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No official word yet! I’m hoping late this month, though; or early next month

I think they will expand Arena of the Gods; the two pages we have right now are collectively referred to as an 'Episode', so the naming suggests we'll get more!

@@JustABaleenWhaleI don’t see why they wouldn’t but hopefully and I hope they add more gods to the game aswell

That's possible, too! AoE2 has a similar mechanic with the Bulgarian's Konnik unit

Very well might be!

Yeah, if you want something more 'grounded', then I can see the gold armour being too much. I personally like it though! 😅

We don't even know if it's coming out in Jan; it's just an educated guess! Maybe closer to Lunar New Year, since that would be a thematic time to release the Chinese expansion. :)

Link to this video's post on reddit? Here you go, if that's what you meant 😅 www.reddit.com/r/AgeofMythology/comments/1hpqmks/immortal_pillars_chinese_human_unit_breakdown_and/

Yes, I'd like to see that, too!

Thank you! I’m really looking forward to it, too!

Thank you! And Happy New Year to you, too! :)

I'm glad there were new tidbits in there for you! 😃

@JustABaleenWhale I was especially surprised by the dual cavalry/cavalry archer unit. I had thought they were different units or campaign units.

@@riseALK Yes! Mind you, I don't think we've seen that dual unit use its bow in the video. But the fact that it has the bow and arrows on its back really makes it look like it can change modes 😅

That's definitely a possibility too!

I think it'll be that they can switch stances.

I’m glad you liked it! 🙏 Yes, it’s a great time to be an AoM fan 🙂

But those bodies in Fall of the Trident aren't exactly random. They represent the troops that accompanied our heroes during the campaign, sort of a personal bodyguard units. Yes it's inconsistent with the gameplay and units available to the player during that mission, but from the narrative perspective they belong there.

Some good points; though I shall be on hopium until the moment those hopes get smashed 😄

​@@JustABaleenWhaleWell, in my opinion the best candidate for a cameo like this would be Odysseus. Referencing the tale of his journey back home but changed for the purpose of expanding the AoM universe with Chinese mythology.

@ I’ll be happy if he shows up 😄

Thank you so much! I'm glad you enjoyed it!

I actually know pretty much nothing about Chinese mythology and history! I'll be learning a lot with this expansion haha :)

Thanks for watching! :)

Thank you! I'm very excited for it, too!

Thank you for recognising the time that goes into something like this haha. And thank you for watching! :)

Thank you! I really appreciate you stopping by! :D

Thank you so much!! I'm really happy to hear how much you enjoyed this. It was a lot of work to put together, since I wasn't in the beta, and had to assemble all this from watching streamers' vods 😅. My main motivation to make this was because I wanted to watch such a video, but no one had made it. If Stormgate takes off and there's lots of other content creators making guides on co-op heroes, I may not have much reason to make my own. But if no one's making co-op overviews, then I'll certainly try and make more. 🙂 To be honest, I regret not making one for Maloc; because I assumed there was going to be bigger changes in between the Elephant and Frigate builds 😅

Consider giving it a go once it reaches 1.0 launch; that's when we'll see what the quality's really going to be. You do have to pay for missions, but if it works out to be similar to what you'd get paying for an expansion in SC2, I'd be okay with that :)

Thank you so much! I do plan on making non-Stormgate videos too; so I hope I'm not setting peoples' expectations too much 😅

Thank you! I don't intend to be a Stormgate-only channel, but I'll make videos about it for as long as it interests me; which will hopefully be a long time! 😄

Yes! I think there will certainly be more to Amara than just her military role. What is her personality? What are her interests outside of killing Infernals? I think that's where we'll see the info from the novella come in. :)

Yes! He voices 'Maloc', the first Infernal co-op commander we have. I have a video with all his current voicelines too :)

@@JustABaleenWhale I'm stoked, I love Metzens artwork. I used to read and reread the instruction book for Warcraft II, which had fantastic art by Metzen on every page.

