Wall the Middle (Low Elo Legends)

[@Vanderhooooov]

I am not sure if I'm honored to be in Low Elo Legends, or this is horrifically embarrassing that the world saw this (I was not in the chat, but happy t90 is back on Twitch btw). I'm supposed to be on a conference call right now but instead I'm breaking down my play in this terrible losing game now like I'm Bill Belichick: 1) I scouted the map incredibly poorly and had no idea there was so much water. In my mind when I got the castle down in the middle I thought it was going to be a win. I didn't really think about the danger of just getting cannon galleoned to death 2) I don't know the hot key to select a building so probably couldn't find my university and just made another one (heated shot was intentional because I lived in fear of David bringing all his ships onto the shallow water and killing me) 3) I could not figure out how David was getting all his guys in behind my island, so this was enlightening to me 4) I wish I had stayed on water, massive mistake 5) Its amazing how easy it looks when you're watching the cast, but in game I'm jittery and have no idea what to do... You're a legend t90, I'm 35 years old and until recently legitimately hadn't played since probably 2001 (when I similarly was destroyed by that mission where Cleopatra has like 800 cannon cattapult boats), but have been watching your stuff and having alot of fun playing again for the first time in years. No real danger of me moving out LEL though range I fear.

[@Vanderhooooov]

Oh, and I definitely did have large trees on, only just found the mod

[@LilyBlossom1337]

Oh yeah. This game is much harder to play than watch. Thanks for sharing your thought process; and of course, well fought!

[@AustrianEconomist]

Legend! Well played man. I know exactly what you mean. I had been watching for years and recently went to try to play it myself (hadn't played since high school 10 years ago) and holy moly... it's not as easy as it looks LMAO. Got demolished a few times in ranked and got very demotivated to play (only 10 online games or so). So I salute you for still staying strong and playing. Congrats for appearing on the channel bro. Cheers!

[@sam4secretary]

@@AustrianEconomist -- the first ten online games are hard, especially because the algorithm drops you in the middle of the ELO curve and so you're mismatched in the beginning. Keep going-- between 10 and 15 games, your ELO starts to do what it's supposed to: give you competitive, equally matched games. And then online play vs. people is AWESOME. But it's a bit like snowboarding, the first couple times are ROUGH.

[@jn1mrgn]

At least you have a real job, unlike T90.

[@devinbradshaw8030]

I was today years old when I learned that there is a second page to the dock

[@Coordinator010]

The second university at 26:55 cracked me up a bit. T90's not even fazed.

[@chancevance1641]

Last night I had a dream I was hanging out with you and Daut for some weird reason after you were casting a game between us. I lost. :(

[@Broken_robot1986]

Winning isn't everything

[@justxavier9999]

Yeah us laymen don’t even get to dream for a game with Daut

[@transexualoyster3311]

Gay

[@deutscher1a]

i like how its a "not even in your dreams" thing

[@josiahgibson6373]

At least you had a chance, vance

[@ericgraybill6852]

T90 I loved at the end the "turning point" in the game. Always trying to learn and that was a valuable lesson.

[@Immortalis97]

I find it funny red had eco upgrades but no military ones, and blue had military upgrades but no eco ones, youd think if you got one youd know about and get the other >

[@kristjankonrad5947]

This should be an actual map type called Neptune's Tunnel

[@darkcloud5084]

the red sea

[@roberts.wilson1848]

I wish all games were on mega random, makes for an interesting game altogether.

[@najarvis]

I do love mega random and it is my favorite map to both play and watch, but the other maps are fun and have their place too imo.

[@BrownFoxWarrior]

The lighthouse/outpost on water idea reminds me a lot of Galactic Battlegrounds, where you had Utility trawlers to be the "water workers" that could build on top of being fishing ships.

[@jn1mrgn]

The title would imply that walling the middle is a dumb move, but on this map I think it is a no-brainer.

