The await is over. New Chinese DLC is finally here!

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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Tangut Civ is missing

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I feel disgusted. Utterly disappointing.

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This must be a second DLC. It’s only 3 not 5 civs

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Chinese and Korea might be the other two “new” Civs.
Or we will see an even bigger re-balance of other existing Civs.

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Someone mentioend the other two new Civs will be “Tanguts” and “Jurchens”, alongside “Shu”, “Wei” and “Wu”.

More information:

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They put the Jurchens / Tanguts screenshots in the same store page… Idk

EDIT: You can already see the 5 civs in the tech tree. Jurchens / Tanguts / Wei / Shu / Wu. WTFFFFF!

I’m so annoyed as a Chinese :face_vomiting:

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I am so confused. I was so ready for an expanded medieval Chinese world with a campaign for OG Chinese. I want to cry.

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Hate to say I was right but I think I was right to distrust. Dont have a corporation make a civ when us civ crafters do it better

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Another V&V like disaster. Because one was not enough.

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What a letdown. Why a 3 Kingdoms civs…
Totally disapointed

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LMAO. Khitans got the Poxi Camel and the Tangut Castle.

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Why would they even do that….

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And the Jurchens and Khitans don’t even have a campaign it doesn’t look like, just the 3 kingdoms civs. Yeah ngl this is probably the most disappointed i’ve been about a DLC, probably even moreso than V&V…

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Come on devs, April Fools day is long gone, release the true announcement. This trash can’t be true

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So that explains why some units felt very obsolete (traction trebuchet while everyone has counterweight trebs, for example)…

So the “modern” Chinese will remain, with Khitans (imagine getting bullied by kittens if they are released a bit OP) and Jurchens on the periphery, but also with the 3 Kingdoms each as their civ. A bit disappointing not to have 5 civs on the periphery of China, I guess they are saving them for another DLC.

The big question is if the 3 Kingdoms will be directly accessible among the regular roster or restricted to chronicles like the Athenians Spartans and Achaemenids.

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I noticed they did some crazy optimisation though : minimal RAM is down to 4 MB, HDD space down to 150 MB. Better than ye olde AOK CD version :upside_down_face:

(Yes, it’s a typo, they meant GB)

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They better lol. I’m usually more optimistic than the average poster around here but i’m not terribly optimistic at this juncture sad to say.

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They’d better not be chickening out about the Tibetans out of fear for China…

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One thing I will grant them is that $20 for 5 civs is at least a pretty reasonable price. That’s about the one saving grace that I can find here.

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Come on, not even campaigns for true AOE2 civs, Three Kingdoms don’t even fit timeframe, why do you release Chronicles for that period and then just put those civs into the base game?

Making Khitans out of tangut things, barbaric, saying it’s not a chinese split and then splitting chinese civ into TK. Outrageous

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