Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Update 56860

Stability & Performance

• Fixed a crash that could occur when playing a game against the AI.
• Fixed a crash in the UI code.
• Fixed a crash that would occur when attempting to return to the Main Menu from the user’s Home City while playing the Story Mode campaigns.

Graphics

• The portrait of the Jat Lancer unit now correctly displays the player color.

Audio

• Fixed an issue where the Dock Rickshaw had no VO when playing as Swedes, United States, Hausa or Ethiopians.

UI

• The Saloon now appears correctly in the Mexican tech tree at Age II rather than Age III.

General

• Fixed an issue that prevented the completion of the secondary objective to gather supplies near the shipwreck on the “Into the Caves” mission of Blood, Ice and Steel.
• Fixed an issue that prevented the tenth cow from gathering at the Hacienda.
• Fixed an error that would occur when trying to report a Clan.
• Fixed an issue where the final challenge in the Fiesta Mexicana event could not be completed when the language is not set to English.

Fixes

• Lights from the “Día de Muertos (Day of the dead) 2/2” fireworks no longer appear in the revolution home city
• The Mexican home city, its lights, the time of day and the temple now behave correctly

Mods

• Fixed an issue that caused .personality files in a mod to be ignored by the game.
• The personalities.xml file now supports additive mods – use file personalitiesmods.xml with a root node called personalitiesmods.
• Fixed a bug that made it not possible to modify a ProtoAction of a unit using additive mods.

General

UNITS & BUILDINGS

• Revolutionary: Commerce Age hp & dmg reduction increased to 25% (up from 20%)
• Petard: Added Commerce Age hp & dmg reduction of 25% (previously 0%)

Mexico

CIVILIZATION

• Starting units adjusted as follows
  • 6 Villagers (no change)
  • 300 Food (down from 400)
  • 100 Wood (no change)
  • 100 Coin (no change)

UNITS & BUILDINGS

• Salteador: Adjusted as follows
  • Speed reduced to 4.25 (from 4.5)
  • Stealth speed penalty increased to 33.34% (from 50%)

• Insurgente: Siege damage reduced to 12 (from 13)

• Chinaco: Adjusted as follows
  • Attacks now inflicts 1.34x against Hand Cavalry (changed from All Cavalry)
  • Attacks now properly inflict 1.2x against Hand Shock Infantry

• Hacienda: Adjusted as follows
  • Hitpoints reduced to 3500 (from 5000)
  • Food toggle trickle reduced to 0.5 f/s (from 1.0)
  • Coin toggle trickle reduced to 0.31 c/s (from 0.62)
  • Improved placement rules: should no longer possible to place buildings on the crops which would occasionally block gatherers from working

CARDS

• Dance Halls / Catinas / Folk Heroes: Outlaw population cost reduction reverted to 2 (from 1)
• Los Colorados Battalion (IV): Now ships 9 Soldado and 1 Falconet (down from 9 Soldado and 2 Falconets)
• Renegade Comanche (II): Moved to the Fortress Age, now ships 11 Horse Archers (up from 9)
• Renegade Navajo (III): Moved to the Commerce Age, now ships 10 Navajo (down from 11)
• Independence Movements (I): Revolution and Return to Mexico cost improvement reduced to 20% (from 25%)
• Palace of Iturbide: Town Center Cannon Attack damage now properly caps when 10 Villagers are garrisoned
• 12 Insurgentes (II): Now ships 11
• Plan of Veracruz (IV): Artillery line of sight improvement reduced to +4 (from +7)
• 17 Fishing Boats (IV): Now delivers 14
• 5 Villagers (II): Added to homecity
• Tlaxcala Textiles (Tlaxcala, II): Effect changed to “Ships 2 Settlers. Each new and existing Hacienda spawns 2 Settlers.”
• Tlaxcala Alliance (Tlaxcala, II): No longer enables Christian Schools to be researched, instead enables Tlaxcala Initiation (200w 200c, grants +100% Hero atk & hp)
• Querétaro Haciendas (Querétaro, II): Enables Haciendas to support 20 population (up from 15)
• Cinco de Mayo (Puebla, V): adjusted as follows
• Fixed a bug where the Fort auras would stack
• Increased aura range to 32 (from 26) — this is the same radius as displayed by the Fort’s ‘range ring’ after the Revetment improvement is researched

