Couldn’t be more excited! Two new DLC’s? We are in for a ride my friends 
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Pretty please, I hope for one mesoamerican civ with its own campaign. Eagle warriors assemble 
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wasd
Another variant civ? Whats the problem with releasing new civs
New civilizations will also be included 100%.
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I Didn’t look inside the news yet but: are developers improved Graphic? This Is the most important thing to me.
Because It seems Always the same.
Take my money. I am excited based on the little news we know.
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They haven’t shared much news yet, but will have a deep dive soon for the first DLC.
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we’re introducing a large set of new units and buildings and, in some cases, updating the overall visuals of many shared units and buildings to assist with better readability and make sure your experience feels fresh!
Does this mean that they are updating the graphics engine, or that they are changing textures/shaders, or changing model size? We don’t know, sadly.
We will find out soon enough. With release likely in early April we are going to be due for a trailer or deep dive within the next 3 weeks. They said soon, but it could be any time.
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It probably means some reskin, many units look rather bad such as Jeanne’s companion units or the english wyngard footman, many of these units are kitbash of older models (Jeanne’s champion are french archers with a shield and sword).
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THEORIZING THE NEW CIV
For the architecture, the variant takes buildings from the French, but with dark roofs. Then, the name they put in the image has the title “Crusader Fortress”.
Either they are The Crusader States, the Templar Order or the Teutonic Order.
I assume from the architecture they are the French variant. However, I recognize the flags:
- Black Cross Flag: Teutonic Order
- Fleurs-de-lis on a blue background: Flag of France
- Red Cross with 2 yellow griffins: Republic of Genoa.
Okay, it’s clear that they are the Crusaders, and it seems that it is the building in Imperial Age. I have a suspicion that they must have a mechanic to “Recruit flags” from various civs, such as Genoa, France and the Teutonic Order, to produce various unique units, and perhaps several Crusader knights.
This is pretty cool. In fact, if they handle the Genoese crossbowmen well, one day they could have their own civ, and if not, we can always play Crusaders to play with them.
There’s been a lot of information on who is really behind everything in aoe4 now, from what we know relic is gone from development, it’s the age studio who’s in charge of everything now, hence why they didn’t have time for aoe3 with aom being in there too, a while back someone threw info on the basis that relic was not involved in the game anymore, that’s why it’s slowly more age like and that probably why they’re doing this graphics stuff
I wonder if the potential variant on the image isn’t the Kingdom of Cyprus, the civ keeping a gothic/western architecture while being essentially a base for any kind of crusaders since the town center implies we kinda choose our crusaders.
Do you have a source on that Relic don’t work in AoE4 at all?
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A reliable and confirmed no, what I personally saw was the interview from an age developer saying they were helping relic with patches and some development, but then someone from the forums threw a link or something like than, and makes sense if you connect the dots removing support from aoe3. If relic was still involved they wouldnt have had the need to drop aoe3, with DLCs done for aom already.
I think that one of the main civs are the Templars and the English, Holy Empire and Templar variants.
The Spanish also fit in very well as the second main civ with their kingdoms, such as the Charge of the Three Kings, which was a battle in which the kings of Castile, Navarre and Aragon came together to defeat the Muslims. Also the last variant could be for them.
I see, that’s fine as long as they keep what makes AoE4 the same. I don’t have an issue with that. If they start changing too much, I will have issues.
Which civ has this heraldry?
It reminds me of the polish emblem in-game for the campaign. Perhaps the shield exists as an asset already, and was just used to add more detail. It somewhat looks like the Arbalétrier’s shield with the campaign Polish emblem on it.
Though, that feels wrong to me. Perhaps it is mean to represent something else tied to these crusading orders that I am unaware of.