CHINA IS OUT, GOD POWERS ARE IN | Everything You Missed AoM: Retold

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[@kimarous]

From the reveal video: "Titans have been upgraded to be more powerful against walls and buildings, and even rivers and oceans won't be able to stop their wrecking power."

[@boing5106]

It would look so cool seeing a titan cross the ocean by walking feet submerged in water

[@newbossbro3180]

@@boing5106so much this. I kind of hated Titans being pathblocked...

[@blaster915]

THANK GOD, I used mods for years to make sure that titans were not useless on water maps, now it's default! Glad they understood!

[@blaster915]

​@@boing5106they have popular mods for that in the original game on the steam workshop! Water walking titans is awesome!

[@Legion12Centurion]

@@newbossbro3180 I think they have changed this for island maps... so they can walk trough oceans and fight on different islands.

[@nunesjuanmanuel]

Hey Boit!! 08:55 onwards - That's -- probably -- from the original "Norse" part of the campaign, Mission 26 to be exact ("Union"), starring a sort of unique heroine -- Reginleif -- a ranged Valkyrie. The whole design, aesthetics, and graphis look absolutely astonishing. It's simply beautiful. I'm almost 28 years old and I've been waiting for this since forever! I really hope you "blow up" and get on the spotlight on KZbin & Twitch as soon as Retold launches. You've kept this alive furthermore than many of us could've imagined. Thank you in the name of the community as a whole. I hope you get the recognition you deserve! Regards from Argentina and keep the AOM content coming, Boit! 🇦🇷

[@devangnivatkar2649]

You can see Regenleif with the rest of the campaign heroes. There are three spearmen type 'normal' heroes as well. What I mean is that the campaign heroes have this yellow circle around them to be always visible. The regular heroes only have a glow. These spearmen have the same glow as the Hersirs

[@Juanototo1]

Saludos, virgo. Esto se ve un poco como Reforged, pero no a ese nivel de incompetencia y estupidez. Es 50% classic+ graficos, 50% reforged. Sobre como van a hacer el juego -- sobre todo quiero que rehagan la experiencia post-mítica desde el empiezo. El mayor problema con aom para mi era que la mayoria de la experiencia es en edad heroica y en empiezos de edad mítica; sin el diseño de aoe2 con los treb y sin limitaciones de oro, simplemente se tiran batallones a la muerte contra 30000 paredes sin que sus muertes realmente importen algo. Trebs funcionaron porque forzaban una respuesta; lo mismo no ocurre con un petrobolos. Titanes ayudaron en esto, pero centralizaron el juego.

[@Juanototo1]

Ademas, tambien quiero que rehagan combate naval. Por lo menos repetir lo que sucedio en aoe2 -- mover los botes exclusivos a edad heroica a clasica -- pero preferiria algo más.

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

That’s definitely not Union since you play as Thor not Odin in that mission nor does it resemble the Well of Urd mission where you play Odin.

[@nunesjuanmanuel]

@@Juanototo1 Saludos, semental!!! Jajaja Lo más probable es que la experiencia de juego sea muy similar y tenga modificaciones en la jugabilidad desde "mods", como el mismo que hizo Boit con parte de la comunidad.

[@benjamincastro8077]

you can really tell boit loves aom with his heart in this video... his eyes were glassy like a kid in christmas... it so good to see him this happy. keep up the good work

[@klavicus2276]

YES!

[@gustavogarcia8783]

13:05 That is from the atrantean campain In this mission you worship Gaia, there is 1 lush blob around a temple and lush grows from towncenters (that you use to heal the land)

[@espanadorada7962]

Hopefully they explicitly mention networking improvements so we can play through steam without horrible lag

[@Rev0ltTTV]

The game will obviously have dedicated servers and not be p2p like AoM was.

[@vitaminka012]

Reusable godpowers scare me already😂 I hope they will keep old music because its perfect.

[@RizZRizZ-]

The music is top notch, maybe add some new music but keep the old one.

[@BlueShellshock]

Agreed. I remember how devastating an Ancestors + Eclipse combo could be. If you could do it twice, or reuse an Eclipse later on when you have more myth units, woof.

