Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition News

Age of Empires IV has been trucking on nicely since the RTS game released at the end of October, and the development team at Relic is already hard at work releasing patches and essential bug fixes while the community decides which of the new Age of Empires 4 civilizations they prefer.

Today's smaller patch focuses on some high profile bugs and "balance issues related to Mongol town centers". Specifically, Mongol town center capital, which like most other Mongol structures can be packed up and moved around, can no longer be placed in unexplored territory, and it must now be placed at least 20 tiles from an enemy player's town center.

The Age of Empires team says patch 7989 also includes some optimisations that will "drastically reduce performance drops when panning the camera across the map". If you're playing Age of Empires IV on Steam, you'll now also be able to link to your Xbox Live account. The team has also fixed an issue with disappearing unit health bars, which players reported would sometimes disappear even if they'd set them to remain visible.

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         ◆ UPDATE 7989 ◆

RELEASE NOTES

• Changes made to drastically reduce performance drops when panning the camera across the map.
  
• Steam users are now able to link their Xbox Live accounts in-game.
  
• Some users reported health bars disappearing during gameplay regardless of their setting selections. This has been fixed with patch 7989, and in-game health bars should appear when you tell them to (in the settings!).
  
• The Mongol Town Center Capital can no longer be placed directly next to their opponent’s Town Center. From now on, the Mongol Town Center Capital must be placed in an explored area, and not within 20 tiles of an enemy’s Town Center. Our Balance team will continue to observe your feedback on this and other elements of gameplay.
  
• Small adjustments made to in-game localization.
  

KNOWN ISSUES

You can find a list of Known Issues HERE at any time.

• Replays from 7274 are not compatible with 7989.
  
• The requirements text for the Mongol Town Center Capital does not call out the necessity for it to be placed in an explored area. We will be fixing this in a future update.
  
• Known issue Infinite Relic Duplication for Rus Civilization has been identified for a fix in a future update.
  
• Known issue Mongol Civ – Packed Buildings Continuously Repaired has been identified for a fix in a future update.
  
• Known issue Mongol Civ - Superior Mobility Providing Too Much Increased Movement Speed has been identified for a fix in a future update.
  

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• Routine server updates and maintenance.

• Ranked matchmaking will disabled exactly one hour before the maintenance window to prevent disruption to newly-formed matches.
  
  
• Any matches still in progress at the start of the maintenance window will be disrupted when it begins.
  
  
• DURING THE MAINTENANCE WINDOW, YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO LAUNCH THE GAME, BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MATCHMAKE OR ACCESS ANY ONLINE FEATURES.