[@EusisLandale]

Thank you for your support to the community,Tristan 90 yrol

[@barbadoskado2769]

bring back more randomness in megarandom! agree - and add hyperrandom to map pool too ;-)

[@loganmaximus2160]

T90: Lesson to you red, when you build the stone wall you should build it behind the existing palisade wall because then your villagers are protected Stone wall foundations appear behind palisade wall all of a sudden. T90: Ah, see... this is red learning. HAHAHAHA

[@koosh138]

at the 28 minute mark,red tries to build a castle all the way in the back. I used to try and set up camps on my games. If I played islands or anything like that, I'd place mini settlements to the rear of enemy islands to plague them and steal their resources and/or raid.

[@krystofcisar469]

gotta love red with 0 blacsmith upgrades and blue without single eco upgrade - LEL classics :D

[@Albatross271]

the idea of a separate building for water upgrades should be considered, as it will permits all water unit to be placed on the first page of the dock. In warcraft 2, we had the foundry for example.

[@cn0486]

LOW ELO LEGENDS IT'S AWSOME

[@edmis90]

Wait.. War Galley upgrade improves _all_ ships? 😅 Now that I think of it, I've heard T90 mentioning it before. Guess it never clicked ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ But srsly though that makes 0 sense to me 🙄

[@dse763]

I remember old AoE2 having upgrades for every ship.

[@Maxidonis208]

@@dse763 Old AOE 2 didn't have Feudal Age Fireships or Demos. So if I'm remembering correctly, when you hit the Castle Age, you'd have the Castle Age versions of Fireships and Demo Ships with no need to do any upgrades to unlock them. Kind of like knights. Then they added Feudal Age versions of the ships, and instead of forcing you to have to buy upgrades you didn't use to have to buy to get the Castle Age ships, they just tied it to the already existing upgrade. I think I remember that I used ignore galleys and rush to the Castle Age to just make Fireships so that I didn't need to buy any upgrades lol. I think the fact that you could do that actually played into the balance of fireships vs. galleys as well.

[@CROWxMAGNUM]

BIG TREES BIG TREES BIG TREEEEEEEES

[@transexualoyster3311]

More team games lo elo legends please

[@Hunoa44]

Soon we gonna have another christmas fatslob game like last year i hope :) Very pogchamp,much hype

[@SuperMataso]

What if you could build the "lighthouse" like on a trade cog for example so it's a movable outpost I'm on console I don't think docks have a second page so it's surprising that PC does

[@jay2thedub]

Light house was an age of Mythology building. It would be a nice civ bonus building.

[@thebakermaker1500]

Tournament idea: no mods, maybe no hot keys. Pros playing with big trees just like the olds days

[@matzke031089]

I enjoyed the dock rant

[@malikshabazz2065]

keep up the great work T-90 :-)

[@HiElzo]

Am I colorblind or do the blue buildings kind of look purple sometimes lol

[@WigglyWings]

Some of them did look purple to me. And I am pretty sure I am not color blind.

[@justxavier9999]

I’m with you. Also anyone else confuse Green and Cyan in this game?

[@iamUglie]

Blue colors in this game do dip into the purplish range of blue, especially when shaded. I find this often when color sampling screen shots

[@MonsterCC]

LEL lets go!

[@ignistactus1108]

Left min in and it looks like a naval battle for the crossing to me. If blue can tuck a dock in the down right or red in the upper left would be excellent staging for transpo.

[@hggtddvbb]

I had an idea for a naval academy/harbour master. This building would provide naval upgrades much like the university.

[@blittle47]

Every good land bridge needs a dock blocker.

[@agaba5500]

red is pretty skilled

[@LazyBuddyBan]

jerma on thumbnail 😳

[@TheIcyhydra]

lol this outro with buffed t90 is so wack but funny

[@Nagassh]

Thankyou for using real trees.

[@Dante-oo1cs]

Nudge nudge nudge know what I mean? Say no more, know what I mean?

[@edmis90]

On a scale from 1 to 10: how important would competing for water control on this map generation be?

