Ranked Season and Events Update

Back at the start of Season Twelve, we mentioned we’d be unlocking seasonal content (biomes, maps and modes) across the board to allow them to be enjoyed more while also starting an event rotation to ensure there are plenty of chances to earn a specific profile portrait or banner item.  

With this season, all previously available seasonal game modes, biomes and maps are now available at any time in custom games – note that we have removed these options from Quick Match to allow for more effective matchmaking. And starting this season, we’re also rolling out a comprehensive calendar for Ranked Season and Event rotations. In the past, Ranked Seasons have generally been tied to an update; however, to enable more predictable ranked seasons in the future, we’re switching away from this format.  

Moving forward, there will be four three-month seasons per year, all accompanied by a variety of event challenges. While we’re kicking off this year’s Summer Season early on May 7^th, in the future, all ranked seasons will start on the first day of a month at 10 a.m. PT and end three months later on the last day of the month at 10 a.m. PT. 

Ranked Season Calendar 

Spring Season: 1st March → last day of May 

Summer Season: 1st June → last day of August 

Fall Season: 1st September → last day of November 

Winter Season: 1st December → last day of February 

Event Calendar 

Map Pool Rotation

We’re excited to share a new Ranked Map Pool rotation, featuring a fresh mix of maps and a new sheep spawn distribution. You can expect another rotation alongside our next planned patch, targeting roughly late May or early June and also planned to include a variety of fixes for some of our pre-existing maps.

1v1 Ranked Map Pool 

• Dry Arabia 

• Sunkenlands 

• Rocky River 

• King of the Hill 

• Archipelago 

• Waterholes 

• Relic River 

• Wasteland 

• Hill and Dale 

Team Ranked Map Pool 

• Dry Arabia 

• Rocky River 

• Sunkenlands 

• Forts 

• Archipelago 

• African Waters 

• Gorge 

• West Lake 

• Hedgemaze 

New Map Spotlight – Coming with Yue Fei’s Legacy DLC

We’re thrilled to be releasing four new maps alongside Yue Fei’s Legacy on May 7th, some of which will be included in ranked pools. You can find more details on each map below. 

Ascension

A river cascades down a steep hill. At the top of the hill lie riches in gold and stone. Teams face off across the river from each other and must work their way up the hill for access to gold, stone, trade and sacred sites. The river is too deep at the bottom to cross but is passable higher up the hill. Ascend the hill and stake your claim! 

Fangs 

Jagged mountains rise up to the sky surrounded by dense woods and a shrouded layer of stealth woods. Penetrate the stealth woods to harvest lumber but beware of the wolves! This mostly open map still provides some opportunity for fortifications. Danger and opportunity await near the fangs. 

Snake River

A mighty river snakes around opposing teams creating protection and opportunity. Use the river strategically to gather fish, help defend your base, and grant you access to resources. 

West Lake 

A large shallow lake dominates the center of the map. The lake is traversable by foot and at its center lies a difficult to defend sacred site. Docks and ships cannot be built on this map, making control of the center of the map more challenging. 

Sheep Distribution 

The new DLC maps, as well as Dry Arabia, Baltic, and Gorge feature an updated Sheep distribution which places more sheep near each player’s starting base while leaving a smaller number of neutral sheep across the map.  

We will be monitoring the results and decide whether to expand this change to more maps or adjust further. 

New Player Colors

We’re introducing two new player colors: magenta and dark green.

Random Map & Biome Options

We’ve introduced options to randomly select a map or biome to play on. The selected map will remain hidden until the match loads. As of now, random Map selection only includes official maps; modded maps cannot be selected or voted for.

Parties No Longer Automatically Break Up

Parties will remain intact once a match has ended so they can more easily get back into a match together!

Faster Exit from a Game

End Game and Summary screen load times have been improved, allowing players to progress through the Match End phase much quicker. 

Lobby Settings Are Now Remembered

Lobby settings when creating a lobby will be saved once a match has started. When hosting a new lobby, the lobby settings from the most recently hosted lobby will be automatically selected. 

Villager Drop-Off Option

Added a new hotkey and ability button for Villagers and Fishing Boats. This is only available on PC or Keyboard and Mouse on consoles. Villagers that receive this command immediately stop what they are doing and drop off held resources at the closest valid drop off location and go back to their current task.

New Civilization Tech Tree

The Technology Tree has been updated for all civilizations to provide a clearer overview. This is only available on the PC version of the game. There is now an option to toggle on Advanced Tooltips, which adds attacks, armor, and health values when hovering a unit or building. Hovering over an ability now shows its cost if it has one in the tech tree.

Points of Interest

We’re introducing two new Points of Interest to specific maps across game modes! 

Herbalist Hut: 

• Heals nearby units of the Controlling player for 2 health per second. 

Ancient Stele: 

• Contains the technology “Ancient Knowledge,” which increases the health of all current buildings & military units by +5%. This technology can be researched multiple times and does not effect newly trained units. 
  • Costs 400 gold and takes 270 seconds to research.

Visual Improvements

• Building Range indicators are now more accurate. Range is now measured from the center of a building instead of the edge of the structure’s hitbox. 
  • Building size has been accounted for with the new range, so while the range values are unchanged, the building’s size will not impact its range. 
  • The result of this change is that the range indicator should now more accurately depict when a target is in range or not, especially when at the corners of a structure. 

AI Update

• AI players will now employ more efficient tactics to pursue win conditions. 
• AI players will now scout more efficiently. 
• When playing in a team, AI players will now coordinate in defending their controlled Sacred Sites. 
• Fixed an issue where AI villagers would travel great distances to gather from shoreline fish when playing on river maps. 
• AI players will now avoid building naval military when it isn’t necessary to do so. 
• Fixed an issue that caused the AI to produce more Springalds vs armies of siege units rather than armies of melee infantry. 
• AI religious units are now taking less dangerous paths towards relics. 
• Macedonian AI players’ Varangian units will now use their unique abilities. 
• The AI player will now build and use the Koka Township landmark when playing as the Sengoku civilization. 
• Tughlaq Dynasty AI players will now purchase Springald and Cannon Emplacement upgrades for the Tughlaqabad Forts. 
• Tughlaq Dynasty AI players can now have war elephants trample their enemies. 
• Tughlaq Dynasty AI players will now utilize their Bhakkar and Jalor governor bonuses more effectively. 
• Golden Horde AI players will now take less time to age up. 
• Golden Horde AI Players will now train Bombards. 
• Golden Horde AI Players will now purchase upgrades for their ovoo gather rates.   

Hotkeys

• Xbox Keyboard and Mouse (KBM) Fully Remappable mode now works correctly. 
• Mount Lu Academy no longer selected with the “Select All Keeps” hotkey.
• Guild Hall is now selected with “Select All Military Buildings” hotkeys in campaigns. 

