The diversity of civilizations in AOE 4 is really coming along nicely. As soon as you mentioned the defensive fortresses, I knew immediately that walls would have less of a focus for them. Concentrated city defenses instead of a border defense changes how you structure your city and expand. Super exciting. It seems the developers have really thought the civs through. Shame about the HUD and lack of minimap options.
On the bright side, the core of the game seems good and UI can be always changed. I'm really hopeful for AoE4 since there weren't many good new RTS titles for the last 10 or so years
@@stsk1061 it’s more than one like most of the AOE2, some of it replace the normal troops rather than just putting in as the better troops than the vanilla troops. Even the vanilla troops has different names and cosmetics to look at. I think too many diverse troops will lose the paper-rock-scissor mechanic.
@@ariswiryanta7038 I don't know about that, I'm kind of disappointed that all civs get knights, they're just renamed lancer and given a new skin. It doesn't even make sense historically.
I can't believe it. The architecture looks like some town in the Golden Ring of Russia: Tula, Vladimir, Suzdal. It looks spectacular compared to the idiocy that Russia was in the previous game. Very nice job on devs' part.
I gotta disagree...I'm sure they see it how you do but honestly if they dropped another stress test and the community could see more that's nothing but good for the game as long as they are listening and actively communicating with their community.
@@PurpleWarlock dont you think allowing people to free stress test with all classes a second time be like dropping candy in front of curious players? the main game i play has a patch coming out, and if they actually did another stress test and i tried out more classes, i would be more inclined to want to buy the game, but for now, im seeing if my games patch will come first or not lol
I love the emphasis on the contruction of outposts in this game. They are generally more affordable, and easier to access compared to Age 2's towers, which would halt your castle and town center construction.
I don’t know if killing animals of your allies is possible, but if it is I could totally imagine a Rus teaming up with a Mongol and the Rus just being the butcher of the Mongols sheep farms to generate gold.
Its 2021 a fixed camera location is an outdated mechanic only used in older games since they couldnt afford to detail the map and the buildings in a 360 degree way. i think the camera is good as is right now, could use some fixing sure, but a fixed camera location ? Hell no A fully customizable hotkeys system is a good and really necessary idea tho
@@mertroll1 he means camera location hotkeys. lots of other rts games you can hotkey a location on the map. so if for example you want to press f5 and have the screen immediately go to a sacred site then you could do that with camera location hotkeys
From what I've seen so far, Rus seems to be the most fun civ for me. I'm pretty stoked to play with them. Also really enjoying the asymmetry between the civs, pretty good diversity of playstyles.
Compared to other civ this looks beyond OP, beside Rus we schould see Swedes, Poles and Turks because there were many wars with those 3 civs which impacted europe history probably the most. There would be nice campaigns possibilities Turks vs Austria(Hungary) ended with battle of Vienna, Rus-Sweden alliance against Poland and Moscow ocupation 1610. I miss also Portugal and Spain in vanilla AOE 4, 8 civ is more like a demo than full game.
@@adamkowalczyk9791 I think it's hard to say if Rus are "beyond OP" until the game releases. The bounty mechanic seems like a gimmick to me. Obviously there are a ton of civs that COULD have been included. But I love their decision to launch with fewer civs but have each civ be more unique. It's almost like each civ is its game. And I'm sure they will add civs through expansions. (Remember that SC2, the biggest RTS of all time, has only three civs.)
1 of the reasons I am so excited about this game is that we all will be learning this, try new mechanics, know this game instead to e.g AoE2 where a lot of players are veterans with known game styles. That is fascinating to know the game with all of you!
Yeah,as much as I like AoE2 the fact that the game has existed for 20 years means that more veteran players will always have an advantage over newer players that have to learn the game,it's mechanics and any tech that might not be obvious at first glance.
@@yuppieNL Ruthenians are everything but Russian. Ukrainians are the direct descendents of the Rus empire, belarusians are related but comparing the Rus and the old ruthenian people to russians is straight up wrong.