[@isaaccocquyt1804]

Imagine restoration at its current power level every fight lol

[@LegsON]

​@@isaaccocquyt1804Restoration kind of makes everyone immortal while it's on, right?

[@josephmadre5590]

@@LegsON pretty much

[@babayagalounge7380]

Hype level is Prostagma!

[@Threshroge]

Hype level is "an order to follow"?

[@Skeptouchos]

@@Threshroge For real I've never understood why everyone is using the word as a noun. Or even as a greeting as shown in the latest announcement. Oh well hahah

[@muramasa870]

Hype level is IZVOLI!!!!!!!

[@Omega-jg4oq]

Arkantos and his army war screaming : IYAAAAHH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!

[@xDread]

12:00 Those Colossus are huge! Taller than the fortress, towers, and walls 🤣 Definitely gonna be playing Greek and unleashing some Attack on Titan shit 🤣

[@softwarelivre2389]

The buildings seem really small compared to the original game too. A fortress is the size of a 2 sized house, but idk.

[@calvinwood7120]

When he says ‘in your head’ meaning epic gameplay that made fans love and remember the game for 20 years. Wanting to bring that experience to life in retold vs MW2 Remastered 💀

[@JP_Wu]

I think China isn't out, they're focusing in the earliest civs and then they will use this time to rework, improve and polish Chinese for a future DLC.

[@AHappyCub]

This is what likely to happen

[@michaelmazey3322]

Hopefully they're shelved for a bit at least. You almost need an entire east Asian expansion to not make their inclusion feel forced. Celts would be an easy one as would Romans even if I'm not too fond of the idea. Mesopotamia and India would be believable as well. You could even get really creative and have an Atlantian expedition / Norse colony find their way to central / south America... Take your pick really it would likely be more interesting and more believable than throwing China into the current mix.

[@jyt2394]

KEEP CHINA OUT

[@abbcc5996]

@@michaelmazey3322 just stop adding needless clutter to the game. the OG 4 civs are fine. did you play aom back in the day or did you come to it late? because i have no idea why an OG fan would want completely new civs added to the mix

[@daarom3472]

​@@michaelmazey3322Roman pantheon is too similar to the greek pantheon. Better to add Japanese and Hindu.

[@IamMirezNL]

Note that the new norse building is also visible on the underworld norse screenshot on the left. When he says "the game in your head" I think he means, the game as you remember it when you played it years ago.

[@borisbozilov8299]

I think the game looks very good. Probably, some of the new things we will need time to get used to, but I think these upgrades like the higher population limit and reusible god powers are for the best. It will spice things up. Now, I have been following you for many years. Your channel has grown a lot, and you and other AOM youtubers have the ability to market and back up this new game even if it is not perfect at launch and help the developers to balance the game and fix it if needed. It is a win-win situation for everybody. You will have a new game to produce content for and grow your following. Many new players will hopefully join the community. You can make tutorials on how to play, comparison videos, of course competitive matches, and campaign playthrough. Please back up the game so we have a great game for many years to come.

[@filipvadas7602]

At 8:56 you can see a little bridge connecting the 2 sides of the base. Could be an indicator that bridges are now a functional feature. Something that was cut from the original due to time and budget

[@geneparmesan8748]

I was hoping Boit would address this as well. I think it's more likely that it's just decoration, since this is a campaign level with a lot of decoration in it, but if bridges ARE a thing now I would be really curious how they would be implemented. With the way the game traditionally worked I cannot imagine how models would interact with structures in that way and not have it be really janky.

[@filipvadas7602]

​@@geneparmesan8748 a little late, but they did also mention how, apparently, Titans can now cross lakes and even oceans. Another functionality that was cut at the last minute so, who knows?

[@connorfarrell1]

The art of this game was way before it’s time. I hope they can do the same. And I think they will 😊

[@onikiller815]

I like that the myth units they showed look almost porcelain. It keeps the original art style and stays true to form while updating the graphics. Makes it feel like you're actually playing with board game pieces.

[@nothanks5264]

China is probably not out. It’s most likely going to come back in some DLC later on once they gauge the initial success of the game.

