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| 2s | [Music] |
| 5s | join me in welcoming Chris Rubio to the |
| 8s | Xbox stage Chris how are you doing today |
| 10s | I am doing awesome it's been a pretty |
| 13s | good 24 hours right we had Age of |
| 15s | Empires for anniversary edition Shadow |
| 17s | drop yesterday onto Game Pass from |
| 20s | Opening Night Live I know it's been a |
| 22s | short amount of time but what has the |
| 23s | reaction been like so far it's been |
| 26s | just overwhelmingly positive I like that |
| 28s | answer that's what I was hoping you know |
| 30s | I've |
| 31s | met with a lot of players that have come |
| 33s | to our booth they're like wow thank you |
| 35s | for bringing it to console uh you know |
| 37s | we've been waiting a long time for this |
| 38s | people that have played it tell us wow |
| 40s | that it's amazing how you even got it to |
| 43s | work you know what was what was the mad |
| 45s | science behind that so a lot of magic |
| 49s | and a lot of a lot of goodness went into |
| 51s | it but um you know it's it's been a very |
| 53s | very awesome the shadow drop was was |
| 56s | yeah we do love a shadow drop don't we |
| 58s | we're going to be digging into all of |
| 59s | that but you are here to Showcase |
| 61s | everything with the team of world's Edge |
| 63s | have been working on and we're going to |
| 64s | be doing a live gameplay segment if you |
| 66s | all so we're going to go through |
| 68s | Skirmish and before I do any of the |
| 70s | nerdy questions in my head about how |
| 71s | you've done it I'm gonna ask you some |
| 72s | nerdy questions about what we're going |
| 73s | to be looking at here so what have you |
| 75s | got set up for us so today we'll be |
| 77s | taking it we'll be diving into Skirmish |
| 78s | but you know I want to walk players |
| 79s | through a lot of the changes that we |
| 81s | make we you've heard us you went if you |
| 84s | watch the documentary we literally |
| 86s | rebuilt the front end and a lot of all |
| 88s | of the Tactical UI we built it from the |
| 90s | ground up redesigned it so it would work |
| 92s | incredibly well on the console and so I |
| 95s | would love to show that off to players |
| 96s | and everything Laura is all yours my |
| 99s | darling sweetness let's jump in so this |
| 102s | is our for the Xbox we created a brand |
| 105s | new front end by the way I love that I'm |
| 106s | all the way back here like eight feet |
| 108s | incredibly readable uh so this is |
| 111s | awesome very easy to navigate through |
| 113s | our various menus that we created just |
| 115s | you can RB through everything and again |
| 117s | just still kind of a that has a lot of |
| 119s | the colors and flares that our PC |
| 120s | version did yeah but again redesigned so |
| 123s | that you can couch play from almost |
| 124s | eight eight feet away let's let's just |
| 126s | pause the moment no point on the screen |
| 128s | does it say Age of Empires but I know |
| 130s | what I'm looking at and you've got an |
| 132s | Xbox and controller in your hands so |
| 134s | there you go it's awesome job done so |
| 136s | you know we're gonna go into single |
| 137s | player today and uh we're gonna set up a |
| 140s | skirmish |
| 141s | uh but I've already set up a scrimmage |
| 143s | no this one I made earlier this is what |
| 145s | I made earlier so that we can jump in |
| 147s | and more importantly it'll enable me to |
| 149s | talk about all the cool stuff that we've |
| 150s | done nice and hopefully not get |
| 152s | destroyed by the AI so well also I'm |
| 154s | gonna make sure you aren't distracted |
| 155s | and you do talk to me yes that's right |
| 157s | because I've heard that you go into |
| 158s | Focus mode somewhere I go into combat |
| 160s | mode so which I love because I'm not a |
| 163s | combat girly I like to I like to build |
| 165s | my civilizations I like to make them |
| 167s | look very beautiful and in the end I'm |
| 168s | like I suppose I need to go bash someone |
| 170s | up now I do that too I'm actually quite |
| 173s | the Builder and then you know I get a |
| 175s | lot of better players to me that come |
| 176s | over and stop my base I'm like I |
| 178s | probably shouldn't have been focused on |
| 179s | making a cool base |
| 181s | for me that's that's how I go for it so |
| 184s | it's awesome so we're gonna be playing |
| 185s | uh today we got the English versus the |
| 187s | French very tried and true classic |
| 189s | matchup indeed |
| 191s | um we're going to start with uh our base |
