Welcome to a small update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition! Today’s patch addresses various fixes focused on polishing the Alexander the Great campaign, including tooltips and UI improvements, lobby and matchmaking fixes for Chronicles civilizations, plus audio and narration, and more. 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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[h1] ◆ Minor Update 160062 ◆[/h1]

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Game

Stability & Performance

• Fixed a crash that could occur when opening older save files due to the radial menu initializing.
• Fixed a crash when launching Chronicles: Alexander the Great campaign on the Microsoft Store platform.
• Fixed a crash when starting Prithviraj 3, ‘Hand of a Princess,’ on Hard difficulty that occurred immediately after loading into gameplay.

UI

• Fixed an issue where civilization details would not appear when hovering over civs in the Skirmish Civilization Selection screen.
• Fixed an issue where civilization icons could persist for removed AI players in Skirmish after changing the civilization set.
• Fixed an issue where the player icon progress could reset after restarting the game, causing unlocked 10-win icons to be lost.
• With Extended Stats setting on, fixed an issue where the Build Queue would overlap with the Nearby Enhancement Count icon on the Achaemenid Town Center and Georgian Fortified Church.
• Fixed an issue where using the arrow keys in certain text boxes could cause the UI to become unresponsive.

Xbox

• Fixed an issue where menu narration on consoles failed to announce required button prompts across multiple menus, impacting accessibility.
• Fixed a hotkey / input related crash affecting Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X players.

PlayStation

• Fixed an issue where menu narration on consoles failed to announce required button prompts across multiple menus, impacting accessibility.
• Fixed a memory related crash affecting PS5 users.

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!

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER

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.

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