UX/UI & Menus (All Platforms) 

• Fixed main menu stuttering and blocking input when certain USB devices are plugged into the system. 
• The civilization drop down menu in a lobby now has larger flags.

UX/UI & Menus (Console)

• Fixed an issue that causes the “Online matchmaking is migrating to a newer version. Please consider updating. You will only match with other players on the same game version.” banner text to appear regardless of whether there is a new build. 
• Fixed an issue on PS5 where the user settings may reset due to corrupted downloads from PS+ cloud saves 
• PS5 only: Fixed an issue where the game could crash on the settings screen when switching from keyboard/mouse and controller 

Localization

• Greek localization now correctly uppercases letters and removes accents.

General Map Changes

• Increased the number of map vetoes in Quickmatch to 27.

Map-Specific Changes

Baltic 

• Fixed a map bug that could cause a crash on Baltic in 2v2 mathes with Random Positions selected. 

Ocean Gateway 

• Berry Bushes and Sacred Sites will no longer block valid Dock construction locations. 

General Changes & Bugfixes

• Landmarks now have to be fully repaired to regain their sight. 

• Relics will now keep track of their cooldown when placed in a Monastery instead of refreshing. When removing a relic with a monk, the one which has been in the building for the longest will be removed. 

• Villagers in the Forgotten Ruins Point of Interest will no longer be ungarrisoned by the Return All to Work ability at the Town Center. 

• Corrected a bug which caused the Ronin to not use voice lines. 

• Sheep can no longer be assigned to building blueprints. This should prevent players from using unbuilt building blueprints to prevent unattended Sheep from being converted. 

• When playing the Season’s Feast game mode, Chinese and Zhu Xi’s Legacy players will now receive a Nest of Bees instead of a Mangonel. 

• Fixed multiple crashes specific to console, including one that occurred while viewing match results. 
• Fixed a bug where the camera would become frozen after opening the minimap from a radial menu. 

• Burgage Lords Boon now properly works with Japanese Farmhouses. 

• Docks will no longer attack worker elephants when nearby. 

Design Update/Rework 

• Zhu Xi’s Legacy landmarks: 
  • The Meditation Gardens now increases the amount of resources in nearby deposits before granting a burst of resources. 
  • The Jiangnan Tower now produces units from a selection of different armies. Progress towards the next army is granted whenever a unit is produced within the influence of the landmark. 

• Wolf Den Gameplay Update: 
  • Wolf Dens now only spawn 5 Pack Wolves. (Previously would keep a stock of 5 wolves around the Den replacing them as they died, now produces 5 then stops) 
  • Wolf Den initial spawn delay reduced from 4 → 3 minutes. 
  • Wolf Den spawn burn bounty reduced from 150 Gold → 50 Gold. 
  • Pack Wolves spawned from the Wolf Den now grant 15 Gold when defeated. 
  • Additional Wolves spawn increased at health thresholds: 
    • 70% health: Increased from 2 → 3 Wolves. 
    • 30% health: Increased from 2 → 5 Wolves. 
  • Pack Wolves now retaliate to the closest attacker rather than chasing the first enemy they see. Combat behavior is now similar to Boars.

Balance and Gameplay Changes (All Civilizations)

• Town Center cost reduced from 400 Wood 350 Stone → 400 Wood 300 Stone. 

• Palisade Wall health increased from 1250 → 1350. 

• Spearwall cooldown reduced from 4 seconds → 0.25 seconds for all Spearman-type units. 

• Elite Spearmen:  
  • Health increased from 130 → 140. 
  • Movement speed increased from 1.25 → 1.3. 

• Springald: 
  • No longer benefits from the ranged attack Blacksmith upgrades. 
  • Damage increased from 14 → 15. 
  • Roller Shutter Triggers upgrade now grants +30% attack speed (up from +25%). 

• Man-at-Arms: 
  • Cost reduced from 100 Food 20 Gold to 90 Food 20 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 22.5 to 20.5 seconds. 

Developer Note: Civilizations with unique Man-at-Arms are described individually. 

• Traders, Pilgrims and Monks are no longer attacked by lone Wolves. (Wolf Den Pack Wolves are still aggressive to all units) 

• Units that are being attacked but are not attacking an enemy themselves are now counted as “in-combat” for the purposes of reducing Monk healing. 

Developer Note: This has many implications, one of the most notable being villagers which are gathering while being attacked will now receive reduced healing. 

• Silk Bowstrings: 
  • Cost decreased from 300 Wood 700 Gold → 200 Wood 500 Gold. 
  • Bonus range to Archers reduced from 1.5 tiles → 1 tile. 
  • Bonus range to Mounted Archers from 0.8 tiles → 0.5 tiles. 

                        Abbasid Dynasty

• Ghulam: 
  • Cost reduced from 120 Food 30 Gold → 110 Food 30 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 26 → 25 seconds. 
• Golden Age 
  • Now has a new widget to indicate progression towards the next tier. 
• Fixed a bug which prevented the player from collecting Food from the Market using the Grand Bazaar technology if Spice Roads had also been researched.

                            Ayyubids

• Ghulam: 
  • Cost reduced from 120 Food 30 Gold → 110 Food 30 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 26 → 25 seconds. 
• Manjaniq: 
  • Number of incendiary projectiles reduced from 12 → 10 
  • Incendiary weapon bonus damage increased from 16 → 19. 
  • Area damage range per incendiary projectile reduced from 1.5 tiles → 0.9 tiles. 
• Dervish: 
  • Mass Heal reduced from 2 health per second to 1.5 health per second. 
  • Mass Heal now scales to 1.75 health per second in the Castle Age and 2 in the Imperial Age. 
• Golden Age now has a new widget to indicate progression towards the next tier. 

                             Byzantines

• Elite Limitanei: 
  • Health increased from 140 → 150. 
  • Movement speed increased from 1.25 → 1.3. 
• Mercenary Longbowmen: 
  • Batch size reduced from 5 → 4. 
  • Batch cost reduced from 500 Olive Oil → 420 Olive Oil. 
  • Mercenary Keshik batch cost reduced from 400 Olive Oil → 380 Olive Oil. 
  • Mercenary Javelin Thrower batch cost reduced from 480 Olive Oil → 460 Olive Oil. 
• Mercenary Ghulam: 
  • Batch cost reduced from 450 Olive Oil → 420 Olive Oil. 
  • Batch production time reduced from 75 → 72 seconds. 
• Mercenary Keshik: 
  • Batch cost reduced from 400 Olive Oil -> 380 Olive Oil. 
• The Royal Cannon has been replaced with the regular Cannon at the Foreign Engineering Company landmark. 
• Varangian Guard cost reduced from 90 Food 40 Gold → 80 Food 40 Gold. 
• Mangonel Emplacement damage reduced from 7 → 6. 
• Golden Horn Tower now produces units 15% more slowly. 
• The Heavy Dromon upgrade no longer reduces the cooldown of Man the Sails and instead increases the range of Dromons by +0.5 and their damage by +1. 
• The Cistern can now select its influence toggle while it is under construction. If the Cistern is completed before a toggle has been selected it will default to the military production toggle. 
• Fixed an issue that granted Mercenary Keshiks, Mercenary Mangudai, and Mercenary Royal Knights more health than intended after aging up with the Foreign Engineering Company and researching Biology. 
• Mercenary Nest of Bees trained from the Foreign Engineering Company now benefit from the Additional Barrels technology. 
• Fixed an issue that prevented the Mercenary Camel Rider from benefiting from the Camel Handling upgrade after aging up with the Foreign Engineering Company. 
• Fixed an issue which prevented the Landsknecht and Camel Rider from being upgraded to Elite if the Elite Mercenary upgrade was researched from the Golden Horn Tower rather than the Mercenary House. 
• When choosing a Mercenary Contract, the first unit in the contract will be displayed in the foundations of every Mercenary House to indicate which contract has been picked. 