[@bobdole7451]

Hopefully the reaction is REALLY good and they add some even more mythologies too :)

[@janl5879]

@@bobdole7451atzec/mayans/celt could be dope

[@tH4ttUs]

hopefully :/

[@Eftkud]

China art rework might be the most impressive one considering how pretty the art looks right now. Hopefully they also rework china while on it

[@ExValeFor]

Hope not

[@reidkelley4846]

Arena of the Gods sounds kind of like the Co-Op missions of StarCraft II, which apparently got a ton of play (and made Blizzard a lot of money).

[@RenegadeFury]

I'm very hyped, I'm glad there's no other civs. Focusing on the ones we already love rather than spltiting their focus is a safer bet.

[@daarom3472]

I'd actually be down with adding some gods, but do it within the existing 4 civilizations. Say give each civ 5-6 major gods instead of the current 3.

[@rovelfox7832]

I'm also glad they're sticking to the original 4, but I also think it would be cool if they added some more civs later once they've established the game. I feel the main issue with the Chinese expansion was just how poorly implemented it was. It was crammed in with minimal effort. I remember when Atlantis was added however, and I thought it was the coolest thing ever and always wondered what other potential factions could be like.

[@Thori45]

​​@ox7832I bet they will when the Game is received well. And I think it makes sense to sell 1-3 DLCs after the release instead of bringing all at once. Anyway in AoM I think you can't just add too many new Gods like in AoE

[@kurrwa]

They can simple add campaings new stories. Age of mythology one of the best campaigns for single player

[@Thori45]

@@kurrwa That's true

[@jyt2394]

Im sure they were talking about Cerberus being the titan for hades, and that he would get god specific titan abilities (cerb’s bonus being walls and buildings) meaning 12 unique looking titans with 12 unique abilities perhaps?

[@BoItTV]

That'd be sick! I've always thought the titans could have little differences attached to them.

[@jyt2394]

@@BoItTV it would add another dynamic to building a titan in response to your opponent building one just so they can fight to the death, and leave you both in the same position 😂

[@daarom3472]

tbf titans did have some small unique features. Like regenerating with Atlanteans, more hp and attack with certain greek combs.

[@jyt2394]

@@daarom3472 what if titans could train unique myth units for gold like the Hesperides tree, capped at 20 pop, making the titan effectively free pop or pop that’s paying for itself

[@softwarelivre2389]

​@@jyt2394I think we should have an option to get either a Titan in the Titan Age or an overpowered Hero (one that has like 2500 HP and 50 hack damage + special). It can win one on one against a Titan, but it is weaker against regular units and buildings. Might work

[@AMasondude]

The titan figthing Gaia is not Kronos, it is the Atlantean titan the Cthotian

[@Bleilock1]

Do you wanna see my cthotian?

[@jochembraad1760]

I dont really like its design to be honest it looks too colorful and vibrant

[@blaster915]

​@@Bleilock1that sounds like you need to see a doctor about it

[@Bleilock1]

@@blaster915 not really Stop being a square

[@klavicus2276]

i also think its the atlantean titan. and i think its colours pop so much cause 1. they made light better in the game 2. colours in general are more vibrant and 3. i think they chose to design him around lava more, like a molten core basically.

[@isaaccocquyt1804]

Glad Chinese is not in the initial release. Campaign and civ always felt unfinished to me, and had way less effort put in than the original civs. They need a big rework to do the game justice imo. But more civs further down the line? Let's go!

[@softwarelivre2389]

3 Learn to play (Arkantos Cyclops + Get 5 favor mission + kill anunites camp) + 32 Fall of the Trident + 12 New Atlantis + 3 Golden Gift = 50 missions. I guess that's it.

[@FERGUSOra]

Golden Gift is 4 missions. That's make 51. Either they just mean 50-ish or they have redone some of the missions. TBH, some of the original missions in Fall of the Trident are ridiculous short because they cut away a lot.

[@softwarelivre2389]

@@FERGUSOra hmm, true. Maybe they are not counting learn to play and it really is 48 missions + 2 new ones. Who knows.

[@gondorianslayer4250]

​@@FERGUSOra there were cut missions. there was suppose to be one final arc for arkantos as a god in the heavens i think.

[@IlIentente]

What a time to be alive ... By "build the game in your head," I believe he means to utilize the retrospective nostalgia a younger version of us felt during those days.

