What do you expect for the upcoming anniversaries?

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We have quite a lot aoe anniversaries coming up:

  • 2027: 30th anniversary of the aoe franchise
  • 2028: 10 years of DE Versions
  • 2029: 30th anniversary of aoe2 and 10th anniversary of aoe2DE
  • 2030: 10th anniversary of aoe3DE

So here are some ideas of what could come for aoe2 in the next 4 years

  • Chronicles “bronze age” with Egyptians, Babylonians and Assyrians
  • The missing campaigns for return of Rome
  • Chronicles “the Roman empire” with much more than 3 civs to tell the whole Roman history.
  • A main Stream DLC with 10 new civs (Africa could use it)
  • Regional unit skins
  • 12 player support for matches (there are hints for that in the game files)
  • More upgrades for gunpowder units (musketeers)
  • A north American DLC

But maybe I am too optimistic. What do you think?

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Probably celebratory packs…30th anniversary in 2027 selling the entire saga up to that point…2028 making 1DE free to play and releasing the RoN DE…2029 making free some more DLCs for 2DE and AoM Retold, 2030 no idea…hopefully campaigns and making free some more dlcs for 3DE…

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I like more those ideas.

For the main game could be a new “Forgotten Empires” DLC, for example:

  • 1 nomadic civ (Khitan/Tanguts split?)
  • 1 European civ (Swiss? Frisians? Normans? Cavalry Goths?)
  • 1 African civ (Songhai? Ghana?)
  • 1 American civ (Tlaxcaltecs?)
  • 1 South Asian civ
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Mounted Samurai getting a correct skin.

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Mounted samurai when the Japanese get split out. Call it the Yabusame since most were using bows instead of horseback katana weebery!

I dunno if it should get bonuses vs UUs from a distance especially if paired with the current Japanese civ having the +2 vs archers bonus

Not sure what civs there would be except maybe Emishi, Ainu and… Ryukuyans (sic)?!

Not too gung-ho on this but if we ever go to Japan it might be interesting to see this route

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African next DLC for sure, Balkans DLC at some point hopefully before any nonsensical AoK/AoC civ splits like Vikings…There’s still pontential civs that aren’t splits.

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We always have the japanese clans to split.

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Don’t give the devs bad ideas! No clan civs pls.

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Btw, since Varangians are now a civ, we could get “Wokou” as an alternative to Ryukyuans with some Chinese and Filipino units (because they were multi-ethnic and raided quite far)

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There can be a free game mode for 2029. 18 AoC civs with AoC settings and DE graphics. People may have fun with nostalgic AoC gameplay.

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Samurais are top tier pop culture stuff its just a matter of time till japanese get the 3k treatment.Oda, Takeda, Uesugi, Mori, and Otomo are good additions with mounted samurai with a proper skin becoming the knight replacement.

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No, it’s not. They know what happened last time, and it would be just as stupid.

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Yea Ryuku and Emishi and Ainu feel more appropriate although how many of them would have mounted samurai with katanas or naginatas

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  • A 3rd remake of the game fixing all the pathing issues, match making issues, cheating and smurfing and replacing 3k civs with Tibetans, Tanguts and Xianwei.
  • Chronicles and Return of The Rome becoming independent of owing AoE II:DE and getting their own separate launchers.
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That’s a bad idea. The main game benefits way more from chronicles like it is now since all the assets and functions can also be used in mainstream campaigns.

All of it can be easily used in mods too.

Also, if you have a separate launcher, you would need to install most of the database two times if you want to play both.

It definitely should stay together.

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They didn’t even do anything for the 20th Anniversary of vanilla AoE3

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I need new avatar, new region skin unit pack :grin::grin:

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How optimistic I was before the Activision news and now I just hope for DLCs to continue.

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yes.

Sounds pretty likely. The next Chronicles is already hinter to be Rome and it is taking longer to develop so maybe it’s because they need more civs this time?

Not going to happen. No way. There are too many people that hate having to learn that many new civs at once.

This is really needed. I’m surprised they haven’t done that yet. They gave us unique Elite Unit and Castle skins on top of regional monks last year. I did expect them to add regional unit skins this year. It’s about the same amount of effort. Especially the last Chieftain DLC would have benefited a lot from it, Tupi Arbalester just look silly tbh.

That is next to regional Skins my biggest wish for AoE2DE (and AoE3DE). Directly going to 16 players would be even better. Which would probably cost them the same effort to implement and would raise the ceiling. Of course having a 6v6 or 8v8 ranked queue would not work well because of to many potential performance issues. Having an 8v8 doubles the change to get someone with a potato DLC or someone randomly drop out for whatever reason.

As a scenario editor maker being limited to 8 civs is really annoying. Sometimes you just need an additional player for some technical reasons but when your Scenario already need the full 8 real players you can’t. It’s certainly the most limiting factor, especially since AoE2 supports such crazy high map sizes. That is also equally true for AoE3DE too.

That could be cool. I think only doing themed DLC is kinda limiting, it would be nice to have a “Forgotten” style DLC once in a while.

That’s way to ambitions. That will never happen.

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The Activison thing is just a symptom of the current situation on the video game market. It’s not looking good at the moment.

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I expect to be disappointed.

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