Age of Mythology: Retold – 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!

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.

Stability & Performance

• Minor general improvements to stability.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during pathfinding.
• Frame Throttling will no longer go above the Frame Rate Limit while the game window is out of focus.
• Improved performance while processing some systems related to the Devotion mechanic.
• Improved performance of unit type lookups during many frequently called functions.
• Improved stability of some unit type lookups that could become incorrect in some modding situations.
• Minor improvement to performance through the removal of deprecated audio code.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when reading encrypted profile data with corrupted file contents.
• Improved performance while starting matches on some Giant-sized maps (such as Temple of the Jaguar Moon).
• Deprecated loading of an old match history file that was not used for Age of Mythology: Retold, as it would sometimes cause crashes if the file became corrupted.
• Fixed some situations that could cause crashes while playing with modded Civilizations or when trying to load files that depend on Civilizations that are no longer loaded.

Developer Note: You may experience crashes or instability in some situations when using Civilization or Major God Mods. In particular, situations where scenarios or saved games are created with mods enabled. Currently, loading scenarios and saved games that had Civilization Mods enabled requires enabling the mods before loading to ensure stability. Please report instability bugs on the official forums.

Localization

• Updates to some translations to improve translation quality.
• Fixed the Chu Ko Nu’s Medium, Heavy, and Champion names in Spanish.

Graphics

• The Inferno God Power will no longer apply a burn shader effect to Eidolon units. This change fixes Eidolon units losing their unique visual appearance when the burn is applied.
• Agave Bloom VFX now changes depending on the remaining resource amount.
• Adjusted the windup animation to be 0.5 seconds long for the Ayotochtli unit’s Wreckling Ball animation to fix stuttering at the beginning and end of the animation.
• Fixed an inconsistency in which some animals had Minimap Colors forced to show as Brown. This was preventing players from modifying the color they appear in when using the Color Blind accessibility settings. Changes were applied to these animals: Black Bear, Golden Pheasant, Red Crowned Crane, Spotted Deer, Deer Shrine Of The Hunt, Green Pheasant, and Spotted Deer SPC.
• Fixed the 66% to 99% stage of the Aztec Temple’s construction to show the Major God Statue scaffolding in the correct position.
• Fixed Perspective Camera orientation for the following units:
  • Arrow Canoe – all versions.
  • Camel Rider – all versions.
  • Jormun Elver
  • Mercenary Cavalry
  • Sea Snake
  • Tepoztli Canoe – all versions.
  • Egyptian Titan
  • Aztec Transport Ship
  • War Elephant – all versions.
• Fixed some cases where walls or other unit types could pop in while the camera moves. This fixes cases where walls would sometimes pop in during cinematics. This issue would occur when units changed their visual size to become larger as a result of a technology upgrade (e.g., from a Wooden Wall to a fully upgraded Wall). Technology upgrades now force a visual bounding box recalculation to ensure visual culling is handled correctly for the object’s current sizes.

Audio

• Fixed multiple God Power sounds that would not play correctly if multiple of the same powers were active simultaneously. This issue occurred because the tracking used a common state for sounds managed by powers.
• The Turkey will no longer make Chicken noises when spawning or moving. Instead, it will play Turkey sounds.
• Dragon Typhoon’s SFX will now follow the visual to maintain consistent audio behavior and to prevent it from cutting out early.
• Fixes for God Power sounds to ensure they fade in and out correctly
  • Fixed Lightning Storm’s birth and existence sounds not fading in and out.
  • Fixed Thunder Burst’s birth and existence sounds not fading in and out.
  • Fixed Lullaby’s birth sound not fading in and out.
  • Fixed Tempest’s birth and existence sounds not fading in and out.
  • Fixed Rain’s birth and existence sounds not fading in and out.
  • Fixed Blazing Prairie’s birth sound not fading in and out.
  • Fixed Kusanagi’s birth sound not fading in and out.
• Spatializer (Attenuate) is now used for God Power birth events.
• Spatializer (Attenuate) is now used for SpiderLairAttack.
• Removed max instance limits on God Power birth and existence event sounds to ensure they play.
• Adjusted the Inferno God Power’s buildup sound to improve its behavior.
• Adjusted the speed of fading sounds.
• Adjusted the audible distance of all sound events to a baseline setting.
• Removed some duplicate and placeholder unused English VO files.
• Added a limit to the volume and audio instance count for the Agave Bloom existence sound.
• Adjusted some FMOD event structures to better align with the folder structures.
• Adjusted Titan Cerberus’s Bored Roar sound by -5 dB to ensure it isn’t significantly louder than other similar sounds.
• Adjusted Gain effects to ensure they function for sounds where they were not behaving correctly.
• Added a laugh to all non-English audio that was missing for one of Gargaresis’ lines in Fall of the Trident 09.
• Resampled some audio that was exceeding 48 kHz.