[@Zharath]

They perfectly hit the sweet spot with the graphics being both instantly recognizable and way better looking at the same time. Looks fantastic!

[@klavicus2276]

[@sushiroll3795]

I would absolutely love if they added a Polynesian civ with a focus on amphibious units and buildings that can be placed on water.

[@Steelion69]

5:14 - I would assume these buttons are: force nearby villagers to drop resources, force all owned herdables to TC, plant farms perfectly around TC. 14:06 - I'm pretty certain that is a Citadel Center - it's the same exact structure with the doors horizontal, and the god statues vertical.

[@Kencer]

i'd love to see Japanese Culture, Aztec Culture and possibly something like Hawaiian or Samoan or sum shit-

[@Georgekingdbz]

13:23 It's the campaign map from where you kill the prometheus titan

[@IIEstevaoxII]

They could make the God Powers being reusable after the player build the Wonder, I don't play multiplayer but I think it could fit the game lore and multiplayer mode since you actually have a cooldown to win the game after the Wonder is built

[@thegamingpigeon3216]

What has me curious is they mention 50 missions in the campaign(s). Now to be clear, technically speaking if you include the Fall of the Trident and New Atlantis prologues AND The Golden Gift, that comes out to 50 "missions". However, the two prologues aren't really missions, which drops the count to 48, and The Golden Gift, while official, to my knowledge has never been considered part of the official campaigns, so if we subtract that we're at 44 missions. So either they're including The Golden Gift and the prologues or we're getting some new campaign scenarios.

[@Ide_AL]

18:02 i hope they make it like WC3 where you can choose to make special attacks go automatically or switch to manual

[@BoItTV]

Me too!!!

[@klavicus2276]

i hope that, if we talk about WC3 every civ gets their own unique heroes in not campaign related matches. i even would pay 5 more bucks to see that implemented.

[@klavicus2276]

nothing crazy but i think two things which could be also talked about are: 1. at around 5:18 you see the guy changed to night time. maybe this means we get day/night circle like in WC3? or specific maps which are always night? could be really cool i think. 2. at around 11:40 you see a big wolf and many smaller ones. the smaller ones have dark AND bright fur. i personally assume (and hope) that they finally changed fenriswolf unit to the big bad wold in the center of the screenshot and he summons via howl smaller dark ones. the ones with bright/white fur are, i think, the fimbulwinter wolves. (so hope fenris is a big bad wolf now😅) also i also want to add that, what others already pointed out, thats definitely the wadjet. really surprised you couldn't recognise this unit. i mean it has feathered, coloured wings now, but there was a mod already for that and thats cause, as far as i know, wadjet means something like feathered snake or something. they missed the mark there two decades ago. (still wonder why there is a scorpian man - even its badass and i always like the design... and why the hydra gains heads instead of lose and regrow them or something - even it was my fav myth unit as a kid) also great reaction. watched it with you and the others here yesterday. watched others now and i think you have the most emotional and engaging reaction. and your eyes glow like you are on cloud nine and saw your future wife. xD but thats why we love you so much. you keep the game alive over all those years. your commentary is enganging. you seem to be an educated, grounded nice dude, you are creative with all these ideas and you are so relatable for all AoM-Lovers out there. Can't wait for the future of AoM! Stay awesome! (okay the last paragraph maybe is a bit too corny but not meant like that)just wouldn't make much sense even this is might be "spawn" which it shouldn't be)

[@geneparmesan8748]

Maybe there's a day/night cycle, and that would be cool, but it's just as likely he's either testing the buildings in different lightings, or testing the day/night transition for the eclipse god power.

[@klavicus2276]

@@geneparmesan8748 true that. i just speculated and hope thats all. but yes you are right this could be also a relevant possibility.

[@teopap6528]

Thanks for all the work you put in the making of this video and bringing "all the good stuff" to us 😁

[@peterkirby7546]

The controllable myth unit special attacks is an appealing idea. But ideally I'd hope they have it set like WC3 used to, with right-click on the action in the grid to set it to autocast. Hopefully that is what they do, to give players the choice.