@@mertroll1 Kiev was a major center of Ancient Rus. But there were also Novgorod, Vladimir, Smolensk and etc. After the plundering of the Mongols, Rus was strongly divided, because all parts were under different influences from their neighbors. But modern Ukraine, Belarus and Russia are the ideological descendants of ancient Rus. So let's not weave politics here and just enjoy this game together =)
That's correct. On the AoE 4 website it says they can build knights in Age 2. But I think their Knights aren't won't be strong. If the Rus try to get into a cav war with the French, the rus will probably get their ass handed to them on a silver platter.
@@LordoftheBoard they have cheap cav. There horse archers are realy good and they get knights in feudel. Maby in the main game they tune them down litlle bit
@@LordoftheBoard its really too early to tell if they are op or not. in my experience they were good as long as you constantly attack and destroy enemies stuff but otherwise their defense sucks so they will be very vulnerable to timing attacks and harrass especially in castle age.
I feel like they can be very strong in team games(other than on Archipelago), because of the larger map allowing for more hunts available to be killed for gold/bounty and to return to base, and also because they can rely on their allies to build stone walls for them to make up for that weakness.
I guess we have to hunt all animals in the map before the rus players do so they wont reach their tier 3 but since they can get scouts from hunting cabins meaning they can do it faster than you unless you get scouts from town center instead of villagers and slow up your own process. But in 3v3 or 4v4 matches its easier to do that against rus
Once you age up to the second age you can make scouts from the stable. So I think the trick is just to age up quick, then create a bunch of scouts. And inevitably get into an age 2 scout war with the Rus. Better get those blacksmith upgrades and land the first hit I guess.
@@robertkeaney9905 oh wait no my bad that's on me. I misunderstood i thought you were suggesting you rush feudal as rus to get the scouts. The only way to get scouts as the other civs is through stables or town hall you are correct lol my bad
It used to be a main gate to the old city. The gate is still there. You can find pictures of it in google. Golden Gate is in Kyiv, Ukraine. Once, I was there inside of it, it was amazing.
@@raquetdude Just don't start this whole thing. The civilizations are evolving in this game as the player ages up. The first age has them as the old Rus in combination with Norse influence (as it was historically), the second age is the Kievan Rus period, the third Age has the civ be centered around Muscovy and the last one is the Russia. It was that historically - The Russian Empire was the successor of Muscovy dutchy, whereas the Muscovy dutchy was the successor of the Kievan Rus. Even the developers said it in the Rus trailer plus you've got that whole information on the civs presentation page as well. Rus = Russians. Period.
I have a clarification! Rus do NOT have access to the base palisades. During the Dev match, they talk about how not only is the fortified palisade stronger (3k HP vs 1.5k HP), but are also cheaper than the standard palisades. While I guess not confirmed, it wouldn't make sense for them to have a more expensive, worse wall available. Correction: I went back to check the video, and they don't say what they thought they said: They stated that it builds faster than the normal wall, not that it was cheaper, and that wall being referred to was ambiguous, but probably the stone wall. Including link to the timestamp in the video where they talk about it for about 30 seconds: th-cam.com/video/bkxr54Z6Rw8/w-d-xo.html
Rus is an interesting and innovative Civ design yes. Can't wait to try it! However (1) the Stretsy does NOT belong in the AoE4 timeframe, (2) Rus was a TINY player in world History in the year 700 and still a MINOR power in 1500, so much less powerful than superpower Ottomans with their Great Bombards in 1500!!.... Rus were SLAVES for so much of the AoE4 time. No one can deny, Turks are an INFINITELY more relevant, storied, and powerful Civ than Rus in 700-1500 (Byzantines too)... Unfair, wrong and unreasonable Civ choice!
Agreed but if it was realistic then Mongols would be far and away the best civ in the game, given the history. European powers would not have stood up to the Asian/middle eastern civs in this time period. I don’t understand why the French are the French.. should they not be Franks or something?
turks would be cool instead of abassid dynasty or dehli. the important thing is that they are launching the game with representation from a wide variety of places. If you want turkey at least you can play something similar such as abassid. I really wanted a eastern european civ and many others did too so it gives more representation to more places. only place they are really missing at launch is the americas. also streltsy first really became a thing around 1545 which is towards the end of but still within the age 4 timeframe.
