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| 377s | hello everyone and welcome to another |
| 380s | stream for age of empires uh |
| 382s | for those who haven't tuned in before we |
| 384s | try to do these fairly often whenever we |
| 385s | have either patches or updates and we've |
| 388s | definitely got a bigger update coming |
| 390s | for you all very soon before we hop into |
| 392s | things i want to introduce myself i'm |
| 394s | grant one of the community managers here |
| 395s | at relic entertainment working on age |
| 397s | empires four and the family interface |
| 399s | you see beside me i'm sure you also know |
| 402s | yep it's elliott hello i'm the other |
| 405s | community manager here for agedrive |
| 406s | parts four |
| 407s | uh before we get underway i just want to |
| 409s | say a quick uh shout out marine lord is |
| 411s | raiding with uh his streaming channel so |
| 414s | welcome everybody um yeah as great |
| 416s | mention this is |
| 418s | a developer discussion stream that we've |
| 419s | got here |
| 421s | because if you haven't checked the news |
| 423s | we've got our |
| 425s | major season one update coming up for |
| 427s | age of empires four |
| 429s | yeah titled the festival of ages cause |
| 432s | we've got a lot and lots of number of |
| 434s | exciting additions and new features |
| 437s | which we'll chat more of but yeah so |
| 439s | yeah so this is our upcoming 1.3 update |
| 443s | this is our biggest it's our first major |
| 446s | content update for age of empires 4 for |
| 447s | the year and we're excited to get to |
| 449s | show you what we've got coming uh we're |
| 451s | gonna touch very briefly on a number of |
| 453s | things on this stream we and we hope to |
| 454s | have even more details for you in the |
| 456s | very near future but we wanted to get |
| 458s | this going because we put out the |
| 460s | official announcement of this update on |
| 462s | our blog today and there is also a shiny |
| 465s | new trailer uh but before we jump into |
| 468s | that we do have a number of guests |
| 470s | joining us today from different teams |
| 472s | over on the relic side here this is we |
| 473s | got a nice a nice few familiar faces and |
| 476s | one who you probably haven't seen all |
| 477s | too often here so we've got there we go |
| 481s | switch over to us all we have eric and |
| 483s | zach who most of you have seen on a |
| 485s | number of streams before and zach is |
| 487s | frozen looks like let me see what's |
| 488s | going on with that well i saw a bit of a |
| 490s | wave |
| 492s | zach is in like frame by frame and then |
| 493s | we also have michael konkin who is a |
| 495s | game designer on our r team |
| 499s | yeah so |
| 500s | all of us are here we're going to be |
| 501s | chatting around and talking about what |
| 503s | this update has each of these people |
| 505s | below me below elliot and me on the |
| 507s | stream they all have different |
| 509s | departments different areas of expertise |
| 510s | and they can all |
| 511s | talk probably a lot better than earlier |
| 513s | i can on the content we're going to be |
| 515s | covering today |
| 517s | yeah chat look at all those faces there |
| 518s | are a number of faces i i see the eric |
| 520s | love already in chat here they're just |
| 522s | screaming for eric |
| 525s | dude i'm screwing up for michael's couch |
| 527s | it looks really comfy back there |
| 529s | hang out every now and then |
| 531s | let me just see if we can get these |
| 532s | cameras one quick try i'm not sure |
| 534s | what's going on here our cameras really |
| 536s | do not like us for some reason |
| 539s | there we go let's see that looks okay so |
| 542s | far people are moving which is good |
| 543s | these used to love us so much more and |
| 545s | technology is technology it works until |
| 547s | it doesn't and we love it until we look |
| 549s | like everyone's moving though yep that |
| 550s | is that is good so |
| 552s | as i mentioned we did drop the blog post |
| 555s | today which has a lot of information in |
| 556s | there which you can go check out |
| 557s | there'll be more posts as well coming |
| 559s | soon |
| 560s | but |
| 561s | most exciting thing is we have a awesome |
| 563s | trailer that dropped and i think |
| 565s | before anything else i think we just |
| 567s | want to hop in and give that a quick |
| 569s | watch |
| 570s | yes |
| 572s | and yes in chat i can make people |
| 573s | disappear so don't make me mad |
| 576s | that's power i wish you didn't have |
| 580s | but i can also bring you back |
| 582s | becomes |
| 583s | something responsibility all right let's |
| 585s | go all right we're gonna take a look at |
| 586s | this and we will be right back in just a |
| 588s | short minute here everyone |
| 591s | [Music] |
| 592s | welcome to the season 1 update festival |
| 595s | of ages our latest update to age of |
| 598s | empires 4 |
| 600s | unsheathe your swords knock those arrows |
| 603s | and celebrate with the arrival of |
| 604s | competitive ranked seasons events and |
| 607s | the all-new content editor |
| 611s | compete in ranked seasons against fierce |
| 614s | opponents in your path to conquest and |
| 616s | triumph |
| 617s | demonstrate your strategic prowess as |
| 619s | you compete for exclusive rewards |
| 621s | [Music] |
| 623s | seasonal events arrive in age of empires |
| 626s | four complete challenges for rewards and |
| 628s | show off your accomplishments in your |
| 630s | matches |
| 633s | shoot for gold in the art of war mission |
| 635s | advanced combat |
| 640s | want to battle it out on a custom map |
| 641s | with a night strength set to overpower |
| 644s | customize your play any way you want |
| 646s | with the content editor make history |
| 649s | your story indeed |
| 652s | revel in the chaotic play of mega random |
| 655s | a completely random way to play and |
| 658s | truly test your skills including |
| 660s | campaign tuning quality of life and |
| 662s | balance changes and that's just a sneak |
| 665s | peek at our season one update |
| 668s | join us in the festivities |
| 671s | coming soon |
| 681s | all right so that was the trailer that |
| 683s | dropped today uh definitely i see all of |
| 685s | you in chat there's definitely a lot of |
| 686s | really interesting things in there that |
| 687s | hopefully we can dive into |
| 689s | in a bit more detail as mentioned we are |
| 691s | calling this this is our version 1.3 |
| 693s | update it's called season one festival |
| 694s | of ages uh there's a lot out there for |
| 697s | you to explore a lot of different things |
| 699s | as you saw in the trailer there are |
| 701s | ranked seasons the age of empires for |
| 703s | content editor which is launching in |
| 704s | beta mod support seasonal events and |
| 706s | even more so there's a lot a lot of |
| 709s | content and it's really exciting |
| 711s | uh as well briefly mentioned before |
| 715s | this is the first stream we are doing |
| 718s | for this version 1.3 update part of this |
| 720s | as we reveal more content and as we |
| 722s | actually launch into the season itself |
| 724s | we're going to be having a number of |
| 726s | streams |
| 727s | uh actually we're gonna do streams |
| 729s | basically every friday with the |
| 730s | exception of if their fall is a holiday |
| 732s | we'll probably miss those hey grant |
| 734s | sorry to cut you off but uh they're |
| 736s | saying the music's really loud yeah i |
| 738s | know people are saying louder but it's |
| 739s | too loud it is loud let me turn that |
| 741s | down there we go |
| 745s | let's just kill that music for now |
| 747s | definitely yep there we go so as |
| 749s | mentioned this is the first stream we're |
| 751s | doing for the 1.3 update there's going |
| 753s | to be a number of these doing them every |
| 756s | friday today is the first thursday just |
| 758s | because we got the the announcement out |
| 759s | today but we're going to be doing them |
| 760s | starting next friday |
| 762s | and we're going to have them basically |
| 764s | every week and we're going to cover a |
| 765s | bunch of different content we'll get |
| 767s | more into what each of these means as |
| 769s | as these streams hit but definitely |
| 771s | there's going to be some discussions |
| 772s | there's going to be some ranked play and |
| 774s | some of the seasonal event challenges |
