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onfire55

Sep 14, 2017 @ 12:59pm

Patch Notes - 5.5 (Live) Discussion

Patch 5.5 has now cleared Open Beta and been promoted to Live!

Thank you to everyone who participated in this long Open Beta and we are thrilled to bring these desync improvements and balance changes to the full community! As always, your feedback has been valuable and your assistance playing multiplayer games has ensured that our desync rates have improved.

The new discussion thread can be found here and we look forward to hearing from you and collecting your feedback!

The following items have been addressed in this 5.5 Live update:

Stability and Performance Improvements:

Performance optimizations should increase frame rates up to 15%
Researching spies during treaty should no longer causes a desync
Extremely long games should no longer desync due to high turn counts
Quitting via ALT+F4 should no longer cause a desync
Resigning but staying in game no longer desyncs after remaining players save/load
The desync message should no longer appear over the post game screen

Community Focused Bug Fixes:

Hosts are able to set a password for their lobby
Audio for notifications should no longer overlap and cause a loud noise
Audio for garrisoning / un-garrisoning should no longer overlap
Lobby civ pools should now be consistent for each host player
Lobby civ pools should now display the conquerors civilizations correctly
Lobby maps should now display random special and real world at the top of the list
Lobby maps no longer displays random special twice in the list
Lobby maps now select DLC3 Random Real World maps correctly when appropriate
The password checkbox should now remain when changing datasets
Navigating through aoe.net should now correctly prompt the password popup (when needed)

Balance Improvements:

Magyars no longer need to build a blacksmith to receive free blacksmith upgrades
Magyars now receive Siege Engineers
Magyar Scout Cavalry, Light Cavalry and Hussar cost -15% (up from -10%)
Magyars Recurve Bow now adds +1 attack and +1 range (up from +1 range)
Indians no longer have the Arbalest upgrade
Malay Karambit Warrior have +1 attack
Fire ships have -1 pierce armor
Fast Fire ships have -1 pierce armor
Viking warship discount changed to -15%, -15%, -20% (up from -10%, -15%, -20%)
Italians fishing ships now cost -15 wood (down from -25 wood)

Last edited by onfire55; Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:00pm

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Shalashaska has Age of Empires II (2013)

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:01pm

Finally.

intence66

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:07pm

HI THERES ONE MORE ISSUE f12 to take a screen shot brings up the menu and then screen shots the menu to ? so u cant get a decent screen shot of the game when will this be fixed

The Very Hungry Caterpillar has Age of Empires II (2013)

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:08pm

Its nice fire's have finally received a nerf.

Laptop

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:13pm

Great to see it finally released!

Ruzen

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:18pm

long beta is understatement

9tips

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:24pm

YAYY finally came to check up on this

hoof

Sep 14, 2017 @ 1:35pm

thank you!

Raxo

Sep 14, 2017 @ 2:08pm

thank god

[SOUL] KariiLu has Age of Empires II (2013)

Sep 14, 2017 @ 2:32pm

wow bien :D

SpoOkyMagician has Age of Empires II (2013)

Sep 14, 2017 @ 2:57pm

Originally posted by intence66:
HI THERES ONE MORE ISSUE f12 to take a screen shot brings up the menu and then screen shots the menu to ? so u cant get a decent screen shot of the game when will this be fixed

I already mention this to cheese. I dunno if they can do anything about it. Steam/HD conflict with each other in this case. They want to keep the game in tact. I changed the hotkey for save game myself to ctrl+f12. Best to just change it manually for now...

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