Hotkeys

• Towers selected with the Craft Workshop Calpulli or a Machine Workshop will no longer hide tower technologies. This applies to situations such as using the “Find All Towers” hotkey. Abstract Towers are now treated as a special case where the combined production menu mode should not apply.
• Fixed Hotkeys not working correctly when using multi-build for the Combined Train menus when bound to anything other than Shift.
• Fixed some inconsistent behavior of Combined Ability and Train Hotkeys when bound to anything other than Shift.
• When in Idol form, Chaneques are no longer selectable with Select Idle Military.
• Fixed a bug where using a Hotkey could activate multiple different actions in some situations. E.g., triggering auto-scout and building a sentry tower. The Warrior Priest now uses a different input context. The Warrior Priest now also activates both the MilitaryAccel and WarriorPriestAccel contexts to ensure access to available actions.

UI

• Custom scenario lobbies in single-player and multiplayer now allow you to modify player slots to switch their state between AI and player. This change also allows customization of each AI’s difficulty and personality. This change brings a mod’s functionality into the base game as a quality-of-life improvement, so players don’t need multiple versions of custom scenarios to support varying player counts.
• Bushido Tier changes can now be viewed on the Post Game Timeline! You can toggle these on and off, similar to other event types.

• Fixed various missing cursors that would not show while playing on Xbox with a Keyboard and Mouse. Cursors include: bolster, bolster forbidden, build forbidden, garrison great temple, gather shrine, gather shrine forbidden, stealth, and unboard forbidden.
• The Stealth cursor will now show using the same radius that units use to hide themselves (minus a small buffer) to more accurately reflect their stealth range.
• God Powers granted by Campaign triggers no longer incorrectly claim to have come from their normally associated Minor Gods.
• Adjusted the tooltip text for Hymn of the Wildwood to clarify its behavior.
• Fixes for the Compendium:
  • The Cavalry Compendium page now includes the Chariot Archer.
  • Added the missing Buildings page under Gameplay Concepts.
  • Added the missing Siege Weapons page under Gameplay Concepts.
• The Learn tab videos will now show a tooltip when a DLC is required to view the content.
• Fixed a bug that caused some God Powers to show an incorrect number of charges in the UI. For example, Sacred Gate could show an incorrect number of free charges in some situations. The number of charges available for powers should show correctly in all situations.
• Updated the Personality icon images to use higher-quality compression, ensuring they look better at higher resolutions.
• Celestial Remnants and Seasons-type World Twists now have icons.
• Removed Theft of Fire from Gaia’s Tech Tree UI, as this is not available while playing as Gaia.
• Added a new setting at the end of the UI settings that lets players disable the pop-up that tells them their rank for the Daily Celestial Challenge. When this setting is enabled, the notification will always go into the notifications list instead of as a pop-up you need to dismiss. This setting is disabled by default.
• While the Celestial Remnants type World Twists are active, they will now show an objective in the top right of the UI similar to other World Twists.
• Fixed a bug where 1 of 10 Celestial Remnants variations was referencing the wrong string for a different type of Remnants.
• A “?” map image will now show as the fallback image for scenarios in the lobby when an image isn’t set, instead of appearing blank.
• A “?” image will now show instead of a blank image for any open or AI slots while browsing selected matches on the Multiplayer browse screen’s player list.
• The Favor gathering tooltip for Quetzalcoatl players will now show information about active Bloodletting in addition to Devoted units.
• Fixed the missing “Divine Blood” technology that was hidden in the Village Center. “Golden Apples” has been shifted to match its position in the Town Center, so it no longer conflicts with “Divine Blood”.
• Fixed a bug that was preventing Xbox game builds from showing the loading screen with a spinner in some situations. This change ensures that all players can view the new game startup loading screens at each launch, rather than a black screen.
• Fixed some Bushido Tier icons appearing lower quality in some situations.
• Fixed subgraph captures used by things such as the Bushido Tier icons so that they rescale their generated results with a suitable visual scale instead of using a smaller scale in all situations.
• Fixed the controller UI to add the black background behind the Bushido Tier and Combat XP icon to make it consistent with the Mouse and Keyboard UI.
• Fixed a bug that allowed parts of some Skirmish Loading Screens to become focusable with specific inputs.

Controller

• The Diplomacy menu is now hidden in situations where it would have been hidden for Mouse and Keyboard players. It had been possible to modify Diplomacy in certain situations (such as during the Campaigns) to gain unintended advantages.
• The Crenellations technology will now appear on the first page of the Tower radial menu for Aztec players once it is available to research. This technology has some differences for Aztec players, so it was not being picked up to be shown in the correct place.

