Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Known Issues

Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition — Update 33351. I cant find a solution to my problem. I have a 6gb gtx1060 with cooler and amd fx8350 overclocked with liquid cooler. 16 gb ddr3 ram and game is on a ssd. Follow New articles New articles and comments. As a Steam user, how does signing into Xbox Live change my experience? How do I read the Connection Quality indicator, and what does it mean? How do I create a multiplayer match in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition? How do I join a multiplayer match in Age of Empires II. Age of Empires II: DE Support support.ageofempires.com Take the time to search for your issue and work through the troubleshooting steps there. If you're problem is not listed, you can also visit the Known Issues page to see a list of issues being tracked and worked on by the team: Age of Empires II: DE Known Issues support.ageofempires.com. Below is a list of known issues we are tracking for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition.Note that this is not a comprehensive list; we will continue to update it with new issues as they are reported and fixed, will only include the most visible or disruptive issues that prevent you from enjoying the game, and will never include exploits that could be leveraged to gain an unfair advantage.

Hello adventurers! Today’s update comes with a handful of fixes before the weekend: including performance and framerate improvements aimed at enhancing your gameplay experience. Check out the notes below, then grab the latest build on both Steam and the Microsoft Store!

We hope you can find time to try out the latest build over this final weekend of November! We’ll be back in the office next week, so check back then for more of what we have in store for Age of Empires II.

—The Age of Empires Team

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◆ HIGHLIGHTS ◆

Here are the changes included in today’s update:

• Fixed a crash when attempting to open the Profile screen when offline.
• Fixed an issue where selection boxes could cause a framerate hitch while playing in a campaign or multiplayer match.
• Implemented a variety of minor performance improvements to multiplayer and campaign play.
• Updated the terrain grid to be semi-transparent and to more accurately align to a variety of terrains.

◆ IN PROGRESS ◆

Here are some of the areas where we are continuing to collect information, escalate reports, and working to identify solutions:

• Game stability and performance. We are tracking several different crashes being reported by individuals within the community. Here are some troubleshooting steps that have helped users reporting issues:
  • Ensure you have searched for solutions to your specific problem on the Age of Empires II: DE Support page.
  • Run through the optimization suggestions listed on the Game Optimization Tips page.
  • Please continue reporting any issues you encounter on Steam or the official Age of Empires forum!

◆ KNOWN ISSUES ◆

For the latest issues and solutions currently tracked by the development team:

• Please visit our Known Issues support page.

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Discuss of 8 comments

• Sorry guys i can't see the [ . . . ] button to get updates on microsoft Store. Is there anyway to get updates ? I can't see games in multiplayer menu i think it's because of updates ... Help

• Have you guys considered using Neural nets for balancing units stats? Not sure how it could work but def easier then humans attempting to manage 100's of units

• What if we got the full map screenshot option again? It was broken in the HD edition
  It’d be nice to have it back

• What of today's stealth update to 33315? It didn't address my inability to install the UHD addon, which became a thing with 33164.

• I also am having issues with my Selection Rectangle after the update. Literally made the game unplayable for now. I was looking forward to this week and playing the campaigns. An update should never make the game worse and when bugs like this are reported we need you guys on top of it. I would love to continue my nostalgic gaming experience so please roll out a fix or a patch for this problem. I have tried everything to fix this problem for 3 days and nothing has helped. Its almost as if the screen is off center because when I go to select multiple units with the mouse drag, it won't go past center screen and all the health bars are under the map in a way. Feels like I have to watch away from the battles to be able to keep track of my units health bars. Hopefully this gets fixed asap. Thanks in advance.

• Hello,
  after the update my Selection Rectangle isn´t calibrated anymore. My mouse is still working and I can also select with my mouse, but the rectangle is at a completly different spot of the screen.
  Do you have any suggestions?

