Age DE Team April 10, 2025

Welcome to THE exciting update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition! We’ve decided the legendarily long patch notes weren’t long enough already, and have decided to include even more changes! You can view these addition changes below. And if you haven’t seen our mammoth patch notes preview already, can read that here:

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This is our largest ever update for AoE II: DE, and while there are plenty of notable things to look forward to in the notes below, here’s some of the big highlights:

• Bug fixes based on your feedback!
• New Visuals for Castles, Elite Unique Units, Monks and Monasteries!
• Technology Tree UI updates!
• Balance changes!
• New Maps!
• New features and content to support:
  • Random Map Scripting
  • Scenario Editor
  • Modding

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