Patch 5.5 (Age of Empires II)

Patch 5.5 is a patch in Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas, released on September 14, 2017. It adresses a variety of balance changes and bug fixes.

Stability and Performance Improvements

 * Performance optimizations should increase frame rates up to 15%
 * Researching Spies during treaty should no longer causes a desync
 * Extremely long games should no longer desync due to high turn counts
 * Quitting via ALT+F4 should no longer cause a desync
 * Resigning but staying in game no longer desyncs after remaining players save/load
 * The desync message should no longer appear over the post game screen

Community Focused Bug Fixes

 * Hosts are able to set a password for their lobby
 * Audio for notifications should no longer overlap and cause a loud noise
 * Audio for garrisoning / un-garrisoning should no longer overlap
 * Lobby civ pools should now be consistent for each host player
 * Lobby civ pools should now display the conquerors civilizations correctly
 * Lobby maps should now display random special and real world at the top of the list
 * Lobby maps no longer displays random special twice in the list
 * Lobby maps now select DLC3 Random Real World maps correctly when appropriate
 * The password checkbox should now remain when changing datasets
 * Navigating through aoe.net should now correctly prompt the password popup (when needed)

Balance Improvements

 * Magyars no longer need to build a Blacksmith to receive free blacksmith upgrades
 * Magyars now receive Siege Engineers
 * Magyar Scout Cavalry, Light Cavalry and Hussar cost -15% (up from -10%)
 * Magyars Recurve Bow now adds +1 attack and +1 range (up from +1 range)
 * Indians no longer have the Arbalest upgrade
 * Malay Karambit Warrior have +1 attack
 * Fire Ships have -1 Pierce Armor
 * Fast Fire Ships have -1 pierce armor
 * Viking warship discount changed to -15%, -15%, -20% (up from -10%, -15%, -20%)
 * Italians Fishings Ships now cost -15 wood (down from -25 wood)