The brand new Dynasties of India enlargement for Age of Empires 2: Definitive Version is now out there

Age of Empires 2 has been round for many years, however its remastered model solely arrive late-2019. In my Age of Empires 2: Definitive Version overview, I famous that the sport is an absolute pleasure to play and really captures the whole lot I cherished in regards to the authentic model. The event group together with Forgotten Empires, Tantalus Media, and Depraved Witch did not cease there, pumping out the Lords of the West and Daybreak of the Dukes expansions.

A 3rd enlargement has now launched. Dynasties of India focuses understandably on India, full with three new civilizations and three new campaigns. Every new civ has its personal set of distinctive items and techs, and every marketing campaign tells a separate story inside the theme. Notably, the earlier Indian civilization has been renamed to Hindustanis to make room for the broader method to the Indian folks. The three new civilizations embrace Bengalis, Dravidians, and Gurjaras.

Bengalis deal with naval warfare and elephant-led land battles, with regenerating ships and lowered injury to elephant items. Their distinctive items embrace the Ratha (a chariot with vary and melee assaults) and the Armored Elephant. Distinctive techs embrace Paiks (Rathas and elephants assault sooner) and Mahayana, which permits for villager to take up much less pop-cap area. As a workforce bonus, you get 10% meals on prime of the gold when buying and selling.

Dravidians deal with naval and infantry warfare. They’ve sturdy fishing ships and fishermen, Barracks tech prices half of the conventional useful resource value, and Skirmishers and Elephant Archers assault sooner. In addition they obtain 200 wooden at any time when they advance to the following Age.

There are three distinctive Dravidian items. The Urumi Swordsman can cost up its assault, the Armored Elephant can wreck rapidly most buildings, and the Thirisadai is a novel warship with sturdy assault. As for distinctive tech, Medical Corps permits elephants to regenerate well being and Wootz Metal permits for infantry and cavalry to disregard enemy armor. For a workforce bonus, docks add 5 inhabitants area.

Gurjaras are a civ that focuses closely on cavalry and camels. They begin every match with two additional bushes for foraging, they’ll garrison domesticated animals inside mills for a gentle stream of meals, and their mounted items deal a whopping 50% additional injury. Their fishing ships can be garrisoned inside docks.

Gurjaras has 4 distinctive items to work with. Chakram Thrower affords ranged melee assaults, Shrivamsha Rider is a light-weight cavalry unit that dodges projectiles, Camel Scout is robust towards different mounted cavalry, and Armored Elephant can be utilized as siege.

Their distinctive techs embrace Kshatriyas and Frontier Guards. The previous takes 25% of the associated fee off all navy items, whereas the latter offers Camel Riders and Elephant Archers an additional 4 melee armor. As a workforce bonus, camel and elephant items throughout the board are created 25% sooner.

With these new civilizations comes three new absolutely voice-acted campaigns: Babur, Rajendra, and Devapala. If that is not sufficient incentive to play, there are additionally 23 new achievements to seize through Xbox or Steam. You possibly can take a look at the full launch notes with extra info on the official Age of Empires weblog.

Replace 61321 was launch April 27, a day earlier than the enlargement’s launch. It arrange properly for the Dynasties of India occasion beginning at this time, April 28 and working till Could 12. Every day has a brand new set of particular duties that should be accomplished so as. There are a variety of profile icons and graphical mods to unlock, so be sure you take part earlier than the occasion ends.

With Replace 61321 comes an absolute bundle of bug fixes and sport tweaks. The total record is just too lengthy to incorporate right here, however you possibly can take a look at all of the patch 61321 notes on the Age of Empires weblog. This replace is out there to all gamers whether or not or not they’re bought any expansions. If you happen to do wish to broaden your Age of Empires 2: DE expertise, the enlargement packs — together with Dynasties of India — can be found for $10 every at Microsoft and at Steam.