[Outdated] Settings for AOM Speedrunning

The settings I use are available only on the retail Eddition of the game, those settings are as far as I know the best settings to be speedrunning the game :

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First off you want to have a 640x480x16 resolution as your computer doesn't have to use as much processing power on display and can use it on making the game run faster. It's the same purpose for low resolution.

You might want to decrease your mouse sensibility because the game considers you're playing in a 640x480 pixels window so it'll seem like your mouse accuracy is garbage.

Inactive military units is usefull in a lot of mission where you have to quickly select spread out armies at the begening.

And without borderless it's actually quite hard to play in a 640x480 window, and you can see better in a full screen setup and be more precise.

1. Omens (Easy)

This is a list of task to run Omens in 6 minutes in easy difficulty.

1. Save the archer from the Kraken.
2. Put all archers (in front, on top and bottom of your starting location), Arkantos and catapults on the Kraken.
3. Pull 2 villagers from the berries and build 2 watch towers on the right bottom peak of Atlantis.
4. Research : Crenel (watch tower), upgraded weapon (Blacksmith), medium archer (archer camp) and both gold and wood upgrade in the warehouse.
5. Build a Temple with a farmer and queue up villagers on wood, send the last farmer on gold.
6. Once the Kraken is dead, put your archers near the tower you're building on the peak to snipe the landing ship.
7. Move Arkantos and the catapults near your bottom right dock to help kill the 2nd Kraken.
8. Build a wall right of your starting location and at your starting location where the Kraken stand build 3 watch tower.
9. Take Arkantos and all your units back to your bottom left dock to kill the two next Krakens.
10. Build additionnal watch towers between the two docks near your starting location.
11. Focus the landing ship with your watch tower on the bottom right peak.
12. Build archer and centaures for the final wave.
13. For the final wave, get all your archers near the starting location.
14. Manually focus the transport ship with your watch towers or else they'll attack the Kraken.
Note : for the final wave you just need to make sure nothing lands and as soon as the landing parties have been defeated you have won.
If done perfectly you can finish the map in 6 minutes.

Downpatching EE (e.g. to use the poseidon lure glitch)

Go to AOM in your Steam Library, then click Settings -> Properties -> Betas -> Beta Participation -> Drop down select whatever version you want.

Patch 2.6 is the last one with the Posedon Lure glitch, which you'll want for Consequences & Scratching the Surface

Editor Glitch

How to perform:

- Enter the editor
- Select any object(s)
- Copy the selected object(s) (Ctrl + C works)
- Select paste (Ctrl + P works)
- Hover your cursor over any object
- Press the scroll wheel

If you did everything properly, the units you copied will now be pasted wherever you click.
You can disable the glitch in the editor by selecting paste and pressing Esc.

Mechanics:

So it turns out that on most campaign levels this glitch isn't going to perform exactly how you might want it to. You might copy a bunch of standard run-of-the-mill bears hoping to overwhelm Gargarensis with your grizzly army, for example, only to discover that you accidentally copied several Osiris piece carts. This seems to be due to the various expansions. Most campaign missions do not allow units from either the Titans or Tale of the Dragon expansion. I like to think of it like this:

- You selected your objects from the total pool of objects
- Let's say there are 1000 total objects and "Bear" is object 37
- When you copy the "Bear" the game remembers that you selected object 37
- Later when you are in a mission that does not allow all 1000 objects, you paste your objects. Telling the game to paste object 37.
- The game now selects object 37 from the pool of allowable objects which is now reduced to say 600 objects.
- In this new list of objects "Bear" is no longer mapped to object 37, it might be mapped to object 403.
- The game pastes in object 37 which just happens to be mapped to one of the Osiris piece carts.

Please note this explanation almost certainly isn't correct. The only thing I can guarantee is that "Bear" does indeed map to an Osiris piece cart while playing certain missions on a copy of the Extended Edition. Unfortunately, all Osiris piece carts seem to be useless for activating triggers.

All that being said, All missions fall into one of two categories:

1. All objects map to themselves and will paste as copied in the editor
2. Objects from the Titans and Extended Edition cannot be pasted in the mission AND most objects copied map to other objects when pasted

The following campaign missions fit into the first category:

- The New Atlantis - All Missions
- Tale of the Dragon - All Missions
- Fall of the Trident - Missions 9, 10, and 29

All other missions fall into the second category.

Object Mapping:

This is a list of known helpful objects for speedrunning and how they map for category 2 missions. The object that gets pasted is on the left for easy lookup. The object that must be copied is listed on the right.

- Osiris - Osiris
- Villager (Greek) - Colossus
- Roc - Barracks
- Medusa - Dock
- Arkantos (Uber) - Dragon ship
- Guardian - Gazelle
- Living Poseidon Statue - Fishing Ship Egyptian
- Sentry tower - Giraffe
- Temple - Battle Boar

Alternative builders...

- Villager (Egyptian) - Medusa
- Ulfsark - Hades Gate
- Hersir - Gargarensis
- Huskarl - Ajax (SPC)
- Throwing Axeman - Obelisk
- Hero of Ragnarok - Monument to Priests

For Transport Glitch...

- Transport (Norse) - Wall Troy Short
- Leviathan - Wolf

Other fun mappings...

- Methane chicken - Dwarven Armory
- Lighthouse - Excavation
- Lazer Bear - Arkantos God Out
- Flying Purple Hippo - Ulfsark
- Forkboy - Brokk
- Revealer - Revealer

Living with Editor Glitch:

Editor glitch makes completing missions very difficult because it breaks some of the games main interface mechanics. Most notably, clicking on things. Many levels will be much easier because you just need to kill things with Osiris. On other levels, you will actually have to control units. This can be quite challenging.

- Alt+Select will allow you to select units as normal. Either clicking individual units or re-enabling drag select.
- Double clicking still works, but note it will spawn in units which can potentially get in the way.
- Shift+Select allows you to Shift+Select as normal. Which is often less helpful than Alt+Select because you cannot deselect units with Shift+Select.
- Shift Queueing can be used to build buildings. Simply hold down shift and left click.
- Delete kills units as always, get those pesky units out of the way.
- Control groups, use them whenever you have units that you need to move across the map.

Other Noteworthy Things:

- You can paste objects for other players. I have yet to find a use for this, but there probably is something in one of the missions... maybe.
- Some objects paste as neutral-owned. I don't know why, or if there is a fix. Lack of testing.
- Most effects map to themselves, so if you want a cool effect, you won't have to search for its mapping.
- Load the mission _all_units. It already has most units in it. You can test about half at a time. If you want to narrow down your search, this is the first place to go.
- Don't forget about water units, many of them map to land units and vice versa. You will need to place water to place and select the unit. When you are pasting, land units can only be pasted on land and water units in water. So do your testing on a water map. Omens works great.

Please send me questions if you have any.
Also if you have access to a copy of the game without Extended Edition or Titans Expansion, please test some of these listed objects and let me know if they match.
If you learn anything useful related to editor glitch, I would love to add it to the guide.

Transport Glitch 101

Here is a quick tutorial on how to use and exploit transport glitch when speedrunning AOM.

https://youtu.be/uks_TFF6yjA

Nome	Autore
[Outdated] Settings for AOM Speedrunning	Sarsart 4 years ago
1. Omens (Easy)	Sarsart 6 years ago
Downpatching EE (e.g. to use the poseidon lure glitch)	DoD_joeybadz 1 year ago
Editor Glitch	Vhoul 4 years ago
Transport Glitch 101	Sarsart 5 years ago