• Et voilà...... Encore un bon produit des années 2000 qui reflète la politique actuelle de Microsoft, à savoir, on sort un tas de jeux mal foutus et mal conçus qui ne fonctionnent pas mais qui attires les foules. C'est le seul jeu actuellement qui mets à genoux une carte graphique RTX, qui pompe 99% des ressources d'une carte graphique série 9. Le seul qui s'occupe de pomper 80 % de la RAM (32 Gb tout de même).... Sans compter l'alimentation ( Corsair 850 Watts) qui devient la parfaite plaque chauffante pour cuire un œuf ! Le mode Multijoueur ne fonctionne pas, point barre. Et le mode solo je ne le conseille à personne sauf si vous voulez changer les composants de votre ordinateur, une solution, inonder les forums Microsoft de vos doléances sans mettre de gants. Bien sur, certains diront, c'est pas leur faute, c'est chez vous, diminuez les paramètres (pour un jeu qui a 20 ans)..... Comme pour le post ci-dessous, c'est une honte.

  • Moi de mon côté le jeu tourne plutôt bien sûr une gtx1060 avec 16go de ram (laptop). J'ai eu pas mal de crash au début mais cela va en s'améliorant.
    Je m'entraîne pour être près quand le 4 va sortir 😁✌️

  • Et il va falloir quoi pour AoE IV alors XD ?
    Moi qui voulais faire une mise à jour pour passer à la DE, je crois que je vais devoir carrément m'acheter une nouvelle configuration. En tout cas merci pour l'information.

• You guys are a disgrace. I have been playing AOE 2 since the 2000 Beta and honestly should be ashamed of yourselves for releasing such a hot, piece of garbage that was ill-prepared for the mass market. AOE 2 the year 2000 Beta runs better than this sorry excuse for a piece of software you released. Everyone on your dev team should be fired.

  In case you don’t realize, the majority of us are thirty-somethings with jobs, families and lives who don’t have time for you to get your shit together. I have had two different games for an hour in crash online for multiplayer and honestly do not have anymore time to waste for you to get it “right.” Anyways, as you can see I am frustrated and Microsoft will never get another dime from me. I am truly in disbelief that I spent fifteen dollars on this hunk of junk.

  • you doing ok buddy. That seems like a lot of built up hostility from other places. I get it I use this game as a escape to. Lifes hard sometimes.

  • Play single player for now my guy... MP needs a lot of fixing it seems to me.

1. GAME
2. CAMPAIGN
3. CIVILIZATION BALANCE

New update coming in 4…3…2…1…0!

Today’s hotfix introduces several critical fixes to issues that cropped up after the November Anniversary Update. Most notably, it brings numerous stability improvements and crash fixes to the game, additional menu narration (when enabled) for the new UI areas of the game, the implementation of missing translations for several languages, and changes which address some clever exploits and issues uncovered in the Battle Royale game mode.

As always, these are based on feedback from the community, so don’t stop now; visit the forum and let us know what you’d like to see next!

We’ll be watching for feedback even as the World’s Edge team breaks for the American holiday! We hope you enjoy the hotfix and everything the November Update was meant to offer! 🖤

—The Age of Empires Team

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Remember that you’ll need to update your game in the Microsoft Store:

• Open the Microsoft Store.
• Click the [ ∙ ∙ ∙ ] symbol next to your profile picture.
• Select Downloads and updates.
• Press the Get updates button to automatically detect, download, and install the latest changes to your game!
• Open the game. The title screen should show you on Build 43210

If you are unable to launch the game after downloading the update, make sure you add (or re-add) the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition client or folder as an exception to your firewall and antivirus program.

That’s it; you’re ready to play!

• Open Steam.
• Click on Library to see your games list.
• Click Downloadsat the bottom of the Library window.
• [If the new build does not download automatically,] click the Download Now button to manually download the new update.
• Open the game. The title screen should show you on Build 43210

That’s it; you’re ready to play!

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Please note that custom mods may not be compatible with the latest game update. If you are experiencing issues launching or playing the game after downloading the new build, try disabling your installed mods before trying again.

Still having trouble? Visit our support site!

