Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition – Update 169123

Welcome to a new update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, headlined by the Naval Overhaul, to refresh water combat, economy, and ship balance (including a new Hulk-line counter to Fire Ships). Several civilizations also gain access to Catapult Galleons, further shaking up late-game naval pressure and shoreline siege options. Multiplayer gets a quality-of-life boost with the new cross-platform Voice Chat feature in lobbies, plus added accessibility options like text-to-speech and speech-to-chat. Visually, the update rolls out new regional garrison flags and civilization-specific waypoint/gather point flags, alongside new Profile Icons for every civilization. It also features an Inca overhaul to align with the new DLCs South American civilization lineup, plus a refreshed Pachacuti campaign and a broad sweep of bug fixes and balance changes driven by player feedback.

While there are plenty of notable fixes and features to which to look forward in today’s build, here are some of the big highlights coming with this month’s update:

• Naval Gameplay Update

• New Voice Chat feature for Multiplayer lobbies

• New regional garrison flag graphics

• New civilization-specific flags for waypoints and gather points

• New Profile Icons for each civilization

• Pachacuti Campaign update

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

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◆ Update 169123 ◆

Game

Stability & Performance

• Fixed a crash happening upon pressing the Restart button on the ESC menu while watching a replay.

• Fixed a crash happening upon using Assisted Farm Placement (Shift+Left Click on gather points).

• Using object-data-attack-delay in AI scripts can no longer cause a crash.

• Added a fix to prevent a crash that would occur when a new game is started while missing a player.

• Fixed a crash that would occur when launching a game with an invalid player configuration.

• Fixed a rare out-of-sync issue that could occur when starting playing on certain maps.

Achievements

• Fixed the conditions preventing players from unlocking the “Tour d’ltalie” achievement.

Graphics

• Added new graphics for Javelina:

• Fixed an issue showing wrong farm texture on certain ground types.

• Fixed Elite Caravels graphics from not displaying some elements.

• Fixed Central Asian Monk death sprites not showing properly on certain angles.

• Fixed Owls displaying the Hawk sprite when flying.

• Fixed water textures visualization on larger map sizes.

• Fixed water textures visualization when certain light reflections happened on the shoreline.

• Fixed water 3D textures not being rendered properly in the editor when the 3D Water setting is enabled in the Graphics Options.

• Fixed the flag, fire, and snow graphics placement on the Spartan Fort.

Xbox

• Fixed a crash happening upon players trying to set Rally Points for buildings with the Site Menu for not available building types. This issue was happening in controller-only mode.

• Fixed the Accessibility Narrator not providing any information on the “Vote Results” tab under the Multiplayer Menu.

• Fixed input detection in the “Select Civilization” menus, preventing players from continuously scrolling through civilizations.

• Fixed villagers ignoring queued commands and going directly to the last waypoint/resource after force-dropping resources. The issue was happening in controller-only mode.

PlayStation

• Fixed the Accessibility Narrator not providing any information on the “Vote Results” tab under the Multiplayer Menu.

• Fixed input detection in the “Select Civilization” menus, preventing players from continuously scrolling through civilizations.

• Fixed some sections showing buttons from other systems instead of PlayStation ones.

• Fixed villagers ignoring queued commands and going directly to the last waypoint/resource after force-dropping resources. The issue was happening in controller-only mode.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

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This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence.

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Minor Update 169409

Fixed an issue that would cause The Last Chieftains's achievements to unlock prematurely upon launching the game. This may cause some previous content achievements to trigger prematurely if any The Last Chieftains's achievements were previously unlocked. Unfortunately, any achievements prematurely unlocked due to the previous issue will remain unlocked.

Minor Update 169652

• Fixed a crash some players were facing when launching the game on PC.

• Fixed an issue that would cause Voice Chat to default to On when launching.

• Fixed an issue with Civ Victory achievements for Chronicle civs not firing correctly.

The team is hard at work investigating other bugs and balance feedback so keep an eye out for a more comprehensive update soon.