@@dennisbergkamp1553 Absolutely 100% WRONG!!!! Mongols were ONLY important in 1200-1300… After the Turks invented the musket in 1465 Mongols were brutally disappeared from the History of the world….
like the rustic, red style and the warrior monk. i didn't see that much yet of HRE and french but at least atm i think they look a bit too similar. maybe i am wrong tho but atm i like the style of Chinese, Abbasid and now Rus the most. even i would be personally more a HRE and french player
I wonder if the Rus will be able to do some cheeky Scout rushes since it wont take idle time from your TC, maybe its not that strong, but as a viable option it would be interesting to see what very high ranked players can achieve, maybe just send in 2-3 to apply pressure and get enemy idle time.
Well you would build more Scouts just for hunting early game. Once animals are down why not to use them to take on enemy villagers? Even if it meant that some dies.
@@Methodius7 But think about the possibility, lets say you take out 2-3 vills, is that worth it? i mean you wont idle your TC and you give enemy possibly some idle time and force them to rebuild, they cant have outposts yet, and only have their TC to flee in, as i said i dont know enough about numbers to think its worth - not worth, but it could be interesting on high elo play i believe.
Unfortunately, from historically side, we Ukrainian (Rus) were defeated by Mongols. Later it helps us to united with Lithuanian and Poles to create a new civ The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Let see how it will be in the game.
@@vladyslavgumeniuk3220 Lmao " Ukranian Rus". Never read such bs in my life. The remnants of the Rus were conquered by the Mongols and in the 14th and 15th century the Lithuanians conquered bits of this land from the Mongols. Noone united here with anyone and the PLC existed way before that as well. The Rus' decendants are not just Ukrainians, deal with it
I'm concerned a bit about a Rus player's ability to hit their max bounty. The player in the showcase match went pretty heavy on the scouts and he only managed to get around 415 bounty i think. By that point all animals were gone from the map, so he couldn't possibly get the final tier
It'll probably be impossible for 1 v 1, but completely possible for 4 v 4 matches with larger maps and more resources. And the system might be stronger on some maps and weaker on others.
There were still boars around, but he didn't have enough map control to get them. In this sense, that's a method of counterplay for the other players against the rus' bounty. The wolf gave more bounty than the deer, and I suppose the boars are the ones who give the most bounty, which means he could reach his 500 bounty, if he had the map control for it, or if he launched a sneaky operation to kill them and (maybe) harvest their food.
Man, why does every civ get such strong landmarks. Now as a Chinese fan I feel ripped off! I do like that I get access to every landmark, but it feels as if their impact is not on the landmark, but on the dynasty they unlock. And I mean, the dynasty system is pretty cool, but 6 landmarks occupy a lot of f-ing space for a bonus that's not better than a single landmark of any one other civ.
Also for costing double the age up of anyone else and having pretty strict limits the dynasty stuff is cool but... Aging Up just isn't the same instant power spike it seems.
I mean if you dig deep into it it actually make sense. Lets say the Rus save stone for their important structure like castle, church, palace. They use wooden wall because of its abundant and it really doesnt make sense to pour huge amount of stone to wall off such a humongous country.
Early Rus relied heavily on wooden structures. The ability for early Slavs to expand was due to an abundance of trees that enabled them to quickly build villages and towns without worrying of running out of the resource. Which if going back to aoe 2, it would make sense for the Slavs to have a wood bonus of some kind.
I do wish there were more unique units as it all feels a bit "samey" to me, also the artwork on the UI could be improved to make you feel more immersed in the faction you are playing rather than having a bland grey background colour
I'm sorry, but why is there just a random giant gateway in the middle the rus base. Idk it just doesn't make any sense at all.... like it just looks really stupid and out of place. There's just a random gateway not connected to any walls in the middle of the town for no reason, like really? Also why is there a giant golden camel in the middle of the town center, why the fuck is that there?
Golden gate is based around the golden gate in kiev. The gate is still there but the walls are long gone. It was used at some point as a trade center. It is acually quite common in europe to have city walls that have been taken down but still have gates/towers remain that serve another purpose like being a tradecenter or military baracks. The golden camel is a cosmetic item you can get whe you pre-order the game. It replaces the bell/gong in your towncenter. All the official gameplay videos have them, but you can just turn them on/off in game if you have them.
They were a group of norce people who tried to attack Constantinople and got hired by them as guards, later they migrated to where Russia would appear.
