In the latest Update 153015(August 12, 2025) notes for AOE2DE, there was a UI change stating: “Resource gauge bar is no longer displayed for resources that are not being gathered, preventing it from being shown for decaying animals.”
This adjustment significantly affects gameplay clarity—especially for players using Default Hearth Bar game setting. It becomes very difficult to determine the status of a killed animal (whether it’s dead or decaying). Now we have to manually click on each animal to check if it’s been fully harvested, which is quite inconvenient. (youtube link for reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fccj8ODksOE )
I hope this feature can be reverted to the previous behavior. It really helped with quick visual judgment.
