Spirit of the Law vs AoE4 Hardest AI

This is also known as the "Me and my little brother against my dad" setup back in the day... :P

Spirit: so today I’ll be facing the hardest AI.
Me: oh cool this’ll be a challenge
Spirit: and I’ll add in another AI to help him
Me: *goes back to losing to easy AI*

I have never once said, "let me rush the easier AI so the harder AI has a chance to attack me."

Seeing the English as blue and the French as red is seriously damaging my calm center.

I love the little things in this game. Like how the units yell when enemies are coming

"Just 1 hardest AI is a little too easy for me" ok Viper no need to brag. I can only beat 1 easy AI

Hey guys, so for those who were wondering like SotL whether there was a "select all military"-button, there is! It's ctrl+shift+c.

I like how the voice lines add to the subtitles

"The thing is, though, they're all, well, maybe not all, but mostly pros trying to grind for a tournament and I don't really want to waste their time."
Challenging SotL confirmed to be futile! Is there any actual proof of him ever having lost a game?

The hardest A.I. will never be as ruthless as when Spirit called the choice between the two English landmarks "a reading comprehension test."
Edit: Whenever I hear him talk about "milling deer" I get a terrifying vision of a deer attached to a milling machine....

Hey, Spirit, I was wondering if AoE 4 does well enough are you thinking about making Civ overviews? The Civ Overviews are some of the most interesting videos on the platform, and seeing them for AoE 4 would be dope!

I’m surprised siege towers work that way. I thought they would setup against an opponent’s wall and function like a gatehouse allowing footsoldiers to move on and off the wall from that point.

I'm fairly sure the camera also splits the difference when you select a group that has units in several places on the map in AoE2, rather than jumping to the most recent addition.

I love the sound design in this game.

SOTL was attacking the AI before the game even started

The AI's indecisiveness when it comes to engaging with your archers is really hurting it.

The most important take-away from this whole game is knowing how much wood income you need to sustain Longbowmen from the Council Hall.

*doesn't get double bit axe*
"Why do I need so many on wood?"

I think you'll be interested to know that the devs are working behind the scenes on a machine-learning AI thats just spectating matches to learn what to do. I imagine with significant training time in a year or two there'll be a beast AI.

Is it just me or both viper and spirit make the hardest AI of AOE 4 look like the hard AI of age of conquerors?

Cant wait for Spirits analysis videos on each civs.. And i like how i learnt a bit of history from each 1 of them.

Being able to set AI's difficulty individually is quite a nice feature that I wish was in AoE2

Different difficulty AIs in the same match? Best game ever!

Id love to see some of your Mongol gameplay. I really liked playing them and was super excited to play some more when it launched. I learned however I am absolutely horrible at the game, so much to learn.

Sotl : *"Age of empires"*
YT : *"Age of vampires"*
Ok youtube, you do you. Ngl, that sounds quite good though. Imagine RTS game with vampires xD

Happy that you main the Mongols, as they are my main faction as well and I think there will be many nuances to be found for their play (that you will hopefully find and highlight).

Honestly hope you make more of these

I like the lightning that comes from the sky, i the hate the lack of waypoints to know where your units are going to when you click on them.

I am sooo happy it just released for the public!

It's time
The game is out to the masses

34:30 looks cool with the breached walls and units pouring in

Everytime you post man I'm like, "Oooo gonna be watchin Spirit of the Law tonight" shits enjoyable and educational for my null aoe2 skills.

More, please. I can't get enough of this

Love the continious yells by the scout whenever she spots something

“I hardest AI isn’t hard enough for me” Me: Getting absolutely stomped by the normal AI

Sotl: i've realized you need gold more than wood.
Also Sotl: food is fine, you need wood to make longbows.

That poor lamb running around with the scout 🥺

Spirit, I would love to see a video on whether AoE4 encourages mixed unit armies compared with AoE2 or will single unit spamming still be the meta?