[@ditodevice1950]

YES

[@krystofcisar469]

11

[@Chappens]

They should absolutely dial up the mega random

[@ghaznavid]

T90 talking about fixes - I tried my first ranked 3v3 in a while yesterday and the game dropped after an hour due to an out of sync error. Very frustrating when you're winning and that happens.

[@MarcNiemegeers-pr1lh]

Very frustrating, espescially when the game is balanced. Had the same last week. Not one bad player in the game and after 1 hour and 15 minutes out of sync ...

[@bow-fihiphop-yv7gx]

This game would've been so good for a Cuman feudal two TC boom.

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

If only this map had a neutral island. Would've turned the tide for blue.

[@buildingstuff1707]

Hello. Where are these games hosted/played? i tryed the multiplayer ingame but it seems ...ehm....unpopulated.

[@matteosberna735]

Navy needs to be revamped with more options

[@mynamejeff4656]

hey brother and sister~ how can i make the tree smaller???

[@mericajames1808]

Ayeee, 420th like!!! New to the channel and love the content. played AoE when i was like 10, recently got back into it and got whooped lol

[@x_hibernia]

can anyone tell me what elo is, just bought the game yesterday and it has nothing on what it is, I'm guessing its some form of ranking system but haven't a clue how it works.

[@nisenazo]

It's a numerical value the ranking system gives you to pit you against similar opponents. Winning or losing ranked matches will add or deduct points from your Elo. Low Elo Legends showcases players below 1000 rating. For reference, pro players are above 2300.

[@x_hibernia]

@@nisenazo thanks that actually helps a lot

[@sam4secretary]

the wikipedia would be "Elo rating system". For current AOE, the midpoint is 1000 ELO and that's where new players start-- as they win/lose their score moves incrementally. It's basically a relative skill ranking tool--> where in the scale of players do you fit in. When people say "I can't believe this is 500 ELO"-- what they mean is that the player pool has gotten so much better at this game than they used to be. What in 2019 would have been an above average player might be a very low player now. The KZbin videos/casts/coaching and improvements to the UI from Microsoft have really, really elevated the gameplay (go find a LEL video from T90 from 5 years ago and you'll see what I mean).

[@justxavier9999]

Those walls were mid

[@alvarodepando6118]

Leave a like🙏🏻👍🏻

[@scotte5875]

Never stop posting here on smelly KZbin :)

[@reynauldc984]

Play the Byzantines and not make a single Cataphract... ayyy!! Otherwise good game.

[@krystofcisar469]

Cataphract against what? all in camels would make sense there :D

[@quangphamminh2979]

Korea map ?

[@Brigand17]

T90 thinks a 500 elo player doesnt know that theres a second page on the dock? I think atleast 80% know at 500 elo, but thats just my guess.

[@SlAyErSMaStErS]

Accidently 1st lmao, keep pumping the amazing content

[@arlisbartlett403]

😉

[@Kevin-er9vz]

Eight🎉

[@XUndergroundRap]

Dave > T90 sorry tristan... hes got that canadian charm

[@rocsec4441]

Is "first" still a thing?

[@Kabivelrat]

What happened to the mid elo games? We're back to pro games or noob shit...

[@philh8829]

I haven’t played AOE2 since 2002 and these guys are sooooooooooo bad

[@dimo2081]

its pretty egoistical to think everyone watches your videos, ESPECIALLY the aoe devs

[@VesperGuy]

t90 is a huge pillar of the community and he's been included and had conversations with the aoe devs, so yeah they know who he is and have seen his videos

[@dimo2081]

@@VesperGuy oh damn, well fair enough, didn't know that. Thanks for the info without calling me an idiot lol

[@gameovered777]

The most civil resolve I've probably seen on KZbin comments without things getting heated. That's what I love about the AOE community. We may be savages in game but at least we're polite savages

[@markdowse3572]

Normal TREES. YES! 👍☺ A crushing victory! 👏 M 🦘🏏😎