DLC focussed on Campaigns coming soon!

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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According to news here:
New Year, New Age Livestream Coming February 23rd - Age of Empires New Year, New Age Livestream Coming February 23rd - Age of Empires

Any guesses on which campaigns might/should release?

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Iā€™ll buy any campaign. I would personally like a late Roman or a Byzantine campaign, but Iā€™ll enjoy campaigns from MENA, SubSaharian Africa, East Asia, Americasā€¦

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Vikings, Turks, Byzantines and Japanese could have a campaign.

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I hope for Korean, Vikings and Romans campaigns.

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I think this is a really good move. no more bad civ additions. just adding campaigns also shouldnt introduce new bugs

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I am sure the DLC will be accompanied by a patch which will have balance changes and some new regional units. Which may introduce new bugs.

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Civs that miss one except Mayans. So Japanese, Koreans, Chinese, Turks and Vikings.

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balance changes, Iā€™m ok with
new regional units Iā€™m sceptical.

how can you be sure about this?

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Steamdb files added 3 sub files. So maybe there are 3 campaigns. Iā€™ll go with Vikings, Turks and Chinese.

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Sorry wrong choice of words. It is my guess. I think they will show off some new units which will be used in the campaigns.

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Does that mean you can buy the campaigns separately or just one DLC with 3 campaigns?

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Ummā€¦good question. I have no idea. Will be great if you can by separately as well as in a bundle like the cosmetic DLC.

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Thatā€™s a pretty interesting move, but good overall I think. Iā€™m not much of a campaign guy myself - havenā€™t gotten around to most of the DE era ones, although a good Maya campaign would probably tempt me. Anyway, this seems like a prime opportunity to add more heroes and unique Editor units, buildings, and objects. I really hope they lean into that rather than just making campaigns with the existing content or adding the bare minimum of 1 new protagonist hero and some token unusable objects (e.g. Svan ā€œTowersā€) like they did with TMR.

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Announcing an announcement!!!

Well, thatā€™s something people here have asked for quite a long time, just like it was with Poles/Boheminas and Georgians/Armenians. Iā€™m happy, campaigns are my favourite part of the game.

Personally I would love a Crusades themed DLC but ā€˜ā€˜the forgottenā€™ā€™ Chinese, Vikings and Turks look like the best guess.

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I would put money on Japanese, Koreans and Romans. All are extremely unlikely to be included as campaigns in any DLC pack.

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True. Once they included the civ in the game a campaign became almost a question of honor.

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Monkey paw closes a finger. Itā€™s a Return of Rome Roman campaign

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I really hope its more than 3 campaigns

East Asian pack with Koreans and Japanese (lets add Chinese to an East Asian civ DLC)

European pack with Vikings and Slavs/Magyars

Mediterranean pack with Turks/Romans

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I just thought. We have had 3-campaigns in a DLC before, but they were never split up like this.

Perhaps the three files are:

  • AoE2 DE Campaigns
  • RoR Campaigns
  • AoE2 DE Historical Battles
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Poor Mayans left out by both of us.