Age of Mythology Retold - The New Gaia Is Insane

[@donutrock2132]

Huge upgrade, no longer moving beta logo.

[@RG32822]

Hopefully they add it back for release.

[@sergiomedina1099]

and the corpses decaying into skeletons

[@Blender3DProjects]

Funny how people who paid to play early had to deal with that bullshit...

[@rampage_sl]

@@Blender3DProjects that wasn't early access

[@hongeykong]

ikr 11

[@barrywise7185]

Oh man, that frost was an absolute disaster. Poor micro left the Norse military smacking guys with 99% resist, meanwhile you had 5 or 6 guys show up late to the party and they almost completely wiped him without getting attacked back

[@chadsteele7582]

I think you talking while you play is the better move. Just keep going and you’ll get better, a lot of creators start off bad and get better. And you’re not bad at it, just new.

[@dickysatria7268]

11:58 poor oracle kept getting unnoticed

[@weredraco]

I was watching him holding the relic of the two lions the entire time. Every time he appeared, I felt sorry for him. Senpai did not notice him.

[@dangallagher6176]

So weird seeing these small differences. You couldn't make Cheiroballistae into heroes before. And the implode god power didnt look SO GOD DAMN COOL before either

[@dodang_9147]

Implode always looked cool. it is also really strong god power for the late game.

[@ctlprogrammer]

@@dodang_9147 It is a terrible useless god power that does not destroy a single building.....

[@dodang_9147]

@@ctlprogrammer you can think implode like building execution. you damage each building by x amount, say 2000 hp than use implode so 5 build with 2000 hp = 5 building loss.

[@jamiemcphillips335]

The OG subs of the channel remember back in 2020 / 2021 when drongo made Aoe3 content and lamed Sweden :D I loved your Aoe3 Songs too haha.

[@gafur8558]

i really hope aoe3de gets some love after retolds release

[@BogardanLord]

@@gafur8558 same

[@jamiemcphillips335]

@@gafur8558 I hope he comes back and makes a video on the new DLC.

[@Joker-yw9hl]

I miss drongo playing aoe3. It's what made his channel what it is

[@TommyLikeTom]

Do you remember Star Wars: Galactic Battlegrounds? It was basically AOE but with a Star Wars skin. I genuinely hope they remake that game, and a bunch of other games just like it based on various franchises. Westeros for example

[@TimmyTimeGames]

The new myth units look so good! Implode is awesome! Super devastating!

[@Joker-yw9hl]

Good to see Oceanus getting some love. People used to claim he sucked but I liked to choose him for his unique armoury upgrades alone, let alone having a flying myth unit that can heal your units

[@weredraco]

I always went Oceanus or Theia just to have a flying scout. I love playing matched on maps with natural walls and chokepoints so having something that can just fly over them and scout the whole map is nice.

[@junaidhanzala1342]

17:42 was epic

[@phillip1054]

defo an "OH F***" moment for that poor player lol

[@oliviermillour7974]

Nice upload. The Gaia grass growth looks SO weird. Looks like cartoony bile.

[@ArtofBrentMinehan]

Baffling, the green is way too saturated as well. The Original textures look far better.

[@dickysatria7268]

More like .... algae mold instead of grass

[@TheAndi073]

​@@ArtofBrentMinehan Meh.. I played AoM back in the day and people never liked the lush texture

[@xBartGR]

Reminds me so much of Zerg creep

[@robmartin525]

Remember this isn't a final product Plus it probably looks weirder on a desert background as opposed to a verdant one

[@RyanHoulberg]

Finally got to play retold and I am so happy to see my favorite childhood game modernized

[@Rimedane]

I feel like you could refine this into a fast age 3 with markets and then just never worry about gold on the map really at all by using the lush movement speed for your caravans. So from there you could focus all your villagers on wood and food and be smashing through things. Only issue I feel would be watching your population cap.

[@halidbinvelid9532]

Implosion is so fucking OP lmao

[@dave6653]

Those five men on that sub probably agree.

[@svyatoslavrurikovich8831]

It was my absolute favourite god power back in the day

[@morantNO1]

That was one of the coolest things I ever saw in a strategy game right there.

[@ctlprogrammer]

Even enemy has upgraded hi buildings the implosion does not destroy anything...total useless god power

[@Nalhirrim]

gaia was weak for a long, long time until she got a few upgrades very recently. it's lovely to see her blossom in retold

[@ctlprogrammer]

Upgrades???? Downgrades you mean.....

