Age of Mythology: Retold Update 18.65484

Expansion Pass and the Demeter God Pack DLC – Available Now!

You can pick up the Expansion Pass today to access the new Major Goddess, Demeter!

The Expansion Pass will bring additional new content over the coming months with the Ultimate Fan Pack, the Blood and Bones Pack, and the Obsidian Mirror DLC, which brings the Aztec Pantheon to Age of Mythology: Retold.

Demeter Major God

• A new Major God for Demeter that comes with the Wither God Power and new unique bonuses for those who choose to follow her.
• Includes three new Minor God choices: Pan, Hestia, and Persephone.
• Each Minor God comes with new God Powers, including: Arcadian Meadow, Communal Hearth, and Underworld Invasion.
• Each Minor God brings new Myth Units, including: Lykaon Villagers that turn into Lykaon Wolf units, Hamadryads that can shapeshift into trees, and Sirens who can lure their prey.
• All followers of Demeter also have access to the Harpy from the Fortress.
• New Heroes to lead the charge: Orpheus, Iolaus, Icarus, and Midas.
• New technologies to research and gameplay experiences to explore!

Brand New Mythical Battle: Silent Sanctuary

Silent Sanctuary is a new, fully voiced Mythical Battle that follows Chiron and Orpheus on a dangerous descent into Hades. Their goal is to recover Demeter’s sacred relics and restore balance to the suffering lands that worship her. The journey takes them through shifting terrain, ancient threats, and the heart of the underworld. 

With fresh god powers, unconventional myth units, and a story rooted in renewal and the cycle of life, the Demeter God Pack offers fertile ground for new strategies and new legends!

Check it out by navigating to the Campaign menu, then selecting Mythical Battles, and choosing the Silent Sanctuary entry from the list.

New Achievements with Demeter God Pack

There are 10 new achievements to earn! You can earn these achievements if you own the Demeter God Pack content by playing the new Mythical Battle and by playing as the new Demeter Major God.

Achievement	Icon	Description
The Secret Grove		Find the secret of the forest in the ‘Silent Sanctuary’ Mythical Battle.
Relic Racer		Get the Relic to Demeter’s Temple in 25 minutes in the ‘Silent Sanctuary’ Mythical Battle.
Bandit Buster		Rescue the occupied villages in the ‘Silent Sanctuary’ Mythical Battle.
Age of the Goat		In the ‘Silent Sanctuary’ Mythical Battle, gain 12 Herdables on a single age up.
Herding for Glory		Fill up a temple with the maximum number of Herdables.
Hearth and Home		Convert 50 units with the Communal Hearth.
Lupine Lethality		Kill 50 cavalry units with Lykaons.
Wither Wood Chipper		Destroy 100 trees with the Wither God Power.
Woodland Whammy		Hit 20 units at once with the Hamadryad’s ‘Piercing Rootsnare’ ability.
Battle Bard		Use Orpheus’ ‘Bard of Heroes’ ability to boost 10 units at once.

Gauntlet Mode Updates

New Bonus XP!!

A few players have already pushed Gauntlet to its limits, reaching level 99 to earn the achievement. Well done to these players! Leveling up will now be a bit easier to achieve across all difficulties. There are now a couple of ways to earn extra XP while playing the Gauntlet game mode. These changes flatten the requirements so that all difficulties are a little more achievable for leveling up to unlock the Favor Stash rewards and working toward earning the level 99 achievement.

Demeter Joins the Gauntlet

You can now find nodes scattered in some of your Labyrinths with the new Major God Demeter. Similar to other Major Gods, you may find situations where you will be playing with or against the new Major God. Labyrinths do not retroactively update. If you have an in-progress Labyrinth run, then you will not see any of these new Nodes until you begin your next run.

In addition to joining the Gauntlet, Demeter’s unique myth units are now possible rewards when purchasing the “Hire a Buddy” Favor Stash Item. You may also see them appearing during the “Enemy Incursion” Chaos Event!

