I hope so, that would be great…
That alone, no.
But aoe4 is working on Vikings
Aoe3 was promised Denmark and they started work on the game again now.
Aoe2 added these flags for civs according the architecture set. Vikings already exist but did not receive this flag. Nobody uses it, but they made from the beginning one more flag then they have architecture sets.
The Inka received a new architecture white the South American dlc, so same could happen for the Vikings in a Scandinavian dlc.
Recently, the devs started to have dlc themes across the games. Asia last year, native America this year so maybe it is Scandinavia or the Baltic for next year.
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Vikings in aoe4 was one of the most requested civs before all the shenanigans with variants came along. Adding them is not that surprising.
When have they ever cross themed games? They could have added Danes, Egyptians, and a Greek rev when AoM got released but they didn’t.
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We dont really know, keep your expectations low
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Well, last year Asia was apparently a big theme with 3K, both AoM DLCs as well as Dynasties of the East for AoE 4.
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I have to remind every one of you, since the last civ dlc from 2022, W.E. have abandoned AOE3 for 4 years.
So what’s your opinion on all the changes? What are they doing?
Maybe they are updating AoE III DE just because AoM Retold uses the same engine
Who knows?
They were still patching until January 2024
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That doesn’t make a ton of sense to me, but I suppose it’s possible. It’d probably assume that they are making changes to the engine (maybe server side?) for AoMR that make it no longer capable of running AoE3 without making changes to AoE3.
My guess is still probably a farewell patch.
A rational and objective assessment would be to merge previous DLCs into the main game’s collection bundle. However, I personally don’t want to give up hope just yet—that’s also why I’ve been keeping an eye on SteamDB.
algo que no lo veo del todo irracional… seria que hicieran el juego base completo gratis y que solo las campañas fueran vendidas como DLC aparte (las 3 originales las 2 de warchiefs y las 3 de asyan dynasties) mientras que la version gratuita te deja jugar con todas las facciones base, ocupar el editor de mapas, jugar todos los mapas base, ademas de permitir las clasificatorias y quiza dejar las 6 batallas historicas
During 2023 they introduced a lot of free content.
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There’s one glaring omission there unfortunately
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I highly doubt that they are upgrading aoe3 after the last announcement. Plus, probably AoM is a fork.
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It would be epic if it were like that… Norse DLC for AoE 2, Baltic DLC for AoE 3, and Vikings and Aztecs for AoE 4… AoMR is currently set to receive Aztecs mid-year, but I wouldn’t complain if before and after that they only released god packs until the Incas are released next year…
Yes, technically they continued updating AoE 3 even after making it free in August 2023 until January 2024, when they “abandoned” it to focus on Retold… If you take Retold out of the equation, they could continue developing AoE 3DE up to today, but it wouldn’t be fair to Retold, which is a relatively new game, compared to AoE 3DE, which is already 5 years old… As much as it pains me to say it, I’d prefer they focus on Retold and release the most powerful mythologies (Aztecs, Incas, Celts, Slavs, Babylonians, Persians, Indians, Yoruba, and Polynesians) between now and 2030, and then see if they return to 3DE for the 10th anniversary or directly focus on AoE 5 (if it were in the same era as AoE 3)…
Sí, esa sería una buena opción a lo Destiny 2 o Starcraft 2…poner todo el multijugador gratis más el arte de la guerra y las batallas históricas originales, y las campañas y las demás batallas históricas cobrarlas como dlcs…
twice updates today.
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Nice catch man!
Thanks!
