Age of empires 3 chads we are so back
>>2455576why are they making slop for 3 when they could make 5 instead?
>>2455580because is the most soulful game in the franchise
>>2455580you know how shit 4 is and you want them to make 5? I rather have them support the older games
>>2455580>make 5 insteadThey're making AoM 2
>>2455600source?
>>2455576>danes>polesI would rather have Persians and maybe another East Asian civilization but fine. Think they've hit their limit with Euro civs now so we might get those next assuming that they don't just unceremoniously abandon development again. Besides the two new civs the other additions also look great so kudos.
>>2455619It's speculation
>>2455580It's probably too early for that as long as 4 is doing alright. And if they made one, it would be once again a medieval title most likely, so it's redundant for the time being.
>>2455576Jeszcze Polska nie zginęła,Kiedy my żyjemy.Co nam Eugene Yuen wzięła,Szablą odbierzemy.Poland is not yet lostSo long as we still liveThat which Eugene Yuen has seizedWe at SABREPOINT will retrieve
I remember they cancelled some DLC a while ago.
>>2455576>winged hussarsI know it's supposedly iconic, but I'd rather play gunpowder units in a gunpowder game t. Pole
>>24555884 is fine, the release version was a bit lacking but its a good game. I wish they went deeper into fortifications.I just want them to make another bronze age ancient world game. Or alternatively something completely different like covering the development of gun weapons from late Imperial Age to WW2
>>2455804You have Chronicles.
>>2455796Yes, this was the one.
>>2455803Dude, they have non-gunpowder units in the OG 3.
>>2455809I wonder what has made them reconsider.
>>2455823It's free PR.
>>2455822Yeah, I still remember Little Bighorn with pikemen
This game is so overengineered that making expansions for it and then trying to balance them is a whole project. I guess they just couldn't do it while being busy with Retold. I see they're adding a mode where you don't use shipments and have reworked civ bonuses instead, and that alone sounds like a ton of work.
>>2455808Chronicles doesn't even have enough civs for a 4x4 without repeats.
>>2455580aoe 5 already exists and it's called Halo Wars
>>2455803Winged Hussars aren’t even all that iconic, they are just famous because of memes. They were basically just the Polish cavalry copying Ottoman drip since the latter used to have all kinds of goofy bling on their soldiers.
>>2455837>unbalancedHow so? You aren't one of those noobs who believe mexico is op aren't you?
>>2455891Polish nobility looked like turks in general and there was that whole larp where they pretended they are descendants of sarmatians rather than slavs so they adapted turkish/central asian aesthetics.
>>2455576>Bethesda,ID Soft,Arkane etc. were hit with lay off>While AOE3 rose from the grave with new expansionRTSchads really carrry shitbox brand.
>>2455957Well RTSs have more players than fighters at least
>>2455796I think it's because Microsoft got some new management
>>2456103Yeah the CEO lady that really wanted to push AI
>>2455580Because studios won’t just make proper sequels anymore. Everything has to be dlcslop
>>2455633Danes are already in the game, so I am hoping against hope the 2nd is Livonia or Courland (basically the same thing), because there is no one else in the Baltic who isn't already in the game.
>>2456262They know their players believe that 'old good, new bad' and no amount of hype would make people stop playing 2 and start playing 5. Might as well keep bloating up 2 with both medieval and ancient expansions.
>>2456262dlc is better than fragmenting communities even more with sequels that add nothing new
>>2455576If there was one upside to Sharma's slow execution of XBOX, is that she un-cancelled that expansion.
>Jeet woman diversity hire comes in>Puts Todd in his place>Makes Obsidian great again>Throws away Double Fine>Brings back AoE3 DLCWtf I thought jeet women where supposed to be destroying video games?
>>2456399She's been a surprise. Also helps that the teams that handle AOM and AOE have been miles more competent than the other studios under Microslop's umbrella. That's why they dodged the axe, unlike other studios that underperformed or worse, outright flopped like Compulsion.
