Age of Empires IV - The Chinese
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ต.ค. 2024
- The Chinese civilization is characterized by impressive constructions, gunpowder strength, and a dynasty system that provides unique benefits and varied strategies to overcome the opponent. They start with additional villagers to promote a robust economy. Your units speak Mandarin Chinese, a Sinitic language originating in North China.
Age of Empires IV launches globally on October 28, 2021 on Microsoft Store, Steam, and XBOX Game Pass for PC.
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I really like how settlements here actually feel like an actual town/city! This is such a huge plus on immersiveness compared to the previous games and honestly can't get any better than this! Props to the mad lad who proposed for the road and buildings system to be as natural as possible! (to what I was expecting at least)
It's just slight changes they made that have a huge impact. For example when you build houses next to each other, units can still walk through the houses in between, which means you can't use houses as walls, which lead to ugly bases in AoE 2 and other games. And of course the roads you mentioned. There were other games that let you build roads, but making the roads just get automatically generated is genius.
@@Crowbar the idea of an ecosystem surrounding the houses like little fences with animals or a yard its 10/10 for me, so beautiful
@@Ranidael3219 This game wakes up me in my days of age of mythology editor where I would make crazy detailed cities with parks and industrial areas... the possibilities of base building here is gonna be alot of fun
The awkward moment when Yuan dynasty fights the Mongol.
Mongol fought in civil wars more than foreign wars.
@@Asterix958 if not for 2 key civil wars, mongol would reach africa or spain
@@sanhcman666 That would be a sight to behold!
大 元 大 蒙 古 国 皇 帝 征 术 赤 兀 鲁 思 图
@@NaturalSelection1452 sorry, i just used google translator, you mean dayuan emperor expedition?
It's gonna be so fun experimenting with the dynasties mechanic, cant wait to try it out
Why didn't you try it on the stress test? It was fun.
@@Falcon0BR chill dude the game drops in four days
This Age of Empires is awesome. I love how each civilization has its own playstyle and unique features. Love it.
Love how the weapon went from Chuku Nu to Repeater Crossbow to finally Zhuge Nu
1. "Zhuge Nu" means 諸葛弩, which is some kinds of legendary crossbow in Chinese history.
2. Almost every real Chinese dynasty-official loved to collect Tax Gold, until it triggered a great revolution.
Legendary might not be the best translation of it. It's a real crossbow used since the Warring States era of 500s BC, but there are folklores and legends that anachronistically attribute its creating to a famous historical figure Zhuge-Liang of the 200s AD.
gunpowder/smoke looks SO GOOD. a few more patches after launch and this game will be AMAZING
It looks like Anti-Aliasing is far better than it was before. The game looks sharper and crisper compared to the stress test.
textures still look worse than age 2 DE.
Looks the same to me
@@veloce5491 Yeah, ground textures need rework
@@Spanky872 Grass and vegitation look more clear, where AA is more distinguishable
@@bilbobaggins8794 water needs some work too, battle for middle earth from 05' has better looking rivers and oceans with waves
This is increasingly looking to be the Game of the Decade with its attention to detail.
I don’t think any RTS game will ever win a Game of the Year award…
… but it’s looking to perhaps be MY game of the year.
I'M SO EXCITED AND I JUST CAN'T HIDE IT!
SAMEEEEEE!!!
YES BRO I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THE NEXT PART FOR LIKE 12 YEARS
Mongols : " who are you "
Yuan : " I'm you but chinese "
Mongols : " tiim ee, imma head out "
So, in history, there was a war between the Yuan Dynasty and the Chagatai Khanate. Do you think it was the war between China and Mongolia? Or the Mongolian civil war?
