It could be an Asian cultural rework, similar to their mediocre attempts at making Native civs more accurate.
Please, no. They have mess the balance with that
No patch for a month: AoE 3 is dying
A Sage article: New DLC, Asian Rework
Peoole???
Anyway, it could be that we will have new content.
Mmmm Iâm going to say weâre getting chickens and a livestock pen rework!
Yeah the Asia dlc has been new dlc three asia civs for getting reworks
My first reaction was to add âchickenâ as a breed of poultry for Asian countries.
It would be better IMHO to add real European animals in European maps.
I hope itâs Korea since they have their own version of tea ceremony.
I hope itâs not Korea but I really wouldnât be surprised if it was.
Chinese cross-over units + no banner system + a unique bonus or two = profit???
No, please mess with the balance. Iâm tired of them keeping in bad design just because fixing it would mess the balance (or because of older playersâ nostalgia).
They said they would fix native americans only to simply reskin the fire pit. They still feel like Age of Mythology civilizations without gods.
Its just not the balance, fur market is boring, voice acting were soulless, new cards became the civs OP and some others are useless while devs change other things that were in a nice point to just balance the new stuff
Iâm not arguing about the changes being poorly implemented (thatâs actually my problem), Iâm saying that shouldnât mean the changes shouldnât have been made. Instead of not making changes, they should have been competent.
And also the community plaza should be removed, it doesnât fit at all in Age of Empires, besides not being a big change from the fire pit.
That has been there as a native core mechanic for 15 years, you cant change that and call the game a DE, thats for making other game, same for wonders and consulate
Itâs bad design, thatâs my point. It shouldnât matter that itâs been in the game since forever.
Not to mention itâs based on a stereotype.
Iâve said it many times, Asian Dynasties was a bad expansion.
The Asian Civs were horribly balanced and too many racial stereotypes. Campaigns were bad too.
Whatâs with Japanese not eating meat and indians not harvesting livestock?
Consulate system was put there to fill the gaps in asian armies but it doesnât work as it probably should, needs a serious overhaul.
African Kingdoms was done much much better. African civs even have a 4th resource except itâs not stupid.
Iâve always been bothered about how slowly resources collect in AoE3, and Export is definitely the worse.
And instead of using the consulate to give civilizations things other civilizations have by default, why not just give them those things by default as well?
Iâve also always found it weird how Indians donât get horses. And their villagers costing wood instead of food (when wood collects much slower) is really annoying, even if they have a card to change that.
I seriously donât understand why people get so defensive about bad choices made when designing this game and AoE2.
Its not being defensive, You cant call a game a defenitive edition and change the mechanics of every civ, thats making a new game. Let that to AoE IV. All of us have loved this game for 15y without that changes; Im agree with some little changes like new cards but removing firepit or wonders is going too far.
About africansâŠthe influence thing didnt feel too unique to me as it is a copy of export in essence: a side res to get techs and units
And I say just reskinning the firepit isnât going far enough. Dances/ceremonies are basically god powers, which really doesnât fit a non-AoM game.
And nobody is talking about removing wonders, thought in my opinion, if a potential new Asian civilization doesnât have potential wonders, it would be fine to give them different age up mechanics.
One thing I do want to see other than the removal of monk heroes and Indians getting horses is an Indian split.
Export is problematic for two reasons.
- You donât really have control over it,
- You waste too much of it getting extras you donât need, like Musketeers when you only want the cannon.
Also a lot of things consulates give donât make sense. For example Japan has dutch and spanish exclusively. But itâs not the spanish that give japan a church (It was the Spanish who brought Christianity to Japan) but the dutch. Also why does Russia give china a factory when the industrial revolution was late coming to Russia (and was one of the leading causes of the red revolution) and it was the British who led the industrial revolution and put factories in india and china.
But Iâm not bothered by indian villagers costing wood, dutch villagers cost coin.
Itâs wonders that are god powers. Some are direct copies from AoM.