That was not the point I wanted to make.
It’s not about if people like the DLC, or if it’s what people want.
It’s about if the developers thought they were making something people like.
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- Khitan civ with Tangut castle and UU
- Khitans & Jurchens have no voice lines or campaigns
- “China” tab added at the same time as this that shows there were plans
Put it together. It’s not hard.
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Hey, stop spreading misinformation!
The Wei, Wu and Shu also have no new voice lines.
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Armenians are also not very Armenian. Yes the Khitans are bad and so are the Armenians. Other civs have had or still have similar issues.
Khitans and Jurchens not having voice lines is something that makes more sense since those are both dead languages. Hard to find speakers. I still have some hopes that they will use the 3 weeks till release to give them voice. Voice lines are some of the things that are usually done at the very end.
The Chinese tab also doesn’t prove anything. It only proves that they had different plans at some point. Or have upcoming plans for the future.
No game development goes perfect. There is always cut content and things being changed during development.
OMG…there are two new set of banners??? one for china, another for peru?
Am I understanding this correctly?
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Well that’s at least understandable…given they are all Han Chinese 
Not quite. “Peru” is the codename for Three Kingdoms.
“China” is a scrapped banner that somehow is still in the coding.
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Yes and no. The China banner is hidden in the files but unused, and “Peru” is the codename for 3K
That’s subjective but whatever, I’ll take it x1000000 over RoR and antiquity stuff.
but that’s my point, I guess I didn’t make it clear with my excitement.
that really does seem like there were two dlc’s planned. one regular for china, another for peru (3k mode). but then they were merged.
It now seems certain that is exactly what happened.
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I’ve edited the OP, but some acute fellow forum members have pointed out Cysion also made a statement saying in that same interview he didn’t know how many more civs could be added to the game, but didn’t want to get to the point we’d be making civs from insignificant polities. He used Liege as an example. Somehow we now have three such insignificant polities in the game.
Just more coincidence and miscommunication for your thoughtful consideration.
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And yet, even still, they were based on a small Armenian Crusader state. The ‘Khitans’ are clearly the Tanguts, and for whatever reason they decided not to give them the Tangut name. At least with the Kingdom of Cilicia, it was run by Armenians during the period the civ is based around, not Franks or Byzantines. One could also argue the Armenians are a semi-umbrella with Middle Eastern Christians as a whole, since Assyrians and Coptic Levantines also still lived in the Levant in sizeable numbers, which may be one possible explanation to the semi-diluted Armenian flavor. But regardless, it’s more rooted in fact based on the root than the ‘Khitans’ with Tangut main elements.
And in my opinion they need to be un-merged; Jurchens and Khitans in one, 3K in the other, separate price tags and all. As much as I actually like the design of the Jurchens I’m not touching them if they’re associated with 3K, period.
This communications blackout seems intentional now that we are a full week and a half in. They just hope it will pass or something.
Because they know exactly how misleading their entire leadup to the DLC was. Its not like the entire community woke up one day with Tanguts on their mind for no reason.
During he AoE4 controversy they responded within days by the way.
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Of course it does and the entertainment industry do this in a lot of cases.
For example, Hollywood do this a lot with movies in the musical genre. A lot of them try to hide they are musical in the trailers and ads.
More recently, movies that are part 1 are trying to hide it, like the Wicked movie that hided the fact its just part 1 and a lot of people had no idea of it.
In video games we have a lot of examples too. I will give a recent example in Hearthstone. Every expansion was released with a new board to play the cards, then in a expansion announcement they said nothing about the board. Everyone started to ask about it and the devs did not said anything and did not replied anyone. Then when the expansion was released, there was no board.
They hided the fact because they knew everyone would hate it.
Does it…?
Wouldn’t this DLC, in fact, have the least amount of single player campaign missions of all the DLCs…?
Really dude…?
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