ALL SETTINGS & HOTKEYS you will EVER need | Age of Empires 4

[@KonnorGann]

Valdemar is the best resource for actually learning AOE iv. Everyone else out here now is just playing, he’s out here actually teaching in a time efficient way for the viewer

[@Valdemar1902]

Appreciate the kind words, sir 🫡

[@caribnow2]

Facts

[@xxprogressxx624]

By far my favorite channel

[@marcogdaiello6244]

100%

[@moeinmolagor2441]

U actually tryin to teach , appreciate it 🙏🏻🔥

[@eirikuregilsson4949]

I've watched most of your videos Valdemar and this is by far the best video you've done! So clean doing the 1,2,3,4 5 6,7,8,9 although I switched 16, 27, 38, 49 and used H for Town Center and double HH for main Town Center ( instead of 5 / 55 ) since I use 5 for Millitary Schools since my main civ is Ottoman. But like you said in the video it's the main thing to customize the keys to your preference. This is an excellent help - thank you, thank you, thank you! Keep the good stuff coming, you're my favorite AOE4 content creator by far and I also love Kevin De Bruyne ( your Doppelgänger ) :-) Didn't know you were Danish!! Kind regards from Iceland!

[@Valdemar1902]

Thank you!!

[@emilne83]

I really loved the idea of binding 1-all melee infantry, 2-all archers, etc... and then overriding that with hotkey groups when needed. I do use hotkey groups, but have an awful habit of using select all military way too often when I get under pressure. Having these suggested defaults, I think, would really help to break that bad habit

[@kaname110]

this is a long awaited one! There's always something I miss in the settings and hotkeys. Thank you Valdemar! Your content is legend

[@Valdemar1902]

Thanks!

[@christophertheoutcast5256]

This helped me a lot to transition from controller to keyboard, big up

[@mysticaldevotion863]

THANK YOU!!! Since I started playing the game I always knew I should look into this stuff but I have been too lazy so far. I am Diamond but I am still using single clicks to cancel all items in like full queued 20 barracks. This Video makes it easier to remember everything step by step

[@andreicristian9575]

I actually unbound that hotkey, because I was accidentally cancelling key upgrades. I much prefer clicking.

[@kmikel3669]

damn youre diamond and still single click, im gold 3, been had hotkeys set, apm 280 (i know it doesnt mean much just saying) and cant win worth shit. I dont know if its my decision making or game knowledge or all of the above but it's something that isnt making sense why i cant beat golds and plats and then diamonds. Been playing off and on for 3 years and over 2400 hours nand still barely gold 3 smdh....

[@mysticaldevotion863]

​@@kmikel3669 I reached diamond after like 300 hours I think. I only play ffa currently and stopped ranked because I hate the gameplay pattern. You have to all in feudal no matter what because the enemy will do that no matter what. At least in my games. I am actually 17-4 this season just playing english/french going all in with archers. I hate that gameplay pattern since its giga noobish and I am not interested in that but I cant beat this playstyle when I am castle rushing as chinese which I enjoy alot more. I dont know what you are exactly playing but I really feel like if you want to succeed in 1 vs 1 you have to be the UGA BUGA degen first and then you can build on top of that and learn intricacies of matchups etc. UGA BUGA is absurdly broken until you get to probably high conq. Defending is just actually more than a million times harder, since you are only allowed to make VERY minor mistakes and only a few of them or its insta gg even against bad players as long as they are aggressive. Beasty defending compared to other semi-pros is night and day difference and other high level players defending compared to me is also night and day difference. Meanwhile me going UGA BUGA in feudal and beasty doing it, is not THAT much of a difference relatively speaking.. ofc he will be more efficient with everything and knows a few tricks that I don't and will micro better but fundamentally it will be the same shit. I strongly believe that if you played this game alot already and watch stuff like this video, then the reason you loose will be first that you don't play braindead feudal builds and secondly that you consistently blunder something random that you know shouldn't happen but its hard because the enemies are most of the times garbage aswell which makes them more unpredictable and you sometimes get punished and sometimes you don't so you never get the feel of how to correctly play certain scenarios. I know exactly how you feel after loosing most of the time. It feels very random and very BS. You can play a game overall 100 times better than your opponent, but if you don't fully respect him and prevent a potential blunder that might loose you the game, then you might aswell loose to a garbage opponent. So yea I am pretty sure the best advice would be, learn a noobish feudal all in build, stick to it, Learn the matchups and get freelo because CONSISTENCY IS KEY!! Aoe4 is one of the hardest/most overwhelming games you can play. You need the most noobish way possible in order to learn to be consistent in the first place. That's how everybody gets diamond/conq anyways. It is what it is.

[@Valdemar1902]

@@kmikel3669 You should join the coaching discord and have someone look at your games! discord.gg/53AJz7A6

[@Robban1020]

Amazing Video! Hands down the best I've seen so far!

[@Valdemar1902]

Appreciate it!

