The Game That Created Friendship (Low Elo Legends)

Can AoE2 spark blossoming relationships?
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[@Eira_99]

Friendship didn't exist before this game was played. Thank you for creating friendship.

[@Maronijogurt]

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[@SIGNOR-G]

Friendship wasnt invented until 2022 Humans before 2022:

[@tristanstrain9751]

Friendship was invented in 1999 by Bruce "Shelly" Friendship when he released it as a gamemode in the hit game Age of Empires 2. "We weren't sure how well Friendship was going to be received," Said Bruce, "so after some debate we left it out of the original game. After the success of the original Age of Empires, though, we felt like we had enough trust from the community to add it into the sequel. Turns out, we had nothing to worry about."

[@Vitorruy1]

@@tristanstrain9751 11 that was great

[@brianabraham8726]

Yes, before all was Monopoly and Uno and then AoE2 came and invented friendship 😁

[@maggus_1]

That was nice. I also had a match lately, where we chatted for a bit afterwards and my opponent (who lives in the same state of my country as we found out) explained how to execute his strategy after I resigned. I was very grateful as it was one of my first ranked games. The AoE2 community is just amazing!

[@julianernstberger9876]

After my first ranked game, my opponent called me a smurf... That wasn't so nice...

[@danielchauvin9317]

@@julianernstberger9876 it's always the best feeling to be called a surf after a great win

[@julianernstberger9876]

@@danielchauvin9317 It wasn't great. I guess he resigned to early. It was arena and all i learned from T90, was fc and boom. In the end my opponent resigned early, but he was only on one TC and hard behind in Eco. But my unitcontrol is very poor so, i guess he had still a chance. Till now I stay around 1k Elo, so I guess, i started where I am meant to be :D

[@richardd.8695]

I feel that! Same happened to me on my First online Game ever

[@Jimmy911ism]

@@julianernstberger9876 what civs and maps do you use?

[@redsoxfan5240]

As a LEL, I can confirm most action is definitely "just in case." This is particularly true for making spearman early on...just in case they send knights. If they don't, oh well I'll use them later. Another common "just in case" is making multiple barracks/stables/archery ranges before you actually need it, so that when you do get attacked and you're not ready, you can mass those units quickly! T90, just giving you some insight into the mind of a LEL. I'm sure many other LEL do the same haha

[@jamiewellbourn3609]

The original physical game came with a quick reference card of important hotkeys, it was like a tri-fold brochure. Really helpful!

[@madmarshman]

Games in boxes, the good old days. I think I bought aoe2 and conquerors in 1999.

[@Brianlikescars]

And don’t forget that basically mini strategy guide! That thing came to school with me. I used to actually know the stats of pretty much every unit off top. Now granted I still sucked because it was Huskarl or NOTHING… but it was fun.

[@BrentTJo]

I still have the trifold from my gold edition over 20 years ago. It includes the basic tech tree in the middle and something else in the back.

[@Jimmy911ism]

The game doesn't come in a box any more? I intended to buy the latest aoe2 at the game store (cd & book) once I've got my computer set up.

[@AtlasJotun]

I still have the 20+ year old cards for that and StarCraft, C&C etc. I used to study them so intensely, in hopes of devising a strat or build order to help me avoid annihilation in the LAN games with my big brother.

[@-Raylight]

This is a certified *"Did we just become best friends?"* moment 😂

[@James_cooper_89]

imagine if there was a gamemode with hidden civs... you will only find out though scouting and taking notice of the architecture....

[@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka]

Imagine if it hid your civ & tech tree from you too. Castle age would bring many surprises :D

[@ThePoeticPariah]

It would be impossible to hide if you're Indian.

[@BobVerdoes]

@@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka Maybe your civ is only decided depending on where on the map/type you settle down

[@HolyKhaaaaan]

It would probably be a nightmare for the artist to do, but imagine applying a completely generic architecture to everybody so that you had zero chance of guessing until you saw the first unique unit.

[@Foojaleeckalikeelamaka]

@@saturnity6 A LOT of civs have bonuses that either aren't obvious in Dark/Feudal or don't even kick in by then. For the none obvious ones would you really be able to tell what civ you are based off of a percentage decrease in creation time for a unit or in building cost? Yeah some people would but a lot wouldn't which would add a bit of tension. Doing your dark Age planning on going for Frank cavalry to suddenly realise you're Britons when you reach feudal would still be jarring and interesting. IDK, I think for a large portion of civs a large portion of players wouldn't be sure which exact civ they have in Dark & Feud in a normal game.

[@Touphnya]

T90 "What you want to do is get food then get stone later" Also T90 Giving life advice: "Buy food and then uh, pay rent." Even his advice on life is AoE2 build orders.

