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Patch 11009 is releasing later this week, and so we wanted to provide a preview of what’s to come for Age of Empires IV.
In Patch 11009, we’re focused on responding to a number of items you, as the players, have brought to our attention! As always, we appreciate you for acting as our compass, as we continue to balance and improve.
This time around, we’re making some general changes to siege to ensure there’s sufficient counter play, making changes to reduce animation cancelling’s impact on rate of fire to re-focus on high-level strategy, and doing another pass on balance for a variety of our civilizations. Read on for the full list of patch notes, including in-depth developer descriptions of why these adjustments were made!
NOTE: Upon updating to this patch, you will no longer be able to utilize replays from previous updates. Campaign and Skirmish saves from the previous patch are impacted and will no longer be accessible after you update.
Editor’s Note: We added two additional notes under General – removing Warring Islands and Archipelago from Quick Match map pool, and adjustments to Quick Match search. We also added some bug fixes for the Mongols under the Civ-Specific Changes section. Lastly, we removed the patch stream information (VOD here) & patch notes subject to change as these are now final!
Editor’s Note (Feb. 14, 2022): There are two additional notes that were not part of the patch notes when we deployed the patch on Feb. 7, 2022: Trebuchet Bonus Damage; and the Chinese Official Supervise change. The Trebuchet change is below under General – Siege. Regarding the Chinese Official change, some of you have called out an uncommunicated change to the Chinese Official’s Supervise tech, which saw its production bonus reduced from 200% to 150%. This particular reduction was unintended for Patch 11009; however, we are considering this for a future update, alongside other tweaks we believe pair well with this change without underpowering the Chinese. We’ll be reviewing this change based on feedback we’ve seen and assessing our next steps for balancing the Chinese civilization.
Download on the Microsoft StoreRemember 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. Under settings, in the upper right hand corner it should show you on Build 5.0.11009.0
If you are unable to launch the game after downloading the update, make sure you add (or re-add) the Age of Empires IV client or folder as an exception to your firewall and antivirus program.
That’s it; you’re ready to play!
Download on Steam Remember that you’ll need to update your game in Steam:- Open Steam.
- Click on Library to see your games list.
- Click Downloads at 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. Under settings, in the upper right hand corner it should show you on Build 5.0.11009.0
That’s it; you’re ready to play!
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