[@the_craps2787]

Would love to see your keyboard during a 1v1 unit movement when you have multiple groups

[@Valdemar1902]

Keep an eye out for a video on friday :P

[@DirtyOThePirate]

Thanks a lot for the video, astonishing how similar my settings are to yours. I struggle with one thing playing Delhi a lot. My scholars when they come out and I want them to pick up a relic and put it inside the mosque, they always go INSIDE instead of dropping it. How can I do it better, I cannot check every scholar every minute!

[@GatochanBolivia]

Amazing HOT CAKES :V guide bro, no joking ive been testing many configs for hotkeys and yours seems to be very very useful, imma try it later IT SEEMS VERY GOOD :D thank you and regards.

[@Valdemar1902]

Thanks!

[@alcinkaya]

Great stuff Valde!

[@mattrafuse]

Oh thank you, I needed this video so much !

[@lef_3]

Great video! Thank you so much Valdemar

[@Hooktail]

Brand new player here, I just played and even won my first online 1v1 match ever, and it was against a Gold player, huge thanks to your tutorials (I followed your aggro Rus build)! Spent 80 hours first on finishing campaign, Art of Wars to Gold, and 2vX comp stomps vs Hard/Hardest with my friend. Do you have any comments concerning camera location hotkeys? Seems like they're not quite as necessary as in Starcraft. I have V and Ctrl V as the sole camera hotkey, haven't gotten in the muscle habit to use it yet; might replace with a unit hotkey instead (e.g. for scout, or maybe Imperial Officer if I end up liking Zhu Xi)

[@Valdemar1902]

You can use them if you want to but I don't :)

[@Goldsnip]

Very Good video, Thanks Valdemar!

[@moonboy2k185]

until last season i used the cycle through scouts key as caps lock, it really helped with the rus hunting miny game instead of control grouping each scouts, its kinda cringe. with one key i can always find him. with hre i like to use tilda for scrolling prelates, very helpful

[@tex1647]

why so many dislikes? What is wrong with people.. Great vid Valdemar, ty alot for this. I just cant see why people hatin that much.

[@GobliocBerger-hu2nk]

I love the fact that a practice tool has AZERTY support but not most games released

[@Thandrelas]

thanks for the guide!

[@charbelradi6238]

Can someone explain where in setup to find “world ranking” when you play you can see the person rank in the civ he play on the screen!! Thank you

[@somebrokefella5522]

It's a twitch add-on, I believe

[@kuroshin7395]

If anyone can help, I have a question but its a bit difficult to explain, when for example I have 8 vills under my TC gathering food and I want 4 of them to build my landmark for age up, but I end up selecting with my mouse 5 or 6 or them because they are all together under the TC. How I can make for sure I select only 4 or if I select 5 by mistake I deselect 1 of them? Thank for the guide btw!

[@vincentregnault9788]

HI when you have conflict like "1" if you have a control groupe it will prioritize controle group ? thank for video

[@Valdemar1902]

Yes

[@nickfitter213]

Hi Valdemar, im not sure if this will work for you as the key is bound to 5, but when you make keeps with Delhi, i just make sure i hotkey 5 as my TC (which it usually is already, but its automatically bound to that i have to manually bind it with Delhi for this trick) first, and then add the keeps to the same hotkey (5) and that way i still only have to select 5 and make villagers the normal way, but it makes villagers from the keeps too. i hope that makes sense? before when i was trying to do this i always started the springald upgrade which was frustrating

[@williamwolfe9335]

That's a great idea! I use a different hotkey but want to try doing the same thing with it.

[@terence7009]

always great information, one of the best videos. curious is there a way to just remove rally points altogether? I find when Im getting attacked I don't have time to, and since rally isn't attack move, my units will walk into their doom. but if they spawn with no rally they can fight right away.

[@crimo1692]

I would like some advice, I have managed to get to conq 1 but I used select all army very often, it has become a big hindrance and I just can't go without it anymore, it's especially annoying with Rus who have monks that are considered army, so picking relics becomes impossible, scouts for malians, etc. Any way to remove this habbit, some tricks to add new units to control groups quickly? thanks.

[@liamh7364]

Would conteol 5 be relevant for producing units out if english keeps or do barrack, stable etc hotkeys pick it up?

[@Electro-ys5pf]

you should try instead of ctrl for making control groups use space bar instead it feels better i learned it from a sc2 pro

[@flankengott134]

Great video, thank you. What key is "PGDN" for "Return villagers to work after shelter" please? Thx

[@guilhermeluiz3897]

page down (pgdn button in most keyboards)

[@gonzaloezequiel4300]

how do you manage fps drops? because i have an 144hz 1080p monitor and when team fighting hard the fps drops and the game feels so damn slow

[@kristianwhite7278]

Brooo you are the man 🫡🫡👊

[@Binionsoldboy]

Great video! Question about the army type control hot keys being overriden into control group hotkeys..... So, let's say you have overriden your melee hotkey on 1 with your current army of MAA/spearman; when you make new infantry from barracks are they not on any hotkey now? How do you add them quickly to your 1 hotkey? Select all idle army... Tab to infantry and select in unit list and press ctrl-1 again?

