Took way too long to arrive, but its very good. Jeanne is amazing.
next expansion hopefully wont take another 2 years. player base is willing to pay for quality releases like this, but it needs to happen more often.
if we can also get a campaign/variant dlc for mali/otto/other civs that don’t have one while we wait for the next major expansion along with quick updates for the current dlc Aoe4 is in a great spot for the future.
I think they were testing the waters with this expansion. If it was not successful then they would not do another expansion. But I think they proved that it was a big success both for the game and profits. Best selling on steam, many players come back again. I also hope they do another expansion next year. 2 new civ, campaign then 4 new variants for the remaining 4 vanilla civ English, Mongol, Delhi, Rus
I think the next step to keep this success up, is to bring the game quick bug and balance fixes. There are several bugs introduced with the expansion, they are luckily not game breaking, but would still be nice if they are taken care of as soon as possible.
For next civ i really want Khmer and Vikings (norse or danes).
I think they would bring the most “uniqueness” to the game, because they are so different culturally from anything currently in game.
While a civ like spain would be quite similar to other euro christian civ. Korean would be similar to japan/china, or a middle eastern civ would be similar to Abbasyd.
It’s an absolutely amazing expansion great value for content I can’t wait to lay into it more I do think some of the new stuff needs toned down so the older ones can compete with them but other than that its an awesome expansion.
This expansion didn’t take long to arrive unless you want to change the past, so that the developers release the game in 2019 and deliver it to you with the DLC in 2021.
Another alternative that could have happened is that the game came out in 2021 only available for 10 RTS expert players and then they sold it to you complete with the DLC in 2023; and so all of you would not have complained that this game came out incomplete and defective
This expansion actually is the first after 1 year, not 2. The first was the Anniversary update which was free, actually. Of course this is bigger. Anyway I think the best is smaller but more often, I’d pay a small premium for that.