Patch 3.9 is a patch for Age of Empires II HD: The Forgotten. It was released on April 8, 2015 and came with 'several user facing, and under the hood changes to the game.' It also marked the end of Windows XP support for the game.
Changes[]
- Real world maps now have a 'team together' option designed to ensure those 2v2 games are more about team battles.
- The team lock checkbox functionality has been improved to ensure the correct status is displayed when scenario files are used during game creation. If you're creating a scenario, putting team lock in your scenario will now properly ensure users can't break the scenario by switching teams.
- Many users should see another improvement to performance within their game. The biggest changes should be visible when large numbers of units and trees are on screen simultaneously, and we've seen some very large framerate jumps on lower end systems. This can also help with scrolling speeds and perception of 'lag' in multiplayer games since more users will be running the simulation at higher speeds. If you're curious about your framerates, hit F11 twice in the game (once is the in-game clock) to see what framerate the render engine is running at.
- Windows XP will not be supported for new updates.