                               Chinese

• Taxes: 
  • No longer deposits 1 Gold each time a Villager drops off regardless of how many resources they are carrying. Instead, drop off Taxes are now generated at 8% of the total resources dropped off. 
  • For Fishing Ships, Taxes are 4% of dropped resources. 
• Fire Lancer: 
  • Damage increased from 11 → 13. 
  • Elite Fire Lancer damage increased from 13 → 16. 
  • Grenadier movement speed increased from 1.125 → 1.25. 
• Palace Guard: 
  • Cost reduced from 100 Food 25 Gold → 90 Food 25 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 22.5 → 20.5 seconds. 
• Attacking with the Great Wall Gatehouse now causes its Nest of Bees to attack that target. 
  • Nest of Bees can now be individually selected and commanded to attack. 
• Fixed a bug which allowed more Imperial Officials to be queued than it was possible to train. 

                         Delhi Sultanate

• The Tower of Victory now correctly grants +20% attack speed. On average, this should be a ~5% improvement to attack speed for each infantry unit. 

                                 English

• Call to Arms production time bonus for Men-at-Arms reduced from +50% → +40% faster. 
• White Tower garrison slots reduced from 20 → 15. 
• The King’s Palace now produces Villagers +10% faster. 
• Palings: 
  • Fixed a bug where the Palings description incorrectly stated that it dealt more than 19 damage. 
  • Palings damage now increases from 19 damage to 24 damage in Castle Age and 30 damage in the Imperial Age. 

                             French

• Free Traders spawned from the Chamber of Commerce are now trained instantly. 

                        Golden Horde

• Starting Wood reduced from 225 → 200. 
• Production Edict reduced from +20% → +15% bonus production speed. 
• Man-at-Arms: 
  • Batch cost reduced from 200 Food 40 gold → 180 Food 40 gold. 
  • Batch train time reduced from 45 seconds → 41 seconds. 
• Ovoo Offering bonus stone generation reduced from +30% → +20%. 
• Ovoo Ceremony bonus stone generation reduced from +30% → +20%. 
• Town Center cost reduced from 850 Wood → 750 Wood to match Mongols. 
• Armor granted by the Padded Armor technology has been reduced from +2 → +1. 
• Scouts trained from Stables now train in a batch of 1 rather than 2. 
• Reinforcements Upgrades now properly apply to newly constructed buildings. 

                    Holy Roman Empire

• Landsknecht: 
  • Health increased from 85 → 90. 
  • Elite Landsknecht health increased from 100 → 105. 

                         House of Lancaster

• Manor cost reduced from 225 Wood 100 Stone → 175 Wood 100 Stone. 
• Earl’s Guard: 
  • Cost reduced from 100 Food 20 Gold → 90 Food 20 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 22.5 → 20.5 seconds. 
  • Dagger throw cooldown increased from 15 seconds → 17 seconds. 
• White Tower garrison slots reduced from 20 → 15. 
• The King’s College technology discount increased from 15% → 20%. 
• Lancaster Castle: 
  • Muster the Nobles units spawned increased from 4 Demilancers → 5 Demilancers. 
  • Shire Levy units spawned increased from 10 Yeomen → 12 Yeomen. 
  • Exact Militia Program units spawned increased from 9 Demilancers, 9 Yeomen, and 9 Earl’s Guards → 10 of each. 

                              Japanese

• Samurai cost reduced from 100 Food 30 Gold → 90 Food 30 Gold. 
• Katana Bannerman cost reduced from 100 Food 30 Gold → 90 Food 30 Gold. 
• Yumi Bannerman cost reduced from 100 Food 30 Gold → 90 Food 30 Gold. 
• Shinobi ranged armor increased from 0 → 1. 
• Temple of Equality: 
  • Five Mountain Ministries technology is now granted immediately when this landmark is constructed. 
• Deflective Armor cooldown increased from 8 → 15 seconds while out of combat. 
• Shinobi can no longer use the Sabotage ability on indestructible Points of Interest. 
• Fixed a bug causing existing Spearmen to lose the Nagae Yari weapon when upgraded to Hardened, Veteran, or Elite. 

                              Jeanne d’Arc

• Jeanne’s Champion: 
  • Cost reduced from 160 Food 40 Gold → 150 Food 40 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 30 → 28 seconds. 
• Free Traders spawned from the Chamber of Commerce are now trained instantly. 
• Fixed an issue where Jeanne d’Arc would not benefit from the Companion Equipment upgrade if it was researched from the Blacksmith. 

                            Knights Templar

• Condotierro damage reduction vs gunpowder damage improved from -33% → -50%. 
• Elite Heavy Spearman health increased from 170 → 180. 

                             Macedonians

• The Royal Cannon has been replaced with the regular Cannon at the Foreign Engineering Company landmark. 
• Varangian Guard: 
  • Cost reduced from 90 Food 40 Gold → 80 Food 40 Gold. 
  • Feudal Varangian Guard health reduced from 125 → 120. 
• Riddari: 
  • Health reduced from 240 → 230. 
  • Elite health reduced from 280 → 270. 
• Elite Atgeirmaðr: 
  • Health increased from 140 → 150. 
  • Movement speed increased from 1.25 → 1.3. 
• Imperial Hippodrome: 
  • Hippodrome Scout health reduced from 220 → 200 
  • Hippodrome Horseman health reduced from 220 → 200 
  • Hippodrome Riddari health reduced from 280 → 250 
  • Hippodrome Riddari melee armor reduced from 4 → 3 
• The Varangian Warcamp now has a new UI widget over the structure indicating progress towards the next batch of units. 

