I was thinking about this and i don’t know if is the plan that Forgotten Empires are thinking and want to try.
In the last DLC (The three Kindoms) they add to play in single player and multiplayer, civilizations that have acces to a unit hero (Liu Bei, Sun Quan and Cao Cao).
This is the first time in AoE2 that make this change in the multiplayer gameplay. Adding a unit exclusive to campaigns and editors.
So, i was thinking, “What if this is only the begining to add more hero units for other civilizations?” “Are the devs preparing the multiplayer games for adding in future versions and new content?”
Personally i don’t think is a bad idea if the add more heroes with passive/active abillities for every civ.
For example the can add heroes from campaign or news heroes for every civilization in multiplayer and add abilities that make more poweful the bonuses of a civilization (for example a Briton hero that if are near of an archery gallery, make them work 15% faster) or a hero ability that try to patch some weakness of the civ (for exam. a Goth hero that add HP or +1 armor to infantry near of them).
Maybe is only an speculative reason i got when I’m in my free time but, what are you thinking about this? Do you think this can work or is it just a way to make the multiplayer worse?
If they add heroes to all civs on anything other than a single online mode (as in, not ranked) I will not just stop playing online, I will uninstall the game.
But I am not sure if they will, as the 3K heroes replace the treb, which you cannot do for other civs.
Still. If you’re reading this devs. Don’t even think about it.
Heroes in regular gameplay would butcher how versatile civs are. Look at the Franks, they cover the full period, it doesn’t matter who you’d pick between Merovech and Francis I, any hero could only cover a tiny fraction of the period. I’m supposed to be fighting the English and the Burgundians in the HYW, why do I have Charlemagne available ?
More heroes available in the editor though, dump a truckload if you feel like it.
I think that if heroes are added to older civs, it would be as an extra game option (similar to regicide or sudden death). But it would be a fair bit of extra work for something not too many players have expressed interest in (and some are vehemently opposed to the heroes already in ranked). And some people would most likely dislike the chosen heroes if heroes were added.
Yes, they’ll probably do it at some point…this is like a “testing of the waters”…swapping out the regular scout for heroes from their respective civs and allowing the player to get different heroes with each age (like in AoM)…the scouts in AoE 3 and 4 are also heroes…
Yes, in AoM it’s the most common, and since there are few civs, it makes it easier to balance…
No way, that’s just plain silly. No Heroes in the standard game modes.
There’s only ONE way for this: making it a separate mode, like Regicide or Capture the Relic. It doesn’t belong to the base game in any shape or form.
But forget it, there’s much more interesting stuff to do before that.
Scouts in AoE IV aren’t heroes, they’re regular units with some health regeneration. They can die and are trainable without limits at the TC and at the Stable. Only the AoE III Explorer is a Hero unit.
They need to add unique unit models to existing in game heroes like Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Barbarossa, Charlemagne, El Cid. They should not be using existing unit models. Not even the elite UU models. We need unique models for all the heroes.