[@GoldfishLiberty]

So when he used frost, all of his units continued to attack the heavily armored units doing zero damage, while your reinforcements came in and cleaned him up. His god power worked completely against him. That's when you snowballed the game and won.

[@wlockuz4467]

Yeah, every game I have seen that god power is used completely wrong. I can only think of two ways to use it: - Freeze half the army, take out the other half - Freeze whole army, siege their city / training buildings

[@kyrrilcrepeele1353]

freeze was offcenter. He froze about 3/4th of your units, and his units were attacking your frozen, indestructable units while your living ones were picking his off. your popsicles actually tanked for your other units. This is why frozen is far less of a defensive power than it is for a push into a base

[@blodypirate1]

I like this format Drongo! Keep playing & casting at the same time😊

[@MrVlad12340]

GLORIOUS DAY TO YOU TOO PHALLUS!

[@Bassario]

Some poor guy on the drum in this game has an exhausting job...

[@RachelRoseMitchell]

I was mostly joining team games last night and it was fun seeing lobbies of like eighty percent Gaia lmao.

[@Blazingwheel]

8:14 guy jumps in the air to become a hero, wish granted

[@OSU2010]

Most people don’t know that only oranos could build the Obliske tower now all the Atlantean civs can

[@PinkFantasm]

I was today years old when I found out of this game I knew life would get better that atomic bomb was crazy the way the horses basically grab on to the ground is insane !!!! I want this game yo !!

[@Cynndora]

Implode is beautiful, more than i hoped for. surprised you never dropped an eco building on the frontline with his 2nd TC, you spent a long time there and had some vil's nearby.

[@wag0NE]

I think given the farming mechanic of the villagers they could have a movement speed penalty at the start of say 10%, then include a 10% move speed bonus in the tech that increases the villager health and damage.

[@WISECOSKS]

nice vid bro, hard to play and chat i agree, i think the best solution is a combination of narration and live commentary, so you can describe stuff after in a bit more detail, and alos react authentically to stuff happening!

[@ihavenoidea9418]

Love the carnivora buff, it now has 5 vines, it’s so damn strong

[@hugomalacalza8977]

i loved playing atlanteans, i almost always played oranos, and build the pantheon towards heroes (cheaper and healing)

[@hamleteagle534]

I like the textures of the farms, however the Gaia influence on the ground... Definitely needs to be more kinds of greens with a shade of black, brown and some other nature colors. It really looks like untextered

[@GetThePizza]

Bro rushing mythic with gaia is crazy fast, getting it 12ish minutes and im not even good at the game. Cant wait to see pro players go fast implosion/tartarian gate. Its gonna be bonkers

[@satanickeili]

My takeaway from this video: Drongo misses AoE3

[@funnyshortsdaily515]

Idk what it is about this guy but always entertained lol

[@davidlubkowski7175]

They should add flowers or something to this lush. Looks too green.

[@callmesnow4225]

I feel like with no vision the bottom side of the map, a decent counter-attack would have saved his top settlement

[@Vuxchen]

I love this game. I played it yesterday and clocked 9 hours of playtime. I have no clue why the playtest lasted so long (i play 14:30 - 23:30 local time) I really realized how much my memories of AOM are tinted. I was "disappointed" by the graphics since it looks like aom did in my memories :D

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

They initially only extended it by an hour because there were issues at the beginning of the test but then due to the feedback extended it until midnight GMT :)

[@Vuxchen]

@@FloosWorld_AoE Good to know hope they do it again today :D

[@Preparationh1n1]

Another banger Aussie video

[@dubot4076]

Game looks AMAZING. So happy.

[@thehandleisuseless]

If you want to do good in ranked o suggest to you try the useful clicks technique, sometimes you hotkey and click uselessly and that wastes time that could be spent more intelligently

[@Haluc7N]

I think you do not need to cancel your workers to age up. Once you age up worker get paused and resume once Age up finishes

[@nothanks5264]

Amazing! I appreciate your good work Drongo!

[@Immortalits]

The new lush buff seems good, but you can't use it in the most important situation, that is during an attack, so Oranos is still better with Hyperion for Heroic age and regeneration for heroes. You realy should try using arcuses more, they are great anti-infantry, great range, perfect hero candidates

[@olteanumihai1245]

why couldnt they use similar textures for gaia grass as original?!

[@titusbaum9690]

Hero transformation isn't instant anymore, huh? Crazy.

[@klavicus2276]

Crazy they still let all units be heroes still. Delay is only fair and has a cool animation

[@Swaerfa]

What is your graphic settings? My game is looking very bad on high quality. I dont understand why but your game is looking beautiful. Also Drongo, Can you share your graphic settings with us? Is it possible?