[@maxbryant560]

why pay rent when a house only costs 25 wood to build?

[@pthevenphtevenson9180]

@@maxbryant560 Unless you're Khmer you can't go inside them :/

[@sebastianfletcher-taylor1024]

@@pthevenphtevenson9180 As a Hun, I don't even need a place to live. I just have my horse and pillage downtown for food. When the police start troubling me, I ride away to a different city.

[@pthevenphtevenson9180]

@@sebastianfletcher-taylor1024 Certainly sounds economical, given the real estate prices these days!

[@benardolivier6624]

It's better to kill 4 animals with one scout than having one kill 4 villagers... 🤣

[@iamUglie]

42:00 that crisp clean thumbnail zoom.

[@JL0805]

They will see each other when they open their eyes in the following morning.

[@MikeRees]

I had a game recently that went on for a real long time. We had 5 minute breaks without pausing for smoking, that we both respected. That guy left me with 1 castle and a relic for like an hour and a half while he researched every tech and cook! I didn't feel bad though, I was watching netflix. Cool guy

[@sangramgaikwad7663]

Aoe2 community is wholesome. Other more popular games like starcraft2, CS:GO, GTA Online have extremely toxic communities. Feels really good to be part of aoe2!

[@Pablocarrascoop]

Wholesome, Aoe2? Damn, I’ve been playing a different game all this time :( Lol, every game I play I receive trash

[@twohandedswordsman852]

That is because AoE2 mostly focuses on honorable 1v1 match.

[@JJJBunney001]

Just remember how many LEL games we've seen with someone being called gay or boring

[@IamTristanC]

I think blue is building his military buildings at the back of his base so if he loses his army, he can mass units before sending them in to defend instead of having them be created on the front line and dying to mass red army.

[@henriblack8673]

Sabaton are the kind of guys who like it when people meme their songs in videos from what I hear.

[@erictheuns184]

BTW (12) is '' AHH (BEing RUSHED) ^^ not I take your town now, come on Tristan aka T90 :p

[@gdjiselberg]

LOL! the moment that villagers suddenly decided to attack to the monk hahahaha. it was an iconic moment really like a scene from a famous movie. villagers were exhausted from the torcher of the monk and his cult but they were just staying calm. but then one day the monk decided to take the golden relic of ancient times and melt it down. that was the last straw. they tried to talk and convince the father but he make fun of them and their traditions and so on. a sudden silence...then they attacked at the same time and killed the monk. hahaha such a fascinating moment. hillarious!

[@Sam-bn5bb]

I wonder if T90 gets a little bit of serotonin every time he predicts what a player needs to do seconds before they do it 20:05

[@Retruyomyl5]

I´d bet T90 gets Dopamine Rush

[@freedomhonkhonk5169]

He's a lobster

[@danpower7416]

13:40 I love how blue's villager is standing next to the stone wall fundament, as if he waits for the enemy to appear and then quickwall them out just in time to say "haha, too slow". xD

[@arnavnandan]

I can confirm that because of taunts many people arent toxic. Like I quitted a shooting game with this being one of the reasons. Everyone is so toxic that there is rarely any teamwork. However aoe has managed to make the community toxic-free which is so good.

[@tinyman1144]

I believe, honest, that it is due to this notion in FPS games that they are super easy mechanically, so people who are good get real mad when notgood players are on their team, where as this game is seen as incredibly difficult to master, so most people in the community aren't upset at team mates etc. I think that goes a long way to it

[@rhettorical]

I started using grid hotkeys in Starcraft 2 and it made complete sense to me. I could remember how the command cards look (or just glance at it), and associate that with my keys, instead of remember what each building and unit's hotkey is. The go-to hotkeys are very important though, and you just need to remember those. I always knew H is Town Center, and I learned Ctrl+V is Castle because I used to spam the "how do you turn this on" cheat code and sometimes I'd go too fast and Ctrl+V when the chat box wasn't up.

[@bibsp3556]

Hotkeys are a required skill in rts, knowing how to group units etc comes in endlessly handy

[@MaksymCzech]

32:00 No man, things will only get worse in that department.

[@madmarshman]

I'm 52 years old, not played aoe2 in 20 years, bought DE a couple of weeks ago, still looking for time to play. Maybe end up on LEL, who knows 🤣🤣

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

That's the spirit (of the law)!

[@Jimmy911ism]

Did you buy it in a box (cd & book) at the store or online? Was it easy to set up?

