Things are slowly coming to closure. A lot of things still need to be polished but overall, we think we have created a well enjoyable game-experience for everyone to enjoy! Now, the game will be released in December, no exact date is set yet, but it’s most likely going to be towards the end of the month. The rest of that month we’ll fill with previews and online events to spotlight the many people that helped out on the project and to build up the hype a little more 😉
What will be released?
Obviously, Age of Empires II: Forgotten Empires! However, the game won’t be 100% complete. We have plans for many more campaigns to be added, but in order not to delay the release any more, we will focus on only a few campaigns at launch. The theme for the launch campaigns will be The Italians. Featuring campaigns where you not only take side of some of the most influential Condottieri in history, but also fight them! Other than that, all the civs will be included & fully functional.
More campaigns will be added later and will be made available through downloadable patches.
When will it be released?
We have many events planned in the run-up to the release. The exact date will probably be known as we go, but at this point, it is still unknown. Expect late December though.
What & when will the first event be?
The first event will be this weekend already! Saturday the 1st of December will be our first AoFE weekend. The focus will be on the new graphics and the AI. Together with the graphical artists, we’ll talk about how they tackled the new units & architecture sets. On Sunday the 2nd, the AIs will be showcased, with an incredible AI match and a challenge for a top player to see how many AIs (level: hard) he will be able to handle.
So make sure to tune in at www.twitch.tv/forgottenempires at 19 GMT on either Saturday, Sunday, or both!
Release it on Christmas Day.
1, yes, (old years eve is to late)
If that is the case, since Forgotten Empires release is planned around the week the holidays are in, then it will be the perfect christmas gift Cysion gives to the entire Age of Empires 2 community.
old years eve?
alguno del equipo forggoten habla español? porque si lo tradusco con el google no entenderian
Yo hablo español ^^
Aunque no soy del equipo de desarrolladores, si eso es lo que buscas.
Is this release going to be a beta release or the final release ??
I remember there were some talks of extensive beta testing earlier, thats why the confusion.
i just wanna know what time is there now ! XD
Excited for the release date.
I Hope it will be there soon because I have exams in januari 🙂
1 question, could you make it possible to set the gamespeed on a random map faster? If I’m write you can only set the gamespeed x2 on multiplayer games.
Keep up the good work!
After watching the Zeroempires videos with Cysion about the AI all i can say is wow! I knew you guys said the Ai was improved but i just thought you fixed a few bugs. I thought the boar lure was very impressive and the way it played to its strengths and actually used tactics humans use, incredible stuff well done. Just a few questions 1) How much can you interact with the Ai, can you tell it what strategy to use (tell it to fast castle for example) or who to attack? 2) Does it try wall in the dark… Read more »
1| There’s a limited amount of communication options with the AI. So you can steer him a bit yes.
2| Walling is one of the big weaknesses for AIs, it can only make those big square-shaped fortresses which are standard in fortress/arena. Or to put it in the AI’s words: “Walls are to keep children in, not to keep men out!”
3| It can detect enemy units and will try to counter accordingly.
Thanks for reply…looking forward to seeing it in action 🙂
Will I need to buy a new copy of AoE2? Not sure if I can find my original copy…Or will the forgotten empires have everything I need to play? Its been a while sorry. And will it be Mac compatible? Thanks!
most probably just an update to aoe2
Maybe an Idea for the next ewpansion 😉
Maori(New zeeland) and Aboriginal(Australia).
Love those 2 civs
I think this is bad idea, they didin’t play a big role in the Middle ages. But there were better idea for another expansion. Khmer Empire, a civilisation who build many channels and shrine. UU : canon elephant : a canon behind an elephant (like the indian unit in AoE3) it’s a little anachronistic (mostly using in the 16/17/18’s century) but a SW asian civilization must have elephant. UT : white elephant : an upgrade who increase the resistance of the elephants against the conversion. Wonder : Angkor Vat monastery are cheaper free upgrade of farm technology (represent the high… Read more »
Is it standalone? If I need AoE2 do i need any of the expansions for that in order for Forgotten Empires to work?
the best idea on how to balance campaign pop will be 125 why? ok first if you realized something about the pop of aok it was 75 then in AOC they raised it to 100 they added 25 so it would make since to add 25 to the 100 AOK pop was 75 AOC pop was 125 so it would make a pattern and actually make since if it will be 125 I hope this will be implemented because if you make it 250 or 200 it will be too easy and just not how it used to feel 12… Read more »
i dont see how a pop limit makes agame easy or hard
they are in place so the game wont freeze and crash
the limit keeps going up because software and computers get better so they can handle