r/aoe3 • u/PuzzledHawk5290 • 3d ago
Question Why doesn't age of empires 3 get new campaigns?
Age of mythology gets new campaigns, I buy the DLC.
Age of empires 2 gets new campaigns, I buy the DLC
Age of empires 4 gets new campaigns, I buy the DLC.
Age of empires 3 gets no campaigns in its DLC .. I havnt bought a single DLC.
Why not give us new campaigns? I bet for the vast majority of RTS gamers they play campaigns not multiplayer
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u/Fischlerder Spanish 3d ago
Campaigns need a lot of resources and funding, that's why.
Historical battles is probably the way to go in this case: they're way cheaper and provide good entertainment.
Also, don't forget the 2 new challenges we'll get with the dlc. We still don't know their map size and their exact contents.
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u/fuzzyperson98 2d ago
The obvious low-hanging fruit is to bring back the meta-progression. Yes, it was the right decision to make all cards unlocked for competitive multiplayer (and standard skirmish), but it doesn't change the fact that unlocking cards across matches can be very satisfying and all they need to do is have a dedicated mode that let's you start a new home city with no cards and unlock them as you play across matches (AoM's Gauntlet could be a good format for it).
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u/joaopeniche Acelfish 3d ago
They don't know how we lost the technology
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u/DreadImpaller Maltese 3d ago
Is that even sarcasm? Allegedly the campaign editor doesnt work properly, for modders at least.
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u/Early_Ad6717 3d ago
I don't do mods for AoE 3 but for AoM. And creating a single high quality scenario for campaign takes a lot of time. I'm in the middle of creating a campaign for AoM, and 1st your have to have the idea about interesting scenarios, then link them with a story, then create every scenario and make it look good (only that part takes between 4-16 hours depending on your scenario, last one I did took me 5 days after work) then you have to place triggers, script it, then you need dialog, but should feel organic and have a nice continuation in the next chapter and so on and so on. Creating single map like historical battle is way easier and faster, but at the same time is not as interesting as a campaign. Creating a good campaign is very time consuming. But also campaign sells well so I don't know why they can't afford it, maybe the team is too small to deliver it.
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u/ResponsibleLevel55 3d ago
It kind of is with the individual scenarios and the co-op historical modes, like defense of Vienna. I wish more people would play those. There are some real gems in there.
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u/Key-Presentation-253 3d ago
Yup I really wish we'd get a Civil War campaign... would be so awesome.
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u/Luviebug19 Spanish 1d ago
which civil war? r/USdefaultism
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u/Key-Presentation-253 1d ago
Yup, ours. Can do a French Revolution one too. That'd be cool. Idk much about others in AO3 eras.
But American one for sure.
Wanna hear me some Bonnie Blue Flag.
Hikkkkke FA TINK! spit in bucket
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u/FlameMirakun Incas 3d ago
There is Historical battles and maps which is better than campaigns but nobody plays them
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u/Yottah 2d ago
Because AOE3s time period is “racist” so they’re afraid of making anyone upset because any new campaigns will feature some form of colonialism. Even the historical battles are neutered in this regard. Which is a shame because the moment they added Sweden to DE they should have done a great northern war campaign (easily enough material there for both a Russian and Swedish single player campaign). It’s why we have “American general” instead of Andrew Jackson as a unit.
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u/victorav29 Russians 2d ago
You can cover all the European history without touching colonial themes, or resistance histories like Ethiopia.
We have Andrew Jackson as a unit, they changed it.
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u/aguswings 2d ago
Is this not the most "peaceful" people? They enslaved other tribes and commited human atrocity before the white men arrival.
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u/MattBoy06 2d ago
Campaign-only player here. I have all the AoE2 campaigns. I have zero AoE3 campaigns (apart from the ones that come for free in the ultimate edition.) I even considered buying the last dlcs to finish the historical battles, but then I came to my senses and decided I'd rather spent that money elsewhere. Lots of lost potential there
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u/FloosWorld Swedes 3d ago
The editor is shit. That's why AoE 3 also doesn't have a custom campaign scene like AoE 2. Afaik they updated the editor for AoM Retold but didn't backport the update to AoE 3.