When The Enemy Activates GODMODE

[@kevinhale8162]

Dang that mill was the mvp at 24:15

[@shareholder1408]

Wish we had a "attack move units only" button to deal with that stuff! It makes no sense to keep firing on any building as so many don't matter.

[@thegorn]

Exciting game! I thought Demu got too greedy with the age up and almost got steamrolled, but he taught the kid a bald headed lesson

[@captainvaughn5692]

True, but the kid almost had him in the end, the lack of siege really ended it tho

[@FirstAndLastName729]

As always, your hindsight is on point.

[@harrisonr6594]

@@captainvaughn5692I always do 2 of each siege always in production. And army production is always endless

[@captainvaughn5692]

@@harrisonr6594 i tend to forget about siege sometimes, i've not played the game in years, since it came out actually because i enjoyed aoe3de more, but some months ago i started playing again and i just make dumb mistakes. But i've managed to get platinum somehow

[@captainvaughn5692]

@@harrisonr6594 Also something i noticed, my bad scouting usually ends with a hundred men at arms knocking on my door and me compmetely unprepaired trying to defend my life with 20 longbows

[@ryanstone2581]

Super fun game, thanks for the quality cast Drongo

[@robshaw845]

honestly, there should be 3 more ranks above conq 3 with 500, 200, and 100 people. And then there should be a rank called Aussie Drongo's top 5 with 30 slots

[@Nehpets94]

Smart to transition to cavalry. I see too many players continue to pump out units that are just not right, but they don't want to spend the extra resources to create new buildings to pump out different ones. Even more so when the enemy is on your doorstep.

[@Egomotion1]

Hey Drongo, I wanted to say I fully support having more ranked distribution in higher tiers, 1600-2000 needs an entire 3 division, followed by 2000+ elo being contenders and the top 25 being another rank called a unique name suiting age of empire Wolololo`s :D I am conqueror 3 atm and the skill gap is just enormous

[@Fantasygod19999]

I agree, apex legends has a top 100 rankings teir . Aoe4 should get something like that

[@dennisbergkamp1553]

Rocket league had a similar issue where the gap between pro players and your average Joe GC was enormous. They added SSL but I don’t follow the pro scene anymore so idk how effective it’s been

[@MrAtaguas]

Demu hung on to palace guards only for so long despite facing crossbow-ghulam that I thought he was meeming for a second. The firelancer switch saved him and the gold control was clutch which prob won him the game. Should have been an easy win a lot earlier if he made the adjustments earlier. I feel like China is the overwhelming favorite against Abbassid on this map unless if you also go for a crazy trade route and spam like mass camels with tons of seige or something

[@tkonlyme]

My Son whole room is dinosaurs but he loves cars so there is that. Cant pick what they love just love them

[@Guided-By-Boognish]

Man, that was great. He’ll be king someday methinks.

[@hounddogzepp]

The spambots are right, this video is great

[@manansarang6427]

Best match to watch so far

[@maxpower7113]

My daughter loved "That's not my Elephant."

[@bennieleip579]

24:22 villagers getting attacked what are the crossbows doing ? 🤣 attacking mill 🤦🏻‍♂️🤣

[@BenLinn]

love it man!!! i am a new dad too, great choice of game as well, keep it up!!! this is the best drongo imo

[@noirhftam2824]

That come back was epic

[@benni2862]

Also talking about Gullyd3ck3l? Crackedy named him "the Kid Slayer"

[@RudeEnglishman]

Agree with ranking and matchmaking needing a good looking at

[@turksemaffia6687]

Great video mate keep making these

[@trentwearsfape]

Love your casts aussie. You could consider a webcam and that way we could see your epic reactions and maybe your kids :) Demu's kid is super cute!

[@samblack5313]

dev1: how do we make chineese more ridiculous?? dev2: maybe they could build things at warp speed!?

[@DrSpaceork]

That farm placement almost cost demu the game - once the kid attacked the chinese lost all access to food and with that to unit production...

[@dancarr6613]

Demu is my man - what a game!

[@fredosinsemilla3896]

The Kid would have easily won this game if only Janissaries and Great Bombards were not such huge walkovers. Make Ottomans great again!

[@ariosanchezjaram8767]

wat...?

[@fredosinsemilla3896]

@@ariosanchezjaram8767 I just can't help myself whenever I get drunk.

[@ReinhardvonHolst]

That was chaos........ but brilliant.

[@jakebirchall342]

my daughter has all the "that's not my..." books lol

[@IrishRepoMan]

Man, I've been playing AoE since the 90s and I'll never get above plat lol.

