Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition released just one day ago, and we’re already blown away by all the support and passion shown by the community!
You’ve also reported some ongoing issues (thanks for your feedback! ), and our team worked overnight to put together a fix for several critical issues. In the interest of getting you a stable build ASAP, we limited the number of issues we’re attempting to tackle with this patch; rest assured that we’ll keep working, and plan to have another update for you next week!
Here are the issues we’ve resolved as of today’s patch:
Performance/Optimization: Fixed an issue causing a low frame rate lock on some machines. (1)(2)(3)
Localization: Fixed an issue preventing the game from starting in the system’s default language. (2)
Mods: Fixed an issue which prevented mods from showing as available for some players.
We know there are still outstanding issues for some users, and we plan to address them as soon as possible. Please continue to report anything affecting your experience at aoe.ms/support!
Thank you!
—The Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition team
(1) An outstanding issue remains where usernames employing characters such as emojis can result in severely hindered performance. This will be resolved officially in a patch next week; as a workaround, please consider temporarily removing emojis and other non-standard characters from your username.
(2) This fix is live today in the Steam build; it will be available in the Microsoft Store build next week.
(3) Please continue to raise any outstanding issues to our support team at aoe.ms/support so they can provide one-on-one assistance.
Thank you all for the hard work getting these fixes out! We certainly appreciate the work and talent put into this definitive edition. I look forward to future updates and fixes for this game!
Please make it possible to see the decks from other players in the lobby!
Is so bad to start a treaty and after some minutes to have to quitt the game because not all players have treaty decks! It happens so many times that sometime i have no fun anymore to start/join a game.
You have to bring back some kind of rating system that is visible to people, is there something in the works?. Would be nice to Implement a NR.60 half map gamemode which allows you to build away from tc the last 20 minutes. And fix cards allocation in decks not beeing correct. sometimes a random card gets removed when clicking another one.
I love it. You clearly keep up your Game Quality. Keep up the great work microsoft
Congrats that you have to implement a hotfix on day 1, you really blew away my expectations of a hotfix on day 5, but this just hits all records…
Have you ever like… considered to, release a game when it’s playable/finished instead of stupid timelines?
But I guess the manager at the top needed that money asap so why release a finished game?
And guys keep in mind, AoE 2 DE on Release was even worse, Units could literally walk through walls
That there are people that still buying MS games on release is beyond me
It downloads and installed without me knowing? It’s just fixed? Is that what you mean? Or do I have to wipe computer and download the 30GB game all over again?
And if any of those options are true. How the hell is anyone suppose to know this if the developers are not courteous enough to say.
In theory, yes Steam should download it in the background and you don’t necessarily realize it.
But since it is a Day 1 Hotfix it is probably already included in the 30GB you downloaded.
