[Age of Empires 4] AOE4 Update 14681 Patch Notes

Team Game Map Sizes

Team game map sizes have been reduced across the board.

• We now support playing 4v4 on the Large map size, and 3v3 on the Medium map size – these options are now supported for custom games
• In Quick Match, 2v2 games will now be played on Small (down from Medium), 3v3 games on Medium (down from Large), and 4v4 on Large (down from Gigantic)
• Gigantic maps are still available for custom games. Please continue to give us feedback on how map sizes feel in team games!
• Updated how the spawns on Warring Islands work in the case of uneven teams (where the difference between the largest and smallest team is greater than 2 (e.g. in a 4v2v1v1). In cases like this, each player will now get their own island in order to ensure that the larger team doesn’t have a distinct resource and build space advantage. Teammates’ islands should be in close proximity though, so controlling the seas with your teammates is still important!

Specific Maps

Altai

• The amount of trees on Altai has been increased. In addition to starting dense forests, numerous small dense forests have been added

Dev note: We saw that games pushing into Imperial Age on Altai could often result in the entire map being harvested of wood, so we’ve added numerous small dense woods around the map to help alleviate the wood starvation late-game. The forests we added were small forests to make sure they did not choke up the openings on the map, as we want Altai to remain a relatively open map.

Mountain Pass

• Trade Posts on Mountain Pass have been moved to spawn halfway between the corner of the map and wherever the mountain range hits the map edge. This should help ease cases of trade being too vulnerable as soon as one team loses the central pass

French Pass

• To open up the map a bit more on French Pass, we’ve shortened the mountain ranges

Dev note: French Pass was playing as a quite turtle-y map, with the mountains reaching far enough towards the map edge that walling off entire sides of the map was quite cheap to do. We’ve cut the mountain ranges a bit shorter on both sides to open up the sides of the map for more dynamic engagements and army maneuvering.

Boulder Bay

• Boulder Bay has had tuning done to player spawning to ensure that the maps loaded correctly, and placed players and their team in the correct areas

The Danube River

The Danube River map has had a few tweaks to make trade more viable and open up more play options for the hill side of the map.

• Both trade posts will now spawn in opposing corners of the hill

Dev note: this should allow for both teams to have equal access to trade independent of water control.

• Sacred Sites have been moved slightly – one is now near the edge of the map on the island, where the old island trade post spawned, and one is in the center of the hill, with a new path leading down to the bridge

Dev note: we wanted to open up play on the hill more than was happening before. The added path, along with shorter cliffs overall, should make this a more interesting area to control and contest.

• Two boar have been added to the center of the island to maintain its’ economic importance

Royal Rumble Mod

• Fixed an issue where the Abbasid could use Faith ability to single target convert an enemy King and would break Royal Rumble Mod
• Fixed an issue where players could Delete their kings in the Royal Rumble Mod

Editor

• Fixed a Fatal Scar Error caused by a missing parameter in the Royal Rumble template