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- Siege tribute!
- The Winners (and Losers) of Hidden Cup 3 - Tournament Review
- I love Alpine Lakes
- And it was megarandom with only 1 boar on my side too...
- This censorship thing is getting out of hand.
- Saladin's Hidden Cup 3 journey!
- Day9 is playing AOE2 for the first time
- Map of the approximate representation of each civ in AoE2. The colors come from each DLC.
- Cumans Feudal Age be like:
- When you saw your all cavalry are dead.
- Avoiding spoilers on YouTube
- Interview with Nicov, a AoE2 Legend - 2020
- Anyone still believe TheViper plays 100 % in small tourneys and inconsequential games?
- me_irl
- When is the next big tournament?
- I finally beat the hard AI
- Sign out of xbox live to turn off the profanity filter
- Khmer fc
- [Shitpost] Upcoming major AoE2: DE Tournament: Auto Scouting Cup
- Recently tried out Persians and their war elephants they are amazing!
- Hello. This is how the definitive edition destruction effects were created, I'm not sure this is interesting to many folks here that aren't into computer graphics, but it could be interesting to a few.
- Does a AOE2 DE APM counter exist?
- Found my OG game box while doing some corona-cleaning!
- The art of war.
- Every other match gets dropped saying I disconnected from the match
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| The Winners (and Losers) of Hidden Cup 3 - Tournament Review Posted: 27 Mar 2020 03:54 AM PDT An amazing tournament that provided countless hours and incredible entertainment at a time when the world needed it. My hats off to all of the organizers, casters, players and spectators who made this tournament such an unforgettable experience. Now in the aftermath, I wanted to take the time to express who I felt the biggest winners and losers from the tournament were. The Winners of Hidden Cup 3 Viper A truly dominant performance. There is no doubt been a rise in skill from all other pro players recently which makes the tournaments far more interesting to watch. However, the crown of Age of Empires still rests firmly on the Viper's head. His strategy, skill and execution was incredible and the 4-0 result in the Grand Final was a poignant reminder that while the Age of Empires 2 ladder is more competitive than ever, The Viper remains firmly on top. His post tournament interview gave us what we have come to expect from the Viper. Gracious in victory, appreciative for the work put in by the tournament organisers and some cheeky humour. The top player of Age of Empires 2 having such a likeable personality is great for the growth of the game and while I might occasionally wish someone could dethrone him, ultimately I'm pleased to see him get the victory and continue being a great ambassador for the community. Hera Although he took a bad beating in the Grand Final, no one denies that Hera is a deadly force to be reckoned with. His strong showing in yet another tournament gives him the greatest weight to make the claim that currently, he is the world #2. His Q & A stream after the tournament shows that he has developed a strong and loyal following. This is unsurprising because perhaps more than any other pro player, Hera has used the release of DE to establish a strong online presence. Whether his fans are drawn to him by his undeniable skill or his friendly personality while streaming, whatever way you look at it, with his result in HC3, Hera's profile continues to rise. T90 Thousands of new twitch subs, countless donations and a shattering of previous view records, Hidden Cup 3 was a huge success for T90. In order to put on such an event, you need to have skills in lots of different areas and HC3 confirmed that T90 was a master at all of them. The audience loves him for his seemingly effortless ability to balance expert analysis of the games with humour and memes with his chat and co-casters. On top of that, T90 treats this seriously, like a business and this is exactly the kind of professionalism that the community needs to make Age of Empires 2 a genuine E-sport. Of course, on a personal level he has made himself wildly successful but when he has done so much for the community, especially bringing new people into the game, his success is greatly deserved. Co operation within the Age2 Community One of the nicest parts of NAC3 was the cooperative spirit on display. Lots of different casters, sharing of donations and of course, it's where HC3 was announced. It was nice to see this cooperative energy continue on into HC3 with an open streaming policy and co-casting by other prominent members of the community like ZeroEmpires, Nili and Age2 benefactor Matt Salsa (who was a great caster btw!). As the game gets larger, there will be an increase in the number of individuals who are