Preparation for Ranked Lobbies? I found something interesting in the game files

I was working on my mod when I had an Error, that the data mod could not be loaded. I ignored it only to think about it again later, I wanted to know the complete Error message and where it's stored.

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Just out of fun I wanted to know if that Error message is located in the Game File, where every String, every Sentence, every Unit name is stored.

This file (everyone has) should be in this path:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\AoE2DE\resources\en\strings\key-value\key-value-strings-utf8.txt

So the only thing I was able to recall from the error was "Data Mod"

So i hit CTRL+F and searched for it, and look what I found instead:

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https://preview.redd.it/cddzjinwpgu71.png?width=1271&format=png&auto=webp&s=8e668af98945cb70a86ac95ad7582a91e0448443

I have no clue when this was added, but given how this is one of the last strings before other sections, i would suggest that this was added recently

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So i was fully convinced I found something huge, which will be in the next update, so i searched for "Unranked", and found pretty... convincing, sentences that support my thoughts:

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Line 15003: Save and Exit hint, Finally!

It seems like we will have 3 different Ladders

So I kept on Digging

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Well hope this has a time limit

and continued...

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https://preview.redd.it/u0gqriqeqgu71.png?width=1516&format=png&auto=webp&s=495447665a9fddd44ffa0e9f11e2c6b017845ac0

So this is interesting "New DLC4 Strings"... hmmm

When we had "The Last Khans" on DE launch,

and the second was Lord of the West

and the third being... Dawn of the Dukes

Anyway I found some other strings which I haven't seen yet (at least they don't show up when applying current filters in the unranked lobby) - Filters, which we currently don't have

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https://preview.redd.it/td232itergu71.png?width=1097&format=png&auto=webp&s=1f126566ffbf7eacc3c3d5e00f2d36f54646040f

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https://preview.redd.it/82824nchrgu71.png?width=957&format=png&auto=webp&s=d84736d88c17d5def79a3a9765469a10aafe2b1c

And what is this? Friend/Player status? This isn't a Steam thing right?

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https://preview.redd.it/l887s5zfugu71.png?width=1097&format=png&auto=webp&s=485264a0c363671e96829a64214f73b2b94559db

https://preview.redd.it/ieoqq05pugu71.png?width=991&format=png&auto=webp&s=064921786f4aa93f1210432c6b2ca658358d253e

I also found some other stuff that I don't know is new or not, at the line 20081 "Creating Lan Server". Overall I am not sure whether the last few screenshots are new - but you can always tell me in the comments + I personally haven't seen them yet

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Not sure if this is fake?

If you want to see it for yourself, open the .txt in the path I mentioned above and see if you can find some new stuff