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Yeah in general I go FC in Arena to practice BO timings and Feudal Scout rushes in open maps to practice attack timings. In open maps I scout their stone come feudal but in Arena and Hideout it's a bit trickier to see whether they're mining or not
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DE is 75% off along with all the DLCs sans Roman, if anyone was like myself and waiting for a good sale to finally hop onboard
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You can get AOE3 DE plus all the faction packs for about $20 in the current sale. The learning curve is rougher than in the other age games but it has crazy faction diversity.
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Also matches are crazy fast, it's not unusual for one between evenly matched players to last 20 minutes.
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https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/09/19/age-of-empires-iv-the-sultans-ascend-expansion/ 2 new civs - Japanese & Byzantines 4 variant civs - Chinese, Abbasid Dynasty, French and HRE 2 new biomes - Japanese Spring & Savana 8 mission campaign 10 unique maps
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Azran posted:https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/09/19/age-of-empires-iv-the-sultans-ascend-expansion/ fugging sick
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I will probably get back into the game when it's out, I'm curious what exactly the gameplay differences will be in variants, safe to assume teutonic knights as a unique unit for the HRE variant since everyone loved those guys in aoe2.
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Azran posted:https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/09/19/age-of-empires-iv-the-sultans-ascend-expansion/ With the increasing prominence of the Eastern Roman Empire in popular culture with them featured in games like this, or Civilization, or Paradox games, it always tickles me reading this stuff because at this point most pop history enthusiasts know that you shouldn't be using the term 'Byzantine Empire', buuuuuuut its just so much easier since Eastern Roman Empire doesn't exactly roll off the tongue and it creates confusing questions about the nature of the Roman state that we don't really want to have to get into, so its always ends up going like "We're introducing the Byzantines*! *Byzantine is a exonym imposed on the empire centuries later by mostly post Renaissance western European historians trying to deny the rightfully Roman nature of the Empire, we here at Microsoft recognize that it is far more historically accurate to use the term Eastern Roman Empire, or Medieval Roman Empire" Anyway, I wonder what they mean by Variant civs, they don't go into much detail here, is it something like the different leaders with different bonuses and agendas for the same civ in the Civilization series?
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Azran posted:https://news.xbox.com/en-us/2023/09/19/age-of-empires-iv-the-sultans-ascend-expansion/ $15 dollary doos 
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StashAugustine posted:gonna make a strategy game where all the factions are different kinds of Romans That’s just Total War Atilla
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khwarezm posted:Anyway, I wonder what they mean by Variant civs, they don't go into much detail here, is it something like the different leaders with different bonuses and agendas for the same civ in the Civilization series? According to a streamer it's basically a brand new civ in terms of balance. I assume they'll share most art assets (buildings, unit models, etc.), have some unique skins and a different gameplay plan. Like infantry-focused French or w/e
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There were some names for the variant civs on the xbox store that have since been taken down so they may have been placeholders/development names: Abbasid - The Sultan's Army China - Empire of Jade French - Jeanne d'Arc HRE - Order of the Dragon My theorycrafting: Jean d'Arc - French religious movements e.g. Crusader States, Cathars, the Anti-Pope Order of the Dragon - Knightly orders; Teutonic Order, Templars, Hostpitallers etc Army of the Sultan - Syrian and Egyptian dynasties; Fatimids, Burids, Ayyubids, Mamluks Empire of Jade - Northern Turkic dynasties; Kara Khitan, Jin, Xi Xia, Chagatai?
