Freyr is a man, so it would be “he”
Skadidesu:
A new Major God would make sense as a DLC. It’s basically a 1 civilisation DLC, while a new full civilisation is practically 3 new civilisations.
But if it was a new Minor God then this would become a massive pay to win concern.
Edit:
If Freyr is a Major god it is an interesting question how this will develop in the future.
Of course, what scares me is that the game will become Pay to win with gods OPs and a long etc…
EverybodysFoo1:
its not clarified yet if its a major or minor god (minor god would really be a problem, major god could be interesting)
if its a major god what are his minor gods???
why just one major/minor god for one civ? makes no sense they should have called it “trinity-pack” with freyr and one for the each other civ. like this it looks like norse will have more options than the others which is odd.
Tapiseiro:
But that in what way affect you if for example you are playing with Thor?
I repeat, if you would start the game without chosing a major good, I would understand your point. Because in that case nords would have more options within the game.
But each major god is like their own civ in others AoE. It would be like saying that in AoE3 europeans have an advantage because there are more europeans civs than asian for example. It have no sense.
You can always replace gods with other gods to balance or improve different civs…
Skadidesu:
Adding a Minor God would mean you get a 3rd choice in one of the Age ups I guess.
But yeah I assume they will make more God packs in the future. Likely not limited to 1 per civ. Popular civs might get more new Gods then unpopular ones. I guess it’ll be a lot more likely that the Greeks well get multiple new major gods.
Yes, at this rate we are going to end up with 5 gods by age and they will be like the European/native politicians/advisors from AoE 3…
Skadidesu:
Kinda strange that he was entirely missing from the base game.
I still wonder how they will deal with that for other civs as most important gods are already represented as Minor gods.
Yes, perhaps it was due to time issues, remember that between 2001-2002 Ensemble Studios was also developing SWGB… now with the DE already established, Forgotten Empires has room to develop, exploit and experiment with Retold… A new golden age is coming for AoM…
Yes, it’s the brother, but I didn’t find anything about him…
Skadidesu:
Each Major God is essentially it’s own civilisation. The difference between Major Gods is bigger then the difference between many AoE2 civilisations.
The different Pantheons are basically just regions of the world so it makes sense that they can have different numbers of gods.
I’m pretty sure we will see more then one such DLC in the future.
Not that different from the Variant Civilisation concept of AoE4.
Yes, AoM has 5 pantheons and each major god symbolizes a civ within the same culture (Greek, Egyptian, Norse, Atlantean and Chinese)…
Gods are important entities in Age of Mythology civilization has three gods per Age (except the Titan Age ) to choose from. The Archaic Age gods are called major gods , while the others are called minor gods .
The choice of major gods is presented before the game starts (like civilizations of other games of the series), while the choice of minor gods is presented in a big window when advancing to the next Age. However, only two out of three minor gods are available to be chosen, which itself depends on the choice of the major god. The choices of gods, both major and minor, cannot be changed.
The set of all the major and minor gods that a civilization can worship is called a Pantheon .
Each god provides one god power .
Fyrapan90:
From a realistic standpoint, it makes no sense to give only one pantheon an extra god to play with in an RTS game. It is unfair and unwanted.
I personally think we will see the same treatment for the remaining pantheons.
Fyrapan90:
As I previously said, my bet is that this is the first of many new gods being added to the OG pantheons, most likely to make the OG pantheons stronger before the two new pantheons come in to play with expansion 1 & 2 post launch in order to make them more balanced.
Skadidesu:
I’m pretty sure this is just the first of many to come.
I could see Osiris or Hera become Major Gods too.
Tapiseiro:
But helenic culture is overrepresented. May be you can´t or you shouldn´t duplicate nordic culture releasing… Icelandic for example and making them to workship Vanir gods instead of Aesir for example.
Instead of this, it´s good release a new major god to complete a little more their pantheon…
Tapiseiro:
This argument would only make sense if you started the game without choosing a major God. Because then the Nordics WOULD have an increase in their alternatives. But since you choose the god before the game, if there are 3, 4 or 6 it is something that does not affect.
Fyrapan90:
The fact still remains that the Norse in that case will have one extra god to choose from at the beginning of the game, that probably comes with new powers, units and strategies that other pantheons doesn’t have, so how does something like this not affect the game in any way unless all pantheons get the same treatment? On top of that, it doesn’t make sense to just let the Norse get this treatment.
Fyrapan90:
I’d find it strange and weird if they left out pantheons, surely they have thought this through if they are willing to give this treatment to the Norse, that all other pantheons has to receive the same treatment or otherwise why do it at all? Time will tell.
Valkling:
I was going to mention the plural which everyone seems to miss. Considering it is a Gods Pack my guess it is contains a new major god, Freyr in this case, and three new minor gods (one for each age). Otherwise I don’t know what they would package with him. Obviously new minor gods would come with new myth units, tech/upgrades and god powers. I’d assume Freyr would get agricultural bonus techs and I have a feeling Idunna will be a minor god for him
Yes, maybe they will try Freyr first and then new gods for the others pantheons will arrive…
Tapiseiro:
We have two different pantheons for a same mithology (the helenic).
So, why not to have another pantheon with 4 major gods instead of 3?
Yes, perhaps the new pantheons/mythologies come with 4 or 5 major gods… a world of possibilities opens up before us…
Fyrapan90:
Respectfully, this is a bad comparison. That there is the Greeks & the Atlanteans that both come from the Hellenic mythology is not the same thing, as they play differently from each other in the game regardless of them sharing the same culture/mythology, and they have the same amount of gods to choose from with every age.
Fyrapan90:
There is a reason why the Hellenic culture is represented in such way, because it’s the biggest and/or most famous in the west compared to all other pantheons. Not saying that one is better than the other one, but I think no one will deny this.
Yes, the Atlanteans would be precursors of the Greeks (and if you want, of the Romans and the Mesocivs too)…
Skadidesu:
It it’s a new major got then there is no balance concern at all.
Forcing to game to always keep the same number of Major Gods for all Pantheons means that it would be very hard to expand the existing Pantheons.
It seems really bad idea to force every civilisation to have the same number of Major gods.
Of course I agree…
No offense, but it’s a bit annoying to scroll the thread down.