Other Gauntlet Bug Fixes and Updates

• Fixed a bug that caused the “you have already earned this reward” pop-up to show in unintended situations. The pop-up will no longer show after you successfully complete a Labyrinth Run and return to the Labyrinth UI.
• Fixed a bug that caused increases to the total count of Labyrinths completed every time the game was launched under some specific conditions. You may see your Labyrinths’ completed stat update after you launch with this new update to show a fixed value if your stats were affected.
• Updated the wording of Badge Challenges for Gauntlet to clarify that the Blessing quantity that must be active or inactive only includes those chosen before the match begins. Blessings granted in the form of your single selected Legend and any granted through the Player Blessing mechanic are ignored by these challenges.
• Fixed bugs that prevented completion of the God and Demigod badges unless they were completed during a single gameplay session. The stats were not saving correctly and would reset back to only one of the successful completions as credit after each game restart. You can now complete these challenges to earn the badges over multiple gameplay sessions.
• King Halogi and Nuchou now benefit from Apollo’s Sun Ray technology. This change brings these Legends in line with Setna and Reginleif.
• King Halogi, Circe, and Theris now use the hero minimap icon to match other Legends.
• Opening the leaderboards for Gauntlet will now default to the difficulty you are currently playing to show the most relevant results.
• Updated the description for Conqueror of Olympus to indicate it only counts base-game gods. This change is to make it clear that Demeter is not included among the challenge requirements.
• Fixed a bug that could result in Chaos or Blessing Events occurring unintentionally while playing Campaign missions.

Stability & Performance

• Minor performance improvements in multiple areas of the game, including:
  • Performance improvements while using the controller UI when many units are selected.
  • Performance improvements for autosaving. The game will now spend a little less time suspended while saving, so that your experience of gameplay is less interrupted.
• Improved stability by fixing various rare crashes, including:
  • Fixed a crash that could occur if a tree is removed from the game while the Typhoon power is active.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur if the game summary screen was opened and there were no event timers currently active.
  • Fixed a case where viewing information about civilizations could fail and cause a crash.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur when using the trigger function “trUnitAddModifier” if the unit could not have AI added for any reason.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur sometimes when a peer is denied from joining a match.
  • Fixed a couple of crashes that could occur when units entered an attacking state under rare conditions.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur while updating unit death tracking.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur while rendering models in some situations.
  • Fixed a crash that could occur while using specific keyboard or mouse inputs while loading into the game at a very specific time.
• Fixed a few out-of-sync situations that could occur during gameplay and replays, including:
  • Fixed multiple out-of-syncs that could occur while watching replays when a player resigns during the match.
  • Fixed an out-of-sync that could occur while watching replays due to an incorrect sync point related to stun duration.
  • Fixed an out-of-sync issue that could occur due to differences when sorting data for pathfinding. This issue was the one that caused the most replays to go out of sync during the past couple of patches.
• Fixed save serialization for some actions, including the unit flee action, the unit area mutate action, and the unit like bonus modify action.
• Fixed a memory leak that could occur when duplicate sound types play for a single unit in some situations.

Localization

• Updates to some translations to improve translation quality.

Graphics

• Fixed the positioning of Qi Lin’s eye VFX while they are in their upgraded form.
• Updated the panning follow unit camera to use the interpolated unit position instead of the raw unit position. This change ensures the camera will follow targets more smoothly while focusing on a unit.
• Units duplicated due to Fog of War now copy clay, sand, and cocoon shader states.
• Tents in Sudden Death will now correctly display the Chinese and Japanese Pantheons’ thematic versions instead of the Greek default version.
• Fixed the perspective camera for the Egyptian Caravan, Magumo, and Harpy SPC. You can now take on the perspectives of these units and survey the battlefield from their point of view without viewing from strange angles or rotations.
• Reduced texture size for some units to improve memory usage and bring them to a similar state as other units. Units include: Greek Villagers, Pirate Cyclops, Amaterasu’s Wonder, and Odin’s Wonder.
• Fixed some particle effects playing incorrectly after loading into saved games due to an animation timing issue.
• Minor updates to birth VFX in various models to allow the VFX to be hidden when units spawn when casting Underworld Invasion.
• Playing a camera track will more consistently kick players out of the perspective and follow camera modes if they were requested by the player to ensure cinematics play correctly.

Audio

• Many minor improvements to continue improving audio quality.
• Minor improvements to improve the differences between fading out and stopping audio.
• Minor adjustments to improve the categorization of sound effects to improve control of volume and muting.
• Objective sounds now play in the alerts category.
• Improvements to end speech synthesis faster for the Narrator when the setting is disabled on PC and Xbox.
• Improved narration in some areas of the UI.
• Narration is now stopped when using the preview text-to-speech button in the settings menu.
• A warning will now display when the preview button does not work for text-to-speech, explaining how to use it.
• Amplified the other player’s Age Up sound to make it harder to miss when your opponents have progressed.
• Fixed a missing lightning sound effect in Fall of the Trident 01.

Hotkeys

• Sorting of commands in the command panel is now consistent when selecting the same set of multiple buildings. This helps to ensure hotkeys and the order of buttons are consistent.

