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Sometimes timing is everything. A good week before the release of The Settlers: New Alliances, its former chief developer – the settlers inventor Volker Wertich – is stepping back into the spotlight to announce his new game.
It should be called Pioneers of Pagonia and become exactly the settlers that Ubisoft can no longer or doesn’t want to do. In the podcast, an increasingly pleased Maurice and our settler correspondent Fabiano talk to Volker Wertich about his plans.
He sums up his goal with Pioneers of Pagonia quite immodestly:
The ultimate self-explanatory simulation of building, economics and exploration in a fairytale, playful, medieval world.
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What Volker Wertich then reports really sounds like coming home: Pioneers of Pagonia is reminiscent of a new The Settlers 2, larger and more modern. The forester, who was initially deleted from the Ubisoft offshoot, has also been there from the start.
In doing so, Wertich and his team focus on one of the core strengths of the Settlers series: the aquarium effect. Because nothing is more fun than watching other people at work, we aim to make the world of Pioneers of Pagonia welcoming and detailed.
This not only has advantages in terms of liveliness, but also increases accessibility (keyword »self-explanatory«): All goods cycles and transports are displayed visually in Pioneers of Pagonia and are therefore more comprehensible than in a pure menu game.
Wertich sums it up as the »ultimate bustling world experience«, in Pioneers of Pagonia thousands of characters are supposed to move across the map and go about their daily business. Quasi a The Settlers of the Next Generation.
There should also be a co-op mode, Wertich and his team want to streamline the military part. You can hear exactly what that means and what else awaits you in Pioneers of Pagonia in the podcast – and of course you can read it in Fabiano’s preview:
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Pioneers of Pagonia has everything the new settler lacks: real construction, complexity and the settler inventor
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