[@FloosWorld_AoE]

@@Jimmy911ism DE is only sold digital

[@madmarshman]

@@Jimmy911ism I bought it online, it was a steam key, so it sets itself up. Do you have a steam account, it is the easiest way, especially if you want to mod it.

[@jeckol3200]

I am a 90s kid and I would play to the last villager LOL

[@DanielC01000100]

This is why I love this game. Way less rude people than other games

[@OPiguy35]

Continually appreciate your commentary. I have never spent more than about 10 minutes on others commentary online about aoe or anything else. Your commentary is amazing and extra bonus it's over my favorite game of all time. I love listening while I'm driving or doing the dishes once my wife goes to bed. You're the man, keep it up! I'll keep catching on youtube indefinitely (no FB for me.)

[@MegaLars10]

i like how red left a path between his farms

[@Cloud.Strife]

Red seems to be under the impression that this is a wood selling game

[@EventH0riz0n]

50 games in his first week playing online is pretty crazy. I wish i had that kind of free time.

[@aoaebicy3174]

the part where there were ghost towns with garrisoned villagers but no raids hurt me physically

[@whitej4913]

Thanks for your efforts, what an angle to look at game and bring a great human touch to gaming. Thanks t90

[@Plastiklandser]

That was awesome! Can we hope for a another mbl co-cast in the future?

[@McCrackenJoel]

Computer programmer/emacs+vim user here: for learning hot keys, nothing beats making yourself a cheat sheet. - write down the ones you want to know. Its not great to have the couple of important keys mixed in with 50 you don't care about - memorize a few at a time, starting with most important first - keep this near your computer, or if you don't have a place to keep a physical list, store it as e.g. a text file in an easy to access location.

[@sleeplesshollow4216]

Taunts are essential in any multiplayer game that allows communication between players. Without the in-game taunt too many players would just revert to actually taunting in chat, which is far worse for BM and more likely to be straight toxic. Its like Planetside 2 having "Your best is my Worse" always spammed when one side beats the other. Better that than them all going into chat to talk shit, ya-know? Gotta think about how players will act now how you want them to

[@matt_9112]

Most toxic thing that happened to me (playing 10 years online now, on and off), ~1000 Elo now, is the timing of the "11" taunt, no return "gl hf" or "gg", the latter two might just be due to a lack of knowledge and not actually rude. Otherwise it's all smooth sailing. Sometimes even prolonged chatter.

[@shoenessperson]

On the topic of hotkeys. About 3 years ago, I hooked up a controller through Steam to AOE2. I filled it with hotkeys on the face buttons and the bumpers/triggers were used to make layers on those hotkeys with shift, alt, and control. Somehow the best Age of Empires I've ever played. Hotkeys are one of the most important things to learn.

[@raphaelcardoso7927]

Great match! Eric really should be on his way up to mid elo legends by now

[@Reticulated_Spline]

If I was red with blue having taunted earlier I'd have replied with "your mom's house", this is a 90's game after all.

[@MrCodps3player]

I like to ctrl group my army buildings so when i'm in a battle i just press 0 and select all my barracks or castle and start creating new troops. I do that because i never used "go to hotkeys" and this method works pretty well for me, it just is a little annoying having to select all buildings and put them in the same group. I'm also very bad at the game lol.

[@OutbackCatgirl]

SAME :D

[@gauriieriksson2958]

I must thank you you have helped me quite allt I'm still low elo but still better then i was =,) ❤

[@ironsand]

Red got so much control of the middle, we just keep thinking why he just maintain 2 vils on gold...

[@thebigmarvinski]

Saw this live and it was epic. Loved this match a lot

[@arthurreede4478]

Only thing I could think of at 42:03 was "Et tu Brutus?"

[@Retruyomyl5]

Exploding sheeps will kidnap Tristan

[@choosenonyx96]

When the vils surrounded that monk then collectively shanked him I lost my shit laughing. "You came to the wrong neighborhood old man"

[@danpower7416]

I use the default hotkeys for stuff like buildings, such as q-q for house, h to scroll tcs etc. All tcs is mouse4, next idle vil is mouse5 and all idles is tab. The building selection is kind of the grid thing, I have ctrl+a for all castles (or ctrl+shit+a to scroll castles) and from there on it goes to the right (control+s, control+d) up to ctrl+g, then one row below ctrl+y (german layout) to ctrl+c for all stables, markets, monasteries, blacksmiths etc. without any real system, but I just recognize them through muscle memory which works totally fine for me. In fact, I couldn't really tell which hotkey I use for all barracks (pretty sure it is ctrl+s), it's like playing an instrument for me.^^

[@hazzelodazzel]

The wholesome community makes me want to learn and play AoE2 online :)

[@rezahel2142]

"Riklépsykopaaaat" Ric le psychopathe = Ric the psychopath Fun how you prononce it xD

[@lexingtonbrython1897]

We did it boys, war is no more

[@Coltwhyte]

Loving these LeL videos, gives me hope, removing ladder anxiety as im 900 elo xD!

