RANGED ONLY CHALLENGE IS BROKEN - Age Of Empires 4 Is A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME With No Exploits
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- Welcome to Age Of Empires 4 the brand newly released RTS game to follow up from the success of AOE2 and age of empires 2 definitive edition! Age Of Empires 3 was a bit of an odd strategy game with fun new features and broken stuff like unlimited cavalry and instant troop training! Whilst Age Of Empires 4 tries to be as PERFECTLY balanced as age of empires 2 by not having any exploits, bugs, glitches or overpowered features! Its just such a shame that it turns out they accidentally left in an overpowered Mongol instant win strategy and a brand new infinite gold infinite wood, infinite stone and just infinite resources exploit that the Russians could use and now a brand new exploit that allows you you to research technologies as much you as like allowing for immortal camel archers with 1000 Armor and spearmen who have enough range to hit across the map! The results are that you can turn spearmen into long range tactical nukes allowing you to truly break a ranged or archer only challenge in aoe 4 / age of empires iv!
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What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.
So sit back relax and enjoy this funny montage of AOE4 gameplay! How on earth can one english bugger beat the game at its own tricks using the range only challenge!!! Classically we beat AOE2 with an archer only challenge so lets do it again but this time with more exploits!
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title: RANGED ONLY CHALLENGE IS BROKEN - Age Of Empires 4 Is A PERFECTLY BALANCED GAME With No Exploits
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*Failure To Like The Video Will result in a spear boi poking you from 4000 miles away*
But what if getting poked by a "spear" is exactly what I like?
@@joel-k whatever floats your goat friend
Sorry commandant, Liking right away!
I don't fear your sharp sticks. *Looks at village getting decimated by the spear bois* Never mind, I liked.
Spiff liking your videos is mandatory where I live anyway, the spear sniping is just overkill at this point...or "perfectly balanced measures" as they've been legally defined in my place of residence.
Spiff finding exploits against his own sponsors is the most spiff thing ever
Or are his sponsors exploiting us and they just want us to buy more?
My man’s really found a way to exploit his own sponsor
Getting sponsored on TH-cam is perfectly balanced with no exploits what so ever
I mean, some of them even _pay_ him, intending for him to find these exploits, can you imagine?!
especially since he was his sponsor
Yootooz head office: The new deal guy Spiffing Brit found an error in our system causing people to buy 2 yootooz instead of just his. Give that man a raise.
It's not a bug, it's a feature
@@Beregorn88 It Just Works!
@@draconus999 ain't that the best song in history?
@@2thirds Todd is happy about this comment.
With a range of 256 tiles, each one can hit over 200k tiles so probably once you upgrade them you have 100 units checking 200k tiles every game tick. I can see why it's running a little slow
It feels more like integer overflow. It seems strange to have range attribute, where you have decimal point, stored in TINY INT data type, but it makes total sense why the value never overcomes number 256. I dont know, it's strange and I am confused.
@@pistaaa_ I guess it is stored as a form of fixed point decimal using an unsigned integer type, with 8 bit before the decimal point. For instance the length unit for calculations might be 1/256 tile (like when we metric folks measure in centimeters). Using a 16-bit unsigned int then results in 256 tiles (~255+255/256) as the maximum. Clearly there is some form of overflow handling in there, as the number is capped rather than starting over from 0 like an odometer. 16-bit might seem like a small datatype, but it would more than suffice for any reasonable unit range.
@@pistaaa_ It's certainly limited to 8bits since it maxes out at 256, but I think the problems come from all the extra processing, not the overflow as seen by how slow the game got with lower values
@@MrXBT2000 can't understand a bit of what you said, but yeah.
