ULTIMATE Beginners Guide to Age of Empires 4 (2024)

[@ghostdagger3588]

Plastic league player with conq knowledge here. Aoe4 has been real tough from the start for me, these vids have been vital in making the game turn from difficult and frustrating to fun and competitive. Thanks Beasty! I liked my own comment

[@P1araf]

I liked it too so you dont have to

[@alkrimiy]

> Playing AOE IV from its release > Still watching Beginners Guide 2024 anyway

[@hollowganja]

you can always learn something

[@TDPCMcpho]

literally me

[@Untrue64]

It's never bad to refresh on your basics

[@callmeR2k]

​@@aaabatteries9948 At least you know the town center exists within the game

[@1256813790]

Same

[@kencastel4054]

I would love one of these for players that know the basics but need help with faster starts and knowing what to look out for in age 2 or 3 from different civ’s. Thanks so much for all the effort you put into the game and community!

[@seeess925]

First thing to learn is not villager production. Learn how to use hotkeys first. The natural way to play ever since WarCraft 1/2/3, StarCraft 1, and other rts is to click everything with mouse. With left hand on arrow keys to move the screen around and control groups. That's it for keyboard. Produce unit = L-clicking the individual building and the unit with mouse. To build, click peasant, click building choice, and click location. When SC2 released, I learned from HD how to properly use hotkeys. It took much practice to learn. Learn how to use hotkey before anything else.

[@papamidnight7479]

First time RTS player here and I would like to thank you for your guides and knowledge.

[@talat2k4]

Bought AoE4 2 days ago and this guide helped me a lot.

[@thelorddarkam3563]

Where ?

[@philipeppos]

I have been playing AOE since the first game on PC, and never knew about the competitive world around it so this has been teaching me a lot on how to play better, really specific tips, that is really nice teaching.

[@ultimategamingpanda403]

New player here. My nephew got me into it and I can't have him constantly beating me :) -Thank you

[@Zerohi123]

I'm in conq and I still learned something from this. Good video Beasty

[@xReifox]

Another tip for beginners: If you struggle in 1v1 matchmaking and you feel like your opponents are too experienced for your skill level, I woud recommand to go to custom games and join "Beginners only" or "noob only" lobbies. There is often custom lobbies with these titles but if there is not any, you can create one by just naming it "1v1 - Beginner only" and set it to public, wait a few seconds/minutes and someone will join your lobby! You will only face new comers just like you and it will feel better to learn the game at your own pace.

[@Abdurrahmanalireis]

I will be ready to enter such lobbies with my conq 2 league

[@xReifox]

@@Abdurrahmanalireis I mean, your rank and account level is public, anyone can see it.

[@CarKiller92]

or just derank to bronze/silver and start there

[@xReifox]

@@CarKiller92 Why would they waste time losing games on purpose to face worse opponent when they can just go to custom game beginners lobbies in the first place?

[@CarKiller92]

@@xReifox idk, custom games is way too much effort for me, I'd rather quit 10games in a row and just queue normally after.

[@lazarpetrovic2733]

To new players: formula is right but he said it the wrong way, its all players combined + 3 relic/ 4v4 is 8 players + 3 so 11 relics/3v3=9/2v2=7/1v1=5/

[@Ahmmunition]

Thanks for this. Really helpful explainer. Started playing aoe4 a week ago after my friends told me to get it. Have played half the campaign and a couple multiplayer games. It feels like multiplayer is super fast paced, or maybe I haven't got the hang of it yet. In campaign I can take my time building the economy and everything. Can't be so slow in multiplayer

[@HamesAlwaysWins]

beasty trying to get XQC to watch one of his videos

[@medmel2160]

It's so good to have people like you providing gold content for aoe 4 like this, thanks !

[@melodymondlicht8905]

this hit me outta nowhere and i love it

[@Alexander-jz1cp]

You are the Professor of aoe, really amazing genius and amazing

[@zimbobway3137]

Lol that’s so weird, I just started playing AoE4 yesterday and I was watching your videos all day while I was playing… talk about a timely video!

[@Skillionaire005]

Perfect video as I'm looking to start playing. Thank you.

[@CarKiller92]

If you want to play ranked but scared of 1v1, just play teamgames. On lower ranks, nobody rushes you so you have time to play simcity. If they rush, you can always just blame your teammate and quit - generally this works also if you get outplayed too.

[@meyes9362]

Lol I love this XD

[@tyriongambly3134]

Just started yesterday, thanks for this. Playing on the Xbox is rough.

[@pier-louisgilbert8540]

I feel you its way harder but I still enjoy it though

[@JoshuaCChan]

Thank you, sir! Subscribed! Hope to see more videos like this!

[@Wezzalicious]

Thank you very much for this. Extremely well done.

