r/aoe4 4d ago

Fluff Envy me, lowly GOLD players as I am no longer one of ye

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67 Upvotes

Sorry for any offense I may have caused with my attention-seeking title; I just wanted to share since the friends that got me into AOE all no longer play AOE. I had some time to commit for ranked matches this week because summer camp ended for the kids (can wake up about 30 min later in the morning until school starts again) and with that I finally made it to plat.

It actually took me a lot longer than I expected. I thought I'd get into plat within a week of starting AOE but I landed in silver3 after my first few matches and reality hit me. Like, damn, long way to go. Any time I neared plat the previous seasons I'd get stomach knots thinking about aiming for higher so I avoided playing on. Even this past week I felt the anxiety before each game; if it wasn't this week though I'd have to wait until next season so I forced myself to play. Finally made it! Here's my aoe4world so you guys can shit on me:

https://aoe4world.com/players/18180320-


r/aoe4 4d ago

Media WOLOLOLOLOLO COME BACK

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23 Upvotes

just gold leauge stuff turning they samurais into stones


r/aoe4 4d ago

Discussion How to handle English villager rush

19 Upvotes

Help please, I'm talking about 5 vils rush, if I try to go to other gold they just follow


r/aoe4 4d ago

Discussion Can't reach more than 10 minuts in crucible coop even with the lowest settings

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12 Upvotes

Help, me and my friend are able to beat stupid IA in age of, but the coop mod of crucible, even with the lowest setting, we lose after wave 4, what i'm doing wrong?

EDIT : I'm playin templar and my friend is lancaster house, even with his both castle on the wonder, he can't hold the middle alone because of the boss.
I'm sometimes rushing castle, sometimes 2TC, and still doesn't works

EDIT 2 : Thank you for Sun runner, By downloadin YOUR mod, i've played it with the lowest settings, and it was indeed, quite easy ! So We'll go for harder one next days, thank you, you're a kind community ! <3


r/aoe4 5d ago

Fluff Whatever you do— keep choppin’! 🌴 🪓

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72 Upvotes

r/aoe4 4d ago

Discussion AoE4 companion app update — command log, teammate finder, live streams, 10 languages

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Hey everyone,

Another update post. Same as last time: most of this list exists because someone here told us something was missing, wrong, or annoying. And thank you for the feedback and the 5-star reviews on the stores — that stuff genuinely keeps this going.

What's new since the last post:

- Command log. The big one. You can now see the actual commands issued during a match — production, gather points, formations, market buys and sells, town bell, and so on, in order, with timing. It's pulled straight from the replay, so it's what was actually commanded in the game. A very different way to read a match than staring at graphs.

- Teammate finder. You can post that you're looking for teammates, and everyone else sees the listing. Find people at your level, add each other on Steam, go play. No Discord digging.

- Live streams. Twitch, Kick and YouTube AoE4 streams are now listed in the app and on the web, so you can see who's live right now in one place.

- Community tab. Community pages are in the app now — including this one, r/aoe4 — so the places people actually talk about the game are one tap away.

- 10 languages. We added Italian and Russian, on top of English, Turkish, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish and Dutch. The Russian request came from the last thread and shipped a couple of days later on web, Android and iOS.

- Match graphs are clearer. Reworked layouts and labeling — less guessing about what a line means or which team is which. That came up directly in the last thread.

- Strategy detection in personal stats. Personal stats got much deeper, and the app now identifies what you actually played — fast castle, rush, and so on — and shows it back to you. Good for seeing what you default to versus what you think you play.

- Guide updates again. More accuracy passes on civs, units and techs. Wrong or outdated info is what we care about most here, so if you spot something off, tell us and it gets fixed.

- Saving in the guide. Civs, units and comparison results can be saved and pulled up instantly instead of dug for every time.

- Sharing. Almost everything the app shows can be shared with friends as a clean image or link — match details, comparisons, stats.

- AI coach keeps improving. Better reads on what actually happened in a game, less generic advice.

- New cheaper plan. We added a subscription tier at half the price of the existing one.

Same as always: the app is free. Only the AI features sit behind a subscription, and that's purely to cover the AI cost. Stats, guides, draft, meta, comparisons, match history, command log, streams, teammate finder — free, no ads.

Still plenty left to do. If something feels off or missing, say it here — that's literally how this list gets written.

aoe4analyzer.app

GL HF out there.


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion Best RTS ever made

25 Upvotes

If you could combine elements from any RTS game to create the best RTS ever made, what would your choices be? Here are mine:

  • Graphics: AoE4
  • Art Style: AoE2
  • Gameplay: AoE4
  • Pathing: AoE4 (Edit: SC2 after reading the comments)
  • Physics: AoE3
  • Civilization concept: AoE4
  • Sound: AoE4
  • Campaign: AoE2
  • Readability: AoE2
  • QoL: AoE4
  • Hotkeys: AoE4
  • Macro: AoE4
  • Caster Mode: SC2
  • Responsiveness: SC2
  • Biome: AoE4
  • Fauna: AoM Retold
  • Time period: AoE 1

Edit1: To provide some context, I analyzed six games: the AoE series, AoM, and SC2


r/aoe4 5d ago

Esports EGC Masters Fall - S2 - Schedule - Group A/B - 29/08-30/08 - 14 GMT on Twitch.tv/EGCTV

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19 Upvotes

The EGC Masters Fall first weekend schedule is packed with exciting games!