@@wigbertparada9758 think of an odometer in a car, the device that keep track of and displays how many km/miles the car has driven. It has a fixed number of digits it can display. Now imagine one with four digits that measure in centimeters instead, for instance 1234 cm. If you want to change the value to meters you just put a decimal point in the middle and get 12.34 m. That would correspond to what is referred to as a fixed point data type in computers. It is basically a whole number where we just say that we put the decimal point in front of the two rightmost digits. Since we only have four digits available, the largest number we can store is 99.99 m rounded to 100 m. Internally the computer use the binary number system to represent numbers where bits act as digits. With 8 bits the computer can represent all numbers from 0 to 255. Add 8 more bits to the right of the decimal point and it can represent numbers from 0 to 255+255/256. Rounding that highest number for displaying as decimal we get 256.
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience." Ryan George references are TIGHT!
I paused it right when he said that just so I could comment this. But I didn't need to, glad to know we're all on the same brain wave
Wow wow wow wow!
This must be at the top.
Mustached Ryan would like a word with regular Ryan about this!
Spearman are ranged gods now I've decided
"Super easy, barely an inconvenience!"
"That's from the other youtube channel!"
"indeed it is!"
"ooooh finding references in an exploits video is tight! we are just gonna need to get the developers ALL the way off spiffing's back!"
Wow wow wow.....
wow
"So you have a TH-cam channel idea for me?"
"Yes sir, I do!"
"Do you think that viewers will notice I'm saying something from another channel?"
"I DON'T KNOW"
@@ghesta "I´m gonna need you to get aaaaaall the way of my back there, sir!"
"Okay"
reading replies that makes my brain automatically read it in his voice and accent is tight!
I want to see a more balanced English trebuchet with splash damage. A "non-tactical nuke", if you will.
by which you mean a strategic nuke
@@r2020E If by "strategic", you mean, "all of it" or "oh beans; the game crashed", then: yes.
I need to see this before they fix it. They even made everything multiplicative to ensure all bugs are as obvious as possible. 3 was so bad they never fixed it and moved on. If only they put the effort in this time
Was going to use an abbreviation yo explain something and I just realized the coincidence that seems to make this an intended feature:
Area of Effect - AoE - Age of Empires
Fudge that guy in general rather than particular, make it so.
I'm french and living in England. In retaliation to this video, I'm going to microwave a jug of water and put it back in the kettle at work ! That's on you Spiff' !
*leave this place*
Make tea with hot tap water .
@@SKPonr make tea with cold coffee
@@SKPonr absolutely barbaric
Replace the tea bags with coffee filled ones
"we need to pick someone, who, any normal English person would want to destroy"
oh oh , the French. yes i got this
"and that is just a whole bunch of French people"
NAILED it !
I'm French and would have felt offended had he chosen any other civ.
I mean... Duh? England's arch rival for most of its history?
Failure of saluting the picture of the queen will result in your imminent death. That means that doing it will not result in imminent death, and as death is imminent, it implies that saluting the picture of the queen will make you immortal. Pretty cool exploit Spiff
"imagine you're a peasant collecting gold when some guy FROM THE NEXY POSTCODE OVER just nukes you."
Had me laughing XD
When you're in 2021 and it smacks harder because history repeats. ☢😳
I'm liking AOE 4 a lot. while it gets compared to 2 a lot, I feel like the civs are unique enough compared to each other that it makes it interesting.
Is there a map customization? I wanna play MOBA in this game
HOLY HOLY!!! I can proudly say that I have the two HOTTEST women on this planet as MY GIRLFRIENDS! I am the unprettiest TH-camr ever, but they love me for what's inside! Thanks for listening rea
@@AxxLAfriku idc?
Joe biven
@@AxxLAfriku what?
I want to see Spiff hit a target in another map, in another game that is being played online, from a Local LAN game session. Obviously, tea would have to be involved.
He comes up with a way to cheese trebuchets so that they can attack LoL ladder games.
Props to Spiff for giving us exploits for his own products! He's such a good tea-drinker
Imagine it being marketing ?!?
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"Really easy. Barely an inconvenience"
...Spiff has entered the Ryanverse XD
But how large is his mustache? What's the point of joining the Ryanverse if you have a leper's bare upper lip
wow wow wow wow
Spiff: "Easy peezy lemon squeezee."
