Meet the Team! Cedric Van de Sande, Campaign Lead! - Age of Empires

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               <p>Hi again Age Fans! Another member of the FE team was kind enough to get together with us for a quick interview! This time it’s Cedric Van de Sande, the Campaign Lead! Read on below to see what he had to say about his time working on Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, and keep an … Continued</p>
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This is by far the best interview yet. It made me excited to play and confirmed that we are buying into more than just a reskin. Really looking forward to seeing the new campaign environments.

Excellent news. Can’t wait to hear the spoken narratives.

Very excited, Cant wait to jump in.

Great to hear about the new graphic objects and campaign updates! Very pleased to learn of the improvements- we are definitely getting more than just shiny new graphics!

Hopefully he does a btter job than they did on AoM ToTD, that campaign is a complete mess.

A new screenshot would be worth a thousand words :slight_smile:

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This sounds very exciting! Can’t wait to try the new campaigns!

Bearable…
Not bad!

Question!
Do you have a new campaign?
So: A missing campaign expansion that is still in the history of the era.

This leaves me very excited for singleplayer. Building off the original scenarios but making small adjustments so missions play better or are more unique from others is exactly what the campaigns need - essentially a freshening up. I’m very glad they’re not too conservative and have the guts to make some changes where needed, if done right this can end up really good. Hopefully this means they will play around with the pop-limit too and not have it be static throughout, some maps work really well with the original 50 while others could benefit greatly from an increase.

Can’t wait. Very exciting!

Sounds good.

Would love to know if you’re also adding in a remaster of the Hittite campaign that came with the demo of the original. Have some great memories of playing that campaign before going out and buying the full game.

@GurkhaWarrior said:
Would love to know if you’re also adding in a remaster of the Hittite campaign that came with the demo of the original. Have some great memories of playing that campaign before going out and buying the full game.

They are :smile: They will also include the Punic Wars which was the demo campaign for the expansion.

The only ones that will be missing from official ES content (as far as I know) is the ‘Dawn of Civilization’ campaign that was made to show at some gameshow before the release of aoe1 iirc. It was a five mission campaign, three of the missions are very very similar to missions from the Egypt campaign - but the last two missions were unique and pretty extensive. I also think ‘Bronze Age - Art of War’ will be missing, which was just a single mission that ES made to showcase some big battles.

Quite happy they opted for voiced narration and aesthetic touches to the maps, but I hope they haven’t made the campaigns easier than they originally were. Some Yamato and Babylon missions were punishing, but that’s how I’d prefer them to be.

Hi team, Keep it coming! Keep updating making it better!