| 193s | kind of already pre-made and if players |
| 195s | out there haven't checked it out we've |
| 197s | released Empire Wars yeah which is a |
| 200s | kind of a really cool start in the game |
| 202s | and Age of Empires 4 is a little bit |
| 204s | different than Age of Empires 2 the |
| 206s | sieves are slightly more asymmetric so |
| 208s | Empire's Wars was designed each I should |
| 210s | say each civilization starts and was |
| 213s | handcrafted to start at the right start |
| 215s | that you would expect them to be at at |
| 216s | that point in time so a lot of passion |
| 218s | and love it went into making that mode |
| 220s | super awesome so what we what we see |
| 222s | here is basically the base that I've set |
| 224s | up I got a bunch of workers right here |
| 226s | in idle but more importantly it's like |
| 227s | well what's all that UI on the screen |
| 229s | that is the first thing especially so |
| 231s | you go from PC gameplay and if you've |
| 233s | never played on Console H2 came out |
| 235s | early this year if you've not had a |
| 236s | chance by that yourself it even looks |
| 238s | different to that one as well as soon as |
| 239s | you load in support yeah so we've went |
| 241s | in you know we've made a lot of |
| 243s | modifications and our goal is to |
| 244s | literally streamline the interface but |
| 247s | at the same time make it incredibly |
| 248s | accessible and easy to read for couch |
| 252s | play so one of the first things any PC |
| 254s | player would notice is like oh my gosh |
| 256s | the resource bar is in the the top |
| 259s | center of the screen it's on the PC it's |
| 261s | in the lower left oh we found we found |
| 263s | on the console that it that placement is |
| 265s | really nice makes it super easy to read |
| 266s | and we learned we got you know a lot of |
| 267s | learnings actually came from Age of |
| 269s | Empires too kudos to that team for an |
| 271s | awesome job that they did |
| 272s | um so we were able to tap into a lot of |
| 274s | that and literally kind of Define out so |
| 276s | as I go through the screen in a |
| 278s | clockwise motion we have our resource |
| 280s | bar at the top yep we have kind of our |
| 282s | tribute menu that you can access you |
| 284s | know with various commands |
| 286s | um you'll also see a bunch of little |
| 288s | helper widgets and those were purposely |
| 289s | done so there's you know it's not mouse |
| 292s | and keyboard it is you need to you know |
| 294s | as a new player it's very helpful to |
| 296s | understand which inputs you got to press |
| 298s | to access various bits of functionality |
| 300s | the lower right hand corner that's |
| 302s | that's kind of your tried and true mini |
| 303s | map indeed you can expand your minimap |
| 306s | which is a really cool bit of |
| 307s | functionality you can hold down the Y |
| 308s | button you can actually super fast |
| 310s | scroll seamless yep um you can drop |
| 313s | camera markers that's what I'm gonna do |
| 315s | here |
| 316s | a little more and then that's a terrible |
| 318s | spot for a marker but I'll drop one |
| 321s | right there for the purpose of demo and |
| 323s | then what you can do too on the mini map |
| 324s | is you can just literally just jump |
| 326s | around |
| 327s | um based on on those waypoints that you |
| 329s | set so entirely up to the player however |
| 331s | they want to play |
| 332s | um and the toolbar or I should say the |
| 334s | d-pad controls that you see in the |
| 336s | center of this top bottom center there |
| 338s | those are what we call a quick find menu |
| 340s | and it allows players kind of like uh |
| 342s | hotkey shortcuts on the PC it allows you |
| 344s | to jump to various units structures that |
| 347s | you have on the battlefield for example |
| 348s | if I press d-pad up I can cycle through |
| 351s | all my idle villagers yeah they are if I |
| 353s | want to go to my military I can press |
| 354s | d-pad left boom I'm right there with a |
| 357s | group of units and I can kind of cycle |
| 358s | through them now if I want I can |
| 360s | actually select all my idol villagers |
| 362s | just by holding d-pad up |
| 364s | I mean |
| 366s | right and I want to ask you a little bit |
| 368s | about what work you've done in the |
| 370s | background to try and get it to like the |
| 372s | testing phase and we even heard in that |
| 374s | uh Viaduct just then that I think as |
| 376s | yourself or maybe a lot of other people |
| 378s | are really really excited about playing |
| 380s | on controller now yeah so we have you |