Spiff's enemies: "Stressed, depressed lemon zest."
Imagine how scared the French would be if Spiff was born during the Napoleonic Wars
I like that Spiff is cooperating with Youtooz but also shwoing exploits of them that could mayhaps get him in trouble
He doesn't fear those at the top those at the top fear him
@@chaoticclonestudios But how can he fear himself? 🙃
@@HashknightGaming good point ,:D
@@HashknightGaming This is the thing anti-heros get that *most* heros dont. At some point you will come to fear what you and the power you have gained have become...
I love how perfectly fair and balanced this game is. Keep up the fun work Tea Lord!
that pitch meeting reference did not go unnoticed.
Absolutely perfect that spiff managed to even exploit his own youtooz promotion. can't even be mad, it should be expected
Day 199 of asking Spiff to play Battle Realms. It has been a wild ride, these 199 videos, and with the start of AoE 4 an older RTS may be in the horizon.
soon soon!
@@thespiffingbrit o7 I shall be here waiting, with likes and comments in reserve!
Dude you are cringe af
Little theory : if when you broke the game the range was 256, that is exactly 2 to the power of 8 , so probably an overflow problem.
With 7 you were at 37.7, so 8 would be 65.4 and 9 would be 130.8. 10 would pass the 256 limit. Soooo probably 9 is the max.
That seems plausible. An other idea I just had is that since a spearman can now basically hit anything on the map, it take a non negligible time to check among all possible targets which one to choose, and then repeat about a hundred time. Although I'm not sure why it would "freeze" game time but not the software itself.
9 is the theoretical max... 6 is probably the practical max with an average computer
You were able to do ten or more but require less troops. Its a problem with attack check not the range
@@erustownsend9790 Ooh I see, thanks for the info. Find this kind of stuff very interesting to analyze.
I absolutely love how so many of Spiff's videos can be used as aggressive bug reporting, to poke developers into fixing their game.
This doesn't work with Bethesda.
Watch Spiff clicking back and forth vs just using the Z button is driving me bonkers
He is doing it for the video. You wouldn't be able to follow as easily what he is doing, if he was using keyboard shortcuts
Spiffings words are always so lovely, healing and helpful. I absolutely love it ❤️
Love your videos, your most recent charity was a godsend. Please keep breaking absolutely everything in sight, you beautiful Brit.
Who would win?
A: a large well established army that took years to build
B: some staby bois
Was that a Ryan George reference in a Spiffing Brit video? That's a crossover I didn't know I need, but one that I love indeed.
I love how Spiff can make a video about any game thats not even to my liking and I never heard of and I will still enjoy it
Spiff, I'm begging you, the next time you have an RTS exploit with this level of busted for attack ranges, please use attack moves (a-click usually) so that your boys just sweep across the map like a glorious lawn mower.
😊
"Imagine being a peasant farmer going to pick gold in the morning."
Why yes, I would like that. Gold, after all, grows on trees in Spiffland.
Yessss new spiff video. I already know this is going to be brutally funny (pun intended)
Spiff clicking the research on each blacksmith instead of using the hotley
I am literally holding a cup of Yorkshire Gold in my hand. And ENJOYING IT!!!
Devolpers must shudder when they see spiff releasing a video about their game
No they be taking notes
In reference to your Pitch Meeting Mr Spiffing Brit, wouldn't you say that Spearmen are now ranged gods I've decided, oh wow wow wow wowww
Would be epic if you two did a collaboration. :)
Hoi4 has 2 bugs right now, an infinite ships bug and infinite air production bug due to the reoccurring national focuses. You just press enter once you click instead of cancel and it stacks production cost buffs. You can create the Royal navy of Ireland by making a battleship in a week.
wow, so they just built the 256x tech mod directly into AoE4
All hail Lord Spiff! The one who will conquer the world with a pointy stick!
Do you think Devs ever watch Spiffs videos and be like - what do you mean this is a thing!
