Aoe2 HD: Tutorial: How to Play, The Basics and Beyond!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ต.ค. 2024
- This tutorial is designed to introduce the basics of Age of Empires 2 to new players. In this video, I cover the basics of the main menu, and commentate over myself playing against 2 Moderate difficulty computer players. This video contains everything that you'd need to know to get started with Age of Empires 2. If you are really struggling with learning the game, this is the video for you!
Disclaimer: This tutorial is intended for players who are either new to Age of Empires 2 or are having difficulty beating the computer player.
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a little tip for your scout in the beginning : if you want to save time, select the scout, hold shift and press right click on a location you want to go to. if you do it like that a tiny flag appears that marks a point were you're scout will go to if you release shift and press right click again. you can place multiple flags and your scout will ride from flag to flag. so you can tell him to scout around your base in a circle for example.
this way you don't have to control your scout the whole time while he's scouting
thanks
"It appears that my ally says he needs help, so I'm going to go build this market"
Only in AoE would "I'm going to build a Market" be a rational thought after your ally says he needs help...
capitalism in a nutshell
I am impressed with your ability to explain things to newer people! Great job! I would say you are the best at explaining this game to newer players that I have seen.
Yea he communicates real well. Knows exactly which words to use. Good vid!
"Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and you shall be saved." - Acts 16:31
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Paul told the Phillipean Jailer that to be saved he must believe on the Lord Jesus.
That is not out of context. As a matter of fact if you look through the whole Bible you will see again and again the call to repent and believe on Jesus Christ and be saved.
This is then for you to do omalginu. You must do this because without Christ you are headed for a place called Hell because you have broken God's Law the 10 Commandments. But God offers you salvation today, for only today right now is guaranteed. Because Jesus died on the cross 2,000 years ago being both God and man and when He died He took the wrath of God upon Himself and died so that all who would believe in Him would be saved.
He rose 3 days later from the dead and ascended into Heaven where He sits down at the right hand of the Father.
Right now He commands you to repent and believe alone in Jesus Christ and your sins shall be forgiven.
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You miss applied that text. That is for praying and not being a hypocrite.
But you forgot about Mark 16:15 "Go out into all the world and preach the Gospel to all creation."
That is what I am doing. I am sharing the Gospel with you so that you may come to know Christ as your Savior and thus repent and believe and be forever justified in Him!
These are my favourite verses!
Revelations 14:8
Ephesians 5:22
1 Timothy 2:12
1 Samuel 15:3
Exodus 22:18
Psalm 137:9
and the story of Sodom and Gomorrah!
I think I am the only one who gets cyber bullied by bots.
Reds Vibe Me 2 xD
aha yesss
Dude that's me playing Lego battles...
F U C K Y O U
I AM B O T
You are so not xD
I've tried to scroll the map, then I realized that I was watching a video on full screen! hahahaha
Awesome video btw!
+Andra Karsten hahaha :)
I am so glad to hear that this video helped you! You can expect some videos from me in the near future that explain how I defeat the Hardest difficulty computer. :)
If theres one tip i could give to a new player looking to improve their game- its learn the hot keys for TC, CREATE VILLAGER and IDLE VILLAGER. And just pretty much spam them constantly throughout the game. Once you get into this habit it will become second nature, allowing you to think more about your strategy
3:57 "I'm not recording this...". Well technically....
Thanks for the clear instructions. I've always enjoyed watching rts games but was too intimidated to play one since they look so complex. I actually bought the Age of Empires Collectors Edition years ago, played it once, got killed quickly and never picked it up again because I couldn't understand it. This should help me try it again, which I really want to. Thanks.
start with AoE II , it's perfect for beginning. The Tutorial Campain is awesome! You'll have a lot of fun
wtf i take 2 hours to do the things you do in 20 minutes
git gud nub
A Banana im trying m8
40 minute
A tip to take waaaaaaaaaaaaaay less time: force yourself to let your town centre be active at all times. Strife to have 3 towncentres when possible.
mass produce villagers always friend. More villagers=happy economy
I played on standart and got rekt
Your micro-skills and control is amazing.
7 years old and still a good tutorial, thanks
The hot key for "idle villager" is the ".", period. Use it. Lumberjacks are lazy and they do wander away! Keep those serfs busy as hell, never stand idle!! The comma key "," is used to find an idle military unit. The "home key" will bring you to the last trumpet location
Home key?
The Home Key is usually on the top of the keyboard, to the right of the F1-F12, PrtSc, Pause, Ins, and Del keys. You may need to double check though because I've seen a few keyboards that have it on the very bottom of the keyboard, some in a 3x2 section on the keyboard (common business type keyboards), and some just don't have em at all.
Another thing worth mentioning is that if you're using a mouse with more than 3 buttons, one of those extra buttons will cycle you through idle villages and another will cycle you through all the TCs. It's very useful if you have a mouse with 5 buttons or more.
