There might be some overlap between East and Central Asia though.
In any actual levels though?
First level is Transoxiana. Second is Persia. Third is the Caucuses. Fourth is India. Fifth is the Levant. And sixth is Anatolia.
Just because an achievement is numbered as 319 doesn’t mean there are 44 new. It can be a hint. Or can be some changes on achievement as a new file that replaced old files. Just like “New Folder (2)” is created and then you delete the old “New Folder”.
Good old days are long gone.
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All previous hidden achievements have been numbered based on which achievement they are numerically.
And I am going to kill the “it’s a hint” right now. There is no way a company puts out a hint that’s a date…while the content/game is still being worked on, especially when they didn’t have the man-power to work on it (due to AoM taking up company time). The files were being rapidly updated last week (interestingly they have suddenly stopped as of 17 hours ago).
Putting a hint that’s a date out there is asking for trouble when delays happen. Even companies that put them out there far in advance (as in, not as hints) get put into humiliating climb-downs when they screw up. Just look at Pokemon/Game Freak for an example of that.
It’s not a release date. And it’s not a date that anything happened in history either.
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Any changes to the Seljuk scenario? It has the Khitans and the Uyghurs.
I still agree
This would be a big expansion idea
No. Although there wasn’t really anything to change if these changes are in service of a Chinese DLC. No mention of China, and in the original it didn’t call the Khitans Mongols anyway, so nothing to correct.
isn’t that just the weekend? various studios located all over the world, wicked witch and tantalus in australia, FE is headquartered out of cincinnati. Presumably people finished up their Friday work, and that’s why updates have stopped. I don’t think there’s anything noteworthy there.
Good point. For some reason I was keeping track pretty poorly this week.
starting to feel more and more hopeful about them dropping a giant DLC, big enough to call it expansion and not a DLC imo
expansions of the past are 4+ civs, so going by latest standard which was DE the last khan so maybe we’ll get something like 4 civs with campaigns etc
this make me wonder if its actually a region like africa or east asia
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Good point. We technically have gotten a 4-civ DLC before in DE.
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true, tho last khans only contained 3 campaigns. pachacuti replaced el dorado so it’s not considered a last khans campaign. based on the theory there will be 44 new achievements, then we should be getting at least six new campaigns.
so yeah, while last khans added as many civs as we theorize DLC 5 will add, DLC 5 may be even larger when you consider campaigns.
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Entirely possible. One of the complaints about Mountain Royals was “too expensive for the small content”. So making a bigger amount of content, and keeping the same price is a potential route they could have gone down.
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If there is 4 news civs (which would be huge!), I hope for 5 campaigns!
I mean, if it’s set in China, I don’t know why the opportunity would be wasted not having a campaign for them.
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So this is actually related to something I’ve considering for a while.
How much is DLC 5 going to cost.
I think you can either assume they’ keep the “standard” DLC price, which is $15 now, OR they’ll increase the price. Nothing earth-shattering there, however. If they do increase the price, then they’re running up against the price for DE.
Now, I don’t agree with the logic that the whole game, DE, costs $20, so the DLCs need to cost less. We were only paying for the new stuff. If you don’t want to pay for DE you can play HD for basically free. yeah you had to pay for HD, but I assume the vast majority of people who bought DE already owned HD. so you can pay $0 to continue playing HD or $20 to play DE.
So $20 covered an expansion (4 civs and three campaigns) and a remaster (one new campaign, quite a few redone scenarios, and a plethora of other changes and improvements). IDK how much of that $20 should go toward the last khans content, but it’s definitely not the whole $20, and if you provide an amount of content sufficiently over and above last khans it will necessarily be worth more than $20.
All that being said, let’s say that because TMR (2 civs and 3 campaigns) is worth $15, then a 4 civ and 6 campaign expansion should be worth $30. double the content, double the price. Maybe they come down to $25, but I don’t see them going down to $20. That implicitly would mean a return to $10 DLC pricing, and I just don’t see that.
So, conceptually, the pricing for the DLC is either that dlcs cost $15 regardless of the amount of content, or the going rate for content is about $15 for two civs and three campaigns, and because dlc 5 will contain more content it will cost proportionately more.
I think they have to go the second route to cover the man hours for creating this amount of content. They can’t put in approximately double the work for the same cost.
But I worry that there will be a backlash that the DLC is more expensive than the base game, which while technically true I think misses the point as I explain above. Regardless, I think you’d want to avoid that possible backlash as MS.
Soooooo, if you want to have your cake and eat it too, then maybe you can conceive and develop your 4 civ 6 campaign dlc, but then split it into two parts. This not only allows you to keep the dlc price under the DE price, but then you don’t have to choose whether to release your anniversary dlc around aok’s anniversary or de’s anniversary. you can do both.
I’m not proposing that because I necessarily believe that will be the case, but I don’t see how MS doesn’t charge more than $20 for that amount of content, but also I foresee the backlash from charging more than $20 for that amount of content.
IDK, thoughts?
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Instead of having so high hopes, just expect 2 new civs + 3 new campaigns. Or at best as @Quasibrodo said, 2 separate DLCs each with 2 new civs + 3 new campaigns.
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I agree with this too
I think there is a way to do that. I think I mentioned something like it before:
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Korea DLC
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Korean campaign
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Khitans
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Jurchens
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China DLC
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Chinese campaign
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Tanguts
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Tibetans
And then they could potentially sell them as two, but have a bundle where you can buy both for cheaper.
Now, I am not sure how this would work on a technical level, as there is only one new DLC in the files. Perhaps it is possible to have it so only half unlocks if you only buy the Chinese/Korean section etc, I don’t know.
But that might be more palatable? Although potentially they might eat into each other’s advertising.
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3 weeks since the file was uploaded on steamdb. No hints, puzzle, clues, teaser or anything.
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