@@NotTheLastOne Rus for Rusyn and russia for russian, so there is no similarity. The name russia came after Prussia because the rulers of that russia were germans, so they wanted to have similarity to they motherland. Read wikipedia if you don't believe me.
@@connormckinney1511 Usually not, but FE did add some gimmicky ones with the dlc civs such as flemish revolution, cuman mercenaries etc. But yeah aoe4 is really not my thing, I have trouble even naming things I like about it. They took away stuff I like and added stuff I dislike. Clearly a very different game.
The diversity of civilizations in AOE 4 is really coming along nicely. As soon as you mentioned the defensive fortresses, I knew immediately that walls would have less of a focus for them. Concentrated city defenses instead of a border defense changes how you structure your city and expand. Super exciting. It seems the developers have really thought the civs through. Shame about the HUD and lack of minimap options.
On the bright side, the core of the game seems good and UI can be always changed. I'm really hopeful for AoE4 since there weren't many good new RTS titles for the last 10 or so years
It's pretty cool, I just wish there were more unique units. Most civs only get one or two.
@@stsk1061 it’s more than one like most of the AOE2, some of it replace the normal troops rather than just putting in as the better troops than the vanilla troops. Even the vanilla troops has different names and cosmetics to look at.
I think too many diverse troops will lose the paper-rock-scissor mechanic.
@@ariswiryanta7038 I don't know about that, I'm kind of disappointed that all civs get knights, they're just renamed lancer and given a new skin. It doesn't even make sense historically.
@@nondorian There have been plenty of good rts titles in the past 10 years, just because they're not AAA doesn't mean they don't exist
I can't believe it. The architecture looks like some town in the Golden Ring of Russia: Tula, Vladimir, Suzdal. It looks spectacular compared to the idiocy that Russia was in the previous game. Very nice job on devs' part.
I wish we could get a stress test this weekend with the other civs we couldn't check out last weekend
Well, game comes out in a month. They a gotta leave something for release.
I gotta disagree...I'm sure they see it how you do but honestly if they dropped another stress test and the community could see more that's nothing but good for the game as long as they are listening and actively communicating with their community.
Exactly it'd give us a chance to try out the other four civs
@@PurpleWarlock dont you think allowing people to free stress test with all classes a second time be like dropping candy in front of curious players? the main game i play has a patch coming out, and if they actually did another stress test and i tried out more classes, i would be more inclined to want to buy the game, but for now, im seeing if my games patch will come first or not lol
@@Nubbley classes? free candy? it costs time and work to produce a beta
game is just around the corner, why bother?
anyway, it's my intuition
So Rush-a Became Wait-a.
I know, I'm god awful.
Camp-a?
As they say in the fast food industry: "When you're rushin' for food, there's no time for stallin'!"
I love the emphasis on the contruction of outposts in this game. They are generally more affordable, and easier to access compared to Age 2's towers, which would halt your castle and town center construction.
STRELTSY - прям в душеньку )
I don’t know if killing animals of your allies is possible, but if it is I could totally imagine a Rus teaming up with a Mongol and the Rus just being the butcher of the Mongols sheep farms to generate gold.
aoe4 should have camera location and fully customizable hotkeys.
Its 2021 a fixed camera location is an outdated mechanic only used in older games since they couldnt afford to detail the map and the buildings in a 360 degree way. i think the camera is good as is right now, could use some fixing sure, but a fixed camera location ? Hell no
A fully customizable hotkeys system is a good and really necessary idea tho
@@mertroll1 he means camera location hotkeys. lots of other rts games you can hotkey a location on the map. so if for example you want to press f5 and have the screen immediately go to a sacred site then you could do that with camera location hotkeys
@@smnvalex thanks to clarified my thought.
It's inexcusable for an RTS to not have these features in 2021.
@@smnvalex ah I see thank you for the clarification
Aoe3 strels cannon fodder
Aoe4 strels glass cannons
From what I've seen so far, Rus seems to be the most fun civ for me. I'm pretty stoked to play with them. Also really enjoying the asymmetry between the civs, pretty good diversity of playstyles.
First! Looking forward to playing Rus. You should do breakdown videos for each civ.
