Age of Empires: Definitive Edition

aka: AoE:DE, Darwin
Moby ID: 106506

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Windows

Aug 19, 2019 Release
Published by: Microsoft Corporation
Developed by: Forgotten Empires LLC, Tantalus Media Pty Ltd.
Additional Programming by: Relic Entertainment Inc
Original Concept by: Ensemble Studios Corporation
Publishing label: Xbox Game Studios
Distributed by: Valve Corporation
Countries: flag Worldwide
Comments: Steam release
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Windows Patches

2019-08-20

v28218 patch - fixed an issue where the game would halt due to anti-virus checks, fixed several issues with duplicate region names and region selection not behaving as expected, fixed a issue on the campaign completion screens which would cause the text to be overwritten by the statistics buttons, fixed a crash caused when closing the post-game statistics screen if a spectator was presen, improved the behavior of the lobby browser when refreshing the list

2019-08-28

v28529 patch - the game no longer auto-pauses when switching focus away from the game, fixed a rare issue that resulted in an 'Unable to setup storagePoint' error when launching the game, reduced the collision size of villagers to improve resource collection/pathfinding, ranked team games now require even teams, the multiplayer region now correctly defaults to the detected region of the host, fixed an issue where the last player to join a ranked lobby was incorrectly muted, fixed a rare issue where pressing the ESC key would not exit out of the tech tree overlay

2020-01-15

v34483 patch - performance improvements, Eye Candy option added, cross-platform invitations implemented, bug and crash fixes, UI and lobby tweaks, localization corrections

2020-02-20

v35199 patch - added a dependency in order to prevent audio issues caused by not running the correct version of DirectX, fixed an issue where the cursor would change to a repair hammer when hovering over buildings at 100% health, fixed an issue where certain units would deal far greater damage than intended in Classic Mode, crash fixes, tooltip corrections

2020-07-06

v38862 patch - unit stances added, bug fixes, performance improvements, improved matchmaking lobby, reorganized ranked ladders (paired with a ladder reset), balance changes, random map changes, reduced install size from ~17GB to ~12GB mostly by graphic asset compression, anti-cheat improvements, solid farms option added, audio level adjustments, UI tweaks

2021-04-07

v46777 patch - bug fixes, balance tweaks, pathfinding and stance improvements, anti-cheat improvements, using the Shift + Delete command to cancel unfinished buildings will now properly refund their cost, fixed an issue which would cause the Solid Farms setting to default to "on" for some players, fixed an issue where game chat sent to ALL players (using "*") would not be visible for player 8, fixed an issue where the Team Together option might fail to place players in the proper positions while spectators were also present in the game, added an indicator next to the player names in the scoreboard and selection panel denoting which player you are currently spectating


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