Also important to mention that all hotkeys can be reassigned. The last notification (trumpet) key is pretty important and I don't think it should stay on a strange button like "home". Being more of a starcraft player I prefer the space bar.
Fuck I did not know the home key. Late to the party here but thanks!
How has no one noticed that he keeps on changing accents?
It's making it really hard to watch.
kinda cool
At what times?
I didn't expect this tutorial to be THAT GOOD. Good job!
I always was the singleplayer turtle tactic guy. Build my economy, a large base and a large army and win the game. For a few days now I'm following some aoe2 1v2 matches and I felt the itch to play again but different. Your videos help me alot. And as a + its kinda relaxing listening to your video =D keep up the good work
I love playing this HD version of AoE II rather than the Definitive one. I love the music and some extra effects in HD which I missed in the original version.
Resonance, we would certainly love a video on the updated Steam hotkeys and general advanced tips not so focused on economy. Such as shift que'ing, using ctrl groups, and anything you generally use throughout your games that a lower level player might not.
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I recently restarted playing this game that I used to play 20 years ago. I wish I’d known some of these basic things back then - Thanks!
One thing I did understand the relevance or importance of from this video is trade carts. Why are they so important and what benefits do they give you? Surely if you trade resources with your ally you have to give other resources back in return?
Good tips, I've played aoe2 a little bit (43 hrs), but didn't know some of these things
Man you're quick.
Yep. Studying the hot keys is like studying for a high school exam
Swaggerlin haha! If you take it that seriously then you deserve to be a top player.
Tim4196 I do take it that seriously but my strategy is shit.
Jesus man, i've played this game back then, but i could NEVER develop the speed to do things.
I like to stay "build-shy" ! 5 guys to food, 5 to wood, 5 to gold and then armies
lol
Try Civilization, it's like aoe but turn based
I've been having the same for years! How do you get out of it it's so painful haha! It's good for Simcity and such though but really not in RTS.
@@Alec0 i hate turn based.
@@lishalou761 okay
lol I remember playing his when I was little (even before I barely knew any English) and I used to not make more then 4 villages xD)
Yeah me too I played aoe 1 though XD I loved calvary units alot though so I just had whole armies of like 59 calvary and no infantry lol
Madison Sutcliff haha I played the game mode in aoe 2 where you start with like 50K of each resource. So I didn't see a reason to get any villages. But then after I built your army and they all died. I had no more resources and the gameplay became really slow because I had to farm up.
Haha yeah i always played that mode.. Is it called deathmatch? It was the most fun for me lol have you ever played age of mythology? Its really awesome too
Madison Sutcliff No I don't think I've played that one.
You should try it if you can find it somewhere you could probably at Walmart or somethin :D
Thank you in advance, I know I will be watching this over and over again in the future.
Watching this video while playing on the Xbox one. I used this video years ago on my old PC too kinda cool.
this design and layout is an OCD sufferer's worst nightmare lol
josh bradley we dont call it sufferibg we just call it wanting to die
thats not really what OCD is but okay...
Great ability to explain things. Recently rebought this and am getting into it. For a game with such vast possibilities, I figured I'd check out youtube. Glad i found your channel!
really great work, it explains every aspect of the game, love it
About to try AOE2 HD for the first time after purchasing it mid 2013, thanks for the tutorial.
do you want to play together? i'm also a noob at the game
+Viggo the dark souls noob I'm worst than you
Dec 2021,What a timeless classic this game is
My sisters always completely massacres me. I’m watching this to help myself lol
I can never be as organized as this guy is.
This is such a multitasking game. I get anxiety whenever I get attcked from 2 different sides while having my villagers do work/build houses/get food/get wood/make army x_x
I Bought this Game about 6 Years ago, I also got Killed very Quickly. I have now re-installed this Game and with your Help , I Hope to be a better Player Cheers Alex Mc
You're a really good teacher dude
Thanks for these tutorials bro this is why I love you
Yes. I finally defeated a moderate AI. But I'm really really slow at doing stuff and I often forget things. I hope I'll improve enough to beat a hard AI. Thanks for the video.
Bro this is a sick video thanks so much at first game looks really complex but u explained rlly well thanks man
Thanks for the help. I will one day beat my friends at this game!!
I am showing this to my friends so they can one day beat me. :P
This is very helpful and informative. Thank you!
I Love Your Tutorial. So much Information in so little Time✌ and a a viewer you feel your Love for the Game✌
Nice to see your not that bored to help newbies to : )
Amazing video dude!
Awesome vids Res! Love watching you on Twitch. Hopefully I can play AoE with you sometime man
21:15 Literally the plot every 2v2 game ever played.