Compared to other civ this looks beyond OP, beside Rus we schould see Swedes, Poles and Turks because there were many wars with those 3 civs which impacted europe history probably the most. There would be nice campaigns possibilities Turks vs Austria(Hungary) ended with battle of Vienna, Rus-Sweden alliance against Poland and Moscow ocupation 1610. I miss also Portugal and Spain in vanilla AOE 4, 8 civ is more like a demo than full game.
@@adamkowalczyk9791 The Swedes are a terrible choice - they were irrelevant until the 16th century.
@@adamkowalczyk9791 I think it's hard to say if Rus are "beyond OP" until the game releases. The bounty mechanic seems like a gimmick to me.
Obviously there are a ton of civs that COULD have been included. But I love their decision to launch with fewer civs but have each civ be more unique. It's almost like each civ is its game. And I'm sure they will add civs through expansions.
(Remember that SC2, the biggest RTS of all time, has only three civs.)
1 of the reasons I am so excited about this game is that we all will be learning this, try new mechanics, know this game instead to e.g AoE2 where a lot of players are veterans with known game styles.
That is fascinating to know the game with all of you!
Yeah,as much as I like AoE2 the fact that the game has existed for 20 years means that more veteran players will always have an advantage over newer players that have to learn the game,it's mechanics and any tech that might not be obvious at first glance.
As a Russia player in AOE3 I can’t wait to continue fighting for the motherland in AOE4
Rus is Ukraine. You and your country just want to steal something again, the most important History.
@@vladyslavgumeniuk3220 rus is not ukraine, Rus is
Ruthenian, a pre divided east slavic nation state based in todays Belarus, Ukraine and Russia.
@@yuppieNL Ruthenians are everything but Russian. Ukrainians are the direct descendents of the Rus empire, belarusians are related but comparing the Rus and the old ruthenian people to russians is straight up wrong.
@@mertroll1 Kiev was a major center of Ancient Rus.
But there were also Novgorod, Vladimir, Smolensk and etc.
After the plundering of the Mongols, Rus was strongly divided, because all parts were under different influences from their neighbors.
But modern Ukraine, Belarus and Russia are the ideological descendants of ancient Rus. So let's not weave politics here and just enjoy this game together =)
@@vladyslavgumeniuk3220 и давно на ваш хутор интернет провели?
If I remember properly, the Rus could produce heavy cavalry at Age II. Is that so?
That's correct. On the AoE 4 website it says they can build knights in Age 2. But I think their Knights aren't won't be strong. If the Rus try to get into a cav war with the French, the rus will probably get their ass handed to them on a silver platter.
@@robertkeaney9905 indeed, in age 2, slavs don't get paladin, instead they train boyards who win to any paladins in thr game, but need a castle
Ahh if I don’t like Mongols as much as I think I will - then Rus will be a good fall back. Loving this info !
Mongols where op in the closed beta
@@viktor1337w darn. I was hoping they would be difficult skill cap. Or are players just playing them well?
@@LordoftheBoard they have cheap cav. There horse archers are realy good and they get knights in feudel. Maby in the main game they tune them down litlle bit
@@LordoftheBoard its really too early to tell if they are op or not. in my experience they were good as long as you constantly attack and destroy enemies stuff but otherwise their defense sucks so they will be very vulnerable to timing attacks and harrass especially in castle age.
They better have the best light cav in the game considering they smashed everybody irl
My main civ until incas/aztecs show up
I really like the design of this civ, they feel pretty unique
I wait for this civ the most! Can't wait to try them and bounty mechanic!
I have one question, drongo
You'll still cover any updates or games on aoe3de? I'm not complaining; just asking.
I feel like they can be very strong in team games(other than on Archipelago), because of the larger map allowing for more hunts available to be killed for gold/bounty and to return to base, and also because they can rely on their allies to build stone walls for them to make up for that weakness.
Can anyone please explain me the "Charge system" of the Golden Gate at 6:08 please? I didn't understood it
Goddamn this civ looks amazing.
I guess we have to hunt all animals in the map before the rus players do so they wont reach their tier 3 but since they can get scouts from hunting cabins meaning they can do it faster than you unless you get scouts from town center instead of villagers and slow up your own process. But in 3v3 or 4v4 matches its easier to do that against rus
Once you age up to the second age you can make scouts from the stable. So I think the trick is just to age up quick, then create a bunch of scouts. And inevitably get into an age 2 scout war with the Rus.
