​Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition – Update 177723     ​

Welcome to a new update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition! With today’s Update we’re delivering a rather massive list of bug fixes, changes, and new features to help keep your experience vibrant! This patch delivers a set of stability improvements and bug fixes, addressing crashes, performance issues, and inconsistencies across both PC and consoles.Gameplay has been refined with fixes to unit behavior, technologies, and civilization bonuses to ensure mechanics work as intended. Pathfinding and economic interactions, such as Mule Cart positioning, have also been improved for smoother play.Bugfixing pass for UI, audio, and multiplayer systems, chat, lobbies, civilization selection, and Bluetooth audio quality. Smaller AI behavior changes for campaigns and co-op missions have also been implemented for better reliability.Additional balance changes adjust unit costs, training times, and civilization bonuses to support a more consistent gameplay experience.Be sure to dig down into the post below to get all of the smaller details before hopping in-game and checking them out firsthand. Enjoy the update!Developer Note: We did want to follow up on information we shared in previous patch notes, however, and talk a bit more about Console bugs and the problems some of you have been having with your experience.We’ve seen that you’ve been scanning PUP information and looking for specifics around some of the problems you’ve been reporting to us, such as crashes, invisible units, and general instability of various kinds as you get further into Console matches. There aren’t bullets highlighting those specific issues because their shared root cause has been less of a bug fix and more of a significant engineering refactor of a few things under the hood, but we’re happy to say that today’s Update should resolve many of these problems for you! We’ll be monitoring your feedback and looking for anything we need to continue to work on as it comes up. This particular set of problems has been a tricky one for us, as there hasn’t been any kind of quick fix we could make happen, but much heavier low-level engineering work that wound up being needed to address some of the problems you’ve been reporting. This has taken us some time and we know that’s been frustrating for many, and we appreciate both your patience as well as your continued support! As we mentioned in our previous patch notes, we’ve got an increased focus on Console going into the next year and more work we intend to do to further uplift your experience, so this really just kicks off that focus and we’ll be back with an increased set of Console-specific bug fixes and attention in future Updates.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!💬 DISCUSS: Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition Forum🗣 JOIN: The Age of Empires Official DiscordThank you again to our amazin