[@Valdemar1902]

Take the new units and shift + x(control group number) and add them to the existing group

[@vimukthijayakody]

Can you explain more on why Legacy attack mode?

[@Proprogrammer001]

Yeah, that one surprised me too.

[@Valdemar1902]

I use attack move religiously to do all my attacks because it makes most of my micro mechanics a lot sharper. I tried the newer attack move but I do not like the way it ignores single target on units/buildings which is a crucial part of muscle memory.

[@vimukthijayakody]

@@Valdemar1902 Thank you, I was wandering why my units don't attack where I command

[@guilherme_vm]

I`d like to return yo my very first day playing AoE IV after watching this video xD

[@Azurech]

Thanks!

[@tearsinrain2049]

Thank you!!!

[@marcs7971]

Great vid, ty so much! One question, how exactly does the ‚unbind‘ work, simply left click on the ground? Didn t got it :/

[@andreicristian9575]

That was news to me as well. It seems if you setup a control group while not having anything selected, it assigns "nothing" to that control group, i.e. it empties it.

[@Valdemar1902]

Uncontrolgroup a key by control grouping nothing with the desired key

[@marcs7971]

THANK YOU! works well

[@Simon-ty1yv]

One hotkey i dont know where to put them. From ottomans and byzantines. The military schools and mercenary house. How do you set them?

[@Valdemar1902]

They are not used often so I access them through F1 (select all production) and then I click tab until I reach the special prod building

[@Simon-ty1yv]

@@Valdemar1902 ok seems logical 🤣 keep up the content! Been liking you since i saw a vid of beastyqt vs you few years ago. Think chinese vs abasid. You do alot of tournaments?

[@BoxerSaint]

Do you have any video settings that make units stand out better? I've been experimenting with them myself with minor success. I'm thinking about how SC2 and WC3 and even Rocket League/Fortnite turn down certain visuals and aesthetics for better game visibility.

[@Valdemar1902]

I don't think that exist in the game. Maybe use some external software to manipulate the colors.

[@CruyffTech]

hey bro ,suggest best keyboard for aoe 4 , currently using big mechanical keyboard but its very to play on it stucked diamond 3

[@Valdemar1902]

I suggest something without numpad, preferrably 65% with F-keys. That is something you can find in all price ranges.

[@CruyffTech]

@Valdemar1902 thx for replying

[@evanwalters6574]

Hi Valdemar, BboySlug here. Just making sure, you use this setup for ALL civs?

[@notahuman750]

quick question, how do you create hotkeys for making buildings like farms houses etc

[@aepstein824]

I think he's using the default grid hotkey system for those, no?

[@Valdemar1902]

Use the grid system if you want to customise that. :)

[@notahuman750]

@@Valdemar1902 thanks man

[@anis1930]

i usually have a problem when i switch between cotrolling different control groups for example when i put lets say cavalry on 3 and siege on 4 and i select cavalry using the 3 key and order them to attack then i select the siege using the 4 key and order them to go back somehow the cavalry also retreats is this normal? is the game not fast paced enough if i do it fast enough is there some king of latency or input lag? im pretty sure its not on my end. can anyone help please?

[@Valdemar1902]

Hmm, sounds like you might be unintentionally adding the units to each others control groups. I'd have to see it to be able to tell though

[@anis1930]

@@Valdemar1902 actually they are in separate control groups but thanks anyways and thanks a lot for the video!

[@vimukthijayakody]

@@anis1930 Happens to me all the time. I think its something to do with Legacy/Default attack mode...

[@luisgalindo54]

You use some hotkeys to select all Docks?

[@Valdemar1902]

I keybind docks on 6

[@kamilnowak4092]

What dpi do you use ? Any recommendations ?

[@Valdemar1902]

I use 1250Dpi on a 27inch monitor

[@badtreat2223]

how can i select all cavalry without selecting lets say group 4 witch contains cavalry...?

[@Valdemar1902]

Bind it on a different key or unbind the control group 4 that overwrites your select all cav key

[@badtreat2223]

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[@Gamma_KiD]

❤️❤️

[@9bally9]

Thx thx thx

[@StephenHolder-p3u]

Maegan Hollow

[@exari123321098890]

i guess im crazy haha i have put the camera on wasd and use all keys around it (+shift) like im playing wow. seeing some good stuff here to improve with tho :^)

[@Valdemar1902]

Good luck!

[@williamwolfe9335]

I'm shocked that you don't use a hotkey to cycle through your docks. How do you build boats without a hotkey for docks? If you use a control group, won't it override a different important building?

[@Valdemar1902]

If I am playing water I overwrite my Barracks hotkey with docks as control groups. Then if I play hybrid I do the same and access my barracks through F1

[@williamwolfe9335]

@@Valdemar1902 Thanks for answering. You've given me a lot of ideas to think about.

[@somebrokefella5522]

Beo, why so many dislikes?

[@rikep3197]

How to make your keys hot? Count me in :P

[@kaylenjoyer]

My dad's name is Valdemar but he is way worse at age of empires

[@Mr.BVogel]

Campaign difficulty easy?? What a noob 😂