[@Randoman590]

My guess is that individual god power cooldowns are going to be quite variable and a very important tool for balance. I would expect Earthquake, Implode, Lightning Storm etc. to have something like a 6-10 minute cooldown compared to, say, Valour, Spy, Bolt etc. having a 2-4 minute cooldown. Eco powers like Great Hunt, Gaia Forest or Prosperity would probably be somewhere in the middle. Maybe game lobbies could have a global setting to put a multiplier on all God Power cooldowns - 1.5x, 2x, 4x, even 0.5x or 0.25x if you just wanna screw around with your friends for a laugh. As for summons like Nidhogg and Son of Osiris: Do you have the cooldown start on cast, or from when the unit dies? Do you allow the player to own more than one at once?

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

How would they go about forest fire though? Thats one GP i have a hard time thinking about how it can be a cooldown.

[@JohnnyTightIips]

Keeping the aesthetic while updating them all isn't easy but everything looks fantastic. This is how the units looked to 10 year old me :D

[@ChronoJJ]

The screenshots look really good!

[@kedge]

I always had an issue with atlanteans having mutiple god powers. It felt out of balance. Some people that they are not as strong and thats why they get mutiples, but i call it bs.

[@ivanleandro6439]

Dunno if im overthinking coz u cant really tell what is going on, but, at 5:16, if that is a day/night transition, imagine the possibilities... night maps, night god powers, night myth units, buffs etc... that would be really cool ngl. maybe im just dreaming lol

[@WilliamFarge]

In the original AoM, you can choose the type of luminosity when you edit a map.

[@nottud]

Yea it was the developer cycling through lightings.

[@mariosblago94]

God Powers on a CD could work really well because the most OP powers can have longer CDs, and the weaker ones could have shorter CDs. For example, when you are presented with Athena vs. Ares, Athena's heal could have a 5 min CD while Ares plague could have a 2 min CD, making the choice less skewed towards Athena.

[@energeticzombie]

Norse buildings look iffy. Heroes with the glow and circle also look iffy. I like the look of the colossus.

[@michaelmurray1717]

It will be more like halo wars, so can use abilities with a button command and God powers [macblast] come back every 5 min or so

[@Kyomaku]

This indeed looks amazing and I'm super excited for more. Great analysis Boit!

[@Degreat1236]

Thanks for the update boit

[@aniruddhbhatkal1834]

Personally, I'm hoping they do add more civilizations over time. Chinese aside, we could do with Mesopotamian, Indian, Polynesian, Slavic, Ethiopian, and Mesoamerican

[@BoItTV]

Me too!!

[@mihajlohranisavljevic6412]

Slavic mythology is wierdly so similar to Norse its crazy trust me.Thor is same as Perun, Odin is Svetovid, and Loki is Veles.So i dont know if it will be different enough...

[@Rockadela_]

Indian is the only worthy one, the rest is too vague and not really iconic

[@tamtamgod]

I've always thought that AoM could do a cool version of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

[@danfontaine8179]

@@Rockadela_Hinduism isn’t mythology there buddy

[@IapetusStag]

They didn't put Anubis in the Retold title teaser art. Anubis is the fanservice character in the classics.

[@BVasquezp]

Something I wish they try, is to implement a map based pop limit. Smaller maps could have the old cap, bigger maps could have more. 4+ player maps could also use the smaller cap. That way you can play with the scale and balance and still provide an enhanced experience.

[@tiny_thor]

the amount of settlements present on a given map being a function of map size would achieve the effect you describe 👍

[@FrostimatorX]

They could make the reusable G. powers cost favor. If you purchase it from let's say a temple, the recharging starts in the HUD. Just a guess.

[@BoItTV]

Gonna be tough to use favor as the system... It's already kinda challenging to decide what to spend your favor on.

[@FrostimatorX]

@@BoItTV well, it sounds better to me than having them infinitely. 😄 This could work if we can gain favor faster for example.

[@jogarris9945]

​@@BoItTVit's not the end of the world, they could just increase the favor cap or increase the favor gather's speed, or simply do both.

[@jameslindsay2950]

The graphics are nuts. Did not expect this.

