Relic planning Company of Heroes 3 DLC for 2023

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Upcoming strategy game Company of Heroes 3 is releasing in November, so of course now is the perfect time to talk about Company of Heroes 3 DLC and post-launch content. As part of the latest announcement, Relic revealed that anyone who pre-orders the WW2 game can get the Devil’s Brigade pack, which will feature new cosmetic skins based on the “first elite commando units” of the conflict.

Both the digital and physical premium editions also grant access to the game’s first expansion, which is due out sometime in 2023. But while lead campaign designer Sacha Narrine had plenty to say on the subject of DLC, he wasn’t drawn into giving specifics on what to expect.

“Things have changed,” Narrine explains. “We can still do expansions like [Tales of Valor and Opposing Fronts], but there are different expectations from players. They don’t want to wait nine months or a year for a significant expansion. They want to see more, they want to see things more frequently.”

“We have different audiences to cater to now,” Narrine says. “Are we trying to deliver something for the PvP hardcore [players], or the campaign-focused players? I look at the expansion model as something that’s not gone, but it has changed. We have to be very aware of what we’re building. And that we’re building the right thing, because we’re not building in isolation anymore. That’s really essential for developing expansions, because they’re big, and they’re expensive.”

Narrine mentions Tales of Valor as something Relic looks to as a key lesson for post-release support. “There were some really interesting design lessons from that project, it had these three smaller campaigns that were supplemented by modes,” he explains.

One mode is called Assault, which Narrine says