| 775s | there as well um plus we'll even talk |
| 778s | about some ugc stuff so there's |
| 779s | definitely a number of streams this is |
| 781s | just the first |
| 782s | the first six streams we have more as |
| 784s | well |
| 785s | so stay tuned we will be posting our |
| 787s | stream schedules on twitch as well as |
| 789s | our social media so people can tune in |
| 791s | and keep an eye on what we're working on |
| 793s | here uh yeah so who's who's gonna be |
| 795s | playing for this road to ranked |
| 798s | so |
| 801s | i think that gave it away elliot is |
| 802s | going to be the one we're watching all |
| 804s | right my man elliot |
| 806s | we thought okay so we did talk to the |
| 808s | team here and we were like you know it |
| 809s | doesn't make sense to get the balance |
| 811s | team on there because you know we want |
| 813s | people to be able to see the real |
| 814s | struggle of going through and |
| 816s | um i i i i i was nominated because i i |
| 820s | at least |
| 821s | am okay with losing on capitalism yeah |
| 823s | yeah |
| 825s | plus elliot you're not you're not by any |
| 827s | means a bad player |
| 828s | you're not bad yeah it's just there's a |
| 830s | huge there's there's not room to grow |
| 832s | and a room to watch you rank up over the |
| 834s | season so we're gonna have fun with that |
| 836s | i'm excited i'm excited seeing the climb |
| 838s | elliott i want to see you at the top by |
| 839s | the end of it |
| 841s | yeah uh let's let's keep expectations |
| 844s | low um |
| 846s | you're gonna reach the very top rank |
| 847s | right |
| 848s | i don't know if i can get to the |
| 849s | conqueror right i'm gonna be very weird |
| 851s | i think if i could hit above gold i'll |
| 852s | be really happy i think chad just needs |
| 855s | to cheer you on elliot can hit conquer |
| 857s | right chat who's who's better elliot or |
| 859s | beastie |
| 860s | qt hmm that's a that's a hard question |
| 862s | um i think that'll be tough for beastie |
| 864s | to be honest |
| 864s | [Laughter] |
| 867s | yeah so yeah |
| 870s | yeah we'll be following uh me |
| 872s | on a road to ranked um yeah maybe get |
| 874s | some coaching from some of the folks |
| 876s | here but uh oh that'll be me uh behind |
| 879s | the mouse slash wheel |
| 881s | trying to uh trying to get some wins |
| 884s | yeah and i'm sure all of you in chat |
| 886s | will have some fun cheering on elliot |
| 887s | teaching him a few lessons here he might |
| 889s | even face off some of you in ranked who |
| 891s | knows uh yeah so that's just part of our |
| 893s | streaming schedule we have four one |
| 895s | three but i know most of you are here to |
| 896s | learn more about the update itself |
| 898s | and yeah so we're going to dive into |
| 900s | that as a note this update is coming |
| 902s | soon it is not not here just yet but |
| 905s | it's coming very very soon |
| 907s | and |
| 908s | yeah so we'll be having more information |
| 910s | in the coming days and giving you deeper |
| 912s | looks at everything we're about to talk |
| 913s | talk right now |
| 915s | uh so definitely stay tuned socials blog |
| 917s | and all of that but first up from that |
| 920s | list of things to talk about |
| 922s | the big one ranked seasons this is huge |
| 926s | and i know chat a lot of you are like |
| 928s | frank season's finally here what are |
| 929s | ranked seasons all of this we have a lot |
| 931s | of information for you on ranked seasons |
| 932s | that's going to be coming out in the |
| 934s | next few days here |
| 935s | but the first ranked season itself is |
| 937s | going to launch shortly after the 1-3 |
| 940s | release it's not going to be the same |
| 942s | day |
| 942s | basically what we want to do is we want |
| 944s | to make sure once the 1-3 update is out |
| 945s | that everything is stable everything is |
| 947s | good before we kick this off because a |
| 948s | season is a very |
| 950s | it's a longer event we want people to be |
| 952s | able to get in have the challenge and |
| 953s | have fun playing with it so we want to |
| 955s | make sure everything is as perfect as |
| 956s | possible before we launch this it will |
| 958s | be very shortly after the 1-3 release |
| 961s | though |
| 962s | um yeah |
| 964s | this so right seasons over a short |
| 966s | period of time actually not not that |
| 968s | short you'll find out in a little bit |
| 969s | but over a period of time you'll be |
| 971s | playing ranked matches and move up in |
| 973s | rankings as you try to get different |
| 974s | rewards um as you make your path to |
| 976s | victory this is what elliot mentioned of |
| 977s | reaching conqueror that's his that's his |
| 979s | goal getting those conqueror rewards no |
| 981s | no no no no let's make it clear |
| 984s | gold i'm gonna try to hit gold that will |
| 986s | be my goal that that'll be the goal for |
| 988s | me i don't know that conqueror there |
| 989s | looks pretty nice you can you can go |
| 991s | guys like i said starting low let's keep |
| 993s | the expectations low because then if i |
| 995s | over achieve it's a great success right |
| 998s | elliot for wood league |
| 1001s | chad said plastic |
| 1003s | league wow |
| 1006s | uh yeah so uh yeah yeah |
| 1008s | we'll see where elliott lands uh it'll |
| 1010s | be fun to watch along with all of you as |
| 1013s | we cheer elliot internally here as well |
| 1015s | at relic uh |
| 1016s | definitely all the fun so seasons we're |
| 1018s | gonna have a lot more information coming |
| 1019s | soon but this is it's gonna be a fun way |
| 1021s | for you to face off against each other |
| 1023s | and see where you stand on the |
| 1025s | leaderboards a little bit more than just |
| 1026s | normal ranked just normal play so we'll |
| 1029s | see where you follow the season and |
| 1030s | you'll be rewarded nicely for it |
| 1033s | uh |
| 1034s | and this is something actually for those |
| 1036s | who are on the pup build there this is |
| 1038s | something that they've been checking out |
| 1040s | there's definitely those on the pub |
| 1043s | convention pop what is the pup because |
| 1045s | for those who don't know are tuning in |
| 1047s | why don't you tell us eliot let us know |
| 1048s | yeah uh it is the public update preview |
| 1051s | which actually concluded on march 28th |
| 1053s | um we did extend it out but it was a |
| 1056s | chance for people to jump in and see and |
| 1058s | preview the build um similar to the |
| 1060s | other age titles |
| 1061s | uh and also we it helped us gather |
| 1063s | feedback and see where if there were any |
| 1065s | issues any bugs and that kind of stuff |
| 1067s | so it's something that um we're |
| 1069s | definitely gonna take advantage of and |
| 1070s | use uh down the road but obviously we uh |
| 1074s | close that up because |
| 1076s | we have this major season one update |
| 1078s | coming |
| 1079s | very soon yeah so everyone in the pub |
| 1081s | they all got to take a look at some of |
| 1083s | this early and help shape |
| 1084s | shape things let us know their feedback |
| 1086s | all of that uh as ellie mentions we'll |
| 1087s | probably do pups in the future as well |
| 1089s | so stay tuned um and yeah that brings us |
| 1092s | to where we are seasons here |
| 1093s | uh um and conkin there's some questions |
| 1096s | coming up i don't know if you wanna feel |
| 1098s | it but uh some people are wondering uh |
| 1100s | if we can talk about how many placement |
| 1101s | matches are required for us to get into |
| 1105s | your initial rank when you're playing |
| 1106s | maybe i'll should i give a a a breakdown |
| 1109s | of frank since just for those who |
| 1110s | haven't sure yeah |
| 1113s | just before we hop into that i just want |
| 1114s | to again remind everyone we're giving |
| 1116s | some bigger bigger picture details here |
| 1118s | with more specific breakdowns we'll be |
| 1119s | coming in the near future but definitely |
| 1121s | konkan you can give us a run through of |
| 1122s | what to expect |
| 1124s | okay so here's the the pitch so rank |
| 1126s | seasons is a new cube that caters to |
| 1128s | competitive play right so after five |
| 1131s | placement matches you'll be given a rank |
| 1133s | like bronze silver gold plastic whatever |
| 1137s | and that'll serve as a benchmark for |
| 1140s | your skill so |