*damn i was 8when i played that game*
Amazing Video! Thank You
Great video, thanks for uploading!
I've been playing AoE 2 HD and I have a question for any experienced player: When playing AoE 3 I'm able to give consecutive commands to units by holding down Shift and then issuing the commands. In AoE 2 HD that same technique doesn't work. I noticed it does work to place the foundation for consecutive buildings however. Is there a way to give consecutive commands to units?
Thanks!
One thing which I've noticed about RTS games is multiplayer is extremely hard compared to CPUs, I'd totally suggest after understanding the game just watch pros for ages and understand how to be efficient. I'm still a noob but I can still hold myself in newbie games heh!
13:21 "sheeps" triggers me xdd this was soooo helpful, thanks
funny how he did an incredibly slow and bad start while he was explaining and still kicked the computers butts
and then there is that ridiculous leap to moderate where somewhat good players might still be devastated even with a perfect start
the ai he was attacking hadnt built up any army yet
Ah, of course, taking foraged fruits to the mill! I understand now!
Great video!
That was a good tutorial!
I can't even beat standard :( but with the help of your videos it's taking longer for me to die now so at least I'm improving. Thanks!
very helpful, thanks!
Would probably help new players if you had no texture pack on or any mods... Common sense.
cluster yes it is
The earlier the better, but don't let it become a huge strain on your economy. Try to gradually make more of them as you start to run out of gold mines, and the villagers that were mining gold should either be deleted (making population room for more trade carts) or set to gather another resource of your need. :)
I must be super slow because I only use the mouse when it comes to doing anything in aoe2. Like, the hotkeys are a bit confusing which is why I don't use it, it's much different than other RTS games regarding hotkeys I feel. I know I can change them but I feel like if I re-hotkey I will lose a hotkey for something else, which will be way too confusing for me to look through.
The scouting in this game is much too intimidating for new players, you could spend the first thirty seconds looking for sheep and I have no clue what I'm supposed to do haha. I even had some guides to help me, and when it comes to things like luring boars or wolves they kill villagers very quickly.
I'm glad I found this video in time since I was about to quit. I was actually so bad at the game people started kicking me from lobbies lol.
Remember the cheat code. “AEGIS” made you build things instantly.
I know im real late here. But you should definetly pulm the boars to your tc and harvest their food. It's totally worth.
thanks was new to rts game this helped
i play warcraft 3 but i didn't understand this game
Thank you for your tutorial
*makes barracks*
*7 Men at Arms and three Knights stroll into town*
The Bob Ross of AoE2
The first half was useful, the second half got too fast to follow and not enough was explained.
I've watched this video for 14 minutes now and have no idea whats going on, im probably autistic
Does it matter where you place houses and barracks? It looks like you just randomly placed them so I’m wondering if placement has any importance.
No explanation of what do the unit legend ( at the bottom) means.
A sword, and armor vest, and archer target - what are these? and how do u interpret these?
I don't understand how Resonance and other good players are using groups and hotkeys and moving their military. I have watched Viper and Resonance videos and tried to figure it out watching the mouse movements, but I still couldn't figure it out. Anyone know? BUILDING PRODUCTION: In the video he mentioned that he was adding castles to group 2. Is that so he can quickly move the gather point for all of his castles? When he wants to create move military units, does he type control+b, then the hotkey for the unit he wants to produce, then control+b then unit hotkey, etc for each building? Or does he press control+b then click on each building with his mouse and press the hotkey for the unit he wants to produce? Or does he press 2 twice to jump to where his castles are (but then he cannot use hotkeys to que units, so he must then manually click on each castle then press the unit hotkey to build?)
UNIT CONTROL: how do the pros make their armies move so orderly? My armies just run off in all different directions instantly unless I manually put them into stand ground (is there a way to set army stance to defensive as the default stance instead of aggressive?) Is he constantly spam clicking the attack move hotkey behind the units he wants to attack? I cant figure out how to actually control my units the way the good players do. I'm looking for as detailed help about specifics as possible, anyone know?
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In a standard build, what villager composition would you reccomend through the ages for wood/food/gold ?
Also, can you explain when to collect stone and how much?
If doing like an ideal castle rush, i usually just recruit 2-3 villagers to build feudal age buildings, then i transition them to stone. After that, i advance to castle and play on.
In the dark age, i make around 28-35 villagers for fast castle. I have like 12 on boar and sheep, then i transition them to farms when done (like 3, but the rest on wood), 5 on forage, 5 on deer, and sometimes a couple fishing ships if on a water map. I also have 2 gold miners at the end of the dark age.
For feudal rushing (same order i do except down to 22-24 villagers before feudal), i usually play mayans or sometimes even byzantines, for a cheap trash rush.