UI

• Fixed some situations where mods with HTML tags in their descriptions could display incorrectly while using the in-game mod browser. HTML tags are now removed more efficiently while parsing descriptions.
• Improved handling of UTF-16 strings when rendering to the UI.
• Fixed formatting of some strings to improve the tooltips and history for units.
• The Mythical Battles area of the campaign UI is now accessible and will show lock icons for individual missions that are not currently owned.
• The Daily Celestial Challenge pop-up for completing the previous day’s challenge will now appear only once per daily reward, instead of every time the game is launched.
• Fixed some cases where toggling the setting that controls visibility of the camera controls would not correctly update the UI.
• You can now use a View Profile button in the Add Friend pop-up.
• Fixed a bug that caused situations where changing a Major God choice at the last moment during Automatch games could result in the choice not locking in correctly for the match.
• Story Mode will now show a bronze medal icon for completion.
• The Multiplayer Hosting dialog will now remember your previously selected Custom Scenario or Saved Game.

Controller

• Fixed a bug that caused building tasks to cancel when issued repeatedly with some combinations of units while using a controller.
• Updated Market Buy and Sell Icons for the Market while playing with a controller to improve the experience when viewed from the Radial Menu UI.

Fixes

• Fixed cases where Scouts would sometimes become idle after encountering non-walkable areas on the map.
• Transport ships can no longer be tasked to unload over deep/non-shallow water to improve unloading behavior.
• Transport ships are now correctly filtered from the list of units tasks to perform boarding onto ships to improve their behaviors.
• Fixed some cases where units in box formation could move faster than their maximum speed.
• Fixed a bug that caused units to become stuck around uneven treelines.
• Japanese now correctly receive a free transport ship when playing on Vinlandsaga and Team Migration, matching other Pantheons.
• Fixed Oracle Hero to enable use of the Garrison, Stop, and Delete actions.
• Fixed a couple of logic bugs that could occur while finding units in an area of specific types. Some conditions could be incorrectly checked in some rare cases.
• Sentinel can now be cast on Village Center to match its tooltip.
• Fixed bugs where waypoint pathfinding for flying units could force them to navigate around walls instead of flying straight over them.
• Fixed a bug that caused Tsukuyomi and Amaterasu AI to always choose Okuninushi as a Minor God when aging up.
• Fixed a bug that allowed casting of powers within invalid locations with creative use of the camera and cursor placement. Powers that require a valid target are now more strict in their validation.
• Relics dropped by flying units will now teleport immediately to the ground at a pathable location.
• Fixed a bug that caused large units to struggle with movement in tight spaces. For example, War Elephants attacking a building in a tight gap against the edge of the map. Units will no longer move to the surround position if the unit is already within attack range.
• Fixed some cases where challenges for the Community Event, and other places where Challenges are used, could be completed over multiple matches when the challenges had a complete within time requirement.
• Fixed a bug that allowed the multicast hotkey to bypass some casting placement restrictions. The Umibozu will no longer terrorize those on land with sudden appearances.

General

• Signal Fires: LOS increased from 6 → 7.
• Carrier Pigeons: LOS increased from 6 → 7.
• Slightly Reduced Villager Train Times Based on Community Feedback:
  • Villager train time reduced 18 → 17.
  • Laborer train time reduced 18 → 17.
  • Gatherer train time reduced 18 → 17.
  • Dwarf train time reduced 18 → 17.
  • Citizen train time reduced 30 → 28.
  • Peasant train time reduced 18 → 17.
  • Kuafu train time reduced 45 → 42.
  • Commoner train time reduced 18 → 17.

                      Greek Pantheon

Minor Gods

Hephaestus

• Plenty Vault (God Power): resource per second reduced from 4 → 3.5.

                       Egyptian Pantheon

Other Units

• Champion War Elephants (Technology): now also gives +0.75 damage area to War Elephants.

                    Atlantean Pantheon

Major Gods

Kronos

• Timeshift duration of Temples increased from 20 seconds → 40 seconds.

                Chinese Pantheon

Heroes

• Li Jing (Nuwa): Can no longer stun titans with the Pagoda special attack.

Human Units

• Master of Weaponry (Technology): adjusted as follows
  • Ge Halberdier no longer slows enemy units.
  • Ge Halberdier’s attack speed increased by 10%.

                    Japanese Pantheon

• Amount of XP required per tier for Bushido changed as follows
  • Tier 1: starting tier unchanged.
  • Tier 2: 2000 → 2200.
  • Tier 3: 8000 → 8800.
  • Tier 4: 32000 → 35200.
  • Tier 5: 128000 → 140800.
  • Tier 6: 512000 → 422400.

Developer Note: Increasing the lower tiers should reduce the ease of reaching future line upgrades from prolonged engagements, but reducing the final tier should allow you to reach that a little sooner in the deep lategame.

