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So im pretty new to the game and ive heard about lots of playstyles and terms but im not sure i fully understand them or their purpose. So ive heard about: Feudal Rush 2 TC Fast Caslte But i have some questions about their specifics. Does 2TC mean you always build a second tc in feudal or does a second tc in castle also count? If you go 2TC do you usually stop there or do you sometimes make a 3rd or 4th tc, and if so is it always before castle? Is the purpose of 2tc to win in imperial since you will have much more resource production, or win in castle or what? If you go fast castle do you ever go 2nd tc in castle? Is the point of fast caslte to get all the relics first or is it to get castle age units and upgrades then rush or what? Is the point of feudal rush to win in feudal or just set the opponent behind then go 2tc or castle yourself? I know thats a lot of questions but thanks in advanced to whoever can provide me with some knowledge.

New to AofE IV via PS5 and I'm loving it, bought two expansions but obviously it no longer runs after the latest update. Is it that hard to rollback the update? Is it common practice for Microsoft not to address such issues with any sense of urgency?

Hey, Age of Empires 4 really brings back the nostalgia of AoE1 and AoE2, but playing online with my friends is starting to get really frustrating. Developers, do y’all actually play this game a lot? I’ve been playing 5-10 AoE4 games with my friends online each week from season 12 through now season 13, and I distinctly remember it took at least 2 months for the Golden Horde bug to be fixed (where you could deploy/redeploy stables and then have like 150 Keshiks at 12-15min into the game). And how are raider elephants faster than knights? I can understand them being faster than any infantry, but seriously? An elephant can run faster than a horse? And can you please allow more time for matchmaking in order to match closer ranked players instead of just throwing games together faster. My friend and I play a lot of 2v2 and during our last 5 straight games, we won ONE game and lost FOUR games, yet I only lost -3 total ELO…because EVERY SINGLE TIME we’re playing against people higher ranked than us, so looking backwards it was loss (-11), loss (-1), loss (-17), win (+35), loss (-9)… it’s not fun to play people obviously better than us and to have no chance. The match where we only lost -1 elo was against a Conqueror 1 and a Diamond 3…for reference, I’m a Gold 3 who has occasionally gotten to Platinum 1, and my friend oscillates from Gold 2 to Gold 3. And the Conqueror 1 was even a smurf account ( 大麻 ) if you want to do anything about it…he’s got 126 games played TOTAL only starting in Season 12 between 1v1 and 2v2 ranked and an average 74.6% win ratio? And then even though I like playing sometimes with random team mates, there are so many people who artificially reduce their elo by joining a game and immediately disconnecting? There’s ZERO repercussions for it, you can just queue up another game and quit that one too. I would imagine it’s pretty easy to write code that shows if a person quits in a certain amount of time of the game starting (like 5 min) or if they produce