trying to make a full time living from the game. Hopefully we continue to see co operation, rather than competition, as the predominant force guiding future events. The Behind the Scenes Team It is hard to imagine all of the work that goes into an event like this. We get hints of the number of hours people have put in but still, it is difficult for an audience member to truly appreciate how much work they must put in. Without a doubt, Robo, Overlay guy, DuxtheSaviour and the entire Capture Age team did a magnificent job. Team Secret Before the tournament, there were definitely questions over how the clan would perform in this 1v1 setting. Hidden Cup 1 and 2 were not great for Tatoh and DauT narrowly missed out on a guaranteed spot in Hidden Cup 3. With Jordan_23 missing and both Slam and Nili failing to qualify, Tatoh and DauT were definitely keen to post strong performances for their clan. Evidently, they did a lot of preparation for the tournament and came ready to play. They did not disappoint. Tatoh's skills were on full display, besting both Vivi and Lierrey before ultimately falling before Hera in the Semi Finals. Aside from the Viper, Hera actually said DauT was his toughest opponent, only narrowly beating him 3-2 in the Quarter Finals and calling him an absolute beast. Team Secret definitely emerged from the tournament as the only clan that boated strong results across multiple players. Qualifications There have been ongoing discussions about who can participate in tournaments, how to encourage new players to break into the top tiers and whether or not it is boring to see the same names compete again and again. Arguably, the qualification stage of Hidden Cup 3 was one of the biggest successes of the entire tournament. Not only did it give audiences many more hours of high stakes, high strategy gameplay but it also opened the field for lesser known players to take a shot at the big time. Ultimately, the final 16 spots were largely filled by well known names but this is not the point. In order for the Age2 community to stay healthy and growing, it needs to encourage new players to work and improve. Open qualifications do this and reminds us all of the depth of talent that exists beyond the top 20. It was also great to get casting from players like Daniel and Project Belgium. Though casting is a particular skill that players don't necessarily excel at, hearing the opinions of pro players is so valuable for an audience wanting to see the game through their eyes. MbL's super hyped casting remains the tournament highlight for me. I've never laughed so much during an Age of Empires stream!!! Honourable Mentions Dogao – Amazing performance, he went further than any other player from the qualification stage. Though many may have been surprised to see his name in the reveal, a strong result like this guarantees they won't be surprised next time. Dave – The synergy between Dave and T90 is always fantastic and HC3 was no exception. While it is great to have alternate casters, it's good to know that when it comes to the big matches, T90 still looks to his long time friend, Dave. Quarter Finals – Without a doubt, the most exciting 4 matches of the entire tournament. To get them all in a row was incredible. The strategy and skill from the players was only matched by the hype of the audience. Wouldn't be surprising if the days of the quarter finals went down in Age2 history as the most exciting day ever. The Losers of Hidden Cup 3 Civilization Variety T90 felt it was important to encourage the players to train for the tournament so that the audience could enjoy matches with maximum skill on display. He felt that too much civ banning and drafting would discourage the players from practising and without a doubt, he is correct. The quality of games cannot be denied and the players all looked thoroughly prepared. However, seeing pro's play at their top form isn't the only thing that makes a match exciting. The audience wants to see different strategies and different matchups. They want to see pro's play the same civilisations they play in the ranked ladder and see how they compare with each other. By the end of the tournament, it had become too predictable. 90% of the matches were played with the same 7 civilizations and too many games were played as mirrors. This is not an easy problem to solve without creating new problems but for future tournaments, the community may have to get creative in order to keep games from becoming stale. Maps with Fixed Resources While most people have grudgingly accepted that the game needs to evolve beyond endless Arabia wars, there is always the danger of over-correcting and forgetting why Arabia was the most popular map for so many years. It's because every map is different and the players have to scout and adapt based on where the resources generate. No one can deny that maps like Cup are highly entertaining. The ability to use demolition ships on groups of 15 archers will always be a crowd pleaser but the map is always the same. Slopes, El Dorado, Bay etc all have the same problem and give the game a boxed in sort of feeling. They are great for occasional variety but if the map pool becomes over saturated with these types of maps, it can start to become predictable. Arabia is the bread and butter for a reason and we best not stray too far from it. Just my thoughts, happy to hear yours. All in all, amazing tournament. Well done to everyone involved! [link] [comments] | ||
