Why on earth it need to be balanced? I donesn’t make any sense. It’s like asking for 100% vs 0% handicap to be balanced. There’s something called “having fun just messing around” or have you never played a match with a casual SP friend?
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AoE1 has a lot less units. Adding the Camel Armour class to the one Camel unit shouldn’t be hard.
The same for thing like Elephant or Cavalry Archer armour classes.
Maybe RoR does. That’s more of a map feature then a civilisation feature, isn’t it?
Good chance they added that to RoR.
The Stone Thrower line outranges towers in AoE1 so why shouldn’t it outrange AoE2 Towers and Castles?
This is definitely the hardest part.
For a lot more analysis of how to balance AoE1 against AoE2 in a crossover mode:
AoE1DE should become an AoE2DE Expansion
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If they go for the separated dataset approach, they will have their reasons. Imo, separated datasets make a lot more sense in terms of maintainability. You are always free to create a data mod for your casual SP friend and if you don’t do it, other people will.
Sure, it might not happen for some reasons. But balance shouldnt be one of them. As far as I know, for example, DM ranked lobbies have different tabs because the engine somehow couldnt allow - for the much work they were putting on it - 1v1 and team ranked together. So there might be some engine limitation that forces AOE 1 and 2 to not have crossplay. Yet, again, to forbid that based on balance only is such a narrow vision.
Do we have any info about factions?
All of AoE 1’s 16 civs will be there.
Ah shame its missing the variety of celts (gauls, iberians etc.
Let’s make sure RoR is successful enough that they decide on expanding on it in the future.
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Agree. AOE3 and AOE4 need some new civs as well
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Yeah. It’s really jarring that in the Roman campaign you fight against Yamato (Japan) because there is no civ representing a Hunnic civilisation.
Huns, Scythians, Xiongnu…any of them would be great. Then there is South Asia, which interacted with plenty of the AoE1 civs. Not to mention no Gothic or Celtic civs, which are again…kinda necessary with Rome in the game.
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India and Celt civs are a must, I am so looking forward to those DLCs. Make it so!
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Okay everyone. We are finally getting some information tomorrow!
https://twitter.com/AgeOfEmpires/status/1650606876789276672
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Just in case someone still doubt it, the image description of the Colosseum says: A screenshot from Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.
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As @xWHIT3W0LFx pointed out in another thread - the Colloseum exists in the editor as Amphitheatre:
and is also used in Attila 6:
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It also exists as the Colosseum but that building is oval shape and has a larger footprint then the wonder.
The Amphitheatre building is likely there so it can represent an Amphitheatre that is not the Colosseum for Scenarios that take part in other parts of the Roman world.
Uma coisa que acharia interessante adicionar neste novo DLC (caso realmente incluam/importem todo o conteudo do AoE1:DE para dentro do AoE2: DE) seria uma nova era, acima da idade do ferro. Pelo que li na primeira versao (baunilha) os criadores cogitaram adicionar uma nova era, mas acabaram desistindo e funindo ela com a idade do ferro. Seria legal adicionarem uma nova era, assim como o AoE3 possui a quinta era. Nesta era poderiam adionar novas tecnologias, unidades ou upgrade de unidades. Existe uma postagem de icones que nao foram utilizados na primeira versao.
E claro adicionar outras coisas interessantes como comercio terrestre, aríete, lanceiro (infantaria do quartel anticavalaria/disponivel na idade da ferramenta, e upgrade do fundeiro, e cavaleiro de camelo.
Ja para o AoE2:DE poderiam tambem adicionar futuramente, uma nova era acima da idade imperial, renascença por exemplo. Existe um mod (age of empires 2: portuguese mod III)
que adicionou esta era, porem colocaram muita coisa nela, mas no geral tem sim coisas interessantes. Nesta era poderiam adicionar diversas tecnologias e unidades acima da imperial. O objetivo dessas novas eras seria alem de inovar os jogos, com coisas novas, tambem ser um elo de ligaçao de um AoE para outro.
IT’S HERE BOYS AND GIRLS!
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“Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is one of the most beloved strategy games ever made and now for the first time on Xbox and Xbox Game Pass, featuring brand new mechanics optimized for controller for both new and seasoned players alike. Welcome to Return of Rome, a completely new type of expansion pack which brings Age of Empires, the title that started it all, into Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition as a brand new self-contained experience. This new expansion will allow you to challenge friends with the original sixteen Age of Empires civilizations — plus one brand-new Return of Rome exclusive civilization, the Lac Viet— and relive the triumph and trials of antiquity. Battle your way across the ancient world with three new campaigns featuring conquerors, empire-builders, and gifted tacticians fighting desperately against fate! As an additional bonus, the Romans will no longer be bound by time as they become a new playable civilization within Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, ready to battle in the new Age.”
Of all the new civs to add, they added RANDOM Vietnamese?! Not Scythians, Gauls, Nubians or Indians but Vietnamese??
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I mean, I’m not that surprised considering the popularity of the game in Vietnam. Hopefully other civs will be added later.
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Wish they at least added the Khmer or Maurya so the Vietnamese felt less alone
Like, rn its obvious they added them to boost salws