>>2456399probably age of empires is considered a "iconic" franchise and they will support it even at lose they wasted 100 millions on halo infinite and still support it. so maybe the DLC was just delayed to release all the mythology´s stuff
Play the new Portuguese elmetti card before they nerf them
>the baltic "powers"
>>2455576> The Baltic PowersNice
>>2456277Courland is Poles special IIIrd age Revolution alongside Ukraine.
>>2456628>>2456723And funnily enough they get Teutonic Knihts.
>>2455891>Winged Hussars aren’t even all that iconic, they are just famous because of memes.statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
>>2456724I mean it is Livonia, not Courland proper, so no surprise, despite the slight anachronism. It was partially an Orderstate (and Courland itself is the Order secularised), and the Livonian Order was a branch of the Teutons.That said I last played this game in 2012 with no expacs so I don't super know what a revolution is lol.
>>2456741Revolutions are mostly "all-in" strategies that, instead of agin up, it usually turns your villagers into military units and forces you into a bum rush with your sudden mass of units. There's usually a card to be able to start rebuilding your econ, but its a major fallback option in case you can't win/do the necessary economic damage to your opponentA revolution's setbacks is that you're usually locked to that age, so you cannot tey to tech up afterwards if you fail, meaning you have to keep up the tempo else you'll be outclassed
>>2456740It’s the truth though. Literally the only time they are brought up is because of the “and then le winged hussars arrived” sabaton song.
>>2456783They're extremely unusual units. Just the lance construction is a whole paragraph of stuff you never heard about anyone do. Only shock cavalry able to charge 8 times in a row, too. Decked out with every kind of weapon and generally makes no sense, economically, because it was purely a prestige position for the elite thrill seekers.Yeah, brah. Totes average.
>>2456904You are Polish
>>2457060And? It takes a lot to actually understand the evolution of cavalry from Iron Age to Modernity and then also understand the winged hussar specifics. Of course I'm Polish. And you can stop pretending you know shit about the subject, anytime.
>>2456399Someone has to be at the right end of the bell curve.
>>2456407The Chronicles team did get downsized despite Chronicles being pretty much the best content recently released for any AOE.
>>2456764>picAge 3 revolutions for everyone?
>>2457077Yeah, but Euros used to get them in Age 4 only. Having one that comes an age earlier sounds pretty aggressive.
>>2457064Every third worlder always tries so hard to pretend they were important once, it's so cute
>>2457120Goalpost moved, nice. Again, winged hussars were an unusual unit, a distinct approach to shock cavalry and an culmination of several trends, made extreme. You can't engage with me on this. Trying to get away into some sort of top 5 country of all time dick waggling is pretty transparent here. Pussy loser. lmao
>>2455576the fuck? i thought they cancelled their dlc and stopped working on the game?
>>2457171Totally. The last patch was in October 2024, it looked like a complete writeoff. Nobody could see this coming, but I guess they must've had a good deal of half-finished assets to restart the project.
>>2455580It's cheaper to support old games than to make new ones, and most people are somehow okay with this.
>>2457193It makes perfect sense with RTS - players are practically married to their games, communities, mods, custom stuff. Also AoE3 is pretty much irreplaceable and no dev is crazy enough to make a game of that kind of scale.
>>2455576What sort of composition are you meant to make with these two civs? For the poles i've mostly used their light inf + retainers to screen for cavalry. The danes though don't really seem to have anything too unique.>>2455803You can turn them into napoleonic lancers if you revolt into the duchy of warsaw. Its pretty cool.
>>2457240With danes Snaphane spam works pretty well.
https://steamcommunity.com/app/933110/discussions/7/588432892837909847/All the changes in the beta, in case anyone is interested.>>2457075Nope. Only a handful of civs get them: Germans, Maltese, Poles, and Swedes get Livonia, while Poles also get the Cossack Hetmanate at fortress age. The Cossacks can advance to Industrial if they ship a unique church (that doubles as factory) and research a tech inside. Haven't found if Livonia can also age up or if they are stuck in fortress age.