GAME

Stability & Performance

• Implemented fixes for the situation where a player experiencing a performance spike in later stages of the game would cause degradation in animation smoothness for the remainder of the match. Note that this does not fix all lag issues everywhere: as individual PC performance, match settings (i.e. high pop, high participant games), and the random turmoil of internet gremlins can still have an adverse affect on the playability of the game.
• The game will no longer crash if the ranked queue pops while viewing the tech tree.
• Likewise, the game will no longer black-screen if a match drops or fails to connect while viewing the tech tree.
• The game UI no longer freezes when the “Failed to Join Match” modal pops while the Select Civilization menu is open.
• The game UI no longer freezes when the the UGC warning appears while the Select Civilization menu is open.
• Fixed an issue which could cause the game to hard-lock when a player disconnected on the victory or defeat screen.
• Fixed an uncommon crash when queuing to join a Battle Royale Quick Play game.
• Implemented several additional fixes for uncommon crashes.

UI

• Added the new Battle Royale option to the Game Mode filter in the Lobby Browser.
• Halved the animation time of the new UI windows and confirmation prompts within the game.
• Unique Unit icons have been added to each civ on the Select Civilization screen playing in non-English languages.
• Fixed an issue where using the arrow keys or tab to cycle through the Select Civilization menu would fail to update the details of the currently-selected civilization.
• Fixed an issue where the “Lobby Full” popup would constantly reappear after inviting a user to a lobby that subsequently fills.
• Fixed an issue which could prevent a player’s selected civilization from showing up on the match loading screen.

Settings

• Added menu narration to the tooltip text for each civilization on the Select Civilization screen.
• Added menu narration to the new Quick Play screen elements.
• Added menu narration to the Respond buttons in the Pending Invitations modal.
• Added menu narration to the Accept and Decline buttons in the Clan Requests menu.
• Added menu narration to the Close (X) button on the Yes/No dialogue that appears when exiting the queue.
• The narrator now reads the title and tooltips of the Settings Cog, Invites, and Profile UI elements on the home screen.

GAMEPLAY

• Monks can no longer be used to cheat death in the Battle Royale game mode.
• Fixed an issue where the object named “Invisible object that keeps player alive” would, contrary to its purpose, slowly inflict death upon nearby player units and buildings. This affected a number of custom maps and scenarios.
• Fixed a bug where attempting to remove a technology from the global queue would result in units being removed instead.

CAMPAIGN

Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Fps Problem

Art of War

• On timed missions, the bronze medal timer is now properly displayed when the silver medal timer expires.

CIVILIZATION BALANCE

Burmese

UNITS

Arambai: The increased reload time added in the November Update now only applies to non-elite Arambai, as intended. So, the reload time of Elite Arambai is 2.0 and 2.2 for non-elite Arambai.

LOBBIES & MATCHMAKING

• Fixed an issue which could prevent game invitations from displaying properly for the receiving user.
• Restored games will now populate the invite list with the players that were in the original game rather than the full list of players who cannot join the game.
• Advanced game settings will no longer be displayed and configurable in Restored Game lobbies.

LOCALIZATION

• Added the missing translation text for an objective in The Falcon’s Nest (Pachacuti 4) scenario.
• Spanish (ES-ES, ES-MX): Corrected several percentage numbers which displayed the incorrect values when using the Spanish or Latin American Spanish languages.
• French (FR-FR): Updated the description of the Saracen archer bonus to clarify that it affects only archers, not cavalry archers.
• German (DE-DE): Updated the Magyar civ description to clarify that a Blacksmith is not needed to benefit from the free Forging, Iron Casting, and Blast Furnace technologies.

MODDING

• SHIFT+Clicking the Priority Up and Priority Down buttons will now, once again, allow you to quickly prioritize the selected mods as the highest and lowest priority, respectively.

ONGOING INVESTIGATION

As always, we are continuing to track issues reported by the community for future updates. Here is a brief update from our Production team regarding some of what is still in the works:

Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Known Issues Known

• Scenario Editor Crash: There is an issue being tracked which can result in the Scenario Editor crash when generating a map multiple times. A fix is being worked on and will be implemented in a future, major update when it has been tested and approved.
• All previous notes from the November Update continue to be relevant as we prepare the next official build. Keep an eye on the forums, official social channels, and the support site for the latest details!

Age Of Empires 2 Definitive Edition Steam Problem

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.