Better get those blacksmith upgrades and land the first hit I guess.
@@robertkeaney9905 why would you fast age to make scouts from the stable if like he said you can make scouts from the hunting cabin
@@smnvalex Oh, I didn't know that every civ could do that. Good point
@@smnvalex I assumed that other civs could only make scouts from their stables and TC.
@@robertkeaney9905 oh wait no my bad that's on me. I misunderstood i thought you were suggesting you rush feudal as rus to get the scouts. The only way to get scouts as the other civs is through stables or town hall you are correct lol my bad
Does the Golden Gate actually function as a gate?
Do not believe so it’s named after a Byzantine gate, same reason why they called the bridge in California the same name.
@@raquetdude you are not right.
It used to be a main gate to the old city. The gate is still there. You can find pictures of it in google. Golden Gate is in Kyiv, Ukraine. Once, I was there inside of it, it was amazing.
@@vladyslavgumeniuk3220 They are right about the name, the Kyiv Golden Gate was named after the Byzantine Golden Gate
Reminder the campaign to rename Kiev to Kyiv is funded by the US i.e. stratcom. Don't fall for it.
I'm not gonna worry if the russians have AK-47 units
Rus as in Kievan Rus lmao
@@raquetdude
Rus.
@@raquetdude Still, todays east russia
@@garlkurzer yes Rus not Russian and Rus is closer to Kievan Rus given the time setting
@@raquetdude Just don't start this whole thing. The civilizations are evolving in this game as the player ages up. The first age has them as the old Rus in combination with Norse influence (as it was historically), the second age is the Kievan Rus period, the third Age has the civ be centered around Muscovy and the last one is the Russia. It was that historically - The Russian Empire was the successor of Muscovy dutchy, whereas the Muscovy dutchy was the successor of the Kievan Rus.
Even the developers said it in the Rus trailer plus you've got that whole information on the civs presentation page as well. Rus = Russians. Period.
Wow, i loved russia as a main in AOE 3 and I think that won’t be any different here…
@@raquetdude
Rus.
Wow
I hope it will be different then in AOE3. aoe3 was just silly steritypical bullshit.
Kyivan Rus is different from Russia
@@NicholasEzclapz
Rus
This looks super cool! I love the mobile, spread-out feel that the Rus seem to have! Claim land, hunt animals, snag relics.
And, never forget, the age 2 knight
Multifunction is the game. Scout training mills, buffing towers, fighting monks and melee handcannons.
Fighting monks scare me the most!
I thought,
The british were coming... !!
I have a clarification! Rus do NOT have access to the base palisades. During the Dev match, they talk about how not only is the fortified palisade stronger (3k HP vs 1.5k HP), but are also cheaper than the standard palisades. While I guess not confirmed, it wouldn't make sense for them to have a more expensive, worse wall available.
Correction: I went back to check the video, and they don't say what they thought they said: They stated that it builds faster than the normal wall, not that it was cheaper, and that wall being referred to was ambiguous, but probably the stone wall. Including link to the timestamp in the video where they talk about it for about 30 seconds: th-cam.com/video/bkxr54Z6Rw8/w-d-xo.html
Rus is an interesting and innovative Civ design yes. Can't wait to try it! However (1) the Stretsy does NOT belong in the AoE4 timeframe, (2) Rus was a TINY player in world History in the year 700 and still a MINOR power in 1500, so much less powerful than superpower Ottomans with their Great Bombards in 1500!!.... Rus were SLAVES for so much of the AoE4 time. No one can deny, Turks are an INFINITELY more relevant, storied, and powerful Civ than Rus in 700-1500 (Byzantines too)... Unfair, wrong and unreasonable Civ choice!
Word !
Agreed but if it was realistic then Mongols would be far and away the best civ in the game, given the history. European powers would not have stood up to the Asian/middle eastern civs in this time period.
I don’t understand why the French are the French.. should they not be Franks or something?
turks would be cool instead of abassid dynasty or dehli. the important thing is that they are launching the game with representation from a wide variety of places. If you want turkey at least you can play something similar such as abassid. I really wanted a eastern european civ and many others did too so it gives more representation to more places. only place they are really missing at launch is the americas. also streltsy first really became a thing around 1545 which is towards the end of but still within the age 4 timeframe.