                              Malians

• Town Center cost reduced from 400 Wood 400 Gold → 400 Wood 350 Gold. 
• The Farimba Garrison can now enlist three upgraded units in the Castle Age. The first unit is enlisted for free and the other two may be enlisted for an additional cost of 100 Food 250 Gold. 
• Imported Armor cost increased from 150 Food 350 Gold → 175 Food 500 Gold. 
• Elite Donso: 
  • Health increased from 140 → 150. 
  • Movement speed increased from 1.25 → 1.3. 
• Ranch cost increased from 100 wood → 125 wood. 

                           Mongols

• Town Center cost reduced from 800 Wood → 750 Wood. 
• Stone cost for producing 2 Man-at-Arms reduced from 240 Stone → 220 Stone. 
• Khaganate Palace: 
  • Military Academy no longer applies its production speed improvement to the landmark. 
  • The Hui Hui Pao and Nest of Bees are now less likely to spawn than other units. 
• Mongol double production for Scouts now has the correct cost of 65 Food 65 Stone. 
• Console-only: The Villager Priority System will no longer attempt to assign Mongol villagers to stone. 

                     Order of the Dragon

• Gilded Man-at-Arms: 
  • Cost reduced from 200 Food 40 Gold → 180 Food 40 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 27 seconds → 25 seconds. 
  • Feudal Age health reduced from 230 → 220. 
• Gilded Landsknecht: 
  • Health increased from 180 → 185. 
  • Elite Gilded Landsknecht health increased from 220 → 225. 

                              Ottomans

• Sipahi Fortitude ability bonus attack speed reduced from +50% → +40%. 
• The Sea Gate Castle now increases the damage of all defensive structures by 20%. 
• Imperial Palace: 
  • Now increases vizier experience gained globally. 
  • Number of extra Vizier Points granted increased from 3 → 4. 
• Imperial Council: 
  • Akinji System: 
    • Moved from tier 2 → tier 1. 
    • Number of free Akinji reduced from 3 → 1. 
  • Anatolian Hills: 
    • Moved from tier 1 → tier 2. 
    • Number of Sheep granted increased from 10 → 12. 
• Sultanhani Trade Network Trader income increased from 24 to 26 Gold per minute. 
• Istanbul Observatory 
  • Production speed bonus reduced from 100% → 90%. 
• Corrected the cost of the Ottoman Siege Workshop from 166 Wood to 150 Wood. 

                                Rus

• Abbey of the Trinity: 
  • Fervor cost and research time reduced from 275 Gold, 45 seconds → 150 Gold, 25 seconds. 
• Kremlin: 
  • Militia levy cost reduced from 55 Food → 30 Food. 
  • Upon reaching the Castle Age the levy now spawns an extra Militia Handcannoneer. 
• Improved Palisade Wall health increased from 2500 → 2700. 

                        Sengoku Daimyo

• No longer receives Survival Techniques for free at the start of the game. 
• Samurai cost changed from 100 Food 20 Gold → 90 Food 30 Gold. 
• Mounted Samurai cost increased from 140 Food 100 gold → 140 Food 110 Gold. 
• Samurai Bow upgrade: 
  • Cost reduced from 100 Food 250 Gold → 75 Food 175 Gold. 
  • Samurai Yumi bow damage increased: 
  • Dark Age: 5 → 8. 
  • Feudal Age: 6 → 9. 
  • Castle Age: 8 → 11. 
  • Imperial Age: 10 → 13. 
• Fixed a bug where Elite Mounted Samurai could get +1 base damage from the Odachi upgrade. 
• Deflective Armor cooldown increased from 8 → 15 seconds while out of combat. 
• Fixed an issue where the Daimyo aura attack speed bonus applied a larger than intended modifier in Castle and Imperial ages. (This is a nerf) 
• Fixed an issue which allowed the Ikko-Ikki Monk to apply the Sohei Sutra debuff in some situations. 

                       Tughlaq Dynasty

• Worker Elephants now always return to their previous position when using the ‘Return To Work’ button. 
• Ballista Elephant: 
  • No longer benefits from the ranged attack Blacksmith upgrades. 
  • Damage increased from 17 → 18. 
  • Elite version damage increased from 19 → 20. 
• Docks: 
  • Can no longer garrison monks. 
  • Garrison space reduced from 4 → 3. 
• Amir Warrior: 
  • Feudal Age: Armor reduced from 5 → 3. 
  • Castle Age: Armor increased from 3 → 5. 
  • Imperial Age: Health increased from 180 → 200. Damage increased from 12 → 14.  

                        Zhu Xi's Legacy

• Taxes: 
  • No longer deposits 1 Gold each time a Villager drops off regardless of how many resources they are carrying. Instead, drop off Taxes are now generated at 8% of the total resources dropped off. 
  • For Fishing Ships, Taxes are 4% of dropped resources. 
• Grenadier movement speed increased from 1.125 → 1.25. 
• Palace Guard: 
  • Cost reduced from 100 Food 25 Gold → 90 Food 25 Gold. 
  • Production time reduced from 22.5 → 20.5 seconds. 
• Jiangnan Tower Reworked: 
  • No longer grants a free military unit whenever a military building is constructed. 
  • Now produces free armies whenever a military building or military unit is produced in influence: 
  • Each subsequent army requires progressively more resources to be spent, until 12 have been trained. 
• Meditation Gardens Reworked: 
  • No longer generates resources per minute based on nearby resources. 
  • Now gradually increases the resources in nearby deposits up to a maximum of 60%. Generates bonus resources once the cap is hit on a deposit and again when the resource is depleted. Trees are half as effective as other resources. 
• Fixed an issue where Zhu Xi fishing ships would not generate taxes when dropping off resources. 
• Roar of the Dragon now correctly creates visual explosions for Horsemen when charging enemies. 
• Jiagnan Tower and Mount Lu Academy icons have been swapped to more accurately portray their respective buildings. 

Investigation

Known Issue: Select Idle military hotkeys are able to select units which are in combat from idle aggression. A fix is in progress for this bug. 

Your reports continue being crucial to our prioritization and implementation of fixes and features in the game. Keep them coming!

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

Coming Up…

We’re already preparing a larger patch nearer the end of May or early June but will be keeping an eye on your feedback to guide our planning. And don’t forget: we have another DLC already in the works for this year! You can find a sneak peek of one of the work-in-progress new Crucible mission loading screens below. 

New Cheat Code

This patch brings one new Cheat Code for players who own the Obsidian Mirror DLC!

RANGERS ASSEMBLE

Spawns 6 Eagle Rangers as a stronger form of Eagle Warrior units. This cheat also enables the Medium, Heavy, and Champion Nobles Hut Soldiers technologies to upgrade their visual appearance and stats. Inspired by the original Power Rangers, the Eagle Ranger units have special color overrides that make them appear in Red, Blue, Green, Pink, Yellow, and Black. They also use the voice of Popocatepetl. Fun fact: Popocatepetl was voiced by an actor who played the Red Ranger.

Requires owning the Obsidian Mirror DLC.

