A standalone US civ DLC sounds terrible. I’d rather get a proper DLC about post-colonial North America with full US, Mexico, and Outlaw civs, and with a full campaign exploring the wild west era, but that’s already a game called “America: No Peace Beyond the Line”.
Now I’m wondering if these units are American…
Well yes… but you atract more players when you have their “civ” in the game. And since “murica” is such a big market, and since the game is not doing so well in sales they may think to throw the US to get a bigger player base.
If its free then okay. If its like some combat games where you have to purchase the individual fighter (civ) i think i’ll pass (unless they put a proper DLC with more civs and content
It is not bigger than Europe, for RTS games.
And I can assure you that us european would rather have Persians or Italians, or even Siamese or Ethiopians… basically anything BUT the USA, which is already in the game, via a very appropriate mechanic.
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I’m an American I agree they don’t fit. Oh well. There’s still more content in the pipeline.
All I ask is the devs make the US fun to play and not a lazy copy and paste job.
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I have no data to state that europe is bigger than the US or vice versa.
But this looks like a marketing job to get more US players onboard.
I dont enjoy it and i would prefer Italians and Ethiopians or any of the other civs you mentioned. Lets wait and see
Now the question is, what will happen to the mechanics of the revolution after adding the USA to the game?
If it is a paid DLC, it will be a problem - now we can play the US revolution without paying extra. A paid US would probably remove the US revolution for all civs. Because it would be idiotic for the British, for example, to make a US revolution, who are a full-fledged civ.
The only sense in telling the US is the FLC. Ideally, it should be a regular update.
“United States Civilization” could not come up with a worse name for the DLC?
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It would be cool if a revolution actually gave you a full new civ, with full new units, upgrades, cards etc to play with. If they make all revolutions fully fledged civs, that would be cool
Switching your race mid game is surely something that no other RTS offers.
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It would be great to make the revolution attractive.
What I do not like about the current revolutions is:
Units that have new names but don’t even have their new medels
A small amount of civ revolutions (while in America there are so many of them so European there are only 3)
Indigenous Home City for every rev civs
Settlers turn into Militia and can’t be trained right away - that’s stupid. The militia could build buildings since they come from the Settlers.
Home City Cards are similar for all rev civs
The revolutions are simply not very attractive at present.
Agreed. Although they added a way to recover your eco, revolutions are still worse than going to imperial.
They’re definitely better than in the original AoE 3, but still boring.
By patch they can replace US rev with Australia for example…
Why?
They are BOTH successor nations that did not exist in the 1500s.
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exactly! (20 characters)
I meant likewise: if they make US a playable civ (which is nonsense in my opinion), they probably delete it as a revolutionary option for all players by patch. And then they can replace that US option with Australia for example.
The point is that by not buying US DLC trying to keep US as revolutionary choice is not the way how it would work.
No, if they make the USA as a playable civ, they are forced to make ALL other Revolution civs into playable civs, even the ones still not in the game.
Why would USA become a main civ, and not Mexico, or South Africa, or Egypt, or Brazil, or Hungary?
That is actually viable imo (though I’d prefer they added later than Africans, etc.)
Considering they are even updating the home city decorations one after the other, maybe it is the “new” fashion of adding new contents.
But they are all Revolution options already!
What is the purpose of teh Revolition, then? It is already universally worse than the actual Imperial Age.
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