This Egyptian Unit Is Absolutely INSANE

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#ageofmythology #aom #retold #ageofmythologyretold

[@thegorn]

I feel like I'm watching AoE4 on LSD

[@Harki146]

Hahahaha that's a good one!

[@icaroonofre6055]

So true

[@kramermccabe8601]

Watching after eating 4g of APEs

[@AMasondude]

Prostagma?

[@MrScanko]

@@AMasondude malista

[@ekokepe]

YES Age of Myth contents

[@bnjmndrf1055]

A shame Microsoft went again for the lazy remake

[@swimming6367]

Yup and the price is ridiculous ​@@bnjmndrf1055

[@connorgallagher3247]

@@bnjmndrf1055I mean,,, it is called “retold”. and all it is SUPPOSED to be is a remake. The original game has been out since 2002 and STILL has a lot of diehard fans. If they went around and fucked with everything people simply wouldn’t be interested. Not to mention the base game is gonna be like 25 or 30 bucks or something. So they’re not charging AAA prices either. Because AGAIN. all it’s supposed to be is a remake

[@Nehpets94]

@@connorgallagher3247I think you’re confusing remake with remaster. Remakes can have updated game mechanics while remaster is mainly just graphics. You can argue this is a lazy remake. No harm in that.

[@connorgallagher3247]

@@Nehpets94While they are minor changes, I would argue that being able to recast god powers, Auto villager production, being able to build multiple titans, village centers which can be built anywhere and more AS well as the other various changes so far to the Greeks, Egyptians and Norse. Make it a worthy remake while still staying true to the original game enough that they’re keeping long time fans happy.

[@brendanspencer6735]

"n d nile" is the name of the theme music of Egyptians in game.

[@fortcastlevgn2368]

LOL nice spotted

[@WebnewsCelebrities]

did you catch it also might mean denial ?

[@davidanderson7459]

this is the best caster ever holy shit laughs and fun this is aoem

[@RevolutionistThinker]

Wait til you hear Boit cast. He's the best.

[@gaellj4324]

It's so satisfying to watch AoM

[@barrywise7185]

I'm losing my mind watching all your videos. All the little changes to the game compared to my childhood, new unit models, being able to recast god powers, auto villager production, did I see a gold mine regen at 21:30? it's absolutely blowing my mind to see this stuff.

[@darkranger116]

blue did a good job forcing so many fights under his own castles, red didnt come up with an answer for it, still both did a good job

[@Whynamehim]

I don't play age of empires anymore, but I still listen to these because I love the dulcet tones of Aussies voice.

[@aliceindotaland9026]

I think the wadjet now does poison damage over time

[@fortcastlevgn2368]

wat?!!

[@sabbywins]

​@@fortcastlevgn2368No, the Wadjet

[@thefench1]

@@fortcastlevgn2368 no wadjet ... sorry bro

[@PandoraKin564]

That casting UI is so much better. Much more intutative than the original. I would love to watch you learn and grow with AOM. Gonna be a treat watching you cast and play my favourite RTS.

[@sebastianschrader838]

what does UI stand for

[@PandoraKin564]

@@sebastianschrader838 User Interface. It's a technical term for any buttons or tools you interact with to get stuff doing things. In AOM it is the resources display, creation of unit buttons, unit control buttons, menues, and the minimap.

[@sokarash]

@@sebastianschrader838 User Interface. Put G for Graphical in front of it and you got it all

[@sokarash]

back in 2002, casting wasn't really a thing. I remember downloading rec for the WCG tournament and wasn't able to play it, as it was played in the korean version, that was incompatible with my german version.

[@TigerOwna]

@@sebastianschrader838 User Interface

[@aidayen]

I got a bit bored from AoE4 content, but came back to watch the AoM, can't wait to see another video! Really fun content!

[@Perzyn]

I don't know who in the studio thought that the Beta designation should bounce around the screen like the DVD logo in idle mode, but they must be some serious psychopaths.

[@PolarMuttaqin]

Ao4 beta used to be like this as well

[@TheArchon24]

I believe its so that it cant be hidden easily/at all, i'm not really sure why though, i guess so that people can not make it seem like its a footage of the final product?

[@Perzyn]

@@TheArchon24 I have no issue about the footage being watermarked. But put it in a box on the side or in the corner of the screen. Hell, make the box a very eye catching colour to make sure it does not get lost among other stuff. But the way it bounces around is the most distracting, annoying way they could have gone about it.

