Huh? From where this comes from? I don’t think we will get another brand new game from this franchise.
Rumours. They were hiring Unity Engine experts and some WE guys Linkedin showed that he was working on an unannounced Unity Engine game.
Since Worlds Edge hasn’t done anything other then Age of Empires and Age of Mythology it is unlikely to be something completely different. I mean it could be Age of Mythology 2 or Halo Wars 3 or something.
Maybe there are multiple rumours, I thought the people were talking about it using Unreal engine 5
Oh yes you are right, I have no idea why I wrote Unity Engine.
My mind was apparently somewhere else because I do use the Unity Engine myself relatively often.
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I think Mullisaukk0 twitch stream show the problems with new patch notes
Something I noticed. In Hera’s video the other day, where he mentioned the 3K DLC civs, I had a flick through the comments, and so many were about how they hated the 3K and want them gone from the game, or how this DLC caused them to quit playing.
Like it was a LOT more than I was expecting on such a video. And shows that with time, people have only grown to dislike it more.
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I mainly played the sp content and initially tried to just ignore the 3k dlc. But every time I opened up the campaign menu and saw the greyed out 3k section it just immidiately sucked out any motivation/mood I had to play the game, ultimately leading to me just outright uninstalling it.
I get where they come from. This dlc was/is like an ugly and cancerous lump to me.
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I came across an old conversation on how FE and WE cooperate back in 2023 when RoR launched. At 34:13 Masmorra asked if FE has a say on what civ to make, and Cysion commented civ choices are mostly decided by FE and not yet rejected by WE. This might be a good indication that 3K is mainly FE’s idea?
Ironically, Cysion brought up the state of Liège as an example of not being civ worth, in this GL podcast. To me Wei/Shu/Wu are on the same scope.
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I would wager that the two real civs in 3K, Jurchens and Khitanguts, were a FE idea for a proper DLC. Maybe the Romance of the Three Kingdoms was proposed as a FE-made Chronicles. Shoving the two DLCs together and forcing three thematically inappropriate short lived polities into the main AOE2 arena though, that’s something so stupid only World’s Edge would think of it…
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Not really sure why at this juncture anything Cysion says/said would be taken as evidence of anything.
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This was before the release of RoR, when they didn’t have a clear flop yet (maybe Xbox)
And on this topic I don’t see a compelling reason he has to lie.
This is the clearer lie during that podcast. I can see how people might clutch at straws with “Chinese won’t be split”, given the connection with Indians → Hindustanis, and not renaming the Chinese civ. But going “we won’t add insignificant states as civs” and then proceeding to add 3(!!!) of them is a lie.
And let me make this very clear, Shu, Wei and Wu are insignificant. They only lasted 60 years. The end result is simply China being reunified again, which it just splits again later, reforms and splits again (what, we going to get all 10 Kingdoms as civs too?). There were no major technological advancements, or cultural ones made during the Three Kingdoms period. It’s simply a popular period due to a book written centuries later. That’s all.
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that’s cool. how did you do that?
Mod link? In case it’s allowed to be shared, somehow I get the feeling it’s not xd
I’m publishing it now, but the website has some issues and failed it every time. Will come back when it releases.
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@D_B_D @CitingOregano34
Mod link: Mods Single - Age of Empires - World's Edge Studio
Mod name: Hestia Aurora Menu UI
To preserve only the campaign UI, you can delete everything else in my mod except:
widgetui\campaignselection.jsonwidgetui\textures\campaignfolder
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I saw you managed to restore Classic Civ Picker.
Can you take a look if this modded UI Menu is restorable -
Its called “World Map Civ Picker”
Would be awesome if it can be brought back to life.
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From a code standpoint it’s doable. From the scalability standpoint, it will be a nightmare to redesign and keep updating with new civs incoming.
Some regions have very condensed civs and it is hard to display accurately.
That makes sense to some degree.
It would explain why this DLC had 5 civs instead of the usual 2.
The idea of “we didn’t have enough AoE2 civs in a while so we need to add the 3 Kingdoms to the main game” mixed with the reaction of people wanting Romans in ranked after RoR released.
How do you define lie?
Lie would be intentionally making claims that are wrong.
The 3 Kingdoms something being significant of not is not really something you can easily say objectively. The significance of the civs in AoE2 are varying massively so it is hard to define a red line. If you base significance not on people/land ruled over time period but by how much has been written or talked about a civ/state then the 3 Kingdoms become a lot more important.
So you and I might agree that the 3 Kingdoms are not important it doesn’t make what he said a lie.
Splitting China is also easily not a lie because China exists and still represents the same country in the same setting as it did before. China wasn’t replaced by Wei/Shu/Wu in any existing scenario, only by Khitans and Jurchens. If anything we could argue the Jurchens are a China spilt, the same way Bulgarians and Poles are a Slavs split.
Also for him to lie to us there would have to be a reason. The preorder for the DLC only went live after they told us it would be a 3 Kingdoms DLC, so his “lies” would not have gained him anything. Why lie if you gain nothing from it? Also if they thought 3 Kingdoms were bad they wouldn’t have made the DLC, there is no reason to “hide” the content of the DLC before people can even buy it.
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