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| 0s | [XBOX WHOOSH] |
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| 4s | Let's take a look at the |
| 5s | basics of selection and movement in Age of Empires IV |
| 9s | while playing with an Xbox controller. |
| 12s | Now to build a thriving town, we need to train more villagers. |
| 15s | So let's start there. |
| 17s | First, I'm going to want to select my town center. |
| 20s | I can move my camera by using the left stick to move my center |
| 23s | reticle over anything I'd like to select and then tap A to select it. |
| 28s | Now we have the town center selected. |
| 30s | We can see our rally point is coming way off to the south. |
| 33s | Let's fix that, because I think I want my new villagers to gather sheep. |
| 37s | I'm going to move my camera to the sheep. |
| 39s | Tap A once again to update my rally point. |
| 42s | With any unit or building selected |
| 45s | you can also open its radial menu. |
| 48s | This contains all of the options available at that unit or building. |
| 52s | If I hold right trigger, I can see the radial menu for the town center. |
| 56s | And from here I can see all of my options, including training a villager. |
| 60s | I can hold left stick up to select the villager, |
| 63s | and then tap A for each villager that I'd like to train. |
| 66s | Let's train three. 1, 2, 3. |
| 70s | I can now press B to back out of the radial menu |
| 73s | and I'll still have the town center selected. |
| 76s | Now, if I look down to the bottom left, you can see that |
| 78s | there are quick options available too, including training villagers. |
| 83s | So you can do that without having to open the radial. |
| 86s | The most common options for each building and unit are highlighted |
| 89s | in the Quick Options panel. |
| 92s | From here we can tap Y to add more villages to the queue. |
| 96s | And once again, to add a fourth villager here. We can also tap X to research |
| 100s | textiles, which is a very common defensive upgrade for villagers. |
| 105s | Now, I'm pretty sure I sent some villagers to the north to gather some berries. |
| 108s | Let's see how they're doing. |
| 110s | Well, in typical villager |
| 111s | fashion, they're standing around not doing much work. |
| 114s | So let's fix that. |
| 115s | First, we can select our villager at the top |
| 117s | by tapping A and telling it to gather the berries by tapping |
| 121s | A once again. I'll press B to deselect. |
| 123s | And now the two villagers in the south |
| 125s | well, they're standing quite close together. |
| 128s | So instead of selecting |
| 129s | both individually, I'm going to press and hold A to open a marquee. |
| 134s | Everything inside of the |
| 135s | marquee will be selected when I let go, like so. |
| 139s | And now I can tell these villagers to gather the deer |
| 142s | by hovering and pressing A |
| 143s | once again. It's that simple. |
| 145s | Now, I'm pretty sure I sent a scout out in the South. |
| 148s | And let's see what they're up to. |
| 151s | Oh, yes. |
| 152s | What a vantage point. |
| 153s | I can see the enemy patrol of archers from here. |
| 156s | Now, I have some units positioned conveniently nearby. |
| 160s | I'm going to select them all by holding A and opening a marquee. |
| 164s | I can then move them, pressing A anywhere on the ground. |
| 168s | Now, to attack the enemy, |
| 170s | I can simply move over to the enemy and tap a once again, |
| 173s | or I can press X to attack move. |
| 176s | Which you can see highlighted in the quick selection in the bottom left. |
| 179s | By tapping X, and attack moving, |
| 182s | my units will move in the direction that I've set |
| 184s | and attack anything along the way. |
| 186s | Now my knights and camels should be no match for these archers. |
| 191s | They should easily take care of them as they counter them pretty hard. |
| 194s | And from here we will have won this battle. |
| 198s | However, my knights and my camels are pretty mixed up. |
| 202s | What if I want to separate them? |
| 204s | Well, I can hover over my camels and I can double tap |
| 208s | A to select all units of a single type. |
| 211s | I can now move my camels separately and separate them from the knights. |
| 215s | I can double tap my knights and move them separately too. And from here, |
| 219s | if I wanted to group them together again, I could use the marquee. |
| 223s | I'll press and hold A to expand the marquee |
| 226s | and you'll see that my knights are not quite in range. |
| 229s | But if I keep A held down, I can use the marquee like a paintbrush, |
| 232s | and I can go grab those knights too. |
| 235s | Releasing A now will select all of my units together |
| 237s | and allow me to move them on for greater things. |
| 241s | That's it for the basics of movement and selection. |
| 244s | Be sure to stay tuned for more tips and tricks in future videos. |
| 256s | [XBOX WHOOSH] |