Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition

Content · 3

• The market stalls customization has been added to the Danish Home City.

  market stalls customization

• A new statue customization depicting Peter Tordenskjold has been added to the Danish Home City.

  statue customization

• The Schumacher Rocket now uses a new dashing design.

  dashing design

System · 3

• Support has been implemented for toggling new cliff unloading behavior through triggers.

  cliff unloading behavior

• Various model optimizations were implemented for the Danish Home City to improve performance.

  model optimization

• Various model optimizations were implemented for the Polish Home City to improve performance.

  model optimization

UI · 5

• The Reset Rotation button no longer remains visible after expanding the minimap.

  minimap reset rotation button

• A brand-new Independence Technology Tree sheet has been unveiled to help players compare culture and civilization bonuses.

  technology tree sheet

• New leaderboards and matchmaking queues have been introduced for Independence Mode.

  leaderboards and matchmaking queue

• Pre-ranked matchmaking dialog now properly displays the player's rank titles instead of displaying 'Casual Rank'.

  casual rank display

• Indian and Native American Fishing Boats now use their unique icons instead of re-using European ones.

  icon

Fix · 17

• The proportions of several houses in the Polish Home City were corrected.

  house proportion

• An issue where casual rank occasionally displayed incorrectly when match history failed to load has been fixed.

  casual rank display

• Offset rocket projectiles that were visible during un/packing animations have been fixed.

  rocket projectile

• Researching native improvements that enable units at the Explorer after researching Castramentation no longer causes abilities to be pushed down.

  ability layout

• The Cossack Daredevil is no longer shown twice in the Fort's command panel.

  command panel display

• The Blood Brothers card no longer causes technologies to become misaligned in the Stable.

  technology alignment

• An issue with incorrect assignments of wins and losses in ranked Treaty lobbies has been fixed.

  lobby win and loss assignment

• An issue preventing Xbox Live game invites from working for players on Steam has been fixed.

  game invite

• Repeated failures when joining a game as a spectator have been fixed.

  spectator joining

• Ranked and Quick Match games now appear correctly in the spectator list.

  spectator list

• The fishing animation for Fishing Holes has been polished for the Samí Noaidi.

  fishing animation

• Missing sound cues for confirming orders have been fixed for the Imperial Rocket.

  sound cue

• An issue where the spectator browser failed to show some in-progress matches has been fixed.

  spectator browser

• An issue with hosting LAN lobbies has been fixed.

  lan lobby

• The Infinite resources flag is now properly reset when loading player resource data from a scenario.

  infinite resources flag

• The proportions of several houses in the Danish Home City were corrected.

  house proportion

• The second monk is no longer invisible when using the Tokugawa Japanese Hero customization.

  monk visibility

General · 1

• Adjustments are being made to new civilizations, challenges, modes, maps, and units based on player feedback, alongside balance adjustments for other civilizations and fixes for graphics and UI.; Data file reference documentation for modding is now included alongside game files in the ModDocumentation folder.

  general