The British Plantagenet Dynasty was established by the French, and the hundred year war between Britain and France was a French civil war. Then, the British and French royal families can be traced back to the Germans
As a person who knows about Chinese historical armor, I would like to point out the wrong design of cavalry armor in the game. If you are interested, you can check the armor of the Qing Dynasty. The armor of the Ming Dynasty is basically the same as that of the Qing Dynasty
It's absolutely brilliant that they have given us this much footage of the game so we know what we are getting...which looks unreal. Superb transparency and it is really appreciated unlike other game companies that knock something up and show you a fancy cgi trailer that makes it looks better than the average end product.
Red Alert 2 was my previous favourite RTS game ever but it looks like this might take the spot.
I understand the idea of dynasty bonuses being volatile, since that's what makes them situational, but their unique units are mostly underwhelming. And a second landmark is just a hhhhhhuge investment.
I wanna be a Chinese main so hard, but even in the late game their units and bonuses aren't really better than other civs'.
Repeater crossbows are really strong if you play greedy to a rush (what we call in AoE3 as "semi fast castle"). Fire lancers must be the best cav when used in a charge (they also raid really well) Clocktower seige is OP af, specially age 4 cannons cannot be countered by stock colverins. Only age 4 landmarks i concider very expensive and indeed risky but thats the difficult thing to learn with this civ, when to mass an army or when to invest in a stronger economy (as the video suggests).
Both Age 3 Chinese landmarks are amazing so I can see Yuan being meta. Age 2 and Age 4 have some very situational landmarks so those dynasties might only be good on some maps and in some match-ups.
@Ander P The problem with this theory is China can be very weak in T2. In the stress test, both England and HRE could come at you with men-at-arms timing attacks that China has absolutely no answer to in age 2. So while getting the t2 dynasty is nice from a booming perspective, you just can't spend too much time in T2 against these civs or you die. And the Zhuge Nu is really really bad against men-at-arms. I mean, it technically does more damage than a regular archer even at 1 damage per hit, but short range and costing all 3 resources just makes it not at all viable against men-at-arms. Plus the fact that you'll have it a bit later due to needing both age up buildings, meaning you'll just be starting to build up your numbers by the time 15-20 men-at-arms start burning down your town.
I agree that the later dynasties are more viable. And Age 2 booming might work vs anyone who can't do men-at-arms in age 2.
Hi, dev, I noticed a small visual bug!
Notice 0:50, when the pikemen are holding their pike 30° degree to defend against cavalry charge, their pike is a Chinese style "Fang Tian Hua Ji" halberd, that is a very good detail. However, 3 seconds later, when they start fighting, their pike switched back to the European(?) (I don't know what it's called) version.
The game is about to officially sale in a few days, you need to hurry to fix it quickly!
+500 social credit
lmfao
@Ninja Crackpot +1000 Nationalist credit
I love how every singular factions economy-bonuses seem completely absurd on their own, but then you realize that everyone has some individual bonkers eco-mechanic so it's balanced :D
I completely agree, every faction just has some awesome uniqueness to it! Although China is my favorite because I like how I have four eras and for dynasties and I really enjoy making large bases
Literally IceFrog's game balancing philosophy "if everything is broken, nothing is broken" lmao.
I appreciate AOE 4 so much! Honestly this is the first game I am excited for in a long time! Thanks a bunch to the developers.
P.S: I'd pay mad money for an Age of Mythology 2 & Impossible Creatures 2 with this quality.
Impossible Creatures! Thanks for the nostalgia!
Hells! I'd pay mad money for Age of Mythology 1 remake with this quality. Experiencing the fall of the trident campaign with modern visuals would be soooo good.
Man, AoM was great. The balance was way different, and there were some great ideas. Asymmetrical civs, eternal farms, and I spent sooo much time in Arcade Mode in everything from God Is Watching to Cat and Mouse to RPGs.
Norse became my fave when I got better and actually learned some build orders for the first time. Helped me ween off walling and waiting for a big army of myth units, encouraged me to use aggressive strats around infantry. Good times…
It has been almost 2 decades since I’ve seen someone mention impossible creatures. It brings a tear to my eye.