Fixes

• Fixed an unintended way to bypass Underworld Invasion’s restrictions. Underworld Invasion was not canceling foundations that had never been touched by a builder, and foundations that were partially built were counted toward the count for boosting the Underworld Invasion power’s spawn multiplier. The following fixes were applied:
  • Untouched foundations are now cleared and refunded.
  • Touched partially built foundations are now destroyed and refunded.
  • The initial destruction VFX now plays on both the Untouched and Touched foundations.
  • Curse (and persistent curse VFX) does not apply to Untouched and partially built foundations. Curse only applies to settlements that had fully built Town Centers owned by the casting player.
  • Town Centers that are not fully built no longer count toward the Eidolon spawn count.
• Greek Favor curve reduction will now only occur once Villagers are actively praying at a Temple. This means Villagers who are tasked with praying at a Temple and have not reached it yet will not reduce your Favor generation while moving.
• Fixed a bug that caused units to sometimes become idle while moving or attack-moving if another command is queued as they approach their destination of the previous command.
• Fixed a bug that caused attacking units to sometimes walk to their targets’ previous position first if the target had moved.
• Fixed a bug that caused units in a squad to forget to return to their path after they were interrupted partway through. This change fixes situations such as queuing movement for a Citizen while promoting them to become an upgraded Hero Citizen.
• Fixed some cases where changing formations during an attack move could cancel the attack action.
• Fixed a bug that caused the attack move action to ignore some targets or choose incorrect targets.

Developer Note: This bug was due to a limit that was culling attack target filtering too early. It had been causing units to ignore what would normally be the best targets (e.g., units) in favor of closer targets such as walls. This behavior could be worse the further away the attack move was set, due to the potential for more targets along the path. The limit introduced in a prior update has now been removed, as it was no longer necessary after other changes were applied as part of fixes to attack move behaviors.

• Fixed some cases where units could stutter while chasing other units.
• Fixed some cases where Box Formation could cause units to behave erratically for some unit compositions due to incorrect calculations for line placement positions in subgroups.
• Queued movement commands for Temples will now assume you may be dropping off a Relic to fix waypoints not working when waypoints after the Temple drop off were queued before a Relic was picked up.
• Adjusted queued waypoints to consider units that may become Devoted.
• Patrol commands will no longer sometimes stop working when an enemy unit enters their Line of Sight.
• Removing trees with gathering or other means will now reveal units that are stealthed near trees if there are no more valid trees in range.
• Fixed a bug that could occur when loading saved games with Warrior Priests that were actively Bloodletting. The Warrior Priest Devotion data for trickle rate is now correctly serialized and initialized when saving and loading saved games.
• Using Blood Pact on an Automaton will no longer cause them to be permanently affected by the bonuses after dying.
• Pioneers can now use Sky Lanterns for scouting during Ceasefire.
• Setting the gather point for the Calpulli and its variations will no longer appear as a Military gather point, indicating it isn’t used to send military units to those locations.
• Healing actions will now end if the target is healed to max Hitpoints and then falls below max Hitpoints on the next update, and this continues over time. Initially, this period is 0.5 seconds by default and rises to 2 seconds if the target was recently healed by another heal action. Ending the healing action means a new healing target can be selected. This change ensures that units trying to heal other units, such as Warrior Priests that have a continuous drain applied, won’t become fixated on healing just one single target.
• HandAttack-type actions can no longer target units abducted by Harpy units. This prevents most melee units from damaging abducted units when they should be out of range of attacking flying units.
• Sudden Death will now end when the victory condition is met by destroying the last enemy Citadel. The order of checks had an issue: victory or defeat was only applied the next time a unit was damaged or destroyed.
• Taowu’s Charge attack will no longer move significantly faster than intended in some situations. The speed bonus is now applied as +9.6 speed instead of being multiplied by 4.0.
• The Hero Oracle now has access to military unit commands, making it consistent with other military units.
• Cherry Blossom trees spawned by the Japanese Shrines will no longer become invisible after conversion in some situations.
• Gaining queued Shades while a player has no Temple to spawn them from will now cap at a max of 50. This change prevents reaching absurd numbers, such as 800+ Shades, that would have rapidly spawned after building a Temple, following a long period without one.
• Fixed the Spring phase of the Seasons type World Twists, sometimes preventing units from being trainable. This would occur because the training time was reduced below 0. The Data Effect for this World Twist now applies as a Percent instead of a BasePercent.
• Fixed the Data Effects applied to enemy AI Set players in Arena of the Gods in situations where they were incorrectly configured. Set AI will now train archer-type units 5% faster.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the downside of Hel’s Mythic Frenzy World Twist from working correctly. Myth units now take twice as long to train while the Hel’s Mythic Frenzy World Twist is active.
• Lykaon Villager is now modified by the Hel’s Mythic Frenzy World Twist. A previous change removed the Myth unit type from the Lykaon Villager, causing it to no longer be affected by the World Twist. The Lykaon Villager benefits from the Favor cost reduction and now takes longer to train after the above fix. The health change for Myth units has not been applied to the Lykaon Villager to help preserve their hidden state as a villager. They gain the expected health bonus when swapped to their Lykaon Wolf form.
• Fixed Goshinboku not working for Demeter’s unique Myth units. These units were missing the LogicalTypeTrainableMythUnit unit type. This change was applied to the units: Harpy, Lykaon Villager, Lykaon Wolf, Hamadryad, and the Siren. Hamadryads that die in their tree form are not eligible for this effect to prevent issues because of their immobility.
• Fixed some interactions between Vortex and Shifting Sands when combined with Earth Monster. Units in certain states will no longer be affected by either of these powers, preventing them from ending up in a bugged state. Units that were affected by both a teleport and being eaten by an Earth Monster state could become permanently unresponsive.
• The Olympian Weapons technology no longer affects Harpy units because it is not available to Demeter players.
• Fixed Stealth used by the Chinese God Powers and Prosperous Seeds to behave with more stealthiness so that they can’t be revealed by scouts, like how the Aztec stealth can be revealed.
• Fixed the Lykaon Wolf’s selection circle to better fit its visual size.
• Fixed the order of calculation used for Devotion and work rates to ensure that technologies that modify work rates apply to Aztec Favor gains. This results in a small increase in Aztec Favor gains compared to before.