[@SidMajors]

Always something to pick up from your videos 👌🏻👍🏻

[@Americanheld]

I’m a simple man. I see a new beasty video, I like and comment.

[@Sakana1999]

22:27 wait.. your dog knew how to open the door? XD

[@dancingfishfilms]

Lol, I love that first thing is FC = fast castle 4 minutes before age up mechanics are explained 😆

[@kralexprofill4571]

I win against conq 2 in ranked but still watch this guide lol

[@war590]

A well timed video for me. I just got the game.

[@connerSphotography]

Time to watch 100 times until I take in alllll the juicy info. Might find some new tips

[@samuelloso7022]

this is exactly the video i was looking for as a complete noob

[@BAOFxDefect]

This is amazing. Can you also do a keybind/settings video?

[@AetherXIV]

excellent tutorial!

[@yakbutter4405]

yo anyone has a solution to to my units attacking buildings overmilitary units when I use the attack move commend?

[@Alexander-jz1cp]

Prof. Beasty!

[@antoniobleite]

amazing video, thanks

[@faulty1219]

Well done thank you!

[@manilL9]

Wait so should you never go on berries then ? If you can make a farm that gives more food

[@z000ey]

To build a farm you first need to gather wood (which is essentially worker/time ingame), then build the farm (again worker/time spent), while for berries you need only time spent to get to them (walking time). And this time spent early in the game is important, and gets even more important when you start facing better opponents as they tend to better streamline their worker/time spent on gathering economy resources. Saying that, you should also check civilizations specifics, i.e. the English pay less for their farms so the wood gathering time is less, and with them farms are better than berries. Other civs also have bonuses for farms, other civs get bonuses for berries, Malians need neither as they've got cows etc etc etc. Beasty covered the very basics for you to start playing and learning more and more ;)

[@2JoeStudios]

This helped a lot. Thank you Beasty!

[@medmel2160]

I would love a video about match up !

[@ardionherman]

Hey beasty is there a way for me to reach you? I’m wondering if you do private lessons/tutoring for aoe 4? I tried emailing you but no response. Thanks

[@SsksCS]

could you do a video on multi-wire operation?

[@dusanjeremic9120]

Neverovatan covek

[@connerSphotography]

I got paired with this dude nuggify who’s #17 in the world for team games. I’m like silver 1 not sure what was up with match making that day 😅

[@luigipopescu93]

Matchmaking in team games especially is so bad... I have been playing the games only for a few weeks but I've encountered so many games where in one team you have play+gold and in the other you have play+diamond or even conq. I don't understand why they don't make it plat+plat Vs gold+diamond/conq. That would make much more sense... When there are not many players queuing up and they have to mix them up in order to get a game..

[@TheRedFang11]

Finally!

[@RonG-u8f]

**CLAP.. CLAP** GAMERZ 💯💯💯💯💯

[@arzos2603]

perfect i just started 2 weeks ago and im stuck at gold 2 T.T

[@voineamihail1890]

This is 1 hour late beastyqt!!! You must repent with a second video ❤❤❤

[@sforzz]

@xQc please take notes😘

[@thenamelessguy7357]

To all Beginners, just learn how to white tower rush and you’ll get to platinum, diamond, and conqueror in no time!

[@zanedurante3709]

😂 recommend this guys videos

[@axelldagot1255]

YES HE DID THE CLAPS!

[@ITravelSometimes]

Beginners*

[@HappeDawgGaming]

Some loser got mad at me for "stealing the relics" in a team game. He was hre and complained that ayyubid doesn't need relics I gave him two of the enemies' relics i stole and kept the other three that were also on my side. And he rage quits as my army shows up across the map to help defend. (4v4) Stays in the game bitching me out for taking the relics with 2 of them just sitting next to his regnitz lmao. He kept bitching till we surrendered.

[@jordanomasuin8023]

Team based mode. IF he was HRE and went Regnitz its probably better to give him all the relics as he gets more income than you when garrisoned. Therefore helps the team more if at the same rating of course.

[@HappeDawgGaming]

@@jordanomasuin8023 it was 18 mins in when he went regnits i was castle at 8. even when i gave him two he didnt put them in. so legit two relics just sat on the ground at his regnits for the whole game. i dont think any value came from that. sure i understand the regnits i play hre alot. but even if i gave him all 5 relics he wouldnt of placed in buildings. and iv given hre relics in past. and guess what they do? they thank me and place them. not bitch me out and look at them on the ground in spite. i mean thats just how it felt.

[@mindyalexander3357]

I really want to like the game as I play the skirmishes I can't figure out how to progress past stage 1 so if you don't help me it's lost cause

[@smallislandfishing3494]

Beasty. Thank you for your service 🫡