[@codytk]

I am super excited for retold, biggest thing is that its planned to release 2024. That being said... worrying we are within 10 months of release with no gameplay shown yet. Also not sure if it was just the lighting of the Augmented Reality in the video but the models seemed oddly shiny and the textures didnt seem consistent and the models were a little lower quality than I was expecting (though if they are raising unit caps and want decent online play thats a totally fair trade off) The map and building assets look great though. I am a little worried about the screenshots having some units very hard to see like the satyrs in the last pic, so hopefully unit clarity can be achieved with beautiful graphics without getting lost. Really not sure how I feel about all god powers being on a cool down there is a HUGE draw that a god power is IMPACTFUL to a ridiculous degree. Like having a ragnarok or fimbulwinter or tornado then surviving re building all to get hit again is not a fun prospect, but neither is weakening any of those god powers to make them balanced for multi uses. really gonna only be knowable from beta so we will have to wait. I dont love the myth unit abilities becoming clickable buttons I kind of prefer the way it is now. If i want to play with units that have abilities I would play Star/warcraft. China not being on release makes sense, I just really hope they dont make me pay for them again. Still gonna get it day one though but Ive been so hurt by companies chasing after Esport readiness, and watering down the essence of a game to get wider appeal, while completely changing what the people still playing, competitively or otherwise, love.

[@Dn_flo117]

6 things you missed: 1- Just women villagers visible with norse. 2- The heroe Folstag hidding near the norse titan. 3- 2 different enherirar, so upgrade in myth units will be visible like said in sneek peak. 4- The "new" unit with the spear on the norse image appears also in the extended version of the greek image 5- 2 Scyllas can be spotted in the river. 6- The automaton's new look. I also think the cronos mirror torrer will be available with all atlanteans. Man am so hyped for this game!!

[@jonahkluger6136]

Never been more excited to learn that a feature in a game remake has been cut.

[@CommanderRedEXE]

From announcement one China DLC was confimed to be kept in, just it getting a big rework. Guess everyone is just ignoring this mention in the original announcement?

[@BoItTV]

Things change through development. My guess it got dropped as there has been no mention of it since. Especially no mention of it in the steam description or screenshots.

[@Debeul]

To be honest it doesn't confirm anything about the Chinese, text can be changed very quickly. But most likely it will be added a little later then release date.

[@massi940]

Hyper for everything, the graphics are honestly way beyond what I was expecting. Pop limit I'm on board with but it's gonna be interesting to see how they manage it, in og Titans pop was the most important resource in mythic age, due to TCs... Not sure it'll be the same in Retold. Reusable god powers I'm a bit on the fence, I don't see some of them being balanced (think plenty vault or Ragnarok). But we'll see, things are always subject to change. Very good informative piece, I missed some of this stuff especially all the info hidden on the screens of the debelopers

[@TheNardDog1996]

I think if anything reusable god powers will help with balance since they can tweak cooldowns of better/worse powers accordingly

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

Likely tinker with the effects to prevent them from being too op. Super strong ones will likely get far lengthier cooldowns too. Interested to see where they go with it.

[@jochembraad1760]

In general I really like the design of the myth units like the argus, collosus and norse giants. But some look a little funny like the minotaur or the Atlantean titan.. but we have to see what they look like in game

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

Liking everything I see so far. Interesting how Norse might get a new building and unit. Or maybe theyre an Odin exclusive? Cerberus and Ymir look beyond sick tho.

[@FERGUSOra]

My guess is that the building is either just a campaign building or the Norse will get a separate building for siege units. Don't really see a reason for the latter, but time will tell.

[@ayvizagod]

Keep the content going boit❤

[@Rev0ltTTV]

Really excited to be playing a new AoM after 20+ years.

[@guardianofscania]

The new Norse building looks like a Mead hall for feasting. Perhaps it comes with new upgrades for the units.

[@BunnyHoppin-]

I'd like to see god power uses regained via favor collection instead of cooldowns. It gives a reason to focus on that resource that dosnt exist right now aside from myth unit spam

[@ashishranganathan8452]

I believe the campaigns are also redone... Having a bit of a difference in both map and objectives

[@ing_glz]

I wonder if the bridge at the right in the nordic image is just decoration or will be playable. I really wish there were useful bridges in thes so lovely game.

