
Three new profile icons have been permanently added to the multiplayer Profile page. We’re celebrating the end of the year with the Winter Celebration Event! Overall, there are over 100 fixes in today’s build the biggest highlights of today’s update can be found below, while the rest of the update notes highlight everything coming to Age of Empires II. On the single-player front, campaigns will now display completion medals based on the difficulty on which you completed them, and several achievements have been fixed so you strive for that 100% completion. Ranked Matchmaking has gained a few new maps, as well as the ability to ban out maps based on the number of players. You’ll also notice a few new features and gameplay improvements implemented with today’s patch. This (of course) includes some much-needed (and much-requested) love to the Steppe Lancer, which has been a major point of contention over the past month. If you have questions regarding the 1.0b patch, or the other patches, please ask them here, don't start a new topic unless you have a good reason.Welcome, friends and medieval historians, to the first major update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition! We are proud to introduce the December game update, which is accompanied by a *looooong* list of bug fixes, our first major civilization balance changes, as well as new gameplay additions and features we’ve prepared for Age of Empires II.Īs the first major update since the game’s release last month, the short answer is: A LOT ! The teams have been working hard to improve everything from the stability and performance of the game to balance changes that bring some of the more powerful civilizations in line with the rest of the roster. The 1.0c patches can be found here, in multiple languages. This patch installs the following versions of Age of Empires/The Rise of Rome Expansion: Important: When installing make sure to double check the directory path. Keep in mind that this patch "downgrades" your version of AoE/RoR, and should mainly be used for Single Player. If this is the case, please downgrade to these earlier versions of the game, in order to load a saved game like normal and continue without crashes or bugs. This can be frustrating for scenario designers who use Missile objects in their works for example, made available through the Enhanced/Composite Editor (.dat files). If you have the AoE 1.0c or RoR 1.0a patch installed, or playing using the Collectors Edition of the game, you might expierence crashes when loading a saved game when playing certain scenario's or campaigns.
Since many people seem to have trouble with saved games that crash because of the missile/projectile bug, I have created this sticky so people can easily find the 1.0b patch needed to solve this problem.