Ubi-Thorlof

Hey, as I wrote above, we're aware of the sentiment you (and others) shared, but due to the technical limitations, this is nothing that will be implemented for Anno 1800.

This little ad was produced for Season 4's third DLC (New World Rising), see the mentioning of Manola and electric scooters, back in 2022.

We (and Ubisoft as a whole) are focusing on the key languages which - from our experience and data - make up the majority of our player base and/or are relevant in specific regions (and unfortunately, Brazil is nowhere near the top 5, I'm not sure where you're taking your data from).

As fhackner3 said below, we have read the feedback regarding a PT-BR localization for future projects and will keep that in mind, but there are no plans to add more languages to Anno 1800.

Well, "next" project as in "the next one to release". So, yes, for us it's "current" and for all of you it's "next after Anno 1800" :P

The thing is: if we had done a Season 5 (design and technical considerations aside), any news on our next project would have been delayed even further.

Exciting news, let me tell the team.

Thank you, Pop317, those types of comments are always great to read for us and very touching. Knowing our game provided several hundred hours of fun to people is fantastic!

Those types of threads are my favourites

While more work, we generally favour handcrafted worlds since they allow us to create a more special set of islands and balance them more in-detail. It's not very likely that we would go for a procedurally generated approach instead.

There are definitely some technical and design limitations to consider, but we also wanted to move on to a new project, yeah - and full development on a new game and large DLC for the previous game at the same time is out of scope for a team our size.

Didn't watch the whole stream but was very impressed by the mod already. Big fan of changing things up from how people play 1800 for years now - both with the seasons mechanic as well as all the rebalancing.

This mod might actually make me start a new game eventually, when it releases. Maybe even with another dedicated modding livestream from Mainz? We shall see.

Great stuff, my compliments to Taubenangriff and everyone else who worked on "New Horizons"

Heya!

Interesting topic, and with the amount of time spent looking at islands, I totally understand having even more variety available.

As some others have mentioned, there are existing modding projects (e.g. by Taludas) to reskin islands for another biome.

From our side, however, there won't be any new island models for Anno 1800. The process for creating an island takes a while and involves multiple departments, it's definitely only higher effort side of things. Plus, going by the comments, one or two islands likely wouldn't quite cut it (and islands would not classify as "cosmetic" content, they are one of the key gameplay elements of Anno).

Far more importantly, however, is, that we are at this point investing our development resources into our next project. That is our top priority.

So, I'll have to shatter any dreams of a map pack DLC, I'm afraid.

As fhackner3 said, that's up to the creators. We are planning to update the blog post with links to the mods, however, as soon as the modders have uploaded them.

Since this thread is still pinned, I'm just gonna go ahead and say: We've just announced the five winning entries: https://anno-union.com/modding-contest-winners/

Thank you for everyone who participated in the contest, and congratulations to the winners! We had a lot of fun checking the submissions.

I'm afraid we're not going to do any more gameplay content for Anno 1800, that includes quest chains and new monuments, like those two castles.

They did state this, indeed. And it's still true: only the three Cosmetic DLC next year, no gameplay content.

But it had more ornamental items than the Old Town CDLC (and a skin for Hospital + Pub). Skins for all residence types with each themed CDLC would unfortunately be out of scope - we would need to not only increase development time, but accordingly also the price to reflect that.

The only time we did skins for all population tiers was the "Vibrant Cities" Pack which was, to be honest, in terms of content far larger than the other CDLC - and also only included skins, no ornaments.

As others have already mentioned, the Switch is, unfortunately, underpowered to run Anno 1800. One key issue here is the RAM, which the Switch only has 4GB of, while the minimum requirements for the standard PC version already ask for 8GB.

So, we're not planning to release 1800 on the Switch, no.