2024: A New Era For Age Of Legends
What's coming up in 2024! And a Happy New Year to all!
I hope you’ve had a great Christmas and a happy holiday season! A special thank you to all who have become paid subscribers or donated. The Essential Guide would not be possible without your support.
2023 has been a landmark year for Age Of Legends (just take a look at how busy it was!) and 2024 promises to be even more exciting. In the first quarter of the year I am due to complete work on the Galactic Overhaul project, and after that there will be:
a public beta;
then the full release of v1.34, overhauling galactic level gameplay, orbital structures, the AI, a complete sound redesign and more, before…
work resumes on the Crime Lord (v1.35 update).
As readers will know the Crime Lords was originally slated for the v1.34 development cycle, but then the release schedule was rejigged once I saw the potential and scope for the overhaul of galactic-level gameplay.
The Galactic Overhaul is really exciting, but v1.35 will be the mod’s first big content, rather than mechanics, expansion in some time. So I’m particularly excited to work on that.
You can find a lot of detail about what v1.35 will include in this post on the playable factions that will be available in the Criminal Underworld category. (The good news is that quite a lot of v.135’s underlying coding is done already, including frustrating tasks like planet placement for densely populated Hutt Space.)
So, that’s the mod in 2024. What about the Essential Guide? Well, here’s some of the articles you can expect coming up in the near future:
The Nomad Empire: The Vagaari and some really unique mechanics I’m excited to announce which will make them a truly unique nomad faction, unlike any faction in any Empire At War mod ever.
The Corellians: I’ve had a lot of questions about the Corellians, the Diktat, how they will function in the New Republic era, and about how the Confederation will work in future. This will be a complete overview of the Corellian faction.
Alien Invaders, End Game Crises and Total Replayability: the Dynamic Galaxy Phase I enabled multi-faction battles in galactic conquest. Phase II will be building on that with a dramatic new range of end game events and crisis factions.
The Non-Playable Hutt Factions: the sequel to the recent article on the five playable Hutt factions you’ll get access to exploring the non-playable minor Hutt Kajidics and crime gangs.
A Reader Ask Me Anything: post whatever questions you like below this article or on Discord and I will answer them all!
And… a special retrospective on something I’m often asked about, The History of the Age of Legends Mod.
And that’s just some of it!
I think I can safely say 2024 is going to be a fantastic year for our growing community. We have 33,000 players, we’re in the top 15 EAW mods on Steam (maybe we’ll make the top 10 this year!), and more than 340 people have become subscribers to The Essential Guide. It’s amazing to have so much support, particularly if you are able to become a paid subscriber or to make a donation.
Goodbye for now, and Happy New Year! I hope you have a great 2024!
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