>>2457424The Cossacks honestly didn't seem that good when I tried them. I don't think they are really getting enough for what a revolution costs. But maybe I just haven't seen what is actually good about them yet.Happy that Prussia and Germany were added though, thats really cool. Hoping for Austria in the future.
>>2457424Odd that Russians also don't get Cossack Hetmanate revolution.
>>2457503The only really relevant thing about them I immediately noticed is that their revolution troops also double as normal citizens IIRC, but that's not as remotely unique as it used to be.They seem like a roundabout way of adding Ukraine to the game without making it too in the eyes by making them a complete civilization.As far as Poland goes the only revolution I really like is the Duchy of Warsaw because it lets Poles keep the autism fantasy of keeping their country but also serves to add in the actual Napoleonic-era Polish forces.Also it's supremely funny to have partitions of Poland as a home city card.
>>2457424>Game Size: Reduced the game size by ~10 GB through unit texture optimizations.sheeeit
>>2457424>Revolutions: The main building in revolutionary home cities now have varying facades and skies in the background.oh shit can someone post screenshots
>>2457599>Also it's supremely funny to have partitions of Poland as a home city card.Kek these fucking jeet bastards
>>2457584Not really all that odd considering Cossacks have been killing Russians far longer than helping them.
>>2457733Meh. The çcossacks have been the gendarmes of the Tsar for centuries. It would make sense to give them some option like that.
>>2457424>Fixed a bug that lifted range restrictions for melee attacks of infantry units when controlled by the AI.The one that made musketeers melee you at range? Now that's an ancient bug.>Fish traps addedWhat a random thing to add.>Chinese get nothing except another small nerfSigh.>Independence ModeActually cool as shit. Though they should add this to the base game as a freebie to appeal to purists who can't stand the deckbuilding in the first place.
>>2457733The Cossacks were some of Russia's best agents for expansion eastward (whether by choice or by force), in addition to all of the plays on the Hetmanate (separate from the Sich)>>2457766
>>2457660Holy basedI was always pissed it had bloated larger than Age2 and Age4 combined, despite less graphical quality
>>2457759And vikings were personal guards of Byzantine Emperors, that doesn't mean Byzantium should get a Norway revolution
>>2458064Don't you see the difference between having just a handful of imported soldiers and fully controlling the homeland of a people for centuries? And those people were integrated into the state aparatus as one of its strongest agents. I think it just makes sense. Not like it'd get much use, but it makes sense.
All this talk made me remember that during The Warchiefs, the Ottomans could revolt into Chile kek.
>>2455576AoM ain't doing too good huh
I am more interested in what's going on with AoM. Those were always my favourite Age of X games. I want more DLCs.t. Pole.
>>2458338>I want more DLCs.Which content do you play? Just chew through the campaigns? Skirmishes vs AI? Multiplayer?
>>2458251If that were the case... time to break the emergency glass!
>>2458251>>2458338I have it on good authority next year's DLC pack is the 4th Egyptian major and Sumeria as the new Civ
>>2458251It's interesting to me how similar these two games are. And somehow 3 manages to have wackier techs and 'god powers' than AoM.
>>2458445i would rather have hindus than jewsin fact that might actually be awesome don't they have 8 armed blue sword gods and all kinds of weird shit?
>>2458519anon they eat poop...
>>2458550So amerisharts and they featured on several games
>>2458708>what about americanssaaaar please, this delusion is unhealthy
>>2458519>in fact that might actually be awesome don't they have 8 armed blue sword gods and all kinds of weird shit?Yeah ok alright, what about god powers though?>Designated Shitting Street: unique Indian farm building that's bigger and longer than a regular farm but doesn't ever need replenishment>Google Play cards: spawns a small shack with a scamming operation that periodically steals % gold from all opponents>The Juggernaut (long cooldown): spawns a train that crushes through everything in its path in a narrow straight line across the entire map and gains speed with every allied unit crushed (so you can crush 30 jeets from the get go as sacrifice and effectively send a bullet train to the enemy base)