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| And it was megarandom with only 1 boar on my side too... Posted: 27 Mar 2020 06:51 PM PDT
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| This censorship thing is getting out of hand. Posted: 27 Mar 2020 03:25 AM PDT
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| Saladin's Hidden Cup 3 journey! Posted: 27 Mar 2020 06:52 AM PDT
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| Day9 is playing AOE2 for the first time Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:59 PM PDT
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| Map of the approximate representation of each civ in AoE2. The colors come from each DLC. Posted: 27 Mar 2020 08:34 AM PDT
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| When you saw your all cavalry are dead. Posted: 27 Mar 2020 01:21 PM PDT
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| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 08:59 AM PDT Throw this into your bookmarks, and click the bookmark while you're watching a video. It will hide the progress bar, so you can't see the remaining time in a series (which often spoils the outcome).
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| Interview with Nicov, a AoE2 Legend - 2020 Posted: 27 Mar 2020 04:44 PM PDT
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| Anyone still believe TheViper plays 100 % in small tourneys and inconsequential games? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 02:05 AM PDT I know this is gonna be a massive fanboy post. But for months or even years, some people have tried to make it seem as if TheViper's reign was almost over: - Liereyy only losing by one game in KotD1 -> Liereyy will have him soon! - MbL beating Viper in a low money tournament and in an inconsequential early round of NAC -> MbL is Viper's nemesis! - Hera recently becoming #2 and winning a couple of low money tournaments -> Hera will take over soon! --- But all of these predictions were completely wrong. Liereyy never managed to beat Viper and lost more convincingly in KotD2. Of course you can blame his lack of activity, but it's not like Viper plays a lot, either (compared to eg Hera). MbL is now further away from the top than before and also never won a big tournament, always losing to Viper when it really mattered. Most recently, Hera got destroyed 4-0. Before HC3, many people, myself included, have speculated that Viper only plays 100 % when it really matters. Otherwise he doesn't necessarily "troll", but still often choses suboptimal strats, doesn't bother to micro etc. Many other people have disagreed with this strongly: "how dare you say that, that is so insulting to other players!!". But now not only has Viper completely outclassed the competition. He has also stated HIMSELF that he didn't play 100 % in the earlier rounds of HC3. And that's a 50k dollar tournament. So at this point, does anyone still believe that MbL is "Viper's nemesis" because he beat him 2 times when it didn't matter? Or that Hera is super close to Viper because he won a small cash tourney? Or isn't it much more likely that Viper just played at a fraction of his full strength? [link] [comments] | ||
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| When is the next big tournament? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 11:58 AM PDT So as a newcomer to AoE2 with DE, I'm really getting in to the pro scene. I watch a lot of Viper's stream, and have watched both 2020 tournaments. The only other Esport I've ever watched is LoL, and even though there aren't that many tournaments, there are games on pretty much all year round. Is there a calendar or is it quite last minute planning, these tournaments? [link] [comments] | ||
| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 02:51 PM PDT All I had to do was play as Britons, wall off my base, build two castles next to the one spot the AI was fixated on attacking, and spam elite longbowmen for the rest of the game. It sent a constant flood of paladins, skirmishers, rams, and onagers that all got wrecked by arrows and when its resources finally dwindled off I sent about 80 longbowmen and 6 trebuchets to its base and that was that. It seems like the AI's main weakness is it will keep attacking the same fortified position nonstop, despite making no progress and losing hundreds of units. [link] [comments] | ||
