Getting started In-game script

Age of Mythology: Retold

Your chat drops meteors and lightning storms on your base, sends Minotaurs and Cyclopes carrying their names, gifts you hoplites, gold and god powers… or splits into teams to decide the battle.

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A GIFT'S JOURNEY

How a gift reaches the game

Four stops, in under a second.

  1. A viewer sends a gift

    From TikTok, Twitch, Kick, YouTube or Starvios: a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.

  2. OverInteractive

    Receives the event, checks your active profile for the matching effect and sends it.

  3. OverInteractive script

    A script for the game's own engine that rides inside OverInteractive's maps («OI Arena» and the ones with (OI)). The app hands it every effect while you play.

  4. Age of Mythology: Retold

    The effect lands in your match right away, with the viewer's name on it.

STEP BY STEP

Getting started

Everything happens from the game's status bar, at the bottom of the app.

  1. 1

    The app finds your game

    It detects your Steam copy of Age of Mythology: Retold. If it doesn't, pick its folder in the «Game» step of the bottom bar.

  2. 2

    Open it once

    If you've never opened it, go to the main menu and close it: that creates your user folder.

  3. 3

    Install the mod in one click

    With the game closed, press «Install mod». The app adds the script and the «OI Arena» map to your user folder, built from one of your own game's maps, plus the maps you tick in the «Skirmish» tab. Game files are not touched.

  4. 4

    Play in Skirmish

    In the game go to «Skirmish». For the map pick «Custom Maps» → «OI Arena» (a compact field with one base at each end) or any of the maps you ticked in the app's «Skirmish» tab, with (OI) at the end. You as the only human, the AI on its team, and press Play.

    It only works in Skirmish and on OverInteractive's maps: campaigns, Arena of the Gods, multiplayer, ranked and regular maps don't load the script.

  5. 5

    Wait for «Connected»

    A few seconds into the match, the bottom bar switches to «Running · Connected».

  6. 6

    Choose what each gift does

    In «Profiles» create an example one: «Chat vs the Streamer» or «Two Teams», or build your own. In this game's «Skirmish» tab you set the hit points for every team (or a separate team's own), the maps and the safety net, before starting the match.

EFFECTS

What your chat can do

Each effect is assigned to a gift, a follow, likes or a chat command.

God powers

All 98 powers of the 7 pantheons, each one its own command: meteors, earthquake, tornado, Restoration, Prosperity… They land on a team, that team casts them in its base, or you gift them.

Units

All 245 units of the 7 pantheons, each one its own command and grouped by type: myth, soldiers, heroes, titans, siege, villagers and fun ones. They carry the viewer's name; you choose which team they join and whether they attack a rival or defend its base.

Resources

Give or take gold, food, wood and favor.

Chaos

Kill villagers, rain, snow, blackout, camera shake and on-screen messages.

IMPORTANT

Before you go live

Teams

Every effect has a «Team» parameter: the game's lobby teams, 1 to 12. For units it's the team they join; for powers, resources and chaos, the team it lands on. Part of the chat can help you while another part backs the AI. Units and powers come from all 7 pantheons, whatever civilization you play.

Skirmish only, single player

The script gets into the match through the map, so it only works in Skirmish on «OI Arena» or a map with (OI). It switches itself off with more than one human: effects reach the streamer's PC only and would throw the others' match out of sync.

After a game update

If the game updates, reinstall the mod from the bottom bar: «OI Arena» and the (OI) maps are rebuilt from the new maps.

FAQ

No. Everything goes into your user folder (Games\Age of Mythology Retold): a script, «OI Arena» and the copies of the maps you pick, with (OI). The original maps and your saves are not touched.

Ready for your chat to play with you?

Download OverInteractive for free: this same guide is waiting inside the app, in the game's «Start» tab.

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