this guy thinks heās going to reach castle age
i am trained in the arts of getting rushed by two on BF as my pocket freebooms and i still get to castle age
iām immune to your feudal tricks
i cant hear you over the sound of all these fireships burning those docks
Itās kind of a shame how civs like Vikings, Spanish, and Byzantines have good water or water-related bonuses but fall flat on water maps in my experience due to the lack of any bonuses that help them get control in feudal age
me when the serfs are rebelling
[I will be guillotineād soon]
I just place a few towers to get a dock up? Donāt worry - the fights on BF over ponds have trained me for this too.
BF really is that girl if Iām honest
Iām not sure what you mean by not getting control in Feudal Age. Vikings do, Byzantines do, cheaper docks and faster firing Fire Ships give you easier control. Vikings especially have cheaper Galleys!!
Please tell her that I love her u_u
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thatās an inefficient use of resources
I forgot Byzantines get that bonus now by default rather than as a castle age tech!! Honestly I generally find that galleys donāt do too well in feudal on water maps, unless theyāre massed up / have a significant numbers advantage but if you let it get to that point you tend to have already half-lost anyways
Itās not inefficient when it gets my docks up!
They always had it! The Castle UT was giving them +1 range (which made them worse funnily enough).
Galleys do fine once you get a mass of them, then fire ships will fall over before they get to your units. And, well - as I said before, people donāt really know the build orders since I rarely play ranked anyway, so Iām not usually the one last to Feudal. You can be up around the same time as Italians anyway, if you have deer nearby!
I suppose this ties into the banning all open/closed maps thing; people generally assume that the other personāll have water maps banned with the funniest consequences
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I have no words.
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Yaāll play AoE2 multiplayer as Versus?
Youāre scary, and too high power level for me :<
I had already seen that once, so thanks for dealing a second helping of drain bamage by having to see it again 
Its like; holy hell, did your parents not have a manual?!
Both my parents used manuals up until they both passed and in the long and short of it; Iām not that much older than this dimwit.
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I mostly play Black Forest lobbies, so not really the top of the players!
Sometimes the lobbies get a bit scary with 1600+ 1v1 players, but right now Iām content with mostly 1400-ish TG players.
I prefer teamgames, but I hate queuing solo into them, so if I donāt have friends I donāt want to queue, and if itās a mostly open maps in the pool I also donāt want to queue.
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You can also just ignore them. If itās random street encounters - simply run past them. Theyāll chase you for a little while and then stop.
I saw one vide of PVP footage, including early palisade wall rushes on enemy bases and villager fights, and Iām just not about that stress 
Iāve gotten smooth enough at economy building that I donāt usually have anything military until Castle Age, so being thrown into PVP where people can use militia or scout rushes and itās like āNah, we outā haha
my biggest and most powerful gripe with yakuza isnāt even to do with the game
because iām playing it on steam deck iām absolutely trash at the QTE stuff, because the buttons are in a different place from where i would usually except. so if it says press Y, Iām reaching for where Y would be on the Switch.
i should be a god at karaoke but instead iām hot trash
The beauty of a PVP / ladder is that youāll eventually be matched with other players of your own skill level. Generally, average players already make army in Feudal age (Militias notwhitstanding), but the lower the rating goes, the slower people get or just donāt really control their army well.
It can be fun to play with other players, but if thatās not what you enjoy then playing solo is good enough too! The AI in AoE2 is good enough at this point where the Extreme AI can reasonably well emulate a strong player. If you want to improve and canāt beat Extreme AI yet, then even just playing vs the AI is good enough!
Once you do beat Extreme AI, is where you can absolutely jump into PvP - youāll be good enough to not go on a losing streak to find players of your skill level, so to speak.
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thatās right 
I for one prefer 1v1 games; I wouldnāt say Iām particularly top-tier, but around average for online play (~ 1050 ELO)
I started playing online games after reliably beating the moderate AI.
For singleplayer or co op with a friend I prefer the campaigns, myself
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letās do a 1v1!!
since im theoretically around the same level in 1v1 (i just never play 1v1s so my elo never changed)