[@TheArchon24]

@@Perzyn but if it is stationary it could be overlayed easily

[@rampage_sl]

@@PolarMuttaqin it wasn't this big iirc

[@JuL3r]

My son is throwing those bolts like a Farseer on steroids.

[@Eftkud]

I haven't seen the video yet and I know already what you are talking about. I love how you'all are discovering this beautiful game that I love

[@BilgeKaanAtay]

12:28 killed 8 vils, destroyed some farms and used instanly rain power. Very good move

[@sinforoso1972]

19:30 "BOOOM WE BACK BABY!" 😂😂😂😂

[@H4NGM4NDVD]

rain, locust combo is gonna be textbook

[@pier1115]

ngl this guy is a really good caster, really great job even if you kinda new to AOM!

[@ekincetin2981]

more of these please!!

[@kevinpankanin6222]

Thanks for covering AOM! It has been my fav game for a decade now! You should play the campaigns of the OG, they are pretty fun and go through some cool Mythology so you can learn while playing a fun game!

[@coaiemandushman1079]

in most languages, the 'P' in Ptah and Pterodactyl are not silent.

[@jeromemartel3916]

So, this minor god name is peter pronounced with a thick accent?

[@matthewa9273]

@@jeromemartel3916 petah the hippokon is heyah

[@AJGoff110]

Well in the language that you and Drongo are speaking, it is always silent for pterodactyl and never silent for Ptah.

[@lordstarklives]

Drongo please! I am suffering from a drongo-aoe4-content withdrawal. I need my daily dose.

[@poulpe6299]

the game is beautiful but i really dislike the UI lmao

[@SidMajors]

I could use some more zoom to see the fights on my little phone screen :D it’s so zoomed out!

[@simonedebellis6783]

zeus vs ra was quite ineresting MU. In vanilla, zeus wanted to rush with hoplites

[@turankhan2381]

Yeah I was mystified why Capuch went so cav heavy with Zeus... Poseidon would have been the better pick for cav-based Greeks in AOMR

[@simonedebellis6783]

@@turankhan2381 and why he didn't thunder son of Osiris thou? Something has changed from vanilla? Cause Zeus was a heavy counter of ra. He couldn't boom and fast heroic was such a bad gamble against 10 hoplitea that can destroys your tc in 40 secs

[@turankhan2381]

@@simonedebellis6783 perhaps Heroes like Pharaohs can't be targeted by the Thunder ability only actual Myth units. I don't know.

[@simonedebellis6783]

@@turankhan2381 this, I do t know. In vanilla, under isis's statues, you could t cast spells. Quite hilarious

[@TheAussyboy27]

I thought SoO can't be bolted even not under monuments

[@ydahshet9428]

I like your newness to AOM, makes the reactions a bit more "feral" and uncontrolled.

[@CloudCuckooCountry]

Love the AoM casting. Been having fun playing the game too

[@DaUnaDistanza]

YEAS please do more AoM another childhood classic of mine

[@Azrael3445]

Did they change Hathor to Sobek and no free roc upon age up? 7:54

[@AnubhavB00B5]

Yes to Sobek, Hathor/Sekhmet were two facets of the same deity so it made more sense that the Crocodile god gets the Crocodopolis Petsuchos units.

[@Nic-ye2yz]

Yeah no free roc now. You also need to land to load and unload units. Very heavy nerfs but maybe for good reason lol

[@jopnow]

finally aliens versus predator remake strategy game I waited for years

[@Buttersman]

Great game, great caster, glad to see this one getting some excitement and attention.

[@johncox9575]

Sekmet is the beef town centers. Sobek is lazer gators. And they are just so damn cute

[@burnedhills]

This game is absolutely gorgeous

[@micaiahelliott8821]

The custard skills really transfer over when it comes to custard games 1:46

[@MadAztec96]

Damn a 15% discount on the already cheap Egyptian Slingers is really good, if Set makes them cheaper still in Retold, it could make them really cost effective and if you take the gods that buff archers, it's even better!

[@WebnewsCelebrities]

"Oh, i've heard the bolt, I haven't seen it, have you seen i- OH IT'S NOT THE BOLT, IT'S THE SON OF OSIIIIRIS" gold xD

[@KingOskar4]

To me 😂 it's like Age of Empires III got a ... Complete Fantasy Overhaul and I Love it 😂❤

[@Cythil]

I had 3 of those Sons of Osiris of the games I lately played.