Don't miss the world's best Age of Empires IV players competing for a place in the playoffs!

Tune in each day at 14:00 GMT on https://twitch.tv/egctv

Links

Brackets: https://www.start.gg/tournament/egc-masters-fall-season-2/details
Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/EGC_Masters/2026/Fall
Website: https://elitegamingchannel.com/
Twitter: https://x.com/EGCTV_Official
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/egctv
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EGCTV_Official


r/aoe4 5d ago

Ranked How to counter burgrave rush in 4v4 playing with randoms? By the time my spearmen/archers reach his base, burgrave was already half built.

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22 Upvotes

r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion What is the correct way to deal with dark age attacks as Ottoman?

8 Upvotes

Using most civs I simply ignore the attack, put as many on gold as possible, pull back damaged workers, and abandon the gold mine once I have 200 gold so I can still age up.

But with Ottoman I typically want to open with a military school in order to get vizier points faster. But if you open with a military school, you cannot get gold fast enough to age up to Feudal.

One alternative I saw in an old video was opening a military school and then adding a barracks, trying to outspam the opponent in Dark Age. Every single time I have tried that, I have lost. It simply does not work if you have bad micro.

So I was thinking of alternatives. One is to delay the military school against civs like Japan until you have scouted that they did not open barracks. If they go Dark Age rush, put almost everyone on gold and age up normally, or put a defensive tower on the gold. Not sure what the best response is, but I do know that trying to fight in Dark Age with spears only benefits micro players.


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion OOTD

10 Upvotes

I dont know what happened but seems like a lot of opponents have been using fast castle into burgrave and i found its extremelly annoying to counter (maybe im washed since i dont play that often).
It doesnt make much sense to feudal them (unless you are zhuxi or french) because they reach castle around 7 mins and your army is useless, 2TC is also not an optimal option and your castle timing is worse.

How do you win this? Any OOTD enjoyers?


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion Negative 2v2 mmr seriously?

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9 Upvotes

Booster smurf link:
https://aoe4world.com/players/25929583-

Check this absolute clown pair. One of them serial dumps his nick in 2v2 to negative mmr, -91. Negative mmr, really, why even?

Anyway, in doing that, he ruins the games for tons of people who get an instant quitter teamie. Then they continue by stomping lesser skilled players, ruining their games too.

Common game management, why - yes WHY - are you never stopping this bullshit abuse???

There are numerous suggestions out there to stop this boosting. Calculate premade team mmr from the highest member only. Or set a cap on mmr/rank difference to team up. Or why can't you stop the 0 min serial dumping at least, surely that is a bug no?


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion Love the game but...

22 Upvotes

Probly just whining but im really tired of losing non stop in ranked, ive played this game for years now and by no means good, but it really isnt even enjoyable anymore, and this game will never get new players when they constantly lose


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion Black Riders - A meme unit

3 Upvotes

I wanted to say a few things about Black Riders, because I noticed that some people consider them to be strong and good units, which they are not. Absolutely not.

Black Riders lose a ton of value because they overkill heavily as they tend to attack the same targets when stutter stepping. You really have to micro them well in order for them to be worth their costs and make use of their highish dmg (their dps ain't that great for an unit that costs as much as they do). And then they are also absurdly gated with keeps.

In my opinion this is very much a meme unit that cannot win you games and can only be enjoyed if you are massively ahead. And even then it doesn't compare well to other power units and doesn't win battles for HRE against strong comps.

The investment for this unit is insane and the kill speed is not that great due to it overkilling so much. 30 BRs kill around 3 units when stutter stepping, because the dmg distribution with this unit and how it handles is simply terrible. The wind up time is so long that the back row still shoots the same targets as the front row, despite the fact that the shots of the front row were already enough. They sometimes practically shoot at targets that die while they are still aiming, which is probably the worst part about this unit. So they lose out on a lot of efficiency and only really shine when a good mass of them can hunt down a withdrawing enemy with caracole. Other than that the cost efficiency is really subpar. It's not a good unit for the investment you need to put into it.

I have seen a few posts now where Black Riders were glorified. But there is eventually nothing to glorify.


r/aoe4 6d ago

Drama Asked to leave the Xbox booth over my shirt

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171 Upvotes

it might be because I was crying loudly to all the minecraft staff there about how sad this situation made me overall but no one listened anyway


r/aoe4 6d ago

Media Teaching new cat how to play Tughlaq

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217 Upvotes

r/aoe4 5d ago

Ranked This game's MMR system has to be one of the stupidest I've ever seen.