Disclaimer: The way the colors are applied to these units relies on overriding the last 6 of 8 Fake Player colors. This means using the cheat in custom scenarios and campaign missions where Fake Player Colors are used in these slots may result in incorrect colors on other units.

Blood and Bones Pack DLC – Settings Updates

This patch brings even more control over how long objects persist on the map and when the bones should transition dynamically from bloodied to white. This patch brings changes to address both of these!

• Added a new setting “Skeleton Transition”. This setting controls the percent of visible duration at which the dynamic skeletons option will swap from Bloodied to White. The setting defaults to 50%, and you can adjust it between 5% and 100% to suit your preference.

• The “Skeleton Visible Duration” and “Blood Pool Visible Duration” settings now have a new option to make them last “An Age”, which is 1800 seconds. This additional duration is three times larger than the previous maximum of 600 seconds. You may experience reduced performance with large quantities of blood and bones present, depending on your hardware.

Stability & Performance

• Minor general improvements to stability.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if any Linear Area Attack Action was active while a save occurred. This crash could occur any time a save began while Nidhogg was using Blazing Strafe, Honengyo was using Torpedo, or at specific times while Ayotochtli’s Wrecking Ball attack was in progress.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when playing a sound related to Stealth for the stealthed unit’s owner.
• Fixed a crash that could occur during the Earth Monster’s attack if it has selected a unit to chomp that disappears for some reason before the knock-up and swallow completes.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using a binding to enter the free camera mode.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if a composite model has part of the model that failed to load or no longer exists for some reason.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the local match history file has corruption or invalid data while launching the game.
• Fixed a crash that could occur while using the Radial Menu to interact with an invalid unit.
• Fixed a few places that could crash when trying to change, cancel, or rebind Hotkeys.
• Fixed a crash that could occur when abilities are cast (or attempted to be cast) in some situations.
• Fixed a crash that could occur if the Earth Monster God Power tried to eat a unit that no longer had unit AI.
• Fixed a crash that could occur while computing distance to a tile during Random Map generation for custom Random Maps.
• Added cinematic preloading of assets for all Obsidian Mirror cinematics to improve performance during playback.
• Fixed stuttering and slowdown that would occur anytime an auto save was processed.

Localization

• Updates to some translations to improve translation quality.

Graphics

• Added a new Recover animation to Tlacaelel.
• Added a new Recover animation to Iztaccihuatl.
• Large Scorpions now drop a bone pile instead of a human skeleton when they die.
• Fixed the Perspective Camera for some units, including: Large Scorpion, Kamina Peg Leg, Kamina Wounded, Obsidian Butterfly, and Quinametzin (both base and upgraded).
• Lowered the height of the Perspective Camera a little for the Unwounded version of Kamina.
• Adjusted terrain textures for Aztec Marsh Cliff 1 and 2, Aztec Marsh Cracked 1, Aztec Marsh Forest Grass 1, and Aztec Marsh Forest Wet 1.
• Fixed a bug where Quinametzin would not show the boulder it was throwing during the start of its attack animation after it had upgraded.
• Fixed an animation clipping issue related to Tlacaelel’s waistcloth during his attack animation.
• Fixed the ranged attack animation for Aztec Villagers so that it blends more smoothly into a carry animation. Resources could sometimes be seen flying into the villager’s arms.
• Sped up an animation with Iztaccihuatl and Popocatepetl to fix the sliding movement that could be seen during the Obsidian Mirror Scenario 12 cinematics.
• Implemented Popocatepetl’s axe for popocatepetl_snakeless’s non-cinematic form.
• Fixed a bug that could cause units to flop and replay their death animation infinitely. This bug would occur if additional actions tried to play after the unit was already dead.

Audio

• The Turkey units now make Turkey sounds when you select them!

Hotkeys

Added new Hotkeys for the following bindings for the Calpulli, Military Camp, and Machine Workshop:

• Pre-Queue Livestock Pen
• Pre-Queue Lumber Outpost
• Pre-Queue Craft Workshop
• Pre-Queue Machine Workshop To Tower
• Pre-Queue Machine Workshop To Production
• Pre-Queue Military Camp To Tower
• Pre-Queue Military Camp To Production

Other changes for hotkeys:

• Fixed cases where hotkeys and actions could show incorrectly (or not at all) while using the combined military/production selection.
• You can now pre-queue transformations while in the foundation stage of a Calpulli, Military Camp, and Machine Workshop. If you queue an additional transformation, it will cancel the existing queued item. Both the normal action and the pre-queue action will serve as a Pre-Queue while in the foundation stage.
• If you don’t have enough resources to perform one of these transformations, it will also let you pre-queue the commands such that they will automatically swap when conditions are met for costs.
• Fixed the Oracle’s “Promote to Hero” action not having a Hotkey binding. This action now uses the MilitaryAccel “Heroize Military” binding.

UI

• Fixed the Combined Production Menus swapping to show a single unit’s commands when things such as completing a building occurred. When using the Combined Production Menus, it will correctly maintain its state and update when necessary, such as when new units become available from aging up.
• Fixed the Hero Oracle not appearing in the Combined Production Menus after researching Sons of the Sun. The Hero Oracle will appear at the end of the Temple units. This issue occurred because the Combined Production Menu was referencing the default database rather than the player-modified version that includes changes from applied technologies.
• The Obsidian Mirror God Power will now show the prefix “Copy: Power Name” during placement preview to make it clear that the tooltip previewing the name of the power is what will be copied.
• Tapir Child of Set now has a unique icon.
• The power that has been copied by Obsidian Mirror no longer appears in the Diplomacy menu. It will always show Obsidian Mirror if that is the God Power for a slot.
• The Diplomacy menu will no longer show large negative numbers if you are playing on infinite resources. Instead, you will see “0” for the resource numbers.
• The Diplomacy menu will no longer show “Build a Market to Send Tribute” if you are in a replay, observing, or have infinite resources enabled.
• The Diplomacy menu will no longer allow tributes if infinite resources are active.
• The Diplomacy menu will no longer provide the resource tribute buttons for each player while watching a replay or spectating.
• Adjusted the campaign landing page buttons to prevent cutting off the scroll list arrow buttons.
• Fixed the Great Tzompantli Relic’s description so that it doesn’t show an incomplete string with a “{0}” in the text.
• Fixed missing world tooltips that showed God Power cast costs and Wall Placement preview costs. You can now see the costs for each situation as was previously possible.
• Improved tooltips for Texiptla units to better explain them.
• The Relic “Bone Shards of Mictlan” now shows additional detail with its effect saying “Trainable Myth Units: Resources returned on death: 2 Favor”.
• The Relic “Mayahuels Maguey” now shows 3 additional dot points clarifying the resource return rates it provides.
• Teixiptlas now appear in the Aztec technology trees.
• Corrected the background of Obsidian Mirror Scenario 04 and 05 in the campaign menu.
• The Turkey unit now has a Compendium entry.
• Fixed some cases of missing Credits for the Localization Voice Cast.
• Fixed the consistency of some expressions in subtitles during Obsidian Mirror cinematics.
• While multiple Warrior Priests are selected, you can still see and interact with their transformation command.
• Eitri Sneak and Eitri Hammer now show history text based on the default Eitri unit.
• Fixed a bug that caused cut-off content in the Compendium.