[@GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH]

Something I'm noticing right now is that player's aren't yet taking advantage of the huge amounts of extra Favor you get in Retold. Both players were sitting on a lot of extra Favor and some extra Myth units probably would've gone a long way to helping one side win out over the other.

[@microformule]

More!!!!

[@Randy7777]

AoM love!!!

[@pedroalves9918]

Great content, tks!

[@straelboraaaa]

Half of me being happy that one of my childhood favourite game got "retold", both watching or playing it sounds fun. Half of me being sad that AOE4 seems got ditched by Relic and Microsoft, I haven't played season 7 after getting Conqueror within the first week, thought we may have a big big patch of changes for season 8, and they gave us this poopoo patch, also that great insult from Redbull, sounds it is dying to me.

[@tbirdland]

Somebody watched the Hera documentary lol drongo

[@eXcommunicate1979]

I wish Bronze would actually, you know, turn them bronze like in the original. One of the only disappointments for me (along with the oddly GRAY water everywhere; the Aegean should be effervescent in how blue it is)

[@ManchmalGaming]

Game looks great! 🕺

[@macmac6064]

wish they made a new AOM game

[@Joker-yw9hl]

The hype is real, folks

[@33mavboy]

they need to revive age of mythology online

[@B0bStapl3]

I know the Atlanteans are coming to retold. I hope the Chinese DLC gets added as well (I know it is not everyone's favourite but I really enjoy playing as them)

[@honeybooboo1734]

The Chinese DLC gets added later they are reworking it. And another new DLC is already confirmed

[@ryanmoore3096]

@@honeybooboo1734 Another new DLC? I hadn't heard of that. What is it supposed to contain, the Atlanteans, or is it something completely different?

[@honeybooboo1734]

@@ryanmoore3096 no the atlanteans are in the base game already,it will be a complete new pantheon

[@Crosmando]

The wadgets have wings in Retold?

[@KingLimbo05]

They alway had, but now they are much bigger

[@PT88]

Where there's a whip there's a way

[@Ohdracir]

Did capoch ever use Lighting bolt? i feel like he could 1 shot that son of Osiris and mitigate a lot of damage to his army

[@jeromemartel3916]

You can't target it with bolt in this edition.

[@dodang_9147]

@@jeromemartel3916 wasn't main usage of lightning bolt to kill 2000 hp for titans and kill Oaris? kinda seems like a useless power now.

[@jeromemartel3916]

@@dodang_9147 The meta at one point was to bolt the starting ulfsark for norse enemies in 1on1 so no, it's still useful.

[@GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH]

@@dodang_9147 It's still a very useful God Power. Most early skirmishes tend to consist of your free Myth Unit and a group of soldiers. Being able to just eliminate your opponent's free Myth unit is a pretty big deal for early-game.

[@dodang_9147]

@@GARGANTUANMASKEDFISH Compare his god power to all other gods powers. It is one of the worst. Poseidon can get food to his base, boost economy. Ra can get food to boost economy with downside of boosting enemies Isis: boosts gold economy which is huge for this faction Seth: Can get vision to do the teleport timing attack Loki: Vision on your enemy. Odin: Increases food economy for hunting, strong if used on elephants. Thor: Unlimited gold scaling Chronos: Deconstructs building infinitely. Ornanos: Stuns enemies units allowing disengagement, can boost Archer dps/protect range unit. Gaia: Unlimited wood resource. Only Hades has worse god power than Zeus. Zeus god power was good because weakening titans and killing core hero units.

[@technoguy1290]

Unless u r a AOM fan, u really don't know how fast those chariots and camels get produced from stronghold lol Its like the bread and butter of egypt, get a couple of stronghold up and print chariots, no other civ can match their production, the key to going against it is myth units. but ofc u have son of osiris who u need to kill first. So him losing bunch of chariots is like losing bunch of zerglings or spearmen, they are trash units which train insanely fast lol.

[@terminator1541]

Dionysis is pronounced like Die On A Cys(t) silent t

[@hineonline08]

AOM was a huge part of my childhood and my favorite game growing up. So happy to see a solid remake happening. The campaign and story has always been the most important thing to me about RTS games, and the AOM story was epic, which is part of the reason why I think their is so much interest and anticipation for Retold. However, I just played the initial tutorial and first campaign mission and was very disappointed to find that Microsoft have not keep the original voice actors from the original game. The voice acting was so good in the originals (especially Arkantos and Ajax) and replaying through the campaign with different voices makes the game seem foreign to me rather than familiar. Not sure if others feel the same way, but it completely ruins the nostalgia and immersion for me! Drongo I know you haven't played the original game before but please use your powers of influence at Microsoft to ask them to bring back the original character voices!!!

