Hello explorers! Welcome to the first of many updates coming to 2021 and to Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition!
Today’s update brings new quality-of-life features, stability improvements, balance updates, and bug fixes to the game as we continue our work on larger projects and features for future releases. Here’s a brief look at what’s coming today:
- New Starting Resources and Ending Age settings for your custom matches!
- Updated post-match screen to quickly review the map or progress to the match stats!
- Several out-of-sync error fixes, performance improvements, and crash fixes!
- The Spanish Home City now displays the correct banners on the Cathedral (a popular community ask)
- The leaderboard now expands to more than 200 entries for, you know, the rest of us!
- Fixed the display of Chinese characters when paired with numbers
- Several exploit fixes, including one for the newly-employed “Dop-Box”
- Fixed an issue which would cause the Asian Dynasties Acts I and II to reset when playing Act III
- Torps! A first look at bringing them into line with the rest of the game
- Improvements to Extensive Fortifications and access for EVERYONE!
- Numerous AI improvements in order to give them a better chance against your military genius
- …and more!
As always, our priorities are largely based (and shift up and down depending) on YOUR feedback (I can’t bold and underline it enough). Much of this month’s changelog comes straight from discussion threads, bug reports, or Customer Support tickets we received over the last month.
So, whether you see something you like or a new thing you…less-than-like—or perhaps something we haven’t been able to include yet—now is the time to get involved; we want to hear from you, and the best place to do so is on our official channels:
A final note:
With our *amazing* support team on standby to help you with answers to all of your Age of Empires questions, we want to encourage anyone experiencing technical issues to reach out to them directly for assistance! Whether you’re experiencing crashes, disconnects, drops, performance problems, or other technical issues which affect your experience, our support agents can work with you to troubleshoot the problem or inform our team if something foul is afoot. We want to see you online and enjoying the game, and will do everything we can to make that the case!
We’ll see you back here next month! For now, enjoy the January update and everything it brings to Age III: DE!
—The Age of Empires Team
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Please note that custom mods may not be compatible with the latest game update. If you are experiencing issues launching or playing the game after downloading the new build, try disabling your installed mods before trying again.
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