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Hello, Age of Empires IV community! We’ve packaged up a new patch with care prior to the new year and are happy to share it with you today. In this patch, we’re following up on your feedback from the Season Nine update, in addition to fixing some impactful issues, such as the Xbox Team Game crash that you’ve reported.

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum[forums.ageofempires.com]
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord[discord.gg]

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

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!

[www.ageofempires.com]

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Season’s Feast

New Event!

This event is full of gifts to celebrate the Season! We have many challenges and rewards to customize your profile to match the season of giving. As well as a brand-new game mode filled with gifts to get you those victories! Keep your eyes on the battlefield and see how many gifts you can find.
Login between November 19th at 10:00am PT (1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC) and February 5th to share in the season’s festivities!

New Event Game Mode: Season’s Feast

It’s the season of giving! So, we’re giving you a new game mode filled with gifts, only trouble is we left them on the battlefield. Search the map and see if you can find them and the great rewards within.

Fight against your opponents in a standard match style with gifted bonuses to give you that competitive edge. Gifts can contain resources, units and even buffs so make sure you find them first. We aren’t sure how we managed to get a Trebuchet into those gift boxes, but we do hope you put them to good use!

Ranked Season Updates

Season Nine kicked off on October 22nd at 10:00am PT (18:00 UTC) and is currently set to run through March 31st. While we don’t have a map pool update in this patch, we are planning to switch up the map pool early next year.

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!

[www.ageofempires.com]

: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.
For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

Hello, wonderful Age of Empires IV community! We hope you are enjoying Season Nine so far! First, we want to thank you for your feedback regarding changes introduced in this season. Based on what we’ve heard from you, we have some news to share regarding some of the gameplay changes we have arriving in an upcoming patch as well as some of the areas we’re continuing to observe for additional tuning in the future.

Our philosophy is that the game should grow and evolve alongside our player base, and siege and late gameplay are two areas where we saw a lot of opportunity to bring refreshing changes after three years of growth and play.

While we’re excited to tune the meta in this way, we also prize good balance – and we know you do as well. The process of balancing this much change will require iteration and incremental improvement, guided by your responses and the strategies we see you develop over time. Based on your initial feedback following the Season Nine release, we’ve already made some small changes introduced on October 31st and we have some other early adjustments coming to specific areas, such as cavalry being too strong in team games and balance around both infantry and siege.

To address these areas, we will be adjusting the following and more; Biology, siege damage against buildings, springald power level, and bombard cannon damage against elephants. Furthermore, adjustments to the strongest ranked civilizations in team games, such as the Abbasid Dynasty, will also be included in this patch. We hope you enjoy these changes when they release, and we’d ask that you please keep posting your feedback in the Official Forums as it is immensely helpful for us to see and digest your thoughts as we continue our planning for an early 2025 patch.

Official Age of Empires Forums

Signing Up[forums.ageofempires.com] for the Official Forums is quick and easy, and we love to read your feedback[forums.ageofempires.com]!

As we continue onward with Season Nine and approach the incredible milestone that is our tenth season, we want to look ahead as a community of developers and players towards the future of the game and the path we are set on together. We’ve already shared that 2025 is an exciting year for Age of Empires IV with DLC on the way, and we truly believe that fine-tuning and refreshing some of the gameplay experience along the way lends itself well to some of the excitement to come.

Thank you, good luck, and have fun!

Community-Reported Issues:

Your reports continue being crucial to our prioritization and implementation of fixes and features in the game. Keep them coming[forums.ageofempires.com]!

For other known issues, please visit this page[support.ageofempires.com] to see what’s being tracked!

While we’re still planning for a slightly larger patch before the end of the year, we wanted to roll out a few pointed fixes earlier based on your feedback. Today’s minor patch is focused on stability, Multiplayer Pause adjustments, and some additional early balance tuning in response to player input regarding the changes to Siege.