Controller

• Warrior Priests now show their abilities in the Radial Menu and in the Quick Action Menu for controller players.
• Blood letting gather rates are now visible when using a controller in the Warrior Priest’s Radial Menu.
• The currently selected upgrade for Calpullis is now more visible in the Controller Radial Menu.

Fixes

• Infestation is no longer repairable. This change prevents unintended uses, such as fighting enemy Town Centers while repairing. The ability to repair was both too safe and provided an unlimited source of wood while repairing the unit.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Aztec Villagers to be devoted (with Favor awarded) an unlimited number of times without disappearing. This would occur if the action was canceled and restarted at a specific time. Villagers who have committed to the Devotion ceremony long enough to gain Favor can no longer be moved and will ignore action changes.
• Fixed a bug that prevented the Umibozu from attacking units on the land. Previously, the unit had been relying on a bug where it always thought it could use a teleport attack on every unit. A partial fix for this had been applied previously, which broke the reliance on unintended behavior. This issue would have occurred for any unit where they had an attack that could only be cast on water and at least one other normal attack.
• Fixed a bug that caused Ayotochtli’s Wrecking Ball to deal no damage to targets when initiated at minimum range.
• Added missing abilities and passives to the Super Quetz, Huitz, and Tezca that are spawned by the ALL THE BROTHERS cheat.
• Fixed the ALL THE CREW cheat to spawn the older variation of Ajax and Amanra used in the Obsidian Mirror campaign instead of the younger versions from the original campaigns.
• Super Teixiptlas are no longer valid targets for the Bolt God Power.
• Eitri (Hammer) now has the same abilities and passives as the normal “Eitri” unit.
• Fixed a bug that caused Loki to sometimes spawn Maquizcoatl with his unique bonus that spawns Myth Units. This issue occurred due to the extra campaign technology used to lock the player into only one Minor God choice during a scenario.
• Fixed a bug that allowed Axolotl to heal enemy units.
• The Walking Woods God Power now works on Aztec trees.
• Added abilities to SPC units used for campaign missions (e.g., OM06), including the units: FireKingSPC, FrostGiantBossFrost, MountainGiantBoss, FenrisWolfBroodSPC.
• Huang Zhao can no longer target Titan units with his life drain ability.

                 Aztec Pantheon

Developer Note: This patch brings a couple of additional tweaks to a few aspects of Aztec balance. We are continuing to evaluate where balance changes are necessary and the best approach to implementing them. This patch has been released sooner so that we can bring you more of the fixes detailed in the rest of the patch notes sooner!

• Bloodletting: has been adjusted in the following ways,
  • Favor from Bloodletting now trickles rather than coming in bursts.
  • Bloodletting rate is now visible in the UI.
  • Warrior Priest Devote Minor stats adjusted:
    • DevotionFavorTrickle: increased 0.05 → 0.1. This stat is the base Favor trickle for the first Warrior Priest at full health.
    • DevotionHealthDrainEachSecond: reduced 5.0 → 0.6666. This stat is the hitpoints lost per second while Bloodletting.
    • DevotionHealthDrainLimit: reduced 0.4 → 0.2.
    • Added new property DevotionScaleAtMinimumHealth with it set to 0.5. This stat is the portion of base trickle earned once Warrior Priests reach the minimum hitpoints.
  • Separated Bloodletting from using the same values as the Greek Favor for their efficiency curve.
  • Bloodletting Efficiency Scale Factor A set to 11.0. This stat controls the scale of the efficiency curve.
  • Bloodletting Efficiency Minimum Gain B set to 0.01. This stat is the minimum cap for Bloodletting Favor trickle.

Developer Note: Bloodletting needed some additional changes to make it a viable method of gaining Favor. As there are multiple ways to gain Favor, this needed to be a reasonable method for gaining Favor without making it too strong so that players would not want to be fully reliant on it. We will continue to evaluate how these changes behave in emerging gameplay and make further tweaks where necessary.

Minor Gods

Coyolxauhqui

• Starfall (God Power): Starfall is now more lenient with its placement restrictions. Previously, you could not have obstructing objects under the cursor while casting because the target location was used as the fallback position for spawning units. Now the power searches around the cursor’s location, verifies that there is a suitable spot, and if so, approves the placement.

Tlaloc

• Pillar of Tlalocan (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • You can now manually cast with the Monolith Strike ability if you want more control. The ability cooldown now also shows in the UI.
  • Placement will now ignore units marked as Not Collidable. This fixes an issue where placement could be prevented by vision revealers during Obsidian Mirror Scenario 01.

Mictlantecuhtli

• Volcano (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • Volcano Ability Recharge Time: reduced 6 → 5.
  • Volcano Meteor Crush Damage: increased 200 → 360.
  • Volcano Meteor Divine Damage: increased 20 → 30.
  • Volcano Meteor Damage Area: increased 6 → 7.
  • Volcano Meteor Damage Bonus against Town Center reduced 1.0x → 0.5x.

Developer Note: The previous update reduced the viability more than intended. This change should make Volcano feel more like a Mythic Age God Power without overbuffing its strength.

Human Units

• Quimichin Spy: Reduced population count 2 → 1.

