Age Of Empires Online -- Celeste Fan Project

Hello there Celeste players! We are back with another Roman reveal blog.

As we develop the Romans, each week we will be revealing the Romans to you building by building, unit by unit, and technology by technology. We are not just showing you what the Romans will be, but showing you how we are building them, who is building them, and also why we are building them the way that we are.

This week, we are revealing the Auxilia Camp, which is the Romans’ second military production building. We are also introducing the Balearic Slinger, who is the first unit available at the Auxilia Camp. And finally, as widely requested, we are showing you the Roman Guard Tower, both in its initial Age 2 version and after its Age 3 upgrade.

As we mentioned last week, Roman military buildings are categorized based on their military rank and...

Hello there PvP players!

I'm glad to announce that we finally have a Tech Tree for Champion Mode! Here you can find all the changes to techs, the new techs, new unit stats that are only present in Champion Mode (PvP and Skirmish), the active maps in the Sparta Ranked ladder and additional info for those maps, alongside all the changes made to Champion Mode in Celeste.

This wouldn't have been possible without @SystemGlitch 's immense help!

You can find the Champion Mode Tech Tree HERE

Let us know what you think about this in the comments below

Thanks for reading and see you in the next blog!

Project Celeste Development Team

Hello there Celeste players! We are back with another Roman reveal blog.

As we develop the Romans, each week we will be revealing the Romans to you building by building, unit by unit, and technology by technology. We are not just showing you what the Romans will be, but showing you how we are building them, who is building them, and also why we are building them the way that we are.

This week, we will be revealing our Scout and Watch Post as well as the Age 2 version of our Town Center.

We revealed last week that the Town Center will be an Improved Building. Though that Improvement will be available to players by Age 2, but we are not going to show it to you yet.

As you may have noticed, the Town Centers' colors change slightly depending on which age you are in. In the case of Age II, the Bronze Age, you can see that the...

Hello there fellow mapmakers! It's time for a Map Design contest.

What is the challenge all about, you say?
We want to see the community's ability to make nice looking maps in a very small amount of space.

Here's how you participate in this challenge:

1. Download the template .age4scn file attached to this post and put it inside "Documents/Spartan/Scenario"
2. Open the launcher, login and then find the "Scenario Manager" button and click on it.
3. Click on the "Add Scenario Button"
4. Find the new file you downloaded and add it. Then you should be able to see it in your custom scenarios list.
5. Once the game loads, go to "Scenario Editor"
6...

Hello there Celeste players! We are back with another Roman reveal blog.

As we develop the Romans, each week we will be revealing the Romans to you building by building, unit by unit, and technology by technology. We are not just showing you what the Romans will be, but showing you how we are building them, who is building them, and also why we are building them the way that we are.

This week we are revealing two Common Buildings, the Age 1 Town Center and the Market. As discussed in more detail in our Building Design blog, these Buildings are 2 of the 13 buildings included in every Age of Empires Online civilization by default and that always appear in a specific age. These 13 Buildings are identical in every civ except if they are an Improved Building or Advanced Building.

If you would like to start with our first...

Greeks:

Peltast:

• Attack Range increased to 17, from 14.

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Egyptians:

Camel Rider:

• Now deal 20% less damage to other Camel Riders.

Hello there Celeste players! We are back with another Roman reveal blog.

As we develop the Romans, each week we will be revealing the Romans to you building by building, unit by unit, and technology by technology. We are not just showing you what the Romans will be, but showing you how we are building them, who is building them, and also why we are building them the way that we are.

This week we are not only revealing our first military building, which is called the Castellum, but we are also introducing one of the Romans’ most important units: the Legionary.

If you would like to start with our first post on Houses, you can find it HERE.

Though the Castellum appears in the Romans trailer, we have not yet explained it. As many of you deduced from its architecture, the Castellum is the...

Hello there Celeste players! We are back with another Roman reveal blog.

As we develop the Romans, each week we will be revealing the Romans to you building by building, unit by unit, and technology by technology. We are not just showing you what the Romans will be, but showing you how we are building them, who is building them, and also why we are building them the way that we are.

