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!
Hi cysion, will be there new lobby on voobly for forgotten empires games? or it will be like a mod (like 1000 pop limit, three tech mode etc.)?
i dont know about wheather or not voobly will get it (i am guessing they will) but they have told us many times that it is not a mod, it is like a new aoc
Fantastic!!!
I have a question … there is also the Italian language?! Thanks!
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Amazing
Could you make a option to set gamespeed x2 on random map?
I appreciate for the contribution to the classic game. I just took out my AOK & AOC disk and install them at the beginnig of December 🙂
I am wondering whether I should install patch 1.0b or patch 1.0c for the new expansion set? Thank you very much!
Thanks so much for your tremendous effort! A couple other things I thought of:
1) Wish you could run the game with just AI (computer players) against each other, and the user can just watch.
2) Wish you could add more map sizes (Extra Tiny, Extra Giant, etc.)
3) As has been said before, wish max population could be much more than 250.
Looking forward to release…!
1. i think you alrerady can do it, although i am not quite sure how
2. they cant
3. i think they maybe can, but i dont think they want to
Hi~Cysion,see you again~
Average Chinese can’t sign in Facebook or Youtube. At the same time, many fans don’t understand the words in “www.forgottenempires.net”
So Hawkaoc net have made a propagandist page for it in simplified Chinese
Hoping you would love~
http://www.hawkaoc.net/bbs/portal.php?mod=topic&topicid=4
That’s amazing! Thank you for providing the information to our Chinese fans as well 🙂 It looks good and the music was very relaxing. Also, make sure to let them tune in to the Decmember events 😉
That’s right~
By the way, the page’s name ‘Forgotten Empires, not Forgotten Empires age’
the former is the mod, the latter means the classic game (because i found the chrome bower translation leaves out some details。。。
Did you think of showing this to microsoft or ensemble studios to see what they think about it.
they did try to contact them, but nothing came of it
they dont care about aok anymore
I saw Age of kings: forgotten empires in the gamelist of Gameranger. So i think it will be playable there.
Can’t wait until this gets released