General

• Added a new attribute “placeInArea” for the Placement tag in ProtoPowers. This forces the placement to ensure that the losProtoUnit value can fit somewhere, with its obstruction, within the placement area. Functionally, for the Tempest God Power type, this ensures that there is a fallback location to place the unit spawns if nowhere can be found during the power.
• Added a new flag for ProtoPowers “ForceUseAbilityCooldown”. AbilityMonolithStrike uses this flag to make it appear as a cooldown to the player.
• Effects that use LogicalTypeTrainableMythUnit can now show “Trainable Myth Unit” and appear in tooltips. This logical type, not having a string, was why RelicBoneShardsOfMictlan would not automatically display the effect information.
• Effects that match ResourceReturnRate can now show in tooltips, as seen with RelicMayahuelsMaguey.
• Fixed a bug that caused trCampaignBranchChoice, the “Campaign: Advance to the Next Mission Prompt Skip” trigger, to leave the player stuck at the end of a mission when the Display Prompt toggle was set to OFF. When this trigger parameter is set to OFF, it will let you skip the next mission (e.g., Tutorial) without showing the mission difficulty choice.
• Add a new ProtoCommand flag, “AllowPreQueue,” that enables PreQueueing Proto Commands.
• Added new ProtoCommand flag “CanPreQueueWhileFoundation” that makes it possible to PreQueue things with “AllowPreQueue” while they are still an incomplete building.
• Added new ProtoCommand tag “RemoveCommandPreQueueOnPreQueue” that forces the removal of other named ProtoCommands by name when one is queued. This change causes the swaps when prequeuing different transformations before a foundation is completed. It also fixes a bug where the transformation would no longer be valid but would still consume resources without accomplishing anything during subsequent transformations.
• Added a new ProtoUnit flag “EnterContextForSelfFoundation” that forces unit context bindings to be active while a unit is in its foundation form for the current player. This is used to allow hotkeys for PreQueue on transformations on foundations.
• Updated Doxygen and Visual Studio Code Extension.
• Added new console functions used for Hotkeys:
  • void preQueueCommandInSelected(string Name, bool onlyIfNotFullyBuilt): tries to preQueue the selected protounitcommand in any valid selected unit
  • void preQueueCommandInSelectedByID(int Id, bool onlyIfNotFullyBuilt): just like preQueueCommandInSelected, but faster because it takes an ID
  • int getProtoUnitCommandID(string Name): Gets the protounit command ID for a specified command name.
• Added new Proto Unit Command flag “DisplayWithAbilities” that allows Warrior Priest transformation commands to be visible when multiple units are selected.
• Added a new Proto Unit Command flag “QuickActionCheckForAvailable” that allows Warrior Priest transformation commands to resolve which one of the three is really intended to be visible in the Quick Action area for controller players.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Titan Cipactli to show in the Greek Culture filter in the Editor instead of as an Aztec unit.

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…

The team remains dedicated to enhancing the overall player experience, with a future eye towards achieving better balance across the board and addressing additional bugs. We are actively monitoring your feedback and responses to help ensure we make meaningful improvements that benefit all players. 

We hope you’ll continue shaping Age of Mythology : Retold with us – thank you for playing, and please keep the feedback coming!

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.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

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!

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.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

Stability & Performance

• Minor general improvements to stability.
• Improved loading times when transitioning between scenarios and the main menu on PlayStation 5. Loading times were being slowed by some unnecessary additional checks related to DLC ownership. These checks are now cached correctly across all platforms to improve loading times.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur while units are hidden in Stealth.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur while trying to cast God Powers.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur during the Chaos God Power.
• Fixed a rare crash that could occur when a stealthed unit is revealed, and a sound plays for the unit’s owner.

Localization

• Updates to some translations to improve translation quality.

Graphics

• Minor improvements to all carry animations and relic attachment positions for the Warrior Priest and all Teixiptla versions.
• Fixed Zhuque’s Eye VFX so that it attaches correctly to the model after researching the unique unit’s upgrade.
• Fixed Taowu’s Eye VFX so that it attaches correctly to the model after researching the unique unit’s upgrade.
• Fixed Bushi’s Bow appearing in a static position during the unit’s birth animation. The bow will now travel with the unit’s hand.
• Fixed missing light VFX on all stages of the Japanese Dock.
• Fixed missing Idle Zzz VFX on Japanese fishing ships.
• Units that die while turned to stone will no longer drop blood or skeletons. For example, when turned to stone by Medusa’s attack.
• Fixed Aztec Broken and Fallen Column rotations and positions. These assets are now centered in the obstruction radius to match all the other Pantheons.
• Removed random plants from some Aztec grass terrain textures: Aztec Aztlan Grass 2, Aztec Valley Grass 2, and Aztec Marsh Grass 2.
• Added new cinematic animations for Iztaccihuatl’s Jaguar to appear in the Obsidian Mirror 07 cinematic.
• Added new cinematic animation for an Iztaccihuatl dismounted attack to appear in the Obsidian Mirror 01 post-scenario cinematic.
• Fixed a bug that could cause trees to stay levitating in some cases after using the TO THE MOON cheat.
• Fixed Popocatepetl’s missing weapon for his hand attack animations in cinematics.
• Fixed a bug that allowed units in the Fog of War on the main menu to highlight when hovered with a mouse.
• Added additional animation support for the Capybara:
  • Added new animations for: Bored, Death, and Flail.
  • Updated animations: Walk and Eat.
• Added a Tent variation to the Tent and TentSPC units for the Aztecs to support Sudden Death and custom maps.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Aztec Animal of Set units to show their VFX incorrectly. Fixed the VFX attachment point for Alpaca of Set, Anaconda of Set, Jaguar of Set, Black Jaguar of Set, Ocelot of Set, Tapir Child of Set, and Tapir of Set. Also reduced the VFX size for Tapir Child of Set to use the tiny variation instead of the small variation.
• Ayotochtli’s Wrecking Ball attack no longer shows an arrow because the attack may not necessarily follow the direction of the arrow if the path is obstructed.

Audio

• Aztec Villagers will now play a sound when they begin their Devotion.
• Fixed Regent Select and Acknowledgment sounds for all Pantheons and Major Gods added from Freyr onward. Fixes for the Major Gods: Demeter, Freyr, Fuxi, Nuwa, Shennong, Amaterasu, Tsukuyomi, Susanoo, Huitzilopochtli, Tezcatlipoca, Quetzalcoatl.
• Adjusted Tonalli SFX.
• Increased Tunkuluchu SFX volume.
• Orpheus is now more likely to play his unique sound effect instead of silence during his bored animation. Changed from 75% chance for silence to 50% chance.
• Increasing Line of Sight used by the Quimichin Spy and the Oracle now only plays the sound at max Line of Sight for Oracle units.
• Fixed Bored and Birth sounds for the Cipactli Titan.

UI

• Fixed a bug that caused Kronos’s Time Shift action to not appear on Temples.
• Updated Chaneque unit icon for the unupgraded unit so that it doesn’t prematurely show the upgraded unit visuals.
• Selecting multiple Calpulli with the shared building selection enabled will now show options as expected. Interacting with the upgrade options will only promote one Calpulli at a time.
• The TempestSPC God Power no longer shows in the active God Power list in the UI.
• Removed reference in the Compendium to the free Sentry Tower upgrade that is no longer granted to Egyptians after changes in previous patches.
• Tooltips shown while placing a God Power will no longer persist if you open the Settings menu. Previously, the tooltip would remain on top of other UI elements until the game was resumed and the power was placed or canceled.
• The Medium Great Temple Soldiers technology will no longer show for related units in the Compendium or when viewing unit info. This technology is a hidden helper technology, so it is not intended to appear in the UI.
• Updated the Advanced Traps icon to represent the Smoke Trap in addition to the existing visuals that represented the Spike Trap.
• Removed some placeholders and duplicate unused icons.
• Updated the Smoke Trap and its ability icon to a new, unique appearance.
• Updated the Spike Trap ability icon to remove a placeholder.
• Fixed duplication of an icon when viewing Trap technologies and units in the Technology Tree.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Tepoztli Canoe to show an incorrect icon as a duplicate of another icon.
• Fixed ability and Compendium references for Aztec Traps.
• Fixed Tlacanexquimilli’s passive icons so that only one shows and correctly uses the unique lifesteal icon. This fix was also applied to make all 3 ProtoUnit variations of Tlacanexquimilli show the passive correctly.
• Feast of Sustenance will now show a message saying “You are celebrating the Feast of Sustenance.” each time you devote a herdable instead of incorrectly referencing the Rain God Power.
• Feast of Sustenance will now show only to yourself in the active God Power list for the 15 second duration of the effect for improved uptime visibility.
• Fixed a bug that caused data shown to the UI to be incorrect in some situations after unapplying some technologies. E.g., when destroying a Wonder, the Inventory Size and Initial Resource properties of some units may have been displayed incorrectly.
• The Tonalli Harvester passive now only shows on Temples for Aztec Pantheon Major Gods.
• Smoke and Spike traps now have a button to Delete.
• Garrisoning units will no longer reset the command panel focused unit if a reset can be avoided.
• The Player Name Treatment setting for the Ultimate Fan Pack will now function correctly. Before this fix, the name treatment visuals could incorrectly appear after restarting the game with the setting disabled.