This has given me such a great visual as to how I need to play. Been playing almost 2 weeks and I've been able to point out so much wrong I've been doing...like rushing farms for instance LOL.

It's so cute when the sheep run to your scout, I wouldn't be able to kill them for food lol

I don’t even have the game but im super hyped for the civ reviews

I think the main purpose for siege towers is to drop some units near enemy archers firing from the top and cut them down. If there aren't any you can run down the gates , but dropping only 8 units at a time seems a bit slow otherwise.

Fun seeing you reenact the chevauchee and the battles of the hundred years war.

You can sorta select all TCs by pressing F4. It will also select all landmarks and if you try to queue villagers, it would distribute the queue among all of the structures that can produce villagers.

Você joga muito, parabéns ✌🏼👏🏼🇧🇷

Oh yeah and speaking of hotkeys, I found one major annoyance during the stress test. They swapped the buttons and hotkeys for the lumber camp and mining camp compared to AoE2. I constantly built mining camps by accident near tree lines and such, my muscle memory let me down. Not as much letdown as the design team regarding hotkeys in AoE4 though. XD

So far, I've been enjoying the game, though some of the controls are gonna take a bit to get used to.
Now if I may add, the Hotkey for "Select all idle military" is Ctrl+, by default. (for some reason you can't set it to Shift, but oh well.) Sadly, there's no hotkey for selecting only Villagers at this moment, but I guess for now if we were to select units+villagers, we can Shift+click their icons in the UI to deselect them, or Ctrl+Click the unit icon we want it to select only that unit type.

i m in love with the voice actors

Scouts can hunt deer with ranged atk, and they can also pick up the corpses and bring them back to your base. So no point to not build your mill at the berries, which you can't move.

*Select all Military:* Ctrl + M (or Ctrl, Shift + C)
Also, when I want to pump out as many of one unit from a specific building, I hotkey that building to 9 or something (ctrl + 9), and then just tap 9, and hold down Q to queue all of that unit.
Nice playthrough, man. You make me feel so useless at this game, haha.

This game is really good, already feels comfortable but with much new to learn

Try pressing F1, F2, F3, and F4, it cycles through selecting all of various building types, then you can just click on the variety you want to work with.

If you control+click on the unit in a group it will isolate that unit
If you shift click it will remove them from the larger group.
So shift click vills to leave them out of army movement.
Control click to select them to build something.

me: i'm being overwhelmed by all this aoe 4 content
also me: omg a sotl video, *clicks immediately* 1111

I think one problem is the camera it's really low, to the point that trebuchet stones fly above the camera position. They should move the camera a lot higher, but zoom in so you can se the entire trajectory of the stones, like in AoE2 (even if that is 2D) but the effect is the same.
Satellite view vs drone view

The scaling of units compared to buildings compared to siege units and then those walls looks ridiculous

Thanks again Spirit

CTRL+A selects all units in the screen, then shift+click on units you don't want moving.

Holy shit that voice acting on the scout tho

Will you make Civ overviews and balance changes videos on AOE4

CTRL+Shift+C will select all military units. You can see all the keybinds if you make a custom keybind profile under advanced.

I think the big thing you were missing in castle was building rams

I would love to see you 1v2 against 2 hardest ai

I just got trashed by the hard ai so respect man

the siege towers work fine, you were just being silly with them. You tried to offload your soldiers in a wall section that was already fully occupied by your archers. All you had to do was to just offload them into the next wall section.

