When is the update coming?
when? There wasnt any balance patch yetâŠ
Likely on the 14th november since itâs the anniversary date.
At least in the battle royale showmatch they were nerfed.
After watching some of the tournament again, these are definitely updates I hope to see for Battle Royale:
o The center of the circle of death has a random location.
o Eliminating enemy players awards bonus resources.
o Consumable relics containing random power ups spawn randomly throughout the map.
The intention is to keep players moving by giving active players more bonuses than camping players. Because I can already see literally every Battle Royale game coming down to who better rushes the fortified map center with how the game mode currently works.
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The depictions of meso civs and Incas are already 90% inaccurate (even the Maya and Inca UU!), so adding more Americans would never be a problem.
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Considering that the AOE2 is a generalized Western one which does not fit any civ really which isnât in the High Middle Age and in Western Europe, I can easily imagine them using the same units as every civ does.
I donât find the argument valid to have interaction with Europeans because you could just as simply turn the argument around and exclude every Eurasian civ. The Celts did interact with the English, the English with the Franks etc. but the Celts clearly didnât with Malay but we donât mind.
The way civs are represented in AOE2 is anyway grossly inaccurate because the Celts were clearly not famous for their Siege nor did they use Woad Raiders in 1200. I could pull off tons of other examples.
I think with the information we have at our disposal and with Native collaboration, the devs could definitely create North American civs, even though there might be not as much information at disposal. The Hernando de Soto expedition could be a valuable source of information on that regard. Theyâd not be the most historical accurate ones but that was anyway never the aim in AOE2. Itâs a game in the first place, a way to teach history in the second.
I could imagine Mississippians sharing an architecture set with Iroquois. The Pueblo could share their set with the Chimu too (some kind of Desert Native American set) or the Chimu could share it with the Inca alternativelly. The West Coast is anyway a huge area, thereâs also the Hohokam culture among others which could share it with the Pueblo.
On the other hand, itâs not like Indians would have an unique architecture set.
Also considering that theyâve sold DE for like 15 which might be granted a bit underpriced, they still created 3 architecture sets for that price tag, so an expansion with 5 new civs for the price tag of the DE could very well feature 3 architecture sets.
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This game is was never about historical accuracy.
Where are the Tatar gunpowder and Elephants?
Burmese had strong bows
Vietnamese people were never skilled foot archers
Ethiopians had no Torsion Engines or strong archers
Malians didnât have woman warriors
Berbers didnât have genitours
99% of Indians didnât have camels
Where are the Magyar gunpowder and defenses?
Condottieri were cavalry
Slavs were never united
Turks had skirmishers and halberdiers
Celts are just 0% accurate
Franks didnât have âThrowing Axemenâ in Medieval Ages
Chinese had strong gunpowder and siege engines
Koreans had skilled Cavalry and Cavalry Archery
Spanish had Arbalest
Just a few examples
If the game was historically accurate Chinese would win 99% of the games in Dark Age!!
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Just go with the Fast Inf template we already have in form of Mayans, Inca, Aztec. The only civ which actually used Eagle Warriors was Aztecs yet we still somehow get 3 civs using it as their base cav replacement.
I really see no problem with Native North American civs, especially when you see such nice architecture concepts from Artists like Kondrikthus:
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That fan art is beautiful, where did you get it from? do you have more?
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Deviantart. The only one else I got is this Zimbabwean architecture set:
This is the original website I have the architecture sets from. Here the Mississippi one:
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I had never seen these proposals for these civilizations, the truth is that I like it, it is very different from what we already have and I would increase the variety when choosing which civi to play with, there should be a post with these proposals
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Iâve already had some civ suggestions and even concepts for Iroquois, Mapuche, Mississippians but the one bonus I imagined for Iroquois is going to be taken by Bulgarians. Well, have to go over them again 
I think, if we should be lucky enough to get new civs, we should get North American and/or South/Central African civs. The rest of the world is pretty good covered except maybe North Africa and South America. Iâd definitely prefer that they wonât add any European civs anymore, we already have enough of them.
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I support you, more than anything because the Mississippians are a very interesting and mysterious civilization, at the level of the Nazca in Peru, I have recently investigated their culture and their cities and I must say that I would love to see them represented in AOE2, I mean, they were not a simple wandering tribe, they were a gigantic people capable of building large mounds just for their rituals, almost nobody knows them and that is why they underestimate them a lot but the more you investigate the more you are surprised, I am sure that those who have doubts about including them in AOE once they investigate more they will realize that it is a civilization that should not be ignored, if you make a post about it I fully support you for the Mississippians and invite people to read about them.
(many of the native cultures of North America are believed to be descended from them, such as the Cherokees, so their time period fits perfectly with AOE2)
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Historically based. Not accurate.
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