Age of Mythology: Retold – Update Update 19.12998

Age of Mythology: Retold Discussion
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Ultimate Fan Pack – New Addition!

Recently, the last of the announced monthly Pantheon Pin-up challenges was completed. Players have regularly asked whether there is a way to access the months they missed. You can now unlock all 12 Pantheon Pin-up portraits by owning the Ultimate Fan Pack!

Graphics

  • Added a unique variation of the Shrine for the Aztecs! Players with the Blood and Bones Pack can view it in an alternate, bloodier appearance! You can toggle the visual for all Blood and Bones Pack units in the DLC tab using the “Show Unique Unit Visuals” setting.

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Pretty good patch.

Notably I like:

Greek:

  • Hades sentinel spam finally adressed.
  • Earthquake finally useful

Egyptian:

  • Ra fishing economy about to go crazy

  • Other small changes. Still interesting

Norse:

  • Ox carts weaker and cheaper

Atlantean:

  • Kronos timeshift changes are interesting. I did think it was too fast

Chinese:

  • Dao Swordsmen big speed buff! Shennong might be really good now
  • Rock Solid reflecting damage to melee attackers is pretty crazy. Though useless in high level lobbies where players use heroes.

Japanese:

  • Shogun useful now, Dragon Typhoon finally doesnt oneshot all armies (hopefully)

Aztecs:

  • Pretty big economy buff (starting wood, more favor)
  • Jaguar riders age earlier for Tezca, crazy
  • Snake myth unit only 12 favor. TUNKULUCHU ONLY 3 POP AND 20 FAVOR!! (AS IF IT WASNT BEST MYTH UNIT IN THE GAME??)
  • Quinametzin more range and cheaper. Juicy.
  • Warrior priest stronger in combat now (they reduced damage to non-myths but reduced cost and increased hitpoints lol)
  • Quetzacoatl Teixipla has better stats and might be useful now
  • War hut soldiers are insanely gold cheap now. This opens new avenues of long aztec games.
  • Coyote warriors have now almost as good base stats as Huskarl. They will be insane, especially for Quartz (+15% hp) and Tezca (Jaguar rider age 3)
  • Otontin got a buff they needed. They were kinda thrash for 4 pop destroyer-like unit with no good techs available.

Scenario stuff:

  • Finally we can adjust timeshift time. It wasnt working before
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Norse had 40% of the match total favor removed, and in exchange they were given a 20% discount on carts. A questionable trade.

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It was a bug that was fixed. They didnt really need to get anything in return for fixing a bug.

Thar said, loki did get a hersir speed buff, time will tell how impactful that becomes.

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The changes to load DDS files for the UI should not impact existing UI mods. Overriding files with PNG files should still function as expected.

Unfortunately, my portrait mod that uses PNGs isn’t working. I managed to get it working by renaming the PNGs to DDS, but this made the mod unusable in the daily challenge (the message “data mods are not allowed in daily celestial challenge” appears).

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The Teixiptlas need a x0.1 multiplier vs vills. The rush can’t be their intended use.

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Regarding DDS, could it be that the change from PNG to DDS for unit icons and other UI elements led to a decrease in image quality?
For example, this is Tezcatlipoca’s unit icon before and after the update:

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Or did I do something wrong with extraction?

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They will never do that kind of nerf because that would make them be way worse against villagers then a regular Warrior Priest.

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Grande patch ! Il buff alla chimera era da tempo che lo sostenevo, ora potenziate anche il Vendicatore! Ottimo buff anche per Fujin : ora costruire daymio o naginata con susanoo è molto più efficiente di prima e rende susanoo più flessibile sulle sinergie militari (fanteria o cavalleria? ) ora funzionano .

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It’s easier for them to just create a broken super-powerful unit or godpower rather than making traps, ambush or other unique mechanics truly useful.

This is why I don’t like the Aztecs, is a civ with a lot of fun potential but at the moment it just abuses those 2-3 things every game.

I like the other civs more because they don’t have useless things such as traps in their kit, they use their tools to the fullest.

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the traps are pretty useful to be honest you just have to prepare them before you go into battle.

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The art direction on the portraits is still awful. It looks like something straight out of the Bing AI Image Generator, same generic, overprocessed style.

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What makes you think this isn’t true?

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This nerf to Set was completely unnecessary.

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They just want Set to not use the mythunites like all the other civs.

@Cajocu01
Apparently they tweaked something with norse favor generation, because I didn’t feel any decrease in its influx.

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According to my preliminary calculations, the favor for destroying buildings should have been 40% of the total for the match. But there were never any insane numbers.

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Yea it was bugged and they adressed it in the patch. Same for hunt values, but to a lesser extent. Was giving more favor than intended.