[@jaro551]

I love everything about it! I also like the idea of reusable god powers. It will make the game so much more dynamic and entertaining. I really don't think it's a problem balancing it. Not more than having to balance non reusable god powers. Maybe some trial and error in the beginning and see how the gameplay changes.

[@DarthZevrel66]

I’m really excited for this

[@mooseaom]

So hyped for this, the reveal exceeded my expectations! The art is amazing. Reusable god powers could be cool but definitely need a big balance shift. Would be cool to see in your overhaul patch if it’s not too much work balancing it

[@BoItTV]

I'm already thinking of ways in which I can add more gps in now. 😂 The reusable mechanic is in there with the atty GP system so it won't be too hard. A balance nightmare though haha

[@softwarelivre2389]

​@@BoItTVI fear the god powers will be weakened. And reusable plenty vault? Reusable hesperides tree doesn't make much sense tbh as well (except team games) so IDK.

[@softwarelivre2389]

Unless... hesperides tree might get a health bar os something, idk

[@jameslindsay2950]

I don’t like recharge on god powers

[@jameslindsay2950]

Imagine several flaming weapons or locust?

[@Nimzo1]

I’m honestly more excited for a new era of BoIt content than I am for a new era of AoM lol

[@vitus6302]

16:30 “build the game in your head” that doesn’t mean that they want to enter your head and build a game there. It means people who played AoM in the early 2000s and haven’t played the game since have their memories tinted by the graphical updates that have come since. If they were to play a simple remaster of AoM like the definitive editions it wouldn’t look as good as they remembered it. I.e the game in their head looks (and maybe even plays) better than the actual game. That game that is in their heads meaning the game that they FONDLY misremember AoM as, is the game that the developers say they want to make. That’s at least how I understand that statement.

[@Yordlehammer]

I've read the interview and at all I think it's a good change that you can now decide when a myth unit will use it's power, but I have the fear that one hit myth units and myth units at all are much stronger now. Until now you didn't had to micro that hard and all the time you knew, that the first attack the myth units of you and your opponent will always trigger the special attack if it's up first. Now you have this perma struggle in mind and don't want your units to circle around an enemy battle boar all the time. If it happened well it happened, but now myth units can attack all the time until the player decides to activate it. You knew until it attacks a unit of yours, it will only be a moving sandbag. I just fear that MP will become more of a ranged units focused game to not let units like battle boar or chimera get that close. I can also already imagine times in pro play where both armies fight without any management and you will see both players focus on a medusa trying to catch the enemy fire giant/heka giant.

[@hellothere4858]

On the UI, it looks very much like the aoe 3 de UI, so im guessing they are reusing the icons as well so for the TC for example the >> icon is probably rate of fire, so maybe 2 arrows every 1 second

[@jean-claudebalics5272]

hopefully the special attacks for myths can be toggled between Auto & Manual - he's talking about how you can use it when you want it.... which is cool... to be able to micro that... but... i can see that being tedious with a lot of different units (kind of like using jeanne d'arc in aoe4 now) - but thats just 1 unit to micro, so being able to set that to "auto" hopefully is a thing

[@alexanderstoned6972]

I've never seen Mr Boit so excited before, is time that I come back to the game!!!

[@HDogg_YT]

First 😂 Super stoked for Retold!

[@manishchaska]

The new building for norse looks like siege works. It looks like Portable Rams are stored there.

[@klavicus2276]

thanks for pointing that out! honestly, thats what i wanted to write yesterday in stream too. but i am not anymore active on twitch really. looked like rams. and really might be the new siege building. honestly would be a great change. a small siege rework would be appreciated i think by all of us.

[@tlztfn8483]

That units can be trainable distance heros for the norse civilization

[@andreyz94]

16:40 When you remember a game you haven't played in years being much grander than it actually is due to nostalgia and when you actually witness it you get a bit saddened. In short they want to make the game as you idealized it in your head. For me, I usually remember childhood games with amazing graphics when in reality they look like roblox.

[@Adribird]

Min 54:20 of YT live (units pathing improved in the screen).