Just put most on food at first for dark age, transition some to wood, then at feudal, make stone and builders (But really it depends on your strategy, your civilization, and your map). Since i usually feudal rush, i will create an army of ~ 5 skirmishers, 5 archers, and 5 spearmen; meanwhile ill just keep improving my economy, mostly for stone and gold but some for food and wood. Meanwhile again, ill rush that trash army to my enemy and harass their economy or at least try to, then ill build up another 5 skirm - 5 archer - 5 spearmen setup. I can also upgrade to castle age at some point.
Ultimately, to conclude your questions, it really depends on your civilization, your strategy, and your map. What civ do you play a lot? And what is your most used strategy? Im assuming fast castle? If thats the case, like i said, i would just build up a couple villagers to build feudal buildings, then when they're done, transition them to stone and go up to castle age as soon as your done. When at castle, just keep improving your economy and whatnot, and its also ideal to set up a cheap army for a rush or for protection.
Have a good day
Thank you Leonardo. I hope you have a great day as well :)
Man, those idol villies are driving me nuts.
hey which mod were young using for the beach ??? It looks amazing
So I've been playing since I was six so I know how to play I just don't know anything about competitive whats a good video for me?
Great vid! But how do you know, how many villagers you already have?
Cause you keep saying "I need more villies.."
Is there a sort of a counter?
+Ben Wade Top left there are 5 resource boxes the last one is your population expressed as ?/? How many you have vs how many you can build....
Gattaca Sorta. You want to have half of the max population in villagers. For example: Resonance set the max to 200 pop in this game. He wants to shoot for around 100 villagers. This way, he will have an unbeatable economy.
In any game, you always want to go for half, whether the max is 200, 500, etc. Hope this helped.
Question. Should I group up all of my units then attack or set the gather point to the enemy base.
I was wondering if there is a mod that lest you garrison sheep in a building to get a constant flow of food like you could with nerfs in star wars galactic battlegrounds?
Thinking that the recording mode doesn't effect performance displays that you lack a fundamental understanding of how exactly a computer works and what performance is.
How come when I macro my military buildings to 1,2,3 for example, and try to build a unit in them, it doesn't build units to all of the buildings selected. Just the first one I selected creates the uni and say if i have 3 the other two don't respond unless I click them separately?
I just downloaded this game recently & I can't even win a 1v1 game vs pc in standard mode half of the time...i either have gotten weaker since the last time i played this game when i was 10 years old, or was the hd version harder than the original one?
nice vid man
How to stop playing this game?
I'm very addicted now!!!
Very good memories
Hey man when are you going to upload Starbound video!?
And I like your videos,you are awesome reviewer!
This dude for President?
Hey. How do I get this game to play it? Also, I need a screen recorder like you do. How can I get one? Thanks.
Is there any strategy to where you place the buildings? I usually make mine as close as possible, but it seems like you're doing the opposite.
For clarification, I know that you're supposed to place lumber camps and mining camps as close to the resource as possible, but I am wondering about the other buildings.
I believe it is better to spread out so that you can control more of the map and its resources.
Most of the players use buildings as a wall on a choke point or around there center to make raiding harder so its a common strat but the military building like siege workshops baracks they are usually build as close to the enemy as possible so your troops can attack the enemy without walking too much
how do you have your game zoomed out so far?
to the guy that liked my comment i found out with the aoe hd version all you have to do is go to your computer display settings and change the resolution to something really high
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i couldnt change the resolution in the game options and you actually have to set the resolution higher then your screens size to make it zoom out
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Yeah np and its AOE2 HD its a pirated version though so who knows all i know is i got what i wanted by doing what i did lol
i remember in Aoe I i needed to build more house to create more units and i thought any building would do the trick so I built a Wonder .... I was like ''wtf i have a Wonder why cant i create more? '' lol
Man wonders take so long to do anything
i play since aoe2 didnt existed yet, but here I am because I never played this well in MP.
What is the strongest Civil in the game and why as far as combat?
Eclapsed Looking at your comments that say "BUY THE HD GAME SCRUB!" All I can say is, there is no emoticon that would display my disappointment.
Also, there's GameRanger. You *_DON'T_* really have to buy the HD version, if you have the memory space, go get GameRanger, its free, its downloadable, (requires a few patches, depending which game you got) and there's a lot of people using it.
Oh yeah, and theres about *_723_* games supported by GameRanger, including *ALL* of the Age of Empires.
The only thing which is different from PVP version is that you didn't even get attacked at 20 min, when usually it's the time I being ruined :P
great videos and do you know where i can find news on FE for AoE2HD?
i have played this game for 30 hours and still loses to standart, hopefully i understand just a little bit more after this video
every time i play on medium difficulity ai rushes me with army, i find myself too slow.
i had age of empires once then it crashed my hard drive
wow AGE OF EMPIRES 1 CRASHED my hard drive
lol i had a bad computer back then