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Well - it's was the "developer-update-2021-03-31..." so it had another date of article, also posted "Mar 31, 2021 at 2:00 PM" as far as I can see. A tell for an aprils fools joke is that it's delivered with 1st April somewhere, this hasn't.

Also to mix REAL news with FAKE news is not how you do aprils fools joke as I've seen them. I'm not mad or demanding an apology, but I think it was really a bad packaged "joke" on many levels so an apology isn't unsuitable at all. I'm glad for all you do mostly, so thanks for that part.

But can some dev then plz say what was true and what is lies once and for all - still hasn't been made what I can see. Since all obviously not was a "joke". So...

- Three new civs -> All false, or in part false?
- Mythic item rarity -> False?
- Gear dismantler -> ?
- Bahram's Epic Exchange -> ?

- Legendary gear icons -> TRUE, done
- Alliance gear changes -> TRUE, done

 

It was devided when it came 31:th Mars, and it's same in this thread if you accually read the comments - so it's not like all saw a "joke" here until yesterday. Some thought it was a joke due to "club"-class weapons, since it was that in Neanderthals, but that part seems to be true.

I might misunderstood, but at first I didn't know so I asked before and understood something as a confirmation of "no, this is really no joke" when Andy showed that some stuff was really true, and I already knew others were. In that post one of the first lines said: "This is all true, no April Fools Day involved". So I was open to that it was a joke until then, and noone has said anything different since here (I've read nothing on Discord, which MANY don't, some aren't even there at all).

As I said - to mix real and fake news is not how you do a good aprils fools joke - especially not with wrong date in the "news".

 

One of the civs is true. Hopefully that's some consolation to wash the entire thing down and look fondly on the day.

 

To be honest, I was only skeptical of the Mythic items, and only when I saw the economic-oriented items - The military oriented Mythic items stats are skewed oddly (Only Druids, for instance, would currently even be able to use the supposed Staff of Clusium, and it would NOT make for a good druid build either way). Even with the Consumables, I remembered Andy asking around for good Consumable ideas, and just assumed that this is what became of that (Except for the Golden Cow, none of the consumables were that OP, and even then if the Cow was limited to only A4 then it just becomes a Caravan train replacement, not to mention that if they each required, say, a full stack of Epic materials to craft then they wouldn't be used on any ol' mission)

All 3 of the mentioned Civs were quite believable as well - Phoenicians were renown for their extensive trading (As well as the first phonetic alphabet if I am recalling correctly), meaning that a heavy eco-centered civ would be right up their ally.
Huns were in roughly the same time frame as the collective Norse, and were a great menace/empire after the splitting of the Roman Empire (400-600 AD, basically put most of northern Europe to tribute for that 200 year period).

And of course the Indians turned out to be true.

As for timeframe, please correct me but wasn't the Romans originally slated for a late 2019/early 2020 release? I was under the impression that the reason for the year+ delay was quite a bit due to decided to give Romans a full 1-40 leveling experience rather then just making them a Pro civ with 2-3 quests on their own.

But eh. Quite looking forward to the Indians!

 

Oddly enough, it was kind of backwards. The Romans were taking a very long time to model and animate and meanwhile others had free time to make a campaign, so we sort of decided to redouble our efforts.

 

Take your time, I just did Romans in one sitting, I need to do some things in the mean time

 

Well, as I said, I'm not mad - meant I'm not angry. You got a million and five things to your favor and I deeply appriciate the work you put in - I just thought this "joke" was bad in package and just over all bad/wrong in just about all areas.
The Neanderthals was a good one, but as I recall it that wasn't mixed in with a bunch of true news neither sent the wrong day with the wrong date. This was more a "let's give them a lot of real news and mix in some bullcrap to see if we can fool them, with no intent to be funny at all - just to see if they don't get that we lie aside the news".

Still waiting to get cleared out once and for all what is reliable and not - I assume the "joke" is over and you can make it public now?

- Three new civs -> Two false, one true.
- Mythic item rarity -> False?
- Gear dismantler -> ?
- Bahram's Epic Exchange -> ?

- Legendary gear icons -> TRUE, done
- Alliance gear changes -> TRUE, done

I'm 99,99% thankful to you all, and 100% unamused about this "joke" as I've tried since the day it came to get any of you to make clear what is true and not and still haven't got any clear answer =/

 

we are making the Indians and one day will make the gear dismantler and epic exchange

 

Well I took nothing seriously when I first read it, so I'm actually pleasantly surprised that some of the craziness is intended to come to fruition!

Although PF2K's comment about it being April 1st somewhere in the world did get me thinking - is April Fools a worldwide holiday? I guess if Google participates, most folks must be exposed to it.

 

So this then, in order of presentation:

- Three new civs -> False, True, False (in that order)
- Mythic item rarity -> False
- Legendary gear icons -> True, done
- Gear dismantler -> True, coming
- Bahram's Epic Exchange -> True, coming
- Alliance gear changes -> True, done

 

I know that when the game was shut down there had already been work put towards the Romans which you guys have now delivered. Out of curiosity how much work was put together towards the Indians on the internal builds you guys have access to?

Also working with the game files as they are now is there the possibility of unlimited civs being added or is there a set limit of civs you could introduce?

 

Essentially zero work on the Indians. There were four very rough building files and a file with some tiny decorations. Zero on units, game mechanics, art. What we found looks more like a scrapped no playable faction than the beginning of a civ.the people we talked to didn’t remember the Indians at all.

 

Does that mean there is no chance of any more Civs after them, or is that more of a “we don’t have any plans for more at this time”? I recognize the work that goes into creating them, but I was kind of hoping India would leave the door open for moving further East one day if any more Civs were made.

 

Thanks for responding. I wasn’t looking it put any kind of pressure on y’all, I’m always grateful for what we get.

 

I really just read this with such excitement. I was annoyed by the "All Civs level 40" requirement because I probably would never get there. However, well played guys. I did not pay attention to date. Noob move.