After the season 5 update, lobbies prevent the match from starting if any of the players are set to one of the campaign civs (ie. Bohemia, Poland, Hungary, Novgorod etc. It’s possible to choose these civs as the player civ in the content editor in crafted maps). As shown in the image below, when hovering over the start match button, which is greyed out, it shows the message “One or more players in this lobby do not own the selected downloadable content. Remove the unowned biome, map, or A.I. civilization to start the match.” What reason could they have to take this away?
To be fair, these campaign civs are just reskins with a different name and flag for the loading screen and unit UI. But I felt like they would really have added to the immersion of a historical episode portrayed by a crafted map, especially alongside a tuning pack giving them some uniqueness.
In case you couldn’t tell, I had such plans…