Would be good to have some AOE4 intro with your old song :)

1:26 Social credit goes up

I played quite a bit and I'm not bad at it.
I started mostly with bottom tier civs like Dheli and Abbasid until I being able to win 1vs1 more often than not. It helped me to avoid some of the sloppiness and traps that you often can get away with top tier civs, especially in the beginning. It helps to pick weaker civs because it forces you to really use counters and be cost effective as much as possible (unless you have another goal behind a specific engagement obviously).
Not to mention leaning to manage your eco under early pressure from players with better/more mobile civs. If you get to castle age with a desirable number of villagers and ressources, you really survived the worst and it's time to increase pressure with a balanced army. Having a small army composed of archers, crossbows and spears around is ALWAYS a good idea if you can imho.
But honestly, it feels like a downgrade from current AoE2 DE in basically every way. It's boring; but at the same time AoE2 is an insane exception in gaming, especially multiplayer and for the new content/remake. It's the definition of a game that has a foundation that stood the test of time... It's not really fair to compare it to something more generic like AoE 4.
Even the graphics. It's not the worst, but not that far from 2000 and late RTS with 3d models. In AoE2 it feels like a moving painting :D.
If you don't like micro and economy management, AoE 4 is a good choice I think.

I thought the title is "Spirit of the Law vs AoE 4 Hardest AI"

Thank you for this video. Had to skip the ones on the campaign.

Any reason why you did not choose build RAM at earlier stage (after researching from blacksmith)?

I have one question how the hell did you do that farm spam around the mills? Also they should really make siege towers that you just park them on towers and units automatically deposit themselves onto the walls.

Siege tower buff when

This is really unrelated, but why did you remove your intro song from your videos?

That unsymmetrical 'Victory' banner is giving me an OCD attack... how could they miss it?

What if your archers are arranges with the Z key and each row is a control group,(1, 2, and 3) with the whole group being 4, so you can activate Row 1 palings and not everyone in the group..?

I wish I was good at this game. Will start watching videos and learning 🤓

I love to hear the women yelling!

Can someone let me know if AOE4 has a progression system? For example, does finishing single/multi games offer any rewards for playing? An explanation would be nice. Thanks!

How are you moving your military waypoint without the camera jumping? I hit f1 and the camera always jumps to buildings

btw there's a "Select all army" hotkey :)

what shortcut do you use for buidling the fields so fast?

they need to fix walling and so building next to each other make a barrier.

Looks like the dead unit no longer just disappear now nice

"I dont feel like i have quite enough wood"...just realized how mature im not

can you do it vs the updated hardest AI? ;)

There's no "Extreme" AI in this one? Hmm...

nice shit dude!

hardest ai too easy for you and here i was struggling to survive easiest lmao

Question - is hardest ai any harder than in beta? I played against it and it seemed that it's really easy compared to extreme from aoe 2 de which i maybe could beat only using certain tactics, not just normal gameplay.

even easiest sees the whole map, play on revealed map to see how it cheats, because it sends units where it cant/couldnt see. Did you build up heavily ? No attack. No defenses ? Assaults, where there is nothing defending, like trade. This is standard relic cheating ai. Their standard troll procedure in previous games (CoH, 2, DoW 2,3 = line of sight evasion.for troll sake) A few months before Western Front armies, they implemented a non-vision cheater, where they would explore and react, without prior knowledge, so ambushes were possible. WFA released and all the AI progress was reverted. In CoH 2 for example trying to ambush an AI is impossible, it does make mistakes but otherwise evades your line of sight without seeing your units.

I don't know if my game is bugged or what but i tried skirmish against a easy A.i today to try and learn the game.
The description was an easy A.i with light attacks and small armies or something like that.
3min into the game i had a army of around 60 units in my base.

1v2 as Holy Roman Empire with the 2 AI on hardest with Roman Empires 400% infantry keep is so overpowered lol

Noob question But how can I get the camera to go to my scout in the control group? Right now it selects the scout. but does not bring the camera to it. Is this an option or a setting in the game?

I am currently playing against the hardest ai and tbh right now it's having an off day. The minute they get rush, it's almost instant win

WOuld it be viable to rush a player with Peasants since they use bows?

Does anyone know what the deer stones landmark does for the mongols? All it says is it gives "the yam network" wtf that means XD

Spirit of the Law, terror of AIs

Lol I took so long to get the remastered ii edition that they finally have 4 out

Tried out the Chinese yesterday... The tax collectors are pretty clutch and hilarious 😂