[@Ballistic-vn6em]

You wanted Microsoft to go find the original voice actors from 20 years ago? You don't even know if they are alive. What kind of request is that?

[@hineonline08]

@@Ballistic-vn6em At least include the original voices as an option if not as the default. I was thinking they should just use the voice recordings from the original games...that they would already have as they now own the original...why would they need to be recorded again...?!?!

[@victorchanmar4047]

funny... n d nile and he playing egyptian.

[@Sids1192]

What's with the rain of arrows from off screen? Happened a few times, such as 11:44. I don't remember that being a god power. If I'm not mistaken, military units in AOM only have 1 'class', so chariot archers are only archers, not cavalry.

[@Crobian]

Centaurs have a special ability, volley, which fires a volley of arrows

[@ayhanfedai5013]

Castel destraction looks weird couldnt they do it like aoe2 ?

[@officialRandall]

It's funny how garbage is the Relic's Essence engine. This game has already more features than AoE4 after 3 years.

[@thegorn]

Yes the fog of war especially looks better here in AoM, but the minimap is trash

[@officialRandall]

@@thegorn I think AoE4 is far ahead in terms of graphics, but I'm talking about the functionality of the engine. E.g. you can rewind the replays, or the post-game statistics simply works.

[@TypeErrorDubs]

The Essence engine is super polished from a mechanics perspective and I could feel that immediately when playing AoM:R, but yea… the feature set for things like replays, pausing, reconnects… all are sorely lacking compared to modern RTS. And its modability is sadly limited as well

[@Vekkgods]

Why isn't the top UI themed like that when you play 🤦 it looks so much better 😤

[@integralinsanity1641]

350 FAVOR FOR ANOTHER ELECTRIC CHICKEN DADDY?? DUUUDE I know he is worth it but COME ON....

[@ardaarsen]

I liked old spit animation for wadject better

[@gjergjipocari8227]

Game looks so much better on higher graphics. Can't play it well on my laptop unfortunately

[@deadarashi6462]

my biggest issue with the game is that the Chinese are being resold as DLC and not included in the game at launch alongside the Atlanteans. Would much rather have two new Pantheons for the DLC instead of reselling an old one

[@royasturias1784]

The Chinese culture in the Extended Edition was developed by the 3rd-party Skybox Labs that had no (former) Ensemble Studios programmers at all, and it was found out to be buggy and OP.

[@SkyLordPanglot]

Amazing cast, but what the hell is this Logo dancing on the screen non stop? ALso this is amrked as Age of Emprise IV.

[@mintoo2cool]

i really don’t think the graphics are any better than aom- remastered… i think i’ll pass

[@bfmainisnunu8064]

I didn’t get to play, kept getting shader 64 missing. Tried all the supposed fixes and no luck. Hopefully this gets fixed by launch.

[@mullerpotgieter]

You do pronounce the P in Ptah. So "P-tah"

[@kembel2761]

Bro, why did he split his cav from his siege unit?

[@funkygodwit1774]

Nothing to do with the quality of your cast, but I can't understand why the spectator UI has to fill so much of the screen. Why does it have to be in the centre? It seems to be poorly thought out.

[@rampage_sl]

yeah UI is horrible in the beta.

[@alexzhang3870]

Please tell me this game don’t have map hacking 💀

[@TheVitor677]

i feel like the ai and pathing of the game will still be stupid. i hope not

[@kmaclub143]

Just had to get a refund on it won't turn off the narration of everything I point my mouse at, and I can't play like that. I tried for over 2 hours to fix it.

[@chrisharvey7461]

can we see some atlantean action and the other ones...the nomad guys cant remember their name

[@jaredhomola3066]

Atlanteans not available yet...Norse

[@alexandergarza5705]

Atlantean aren't in beta. And Norse is the other Pantheon

[@chrisharvey7461]

@@alexandergarza5705 o bugger ty, think there will be plenty of new civs comming, im hoping for the british celts

[@royasturias1784]

​@@chrisharvey7461You'll have your army of Head Hurlers, Fianna, Gallowglasses, Druids, Kelpies and Bánánachs in the near future.

