Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition News

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Can you defend your Wonder against 20 waves of enemies? Check out their video for tips, tricks, and prizes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFrBE1YDidg

[h2]New Challenge Scenario: Mangudai Madness![/h2]
Introducing Mangudai Madness, a new limited-time challenge scenario in the vein of Barbarossa Brawl and Mongol Raiders! Can you defend the Wonder against increasingly challenging waves using only your army of Mangudai?

The setup is simple: you have a Wonder to defend, Mangudai, and access to techs. Strategize how you will spend your resources and use the terrain to your advantage. Take on waves of Teutonic Knights, Throwing Axemen, Onagers, tanky Saboteurs — and a very special campaign hero unit if you can make it to the final wave!

Mangudai Madness is supported with a leaderboard. Challenge your friends and put those micro skills to the test!

Welcome to an exciting update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition! We’ve got lots of quality-of-life features coming your way, pathfinding and formation fixes, plus a new challenge scenario: Mangudai Madness!

While there are plenty of notable things to look forward to in today’s build, here’s some of the big highlights coming with this month’s update:

• New QoL (Quality of Life) Features:
  
  • Enhanced Unit UI
    
  • Lockable gates during construction
    
  • Enhanced tooltips for unit icons.
• New Mod Validator
  
• New Challenge Scenario: Mangudai Madness
  
• Bug fixes based on your feedback
  
• Pathfinding and Formations fixes
  
• Balance changes

Be sure to dig down into the post below to get all of the smaller details before hopping in-game and checking them out firsthand.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

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—The Age of Empires Team

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         ◆ UPDATE 99311◆

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[h2]New Challenge Scenario: Mangudai Madness![/h2]
Introducing Mangudai Madness, a new limited-time challenge scenario in the vein of Barbarossa Brawl and Mongol Raiders! Can you defend the Wonder against increasingly challenging waves using only your army of Mangudai?

The setup is simple: you have a Wonder to defend, Mangudai, and access to techs. Strategize how you will spend your resources and use the terrain to your advantage. Take on waves of Teutonic Knights, Throwing Axemen, Onagers, tanky Saboteurs — and a very special campaign hero unit if you can make it to the final wave!

Mangudai Madness is supported with a leaderboard. Challenge your friends and put those micro skills to the test!

[h2]NEW! Animated Player Icons[/h2]


Starting today, you can customize your player icons with glorious new animated options! Choose from three new cosmetic DLC packs from Steam and enjoy these incredible animated icons in your favorite game, or collect them all with a discount!

Please note: These icons provide no gameplay benefit and are purely cosmetic.

• La Hire’s Dry Humor Collection is a set of eight animated recognizable situations, funny animations and memes.
  
• Joan’s Marvelous Moving Masterpieces are a display of eight animated historically inspired art pieces showing the diversity from across all the lands.
  
• Barbarossa’s Barrel of Pickled Goods contains a fine selection of eight animated art pieces and Age of Empires logic and other memes.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/36502/Age_of_Empires_II_Definitive_Edition__Animated_Icons_Bundle_Vol_1/

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

[h3]:alertalert: DISCLAIMER[/h3]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.

[h2]Hotfix 99404[/h2]
[h3]Stability & Performance[/h3]

• Fixed a crash introduced with Update 99311.
  
• Fixed a rare issue where units could move to the edge of the map when issuing an attack move or patrol command.
  

WHAT: Server Maintenance (Matchmaking Servers)
WHEN: Wednesday, November 29 @ 2:00pm PT / 5:00p ET / 22:00 UTC (Countdown)
EST. DOWNTIME: 1-2 HOURS

[h3]GAMES & PLATFORMS IMPACTED[/h3]

• Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  
• Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  
• Age of Empires IV (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  

[h3]OBJECTIVES[/h3]

• Routine server updates and maintenance.

[h3]DETAILS[/h3]This coming Wednesday, November 29th, the platform team will be taking the multiplayer servers down for regular maintenance. Please note:

• 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.

To prevent any interruptions, we recommend wrapping up any games at least 10 minutes before the maintenance window. The downtime is expected to last between 1 and 2 hours. You can watch this thread with any changes to the schedule as they arise, as well as the all-clear when the maintenance is complete.

Thank you for your patience!

WHAT: Critical Server Maintenance (Matchmaking Servers)
WHEN: Thursday, November 23 @ 2:00p PT / 5:00p ET / 22:00 UTC (Countdown)
EST. DOWNTIME: 1-2 HOURS

[h3]GAMES & PLATFORMS IMPACTED[/h3]

• Age of Empires: Definitive Edition (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  
• Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  
• Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  
• Age of Empires IV (Steam / Microsoft Store)
  

[h3]OBJECTIVES[/h3]

• Critical server updates and maintenance.

[h3]DETAILS[/h3]This coming Thursday, November 23rd, the platform team will be taking the multiplayer servers down for critical maintenance. Please note:

• 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 CRITICAL MAINTENANCE WINDOW, YOU WILL STILL BE ABLE TO LAUNCH THE GAME, BUT WILL NOT BE ABLE TO MATCHMAKE OR ACCESS ANY ONLINE FEATURES.

To prevent any interruptions, we recommend wrapping up any games at least 10 minutes before the maintenance window. The downtime is expected to last between 1 and 2 hours. You can watch this thread with any changes to the schedule as they arise, as well as the all-clear when the maintenance is complete.

Thank you for your patience!

We are aware of issues affecting our multiplayer servers. Our team is actively investigating, and we will provide an update as soon as possible.