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    Age of Empires 3 In celebration of Aoe3DE's first expansion (also me finally getting a stylus) Here's a fanart

    July 26, 2021

    Age of Empires 3 In celebration of Aoe3DE's first expansion (also me finally getting a stylus) Here's a fanart

    In celebration of Aoe3DE's first expansion (also me finally getting a stylus) Here's a fanart

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 11:41 AM PDT

    African Maps dlc

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 07:19 AM PDT

    Dutch and Sweden teaming up against Indo-China

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 11:40 PM PDT

    British slightly OP?

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 07:26 PM PDT

    My british economy just singlehandedly carried me and my mate through a tough 3v2 against Germans the USA and the french.

    My mate suffered from a early rush and wasnt able to hold his own with his economy. I compensated for that and managed to pull of a victory. Doesnt that seem a little OP to you all?

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    Most Op Civ in FFA with the 40mins treaty?

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 06:09 PM PDT

    Hi to all, i recently started playing ffa (in treaty mode beacuse i get rushed everytime and i suck). I wanted to ask what civ could be good in this gamemode (or even op) and why possibly <3

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    [Rant] Some points about that PC correction in the Definitive Edition, and why it rings hollow

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 05:04 AM PDT

    I think this 'correction', somehow specifically servicing Native Americans, is a very conspicuous insertion of PC values, and coupled with the self-congratulatory blurb that we all see when we open the game, really calls attention to how hollow this is. Here's why.

    (1) Arbitrary name changes

    Iroquois is changed to Haudenosaunee, and because that's what they called themselves and apparently calling it a foreign-given name is offensive. But then we don't see the game changing 'Germany' to 'Deutchland' or 'Japan' to 'Nihon' to afford everyone the same kind of respect. While we're at native civilizations, the Aztecs weren't accorded the same kind of respect either, because they're dead - they're called Aztecs instead of say, Mexica, the name they called themselves.

    And speaking of the Aztecs, their descendants, the Mexicans, were featured in the 2nd mission of the Steel campaign, but they're just white Spanish, and not reskinned, and not even modernized. Like rodeleroes, tercio, spanish. In the late 1800s. Swords and bucklers. Mexico.

    (I might also note that you'll hardly see even the most politically correct of Americans using terms like Haudenosaunee, or Kanien'kehá:ka in their daily lives. Hopefully it's not offensive when I point out that those words do not roll off the tongue, and that's partially why 'Lakota Sioux' survived while Haudenosaunee had to be resurrected. There's a certain expedient reasoning behind why those terms fell out of fashion, and if we're to resurrect all the correct terms based on some arbitrary understanding of what is 'correct' or should be used in which context, then it's a very slippery slope.)

    (2) Cherry-picked dialogue updates

    The native dialogue is changed, while the Chinese and Japanese dialogue at least, remain at 'shamefur dispray' levels. A lot of the Asian characters are also voiced by half-Asians of the wrong ethnicity, or outright non-Asians, and the grammar and pronunciations are both wrong.

    And we all know that the voice-lines are poorly recorded and even more poorly acted, meaning that instead of adding authenticity and artistic value to the game, it detracts from it in the same way as executive meddling or a shoehorned-in moral message does. This is no Tarantino demanding authentic local languages to bring Inglorious Basterds to life, this is executives demanding the new Respectful™ package, and it's constructed and delivered with the predictable lack of artistic enthusiasm. Sensitivity, in 'Whatever you say sir' form.

    (3) What measure is a magical Native American civ?

    They took out the things like fire pit dances because it's offensive to portray magical native americans, but the Chinese being led by this shaolin master who is in turn improved by technologies like 'supreme ultimate fist' is apparently ok. Magical natives no, magical Asians sure.

    (4) Superficial changes don't change the fact that the original story is stereotypically 'racist'

    The fantastical bits are excised, but apparently not the ideas like the Inca welcoming Amelia Black as a mighty-whitey because she's a descendant of the knight-that-saved-them, the Inca and barrels of sacred water, etc. tropes that also portray Natives in much the same way.

    By today's metrics, those plot devices would carry a truckload of unfortunate implications, but the thing is those small doses of stereotypical portrayals shouldn't be a problem, because they are good, inoffensive tropes that also make the portrayed items fun in the first place. At any rate, if one is really serious about the whole respectful portrayal thing, they'd have changed the story as well, or at least the natives' roles in it. That they didn't, and chose to only change some labels and names, spoke to their questionable sincerity and enthusiasm in truly championing realistic portrayals in the first place.

    (5) Realistic Portrayals, but only where the spotlight is

    Right now, the campaign has nothing but placeholder factions. The Mexicans are Spanish, the Knights Hospitaller are Spanish, the United States are British complete with redcoats. If one is to come from an artistic perfectionist standpoint, those placeholders would've been intolerable. If we try to consider that Europeans and white Americans also (gasp) have feelings and can feel misrepresented, then what would they say about their cultures being treated as interchangeable? Hell, what would the Mexicans think?

    But yay, Haudenosaunee, I guess?

    ​

    P.S. I think all of those points would've been alright if they didn't make such a meal of the whole pc correction thing. They could've quietly made the changes, but instead had to make this whole disclaimer in the menu just to pat themselves in the back for them. The disclaimer is actually what prompted me to make this post, because I have never liked people waving flags of causes insincerely, or try to satisfy causes by paying lip service. In my book, you either do it right or not at all, and you let your art speak for itself instead of making a post about it.

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    50 Napoleon Gun vs 100 Fusilier | Age of Empires 3 Definitive Edition

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 09:36 AM PDT

    Game Browser doesn't show any games

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 01:13 PM PDT

    I made sure to clear all filters, but the game browser for aoe 3 definitive wont show any public games.

    I can receive invites from friends but, always get the error message: "hose rejected".

    Do you have any Troubleshooting ideas?

    submitted by /u/Redhonu
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    who has strongest mercenary units now?

    Posted: 25 Jul 2021 09:27 AM PDT

    Post the release of the US and the change to the merc tech for european civs which civilization has strongest merc units? By that I dont mean the inclusion of outlaws but rather which civ has cards + tech which makes any individual unit like lets say a black rider with the most amount of hitpoints and attack?

    submitted by /u/Ulysseus_47
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