How would you feel about old campaigns getting a new difficulty?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Honestly, some of the most iconic and flavorful campaigns from the original game suffer from being way too easy to be enjoyed properly

To me, El Cid is the most sad one, a super fun narrative dragged down by the easiness of the gameplay

Also, Lepanto could have the Ottoman navy buffed and your starting navy reduced

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Yeah, the classic campaigns were made with the 18 original civs in mind, balanced around them and with restrictions of that time(limited pop, one UT, etc). The developers have been updating them with the new civs and new content ever since, but I feel the difficulty hasn’t been improved.
The new Legendary difficulty is a good excuse to improve the classic scenarios; however, unless it’s paid content, it would take quite some time before they’re added. I have no idea how difficult it would be to make such improvements; perhaps it’s more beneficial to create a campaign from scratch rather than constantly updating the old ones.
I would prefer that they add campaigns for the civs that don’t have them yet and then start remaking the classic ones with more historical accuracy (balanced with good gameplay, of course) and making them different enough to be part of a new DLC, while at the same time preserving the classic campaigns under a special tab (Legacy Campaigns, perhaps).

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Not a fan of this idea.OG game things should be left much as possible.

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Every campaign would remain the same unless you want to play a new dificulty

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adding a “hardest”, “extreme” or “legendary” difficulty on top of the existing ones, is exactly the kind of change I want to see in a definitive edition. it leave the original intact while adding options on top of it

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I wish William Wallace would be changed so at least the last two or three scenarios get affected by difficulty changes.

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Admitedly, the way this could be implemented is up to interpretation. Theres many old “easy” campaigns who are still fun (Barbarrossa, Attila, Genghis Khan) while some are just wayy too easy (Joan, El Cid). So, would the very easy campaigns have a bigger jump from the existing dificulty than the other ones?