| 1142s | instead of you know sweating it out in |
| 1143s | the in the elo leaderboards which will |
| 1145s | still be there you'll still be able to |
| 1146s | compete on the eli leaderboards in quick |
| 1148s | match and also in the ranked queue |
| 1151s | but you'll have sort of a tangible rank |
| 1152s | that you can |
| 1154s | you can work at and |
| 1156s | and share with other players as well so |
| 1158s | that's that's one component and then it |
| 1160s | also by creating this other space |
| 1163s | it allows us to make |
| 1165s | changes independently for competitive |
| 1167s | players as well versus um |
| 1170s | a bit more casual quick play right so |
| 1172s | um as an example there'll be a smaller |
| 1174s | map pool right we're just going to have |
| 1177s | all tie dry arabia high view hillendale |
| 1180s | lipany and mongolian heights and that's |
| 1183s | it at launch we're just going to start |
| 1184s | with a small competitive map queue |
| 1187s | and we can sort of tune uh that |
| 1189s | experience a little bit more to |
| 1191s | competitive players |
| 1194s | that's kind of it |
| 1196s | i uh so i was like on the on the puppet |
| 1199s | and playing the stuff and trying it out |
| 1201s | and i really love that sort of like ui |
| 1203s | you guys have to represent the five |
| 1206s | different wins and losses you wanna |
| 1207s | maybe talk a little bit about that real |
| 1209s | quick michael yeah it's pretty it's hard |
| 1211s | hard to describe without seeing it on |
| 1213s | screen but um the art team did a pretty |
| 1216s | fantastic job of sort of |
| 1218s | it creates this like emblem with five |
| 1220s | notches and if you win one it becomes a |
| 1222s | little bit more gold and if you lose one |
| 1224s | it |
| 1225s | becomes red and so it sort of describes |
| 1227s | your your journey to your placement um |
| 1230s | and then once you get placed you'll see |
| 1231s | one of the badges that are up on screen |
| 1232s | right now |
| 1234s | yeah we had very briefly in the trailer |
| 1236s | for those who are watching this you can |
| 1237s | actually see that come up it does show |
| 1238s | as like a bit of an overlay on the |
| 1239s | trailer of the different placements |
| 1241s | there's basically it looks like five |
| 1242s | circles around it that either that will |
| 1244s | stay gold or turn red uh depending on |
| 1246s | your placement |
| 1247s | there there's also going to be rewards |
| 1250s | um for competing in ranked seasons right |
| 1252s | can we talk about that a little bit yeah |
| 1254s | 100 i mean i see three things on the |
| 1256s | bottom of this screenshot here a coat of |
| 1258s | arms portraits and monuments those are |
| 1259s | those are things right |
| 1261s | things |
| 1262s | yeah so if you complete your five |
| 1263s | placement matches if you if you hit any |
| 1265s | rank so even if you're down in bronze um |
| 1268s | you'll get a bundle of of stuff that we |
| 1270s | hope you'll like um that kind of shows |
| 1272s | off what rank you got and um we're |
| 1275s | really going to be keeping a close eye |
| 1277s | on the feedback we get from that to kind |
| 1279s | of inform |
| 1280s | what rewards we do in the future and um |
| 1284s | you know look into adding new types of |
| 1285s | rewards as well |
| 1289s | awesome yeah so that's ranked seasons |
| 1291s | there's there's a lot there and i am |
| 1294s | sure many of you are going to spend a |
| 1295s | decent amount of time going through |
| 1296s | there seeing where you end up and we'll |
| 1298s | be watching where elliot ends up as well |
| 1301s | but there is a counterside two-ranked |
| 1303s | seasons as well for those who might not |
| 1305s | want to hop in the rank play is seasonal |
| 1307s | events |
| 1308s | and these are these are really exciting |
| 1309s | because they give you a different way to |
| 1311s | earn rewards other than playing in |
| 1313s | ranked matches |
| 1314s | this runs over the course of the season |
| 1315s | as well |
| 1316s | they'll be different |
| 1318s | different durations different like |
| 1319s | different segments of them so they'll be |
| 1320s | different like different chunks so let's |
| 1322s | say season one one season two three and |
| 1324s | four is like periods where you do |
| 1326s | different challenges and these could be |
| 1328s | just regular gameplay things you do on a |
| 1330s | day-to-day basis and you'll earn |
| 1332s | different rewards as well so in addition |
| 1334s | to doing ranked matches and playing in |
| 1336s | the ranked season you also have these |
| 1337s | seasonal events that are |
| 1339s | essentially challenges or tasks you can |
| 1341s | complete for additional rewards and |
| 1342s | these are different rewards than you get |
| 1344s | from the ranked season |
| 1347s | yeah so |
| 1349s | they're really intended to be for |
| 1350s | everyone right so they're not going to |
| 1351s | be very grindy um but they kind of |
| 1354s | encourage you to try out uh something |
| 1356s | new that we're adding in in the update |
| 1358s | um |
| 1359s | i guess like to shout out a bit of a |
| 1362s | teaser if you kill a king in royal |
| 1365s | rumble that might be one event that you |
| 1367s | get a reward for so it's really just |
| 1369s | about getting into the game and and |
| 1370s | trying out the new stuff that we have to |
| 1372s | offer |
| 1373s | now what is royal rumble michael |
| 1376s | royal rumble is a |
| 1378s | mod uh mod created created by our team |
| 1382s | and uh downloadable from the new mods |
| 1385s | tab once that is available |
| 1387s | it's almost like you knew where we're |
| 1389s | going with the discussion and decided to |
| 1390s | delete us right over there i'm all about |
| 1392s | the segway |
| 1394s | yeah so mods that is also a very |
| 1398s | very exciting feature and that brings us |
| 1400s | to the next topic our content editor |
| 1402s | which is the hr empire's four content |
| 1403s | editor which is launching as as a beta |
| 1406s | at this point |
| 1407s | but those of you again from the pup |
| 1409s | they've had some access they've gotten |
| 1410s | to play around with it a little a little |
| 1412s | bit as well it's a very exciting tool |
| 1415s | and it's it's going to allow you to |
| 1416s | customize basically how you play age |
| 1418s | vampires for you can design and create |
| 1420s | your own maps mods and all sorts of |
| 1422s | different things in there |
| 1424s | yeah there's actually four types of mods |
| 1426s | that you can make you can make game |
| 1428s | modes which is what michael's talking |
| 1429s | about with royal rumble which is very uh |
| 1432s | similar to registered mode |
| 1434s | but you can also make maps there's two |
| 1436s | types of maps you can make crafted maps |
| 1438s | for example which you can perfectly |
| 1440s | sculpt and design exactly as you would |
| 1442s | like and then there's generated maps |
| 1444s | which are similar to maps like arabia or |
| 1447s | mountain pass which are random every |
| 1449s | time and then there's also tuning packs |
| 1451s | as the fourth type of mod you can make |
| 1452s | where you can edit the data in the game |
| 1455s | so you can for example make trebuchets |
| 1457s | shoot sheep or you could make mongol |
| 1460s | villagers cost 500 foods so that they're |
| 1462s | fair and balanced |
| 1463s | those poor poor sheep |
| 1466s | you can do whatever you like is the |
| 1467s | point and it's actually really awesome |
| 1470s | to see what people have been able to do |
| 1472s | already um in the pub |
| 1474s | we've had the ugc tools available for |
| 1477s | people to try out |
| 1478s | and it's just amazing to see what |
| 1480s | they've done i mean when you think about |
| 1482s | where age of empires has has come |
| 1485s | and how so much of it has been |
| 1487s | contributed by modders we've had things |
| 1489s | like capture age in the past and we've |
| 1490s | got forgotten empires that started out |
| 1492s | as a mod group |
| 1494s | it's really exciting that we're opening |
| 1495s | the door to a modding community in age |
| 1498s | four |
| 1499s | seeing what they can come up with is |
| 1500s | going to be great and so far we've seen |
| 1503s | tons of really awesome stuff too um so |
| 1506s | for example um age of noob he made a |
| 1508s | video recently highlighting some of the |