Just because the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was Mongolian, isn't the Yuan Dynasty a Chinese dynasty? In the hundred year war between Britain and France, the British royal family were all French. Can it be said that this was a French civil war?
I love how AoE 4 is looking like Rise of Nations when every building counts for its growth and production!
I've fond memory of using egyptians to abuse the cpu thanks to the double wonder per city perk in conquer the world
If only AoE can adopt _Rise of Nations_ ' element of 1 unit = 3 individuals to help make the battles feel larger.
The Chinese Empire's long blades, Guandao, steel armor, and heavy cavalry are particularly good at conquest and powerful.
명 제국의 길다란 블레이드, Guandao, 강철 갑옷, 중장기병대는 특히 정복전쟁을 잘하고 강력합니다.
Never would I expect to see a Korean really interested in ancient-medieval Chinese warfare and weaponry, when your country men tend to have intense political debate on a traditional clothing like the hanbok and hanfu, then again this is an rts.
Totally geeking out on the four dynasties - the four real historical dynasties before the Qing Dynasty, China's last imperial dynasty and the one in Age of Empires III.
The Qing Dynasty is the dynasty with the largest feudal monarchy in China, but it has entered modern times and lagged behind the development of the times
Looked it up, and the Zhuge Nu is in fact the Chu Ko Nu that's been in three different Age games before. Just thought someone would want to know.
最好的架构！ 没有偏见！
The best architecture! No bias!
But coming from a chinese person is inherently bias xD
I said no bias! ):
Too bad they didn't include the literature works of each dynasty, "唐诗(Poems of Tang)、宋词(Verses of Song)、元曲(Opera plays of Yuan)、明清小说(Novels of Ming & Qing)"
A booming civ if I ever saw one. I wonder how vulnerable they'll be to early Mongol pressure!
Chinese are able to use the tax collector to speed up military production and have a good first defensive landmark to defend a key position. So I would guess they would be able to turtle quite well, but we will see how it will play out.
From the multiplayer video they had a couple weeks back with the Mongols. It seems Mongols are very weak at countering players that wall in. I hope it was just a bad match up with the abbasid dynasty.
It will depend on the map. If there are few choke points, the Mongols will have a problem against the walls. On an open map, the weak Chinese early military will be a problem. Also the Abbasid 2TC will probably out boom the Chinese mid game, but the Chinese might have a stronger late game on most maps, with gunpowder bonuses and no reliance on market control.
Just build a wall and you'll be fine. It worked in real life, right?
@Ander P hey gotta give them credit, one city fort to block the mongol campaign into the south for decades while the rus( too big to travel, so 5 years) and middle east (khwarazm empire) fell within a year or two of arrival.
Damn civilization basis dynastic development. How many combinations you can do!?
Most importantly, how many 'spirit of the law' videos??!!
Oh my god don't tell me they still did not move the Dynasty button...
this video is clearly using a old build , seeing the zoom i can say that is the closed beta zoom.
Oh they did that like 4 months ago i think
Been waiting years for this. Can't wait
China has such great history 🇹🇼
I've been waiting for way more than a year for this game
Its so good to know that u can now main civilization and theres scope for having mastery, prev games were just all similar things wd very few differences so basically u could random pick any civ n play, now u cannot n thats very good.
Where are the extra villagers? GIVE US FREE VILLAGERS!
Take a shot when you hear the word dynasty.
NOTE: AOE4 Zhuge Nu and AOE2 Chu Ko Nu is the same thing (repeater crossbows), its just pronounced differently with different dialects
The last few days are really unbearable. October 28 can’t come soon enough. I need to play now. I been waiting for years and years.
I was thinking, the UI and graphical style looks similar to warhammer dawn of war and company of heroes. When i searched the game, i didn't know that Relic was developing the game.
The hype is real!!!
I can’t wait for the Mayans and Lakota to get added to this game.
and Vikings📯⚔
i doubt lakota are ever going to be in this game.
sarcasm?
