Hello people, I hope you are all very well 
A user discovered inside the game files 5 maps that have not been published yet. You can see them in his Youtube channel, greetings.
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They are good mapsā¦ Acropolis is a classic AoM map and it makes sense to have it because we have Ottomans and Byzantines in the gameā¦ then the rest of the maps are interesting and you can take advantage of the height to attack and defendā¦ I think a map I saw looks like Gold Rushā¦
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Canyon definetly shows a native american civs are coming.
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Canyon looks great. Can see people complaining about visibility but it definitely is impactful, and shows the advantage 3D has over a 2D game.
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Not necessarily, The African Kingdoms includes a map of African canyonsā¦so there could be new African civs comingā¦
Canyons are a geographical feature found on every continent.
Sunklands is probably just a reference to the geography on the map, but hills and valleys in a basin describes the Sunklands Conservation Area in Missouri pretty well: https://www.topozone.com/missouri/shannon-mo/basin/the-sunkland/
Carmelites I am unfamiliar with.
Acropolis is more than likely a reference to AoM, or the Mediterranean, as MatM1996 said.
Enchanted river is a fairly generic name, so Iām not too certain.
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America is famous of its canyons so highly it will be native american civs.
Canyon seems like a very interesting map.
Itās almost certain that the next DLC will be themed around the Americas, perhaps weāll see civilizations like Spain, the Aztecs, the Incas and maybe Portugal or Mayan.
After that weāll still need at least 2 DLCs lol. One with the Nordic countries (Vikings) and another for the Asian countries (Khmer, Svirijaya, Korea, Vietnam)
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I think we will get 4 new civs aztec,inca,spanish and vikings.It can be 5 with american indians.For variants we will get mongol variant im nearly %100 sure i can feel it.
Also this was an old post but maybe rus got variant too.
True, but the Grand Canyon is in North Americaā¦and I doubt they would introduce a North American civilization like the Puebloansā¦
I understand the sentiment, but I think the addition of North American civs would be very interesting. The Puebloans wouldnāt fit well into the time frame, but there are many others in the Northern and Eastern portions of America that have only been explored in AoE 3.
Iām hyped out of my mind waiting for them to release more information on this expansion. The anticipation is killing me!
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Devs dont think like that native americans with america style map thats what they are thinking.If we see american indians it would be a huge suprise tho.
To be honest, Iād love it.
I know we all have different reasons for playing the game, Iām sure some love the idea of playing historically accurate civilizations against each other, and you can. For me, AoE has always had the charm of an imaginary battle, of āwhat if the French had fought the Japanese in medieval timesā for instance.
In that way, I donāt see any reason for excluding American civilizations. The Japanese are quite literally on the other side of the planet of the French, in that imaginary situation. The new world didnāt suddenly manifest into existence, it had always been thereāand the civilizations that developed so uniquely, are just as valid as any other.
I for one, would love to play out the same scenario, but with Incas and Malians instead. Pueblans and Mongols. Ayutthaya and Aztecs. Portuguese and Vijayanagara. For me, I always loved the variety of AoE. AoE2 may not have fully represented the peoples of its many civilizations, but when I was young, I was able to bridge that gap in my mind. And seeing as AoE4 is an evolution of that decades old game, Iād love to see a modern interpretation of this. I love what they did with Mongols, and Iād love to see what they can do with some other civilizations that arenāt often featured in these types of games.
And so, I welcome all civilizations, really, as long as they are period appropriate and real historical entities.
As a side note, please no more Zhu Xiās Legacy. If weāre going to go forward with variations, then still use real historical entities. ZXL couldāve easily been the Jin Dynasty (which is already in the game, as a Campaign faction) that represented the Jurchen people who would later, as Manchurians, form the last Dynasty of China (Qing) after a series of conquests. This is far more interesting and appropriate for an Ages of Empire game, than some made up nonsense. Perhaps the worry here was misrepresenting those people by copy-pasting assets from the Chinese civilization, but this is the natural repercussion of making āmore contentā by copy-pasting to begin with.
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Yes, so far we only know that there can be 1-2 campaigns (normal or with the large CoH 3 map), 2-3 major civs and 4 variant civs (of the remaining launch civs)ā¦
Yes, you are right, they are good optionsā¦