This week, we will be discussing Roman Farms and Storehouses.

If you would like to start with our first post on Houses, you can find it HERE.
You can also read more about our design philosophy regarding Buildings HERE.

For almost every Roman building, we take the same approach of comparing...

Before we could build even one Roman building or unit, we had to decide what buildings and units they had. So we need to back up a bit to get you into our frame of mind.

We started by analyzing what everyone could agree on: the designs of the Original 6 civs. This week, we are going to start with buildings. In later weeks, we will perform a similar analysis with units and technologies. But for now, we are looking at just buildings.

Every civilization in AoEO has 18 buildings except the Norse (16). Looking deeper, we can see that every building falls into one of five categories: Common Buildings, Improved Buildings, Advanced Buildings, Custom Buildings, and Unique Buildings.

Overall, this analysis of the five categories of buildings forms a touchstone for how we as Developers approach civ design. Since it helps explain the design of the Original 6 civs, it also helps us design new civs (and help you predict where we are heading). In other words, if our Romans follow these rules...

As we design the Romans this summer, will be revealing them to you building by building, unit by unit, technology by technology, and week by week. Our purpose is not to just show you what the Romans will be, but to show you how we are building them, who is building them, and also why we are building them the way that we are.

The original Developers have left us with a tremendous amount of invaluable resources, but there’s thousands of hours still ahead of us. We must make countless decisions that will leave our own mark on the civ. As we debate units, buildings, statistics, and what vegetables the farms should grow, we will explain our thought processes here every week.

It appears from our sources that the original Developers had never finalized the full set of Roman buildings and were heading towards having between 16 and 19 buildings. While we will discuss how we made all of these decisions in the weeks to come, we will...

Project Celeste proudly announces:

Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend us your ears:

We are thrilled to tell you that the long wait is finally over and that later this year we will be bringing to our community the most anticipated and requested additional content of our game's history. At long last, the elusive Roman Civilization is on its way to Age of Empires Online and we are eager to give you as much information as possible. However, to avoid over-promising and under-delivering, we cannot show you everything at once. So we have put together this Frequently Asked Questions to help everyone get on the same page.

1. How long have you been working on the Romans?

We have been actively working on them in secret for about 6 months.

Over the years, PF2K and Andy P XIII scavenged the internet and the game files to piece together the original plans for the Romans...

Hello fellow AOEO players!

In the last couple of weeks we have been looking into how we could improve the connectivity between players. Given that all multiplayer games with the BANG Engine (AOM/AOE3/AOEO) are based on peer-to-peer the only way to currently play with each other is with the help of UPnP, port-forwarding or via a private VPN-System like Hamachi. Unfortunately UPnP doesn't always work and port-forwarding is a hassle to set up, especially for those who are not really tech-savvy.

We decided to look into how other platforms like Voobly, GameRanger or AOE3 work and deal with this issue. To give an understanding why those platform offer better connectivity than we do, we have to look what techniques/technologies are possible:

• Manual port-forwarding (Can be used with Celeste)
  
• UPnP (Can be used with Celeste)
  
• Relay-Server
  
• NAT-Punchthrough (Coming up!)

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Hello there everyone! We are really excited to tell you that the Realms of the World Quest Pack is finally upon us!

As the biggest expansion pack ever to be added to Project Celeste, this update brings more than 15 new Quests, an entirely new region, 6 Legendary gear and an all-new Store, selling all-new gear and Celeste-exclusive Advisors!

Battle the servants of the Evil High Priest of Loder in over 15 new Quests. Available for solo and co-op play, these Quests offer brand new maps with an all new and refreshing look! Who are the servants of the Evil High Priest of Loder, you say? Well, there's a lot of them! But they wouldn't be called servants if they had no masters! Check them out here:

• Agnar, the Legendary Longbowman: With unmatched aim and precision, he lays waste to his opponents from a very long distance.

• Mannfall, the War Chief: Harnessing incredible strength, he boosts the health of...