| 1510s | different lighting that you could put on |
| 1512s | the maps i don't know if any of you guys |
| 1513s | saw that um but putting that sort of |
| 1515s | evening golden glow into the map was |
| 1518s | awesome and he even made it night time |
| 1520s | which was yeah pretty special and i'm |
| 1522s | sure people will be making some great |
| 1524s | stuff with that and we showed out the |
| 1526s | aoe for the unofficial aoe4 modding |
| 1528s | discord because it is amazing like we've |
| 1531s | all been creeping it and there's a |
| 1532s | showcase channel uh that i'd encourage |
| 1534s | anyone who's interested to check out |
| 1536s | um people are just blowing our minds |
| 1538s | with what they're they're making with |
| 1539s | the one caveat that it is unofficial but |
| 1541s | that sounds yeah that's totally fine |
| 1543s | it's awesome to see what the community |
| 1544s | can build and modding is such a big |
| 1545s | thing i think encouraging it in whatever |
| 1547s | way possible is is great for us |
| 1549s | and for people to go see what they're |
| 1550s | making you might get ideas of something |
| 1551s | for you to make as well |
| 1554s | uh yeah |
| 1555s | it's a great place to just see what |
| 1557s | people are doing and then you know sort |
| 1559s | of get ideas for yourself we've even |
| 1561s | seen sort of custom maps being made |
| 1563s | already um inspired by age of empires |
| 1565s | classic maps so someone's in there |
| 1567s | making maps like four lakes and socatra |
| 1570s | or atacama for example |
| 1572s | that thing oh yeah we've seen a forest |
| 1574s | nothing it's it's all coming the |
| 1576s | floodgates are open so yeah uh i'm |
| 1578s | really excited for this do you have a |
| 1580s | favorite from the pup sack |
| 1583s | oh that's a really good question because |
| 1584s | there's like a really broad range of |
| 1586s | stuff right um one of the things that i |
| 1588s | thought was really creative actually was |
| 1590s | the realistic scale uh mod where uh |
| 1593s | someone shrunk down all of the units so |
| 1595s | that they were to scale with the |
| 1596s | doorways of the buildings and it's just |
| 1598s | kind of cool to see the game that |
| 1600s | different perspective not something that |
| 1602s | i think i would play with but certainly |
| 1604s | cool to look at yeah the the unit |
| 1606s | scaling especially i think there was a |
| 1607s | screenshot floating around at night time |
| 1609s | as well with like the torches letting up |
| 1610s | the side of the building that was really |
| 1612s | cool i i was a sucker for the nostalgia |
| 1614s | mod that reintroduced all the awful bugs |
| 1617s | we shipped with the couple of awful bugs |
| 1619s | that we took |
| 1620s | ding ding did did that make it in there |
| 1623s | ding ding that's that's if that's an |
| 1624s | automotive that has to be one that's |
| 1626s | going to be a mod it's got to be i might |
| 1628s | have to get started with modding just to |
| 1629s | make that happen |
| 1631s | oh my goodness |
| 1634s | uh yeah so |
| 1635s | not only with the pup but our team has |
| 1637s | also been playing around with this |
| 1638s | editor and testing it out as well uh so |
| 1641s | when when it does launch when mods in |
| 1643s | the ugc tool launch with this one three |
| 1645s | update there will be some initial mods |
| 1647s | populated for you to check out from our |
| 1648s | team as well as we'll be continuing to |
| 1650s | watch and seeing as new mods from the |
| 1652s | community are created and uploaded there |
| 1653s | so that's the nice thing is |
| 1654s | you can create your mods you can share |
| 1656s | them people can download them you can |
| 1657s | all check them out together |
| 1658s | all yeah which is absolutely amazing |
| 1661s | and anyone who's been working on these |
| 1662s | mods since the pop as well they'll be |
| 1664s | able to re-upload those so |
| 1666s | i think we're going to have a lot of |
| 1667s | cool stuff right at launch as well |
| 1669s | yeah that's awesome and uh as as |
| 1672s | mentioned we do have more streams coming |
| 1674s | for this and we will be diving more as |
| 1675s | well on stream as well as in blog posts |
| 1678s | about what this content editor uh and |
| 1680s | this and the ugc of how this all works |
| 1682s | there so we'll be looking a lot more in |
| 1684s | depth probably taking a look at some |
| 1686s | mods that people have actually made so |
| 1688s | if |
| 1689s | if you are into making mods if it's |
| 1691s | really interesting and it's amazing we |
| 1692s | may show it on stream at some point |
| 1697s | yeah |
| 1698s | yeah let's go |
| 1700s | get get to it y'all |
| 1702s | yeah uh yeah |
| 1705s | all right |
| 1706s | uh |
| 1707s | now that being said um we |
| 1711s | i don't know what did we talk about yet |
| 1713s | but the two other stuff that's coming |
| 1714s | with we have not yet |
| 1717s | okay take us away so if you saw the |
| 1720s | trailer part um |
| 1724s | and continue getting some love in chat |
| 1726s | um if you haven't seen it |
| 1729s | love the love |
| 1730s | love the love uh so there are two new |
| 1732s | stuff that is coming along with the |
| 1734s | update a brand new art of war challenge |
| 1737s | called advanced combat |
| 1739s | conkin i don't know if you have a |
| 1740s | one-liner or something for that but i |
| 1742s | know that your team was the one that was |
| 1743s | working on that so |
| 1745s | my team didn't build that one but i i |
| 1746s | will show them out too that yeah it's uh |
| 1749s | the wrong one wrong team sorry |
| 1751s | it is the extension of um the basic |
| 1754s | combat art of war that that uh we |
| 1756s | shipped with so it's really cool check |
| 1759s | it out it's the next step to um step up |
| 1762s | your game |
| 1763s | yeah funny enough it's called advanced |
| 1765s | combat so uh that will be the next art |
| 1767s | of war challenge that you could take on |
| 1769s | to try to get gold um i am sad to say |
| 1772s | that the basic combat it's my only |
| 1773s | bronze one i think everything else i've |
| 1775s | gotten gold in so |
| 1776s | um i definitely the combat's hard it's |
| 1779s | hard yeah it is i have to micro |
| 1781s | yeah i want to make it through got a |
| 1783s | microphone |
| 1785s | guys just this is what i'm saying this |
| 1786s | is a precursor to the whole road to rank |
| 1788s | let's keep the expectations low because |
| 1789s | like |
| 1790s | macro game pretty good microgreen |
| 1792s | not not so not as good as it used to be |
| 1794s | when i was you know |
| 1795s | playing a lot more |
| 1797s | age of empires and other rts games uh |
| 1800s | that being said also there is a fun map |
| 1803s | that was done by the dev team that is |
| 1805s | i'll call back hallmark to |
| 1807s | age two i believe was the first time it |
| 1810s | came up which is mega random |
| 1812s | um i wonder whether you've never |
| 1815s | yeah if you've never played mega random |
| 1817s | it basically is |
| 1819s | a random variable of starting stuff and |
| 1822s | across the map resources |
| 1825s | uh and stuff like that it's all |
| 1827s | literally random so |
| 1830s | uh a great way to jump in create some |
| 1832s | chaos get into a fun |
| 1834s | uh match with friends with photos with |
| 1836s | ai however you like uh that will also be |
| 1839s | included in this season one update |
| 1842s | we actually on the balance team played |
| 1844s | that map quite a bit like it's probably |
| 1846s | one of our favorite maps just because |
| 1848s | you have like no idea what you're gonna |
| 1850s | get like is it gonna be |
| 1851s | you know naval is it gonna be just all |
| 1853s | land like you've no idea what it's gonna |
| 1855s | be and like |
| 1856s | the the map spawning algorithm it's like |
| 1859s | sometimes you know some players have a |
| 1861s | little advantage but we haven't really |
| 1862s | like played on it where i was just like |
| 1865s | oh this was like completely unfair and i |
| 1866s | had no chance of winning like the the ra |
| 1869s | it's like it's a randomness but it's |
| 1870s | constrained in ways where it does still |
| 1872s | like feel fair where it's like an equal |
| 1874s | distance between the starting gold mines |
| 1876s | and the relics and stuff like that so |