[@lucz1499]

Still waiting on my Rollercoaster Tycoon video, T90. Not gonna forget.

[@sylfraeaveniore2684]

I think the biggest change you need for hotkeys as a beginner is to AT LEAST change any of the 3: 1) Next Idle Villager 2) Next Idle TC 3) Next Idle Military My mouse buttons have 2 additional buttons on it, so I have made it so it I cycle to the next villager and next military unit easy using my extra mouse buttons. 1 and 2 are very important for booming but I went with 1 and 3 for ease of booming and unit movement (trying pincer formations and such) Just my two cents. Hasn't really helped me be a good player yet tho. I still need to adjust myself for a quick and smart resource management. I always have 2 resources booming (usually food and gold/stone). But at least I'm always aware I have idle vils kekw

[@Mofuwu]

I remember in 2017 i met a dude from New Zealand named Linxy on Voobly, dont remember how we met but we became friends for a long time and played many 2v2s. Since im from Argentina our timezones were completely screwed up like i had to stay up from 3AM until 7AM on the weekends to play with him but it was awesome. Sadly due to issues with my pc and university and mental health i stopped playing but i miss those times Linxy if you see this:

[@Mofuwu]

WELL apparently he deleted his discord account or something so if someone finds Linxy tell them i finally re-installed AOE and i can play now :D

[@cal4837]

yeah at the end of my second ranked game as my base got ransacked and it was time for me to resign, i asked the other player for tips and he took lik 3-5 mins helping me out based on what he saw. He advised I build more TCs. Very cool moment.

[@Hijax666]

That one priest got John Snow'd

[@jakegreifenhagen3938]

37:49 Reds vills building that castle making a perfect wave with their hammers. Oh yeah, that's the sauce right there.

[@940o15tfxyi]

Halfway through I had to switch to Sabaton music, only to return 1 hour later to finish the video.

[@sigurdtheblue]

I think Blue played very well for what they did.

[@quackcharge]

the wholesome ending

[@82dorrin]

Wow. Age of Empires 2. It has been decades since I played.

[@Sam-bn5bb]

Blue is a military genius

[@oliveryt7168]

My favourite series.

[@ValerietheLovelyDeadlyItalian]

holy SHIT YOU KNOW WHAT SABATON IS!

[@hermanyosef4875]

For easy play, what 2 unit comp are the best? and at what civ them at it best?

[@WlatPziupp]

red keeping half his villagers on wood so he can sell 100 wood for 14 gold every couple of seconds is incredible

[@Max-ej4oh]

First we got t90 complaining about coinage in a 1v1... on a game called Age of Empires, Empires need coins... thus coinage is part of the upgrade order, you're an empire not a flimsy campsite. Now t90 complaining about multiple lumbercamps, so villagers can opt to go not one, not two but THREE lumber camps for extra healthy efficient wood choosing paths, thus improving overall happiness. I'm starting to believe t90 is the real low elo legend here... you need to step up T90.

[@lexingtonbrython1897]

@@number1fen You do realise they were joking... right?

[@2rslvl126]

I been costum mapping my hotkeys to varying degrees of success. One button for every buildable would be far better. W for wood walls. CLT + W for stone wall. F for Farm, CLT + F for mill. G for mining camp, L for Lumber camp. Somethings are quicker, other stuff I always forget. I don't have hotkeys for the gates though..

[@brianabraham8726]

I also once chatted with someone after a game and we added each other in Steam... never wrote or played together again 😅🙈

[@StarfieldBattlefront]

Surrendered like a true Frenchman

[@Hunoa44]

16 13 At this point i agree about the hotkeys,i never had like monastery or university hotkey but unit groups,farms,idles and houses were absolute must + loomed villager scouting is OP because you can kill enemy's deers and that's alot of food for them to lose + you can make outposts and small bases around the map to confuse

[@makisa.6853]

have been watching these vids lately. use to love aoe as a kid and making me want to install the game (if i find it). lots of laughs,and interesting info on how to be efficient. but i do have a question about something that bothers me. while streeming is there a delay towards game time? because i've seen a couple vids where players react to what the streemer says. if not,then i wouldn't want to play online

[@MrARock001]

So wholesome!

[@atomwarlock9136]

RTS Role,Troll,Soldier!

[@WestHaddnin]

24:21 best hotkey is ctrl+w.. if you want stone wall ctrl shift+w but uou don’t really need hot key for that ever.