Based on everything here, the Chinese dont seem to have any real negatives to slow them down. Maybe the fact they need to build two landmarks per age for dynasty bonuses? However that’s just a way to slow down thier boom potential until late game where they just have too much power to counter. I’d like to see some amount of nerfs to the Chinese to bring them more in line with other civs in terms of power. Maybe people who’ve played the stress test can speak about this more?
I think their weakness is higher needing of macro then others means need more skill to play well.
"Tax collector!"
"Aaaack!" *shinka shinka*
I can just _hear_ that
Why are the troops always outside the walls fighting the enemy forces? This is some GoT logic, wouldn’t you want to have the archers widdle down the enemy until they breach the walls then send your forces out?
Trebuchets outrange everything in this game, like in Age 2. So, while your walls prevent the enemy army from rushing your city, that same army has zero reasons to stand in your archer range while their super long-range trebuchets are bombarding your defenses from afar. Trebuchets force the defenders to take action. Hence, why the fighting happens away from the walls.
Now if there was an early stone wall besieged by infantry and rams that would be a different scene. Archers would play a great role there, even though rams laugh at archers big time. With a few rams and a lot of archers however it would be an actual battle.
In reality there were a lot of rally out to harass the besiegers.
A strong wall is useful to delay the enemy army and sudden raids.
Constantinople Capitol fall not because the wall got pulled down, but because the siege surround it. Having army outside mean the delay of successfully siege, it actually very important back in those time not to let the wall being besieged. This is when we talking about the real medieval wars of course, and not a video games.
China #1?
PLEASE INCREASE THE SIZE OF THE BUILDINGS A BIT MORE! Villagers are the size of buildings really kills the mood…
And the maps with it. They are ridiclously small...
Dynasty button needs to be somewhere else. I kept clicking on it during the test
yes
In Chinese civilization in the Imperial age you will have the ability to research Corona Virus Pandemic. A great strategic ranged map-wide splash damage attack that can be used against all your enemies and unfortunately also allies, that can be activated once for 3 minutes. It slows down all units, stops building ability, reduce all gather rates, slowly damage all units to half health, and randomly kill %15 of the population of any unit type.
Ok, I know this is bad. But it is funny and I had to say it. I love Chinese civilizations.
And to get it you need American civ giving the money for the unlock.
spread it to other civs and watch it mutate and kill off more people
CHINA WILL GROW LARGER
China has been generous
We need a remake of C&C Generals too!!!
That Dynasty button in the middle of the screen hurts me eyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeessssssssssss aaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!
I concur, it's now bit more tricky to play different civilization. There's good and bad in this
Relic is steering the game in a true warhammer 40k fashion. Instead of creating a gazillion civs with tiny amounts of diversities as in AOE2, they are focusing on less civs with a gazillion diversities within the civs themselves. While I am okay with combining all the Slavic factions into one big 'The Rus', I sincerely just hope and pray there will be a separate Japanese civ at the very least!
Age 2 launched with just 4 more civs and near identical gameplay for all of them. Slavs is also a civ in Age 2. Age 4 is much more accurate, Rus is only focusing on Scandinavian empire in the Volga region. This is a much more diverse and accurate game.
@@ruknoonshadiddinder9801 5 more - it had 13 at launch.
I am sure if they add more civs. Japanese can be unique enough for them to have a lot of diversities. I just hope they don't overcharge for each new civ. I am expecting $5 per civ.
Japan would be added for sure. They always had an interesting play mechanic in Aoe3
Ming dynasty tech tree got me acting unwise.
Can you flip flop between dynasties? Like if you only built one for feudal then 2 for castle and get the third dynasty does building a feudal age landmark send you into the second dynasty?
The Abbasid Dynasty: Abbasid Dynasty.
The Chinese: Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty, Yuan Dynasty, Ming Dynasty.