Keep an eye out for our next patch, and in the meantime, be careful when there’s a Full Moon!

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum[forums.ageofempires.com]
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord[discord.gg]

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

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• Based on your feedback, we’ve brought the period of required pause time for a player’s first pause back down from 60 to 30 seconds. We’ve also limited each player to only 3 pauses instead of 5. Let us know how we can continue to tune these values to ensure a fair but effective match!
  
• Fixed an issue that caused players to become stuck in the Multiplayer Pause menu after the match completed.

• Fixed two crashes related to Full Moon mode, including one that could occur when werewolves spawn in Team games.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when using projectiles.

• Silk Bowstrings range improvement for Archers reduced from 2 to 1.5.
  
• Silk Bowstrings range improvement for Mounted Archers reduced from 1 to .75.
  
• Mangonel bonus damage vs ranged increased from 8 to 10.
  
• Increase Mangonel and Nest of Bees range armor increased from 80 to 85%.
  
• Ribauldequin health reduced from 225 to 215.
  
• Ribauldequin Melee armor reduced from 15 to 10.

: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.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

Ranked Season Nine and the Hallow's Hearth Event should now be up and running as normal!

The major update for Season NINE, is LIVE! In todays update, our seasonal biome Hallow’s Hearth makes a return, and with it comes a fun (or frightening) twist on the wolf unit with the Full Moon game mode. We’re also officially launching Multiplayer Pause, along with a bundle of balance changes, there’s also two new maps arriving with this update.

You can read all the details in the update below, including a summary of changes we’ve made based on your feedback during last month’s Public Update Preview.

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum[forums.ageofempires.com]
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord[discord.gg]

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

Season Nine

The wolves are howling, and a chill wind can be heard whispering through the trees. Get ready for a spooktacular second edition of Hallow’s Hearth with terrifying treats and monstrously fun challenges!

Login between October 22nd at 10:00AM PT (17:00 UTC) and November 19th to stake your claim.

Hallow’s Hearth Event Returns!

New Game Mode: Full Moon!

As our map monsters depart, a new threat emerges under the full moon. Werewolves, with their hungry fangs and claws, will prey on your soldiers and villagers! Raise your defenses to protect against these beasts and secure victory.
The Full Moon game mode is available in the game mode selection menu for skirmish and multiplayer.

Ranked Season Nine Updates

The leaves are falling, and the competition is heating up with a spectacle of contenders hitting the leaderboards! We welcome the start of Season 9 with a selection of rewards for both solo and team ranked. Can you rake in the wins? Season Nine begins October 22nd at 10:00am PT (17:00 UTC).

[h4]Map Pool Rotation[/h4]
We have some updated maps hitting the pool with the start of Ranked Season Nine! Dive in and prepare for victory!

1v1 Ranked Map Pool

• Golden Pit → Marshland
  
• Mongolian Heights –> Nagari
  
• Rocky River → Wetlands
  
• Socotra → Haywire

New Team Ranked Map Pool

• Ancient Spires → Hideout
  
• Archipelago → Mongolian Heights
  
• Marshland → Socotra
  
• Forest Ponds → Danube River

For all the details about everything in Age of Empires IV - Season Nine Update, follow the link below!

[www.ageofempires.com]

October brings both tricks and treats to Age of Empires IV with the upcoming Season Nine Update – coming October 22nd! Our seasonal biome Hallow’s Hearth makes a return, and with it comes a fun (or frightening) twist on the wolf unit with the Full Moon game mode. Not only that, but we’re officially launching Multiplayer Pause, along with a bundle of balance changes, there’s also two new maps arriving with this update. Read on for more details, as well as a summary of changes we’ve made based on your feedback during last month’s Public Update Preview.

💬 DISCUSS: Official Forum[forums.ageofempires.com]
💬 DISCUSS: Steam Forum
🗣 JOIN: Official Discord[discord.gg]

Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

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!