| 1877s | yeah it's just a blast you never know |
| 1879s | what you're gonna get it's really fun |
| 1881s | yeah it's it's it's awesome and it's |
| 1883s | never like unreasonably unfair like it's |
| 1885s | it's some somehow manages to be like |
| 1888s | actually reasonably balanced it's not |
| 1890s | something that would be competitive but |
| 1892s | you can jump in and you know you're |
| 1894s | going to have a really fun game and i |
| 1895s | think that's uh they've done a really |
| 1896s | good job with mega random |
| 1901s | question in chat will mega random be in |
| 1903s | quick match and i believe we're |
| 1905s | launching without mega random and quick |
| 1906s | match but that doesn't mean that we |
| 1908s | couldn't add it later and we'll kind of |
| 1909s | see fill that one out |
| 1912s | yeah similar to the last uh patch we did |
| 1915s | take out maps i believe from the quick |
| 1917s | match pool so we can obviously add in |
| 1918s | maps so |
| 1920s | we will be keeping an eye on a response |
| 1923s | to that and just in general all the big |
| 1925s | updates |
| 1927s | speaking of which segwaying into the |
| 1929s | next portion of course a major update |
| 1932s | light car seasonal update and for those |
| 1934s | who tried out the pup we'll know |
| 1936s | is uh it can't be complete without a |
| 1939s | huge number of balance changes and game |
| 1941s | updates so |
| 1942s | i'm gonna throw to our resident favorite |
| 1944s | stream uh guest |
| 1946s | eric here um eric do you want to talk a |
| 1949s | little bit about the balance kind of |
| 1951s | goals behind this update that we've got |
| 1953s | coming up |
| 1954s | absolutely i would love to |
| 1957s | so |
| 1958s | over time we've been trying to uh you |
| 1960s | know sort of like get the win weights |
| 1961s | closer and closer to that like sort of |
| 1964s | you know obviously it would be great if |
| 1965s | every civ had exactly 50 |
| 1968s | uh win rating right but uh you know some |
| 1971s | sieves are going to be better on on |
| 1973s | different maps like some people you know |
| 1974s | are going to be a little bit better on |
| 1975s | naval some are a little bit better on |
| 1976s | choke points or open maps and stuff like |
| 1978s | that so |
| 1980s | um our goal is not to get everything |
| 1982s | exactly to 50 right we're trying to get |
| 1984s | it within that threshold of 45 to 55 so |
| 1988s | we want |
| 1989s | every match at the start of it no matter |
| 1991s | what sieve you are and who you're |
| 1992s | playing against you feel like you have a |
| 1994s | chance to win or an opportunity you know |
| 1996s | if you can play play well and make the |
| 1998s | right moves |
| 2000s | so |
| 2001s | we have we have been getting tighter and |
| 2002s | tighter and we're |
| 2003s | really excited about all the 1.3 changes |
| 2007s | that we have because in general |
| 2009s | we're trying to focus on pushing the |
| 2011s | sieves at the bottom up with balance |
| 2013s | changes to make make them more |
| 2015s | competitive and feel like they have |
| 2017s | more options and cool |
| 2020s | strategies that they can engage so |
| 2023s | uh an example that comes to mind is the |
| 2025s | english where we see |
| 2027s | a lot of english players really focusing |
| 2029s | on like building a lot of longbows |
| 2031s | because that's their you know sort of |
| 2033s | like most powerful iconic unit and they |
| 2035s | can build it like right from the |
| 2037s | beginning of the game |
| 2038s | so |
| 2039s | one of the changes we've done with the |
| 2040s | english is that they're man at arms |
| 2043s | which is you know that it's sort of a |
| 2045s | right now it's kind of like a minor |
| 2047s | theme in the sieve because they just |
| 2048s | have the iron clad upgrade which gives |
| 2050s | them plus two armor quite good right um |
| 2052s | but we wanted to |
| 2054s | encourage more of this sort of like |
| 2055s | diversity and force mixing with the |
| 2057s | english army so the made in arms now |
| 2059s | builds in 15 seconds instead of 22 so |
| 2063s | you can really you really crank out an |
| 2065s | army of these guys really quickly |
| 2068s | and it synergizes also pretty well with |
| 2070s | the whole like farming bonus because the |
| 2072s | english can get a lot of food and man at |
| 2075s | arms have a really high food cost so |
| 2078s | we've already seen on the pup people |
| 2080s | taking advantage of this and coming up |
| 2082s | with some new strategies that we've |
| 2083s | never seen before for the english |
| 2084s | civilization so |
| 2086s | we're definitely definitely really |
| 2087s | looking forward to all the cool new |
| 2088s | things that players are going to do in |
| 2090s | update 1.3 |
| 2095s | all right yeah and as mentioned there is |
| 2098s | a lot a lot more information coming in |
| 2101s | the the coming coming days and weeks not |
| 2104s | weeks coming days a little bit of time |
| 2105s | here as we as we move towards this one |
| 2107s | three update and seasons and all of this |
| 2110s | uh that also includes the full patch |
| 2112s | notes we don't have those for you today |
| 2113s | those will be coming in the near future |
| 2116s | so you'll be able to take a look at |
| 2117s | those when they do come out as well uh |
| 2120s | so we don't i know in past streams we've |
| 2121s | dived in and kind of gone through the |
| 2123s | past notes as they were one by one |
| 2124s | talking with the team this was more of |
| 2126s | just chatting about what's coming and |
| 2127s | some of the like bigger picture these |
| 2129s | balance update goals here as well |
| 2131s | uh there are that said a lot of updates |
| 2135s | in that change in that change list so |
| 2137s | you'll get to keep your eye on that |
| 2138s | shortly |
| 2140s | more things that are coming would it be |
| 2141s | okay if i quickly talked about ui stuff |
| 2144s | real quick as well |
| 2145s | yeah i think that'll be fine because |
| 2147s | we've got some exciting things there too |
| 2149s | um things that people have been asking |
| 2150s | for for a long time uh we're bringing in |
| 2153s | a global cue so you can get a an |
| 2156s | overview of your production at a glance |
| 2158s | at all times while you're playing the |
| 2160s | game |
| 2161s | which is awesome and a feature that's |
| 2163s | loved by many |
| 2164s | um we've also got stat card improvements |
| 2167s | so you'll be able to see when you get an |
| 2170s | upgrade you'll be able to see how much |
| 2171s | that upgrade has affected your units |
| 2173s | because it will display it as a plus and |
| 2175s | then if you've got the blacksmith |
| 2177s | upgrade for example it gives you plus |
| 2178s | one attack it will show plus one attack |
| 2181s | in the ui card when you click on the |
| 2183s | unit whereas before it would show the |
| 2186s | base value |
| 2188s | and then we've got a bunch of updates to |
| 2189s | hotkeys as well so you'll be able to |
| 2191s | remap your mouse buttons for example |
| 2193s | we have a toggle which allows you to set |
| 2196s | exclusive control groups so you can have |
| 2198s | control group stealing or not depending |
| 2200s | on which you prefer |
| 2202s | you can also rebind keys like control |
| 2204s | shift and alt |
| 2206s | we've added a ton of hotkeys such as |
| 2210s | cycle through all buildings of a type or |
| 2212s | select all buildings of a type we have |
| 2214s | camera location hotkeys so i would |
| 2217s | really suggest if you're into like all |
| 2219s | the hotkey stuff just load up the menu |
| 2221s | have a browse there's hundreds of things |
| 2222s | in there to bind to your heart's content |
| 2224s | and uh we will continue to work on that |
| 2227s | in the future as well but looking |
| 2229s | forward to hearing feedback about it and |
| 2230s | uh yeah getting in in your hands to play |
| 2233s | with |
| 2235s | we have we have i think more plans for |
| 2237s | the future too like that this is sort of |
| 2238s | our you know our first first step into |
| 2241s | improving the hotkey experience but we |
| 2242s | do want to keep making even more |
| 2244s | progress in the future but we're we're |
| 2246s | pretty excited about this for 1.3 um |
| 2249s | another really cool thing i like about |
| 2251s | um you're talking about the ui showing |
