IIRC before the launch of 5.0 there was talk by CA about how they are planning to expand the map with 6.0Does anyone remenber, what exactly they said? And have there been any statements by CA regarding this since then? I would love an expansion into Ind and Kuresh. Suspecting that Arbaal might be the FLC and Dechala being very likely a part of the DLC after that, this might pave the way, as both had there history there during the-times-we-do-not-speak-about.
I also would not mind an expansion of the eastern steppes.
We will get news soon, but not sure if there will be something about map expansion in it.
"We aim to be back with more news on our next major patch, 5.3, towards the end of October, so until then, we'll see you on the battlefield!"
I expect a "Dev chat" about next DLC(6.0) around that time "end of October" - That should be after the end of this week onward (20+) Anyway I bring that up because if they show part of the map or gameplay we might see something in it - take a screenshow and compare it to the current map.
PS: I'm starving for news ! About the patch and the DLC !
My hope is for more "Steppes and Wastes" in general. I know stuff gets weird the farther north you go on a flat rectangular map. My suggested solution is to create a taper to a point where the Polar Gate should be, like a triangle with regular "sea lanes" on either edge. It's not perfect, but we really need the Wastes in a more complete way.
Then, one day, hopefully the Realms too...
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As they will leave RoC campaign aside, maybe implementing those 4 realms regions into IE could be 'the' thing ... Fingers crossed.
The 4 realms regions will probably remain exclusive to the Chaos Realm campaign, in order to let it be unique and incentivise players to play it once or twice before moving on to Immortal Empire.
Plus, I rather have them expand other parts of the map on IE.
Unfortunately, this was the only time they talked about it:
I never heard anything about this topic after the 5.0 Q&A.
It's important to keep in mind that this was announced before Thrones of Decay was released. In that time, nobody knew if it would be the success it has been, and we didn't know about the change of planned DLCs. So, maybe, that map expansion was planned for the Slaanesh DLC, which was going to be 6.0 originally. It makes sense if we think about Dechala, whose model may be similar to the snakemen of Khuresh.
As they will leave RoC campaign aside, maybe implementing those 4 realms regions into IE could be 'the' thing ... Fingers crossed.
Hopefully not, keep that trash out of IE!
The top area north of Cathay should be expanded to make the Eastern Steppes and Chaos Wastes bigger. Cathay needs more enemies in the north and that area is just a narror tunnel right now.
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As they will leave RoC campaign aside, maybe implementing those 4 realms regions into IE could be 'the' thing ... Fingers crossed.
Expanding Eastern Steppes would be more beneficial for gameplay, and roughly for all races too. And much easier overall. I'm team Steppes obviously
As much as I'd like to see the Realms of Chaos I have to agree with this. The Great Bastion defending against such a tiny strip of land is a bit ridiculous. Also if they were to implement the Realms of Chaos they'd have to completely rework them because they weren't interesting in the RoC campaign, it's also really tricky to find the proper way to implement them as mortals simply do not belong there, going in the Realms should almost be a suicide mission and I doubt CA would make them difficult enough.
As a compromise CA could reuse the Realms battle map randomly in province with very high Chaos corruption though, perhaps reuse some of the campaign assets for the Chaos Wastes too, I feel they're not looking crazy enough ingame imo.
As they will leave RoC campaign aside, maybe implementing those 4 realms regions into IE could be 'the' thing ... Fingers crossed.
Expanding Eastern Steppes would be more beneficial for gameplay, and roughly for all races too. And much easier overall. I'm team Steppes obviously
As much as I'd like to see the Realms of Chaos I have to agree with this. The Great Bastion defending against such a tiny strip of land is a bit ridiculous. Also if they were to implement the Realms of Chaos they'd have to completely rework them because they weren't interesting in the RoC campaign, it's also really tricky to find the proper way to implement them as mortals simply do not belong there, going in the Realms should almost be a suicide mission and I doubt CA would make them difficult enough.
As a compromise CA could reuse the Realms battle map randomly in province with very high Chaos corruption though, perhaps reuse some of the campaign assets for the Chaos Wastes too, I feel they're not looking crazy enough ingame imo.
The maps should absolutely be used for "map encounters" were you get sucked into the RoC for 1 single battle. Similar to Island Battles.
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I wish they'd rework the whole map, I feel the immortal empires map is a bit too small especially naggaroth feels very thin compared to how it is in some world map images of the world...They could expand the map a bit and make the island formations available as gameplay area.
But come on, at least give us IND and kuresh! That's a lot of space you could fill with a few new factions. We also could expand the map a bit to the right with nippon and the other islands that are still there and not part of the world map.
Looking at the world map, they could really expand the map in every direction, both south and northern wastes also have lot more landmass than we have available, you could get more space to add more lords (I suppose chaos lords mostly) on those too.
As they will leave RoC campaign aside, maybe implementing those 4 realms regions into IE could be 'the' thing ... Fingers crossed.
Expanding Eastern Steppes would be more beneficial for gameplay, and roughly for all races too. And much easier overall. I'm team Steppes obviously
As much as I'd like to see the Realms of Chaos I have to agree with this. The Great Bastion defending against such a tiny strip of land is a bit ridiculous. Also if they were to implement the Realms of Chaos they'd have to completely rework them because they weren't interesting in the RoC campaign, it's also really tricky to find the proper way to implement them as mortals simply do not belong there, going in the Realms should almost be a suicide mission and I doubt CA would make them difficult enough.
As a compromise CA could reuse the Realms battle map randomly in province with very high Chaos corruption though, perhaps reuse some of the campaign assets for the Chaos Wastes too, I feel they're not looking crazy enough ingame imo.
Unfortunately, I can't find the source any more, but Andy once commented on the integration of the Realms of Chaos in Immortal Empires in a Q&A. In his answer, it sounded as if the RoC would at most come as a separate map (like in Total War Empire back then), as he spoke of technical challenges. Squeezing the RoC into IE is certainly no easy task, but it's not a technical challenge either.
Thomashu#5291 wrote: The 4 realms regions will probably remain exclusive to the Chaos Realm campaign, in order to let it be unique and incentivise players to play it once or twice before moving on to Immortal Empire.
It's pretty obvious CA is no longer interested in incentivizing players to play the RoC campaign.
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Thomashu#5291 wrote: The 4 realms regions will probably remain exclusive to the Chaos Realm campaign, in order to let it be unique and incentivise players to play it once or twice before moving on to Immortal Empire.
It's pretty obvious CA is no longer interested in incentivizing players to play the RoC campaign.
It's pretty obvious they're not incentivizing the players to play the RoC campaign a dozen times but just once or twice, so they still need to keep something unique about it.
Thomashu#5291 wrote: It's pretty obvious they're not incentivizing the players to play the RoC campaign a dozen times but just once or twice, so they still need to keep something unique about it.
1. No they don't.
2. It already does. Terrible survival battles.
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