I've liked the video before even watching. Spiffs videos are really good or perhaps all that Yorkshire tea is manipulating my mind.
2:50 Microwaves heat the water faster, so of course it's ok.
Yes it was thanks to the French we Americans gained independence but it was also kind of the English military's own fault. They basically just walked around out in the open with bright easily spotted red coats, shooting them from cover was super easy barely an inconvenience.
"Microwaves heat the water faster, so of course it's ok."
And only the uncultured colonials would say this. Merely heating up water is not how you make tea.
@@rossclutterbuck1060 I as a colonial aprove of this, MAKE YOUR DAM TEA THE RIGHT WAY!!
@@thepunisherplayz thank you, sir. There is hope for your nation yet.
@@rossclutterbuck1060 haha this made my night. Thanks lad
Thanks to the stacked range upgrades, I was able to smash the like button from over here
Spiff is back at it. Gotta love it!
I'm pretty sure you can multi-select building by double-clicking one of them, or at least you could in AOE2, so you could select all the blacksmiths to get them researching the same thing at the same time.
A bunch of different French factions that hate eachother on a spiritual level? Sounds accurate.
Na, he is just salty that the French helped create a big brother for the English, making them the butt of all jokes ever since 😜
@@brag0001 Do you mean William the Conqueror? But the French have had 14 constitutions, 5 republics, 2 monarchies, and 1 military dictatorship all within less than 250 years of each other. The French really seem to hate one another.
@@wheelman1324 No, I meant the United States of America ;-)
And no: the French are actually a pretty patriotic and united country, with more self-esteem than achievements to back it up. What you are saying is a lot more true for GB, even so the English chose to ignore those tensions, which will, sooner or later, cost them their precious kingdom.
I'm not French btw., but I went through their school system for a few years.
watching you double-clicking instead of pressing the upgrade key is something I would do as well.
Love the AoE 4 content. Keep breaking it's reality, I'm an American who drinks tea now.
But.... it's meant to be trown into the sea :O
Welcome to the club, Benedict
I will never get the sound of Spiff saying "camel archers" out of mind.
Ah, yes my favorite time for a cup of tea.... lovely
Channeling my inner American by watching this video with a warm cup of COFFEE in hand.
is friendly fire a problem?
17:35 Really easy, barely an inconvenience.
So you have a new game for me?
@@Veellinn Wow, wow, wow wow, wow. Get off my back about when it will be released.
I've ordered one.... didn't have to convince me very hard love your vids
When Eastern Europe is perfectly balanced with no exploits nor war crimes whatsoever?
Abbassid is Arabian though....
what's even worse from the Phlanx one is that it seems to be giving +100% in relation to the previous value, so it's actually growing logarithmically instead of linearly! it's stupidly broken!
That's exponential growth - so the logarithm of it is a linear function
Spiff: America wouldn’t have independence without the French
Me, an American:
Sitting here with my cup of tea, except the tea was made in the microwave and the cup is actually a glass.
My favorite Brit posting again!! Woot on another thought why do they allow you to keep playing these games!!! 😂😂😂 I guess even bad publicity is good publicity
Managed to pre-order my Spiffing Yootooz a whole 24 hour or so after the release of this video. This almost feels like a miracle, because special Spiff merch is often sold out damn near immediately.
I'd frequently feel upset for missing out, but instead feel great pride in the massive continued success of our favorite exploity boi.
Super easy. Barely an inconvenience ❤️
*laughs in freedom while I microwave my tea water
Gonna be honest, the main reason I clicked is because I saw “war crimes” in the thumbnail
Apparently the 256x tech mod was so popular in AOE2 that Relic decided to add it by default into AOE4.
In all seriousness that fact that you can only pull this exploit off once for each tech adds an interesting possible dynamic for PVP. The more research buildings you can build the stronger a tech will be once you do research it, thus games would become about stalling getting each tech for as long a possible; but if you wait too long you risk being overwhelmed by an opponent researching their techs earlier.
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"Make sure you salute the picture of the Queen!"