| 2252s | the upgrades and stuff like that um |
| 2255s | so it captures the blacksmith upgrades |
| 2256s | um and showing you like oh okay i have |
| 2259s | plus two armor and another nice part of |
| 2261s | that is you can click on the enemy |
| 2262s | troops so a real click quick glance you |
| 2265s | can tell exactly what the stats are so |
| 2266s | you'd be like oh okay you know he's got |
| 2269s | he's got two armor and i don't have any |
| 2270s | so i don't want to take this fight i |
| 2271s | need to like back up and retreat and you |
| 2273s | know wait until i have enough time to |
| 2275s | bolster my forces |
| 2277s | and a cool thing is not only does it |
| 2279s | show the bonuses it also shows the |
| 2282s | negatives um which there aren't a lot of |
| 2284s | penalties but i know the camels are |
| 2286s | definitely um |
| 2288s | one that comes to mind where you can |
| 2290s | actually see it be like oh this has like |
| 2291s | -3 damage because the camel aura is |
| 2293s | affecting them so it yeah it really |
| 2295s | shows off a lot of the the cool |
| 2296s | interactions in our game |
| 2302s | did zach freeze |
| 2304s | oh he did i'm still here my camera is |
| 2307s | freezing apparently yeah i'm here though |
| 2309s | you're just shocked at what i said i'm |
| 2318s | let's see if maybe you'll stay not |
| 2320s | frozen |
| 2321s | yeah no it's it's really strange like |
| 2324s | it's fine until it's not and as soon as |
| 2325s | i disable and re-enable it it's totally |
| 2327s | fine so it's |
| 2328s | somewhere somewhere in the chain of |
| 2329s | technology technology is not liking us |
| 2332s | well maybe maybe just zach |
| 2334s | for some reason |
| 2336s | i see a lot of people i think you're a |
| 2337s | great guy |
| 2339s | in chat asking about team ranked can i |
| 2341s | talk to that one really quickly yeah |
| 2343s | yeah so we're shipping with 1v1 ranked |
| 2345s | and that's that's what season one is |
| 2346s | going to be like but um i think a lot of |
| 2349s | people would be surprised at how much |
| 2352s | player feedback factors into to what we |
| 2354s | decide to do next so if team ranked is |
| 2356s | something you want to see i'd just |
| 2358s | encourage you to keep shouting about it |
| 2359s | it's something we want to do so |
| 2361s | um if the community is behind us then |
| 2363s | we'll try to try to get that done at |
| 2365s | some point in the future |
| 2367s | there's going to be so many caps you |
| 2369s | just asked twitch chat |
| 2371s | you're like |
| 2372s | yes please |
| 2374s | no what have you done |
| 2376s | should we just give them like your |
| 2377s | direct line kanken they can just send |
| 2379s | them straight to you |
| 2384s | what's your favorite taunt can i post it |
| 2386s | in chat what your favorite taunt is from |
| 2387s | the previous age games |
| 2390s | oh good one good one |
| 2392s | that's not that's not a loaded question |
| 2394s | sorry so just just to |
| 2397s | circle back to what michael said here um |
| 2399s | we are obviously in our social channels |
| 2402s | we're on forums we're on reddit uh we |
| 2404s | see our in-game telemetry as well as |
| 2406s | these streams like we we keep an eye on |
| 2407s | what's being talked about in chat so um |
| 2410s | those are all the reasons why we try to |
| 2413s | listen to what we what you the community |
| 2415s | is telling us um that is better for the |
| 2418s | game and obviously |
| 2419s | uh we've done some work around that so |
| 2420s | that's why we've also brought in like i |
| 2422s | said global build queues coming in for |
| 2424s | uh one uh the big season one update as |
| 2426s | long as as well as a whole bunch of |
| 2427s | other features so |
| 2429s | uh keep on talking keep on providing us |
| 2431s | information there's a reason why we uh |
| 2434s | love doing these things because we're |
| 2435s | able to talk with you guys and be able |
| 2437s | to get uh the information that we need |
| 2439s | to make sure that we're making you know |
| 2440s | the informed decisions that make sense |
| 2442s | for the community um as a whole so yeah |
| 2445s | yeah and as we're as you're talking |
| 2446s | about that elliot we got a reading party |
| 2449s | from core aoe so thank you so much and |
| 2451s | welcome everyone to the stream |
| 2452s | we've just been chatting about what |
| 2454s | what's coming in this one three update |
| 2456s | that includes ranked seasons the content |
| 2458s | editor not only ranked seasons actually |
| 2460s | but also seasonal events and some of |
| 2462s | these balance changes and we're gonna |
| 2464s | have a lot of streams a number of |
| 2465s | streams as i'll just toss on the screen |
| 2467s | here over the next few weeks as we dive |
| 2470s | in as the season's running as well where |
| 2471s | we show |
| 2473s | developer discussions more with the team |
| 2474s | like this uh we'll have different |
| 2476s | members of the team talking about either |
| 2477s | ugc uh rndr which is actually the team |
| 2479s | michael conkin is from ritual and |
| 2481s | retention as well as other teams these |
| 2482s | are just some of the streams we have |
| 2484s | planned but they'll be kicking off every |
| 2485s | friday at the same time 2 30 p.m pacific |
| 2488s | time |
| 2491s | uh yeah |
| 2493s | it's very exciting to see |
| 2495s | this update and to see our festival of |
| 2498s | ages season 1 festival of ages launch |
| 2500s | here |
| 2504s | all right so actually i have a question |
| 2507s | for eric and to extension zach as well |
| 2509s | um |
| 2510s | obviously we've been keeping an eye on |
| 2512s | the pup which uh for those again who are |
| 2514s | just tuning in that's the public update |
| 2516s | preview we had running up until march |
| 2518s | 28th um |
| 2520s | with that it was a pretty much a preview |
| 2523s | of the balance updates and changes that |
| 2524s | are coming in with the season one update |
| 2526s | was there anything |
| 2528s | specific that we've done that is a |
| 2531s | balance changer update that caught you |
| 2532s | by surprise about how the community |
| 2534s | reacted to or or shifted the meta around |
| 2540s | uh |
| 2541s | well one thing uh |
| 2543s | i can add is |
| 2545s | uh we |
| 2546s | were definitely like watching all the |
| 2548s | tournaments and stuff that were |
| 2549s | happening right and we sort of have like |
| 2551s | a |
| 2552s | a lock date for when we're gonna need to |
| 2553s | get our changes in um because it you |
| 2555s | know it has to be tested and go through |
| 2558s | certification and make sure it's not |
| 2559s | cause any crashes and you know so |
| 2560s | there's like a pretty long process |
| 2562s | um so we had a couple of changes |
| 2565s | that i would i would term maybe like the |
| 2567s | the bart simpson changes where you know |
| 2570s | that scene in the opening when the |
| 2571s | garage door is is closing and he's |
| 2574s | trying to like slide underneath right |
| 2575s | and then he like wraps his hat at the |
| 2576s | last moment |
| 2578s | so we had like that was a couple of |
| 2580s | weeks ago yeah |
| 2582s | yeah so we had a couple of changes uh |
| 2584s | that that zach was able to get to get in |
| 2587s | the whole the whole team really uh |
| 2588s | hustled up to to work on those based on |
| 2591s | like what we were seeing in the |
| 2592s | tournaments so |
| 2595s | i have some of these that i remember |
| 2597s | offhand i have to load up on my screen i |
| 2599s | could run through them if you like yes |
| 2601s | please zack robinson sure so i mean this |
| 2604s | is also this is in response to the pop |
| 2607s | so one thing i would say is that if you |
| 2609s | what thinking about playing the pub it's |
| 2611s | a great way to see what's coming up |
| 2613s | before it goes live and it even gives us |
| 2615s | time to get feedback and act on it |
| 2617s | before we go live as well and some of |
| 2619s | these changes are a result of feedback |
| 2621s | we got from the pub but also feedback |
| 2623s | that we got from tournament organizers |
| 2625s | we've seen um n4c of course and the rule |
| 2628s | set which they used there |
| 2630s | and also now golden league they're using |
| 2632s | specific rules and so we have some |
| 2634s | changes with those in mind um some of |