| 382s | know we've spent I should say both teams |
| 385s | Age of Empires two and four we spent |
| 387s | many many months and thousands of hours |
| 390s | basically hammering away we methodically |
| 393s | went through the keyboard and mouse uh |
| 397s | inputs and essentially broke them down |
| 400s | figured out how all of that would map |
| 401s | and translate to the uh to the |
| 404s | controller and then once we got it all |
| 405s | done on paper after you know many months |
| 408s | we started prototyping we started |
| 410s | iterating we started playing what worked |
| 412s | what didn't work started throwing things |
| 414s | out bringing stuff back |
| 417s | um so it was just a constant uh phase of |
| 420s | development where we were just trying |
| 421s | and experimenting until we landed on on |
| 424s | uh what what you see here today and |
| 427s | we're really happy uh the team kudos to |
| 430s | all the teams our partner teams that |
| 432s | worked on this we have something that is |
| 433s | truly amazing and and honestly you know |
| 436s | I I've said this before you if you watch |
| 438s | the videos I as an RTS player I should |
| 441s | say as an RTS developer that's worked in |
| 442s | the genre for about 29 years now |
| 445s | um I actually prefer to play with the |
| 446s | controller well let's get back in the |
| 448s | whole seat and do some movements for us |
| 450s | I want to see a deep |
| 456s | ER which is super awesome if you think |
| 458s | about it it's like oh good and that's |
| 460s | what I love about the controller is |
| 461s | everything everything on the d-pad is at |
| 463s | your fingertips it's you don't know you |
| 465s | no longer have two input devices |
| 466s | everything's been focused down to one |
| 468s | and you know we've gone in we've |
| 470s | intelligently designed the controller in |
| 472s | such a way that it just makes everything |
| 473s | feel really intuitive natural and why I |
| 477s | say that is because that carries through |
| 479s | across both products H2 and H4 so if |
| 481s | you're an H2 player and you're like I'm |
| 482s | gonna go download H4 right now which you |
| 484s | should if you haven't by the way you're |
| 486s | going to be able to pick up the |
| 487s | controller and start playing right away |
| 488s | and it's gonna feel you're gonna feel |
| 489s | right at home you're gonna be like oh my |
| 490s | gosh |
| 491s | I can play this without having to |
| 493s | relearn it no that was intentionally |
| 495s | done because we this blueprint that we |
| 497s | have was designed so not only in the |
| 498s | present is it awesome but we can also |
| 500s | Carry It Forward into the future with |
| 502s | other iterations so I gotta am I getting |
| 504s | attacked by the AI look at that I'm |
| 506s | awesome here we are chatting and you're |
| 508s | under Fire yeah so what I want to show |
| 510s | off are a couple cool Innovations these |
| 512s | are absolutely critical to players out |
| 513s | there the first one is called the |
| 515s | Villager priority system and this this |
| 517s | is key this I love this system with a |
| 519s | passion and I gotta say this is actually |
| 520s | a new Innovative feature for the genre |
| 522s | as a whole you know I was saying to our |
| 524s | creative director I'm like how did we |
| 525s | not think of this 10 years ago and we |
| 529s | laugh about it but that's how cool of a |
| 531s | feature it really is so how it works is |
| 534s | you essentially bring up this really |
| 535s | cool radio you hold left down the left |
| 538s | trigger press an RS and it brings up |
| 539s | this radial and this radial has a bunch |
| 542s | of different presets that are broken up |
| 543s | into various kind of like pie chart like |
| 545s | Fashions these are all weighted based on |
| 547s | resource types so instead of dragging |
| 549s | and dropping individual folks as they |
| 550s | come out the village yes it's just |
| 552s | already managed this is where it gets |
| 553s | really good I I I got it all set up |
| 556s | that's amazing so |
| 559s | um we're gonna we're gonna we're gonna |
| 560s | focus in on this economic one but if you |
| 563s | you know you can use these presets they |
| 565s | were designed by our Pro players on our |
| 566s | team we have some basic ones that if |
| 569s | you're like me you can just kind of set |
| 570s | it and go yeah but depending on phase of |
| 572s | gameplay you can actually shift in and |
| 574s | out of presets yeah based on if I need |
| 576s | more gold need more stuff |