[@pauliusmscichauskas558]

I am Lithuanian, and here's a bit of an unrealistic thing: If you are a king commanding your troops, they should probably talk to you more formally, no? In Lithuanian, if someone is higher rank, to be formal, they should adress them in plural. We have a plural and singular versions of words when addressing someone, for example "You"... would be like "You all" or something like that in english.

[@SepticFuddy]

Interesting. Spanish has a similar thing and not only does the game get it right, it actually uses a period-correct form of Castilian, not contemporary Spanish. English used to have it too, but the singular form has since been dropped entirely (thou/thee/thine/etc.). The Britons in the game use a weird mix of Old English, Middle English, and Latin with mostly contemporary vowels, and the only things that would have used the singular form are in Latin. But the Britons should be the Welsh not the Anglo-Saxons so they very much got that wrong lol

[@abs_official]

default mapping for hotkeys seems so much more intuitive based on the icon locations... QQ for house... QA for farms, WS for quickwall etc. End of the day it's player preference

[@blakelawless6620]

Hotkeys are good to know, and give a significant edge over clickers, though it's probably more important to have good instincts and game sense. I've had games with hotkey warriors who crap the bed taking bad fights, as well as clicker noobs who've come in clutch with just the right unit at the right spot.

[@chetlorton3015]

T-⁹⁰ , you said you don't know how long we will watch you? I've been playing this since I was a teen, I don't think we are going anywhere. Keep up the awesome content.

[@marnitzjankowitz425]

I always congrats the other player when they do well

[@Xexecc]

T90 really loves hotkeys

[@danielwhitfield4151]

T90 love the content. Been watching for a while now. Idk how to send you videos/games to watch. I won my first game last night after loosing my first ever 9 consecutive ranked matches. If you have time WILD FANCY BEAR is the profile. I hope to end up on Low ELO Legends one day! Would love your input on anything and everything I need to be improving on

[@JamMaster984]

love the mention of sabaton, it sucks that people in the US don't like them

[@afz902k]

Some probably do, since the US is so huge

[@BLUE-hl5fk]

I'm reading it as "Le Psychopath"

[@mateocolegial5571]

*BEST STUFF EVEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEER!!!*

[@Nanaki404]

Red's worst mistake (IMO) is selling all his wood while keeping so many villagers on wood. Look at 30:50 for example, he has 47 vils on wood and only 15 on gold (while controlling the middle !), and just sold (AGAIN) a ton of his wood for a tiny amount of gold.

[@alexmayzlakh8004]

"Corner boy pt2" Isn't it Neutral Milk Hotel song?

[@madmarshman]

Do most people play aoe2 de online directly through the game software or is it through third party software? Thanks.

[@the_SolLoser]

T90 sounds like Seamus from Freedom Toons and Common Sense Soap Box.

[@Jerome...]

Rick the Psychopath. He changed ch for k in psychopath and fully confused you.

[@ethanpayne4116]

hearing that T90 has BP for a pallisade hotkey has made me extremely confident that the default build hotkeys are probably better than anything he has. As for the gotounit/building hotkeys those might not be as good idk

[@Squittlez]

Which version of the game is this ? A voobly one or an actual game ?

[@crackthecan3970]

Hahaha i also have scout rush ptsd usually build three-5 spears after feudal

[@thatevildude]

@T90 Would love to see a hotkeys guide, I’m a total nub still working my way through single player before I can get the guts to try multi

[@babyblue1175]

Hey I noticed you mentioned your hot key set up is on your wall and then you also mentioned the grid hotkey doesnt work how you like it. Would you be willing to send a picture of your cheat sheet or help me out with hotkeys. Im a Low elo legend and have been watching you for a couple months and youve inspiried me to try online but im scared to without hotkeys. Thanks again for all the work you put in your videos and thanks for the help!? ~Sho

[@Turpitood]

Seconding this! I just got back into the game and am interested in multiplayer but I have no idea how to efficiently set up hotkeys and control groups. All tips are welcome.

[@hunter71251]

When do you stream??

[@minimumlikelihood6552]

And the Franks petards arrived!!!

[@david_oliveira71]

8:21 T90-Berry: "Wheelbarrow is _" Did you mean "cute" here or "queued" ? 11

[@CubeBrik]

So, as a new guy to playing we use the DE one from steam to be an active member of this who shibokal

[@tomisenbugel6370]

G E K O L O N I S E E R D

[@the_picard]

So wholesome :D

[@CarlosBrito524]

Do a video on the 50 hour match !

[@Lexoka]

I think Red's APM might have a bit to do with all the market events.