@@dennisbergkamp1553 Absolutely 100% WRONG!!!! Mongols were ONLY important in 1200-1300… After the Turks invented the musket in 1465 Mongols were brutally disappeared from the History of the world….
Hopefully they add Inca and Mayans as well. It’s cool to think about how they would have faired against the powers of Europe/Asia
like the rustic, red style and the warrior monk. i didn't see that much yet of HRE and french but at least atm i think they look a bit too similar. maybe i am wrong tho but atm i like the style of Chinese, Abbasid and now Rus the most. even i would be personally more a HRE and french player
I was seriously expecting bears... I feel a little disappointed
Rekindled my childhood love for AoE with this game; your channel has an abundance of important information, thanks!
SOVIET MARCH - Red Alert 3. INTENSIFY.
I'm really curious about the mongols if they'll work and feel good to play
They were quite the civ in the closed beta. I wonder why they chose not to do them for the stress test?
Awesome channel
I wonder if the Rus will be able to do some cheeky Scout rushes since it wont take idle time from your TC, maybe its not that strong, but as a viable option it would be interesting to see what very high ranked players can achieve, maybe just send in 2-3 to apply pressure and get enemy idle time.
Well you would build more Scouts just for hunting early game. Once animals are down why not to use them to take on enemy villagers? Even if it meant that some dies.
@@Methodius7 But think about the possibility, lets say you take out 2-3 vills, is that worth it? i mean you wont idle your TC and you give enemy possibly some idle time and force them to rebuild, they cant have outposts yet, and only have their TC to flee in, as i said i dont know enough about numbers to think its worth - not worth, but it could be interesting on high elo play i believe.
Idk, scouts seemed pretty weak I think it would be better to just leave them on relics and large resources to spot your enemy
@@hatimzeineddine8723 Yeah i think in particular for the Rus with their gold bonus its probably best.
How does he still have access to the game?
He is analyzing a showcase game presented by Microsoft on RBW5 finals day. Either that or he is a hacker 😋
Never mind, just saw what is happening 🤣
I want a Rus vs Mongols showcase!
Haha xD
Unfortunately, from historically side, we Ukrainian (Rus) were defeated by Mongols. Later it helps us to united with Lithuanian and Poles to create a new civ The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. Let see how it will be in the game.
@@vladyslavgumeniuk3220 why are you saying rus are only ukrainian? Rus gave birth to many great countries not just ukrain lol
@@vladyslavgumeniuk3220 Lmao " Ukranian Rus". Never read such bs in my life.
The remnants of the Rus were conquered by the Mongols and in the 14th and 15th century the Lithuanians conquered bits of this land from the Mongols. Noone united here with anyone and the PLC existed way before that as well.
The Rus' decendants are not just Ukrainians, deal with it
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Russians.
No two Civilization plays the same. Incredible diversity :)
Hmm. Seems like the rus are a early to mid game civ that fall off pretty hard later. I think they need the Peter the great treatment :)
I'm concerned a bit about a Rus player's ability to hit their max bounty. The player in the showcase match went pretty heavy on the scouts and he only managed to get around 415 bounty i think. By that point all animals were gone from the map, so he couldn't possibly get the final tier
maybe they could change it so it gives a little bit of bounty for killing villagers/troops
It'll probably be impossible for 1 v 1, but completely possible for 4 v 4 matches with larger maps and more resources. And the system might be stronger on some maps and weaker on others.
Dosnt say that generates gold forever anyway?
Alex Šani it is already that way you get bounty for killing enemies
There were still boars around, but he didn't have enough map control to get them. In this sense, that's a method of counterplay for the other players against the rus' bounty.
The wolf gave more bounty than the deer, and I suppose the boars are the ones who give the most bounty, which means he could reach his 500 bounty, if he had the map control for it, or if he launched a sneaky operation to kill them and (maybe) harvest their food.
