Patch 5.7 (Age of Empires II)

Patch 5.7 is a patch in Age of Empires II HD: Rise of the Rajas, released on January 24, 2018. It addresses a variety of balance changes, improvements and bug fixes.

General Community Bug Fixes

 * Addressed a desync found when file transferring custom maps
 * Advancing through replay chapters should no longer cause a desync
 * Visibility settings should no longer cause a desync
 * Pressing escape/enter in the lobby password text field should now function correctly
 * Co-op teams should now display correctly in game and on the post-game screens
 * Co-op players should be able to ready correctly on the first try
 * Restore game and save lists should now correctly show DLC requirement icons
 * Audio taunts setting now saves to the players profile correctly
 * Some localized text clipping issues were addressed

Lobby Improvements

 * Players should no longer be able to join fake lobbies
 * Players should now correctly time out if attempting to join an invalid lobby
 * Players should no longer crash when excepting an invite from a custom campaign
 * Players should now correctly cancel joining a lobby even when selected quickly
 * Lobby should no longer crash when kicking players who are in the Tech Tree
 * Lobby settings should now remember the team random option
 * Lobby settings should no longer appear blank after disabling DLCs
 * Lobby names should now scale in font size based on title length
 * Lobby button sound effects should now play when changing names
 * Lobby reset button now has a sound effect when pressed
 * Lobby data set icon should now maintain the correct icon on subsequent loads
 * Lobby browser custom scenario setting has been added to the game type filter
 * Lobby browser location setting now has the any option at the top
 * Lobby browser location setting should no longer appear blank after selecting reset
 * Lobby browser standard victory filter should now function correctly

Gameplay Improvements

 * Starting a game with mods should no longer encounter a rare crash
 * Under attack text notifications now play a chat sound
 * Villagers should now lure animals to the town center more frequently
 * Trade Carts should no longer lose their gold when pressing the stop hotkey
 * Lock teams should now disable tributing to enemy player in single player
 * Garrison unit UI button should now be the correct size
 * Treaty warnings should now be displayed when building inappropriately
 * Tech tree should now close correctly after opening it with F2
 * Campaign objective window tabs are no longer too low
 * Campaign intro slides audio no longer becomes misaligned when using alt tab
 * Campaign Honfoglalas now has the correctly objectives
 * Campaign Dos Pilas no longer has a gate that disappears after the first objective
 * Campaign Dracula 4 and 5 now have correct enemy player colours
 * Campaign Bapheus no longer triggers diplomacy after killing Bey Metin

Balance Improvements

 * Condottiero now have unique armor class (only resisting bonus damage from Gunpowder Units, not from other anti-infantry attacks)
 * Condottiero -1 pierce armor (from 1 to 0)
 * Condottiero -1 attack (from 10 to 9)
 * Elite Battle Elephant cost increased from 800f 500g to 1200f 900g
 * Elite Battle Elephant research time increased from 80s to 100s
 * Malay Battle Elephants 30% cheaper (rather than 25%)
 * Elite Karambit Warrior -1 attack (from 8 to 7)
 * (Elite) Battle Elephant blast radius -0.1 (from 0.5 to 0.4)
 * (Elite) Camel Archer -5 HP (from 60/65 to 55/60 without Bloodlines)
 * (Elite) Camel Archers -2 armor vs Camels (from 2 to 0)
 * (Elite) Camel Archers -2 armor vs anti-cavalry archer attacks (from 2 to 0)
 * (Elite) Camel Archers -2 attack vs Rams (from 2 to 0)
 * Ethiopians lose the free Halberdier upgrade
 * Howdah cost +200f (from 200f 300w to 400f 300w)
 * Howdah effect reduced from +1/+2 armor to +1/+1 armor
 * Arquebus increases projectile speed of Bombard Cannons and Bombard Towers by +0.2 (from 0 to 0.2, used to be 0.5 prior to patch 5.2)
 * Organ Gun +1 spread damage (from 1 to 2)
 * (Elite) Arambai -0.05 speed (from 1.35 to 1.3)
 * (Elite) Arambai -1 attack
 * Elite Arambai -2 armor vs anti-cavalry archer attacks (from 2 to 0)
 * Slavs Farm bonus now properly works after researching Wheelbarrow and Hand Cart
 * Chatras effect increased from +30 HP to +50 HP
 * Eagle Warrior training time +3s (from 32s to 35s)
 * Eagle Warrior -0.05 speed (from 1.2 to 1.15)
 * Anti-camel bonus increased for all anti-cavalry units (except camels)
 * Malians lose free Gold Shaft Mining