REVOLUTIONS

• Central America:
  • Revolution cost increased to 400 f/w/c (from 300)
  • Return to Mexico cost changed to 1250 f/w/c (from 2000f, 1200c)
  • Santamaria’s Fire (card): Now ships 4 Soldados (down from 5)
  • INF 7 Revolutionaries (card): Now ships 6
  • Central American Infantry (card): cost reduced to 250
  • Central American Cavalry (card): cost reduced to 250

• Baja California: Adjusted as follows
  • Now grants 3 Post Wagons (up from 2)
  • Revolution cost increased to 400 f/w/c (from 300)
  • Return to Mexico cost changed to 1250 f/w/c (from 2000f, 1200c)
  • Baja California Territory (card): Effect tweaked to “Ships 3 Settlers. Haciendas attract nearby Huntable Animals to improve production rates.”
  • Foreign Investment (card): May now only be sent twice

• Yucatan: Adjusted as follows
  • Return to Mexico cost changed to 3000 f/w/c (from 4000, 4000c)
  • No longer makes Factory upgrades free
  • Solís Shredders (card): Hacienda Wood toggle gather rate reduced to 0.65 w/s (down from 0.75)
  • Fixed a bug where Returning to Mexico would improve the Hacienda Wood toggle gather rate by 33.33% (removed)
  • Insurgentes no longer gain +10% hp upon revolting (now only gain +10% atk and the Lasso charged ability)
  • Mayan Supporters (card): effect changed to “Ships 6 Holcan Javelineers and 6 Yucateco Insurgents. Insurgents gain +10% more hitpoints”; no longer allies you with the Maya
  • Yucatecan (card): Inspiring Flag gather rate aura decreased to 15%
  • Amparo (card): Villager train speed reduction reduced to 25% (from 35%)
  • Henequen Industry (card): Additional trickles reduced to 0.5/s (from 1/s)

• Rio Grande: Adjusted as follows
  • Return to Mexico cost changed to 3000 f/w/c (from 4000, 4000c)

• Texas:
  • Texas Army (card): Now properly arrives in 40s (down from 60)
  • Old Three Hundred (card): Markets now have a build limit of 3 (default change for all civilizations) – this fixes a gameplay issue where players may be tempted to feed their teammates wood to ‘spam markets’ with and spawn settlers more easily than intended

• Maya:
  • Fixed a bug where the “Native Lore” and “Native Alliance” cards were activated upon revolting
  • American Allies (card): Removed from deck
  • Holcan Javelineer Build Limit per card: lowered from +2 down to +1, starting at 10 instead of 23
  • Cruzob Infantry: Ranged attack Heavy Cavalry multiplier reduced to 1.5x (from 2.5)
  • Cruzob Infantry: Speed reduced to 4 (from 5)
  • Cruzob Infantry: ranged resistance flipped to melee
  • Field Hospitals can train Cruzob Infantry instead of Soldados with Bustamante card
  • Cruzob Avenger: Now has +2 range (down from 3)
  • Maya Architecture: No longer buffs Fort HP

Map Updates

• California:
  • Adjusted how silver mines spawn for a fairer distribution.
• Great Lakes:
  • Fixed an issue that could result in a player’s town center not to spawn.
• Hokkaido:
  • Added an additional hunt for each player in 1v1.
• Niger Delta:
  • Fixed an issue that could cause some of the rivers not to spawn on the large version only.
• Panama:
  • Fixed an issue that could lead to players not spawning in 4v4s.
• Rockies:
  • Reduced the number of native settlements in the valley from 2 to 1 in 1v1s.
• Sonora:
  • Fixed an issue causing the fourth trade socket not to spawn on the trade route in 1v1s.
  • Fixed an issue causing treasures to be placed too close to cliff edges, thus being unobtainable.
• Texas Frontier:
  • Reduced the amount of hunts that spawn near players to better resemble the original legacy map.
• Unknown:
  • Fixed an issue that could lead to trade sockets not to spawn along the trade route if the map has a river.
  • Adjusted water types and terrains to match for an improved appearance.
  • Added Lenape native settlements (from the historical battle – Battle of Queenston Heights).
• Yucatan:
  • Fixed an issue that could result in some treasures and/or their guardians from spawning correctly.
  • Adjusted the trade route to ensure a fairer layout.

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