| 577s | yeah you can pivot your villagers |
| 581s | accordingly and this governance system |
| 582s | will take care of all that for you now |
| 584s | of course if you're super pro you can go |
| 586s | away yeah we are you can go in and |
| 588s | Custom your own VPC VPS settings okay so |
| 591s | you have a custom setting for the pro |
| 593s | players or your average you know |
| 596s | individuals like myself are your presets |
| 599s | which are more geared towards me and let |
| 602s | me show everybody how this works this is |
| 603s | awesome so I'm going to select the |
| 604s | economic preset down here very basic |
| 606s | straightforward click a button and you |
| 608s | watch all those Idol villagers |
| 610s | off they go They're put to work and let |
| 612s | me show you an amazing pairing so you |
| 617s | take the Villager priority system and |
| 619s | you combine it with a new feature that |
| 620s | we added to Age of Empires 4 on the Xbox |
| 622s | which is Auto Train villagers on your TC |
| 626s | so now you get Auto Train villagers |
| 628s | going |
| 630s | and essentially you'll be booming in no |
| 632s | time and it's awesome so these features |
| 636s | uh you know made perfect sense to pair |
| 638s | these two yeah and you know I I anybody |
| 641s | out there try it out you're gonna love |
| 642s | it once you can't go back I was I was |
| 645s | playing the PC the other day and we're |
| 646s | still we're working on PC iterating and |
| 648s | changing things I'm like I had so much |
| 650s | wood I'm like why are my villagers |
| 652s | collecting wood I'm like oh gosh I |
| 654s | forgot I trained I'm on the PC not the |
| 656s | console and I've got to manually go in a |
| 658s | minute but people you know players love |
| 659s | that level of micro so we want to make |
| 661s | sure that we give player the agency to |
| 663s | do either or this system really helps |
| 665s | bolster the console experience so and we |
| 668s | and that's why we added it and you know |
| 669s | Age of Empires 2 was the first first one |
| 671s | to add it we we brought the system in |
| 674s | we've made some additional tunings to it |
| 676s | to make it work even better and over |
| 678s | time you're just going to get to see |
| 680s | this system in the age series just grow |
| 681s | and grow and just become super awesome |
| 683s | absolutely love it I got one more do we |
| 684s | have time oh of course we've got time |
| 686s | all the time in the world so another |
| 688s | feature that we added to Age of Empires |
| 689s | Xbox was the ability to build anywhere |
| 692s | you want without having to select a |
| 693s | villager this is key so normally in the |
| 694s | past you had to select a villager and |
| 697s | bring up the the command bar on the PC |
| 699s | it's in the bottom yep I didn't show |
| 700s | this earlier gosh darn it |
| 702s | um and here uh this is the build radio |
| 704s | so let me let me talk about it now this |
| 706s | is the build radio |
| 708s | um and on the console we open up the |
| 710s | build features across four different |
| 711s | categories you have economy defense |
| 714s | military and age up so and I'll back out |
| 717s | of that bring it back up again and all |
| 718s | of this is easily accessible through the |
| 720s | d-pad purposely designed so players |
| 723s | eventually can map all this in their |
| 724s | brains too I'll just go to YouTube and |
| 726s | eventually get it so very well done so |
| 728s | with the site menu system no longer do |
| 731s | you have to select a villager you can |
| 732s | simply say |
| 733s | cursor over this resource pile hit the |
| 736s | right trigger and it's going to bring up |
| 737s | the right structure that you can place |
| 739s | at that particular and then the way that |
| 741s | you've waited the villagers to work the |
| 742s | people are going to build it and then |
| 744s | they'll go mine one villager will |
| 745s | automatically be assigned and it'll |
| 746s | start building and the great thing is |
| 748s | once this villager is done the VPS |
| 750s | system will capture that villager and |
| 752s | put it back to work oh my day so it's |
| 754s | it's super awesome and of course that's |
| 756s | with resource piles so it's concept |
| 758s | sensitive on demand you can also cursor |
| 760s | over the terrain bring up the menu go to |
| 763s | your build system and it brings up the |
| 764s | Villager radio and at that point say I |
| 766s | want to build more military structures |
| 767s | simply select a military structure build |
