Unwilling to take the bit any further, in case these two men think I am genuinely attempting to bully them into last-minute feature creep, I decide to drop the bee demands, but it turns out it’s got Isgreen going. “I mean, beehives wouldn't necessarily break our T for teen rating. “They threw rotten, diseased pig, corpses, the heads of enemies… there was some really awful stuff that could get thrown over the walls…” He pauses then, looking quizzical, and circles around to a new thought. “I mean, those trebuchets launched some nasty stuff,” interjects Isgreen, coming to his colleague’s rescue. I find this diagram of a trebuchet's key parts, from the AoE4 documentary, to be extremely satisfying. I want to put my enemies through Sting’s greatest hits, on the hour every hour, from a range of three hundred metres. I don’t want animations of bees I want bees. “In the future,” Duffy offers, in an attempt to placate me, “we'll, ah, we could add a cosmetic mod which makes the trebuchet firing animation show a nest of bees being fired…” It’s a spirited offer from the Relic Entertainment director, but it’s not enough. “Maybe we should have pulled some punches on the dialogue there, as it also talked about firing dead bodies, and I’m not sure that’ll work for a teen-rated game.” “I’ll be quite upset if there aren’t bees,” I add, just in case this was mistaken for a cheery nod to the trebuchet film, rather than a brutally serious question.
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