Tibetans if the devs aren’t scared of possible Chinese censorship
Jurchen are obvious
Khitans and Tanguts are also often requested
Nanzhao/Dali would be great for covering South China
I’ve seen some people suggesting Gokturks, Uyghurs and Sogdians.
Siamese, Javanese, Chams etc. are more close to Indosphere, but Siamese are very popular.
I’d choose Tibetans, Jurchen, Khitans, Tanguts and Nanzhao.
I’ve been supporting Siamese in aoe2 for years, but their campaign would be too isolated from the DLC’s theme.
so if you crunch the number of the 44, presumed, new achievements, 8ish campaigns is actually a better fit. So from that standpoint 5 new civs, + korean, japanese, and chinese campaigns makes sense.
That being said, that’d make dlc 5 larger than conquerors and the forgotten (both had 5 civs but not as many campaigns). I have my hopes up cause 5th/25th anniversary, but 5 new civs and 8 new campaigns is probably a bit too optimistic.
I think @Tyranno13 original idea, chinese and korean campaigns, with 4 new civs, while doesn’t match the achievement number as nicely, is more realistic.
They’d fit more than you think; the Majapahit Empire (Javanese) got rocked, hard, by Zheng He’s Treasure Fleet entering the area, causing massive damage to the Empire and caused the catalyst for Malacca (Malay) rising in influence via Chinese influence and eventually taking the mantle from them as the major power in Indonesia.
It’s not obvious until you make a comparison. At first I thought it was different, then someone pointed it out.
Yeah. The quality and character-focus of AoE2 campaigns brought to the AoE1 setting was fantastic. Little bummed that the time periods were not very well spaced out. Jumping from the earliest Bronze Age campaign they could possibly have done, all the way to the Roman Republic did leave a big gap that other campaigns could have filled time-wise.
I understand why Romans got a campaign, they kinda had to with the DLC theme and all.
But I wouldn’t give up Pyrrhus, his campaign was a lot of fun.
Also we have now entered the “AoE2 social media posting” hours. So for the next 5 hours or so, they tend to make any announcements/social media posts that they plan to do. So now’s the time to keep an eye out on what’s going on with the socials.
They have no need to be. Censorship laws on video games were rolled back earlier this year.
Well, at least the pup means, if you preorder, you can play already the civs. At least it was like this in the mountain Royals. So it’s just a question when the pup and announcement drops.
Agreed. I wish they could give that same quality with all the civs, but sadly I guess they’re not interested.
I see the spacing as early Antiquity, Middle Antiquity, and Late Antiquity. Sumerians were the beginning, Macedonians were the Middle, and Romans were the End. I honestly thought it was rather poetic. It does, however leave a large amount of room for more to come.
At least they picked Trajan, the guy who brought Rome to it’s Zenith. I have no complaints with the choice, even if others could have done well too.
Same. I have to say, Pyrrhus was probably my favorite out of all 3.
As it is we have a general idea of when the DLC will be released, which is sometime in November considering the PUP in Steam DB. At latest it should release in late November, by that estimating the announcement of the DLC should be any time now.
Personally I’d say they should announce it ASAP since RBW just ended and it would take discussions off the current controversy around it. Moreover more eyes are on AoE2 since the tournament is now over, this would be logically speaking the perfect time to announce it.
It’s not the devs. Marketing and management have their own plans and sometimes even hold patches back a month because they didn’t want 2 releases in the same week.
I hope they have been doing something for the past 10 months that DLC file has been worked on. I know there’s other stuff to work on, but most of those already existed before, and DLC was still being made.
Plus V&V was an easy ride given how little they had to do to it.
Yeah this DLC was started before V&V and if 319 is the number of achivements, then we have every reason to believe this DLC is at least bigger than the normal DLCs we’ve gotten in the DE era.
I’m still confused, if this month there will be nothing regarding the release of a new DLC then how could they put one DLC with another in the month of November and December, it seems quite difficult to carry out the truth, the only theory What occurs to me is that this month they launch the Baltic DLC for AOE III DE and in November they launch the AOE II DE DLC for its 25th anniversary, and at the end in December they launch the Chinese DLC for AOM Retold, I propose this because in the AOM Retold route they said very clearly that the Chinese DLC would arrive after adding the arena of the gods mode to the game, I don’t know how accurate all this is but it would be quite strange if the three DLCs came out in November and December together one with the other, the only problem is that the only DLCs confirmed for this end of the year are AOE III DE and AOM Retold which could mean that the DLC for AOE II DE is delayed until next year in January or February, which would result in the Chinese DLC for AOM Retold coming out in November and the DLC for AOE III DE coming out in December.
I understand, then November will be dedicated to AOE II DE, October and December for who exactly they would be, I highly doubt that the Chinese DLC and the Poland and Denmark DLC will come out together in the same month of December, all this seems quite strange to me, Hopefully soon we will receive news from the developers to clarify all this.
