The current file names may hint at future campaign names.
AOE2DE/widgetui/textures/campaign
The Victors and Vanquished folder is phcam1
But there is a folder named CCAM1
The content is exactly the same as Victors and Vanquished
It feels like holding something to block it first
CCAM can have multiple Lenovo region codes
Hopefully a bigger expansion
Oh that’s been there for months. Some of those folders do match (Last Khans is kcam) but others make no sense. Like The Conquerors is xcam.
Probably a false alarm.
There are 45 civs. Achievement for each civ?
There are (hypothetically) 44 new achievements though. So it does not fit.
Perhaps they forgot Romans? LoL
Well as Romans have their own achievements for winning with them…unlikely.
Given that DLC development usually starts months ago or even earlier, I don’t have any problem with the timing of its creation.
Wonder what the initial letters of each folder name is and its corresponding content.
Pretty sure that “f” is The Forgotten, “k” is Last Khans, “r” is Rise of the Rajas, “we” is Lords of the West.
I guess that the no initial letter ones are the campaigns of The Age of Kings, “a” is The African Kingdoms, “ee” is the Dawn of the Dukes, “in” is the Dynasties of India, “cs” is the The Mountain Royals, and “ph” is the V&V.
It seems that only the relationship between “x” and The Conquerors is less intuitive. Maybe it came from Azt-‘ecs’.
From this point of view, the possibility that “c” means China is not low.
My point was more “We have no idea when this was created”. If it was already there and was a “dumping ground” for extra files, then it’s meaningless. However, if it was added alongside V&V…then we have something.
I went into these files about two months ago, and did spot it. Was wondering what it was.
I assume cs for Caucuses. As ccam is taken funnily for…well, the topic at hand.
Correct.
Also r is Rise of the Rajas. So R for Raja.
V&V is Ph. Which I assume is Fylthedelphia? Not using f again from Forgotten.
I would say that if this file is a placeholder, then it’s borderline guaranteed that this is for China.
This is not the first time. Those “we” folders were noticed at the end of October 2020, and the following January we learned that it meant West Europe as the Lords of the West was released.
Then it’s likely it was filled with extra V&V files to disguise it. Considering people picked up on the number of campaign levels by it originally.
If we count October 6th, Red Bull ends
We might get a hint then
Has any DLC been announced right after a tournament?
I’d still keep an eye on Gamescom and the days after.
Pretty sure the “x” is an abbreviation of “expansion”, since when The Conquerors was released it was the only expansion for AoE2.
The Conquerors was the first expansion, so the X stand for Xpansion, like you might write Xmas.
But it’s also possible that there’s nothing
This is just a guess
Previous Victors and Vanquished hero names
Appeared in a competition event
It’s probably short for “expansion pack.”
xcam is because x stands for expansion
I got excited for a Chinese campaign for a little while.
And now I’m getting excited again. Jurchens, Khitans, Tibetans, Gokturks - who will make it?
I’ve read with interest everything you wrote about the correlation of individual LETTERS with content. All this is called in a simple word - speculation. There is also a good word in my language “домыслы” that can be translated as “ad-thinking.” In fact, in half the cases these letters do not coincide with anything, and besides, the names may change during development.
However, I will add here another completely unreliable piece of information that I read on Reddit:
achievement_319 could doubly/alternatively be a hint that this will be released on the 319th day of this year, which happens to be November 14th, which is the 5th anniversary of the release of aoe2DE.
