Will the Vikings' name change when the new DLC comes out?

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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I think it needs to change because the new three civilizations are already Viking peoples. A separate Viking civilization would be ridiculous. I think the existing Viking civilization could be called something like Norwegians or Nordics, or something better. That’s not important; the important thing is the change. This way, Vikings would be perfectly represented with four distinct civilizations.

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Norse would be the best name, but it isn’t a big deal. Names are easy to change with a mod.

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I already figured out how to change it and you do not have to make mod.

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How to rename civilizations in AoE II: DE on PC

  1. Open the game installation folder.
  2. Go to:


resources\en\strings\key-value
  1. Make a backup copy of:


key-value-strings-utf8.txt
  1. Open the original file with Notepad or Notepad++.
  2. Press Ctrl + F and search for the civilization name, including quotation marks, for example:


"Vikings"
  1. Change only the name and leave the number unchanged:


10292 "Vikings"

becomes:



10292 "Norse"
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However, I would have preferred it to be changed in the original.

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We have slavs and other slavic people ingame.Name should stay as it is.

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I’d like to see Slavs renamed more than Vikings, NGL :stuck_out_tongue:

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We kinda have Rus now with varangians so its less likely now.

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They could be Kievans or Ruthenians. It feels wrong to have Slavs alongside Poles and Bohemians…

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Yes, that would be good…

Nah, I’d prefer they just called the Varangians “Swedes” and be done with it…

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We’ll see when the patch arrives, but i think the name will stay. It seems the devs want to preserve the clasical civs and just make some reworks. I suspect this due to Varangians instead of Swedes.