Heroes

• Greek Heroes, Priests, Pharaohs, Godi, Pioneers, Bushi, and Warrior Priests now have Homing Ballistics against all flying units.

Developer Note: This change aims to alleviate the frustration players have expressed when a flying unit could avoid all damage by moving around. Notably, the Caladria, but most flying myth units have been compensated with survivability buffs.

Technologies

• Survival Equipment: adjusted as follows
  • Cost reduced from 150 wood 150 gold → 100 wood 100 gold.
  • Villager damage reduced from +25% → +10%.
• Champion Warships: now also increases the line of sight of siege ships by the same amount of their range increase.

Relics

• Demeter’s Throne: cost reduction is now Percent instead of BasePercent, to prevent some buildings from ending up completely free when combined with other discounts.

                       Egyptian Pantheon

Major Gods

Isis

• Prosperity (God Power): adjusted as follows
  • Duration increased from 50 → 75 seconds.
  • Effect reduced from +80% → +50% villager gold gather rate.

Myth Units

• Avenger (Horus): hitpoints increased from 600 → 700.
• Phoenix (Thoth): adjusted as follows
  • Hitpoints increased from 500 → 600.
  • Attack point during animation changed from 80% → 60% completion.

Heroes

• Priest: adjusted as follows
  • Movement speed increased from 3.6 → 3.8.
  • Line of sight increased from 12 → 14.

Human Soldiers

• Slinger: bonus damage multiplier vs ranged soldiers increased from 2x → 2.25x.

Technologies

• Hands of the Pharaoh (Technology): adjusted as follows
  • Priest attack range and line of sight increased from +2 → +3.
  • Research time reduced from 20 → 10 seconds.

                 Atlantean Pantheon

Minor Gods

Atlas

• Implode (God Power): Now has a bonus damage multiplier vs villagers at -50%.

Myth Units

• Automaton (Leto): hack armor increased from 35% → 40%.
• Caladria (Oceanus): adjusted as follows
  • Hitpoints increased from 100 → 200.
  • Pierce armor increased from 45% → 50%.

Developer Note: With the changes regarding the heroes gaining homing ballistics on their anti-flying attacks, these buffs aim to offset Caladria’s survivability against them.

• Stymphalian Bird (Theia): hitpoints increased from 400 → 500.

               Chinese Pantheon

Major Gods

Nuwa

• Favored land building radius increased from +1 → +2.

Minor Gods

Zhurong

• Flaming Blood: adjusted as follows
  • Damage from the aura now triggers attack notifications.
  • Now also applies damage to flying units, but no longer applies damage to economic units.

Myth Units

• Taowu (Goumang): cost reduced from 275 food 28 favor → 275 food 24 favor.
• Hundun (Huangdi): flipped the ability order so that Banish is first, and Chaotic Fear is second when auto-cast and in the UI.
• Qinglong (Gonggong): hitpoints increased from 660 → 720.
• Zhuque (Zhurong): hitpoints increased from 650 → 700.

Heroes

• Sage: adjusted as follows
  • Copied Myth unit’s duration increased from 8 → 10 seconds.
  • No longer stuns myth units with its special ability.

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…

We’re continuing to keep a close eye on game health and community feedback across Age of Mythology: Retold. Your reports, discussions, and support continue to help us identify the areas that matter most to the player experience and take action where needed to help maintain a strong, stable experience for the community.

Thank you for continuing to play, compete, and share your feedback with us.

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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