[@Sam-lu3zy]

gaia and kronus in the old version were the most broken civs in the game

[@Drago2600]

Im sure they still are

[@steroitzz]

@@Drago2600 gaia got buffed completely. she wasnt that good.

[@Kagarin05]

On the fence with some of the textures, playing the stress test tonight and well see if im feeling the reforged affect, that sickly bright green is wow, where's the amber leaves?

[@aaronheaton5903]

24 years ago a work college said PC games will never go anywhere or deliver what devs say. He was right.

[@YeenMage]

Stress tess giving Gaia free hero citizens, they basically get +2 more villagers and make all of them (6 in total worth) immune to rushes by Classical Age myth units. This is broken. Plus Atlantean oracles gather favor too insanely fast at the beginning.

[@seanwhitehall4652]

Unlimited god powers with cooldown is brilliant

[@wlockuz4467]

It also costs exponentially more favor I believe

[@seanwhitehall4652]

@@wlockuz4467 I'm sure it's linearly more. Exponentially more would be crazy.

[@surgeonsergio6839]

Gotta say the lush looks graphically inferior to the original. It looks too plasticy!

[@slyfox743]

The grass growing there looks like a puddle of radioactive waste

[@wlockuz4467]

Walking your army into Frost and traitoring the first Frost Giant was genius. Do people just not know that Frost gives 99% resistance?

[@xBartGR]

what UI scale is that? i love that, mine is giant 😂

[@PinkFantasm]

Also your very smart man how long have you been playing for ?

[@randomargument972]

Caladria myth units are good as scouts too, they are fast

[@unnamedlegeon]

Why Gaia civ is like having the zerg creep spread but with green grass instead of black goos 😅.

[@yogiebere]

Surprised you were fighting his forward base instead of pressuring his workers at home

[@johnnada]

YOo drongo how do you set 1 button push control groups? Looks like you have a method

[@aimannova]

So basically New Gaia is like Mahatma Gandhi in civ XD

[@randomargument972]

Cheiroballista can be turned into Heroes?! At this point I'm not surprised developers decide to make ships and myth units convert to Heroes........🤐

[@Ballistic-vn6em]

The game looks beautiful!

[@silvershine2261]

starting out with 2 hero citizens on Gaia still feels way too broken, even with their slightly decreased collection rate compared to the original. Sure you were the better player here, but the economic lead you got early on was insane

[@nikolaj2729]

Can anyone verify if "tactical pause" is available in single-player matches and campaigns? By this, I mean the ability to pause, think, strategize, coordinate, and issue commands while STILL paused. AoE 1, 2, 3, and AoM had this functionality but it was removed with AoE 4.

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

SP isn't enabled in the current beta but pause was there in the last one

[@randomargument972]

3:55 what does "auto gather action" mean?

[@Crosmando]

The Gaia lush is quite beautiful

[@Bayonet1809]

I think it looks too radioactive.

[@svyatoslavrurikovich8831]

It doesn't have the flowers that it used to have.

[@rampage_sl]

bit too saturated imo

[@mscapeh4451]

​@@rampage_slthe whole style look mobile game

[@Calebol04]

Hey Drongo could you share what graphical settings you use? It looks much better than my game and I've moved everything

[@olegdragora2557]

Have you tried increasing the screen resolution in the game options?

[@Calebol04]

@@olegdragora2557 yes, I am playing at the max resolution of my monitor 1080p

[@hawkster8951]

How come drongo has the vills count ui right beside the mini map? Vill counts ui is located at the top of the screen in retold generally.

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

They added an alternate UI

[@klavicus2276]

Nice game still can’t get behind the new oracle favour generation it felt so fragile and even less reliable than Norse favour (if you don’t fight you don’t get favour and sometimes little when you fight and oracle felt much early but felt like it felt off lategame maybe I should have trained more oracles idk)

[@Junior-qm2lz]

Could you also say a bit of what units are the equivalent in aoe3?.

[@Ide_AL]

16:34 but cooperatives are the best farming economies

[@Gamerboy-gw5kn]

Drongo I swear your vids have the highest quality on youtube there's like 0 compression

[@powerblazing3603]

how do you see the compression of an uploaded video in youtube? honestly intrigued.

[@Gamerboy-gw5kn]

@@powerblazing3603 just uhh like look at it like uhhh like with your eyes

[@rampage_sl]

@@powerblazing3603 choppy ass blocks

[@powerblazing3603]

@@Gamerboy-gw5kn what do I have to look AT is my question dumbo...I know what to expect now from an orc....

