First Age of Empires 4 Game! 1v1 as English

A first look at some Age of Empires 4 gameplay during the "stress test" open beta. To ease into things I went with a 1v1 as English against the Holy Roman Empire in black forest.

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[Daaannn]

I think the stress test looks good. 4~5 minutes and i'm already stressed with that bell...

[fartz]

Looks like it's more of a sequel to AOE2 than AOE3 was. My only complaint is that the town center bell is too quiet. It could probably use at least 4x as many DING's, or maybe even just never stop ringing, and getting increasingly louder throughout the match.

[nqh]

I love how the English spoken by the units becomes more and more understandable with each age.

[sirius_solaris]

One thing I ADORE about this game is that when you place a building, it automatically makes a path to that building depending on where you placed other buildings and the most used paths that villagers take. It adds that little bit extra immersive action y’know?

[jimmyjamesraynor]

Great to see this franchise being revived by Microsoft. Praying for Age Of Mythology Definitive Edition next.

[mullerpotgieter]

They'd better change the town center sound or they'll give players psychological trauma

[kamikazefrancais]

I have learned 2 things about AoE4 today:

DING DING

[Streak]

Opponent: irish
SOTL: I'll pick English


Pro gamer move

[HelloFutureMe]

It's really great to see that all this gameplay footage is finally letting AoE4 prove itself to the world. I freaking love it, and they really do seem to be listening to feedback.

[nguyenphamthanhgiang]

The perfect alignment between farms and mill is so satisfying ngl

[felixloewenich]

*DING DING*
4 minutes in and that sound effect is already driving me nuts

[ethribin]

I LOVE that the scout calls out what he finds!
Thats realy nice and helpfull.
Also immersive

[Rubafix]

They provided a very good argument against public score. They want to put an emphasis on scouting and prevent players from guessing the enemy strategy from the score. they seem to indicate that in AoE II you can deduce if a player is clicking feudal based on his score for example. I think you should be able to display scores in custom games, but I'm ok with them removing it for matchmaking. It's off putting but people will get used to it.

[krisporter]

Played the stress test all day yesterday, and the war crys are awesome, I love how ur troops and such will whistle and yell when they see enemy's, and the sea battles are amazing, I cant wait for full game.

[duck]

I can say I generally enjoyed myself, especially the 1v1’s. The atmosphere, voices, all had a nice refreshing feel

[oliviaaaaaah]

I _love_ the Old English that all of your troops are speaking. It's such a minor feature but I'm glad the AoE 4 devs doubled down on making the languages accurate.

[DarkOmegaMK]

Spirit of the Law just beat up a 10 year old playing his first game of AoE4.

[PepsimVideos]

Damn the voice acting in this game is amazing

[bluebones]

The game looks pretty, but being created in a whole 2021 just makes you appreciate more a game that 20 years ago gave an even greater sense of realism like AOE2, that game is just perfect.

[BillyTalentIIIlyrics]

this is absolutely amazing. You are a legend, it is such a new and great experience of SOTL having a gameplay recorded and see a bit, how you are tackling this!