| 2636s | them being related to stone walls and |
| 2638s | stone wall towers for example we |
| 2641s | increased the cost of the stonewall |
| 2642s | tower from 200 to 300 stone |
| 2645s | we also moved the delhi sultanate herbal |
| 2648s | medicine to the castle age from the dark |
| 2650s | age |
| 2651s | and of course those were two of the |
| 2652s | major rules from n4c um and we think |
| 2655s | that you know these will help to |
| 2658s | you know put these things in a better |
| 2659s | place where tournaments will consider |
| 2661s | using them too |
| 2663s | we also reverted one of our original |
| 2665s | changes um to the official train time i |
| 2668s | think we put out a patch note saying |
| 2669s | that the train time would be uh |
| 2672s | increased to 30 seconds but we reduced |
| 2674s | it back down to 20 in response to some |
| 2676s | of that feedback |
| 2678s | and we also have a nerf for the delhi |
| 2680s | and abbasid orchards as well where when |
| 2683s | you place the |
| 2685s | mill against the berry bushes it won't |
| 2687s | double the food in them but it will just |
| 2689s | give a flat plus 100 food so they'll |
| 2691s | still have a really powerful strong |
| 2693s | bonus but it will be limited in how long |
| 2696s | and how much you can get out of it |
| 2701s | yeah exactly so so that was based on you |
| 2704s | know some of the stuff we were seeing on |
| 2705s | the pup and and stuff we had been seeing |
| 2707s | on the tournament we were able to just |
| 2708s | slide those changes in so we're really |
| 2710s | happy to get those |
| 2712s | uh kind of in at the last minute um |
| 2714s | so it's not that we would never |
| 2716s | uh want move stone walls to the to the |
| 2720s | castle age um but |
| 2722s | we found that one of the biggest |
| 2723s | strengths was people were putting these |
| 2724s | towers the stonewall towers on top of |
| 2727s | them and they were super |
| 2729s | super powerful and difficult to deal |
| 2731s | with having this sprinkle tower shooting |
| 2733s | you |
| 2734s | in the feudal age when you didn't have |
| 2736s | quite as many you had a very you know a |
| 2737s | much smaller army so you didn't have as |
| 2739s | many uh capabilities and units to be |
| 2741s | able to counter it |
| 2743s | um and then another thing that we did as |
| 2746s | well is |
| 2747s | when your workers are building the |
| 2749s | stonewall tower um |
| 2752s | they can't immediately just walk up onto |
| 2754s | the stone wall and build it from on top |
| 2755s | of the stone wall they have to fully |
| 2757s | complete the tower before they can get |
| 2758s | onto the stone wall so that adds a lot |
| 2761s | more counter play and options for you to |
| 2763s | be able to stop the enemy from doing |
| 2765s | this to you um |
| 2767s | because now if you have cavalry you can |
| 2768s | just run them around and then kill the |
| 2770s | workers that are constructing this |
| 2773s | so we wanted to try these changes out |
| 2775s | and and see how they feel and we'll |
| 2776s | definitely continue to make more tweaks |
| 2778s | and monitor the situation but um yeah we |
| 2781s | think these will help a lot and we're |
| 2782s | pretty excited about these changes and |
| 2784s | if i may just one of the biggest changes |
| 2786s | probably balance wise in 1.3 uh |
| 2789s | buildings under construction will now |
| 2791s | take 50 percent more damage so |
| 2793s | you have a lot more opportunity to |
| 2795s | contest buildings that are being dropped |
| 2797s | right outside of your base or something |
| 2799s | like that so um we think that'll make a |
| 2801s | really big impact as well and it will |
| 2803s | increase the risk of these kind of like |
| 2805s | tower rush and |
| 2807s | you know using defenses offensively uh |
| 2809s | that should make a big difference there |
| 2812s | yeah definitely |
| 2813s | it uh that comes up in like a lot of |
| 2815s | different situations too right like |
| 2816s | we'll see |
| 2817s | a lot of people like tower rushing right |
| 2819s | and then it's like well you pull your |
| 2820s | villagers and you can kind of push them |
| 2822s | away from the tower |
| 2824s | but then it like takes too long to |
| 2826s | actually kill it so then you kind of |
| 2827s | just have to walk back but now that it |
| 2829s | takes 50 extra damage you can have your |
| 2830s | villagers just turn and like torch down |
| 2832s | the tower really fast |
| 2834s | and then another uh really important |
| 2836s | situation we're hoping to address with |
| 2837s | this is people building keeps |
| 2840s | either |
| 2841s | responding to an attack in their base |
| 2843s | and just being able to put up a keep |
| 2844s | super fast or just pulling you know 10 |
| 2846s | or 15 villagers with their attack and |
| 2848s | putting a keep right in the enemy base |
| 2851s | uh if the keeps built so quickly uh it |
| 2854s | felt like there was really nothing you |
| 2855s | could do is like he built he's got the |
| 2857s | stone he's got the villagers the keep is |
| 2859s | just going up and i can't stop it so not |
| 2862s | only does it take 50 more damage which |
| 2864s | means you could actually turn and attack |
| 2866s | it and kill it or you know significantly |
| 2869s | uh wound it |
| 2871s | additionally uh we increased the build |
| 2873s | time in the keeps too so you have a |
| 2874s | little bit more of a window to exploit |
| 2876s | that extra 50 damage that they keep |
| 2878s | takes um so yeah we're definitely |
| 2880s | excited to see |
| 2882s | see how that feels and what people do |
| 2884s | with it um and then just as a note on |
| 2887s | the development uh zack you'll probably |
| 2889s | remember that we started actually with a |
| 2891s | hundred percent damage penalty through |
| 2893s | these buildings uh |
| 2895s | but there were some situations we were a |
| 2897s | little a little uncomfortable with so we |
| 2899s | decided to to bring it back down to 50 |
| 2901s | do you do you happen to remember any of |
| 2903s | those games |
| 2904s | um i'm not sure top of my head of any |
| 2907s | particular moment that you might be |
| 2908s | talking about but i'm sure you're |
| 2910s | alluding to something there there was |
| 2912s | one where someone was like trying to |
| 2913s | build a white tower and the dude just |
| 2915s | like killed it because it took double |
| 2916s | damage and then and then he lost 1800 |
| 2920s | resources you know for aging up so you |
| 2921s | just like immediately quit the game at |
| 2923s | that point right so |
| 2924s | uh we definitely |
| 2926s | like like the possibilities right but |
| 2928s | it's it's definitely easier to go too |
| 2930s | far and like mongol torches right if |
| 2932s | they're taking double damage their |
| 2934s | buildings like that gives potentially |
| 2935s | gives them a huge advantage too so |
| 2938s | uh there were a lot of a lot of pieces |
| 2940s | and things we sort of took into account |
| 2941s | when we came up with that 50 number so |
| 2944s | um we would like to |
| 2946s | push it further if it's not quite |
| 2948s | achieving uh what we're hoping to get |
| 2950s | out of it but uh we do think it is |
| 2951s | pretty even 50 is pretty impactful yeah |
| 2954s | and not to go too much into the balance |
| 2956s | things because i think as grant and |
| 2958s | elliot said we'll go through that sort |
| 2959s | of a later date i just love them i'm |
| 2961s | sorry |
| 2962s | people asking for lannister this is why |
| 2964s | chat loves you eric you just you want to |
| 2966s | tell them everything |
| 2968s | well i want to also say that with the |
| 2970s | landmark tweaks stuff we have got quite |
| 2972s | a few changes planned for uh hre |
| 2974s | landmark specifically as well as the |
| 2976s | english abbey of kings and i guess you |
| 2978s | just have to tune in next time for all |
| 2980s | of the juicy details yeah enough of a |
| 2982s | cliffhanger |
| 2984s | i like it do we take the eric approach |
| 2986s | and just just turn this into the patch |
| 2988s | note stream oh no oh no |
| 2990s | where's the where's the button to remove |
| 2992s | eric |
| 2994s | and zach zach's encouraging you too |
| 2997s | we'll lose eric's nice uh plants behind |
| 2999s | him that everyone loves as well |
| 3001s | that being said we will be previewing |
| 3003s | the patch notes in its full uh prior to |
