Age of Mythology: Retold – Update 19.16313

Hello Heroes! Welcome to another exciting update for Age of Mythology: Retold! This patch introduces new launch loading screens, new cheat codes, VO for Greek localization, more stability and gameplay bug fixes, along with another round of impactful balance changes and more modding updates. Take a look at the full list of changes below and then dive into the game to experience them firsthand!

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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—The Age of Mythology Team

◆Update 19.16313◆

Game Launch Loading Screens

Each time you launch the game, you will now see a different image during each launch. Each launch will show one of the following images: the base game background, the Immortal Pillars background, the Heavenly Spear background, the Triptych combining all three, and the Obsidian Mirror background. You can see all of these images below, including the previously unseen official full version of the Triptych!

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New Cheat Codes

This patch brings 10 new cheat codes to try out! The new cheat codes mostly require owning the Obsidian Mirror DLC, one cheat requires owning the Premium Edition with the Freyr God Pack, and two cheats require owning the New Gods Pack: Demeter DLC.

The original release of the previous patch notes contained a typo in one of the cheat codes, which should have read “FALKOR” with a “K”. If you missed trying out this cheat during the last update, now is a great time to try that out too!

New Greek Language Audio

Spoken Greek language audio is now available! Players who want to use Greek as their preferred language for the campaigns can now experience playing through in their preferred language!

Now is a great time to jump in and try out the campaign if you want to experience the gameplay and cutscenes with this new localized audio!

Lobby UI Updates

The Lobby Settings have gradually grown since the initial Age of Mythology: Retold launch, and they were starting to become a little overcrowded. This patch brings a new Lobby Setting to add World Twists to Singleplayer and Multiplayer! To make room for this setting and any future settings, you will now find settings split between two pages instead of crowding them all onto one tab.

Examples of the Tabs You can swap between these tabs by clicking the pips at the bottom, the arrows that appear next to them, or by using the binding shown at the bottom of the screen for your other control input mode.

World Twist Setting

The new World Twist setting brings another feature that has been available since Arena of the Gods launched, in related game modes. This change allows you to bring most of the World Twists into your Singleplayer and Multiplayer matches to provide another way to change how games feel! The World Twists available include all those that you are used to seeing if you have played the modes where they have been available. Hovering over the World Twists Lobby Setting will explain a couple of special cases, and if you want to see the description of the World Twists, those can be read by using the “i” button next to the dropdown. That will show you this tooltip:

Some additional notes on World Twists:

• The default is still no World Twists.

• You can choose to randomize between 1 and 3 World Twists, or you can select one specific World Twist.

• Celestial Remnants is only available as an option and a randomly selected World Twist while playing Singleplayer. This is because the World Twist will only work correctly in its current form with only 1 or 2 human players on the same team.

• Prometheus’s Secret Knowledge will not be randomly selected if you have “Allow Titans” disabled. However, Titans will be enabled if you manually select this as a specific World Twist to apply.

• Some World Twists may not function correctly on all maps.

• Celestial Remnants will not be selected randomly on Nomad, Team Migration, and Vinlandsaga, as it may not place units correctly on these maps. You can still manually select this blessing on these maps.

Gauntlet XP Change

Gauntlet XP gains were a little low for players who were not playing on Legendary, so we have increased the XP gain on lower difficulties. Gaining higher XP is still intended to incentivize learning to play greater difficulties for more reward while playing through Gauntlet Labyrinths. The base multiplier applied to each difficulty has been adjusted as follows.

• Standard increased 1x → 2x.

• Moderate increased 1.5x → 3x.

• Hard increased 2x → 4x.

• Titan increased 3x → 5x.

• Extreme increased 5x → 6x.

• Legendary remains unchanged as an 8x XP multiplier.

These changes only apply to the multiplier for the per-node XP gain and don’t modify any additional bonus sources, such as the large XP bonus for completing Labyrinths with all end-of-Labyrinth rewards already obtained.

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!

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER

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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