| Sign out of xbox live to turn off the profanity filter Posted: 27 Mar 2020 04:20 AM PDT | ||
| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 06:09 PM PDT If I'm going for Khmer fc and I reach Fuedal with 800 food already is there any point in making the 2 vills before castle or should I just click up Right away [link] [comments] | ||
| [Shitpost] Upcoming major AoE2: DE Tournament: Auto Scouting Cup Posted: 27 Mar 2020 05:31 PM PDT hi guys so as you know trump just signed yang bucks into law so im gonna get 12 grand from the irs next month and i want to use it to host another big-money age of empires two: Definitive Edition experts tournament i introduce to you: the auto scouting cup, featuring the top 16 players in the world so first off the most important part, the prize pool, the $12k will be split like this TheViper: $4k 2nd place: $3k 3rd/4th place: $2k each quarterfinalist failures: $250 each overlay guy: exposure sound good so far? you ain't seen nothin yet kiddo so next off match rules: · players must start auto scouting within 10 seconds of every game start and never disable it or else their opponent gets three cobra cars starting in feudal age · all matches are best of 5 · laming is allowed provided it is done by men-at-arms with +2 armor · standard victory, 90 minute treaty · loser of each match takes a shot, two sips if Tom Brady throws a touchdown pass, finish your drink if you win the grand final civ draft rules: · all civs classified as a "cavalry civilization," "infantry civilization," or "archer civilization" are globally banned, any combination thereof is ok except mongols · starting with the lower seed, players alternate picking civs for their opponent's pool until all civs are depleted · each player is randomly assigned 5 civs from their pool based on various hash operations applied to a $3 powerball quick pick · if the quick pick hits the jackpot players forfeit all winnings as the Tournament Administrator fucks off to the caymans with a prostitute map draft rules: · one global ban per United States Executive Cabinet member in the twitch chat (must be subscribed to t90official to count) · players each roll 1d20 on their facecam to pick their home map via modulus operation · taller player picks first map pool: · green arabia · forest nothing · forest nothing 7x7 · forest prison with relics · ancient TD · snakepit · william wallace scenario 2 · regicide fortress · green arabia map structure per match: · game 1: arabia · game 2: also arabia, but with the 10x civ bonus mod · game 3: higher seed home map · game 4: lower seed away map · game 5: Twitch Plays AoE2:DE all games will be played on the eastus3 server (it's the alienware desktop i left in my mom's basement in indiana, don't worry she has comcast so it'll be really fast) be sure to tune in on facebook live memorial day weekend [link] [comments] | ||
| Recently tried out Persians and their war elephants they are amazing! Posted: 27 Mar 2020 09:44 AM PDT At first i was hesitant that they would easily be countered by halbs but it isn't that easy as I made some hand cannoneers and I destroyed my opponent 1 v 1 Arabia [link] [comments] | ||
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| Does a AOE2 DE APM counter exist? Posted: 27 Mar 2020 07:29 PM PDT I tired to google, I swear I tried, but could only find APM counters for older versions. Would also appreciate it if the AOE2HD build order tutorials have been moved to DE and someone could link me, though I didn't google this one :x [link] [comments] | ||
| Found my OG game box while doing some corona-cleaning! Posted: 26 Mar 2020 11:19 AM PDT
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| Posted: 27 Mar 2020 03:02 AM PDT Hi community, This is my first post in this thread, it's great to see so many people playing this game even though it's well over 20 years old (I used to play it way back when). I have come to find out that I am super terrible when it comes to online matches, I was just wondering if the art if war strategies are worth doing and are they transferable to online play to ultimately make you a better player? Cheers :) [link] [comments] | ||
| Every other match gets dropped saying I disconnected from the match Posted: 27 Mar 2020 12:53 PM PDT Internet connection is flawless, been playing with the same set up for months now, yesterday and today I keep getting this disconnect message, is it something I can fix? [link] [comments] |
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