So as most of us know in 2025 AoE4 will be releasing it’s next DLC following the massive success of the “Sultans Ascend” back in 2023. The DLC back then brought in a lot of excitement and was the most selling DLC of the franchise. Although because 2024 was a bit of a stale in the gaming world and worked in my opinion as a trailer for 2025. Next year is kicking off hard with Microsoft giving some money for Tournaments for AoE4 and potentially more for the upcoming DLC. I’m writing this as a mini Wishlist for something that I wanted till release and I hope someone Official will notice and I hope you agree with what I’m about to say.
Animals Variety, for the last 1-2 days I was thinking how they can add more animals without ruining the games state on food sources and after some thinking, I think I found out how. So, first of all, Muslims can’t take boar thus including Mali, Abba, Ayyu and Otto. Cool feature I’m not gonna lie. But in 2024 I played Ghost of Tsushima and learnt that Deer is actually a sacred animal in Feudal Japan. So that got me in thinking, why is that not on AoE4? Sure, they can go to boar and sure Muslim Civs can go to deer and would go to boar if they could and I ended up with a smart solution.
So, how can they add more animals without ruining the games “food chain”. That’s how it goes:
Low Food Source (Sheep)
Medium Food Source (Berries)
High Food source (Deer)
Very High Food Source (Boar)
So that’s what I’m thinking, after playing AoM Retold and noticing the variety on animals I thought, what if? So, I came up with this model so now they can add more animals and even Civs who can’t get boar, now they can and why not fix Japan on gathering Deer. I’m just gonna say that Japan is just a detail that I noticed and came up as a point I don’t want you to flame on me on promoting Ghost of Tsushima or something similar.
In AoM Retold maps have already biomes on them and can’t be changed but in AoE4 you can change both the maps and biomes so why not some animals represent some specific biomes. For example, Saharan biome brings in animals like Lions (Very High Food) and Antelopes (High Food Source). European biome brings Deer and Boar. Mountain biome brings Goats and Wolves. More cold biomes bring animals like Bears and so it goes. I’m just giving examples.
I’m just giving some suggestions please in the comments don’t flame on me and just share your opinion on whether you agree or disagree. In my own opinion I think that this is a cool mechanic so every civ can gather from each source on the map and that it would make the game more creative and why not more appealing to the human eye!