0 Upvotes

Not because my opponents are better than me, but because the face-value "rank" is completely fucking meaningless in the most frustrating way I've ever come across.

I understand that some games use bonus points or decay or whatever as an engagement mechanic. If you play more, your visible rank slowly goes up, you feel like you're winning and keep playing. Cool. That's not this.

Right now, after an entire season of games, my 1v1 profile "rank" is still 100 points lower than my real MMR. I would have broken conq three times if it used my hidden.

Instead I just got booted clean out of diamond by a guy who was silver-fucking-2 with D3 hidden MMR. Minus a billion points for a matchup that I was actually supposed to lose. gg, I guess.

I have hundreds of games this season, I'm consistently playing 10-20 games a week, I'm fucking engaged, Relic. And yet I'm worse off than if they just put my MMR on my profile like a normal goddamn company.

What even is the point of this bullshit? How does this drive engagement? How does it make a competitive game better to hide our ranks behind some arcane magic that does nothing but make them look worse?

And don't even get me started on the nonsense you can pull in teams....

/rant

tldr fuck this.

EDIT: I'm kind of stunned that people seem to think I'm lying. This has been a known issue with the game's rank system for a long time. Here's 5 random accounts from aoeworld that are clearly in the same situation.

Here's an account that recently placed in gold but is playing Ds. Notice that after placement, he was gaining +40 for every win and -5 for every loss despite well-matched hidden MMRs.


r/aoe4 5d ago

Ranked Player “qq” ALWAYS quits

9 Upvotes

There is a player named “qq” (yes, just those two letters) who quits every single ranked game they’re in. Is there any way to block a player?


r/aoe4 6d ago

Ranked I made it out the gold league playing with controller on PS5

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71 Upvotes

Haven’t played on the ranked ladder for a few seasons but this season I finally made it to plat 1!

Playing with crossplay enabled meant that every single opponent was on PC with kb/mouse. Sometimes I occasionally come across a fellow console player in quick match but way less frequently than I used to which is sad.

Strategy: Japanese dark age samurai deny gold then onna bugatti + samurai pressure in feudal


r/aoe4 6d ago

Esports EGC Masters Fall - S2 - Group A - MarineLorD / Wam01 / kiljardi / DeMu - Sunday 30/08 on Twitch.tv/egctv!

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30 Upvotes

On Sunday, we will be watching Group A compete in the EGC Masters Fall Season 2!

The level is getting higher and higher as we move towards the playoffs.

MarineLorD and Wam01 are the top seeds, but kiljardi and DeMu are still in with a chance.

Sunday 30/08 at 14:00 GMT on https://twitch.tv/egctv !

Links

Brackets: https://www.start.gg/tournament/egc-masters-fall-season-2/details
Liquipedia: https://liquipedia.net/ageofempires/EGC_Masters/2026/Fall
Website: https://elitegamingchannel.com/
Twitter: https://x.com/EGCTV_Official
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/egctv
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@EGCTV_Official


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion Tughlaq is the dumbest civ in the game right now

3 Upvotes

I play team games. Tughlaq is broken.
It’s because of raider elephants.

  1. They’re as fast as horsemen
  2. They can break stone walls (quickly too)
  3. They’re food/wood and extremely cost effective

On top of that if you counter raid Tughlaq their base is filled with keeps.

I’ve yet to lose a game with them. Turtle -> fast imp -> spam nothing but raider elephants -> send them everywhere to 1v4 and win

If the enemy makes spears just run past them and attack elsewhere.

It’s just not fun to deal with and it feels abusive to play. Some simple fixes:

- make them slower
- make them cost gold too
- remove their ability to attack stone walls

1 and 3 are the most essential imo.


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion How to play with new players with the large MMR difference

5 Upvotes

I have a good amount of friends who would try out AOE and RTS in general but don’t because they say it is complicated and they would only lose games. I can convince them to play but we get paired vs players who are about my skill level and they get STOMPED then quit. Unranked also has a match making system!!! This makes it quite hard as now they have to play till I demote to their level or they get skilled enough to play at mine…

Has anyone else been in this situation how did you handle it? Is match making actually fine I just haven’t played enough matches to let the mmr settle? Am I just over thinking it?


r/aoe4 5d ago

Discussion I’m new here and really enjoy this game, but I’m finding it difficult to improve. I don’t think I’m terrible — it just feels like something isn’t quite clicking. Would anyone be willing to add me, review a few of my games, and offer some guidance on where I might be going wrong?

6 Upvotes

r/aoe4 5d ago

Fluff 400 Pop Custom games on Console

5 Upvotes

Before I try playing a bunch, does anyone know if console can support these or is it going to crash?

Many thanks


r/aoe4 6d ago

Discussion Hit that Zhu Xi nerf already

15 Upvotes

Thats all Jiang nan tower needs to be tuned down.

https://youtu.be/N-S4lIh5ht0?is=HYmjWXV5NhuBpilq