| 3006s | the update so |
| 3008s | you will see it at a later time it's not |
| 3010s | live right now but it will be soon |
| 3013s | yeah i saw someone has nightbot in chat |
| 3014s | they're trying to get patch notes those |
| 3016s | are from our last patch |
| 3017s | uh we the update notes will be coming |
| 3020s | soon you cannot find them in chat if |
| 3022s | they don't exist on the website yet we |
| 3024s | will get them up |
| 3025s | in the near future you can read all the |
| 3027s | details all the stuff eric and zach want |
| 3030s | to tease and and just give to you right |
| 3032s | now you just have to wait a little bit |
| 3033s | longer and it'll be yours |
| 3039s | all right |
| 3040s | uh i think that covers most of what we |
| 3043s | wanted to actually bring up on this |
| 3044s | stream again there is the blog post |
| 3047s | right now on the age of vampires website |
| 3048s | if you haven't seen it that gives you |
| 3049s | some of the details of what we've talked |
| 3051s | about today we've actually probably gone |
| 3052s | a little bit more detail here than is |
| 3054s | there however there is also the trailer |
| 3057s | we showed in the startup stream i think |
| 3059s | when we do end this stream off i'll play |
| 3061s | that one last time and we'll sign off um |
| 3063s | just before that give that a play and |
| 3065s | the stream will end after that trailer |
| 3066s | so before we reach that point uh huge |
| 3070s | huge thank you to our guests eric zach |
| 3073s | and michael konkin who's joining us here |
| 3074s | as well |
| 3075s | and a huge thanks to elliot as well for |
| 3078s | everyone for all of you being a co-host |
| 3079s | for all of us getting this thing going |
| 3080s | talking about this exciting exciting |
| 3082s | update this |
| 3083s | season one festival of ages version 1.3 |
| 3086s | update and to all of you in chat and to |
| 3088s | everyone who's actually |
| 3090s | to all of you who have also sent a |
| 3091s | rating party our way |
| 3093s | highly highly appreciate it glad to have |
| 3095s | all the excitement all the cheering on |
| 3097s | cheering everyone and we're gonna have a |
| 3098s | lot more streams coming through the |
| 3100s | season we'll watch elliot go through his |
| 3103s | road to right stream |
| 3104s | just just to remind people what is the |
| 3106s | next stream grant yeah |
| 3108s | the next stream is scheduled for next |
| 3110s | friday april 8th so not tomorrow but a |
| 3113s | week from tomorrow and we're gonna have |
| 3115s | a developer discussion then as well but |
| 3117s | then we have the other types of streams |
| 3119s | as well so we've got road to ranked |
| 3120s | which is going to be watching elliot we |
| 3121s | can all cheer him on questions |
| 3126s | seriously eric zach i'm gonna have you |
| 3128s | guys in my ear while i'm playing so that |
| 3129s | i can like be like you know if |
| 3131s | something's just terribly going wrong be |
| 3132s | like quick how do i love backseat |
| 3135s | driving it's my favorite |
| 3139s | yeah so we definitely we're gonna have a |
| 3140s | lot more streams we're gonna have a lot |
| 3142s | more information for you in the coming |
| 3144s | days so definitely stay tuned not only |
| 3146s | to our socials but to the website to |
| 3149s | discord if you're not in there as well |
| 3150s | as a great place to be |
| 3151s | and to our streams we'll see you pretty |
| 3154s | much every week uh it it's not gonna be |
| 3155s | all of us it's gonna alternate probably |
| 3157s | between ellie and myself as well as some |
| 3159s | guests so you may not see eric zach or |
| 3161s | konkan every time but they they probably |
| 3164s | will make appearances again in the |
| 3165s | future i can imagine they yeah for sure |
| 3167s | pretty nice to have you all here this |
| 3168s | it's not like we're saying this is your |
| 3169s | last time goodbye goodbye forever |
| 3172s | we'll have you back i'll miss you grant |
| 3174s | he can make us disappear remember i mean |
| 3177s | on his bad side the wrong thing |
| 3180s | uh yeah so thank you to everyone er |
| 3183s | one last chance if there's anything else |
| 3185s | we want to talk about between the five |
| 3187s | of us here all talking otherwise i will |
| 3189s | just go off to the trailer let people |
| 3191s | watch that and we'll go from there well |
| 3193s | that being said i don't know i know |
| 3195s | people been asking when we are planning |
| 3198s | to release the update |
| 3200s | no |
| 3202s | we're not gonna give a specific date but |
| 3204s | you know if i pretend to look the other |
| 3206s | way maybe one of the three can give a |
| 3208s | rough timeline when we can expect this |
| 3210s | next update |
| 3214s | grant you do it i don't want to go i'm |
| 3215s | not one of the three |
| 3217s | come on eric zach this is your kind of |
| 3219s | thing you love this |
| 3223s | but i guess like |
| 3224s | i don't i don't know |
| 3228s | no one's willing to jump i don't want to |
| 3229s | steal eric's thunder it's just i'm the |
| 3231s | wrong person do it please |
| 3233s | okay again we're not gonna give a |
| 3234s | specific date but |
| 3236s | but it will |
| 3238s | be |
| 3239s | sometime next week so oh and tomorrow on |
| 3242s | stream today |
| 3244s | um next week |
| 3245s | yeah next week |
| 3247s | i know it's i know next week's a long |
| 3249s | period but it yes it's a day ending and |
| 3252s | why as someone as uh |
| 3254s | you can grab that elliott is that is |
| 3256s | that confirmed knowledge |
| 3259s | [Applause] |
| 3260s | party with a y end of |
| 3263s | ending with a y |
| 3265s | ending |
| 3268s | yeah so yes so it will be next week we |
| 3270s | will be releasing this update um as |
| 3273s | grant mentioned we will have deeper |
| 3275s | dives into |
| 3276s | uh the ugc uh sorry the content editor |
| 3279s | um |
| 3280s | aka the ugc |
| 3281s | generated content we're gonna have more |
| 3283s | about the seasons um you can check out |
| 3285s | the blog uh it's gonna have a link to |
| 3288s | all stuff so you can just refresh that |
| 3290s | uh in in the next week and we will have |
| 3292s | more for everybody to read into |
| 3296s | yeah |
| 3297s | exciting times super excited to get this |
| 3299s | out there and to |
| 3300s | next week have it in your hands |
| 3303s | all right can't wait guys it's gonna be |
| 3305s | great |
| 3307s | all right so |
| 3308s | from myself and all of us here to |
| 3310s | everyone watching thank you so much for |
| 3311s | tuning in |
| 3312s | uh keep your eye on socials keep your |
| 3315s | eye on the blog discord all that you'll |
| 3317s | see more information as soon as it's |
| 3318s | available |
| 3319s | and yeah thank you so much |
| 3322s | thanks for having us bye everyone i'm |
| 3324s | gonna send you all off with the trailer |
| 3326s | one last time so enjoy everyone and we |
| 3330s | will see you next time |
| 3334s | welcome to the season one update |
| 3337s | festival of ages our latest update to |
| 3339s | age of empires four |
| 3342s | unsheath your swords knock those arrows |
| 3344s | and celebrate with the arrival of |
| 3346s | competitive ranked seasons events and |
| 3348s | the all-new content editor |
| 3353s | compete in ranked seasons against fierce |
| 3355s | opponents in your path to conquest and |
| 3358s | triumph |
| 3359s | demonstrate your strategic prowess as |
| 3361s | you compete for exclusive rewards |
| 3363s | [Music] |
| 3365s | seasonal events arrive in age of empires |
| 3368s | 4 complete challenges for rewards and |
| 3370s | show off your accomplishments in your |
| 3372s | matches |
| 3374s | shoot for gold in the art of war mission |
| 3377s | advanced combat |
| 3381s | want to battle it out on a custom map |
| 3383s | with a night strength set to overpowered |
| 3386s | customize your play any way you want |
| 3388s | with the content editor make history |
| 3391s | your story indeed |
| 3394s | revel in the chaotic play of mega random |
| 3397s | a completely random way to play and |
| 3399s | truly test your skills including |
| 3402s | campaign tuning quality of life and |
| 3404s | balance changes and that's just a sneak |
| 3407s | peek at our season 1 update |
| 3410s | join us in the festivities |
| 3412s | coming soon |
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