Welcome trailblazers to another exciting update for [i]Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition[/i]! While there are plenty of notable fixes and features in today’s update, you can look forward to lots of balance updates, plus some localization fixes based on community feedback!
[quote][i]This is a data patch that will update your game automatically after starting. We recommend you to stay in the main menu for about 2 minutes for the download to complete. Please keep in mind that due to technical reasons only limited changes are possible in a data patch (no graphics, no maps, etc).[/i][/quote]
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[quote][h4][b]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![/b] [/h4]
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[code]◆ Patch for Build 15.59076 ◆
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General
Units & Buildings
- African Bandit Catamaran: Damage multiplier against guardians now only applies to water guardians.
- Chevauleger (House of Wittelsbach): Melee damage multiplier against Skirmishers improved to 0.75x (up from 0.6x).
- Fishing Boats: Reduced sound volume of fishing.
- Hand Shock Infantry: Slightly increased the obstruction radius from 0.49 to 0.59 for Chasquis, Chimu Runners, Coyote Runners, Disciples, Rattan Shields, Shotel Warriors, and Tiger Claws.
- Hot Air Balloon: Fixed a bug that made descending hot air balloons count as unit losses.
- Inquisitor: Cost increased to 110c (from 100c) and train time to 45s (from 35s).
- Javelin Rider: XP reward corrected to 11 (down from 12).
- Lipka Tatar (House of Jagiellon): Ranged damage reduced to 10 (from 12.5).
- Mounted Rifleman: No longer considered a Counter Skirmisher.
- Napoleon Gun: Cost increased to 475c (from 450c).
- Royal Dragoon (House of Bourbon): Range increased to 17 (from 16).
- Wokou Pirate: Fixed the non-functional melee attack in the Melee stance.
Cards & Technologies
- 11 Renegade Spanish (II, Aztecs, Inca, 500c): Cost increased to 600c.
- Oresund Customs (I, House of Oldenburg): Now also affects American Citadels obtained from the Maya native settlement.
- Sarmatism (House of Jagiellon): No longer grants Lipka Tatars +1 extra range on top of the default range increase.
- Sudanese Red Sea Trade (Sudanese): Technology research time increased to 30s (up from 10s).
- TEAM 3 Villagers (Aztecs, Ethiopians, Haudenosaunee): Only one of these cards can now be sent per team.
- War Ceremony: Reduced the effectiveness the War Ceremony by -2.5% on average.
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