[@powerblazing3603]

@@rampage_sl you mean like pixels ?

[@austin5046]

I think playing and recording sound at the same time is a better experience for the viewer, don't worry about filling in every moment of gameplay with talk outside of the game and just focus on playing well and winning. I would watch that kind of content alot more. Do you stream your games at all anywhere?

[@justlolit]

Big mis use of the Deep Freeze god power. He need to try and hit half the army.

[@RajRaja-wo3uu]

❤

[@julesjacobs1]

Atlanteans need to make multiple town centers to generate favor.

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

Not anymore

[@julesjacobs1]

@@FloosWorld_AoE Wait how do they generate favor now??

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

@@julesjacobs1 By scouting with Oracles. They have a tech that enables a slow Favor trickle for TCs tho (0.05/sec I think)

[@comack669]

Geez louise you smoked him. GG

[@EdolasMystogan]

Oof the new gaia lush is so goddamn hideous.. It used to be this flowery soft grassy texture, now its just oversaturated green ooze with tentacles in it..

[@volleyballftw]

did atlantis lose there multi use on spells and now needs to pay for every concecutive use?

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

Yes. That now applies to every pantheon

[@TheNovadragon223]

@@FloosWorld_AoE which was a good thing. in the original game they were a one time thing that was great to turn a tide of battle or give you boost to your eco or give your a special unit. hell the china and Atlantean's had god power's that multiple charges of a god power. now it gives all the pantheons the abilty to keep using there god' power's by use favor to use it. (to note the more powerful a god power is the more it cost to reuse it, like meteorite god power cost 350 favor to recast so be careful. this go's for all the heavy hitting god power's)

[@Jan-xf8sk]

It needs to use Favor now, to prevent misuse/abuse of the god powers.

[@tylerrumpler6931]

How do I get the beta version? Can it be played on Mac?

[@manadol69]

WRATHOFTHEGODS still works?

[@kingpietro1279]

i don't understand how do you stil play the beta i thought beta was finished? can someone explain

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

There's a stress test going on this weekend everyone can join.

[@OSU2010]

So is there a 5th age or no?

[@royasturias1784]

There is, but only after building a Wonder that you may opt to advance to the Wonder Age

[@OSU2010]

@@royasturias1784 what’s in the wonder age

[@sadiev2778]

Unlimited titans and mythic unit buffs ​@@OSU2010

[@RancorSnp]

Very interestingly, while wonder age doesn't really function like a normal age. In game's bindings - there is an unused binding for 5th god power slot. in Classic, you would never, under any circumstance have 5 active god power slots

[@theofrost1140]

What is it with people from countries starting with Aust comparing the Germans to Atlantians. Swear I've heard that line before.

[@royasturias1784]

And the Norse are _the_ German-adjacent civ of the game Must be the mechanics and playstyles from 2 DE or 4 (as HRE)

[@ulfricsombrage]

Really nice game

[@vinconssier4224]

Gaia is absolutely busted I have no idea how to beat a Gaia player of equal skill with Hades

[@thearchlich7273]

Is there a single name in this game that you can pronounce correctly?

[@ctlprogrammer]

So they basically didn't change a thing

[@powerblazing3603]

wait is there an open beta for AOM?

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

Yes

[@powerblazing3603]

@@FloosWorld_AoE Thanks, downlodaing rn.

[@TheVanillatech]

Are Titans in this? SHOW US A TITAN!

[@LoVeR199294]

what does this economic guild do guys?

[@davyhotch]

Villager (citizen) resource gather rate upgrades.

[@hawkster8951]

Economic upgrades

[@randomargument972]

Oracle do faster scouting than in AoMX

[@danielli3288]

is it me or does the gaia creep look rly bad? they should look into zerospace

[@thepunisher3160]

Who goes for berries amateur?

[@Biganimeogfantasyfan]

Are god powers too strong?

[@magicmurderbag7581]

The game sound needs to be lower, it's sometimes hard to follow you, at least for me

[@FuncraftVideos]

balistas look op

[@OSU2010]

Zerg😂

[@pharaohthutmosis7803]

Skopos?

[@Validtarget]

How are you still playing AOM I thought beta was over?

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

Open Beta/Stress Test

[@Shero1337]

Starting July 26 (today), all Steam players can play the Age of Mythology: Retold stress test, The stress test will run for 3-hour time slots each through July 26-28 at the following times: 5:30 am PT (8:30 am ET / 12:30 UTC) to 9:30 am PT (12:30 pm ET / 16:30 UTC)