Is there an option to play the AoM/Titans campaigns with the latest Retold balance changes, such as reusable god powers and newer unit balance?
It would be an awesome option for a refreshing change to experience the campaigns in a completely different way and style.
Unlike the original and Extended Edition, the campaigns in Retold use the same balance as the rest of the game. They just made gameplay changes in the scenarios to make them closer to the original, such as not being able to reuse God Powers and disabling Village Centers, because it would probably be too game-breaking to allow that and too hard to rebalance all the levels.
The campaigns always used the same balance even in OG. It’s only the campaign heroes that are special.
Only in vanilla (and I’m not sure if it incorporated patches). The original campaign didn’t incorporate any changes made in the expansion or EE. The game had separate vanilla files so it didn’t affect the campaign with balance changes. (I’m talking about Fall of the Trident. The expansion campaign obviously used the expansion files.)
They got rid of the separate files for Retold, and presumably future updates will affect the campaigns.
I really hated the separate campaign balance in AoE4, it felt like playing an entirely different game.
I hope the never do that again.
That’s the most annoying thing ever. The entire game looked different in the campaign, even the upgrades and where you upgrade things wtf. You really play an entire different game in the campaign.
I hope the never do that again.
I hope too. Unless in very specific ways (like blocking new units from new expansions), I hope the campaigns in AoM is the same game as the other modes.