[www.ageofempires.com]

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Season Nine

The wolves are howling, and a chill wind can be heard whispering through the trees. Get ready for a spooktacular second edition of Hallow’s Hearth with terrifying treats and monstrously fun challenges!

Login between October 22nd at 10:00AM PT (17:00 UTC) and November 19th to stake your claim.

Hallow’s Hearth Event Returns!

New Game Mode: Full Moon!

As our map monsters depart, a new threat emerges under the full moon. Werewolves, with their hungry fangs and claws, will prey on your soldiers and villagers! Raise your defenses to protect against these beasts and secure victory.
The Full Moon game mode is available in the game mode selection menu for skirmish and multiplayer.

Ranked Season Nine Updates

The leaves are falling, and the competition is heating up with a spectacle of contenders hitting the leaderboards! We welcome the start of Season 9 with a selection of rewards for both solo and team ranked. Can you rake in the wins? Season Nine begins October 22nd at 10:00am PT (17:00 UTC).

[h4]Map Pool Rotation[/h4]
We have some updated maps hitting the pool with the start of Ranked Season Nine! Dive in and prepare for victory!

1v1 Ranked Map Pool

• Golden Pit → Marshland
  
• Mongolian Heights –> Nagari
  
• Rocky River → Wetlands
  
• Socotra → Haywire

New Team Ranked Map Pool

• Ancient Spires → Hideout
  
• Archipelago → Mongolian Heights
  
• Marshland → Socotra
  
• Forest Ponds → Danube River

Updates Since the Public Update Preview

Thanks to everyone for the fantastic PUP participation this September! We’ve heard your feedback that some siege weapons weren’t impactful enough and that left ranged units feeling too strong, and many other things. To address these concerns, we’ve made changes to ranged unit counters, siege, and university upgrades. There are too many changes from the PUP to list here, but here are some balance highlights:

• Horseman-type and Man-at-Arm-type units have increased ranged armor in the Imperial Age.
  
• Mangonels and Nest of Bees are now more resistant to ranged damage and Mangonels will retain some projectile tracking.
  
• The Silk Bowstrings technology is now more expensive.
  
• Elite Army Tactics now also improves bonus damage in addition to base damage.
  
• And many more!

New Feature: Multiplayer Pause

It’s now possible to pause the game during a multiplayer match. This option is on by default in Quickmatch and Ranked and can be enabled (or disabled) by the lobby host in custom matches.

Any player may pause at any time, but each player has a limit of five (5) pauses per match. During only the first pause for each player, a minimum duration of 60 seconds must pass before any other players may un-pause. The player who paused the game can un-pause at any time. Subsequent pauses by the same player may be un-paused at any time by any player.

Your remaining pauses will display on the pause screen. While inputs are not available during the pause, it’s still possible to chat.

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!

[www.ageofempires.com]

: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.
For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

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The Red Bull Wololo tournament is back with Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado starting tomorrow, October 3rd at 7:00 am PT (10am ET / 14:00 UTC)! New legends will soon be forged through the fires of competition at Castillo de Almodóvar del Río in Spain – summoning the fiercest Age of Empires champions to challenge the reigning kings of the castle for their crown and Age of Mythology: Retold‘s first heroes!

Fearless contenders will join us for the main event starting on October 3rd and culminate with four champions proudly taking their new thrones on October 5th and 6th.

Plus, with over twenty-five years of legendary battles in the Age of Empires franchise, Red Bull Wololo: El Reinado will comprise of four titles in which competitors will be able to prove themselves worthy:

October 6

October 3, 4, 5, 6

October 5

October 6

You can catch the main event live on the Red Bull Gaming YouTube and Twitch[www.twitch.tv] channels. Whether you plan to witness the showdown from home or from the castle grounds, there will be plenty of action and activities for fans to enjoy.

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Check out previous gameplay videos from the last Red Bull Wololo Legacy tournament for Age of Empires: Definitive Edition, Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, and Age of Empires IV!