While we saw two new civilizations in the E3 trailer - Abbasid Dynasty and French - we received more information during this extended segment. In an extended Xbox Showcase segment, Adam Isgreen and Emma Bridle of World's Edge revealed further details about the game you can check out the video above for the full seven-minute segment. Still no word on recommended specs, but no doubt the game will only look better as you scale up hardware.
An Intel Core i5-6300U CPU, 8GB of RAM, and Intel HD 520 integrated graphics are listed. Perhaps more exciting and relevant for a lot of PC gamers is a list of Age of Empires 4 minimum system requirements on the game's Steam product page. It was also revealed that mod support is expected 'early 2022.' This firmed up plans to release the game 'Fall 2021,' which was previously the closest time frame we knew about. It was revealed at E3 2021 that Age of Empires 4 is expected to release Oct. On Opening Night Live at Gamescom 2021 we were also treated to some new gameplay and a reveal of the final two civilizations expected at launch: Rus and Holy Roman Empire. You can take a look at the segment about trebuchets (embedded above) yourself expect plenty more videos in the game, including those about castle building, falconing, horse taming, and even Mongolian instrumentation. Isgreen mentioned that including this type of content in the game has been 'insanely nerve-wracking,' though reception has been positive so far.