Controller

• Adjusted the positioning of build commands in the Warrior Priest’s Radial Menu to a more comfortable position.
• Fixed a bug that caused the setting of Rally Points with a controller to appear at a selected building’s position instead of the targeted world position when using the minimap.

Fixes

• Ayotochtli’s Wrecking Ball attack now attempts to ensure its movement is not obstructed by terrain or buildings for a more suitable path.
• The “Auto Supply Devoted Villagers” setting now works with multiple Town Centers instead of only the closest Town Center.
• Stealthed units will no longer use their Ambush attack if they have been set to No Attack stance.
• Capybaras have been changed to become a Herdable!

                 Aztec Pantheon

• Bloodletting Favor gain is now scaled based on Prayer Efficiency, similar to that used by the Greeks.

Major Gods

Tezcatlipoca

• Obsidian Mirror (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • A tooltip now shows the name of the God Power you would copy while hovering to cast.
    • For Keyboard and Mouse players, this replaces the “Left-Click to place” tooltip while hovering over a target player’s units.
    • For Controller players, this replaces the world tooltip to the right of the cursor in the same conditions as above.
  • Fixed Wither when cloned with Obsidian Mirror. It will no longer instant-cast when used, and will allow you to choose the direction the power travels.

Minor Gods

Coatlicue

• Earth Monster (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • Added a 1.5x Damage Bonus vs Human Soldier.
  • Active Time: increased 20 → 22.5 seconds.
  • Regurgitate Time (time after the last strike when regurgitation starts): increased 5 → 7 seconds.
  • Fixed a bug that prevented the Earth Monster from knocking back allied units.

Coyolxauhqui

• Starfall (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • Small Projectile Divine Damage: increased 4 → 5.
  • Large Projectile Divine Damage: increased 25 → 30.
  • Large Projectile Damage Area: increased 5 → 6.

Tlaloc

• Pillar of Tlálocan (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • Stun Duration: increased 0 → 0.5 seconds.
  • Radius: increased 5 → 6.
  • Can no longer be placed directly on top of your or allied buildings.
  • No longer destroys your or allied units when slamming down from the sky.
• Pillar of Tlálocan (Spawned Unit) adjusted with the following changes,
  • Hitpoints: increased 1800 → 2400.
  • Ability Recharge Time: reduced 4 → 3 seconds.
  • Monolith Strike attack adjusted with the following changes:
    • Rate of Fire: reduced 3 → 2.
    • Hack Damage: increased 15 → 40.
    • Divine Damage: increased 15 → 20.
    • Damage bonus against Buildings: 1x → 0.8x.
    • Max Range: increased 0.3 → 14.
    • Fixed inconsistent values listed on the Monolith Strike ProtoAction compared to the strike’s ProtoUnit.

Mictlantecuhtli

• Volcano (God Power): adjusted with the following changes,
  • Lifespan: reduced 30 -> 20 seconds.
  • Ability Recharge Time: increased 4 → 6 seconds.
  • Crush Damage: reduced 580 → 200.
  • Divine Damage: reduced 40 → 20.
  • Damage Area (of impacts): reduced 8 → 6.
  • Buildup Time: increased 0.0 → 1.5 seconds.
  • Number of strikes (maximum during power duration): reduced 100 → 40.

Human Units

• Shorn One: Now have DevoteMajor, which enables them to be devoted at the Great Temple like other human units.

General

• Fixed a bug that caused Free Camera mode to persist after leaving the editor, which resulted in an inability to task units with Right Clicks. Leaving an open scenario will now correctly end Free Camera mode, ensuring gameplay remains consistent.
• The DevoteMinor actions now support the SoundSetEnter tag to define a SoundSet that plays when the unit reaches the place where they can begin their Devotion.
• TlacanexquimilliCG now appears as “Tlacanexquimilli (Corrupted Ground)” in the editor to differentiate it from the normal Tlacanexquimilli unit.
• Added “Self” as a valid value to use for the ActiveListVisibility tag when defining God Powers. This Self value allows you to make power durations show only to yourself (the caster) and not allies in cases like Feast of Sustenance, where the information is not useful to an ally.
• Fixed a bug that caused the Wonder Age GodPowerROF modification to not apply to Mythic Age God Powers in some situations. The SetAge effect was applied before the new God Power was added, so the time would remain unmodified. To fix this, the SetAge effect has been moved to the end of each Mythic Age Major God. This issue would occur only when the player begins in Mythic Age and already has a Wonder granted (as was the case in Obsidian Mirror 12).
• Added a new notOverlapSelfOrAlly attribute for Placement tags in powers to further specify an additional Overlap condition that prevents placement where overlaps with self or allies occur. Used for the changes to Pillar of Tlálocan.
• Added a new doNotDestroyFriendliesUnderneath attribute for CreateUnit tags in powers to specify that destroyUnderneath should exclude self and allied units.
• Added a new Major God tag DevotionCommands that controls whether the Auto Devotion commands can be shown in the UI. This was added to fix Time Shift not showing up.

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…

It’s been incredibly rewarding for the team to see the player responses to the launch of Obsidian Mirror. Watching the community dive into the game – and sharing the excitement in your feedback, posts, and reactions – has been just as meaningful for us to see, as it has been fun for us to build.

With this update now live, the team is continuing to focus on improving the overall player experience. We’ll keep closely monitoring responses and gameplay feedback to make meaningful adjustments where needed, helping to make the game better for everyone. Alongside this, we’ll also be paying close attention to performance, stability, bug fixes and additional optimization.

We hope you’ll continue shaping Age of Mythology : Retold with us – thank you for playing, and please keep the feedback coming!

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.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.