Special unit: Putin on a bear ;)
Man, why does every civ get such strong landmarks. Now as a Chinese fan I feel ripped off! I do like that I get access to every landmark, but it feels as if their impact is not on the landmark, but on the dynasty they unlock. And I mean, the dynasty system is pretty cool, but 6 landmarks occupy a lot of f-ing space for a bonus that's not better than a single landmark of any one other civ.
Also for costing double the age up of anyone else and having pretty strict limits the dynasty stuff is cool but... Aging Up just isn't the same instant power spike it seems.
Kinda sad that aoe4 doesn’t have home city shipments. I loved the variety of extra strategies they provided
Niceu, i like the Rus, they seems fun.
streltsi doesn't use spear as melee?
This is OP
Where do you get age of empires 4, I don't have it in store on Xbox series s or windows PC
It's stress test...
5:14 kinda doesn't make sense through. Rus at time were known for their sturdy kremlin or detinents walls in Novgorod, Kiev, Vladimir or Pskov.
I mean if you dig deep into it it actually make sense. Lets say the Rus save stone for their important structure like castle, church, palace. They use wooden wall because of its abundant and it really doesnt make sense to pour huge amount of stone to wall off such a humongous country.
Early Rus relied heavily on wooden structures. The ability for early Slavs to expand was due to an abundance of trees that enabled them to quickly build villages and towns without worrying of running out of the resource. Which if going back to aoe 2, it would make sense for the Slavs to have a wood bonus of some kind.
What,they can pick animal corpses? That's new
great civ analysis
drongo ur a legend
Germans are tanky but I saw rus seem better at raiding
The Rus! Ultimate laming civ
The only thing i hope for is friendly mods support :D
good
I do wish there were more unique units as it all feels a bit "samey" to me, also the artwork on the UI could be improved to make you feel more immersed in the faction you are playing rather than having a bland grey background colour
aoe3 vids back when? :(
Citizens of Russia are very interested in the civilization Rus :-)
Siege all ready sets up nearly instantly
I thought the showmatch on RBW V was between Rus and Franks?
Franks and HRE
One player was named Frank, but Rus vs Holy Roman Empire civs 😁
Do Lancers attack while moving? i seems to be like that
I Think is Chinese unit were called fire lancer.
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Gooday Drongo 💪
So the Rus is the PvE faction?
gotta farm those creeps to get that gold!
These guys need viking huscarls.
How about Turks ?
Not one of the 8 civs coming on launch.
is abbasid civ not representing the Turks in some way ?
@@NotTheLastOne nope it represents the islamic state of abbasid dynasty era
May be in future DLC... But the name must be Seljuk.
@@bekirilkyaz2368 did Turkey exist at that time?
I'm sorry, but why is there just a random giant gateway in the middle the rus base. Idk it just doesn't make any sense at all.... like it just looks really stupid and out of place. There's just a random gateway not connected to any walls in the middle of the town for no reason, like really? Also why is there a giant golden camel in the middle of the town center, why the fuck is that there?
Exactly! Look in web what is Golden gate and not Porn
Golden gate is based around the golden gate in kiev. The gate is still there but the walls are long gone. It was used at some point as a trade center. It is acually quite common in europe to have city walls that have been taken down but still have gates/towers remain that serve another purpose like being a tradecenter or military baracks.
The golden camel is a cosmetic item you can get whe you pre-order the game. It replaces the bell/gong in your towncenter. All the official gameplay videos have them, but you can just turn them on/off in game if you have them.
What is a Rus?
It is Ukraine nowadays.
They were a group of norce people who tried to attack Constantinople and got hired by them as guards, later they migrated to where Russia would appear.
An East Slavic person.
Rus is an eastern slavic state that eventually transformed to Russia, as you can see by its name
@@NotTheLastOne Rus for Rusyn and russia for russian, so there is no similarity.
The name russia came after Prussia because the rulers of that russia were germans, so they wanted to have similarity to they motherland.
Read wikipedia if you don't believe me.
Every time I watch something regarding aoe4 it's just one gimmick after another.
@@connormckinney1511 Usually not, but FE did add some gimmicky ones with the dlc civs such as flemish revolution, cuman mercenaries etc. But yeah aoe4 is really not my thing, I have trouble even naming things I like about it. They took away stuff I like and added stuff I dislike. Clearly a very different game.
Sounds like an extremely convoluted civ