@@eggnog52 Same for me, but with the SC manual ;P

Thank you! Stormgate certainly has a lot of challenges to face, such as being a new IP and not being able to rely on Starcraft's brand recognition to attract players. But the team is very talented, and if anyone's going to pull off this vision of a social RTS, it's probably Frost Giant :P

Thank you! Yeah, I'm interested in Battle Aces, but I'm also busy for the immediate future! (Also, I'm going to be playing Final Fantasy 14 - Dawntrail haha). I will probably check out Battle Aces if there's an open beta at a later date! I like what Battle Aces is doing, but I'm not sure if I'll make videos on it though; since my main interest is campaign and co-op. :)

I personally like the art; but we'll see how it goes! Some units are still not finalised, and I think by the time we reach the full 1.0 launch, it might look more to your liking. :)

@@JustABaleenWhale Im qiute sure that it will not happen. I'm still loking for the game and I'll give it a chance, but I see so many mistakes starting with the art (and lets be honest you personaly like art, me personaly font, but in fact majority of the rts community don't like it so much that even Frostgiant has to make a statement about it), really strange balance and really stupid decision to make almost a clone of SC 2 (i mean really, they said that it will be somethnig between SC2 and WC3, but the game has NOTHING from WC 3, evene creepcamps now is a total joke that can be cleared by ONE lancer!!!).

@@назарбезносик Yes, give it a chance I'd say. :) A lot of things can seem like a big deal, but are actually a vocal minority. For example, there was a recent poll which included the art (rating it from 1 to 10), and the most-voted for result was actually '8'; showing that most players actually liked the art. They also said creep camps are being changed to be harder to take, but more rewarding. We'll see how it turns out!

​@@JustABaleenWhalereally 8? How big was the group??

Thank you! :) Yeah, something definitely gets a little lost in translation between the concept art and the appearance in-game. That said, I think they still look good in-game, with some touchups for readability :)

Thank you for watching! :)

Thank you for the vote of confidence! :)

because the video is really good and was made with passion and attention to details, but the game just lost it's hype train and lost it fully. No stormgate video in intire youtube has more than 35k views. Just too many player (especially from Warcraft 3 community) lost their interest.

@@назарбезносик Thank you! I'm glad you appreciated the video! I do think hype around Stormgate is not super-high right now, but I think that's okay. Hades and Baldur's Gate 3 were both games which didn't have a ton of hype during Early Access, but really exploded with their 1.0 launches. So if all goes well, Stormgate will follow a similar pattern. :)

@@JustABaleenWhale oh no, thank you for your time that you're giving to rts. We have a bad -bad times in rts so it is cool that the guys like you are spending your time on such a niche genre. By the way I'm almost sure that SG will fail expectations. Yes, we have examples of Hades and Baldur's Gate 3, but those are exceptions, we have hundreds of early acces games that died from the very start. Rts comunity is small and not forgiving if the game will not rocket jump at the start it will be dead and COH 3 shown that preaty cleary. Yes, coh 3 now is a good game, but It still has less players than coh 2.

@@назарбезносик Heh, well, even though my videos are about RTSs right now, I do have other interests! You will probably see other topics on my channel eventually, :) As for Stormgate, I don't think it'll be as big as Hades or Baldur's Gate 3, but it doesn't need to be. As long as the game is profitable enough to keep funding development, I'll be happy. ;P

Thank you! I hope to make more videos too; they just take so darn long to make 😵. I want to play games in my free time too haha 😭

Thank you so much! 🙏 I'm really happy to hear that I could provide some new info even to someone as familiar with Stormgate news as you!

Thank you; that means a lot to hear! 🙂

No worries! Darn, maybe I should have made a video on co-op changes in Frigate. There was one 'full' new map added, Abyssal Gates, which plays a bit like Scythe of Amon from SC2 coop. And 'Turf War', which was in a very early stage of production, but had a lot of promise because it was so different from any of SC2 coop's missions. It was like a MOBA map with three lanes and constant attacks from enemy heroes.

Haha, it's good to hear it wasn't just me who interpreted Galt's portrait that way 😜

I hope the game does well; because as they've shown with the AoE2 and AoE3 definitive editions, they're happy to add new factions if there's a sufficiently large customer base! :)