| 770s | one and it's going to select nearby |
| 772s | villager and off you go so again some |
| 775s | really awesome niceties that we added to |
| 777s | the game to just further bolster the |
| 778s | console experience and reduce APM on the |
| 780s | player so good now there might be some |
| 782s | people in chat |
| 786s | to this whole experience and there is a |
| 788s | tutorial that's been added called rise |
| 789s | of the king I wonder if we could just |
| 790s | touch on that very quickly absolutely so |
| 792s | the rise of the king |
| 794s | tutorial was created for the Xbox |
| 798s | experience it's broken up across five |
| 800s | different missions and it was designed |
| 802s | to teach players the basics the core you |
| 805s | know your core inputs your basic age |
| 807s | Concepts as well as uh teach players the |
| 810s | fundamentals like Base building resource |
| 813s | management and of course the biggie |
| 815s | combat so it takes players through all |
| 817s | of these different phases of gameplay |
| 819s | across five missions now we didn't want |
| 821s | to just build uh you know an onboarding |
| 823s | experience that was do this do that we |
| 826s | wanted something that was narrative |
| 828s | narratively driven and tied into the |
| 831s | historical component that we created for |
| 834s | Age of Empires 4. so we decided to |
| 837s | create a Prelude to the main campaign of |
| 839s | the game which follows William the |
| 841s | Conqueror starting in 1047 and it takes |
| 844s | you all the way up to 1066 with the |
| 846s | landing in England up to the Battle of |
| 848s | Hastings there it is so when you move |
| 849s | into the main campaign you'll actually |
| 851s | start off right where you left off in |
| 853s | the tutorial oh you are well smart well |
| 855s | done |
| 856s | um so the Xbox Mantra that we all know |
| 858s | and love is very much play how you want |
| 860s | when you want and wherever you want and |
| 863s | that's very important because now we've |
| 864s | enabled two and four of the age |
| 866s | franchise on Xbox consoles how does it |
| 868s | feel to be continuing to support that |
| 870s | Mantra it's awesome it's an opportunity |
| 872s | for us to get age in the hands of |
| 875s | millions of new Gamers around the world |
| 878s | that may never have the opportunity to |
| 880s | experience this game I've always wanted |
| 882s | to experience this game but for whatever |
| 883s | reason they couldn't so now through Game |
| 886s | Pass and Xbox they can go online they |
| 888s | can download it and have a great |
| 890s | experience and so for us it's you know |
| 892s | it's an opportunity a chance for players |
| 894s | to play on the platform they want and |
| 896s | play comfortably on the input device |
| 898s | yeah and comfortably on the sofa sofa |
| 903s | it's super awesome oh it's pretty good |
| 905s | chat by the way I want to know a hands |
| 907s | up in chat if you have got it installed |
| 909s | um because I want to see everyone just |
| 910s | get very very excited there's been a |
| 911s | little bit of time since it's been |
| 912s | announced I think you're supposed to |
| 913s | have but before we go I must ask because |
| 916s | I'm also I'm very excited I hear you're |
| 919s | you've got a big announcement for us |
| 921s | something you want to share maybe I I am |
| 924s | thrilled and thrilled thrilled and have |
| 926s | the privilege of being able to announce |
| 929s | to everyone around the world that the |
| 934s | biggest expansion released for Age of |
| 937s | Empires 4 is coming soon it's called the |
| 940s | Sultan's Ascend its name |
| 943s | packed with a ton of content and it's |
| 945s | going to take players on an Epic Journey |
| 947s | Through the Middle East now I can say |
| 950s | stay tuned that's all I can say at this |
| 952s | time so sorry chat we're going to |
| 954s | release more information very shortly as |
| 956s | well as details on how you can go on to |
| 957s | your favorite platform and wish list |
| 959s | this this baby up so fantastic super |
| 961s | excited and please you know that's good |
| 964s | the expansion's awesome I |
| 974s | well thanks again for joining us and |
| 977s | chat please do not forget you can play |
| 978s | Age of Empires 4 Anniversary Edition on |
| 981s | Xbox right now you didn't think I'd be |
| 983s | saying that a few days ago with Xbox |
| 984s | game pass as well as PC game pass if you |
| 986s | haven't tried it out yet |
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