Greetings, fellow Celeste players!

We are very excited to bring you the first new feature that is done completely from scratch by the Celeste Development Team, the Spartan Reforge.

What is the Spartan Reforge, you say?

As you know, most pieces of equipment in Age of Empires Online have varied stats. This means that when you find a piece of gear in loot chests, sometimes it can have lower stats than the item's base stats. Well, in case of legendary gear, you don't have to deal with that anymore! Now with the Spartan Forge, you can try your luck at getting better stats on your gear.

- How does it work?
First, you go to the Sparta Region. Then you can find the Spartan Forge. Click on the building to open the Reforge menu. Drag and drop your item from your inventory. There you will see your item's Power Level, which is an indicator of how close your item is towards its maximum possible stats...

Hello there everyone! Let's take a look at the upcoming Offline Mode 2.0 together, shall we?
How to access Offline Mode?

Can I switch from Online Mode to Offline Mode?

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Hey guys, this is the development roadmap for Project Celeste in 2019.


As you can see in the picture, these are only the major contents planned for the game and we will have many other smaller updates with QoL improvements and things like that. Feel free to ask any questions below!

You can also find out more about The Legendary Craftables and The Realms of The World Quest Pack in their own separate forum posts.

Hello fellow AoEO players!

We are excited to tell you that the long awaited Legendary Craftables are almost upon us and will go live with tomorrow's update!

As you can see on the infograph, the new Recipes can be found as Legendary Quest Rewards, the chests in The Elite Meet in Crete, and if you can spare the coin, even higher chances of finding them in Level 40 Moe's Chests. They cannot be found in guarded chests. This was done in order to discourage "farming" and encourage actively playing quests, especially with your friends!

What do you think about the new Legendary Craftables? What would you like to see next? Let us know in the comments below!

Good luck and happy hunting,
- Celeste Development Team

IMPORTANT: CREATING ADDITIONAL ACCOUNTS FOR MATERIAL PRODUCTION IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN AND WILL RESULT IN BOTH YOUR MAIN AND ALTERNATE ACCOUNT(S) GETTING PERMANENTLY...

Hello there everyone!

As we approach the release of our biggest Quest Pack yet, we think it's a good idea to give you a sneak peek into the upcoming Quests! So without further ado, let's get into it!

Battle the lackeys of the Evil High Priest of Loder in over 15 new Quests. Available for solo and co-op play, these Quests offer brand new maps with an all new and refreshing look! Who are the lackeys of the Evil High Priest of Loder, you say? Well, there's a lot of them! But they wouldn't be called lackeys if they had no leaders. Check out their leaders here:

• Agnar, the Legendary Longbowman: With unmatched aim and precision, he lays waste to his opponents from a very long distance.

• Mannfall, the War Chief: Harnessing incredible strength, he boosts the health of his soldiers, so killing him is your number one priority when you see him on the field.

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Hello there Celeste Players!

The long awaited "General Zu's Glory Days" Quest Pack is finally here! This pack consists of 4 all-new Legendary Quests, designed for level 40 players.

Once you update your game to the latest version, go to the Babylon region and talk to Retired General Zu in order to receive your new quests.

Additionally, there is a new PvP/Skirmish map available, "Babylonian Basin".

I'd like to thank RecoN for another brilliant PvP/Skirmish map, and musictopia, AndyPierce and JilgueriN for helping make the quest pack!

Enjoy the quests and see you in the game! Let us know what you think about the new quests below

- Celeste Development Team

Hey there everyone! The 2018 Winter Event is officially LIVE now!

Once you update your game, go to your Empire Store in your Capital City and find all the new quests for the event.

You can find every detail regarding what's new in the event in the attached graphic! We hope that you all have lots of fun playing with friends during the holidays.

Thank you and see you in the game!

- Celeste Development Team

VERY IMPORTANT: Creating additional accounts and multi-accounting is FORBIDDEN and will result in permanent bans for ALL OF YOUR ACCOUNTS, including your main account! One account per player only.

Let us know what you think about the event in the comments below!