*salutes the American flag in unapologetic coffee-drinker*
Super easy barely an inconvenience. 😉
Had you said "this is true fear of missing out" I would have ordered one right away ^^
The whiplash I got from looking up at "really easy, barely an inconvenience"
I have to say that this video was much better than the last one. This one has much more classic Spiff with Tea, mocking Americans, and defeating the French.
Absolutely LOVE the “super easy, barely an inconvenience” reference to screen rant 😂❤️
19:24 Spiffing Brit: "Let's get poking some horsies"
Me: NOT THE HORSIES
Spiff is by far the best game tester… he always finds every big and exploit!
Katyusha artillery on medieval times. Love it
the spiffing brut looking at spearmen: "ill make a ballistic missile out of you"
Your videos all have this soothing yet foreboding feel to it and I somehow like it. Must be all the tea. 🧡
17:34 I see that Pitch meeting reference and I like it 🧡.
5 seconds in the video and Spearman are punching buildings out of existence. Yup, that's the British tea experience indeed.
Microwaving the water for tea sounds so much more convenient than using the stove top. Thanks for the tip.
I have officially watched enough Spiff to order my first box of Yorkshire Tea. Cheers to you Spiff!
you increase the spears to many tiles, until resistance becomes Fu-tiles
My only beef with microwaving water for tea is that the cup gets super hot, so it's annoying to try to take out. I've also been spooked by my mom's friend getting badly burnt from the superheated water exploding as soon as she grabbed the cup...so I'd rather just boil it in a kettle, that and my microwave trips my breaker if it's on too long.
I’m an American, I make my tea with a kettle, like a proper tea consumer
I don't have a picture of the queen to salute, but I do have a crate of tea I can throw into the nearest harbor.
3:06 hah. Not only do I microwave my hot drinks, but I microwave my coffee, spiff. Whatcha gonna do about it?
ooOOooOOO I'm British and afraid of non-ionizing radiation from MiCrOwAvEs, even though thanks to radio, cell phones and THE SUN I'm practically swimming in the stuff. Seriously though, nice vid Spiff!
Ah yes some excellent tea to go along with my very own spiff pop figure would be absolutly incredible
Hahaha! The only "Queen" above my monitor is of the Xenomorph variety blasting her inner jaws through the faux Queen of England's chest.
If you double the spearman´s range 7 times, that means the factor, with which the range is increased, is actually 2^7=128 times
I like that you're making these again.
"These boys, they got camels!"
That’s a staunch line of spears you got there… oh wait, wrong channel
Spiffing Brit: able to break the whole game in minutes
Also Spiffing Brit: spents an hour by clicking on each upgrade instead of pressing a key that is literally on the upgrade button.
As an American, I laughed. Vive la France! Where is my microwave? Oh no! Spear Boys in the next county are aiming for me!
Problem: Watching TH-cam on mobile so I can’t hang a picture of the Queen over my computer
Solution: Painting a picture of the Queen on the roof
Spiffing "OOOOHHH YEEEESSS, OH IT DOES WORK LIKE THAT!" Brit.
So after Lewis's whole rant about Funko Pop during TTD, Spiff has gone and made a Funko Pop (Well basically the same thing)
I will point out that a microwave doesn't heat the water evenly. The microwaves only penetrate shallowly. The top and side get heated but past about 1/8th inch/0.4cm~ you'll not be heating the water at all.
How do I know this? Area denial crowd control weapons that use microwaves. Also Radar. Also I paid attention in physics in highschool.
So if you want you microwaved water to have the same standard as kettle boiled, you stir it before adding in tea. as it'll scald at the top, but quickly cool off as it sinks. Resulting in a sucky cup of tea. Properly stirred before adding tea, it doesn't make a difference how you heat a cup of water.
As an American with a kettle, I am offended by microwaved tea water. Please don't lump us all together
become a millionare in ets2 now, since you just cant travel for free between your garages
I love that microwaving water upsets you because from a thermodynamics perspective it gives the same result.