Major Gods

Tsukuyomi

• New Moon (God Power): Can now only research up to 3 free technologies per cast, prioritizing the most expensive ones.

Minor Gods

Minakatatomi

• Shrine of the Hunt (God Power): can no longer be targeted by Deconstruction or Tartarian gate placement.
• Hunters Strength (Technology): Cost reduced from 175 wood 14 favor → 150 wood 12 favor.

Hachiman

• Ascetic Practices (Technology): Adjusted as follows
  • Damage increase on special attack reduced from +225% to +200%.
  • Armor vulnerability boost reduced from -49.5% to -45% from special attack.

Developer Note: These changes should make the tooltip a little easier to understand and slightly reduce the tech’s power, as it was providing more value than intended.

• Golden Kite (Technology): Bonus damage vs myth units on archers & heroes reduced from +25% → +20%.

Myth Units

• Kitsune: can now be targeted by the Shockwave god power.

Technologies

• Saltwater Spring: Huntable gather rate increased from 10% → 15%.

General

• Fixed a rare bug that could cause updates to happen incorrectly for linked triggers while making changes in the Editor.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Editor UI “noSpaces” property to prevent use of the “fieldAlphaOnly” property.
• Using the Play button for audio preview in the Editor now uses the interface sound category to ensure it plays.
• Fixed some minor errors in the modder documentation.
• Japanese Temples are now standardized to use AbstractTemple instead of Temple for consistency.
• Fixed a bug that could have caused God Powers using snapped placement to not preview accurately.
• Added new Triggers:
  • Counter: Resources Gathered In Total
  • “God Power: Lock in UI” and “God Power: Lock in UI for Player” will force the god power slot at the given position to appear locked/disabled.
    • Function: void trLockGodPower(int slotIdx, bool locked, int playerIdx): Force the god power slot at the given position to be locked/disabled. If playerIdx is -1, it will apply to all players.
  • bool trUnitMoveFromAreaToDirection(float x, float y, float z, int eventID, bool bAttackMove, int playerID, string unitType, float radius): Moves all matching units near the selected unit(s) towards the given direction.
• New ProtoUnit tag:
  • EnemyShortRolloverText to override the hover text shown when you are an enemy of the target unit. This is used by the Hamadryad to help disguise them as a tree.
• New ProtoUnit Commands feature:
  • ControllerIcon can now be used to provide a different icon for controller players. This is used to provide the alternate art for Market Icons.
• New ProtoUnit Flags:
  • “HasReflectAttack”
  • “BuildingCanDoWorkOnUnitIfCharged”
  • “UseChargeIfNotIdle”
  • “CanAutoTransform”
  • “UseChargeOnDamaged”
  • “CopyNearbyTree”
  • “WitherDoesDamage”
  • “NotObscuredByUnitsForOpponents”
  • “HideHPBarFromOpponents”
  • “HideMinimapIndicatorFromOpponents”
  • “CheckCreepOnPlacement”
  • “RequireExactRateMatch”
  • “NotPreferredMilitaryCommandingUnit”
  • “FakeAsTreeIfEnemy”
• New Entity Actions: Abduct, ConditionalTransformation, Siphon, Lure, ReflectAttack, and Inline.
• New Data Effects: ModifyDuration, DropoffHeal, TargetedSpeedMultiplier, ContainedHitpointBonus, ContainedHitpointBonusUnitType.
• New Power Types: Wither, UnderworldInvasion, ArcadianMeadow.
• New KB Function:
  • int kbGodPowerUnderworldInvasionGetEidolonAmount(): Returns the amount of Eidolons that will be spawned if you cast Underworld Invasion now.
• New Random Map Function:
  • void rmSetDefaultTreeType(int treeProtoID): Sets the default tree proto unit for the map.
    • This is used to determine the default tree type the Hamadryad will use if no tree is within range to copy.

Investigation

As always, we are continuing to track issues reported by the community for future updates.

For other known issues, please visit this page to see what’s being tracked!

Coming Up…

With today’s update, the Demeter God Pack arrives and marks the first chapter of the Expansion Pass – setting the stage for what’s ahead.

As many of you continue diving into the Japanese Pantheon, tackling the Gauntlet, and running the Labyrinth – your feedback has been invaluable. This patch reflects that collaboration, delivering balance adjustments, and improving stability and performance.

Thank you to every player spending time with Age of Mythology: Retold. Your passion, feedback, and ongoing support continues to shape the game in meaningful ways because your voice truly matters. We’re excited for you to reap the power of Demeter and stay tuned for more details and updates as we look ahead to the next release for the Expansion Pass and all the new experiences still to come.

DISCLAIMER

Please note that 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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