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It's going to be hilarious if those end up actually being the variant names  Age of Noob actually has a whole video out on the new civs so the names are basically confirmed to be those from the leak. They are added to the civ dropdown menu and they are very different from the base - they share some units, landmarks, buildings, etc. but they are different enough you need to relearn them even as a main of the base civ they originate from. Some (all?) of the variant civs include heroes so I'd assume at the very least it's Joan d'Arc and uhhhh Saladin? Azran fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CX7rdMrUUHo That video. We likely won't know more before they start teasing things over the next two months. Will be interesting to see if the campaigns are a step above the release campaigns that were obviously made before a hundred different balance changes to the main game. Ra Ra Rasputin fucked around with this message at 08:52 on Sep 20, 2023 |
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Forgotten Empires had already been stretching it with some of their “civilizations” in AoE2, but an order that wasn’t created until the fifteenth century, a generic name for an army, an empire that did not exist, and one (1) person sure kills that idea altogether. How rushed was this that they couldn’t research some actual civilization or polity and insert whatever game mechanics they were planning on?
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The most hilarious part of all this is that when the base civs that were getting a variant were revealed, so many Redditors were dead certain it was going to be Hospitalliers for the French, Teutons for the HRE, Fatimids for the Abassids and loving Korea for the Chinese
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Ill take 2 civs for $15 if theyre the same quality as the base ones, thats an aggressively reasonable price in this day and age. I started my first foray into ranked AoE2 since HD came out in 2013, holy poo poo people are good now. Im loosely squeaking by at about 1000 but usually only winning the games that go late. People really have their timings down.
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https://www.ageofempires.com/news/the-sultans-ascend-variant-civilizations-deep-dive/ They renamed Sultan's Army and Empire of Jade, they're the Ayyubids and Zhu Xi's Legacy now. The main gimmick behind the Jean d'Arc variant civ is that you start the game with your eponymous hero as a villager and she acquires experience over the course of a match, becoming increasingly more powerful as a combat unit. Honestly it sounds sick
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The Age of Empires team has a massive hard-on for Joan of Arc. You would think that is the only thing that happened in French history.
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Yeah what the heck where is my Robespierre French variant?
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It was super cool when Napoleon guillotined Joan of Arc for shittalking Charlamagne.
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Veev lar Fronnts!
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Joanie's got a gun New title?
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Don Pigeon posted:The Age of Empires team has a massive hard-on for Joan of Arc. You would think that is the only thing that happened in French history. Skill issue
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Since they are committed to having hero units (a mechanic I’m not super fond of), it would actually be kind of interesting to see a AoM-esque game in the medieval era that is relatively faithful to chansons de geste and the like.
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I've really only liked heroes in wc3 (outstanding) and RA2 (pretty good). Every other RTS with them they're either way too weak and easy to lose track of or so strong you can destroy entire armies, mostly the former
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The AoE4 variant civs remind me a little of age of mythology, you'd have the Civilization itself like Greek that shared a lot of units and mechanics, but you'd have Zeus, Poseidon, Hades variants that would change your starting bonuses and entire game plan and focus on different unit types and unique unit and tech access.
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Koramei posted:Ill take 2 civs for $15 if theyre the same quality as the base ones, thats an aggressively reasonable price in this day and age. If you ever feel like doing team games, I've been playing again. https://discord.gg/CvHcZ585
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Next AoE2 expansion leaked. The Mountain Royals New civs: Armenians (Composite Bowman and Warrior Priest) and Georgians (Monaspa cavalry) New Campaigns: Tamar's Ascension (Georgians), Thoros the Great (Armenians), and Ismail (Persians) Between this and the upcoming CK2 expansion Persophiles are eating good right now.
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Looks rad. Is this gonna have a rework of Persia too, I wonder?
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Don Pigeon posted:They have been hinting at a complete rework of the Persian unique unit for a while, in any case. Yeah, it's kinda weird for the Persians to have War Elephants as a UU when all the Indian and SE Asian civs just have something similar as a regular unit
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Persians have better elephants  I will pitch a fit if they get rid of war elephants and that's no joke
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Milo and POTUS posted:Persians have better elephants I doubt they would ever consider getting rid of them, the thing is, if Persian don't get War Elephants, who does? Obviously one of the Indian or SEA civs but I have a very hard time seeing how they can be neatly crammed into any of their tech trees.
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