[@apoorvgupta9680]

drongo is back!!!!!!!!!

[@sukacamping_]

damn! that was an epic battle!

[@stef7396]

FINALLY a vid without ottomans

[@IrishRepoMan]

Player 3 has joined chat

[@jasonharter4876]

Id like to see the dev's update the dynasty functionality. Abbasid lose their landmark buffs when the landmark is destroyed, why can't chinese lose their dynasty when a landmark is destroyed?

[@jacobfsu]

What are you talking about? The Chinese do. If you lose one of your Age 2 landmarks, you lose Song dynasty. Same for Age 3 and 4. You lose landmark bonuses and dynasty bonuses for Chinese.

[@jasonharter4876]

@@jacobfsu so if they build both feudal landmarks, and then they go to the next age with a yuan dynasty, they don't have the accelerated vil production?

[@jacobfsu]

@jasonharter4876 correct. For example: you build both fuedal landmarks and get song dynasty and it's bonuses. Then when you build both castle landmarks you move into yuan dynasty and only receive yuan dynasty bonuses.

[@JorbenH]

im a noobie when it comes the AoE but loved to watch it, just curious... why didnt the kid have any enclosures? they provide a good gold stream right?

[@franciszekwalczak5903]

He played Abbasids. They don’t have enclosures tech. English have it.

[@amratef3134]

Buildings in this game got broken range i saw that my scout was out of range of the tc range and it's still keep shooting

[@kaiholding3958]

Hey drongo I was wondering, what do I have to do to be casted by you?

[@pedroalves9918]

Please Drongo, the pronounce of Gilberto is something like "Jilberto ". Thanks

[@solachesis451]

Why didn't he wait 3-4 seconds for the scout to leave before chasing his villagers across behind its LoS signalling that he was going to rush the landmark at his base?

[@dr.evil2some847]

!!!GIVE US CORVINUS!!!

[@Mehmetwehbe]

the kid is a solid player he will improve a lot wait to see me in top ranks :'

[@philipp3584]

chinese having pagodas on top of all their other bonuses is just OP

[@APcraft747]

im guessing baldimus is DeMuslim lol

[@chrisfoley3620]

The kid twitch link is wrong/doesn't work

[@jeffbrowngraphics]

Drongo PLEASE put it on income!

[@Jim-pi8yw]

personally i think there should be a other rank like top 500/100 in the region.

[@chuckdanoris538]

How do you do team ranked?

[@fowlmouths6144]

what a fucking game

[@qsqq2943]

Like the kid gg

[@danielbevan9024]

🎉

[@Sev017]

Personally a believer that Chinese vils should lose the building speed buff if they cross like 50% of the map until like castle age or something. Watching Chinse vils instant build a keep landmark and outposts in the enemy base isnt really it for me.

[@Tybooooo]

Exactly. It's practically impossible to deny an outpost being built in your base if the Chinese guy brings more than 5 villagers. You might kill 1 or 2 off but either way that tower will stand before you can respond in any decent way...

[@placas94]

About the "after conq3 rank" Pro players already have difficulties to find lobbies to play on ladder, extending even more the rankings will increase this even more. And maybe drive pro players away from the game...

[@Its_CJay]

Could we bring back the bronze league?

[@thegoat1778]

Some game that. Bald>youth

[@Samueliscoolcool]

How old is valdemar?

[@lawrenceseccombe2583]

12

[@metasamsara]

Adding more ranks at the top will not fix the underlying issue with skill rating. We've seen it ruin Rocket League MMR because the devs weren't willing to fix the actual underlying issue which is bad rating modification after a match.

[@metasamsara]

My top 2 priorities for game fixes though are: 1. destroy fast age up meta by adding benefits to staying early against later ages, rather than making imp objectively better at everything. For instance faster unit prod and half cheaper prices for troops that can 2v1 imp troops with the right counter. Also having resources stored in actual buildings with a cap of resource storage until you build more would be pretty cool for early counters. And I don't want more unique heroes, I want 300 pop. Sometimes you just wanna go ham on civs, and others on troops. We should have this option to bruteforce troops numbers vs upgraded troops of higher ages. 2. overhaul the map editor so it doesnt take any advanced learning/coding. I would love to draw maps with brushes easily like older AOE games, and using a system of brush layers to influence random gen in a more accurate way than the stupid squares they give us in intermediate mode. I wanted nothing but specialized in AOE4 map making in 2023. Instead I got literally nothing, because the editor is worse than a stinky ass.

[@AniketDhere]

I want to see the game till one dies/loses, and not the one where everyone just resigns.