WOT?
dear dear age of empires can you release this beauty earlier plsss
i love how the narrator guy says dynasties
I just learn that this is British English
Dear Relic, pleased add tracers for every projectile in this game for visibility.
Also slow down some projectiles (especially siege projectiles).
Ain't it Funny that the Yuan Dynasty is literally the Mongol 😳
Yuan Dynasty is Chinese, okay? Would you say that Britain was French in the hundred year war between Britain and France? Because the British royal family is a French aristocrat
Ain't it Funny that English is literally French when William the Conqueror won the throne in 1066?
@@qingnanduan8180 yes 😳 it funny until their both attacked each other for a hundred time and formed separate Identity
Except they're in control of chinese man power, infrastructure and resources.
@@linshitaolst4936 Nope, they were mongol dynasty, unlike the later Qing Dynasty( Manchu ), Yuan Court practiced discriminatory policies against the natives of China, most of their high ranking officials were not only non- ethnic Chinese by lineage but also refused to study Chinese language and culture which led to massive racial conflicts all over China during the late years of Yuan such as northern and southern Red Turban rebels, Muslim uprisings and so on.
Years ago, I was Chinese
I wanted something like "kung-fu masters"
Whole Age of Empires community for over 20 years: Chu Ko Nu, Strelets
Relic Entertainment: ZhUgE nU, StReLtSy
Isn't that more accurate? Don't know about strelets/streletsy but I would prefer Zhuge Nu.
@@qingnanduan8180 So, nobody cared about the accuracy for 20+ years untill now. Oh, I'm so glad we have Zhkhghkhnoo now instead of innacurate simple ChuKoNu
Sounds complex. I didn't see an economic boost compared to the other nations. Building all the Landmarks seems like a huge investment. Even so, the fact that each of the landmarks must be destroyed in order to win a game might be worthwhile. Seems like the most complex nation to me. Although Abbasid and its 'wings' also seem interesting too. Looking forward to the Dehli Silante spotlight.
From what I recall, the villagers build much faster (possibly up to twice as fast) as other civs. The Imperial Scholar's gold collection and resource drop off boost also increase the economy. When I played the Chinese, you needed a big economy to build the additional landmarks, but it was definitely doable. I remember more than one 1v1 game where I was able to actually hit all four dynasties (and still either win or put up a good fight).
Speaking of china.
I wonder when someone gonna makes movies about the birth of the silk road or zhen he
I suspect that if China wasn't censorship heaven the amount of media based in Chinese culture would skyrocket
I thought all the recent western documentaries on xinjiang are about the silk road.
Dude ik! Zhenghe is so awesome
@@kailianglf2 silk road also pass toward the indian path too but ignoring xinjiang too.
@@kailianglf2 i said BIRTH of the silk road.
What are some civilizations that maybe candidates for future expansion??
Vikings,Japanes,Ottomans, some form of Spain, Egypt these are most probable
It will be paradox style civs dlcs
Relic will probably focus on less civs but civs that are more unique, unlike AOE2. That said, the entire possible list of future civs are as follows:
Europe: Vikings, Scots/Celts, Spanish, Byzantines
Middle East & Africa: Ottomans/Turks, Berbers, Malians, Ethiopians
Asia: Japan, Korea, Hindu Indians
Americans: Aztecs, Mayans
They really need to implement some sort of negative debuff when building near enemy territory. Ridiculous you can build a castle deep into an opponents land. Plus some sort of -debuff on training time on upkeep so as players not to spam and just rally units to the enemy base. That way players would actually wait and gather their units first instead of unrealistically trickling them to a meat grinder in the middle of the map.
They really don't need to
eh, not my style of civ. But def one of the civ that can devastate any archers spam, or basically crowd controls, and superior naval too.
honestly during stress test I couldn't figure them.out. The 2 landmark requirement was a huge cost And didnt seem to make sense competitively. But perhaps I didnt utilize the official right....
