Saracen faction | Forums

[Fluffydonkeys]

It's probably waaayyy too big a task to still add a fourth faction, but...

Aside from vikings, knights and samurai I think a Saracen faction would be super cool. Saracens are basically medieval arabian soldiers/knights that for instance were the guys the crusaders fought against. One of their most famed commanders was Saladin.

You could have assassins (the word assassin was derived from these guys), swordsmen, archers and such.

[WYRDB0Y]

I support this, been saying this myself here before. They are probably not going to add it now, but if there was a 4th faction as DLC or whatever, I think this would fit the best; Being well known from the crusades period and having the same level of technology these other factions have makes them fit well in the game.

[MisterWillow]

Just going to copy/paste what I said over HERE and will probably do so from now on if new threads pop up, since it expresses my thoughts the most succinctly and has links to more detailed arguments, and it's easier than typing everything all over again (unless an actual new argument is presented).

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More warrior from more cultures sounds awesome, although personally I'd prefer if they didn't add them as new factions for a couple of reasons.

1. As of right now you're only able to play as one faction per team. That is, you can't have two chosen and two legionnaires. That means that if we have 5+ factions the playerbase will be really divided and there'll be a high risk of friends not being able to play with each other using their favorite characters.

2. Since each faction need to have enough characters and diveristy to account for a four man team, that means each faction will take considerably more development time to bring to us, not to mention lots of cool historical warriors who only uses a few iconic weapons will have a hard time making it into the game since there isn't enough diversity to justify an entire faction.

I'd much prefer if new warriors either are "stand-alone" and able to chose a faction to join (i.e. available for all factions), or tacked onto an existing faction, mercenary style.

All of this expresses my thoughts, but that bolded bit is the biggest reason I don't think it's really a good idea to make entirely new factions. The proposal to have new warriors added to existing factions is something I brought up over HERE, and I think that would be the best option for adding cultures; and if not as mercenaries, then as the result of alliances, even if they're shaky.

Native Americans

This would be the major exception. I think anything dealing with indigenous American cultures would work better as a standalone and completely separate expansion---similar to Battlefield Bad Company 2's Vietnam expansion---both because, from a realism standpoint, there's no way warriors wearing, at most, wooden breastplates and animal hides would be able to stand toe-to-toe with one in full plate, and, because you could get really in depth with the cultures---Maya, Aztec, Sioux, Apache, Blackfoot, etc. etc. (probably combining some, through an alliance system, or grouping them via geography [plains, plateau, jungle])---and avoid the vague stereotypes we usually get in media.

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There was also this thread made a while ago asking for Arabic warriors. Still think they should add a Hero/class (or two) to the Legion.

[Fluffydonkeys]

Just going to copy/paste what I said over HERE and will probably do so from now on if new threads pop up.

I'll leave that to the developers to decide. If the community in general expresses a desire for saracens or another faction, then at least it should be looked at.