, I'd totally conform to them. But that kind of writing or speaking is extremely dry and purely functional. But the spoken language evolves, most often locally through regional dialect, and increasingly through modern online communication. Words strict meanings often get changed by mass adoption. I'd also argue that good is more likely to mean the opposite of bad, not evil. As in I did good in a test as opposed to doing 'badly.' And well can be used interchangeablely - 'well done' is a common congratulation for someone who has done something good or something very well. It's also a superlative, 'I like my steak well done' as in cooked thoroughly. Or ' I smoked some good s**t and I got well hammered' - as in I was extremely inebriated!
I just started 0 AD, and never win. wkwk
Thanks for the tips
Thanks dude. It's very difficult when you first start, especially if like me, you're not a natural RTS player. But it does get easier the longer you play. Do check out all the tutorials you can find, there is always a new trick to help you improve :) I wish you luck, mate
@@0ADNewbieRush I played aoe 3 which bit easier I think, I just install Linux yesterday and saw the game from snapcraft.
Thank you I'll subscribe your channel.
thank you so much, finally i can have a chance to win my gf
Thank you, but these are very basic things one should know playing games like AOE or any other real time strategy.
I lasted an hour and then got randomly attacked by some ai
the voice lmao
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