Please make the bodies stay and add blood atleast so it looks more brutal like AOE II
i hop we can see seasons and different maps in game . in all trailers the map looks the same
This is right up my alley
thats sounds so nice. i cant wait
I love this civilization
4 more days! 4 more days!
A great bunch of lads.
Medieval china IRL was a raid boss compared all these other fledgling kingdoms, So im curious how they balanced them in game.
raid boss that got conquered by the mongols?
@@lyhthegreat was about to say. Pretty sure the Mongols had all of Russia, Asia and had pushed as far as Germany or something. Mongols OP
@@SendarSlayer not all of russia but part of russia i think(like half of it?), tbh they would had conquered most of russia had their khan not died which stopped their advances as they had to return to vote for another khan.
@@SendarSlayer Mongols were an exception and they too were most proud of their Conquest of China.
Timur wanted to equal Genghis Khan by taking China, but he died on the way.
Where are the flying balloons? I thought cathay was advanced...
AOE 5 should add nomadic tribes like Mongols and other "barbarians" like Vikings
Man, there are so many "dinasties".
Does the player lose access to dynasty-specific units and structures upon moving to another dynasty?
i read about that and i think thats right
You do but there is a research in Imperial Age where you can unlock the ones you had access to before.
There is a landmark that helps you construct the other dynasty units and structures so you don't need to worry
@@marlonruvalcaba386 Yeah, the Spirit Way.
Can't wait to unlock the Wohan lab.
Zhuge Nu's feels like to pay for Aoe 2 Paladin to get Aoe 4 longbowmen ^^"
If you pay for *Yuan* you'll never reach Imperial Age.
*Ming* , the delirium tremens, the fantasy world where everything is possible. Ming, where to pay Imperial Age twice for a 10%hp boost leads to victory.
I think the 2th dynasty landmark should be cheaper. To pay for Yuan and Ming seems impossible to afford in a real match. Plus, the powerspike you get is *okay-ish* but does not seem to justify for its cost.
Awesome civ tho i love it ! *give me back my shrooms you dirty little abassid*
With chinese you either go fast castle lancers or you go song with 2 tc and walls.
@@ANSELAbitsxb I agree, that was the stress test meta, make sense.
Curious if we'll find a viable way to play differently, but i think dynasties have to be better or cheaper for that
Всем СНГ сообществом ждем новую часть культовой серии!
Is this the Australian trailer?
Did they still leave the Dynasty button in that position???
ooh i forgot, have u noticed that paesants change clothes/tools when with the new ages? ...but what about the language? I remember someone said that with the eras even the dialects would change
They do
No Xi hero unit? -100.000.000 social credit score.
hey come on, they have corrupt official as the real one.
+10% Honey production.
Can we play now? How about now?
where is Japan faction??
alredy my favourite
The music should be louder
Can this come out already??
Ohhh it should better than AOE 2 and AOE3
My favourite is Song and Ming dynasty (I love Asian history)
china peaked in wei
Wtf is the "yaan" Dynasty? I've heard of the Yuan pronounced like "yoo-en" which coincidently became the name of China's currency today.
yeah yooen sounds close
this game is to late on confrontation between playes, it should start earlier, around 6 min at most, now is arround 8-10. and the heavy siege projectiles (catapult, trebuchet) needs to have arch physics not be target base, the arrows, bullet, etc can stay that way. also it will be nice if the units and peasants between factions was more diverse
basically coh2 east german , yeah relic pretty much it .
Move the damn button from the middle of the screen already!
okay i will buy the game cheese
In middle east and Indian, civ was based on kingdom like Delhi sultanate and abassid, but why Chinese become one civilization, despite in middle age they have tang dynasty, song dynasty :/
tang dynasty, song dynasty were empires of diffreent eras
Dynasty pronounces as "Die - Nasty", NOT "Dee - Nasty", could not help noticing it :)
The only thing that i dont like its the icons. Why they are not colored like others aoe games?
When can we expect Delhi Sultanate
Tomorrow