[@qwerty222999]

My concern with reusable god powers is that the game will become much like Red Alert 2 with super weapons that always put too much stress on players, for the enemy will destroy your base over and over again, with little to no way of preventing it, until you destroy their super weapon. I think for reusable god powers to be somewhat balanced, they should add a favor cost to even begin recharging a god power and each time you pay for a god power the cost increases until you can't afford it anymore. The game will have reusable god powers, but only to a certain degree.

[@Bu11yMagu1re]

Not a bad idea actually. Im confident theyll likely figure out some way to balance it.

[@johnfredriksson9565]

This is gonna be great. Have you ever played Populos the beginning? its from the 90´s and its a game that revolve around spellcasting just as much as you control units. With a change like this, then the question becomes; how powerful are the god powers going to be? I think balancing this is going to be a straight forward effort. This is amazing honestly and i am really looking forward to this!

[@BoItTV]

I did play populous! Very fun game. :D

[@Stelphy876]

2:55 looks like the normal scenario editor. i wish they added nottud's toolpacks haha 3:42 probably three projectiles, and that unit ui looks quite like current aoe2 with extra details on it. 10:17 the spear hero reminds me of reginleif also the norse buildings really look like the alpha version of AoM

[@Blazieth]

I will say, jury's still out on the Chinese. While it's true the Steam Page doesn't mention them, it was also stated in an earlier interview that Tale of the Dragon would be part of the remake. Whether they've changed their mind on the Chinese inclusion or whether it simply means they're not ready to talk about the Chinese yet, we simply don't know.

[@leowang7893]

based on microsofts market stretegy, they will add one mysology civ in every dlc of the next 5 upcomming dlc

[@ramirocerrato]

i cant express my hype about this

[@RockyD12]

I am very happy with the higher Pop cap tho i hope there will be a option to change the pop cap like in Age 2 so everyone can be happy👌

[@mikael8276]

It looks better than I expected, really hyped.

[@ChronoJJ]

Prostagma!

[@BoItTV]

Skopos!

[@gustavofreire4876]

Vulome (alfheim here with the legends)

[@Killerbros49]

age of mythology is so on my watch list for when it releases this year and A MUST BUY DAY ONE :) so many quality games coming out this year :) this years shaping up to be one of the best years for gaming :) keep up the great work man :)

[@TheMrYadrian]

On steam page, China is not included. Only Base civs plus Atlanteans.

[@OwlFromValimus]

I'm late but this is a nice video to watch while eating breakfast

[@Treeburner25]

Aw man, I miss those RPG scenarios and wrp from multiplayer

[@gcsehistorylessons8465]

I think that new Norse building is a redesigned longhouse

[@FredrikMeyer]

I really hope it is good enough so that the online scene will unite on one platform.

[@rammune7260]

1:30-2:20 is definently spectator mode UI, not actual gameplay UI

[@Flamamacue]

This is way better than I was expecting. I thought it was just gonna be a novelty reskin for a quick buck but I'm loving that they are aiming for more of a proper modern esports title. Also loving the idea of making GPs more strategic with multiple uses. I feel like they can be an afterthought at times and unless it's a major GP it doesn't really impact but it would be cool to see someone choose Apollo and then they have to adapt their whole longterm strategy against Underworld in everything they do instead of just a one-off. It's already in play with Atlanteans and it does make it kinda exciting to have the reload play into strategy on both sides

[@sevagsarikaya1909]

Yesss ! This is kind of AOM 2, somehow, I hope they will put effort in the commercial to rebuild a new community, of course joining the old community

[@Fyrapan90]

I'm super excited for AoM Retold! I hope this sell good & that it turns out amazing and they add additional DLC's in the future and then after a few years BOOOM AoM 2 is announced! Now THAT would be amazing :)

[@scottgerrin2558]

Wonder if my Steam Deck will be able to run it (on docked mode obviously)

[@moanguspickard249]

I hope we get the Chinese and down the line the Meso-americas and Persians as well.

[@klavicus2276]

meso-americans would be SICK since other age games get to civs via dlc i hope we might see chinese plus meso-americans later down the line. (maybe end of 2025?)

[@gamgamesplayer4506]

Finally the game won't be older than me and i really hope that if they add china, a balancing should happen cuz right now things like great flood and stuff are just broken