Also surprised it wasn’t addressed on the road map.
Really happy to see the road-map , thats exactly the kind of communication we want and need from the devs - but I would of put Choosing player colour nearby the adding cheat codes - its really part of the “Age Legacy”.
For any Dev who think’s colour is not important, I would point them to the Arkantos dream mission in AoM where changing colours is used as a thematic story telling device - which worked because of associations made by players to colours that have been present since Age1. Everyone who play’s age has ‘their colour’… heck, even the snake prefers to play in yellow.
“Blow the Horn, Bang the Drum, The Pig is Coming To Town!”
Crap ton of RED Macemen come from the signpost
Stronghold was great, and its use of color was genius. Even though each faction was literally the exact same, just swapping colors and having memorable character helped the game out immensely.
There is already a topic about this but its just called ‘Colours’ which isn’t very descriptive of the issue and could easily be dismissed as a topic discussing art style by people browsing. I wanted to create a new topic in light of todays roadmap reveal.
There was no mention in todays roadmap of adding colour choice to AOE4 for all we know its not even on the radar. It is a basic feature and staple of the series and classic RTS in general.
There is a stream today on twitch where they will be talking about the roadmap. I dont know much about twitch but might be a good opportunity to get a response?
I agree. I find the color schemes for units and banners pretty lame. I would prefer that players can create personalized color schemes (Blue and black, white and gold, yellow and red, ect or use re-worked non-pastel banner colors ) for their civs and have a basic team color be just an empty or translucent circle around the unit on the ground, be it red/yellow/blue, and it shows that way on the mini-map. I also hope your banner would fly or be displayed on the TC, wood and stone gates and towers, and on landmarks and military buildings. Nothing ruins medival warfare like bright green units.
Its a bit late for my timezone on a working day but it would be great if someone could get additional information, heck just acknowledgement of the issue.
I just miss my purple, feels so weird, especially with it being so prevalent in players’ minds from both AoE II & III. As people have said, it’s a very easily fixable I’m sure! Please address this.
Does any one know if Age Of Empires IV is going to be getting the ability to change your color for multi player? my friends and I play a lot together and the game randomly selects the color. This sucks as we prefer to use our normal color that we use in all games. It has always been an option in the previous versions of this franchise. Not sure why it was left out this round.
I agree, why England is BLUE ? that is not historical accuracy, this is not 20s anymore, let player choose their color in Multiplayer , Skirmish and Singleplay too (have a button to turn on unique color like England is red, French is Blue, Holy Roman Empires is Yellow…)
So, I know they have different colors in the game, and you can turn off team colors, but can we at least choose our color small detail, but like I don’t like being blue all the time or red.