[@chrisharvey7461]

@@royasturias1784 nice, how do you know this, what about stone henge lol

[@lkr_lkr_9891]

aoe4 killer from far

[@JP-ks3kh]

favorite AOE game

[@roflBJ]

wp

[@TagaBearClaw]

ggs

[@kembel2761]

Why did he never use the bolt on the SoO?

[@TheAussyboy27]

Doesn't work in retold, which I think is kinda fair but also wild change 😅

[@brettkeller5071]

Not a fan of the voice actors being different though.....

[@nathanielblairofkew1082]

gg

[@bnjmndrf1055]

I tried the beta, I have mixed feeling about it. The game is great but once again Microsoft went for the lazy remake. Ok ok ok I know Microsoft is a small company with little money to put in videogames

[@ValkisxDD]

AoM > AoE4,AoE2

[@rr999555999555]

Why are the graphics mediocre?

[@royasturias1784]

His settings, and not every PC gamer who has tried the Re-Told CBT has the same beefy, costly mobo, graphics cards and SSD set-ups as OP's.

[@nerath639]

who cares ?

[@samblack5313]

Can't say this game grabs me like AoE4. I've watched several to give it a chance.. meh.

[@cl8804]

they used dogshit3 engine? oh god

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

... which was originally used by AoM. AoE 3 runs on a modified Myth engine.

[@BrendenEngelbrecht]

It's kinda sad. It's decades later and the game hardly evolved. RTS has had almost no evolution if you compare it to FPS. Doom vs COD or Fortnite for example. Where this is Age of mythology with slightly better graphics and a few different units :/

[@nerath639]

I mean ... the most simple FPS out there are still amongst the most played ... like counter strike for example. There have been other experiments with other mechanics for RTS but no one likes them. Just good ol Rock paper scissors like the Age of titles just feel the best Quite often you dont want to many new features .. you want balance and consistency so you can become good at that game against other players

[@TheDzoni007]

This game looks like it'a 30%-40% finished... if they release it like this, shame on them... it's 2024 ffs, what is this shitt, im dissapointed... you don't remake legendary game like this

[@nerath639]

are you drugs ? what exactly is missing ? So far feedback wise it seems quite good. Balance is good, Mechanics are working, Units are there .. what else do you need ?

[@Zabulba27]

Why do the graphics look drastically reduced compared to AOE4?

[@therebelproduct3616]

This a remaster of a 22 year old game….

[@muhammetzencirli2042]

@@therebelproduct3616 but the trailer videos of the game looked much better ?

[@frogofwar26]

I think (and hope) this is due to bad lighting, which could be improved before the release.

[@Zabulba27]

Remastered of a game doesn’t mean graphics are worse…. Legit can make a game with better graphics with same mechanics

[@therebelproduct3616]

@@Zabulba27 but you are comparing it to a game that was an original product from 3 years ago. A remaster of AOM isn’t going to look better than aoe4. A remake possibly would but that’s completely different than a remaster. They are still starting from what the original was not from scratch

[@kirohaas3193]

Just a shame the game uses AI art for the gods. I'm not paying MICROSOFT of all people for cheaping out and not using artists for the art, which is as hame, because AoM is one of my favourite childhood games.

[@luka188]

Not only is it AI art, it's not that good of AI art either. You can make much better AI images than these with the right AI at the moment. So, they didn't just cheap out on the art, they even cheaped out on the AI art, which is doubly bad...

[@nerath639]

who the fuck cares about AI Art in an RTS I certainly dont

[@RHD1889]

first, love you drongo

[@vimukthijayakody]

AoE 4 graphics with AoE 3 UI, lame...

[@Xadar24]

looks trash to me :(

[@adityavikramsingh9483]

Pls AOE4, not this😢

[@akaMaddy]

They're both good in their own way. 🙂

[@coaiemandushman1079]

i'm happy he stopped with Age of Shit 4. That game is a disappointment and it pisses on the previous games in the series.

[@bnjmndrf1055]

Relax the beta end tomorrow

[@Mojenn__]

@@coaiemandushman1079 @adityavikramsingh9483 yall need to chill, if you don't like a game don't play it, stop getting mad at pixels on a screen

[@ailrky4765]

Ok boomer

[@iodineweeps4108]

My computer shit the bed last week and I’m missing out on his beta. Thanks for posting Drongo.

[@erroryx]

I wish they used the aoe4 grafic engine for aom retold 🥲