EVERYTHING IS BROKEN - Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition Is A Perfectly Balanced Game W/ Exploits

aoe 3 definitive edition has just released on steam making it the latest real time strategy game to be released. Now what does the spiffing brit do with brand new rts games well he finds exploits in their perfectly balanced game design however this time EVERYTHING IS BROKEN! As the AI does not even function when given the challenge of moving across water. Age of empires has always been at the forefront of AI design in strategy games however for some reason Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition a 2020 strategy game has been released with AI reminiscent of an early 2000s strategy game. So naturally we will be seeing if Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition Is A Perfectly Balanced Game Without exploits or if perhaps the fact EVERYTHING is broken might upset the perfect game balance necessary in any top strategy game of 2020. I really hope that ahead of age of empires 4 we can get a bit of a magical rework of the AI to get a good challenge out of it on all the map types!

What you have seen here today is part of a fantastic perfectly balanced series on youtube where I go from game to game and break them with wacky exploits to gain things like unlimited gold. If you enjoyed this then be sure to check out more. The style is similar to RT game and callmekevin in parts. A large influence on this series has come from Valefisk and The Killian Experience.

Twitter: @thespiffingbrit

Title: EVERYTHING IS BROKEN - Age Of Empires 3: Definitive Edition Is A Perfectly Balanced Game W/ Exploits

#aoe3 #exploit #funny

[Legiondude]

Spiff playing as redcoat Brits: Blue
AI playing as blue flag French: Red

[Visible confusion]

[MegaMOUNDS]

For clarity: the AI on the Ceylon map was never programmed to expand onto the middle island and play the map properly, even in the original. Ceylon is functionally a multiplayer-only map.

[arrogantsavant]

"Whales are an infinite source of gold" Gaming companies agree with that assessment spiff.

[mrmacguffn]

Tiny island, runs on whale oil, hates the French. Colonization!?

Most historically accurate Civ game ever

[Denazon]

British in blue and french in red? What kind of crazy world is this!

[FuelDropforthewin]

"this factory will focus entirely on food production."

Sets the factory to produce wood.

[crazedchangeling]

The first release of AoE 3 was my childhood, I spent hours committing colonization war crimes.

[malakajayaw]

I’m from ceylon and considering that both french and British tried to capture our island and only British succeeded, this might be a correct reenactment of what went down.

[biiiy]

As a french viewer, my reaction about this entire video was approximately : "Oh Caum on ! Zis iss English propagande **angry red wine noises**

[y]

"The age-old dispute of whether tea is superior to-"
"Wine? Champagne? Cassis even?"
"-baguette."
"Of course."

[trygveplaustrum]

20:40 Actually, French houses cost 100 Wood. Your Manor Houses cost more because they make Settlers.
*FUN FACTS!*

[asterixobelix]

"whales are an infinite source of gold" Mobile game companies already discovered this.

[JustinY.]

Man being an early explorer of the new world must have been insane, you could get stuck on the beach whenever you walked whenever the world wanted to screw you over.

[silver]

17:16 "focus entirely on food production" *produces wood*
17:20 "this factory here is gonna produce gold"
17:24 "so that we have a nice production of wood and food"

either you're munching on wood and using gold as planks, or munching on gold and using wood as wood or maybe you're building ships out of meat, but one thing is certain, that little stroke was rather funny

[tuindwergie]

Best exploit I found on this game: pick the Dutch, use your envoy to find the AI base ASAP, send the three envoys shipment, use your four envoys to literally punch the AI villagers to death. The AI doesn't know how to respond and keeps trying to garrison while trying to balance resource collection. The result: the AI never even reaches the second age.

This one time I was lucky enough to get a pet rhino as well (on the Borneo map) and soon the AI was unable to even make villagers anymore. This strategy works up until the extreme difficulty even...

[wargriffin]

French Explorer: (Gets stuck on the beach)

Captain Cook: "First time?"

[QutalToddHoward]

The amount of time I've spent playing this game is the reason that there's no Skyrim 2

[mstrbritodstroy]

As an avid Sea map player for Aoe 3, this pains me to see how slow his navy develops. At least he won!

[Donzatus]

The older version of AoE III had this river map, that split the map. It was quite easy to win the AI just by building a wall along the coast, so they couldn't land their units. Apparently they don't know what are cannons on theirs ships :D

[ledvapour]

6 seconds ago? Damnit Spiff, I didn't even get a chance to grab a cup of Tea.