Update 160062 is a minor update for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition - Chronicles: Alexander the Great which was released on November 6, 2025. It addresses various fixes focused on polishing the Alexander the Great campaign, including tooltips and UI improvements, lobby and matchmaking fixes for Chronicles civilizations, audio and narration, general localization and bug fixes, and more.
Game[]
Stability and performance[]
- Fixed a crash that could occur when opening older save files due to the radial menu initializing.
- Fixed a crash when launching Chronicles: Alexander the Great campaign on the Microsoft Store platform.
- Fixed a crash when starting Prithviraj 3: Hand of a Princess on Hard difficulty that occurred immediately after loading into gameplay.
UI[]
- Fixed an issue where civilization details would not appear when hovering over civilizations in the Skirmish Civilization Selection screen.
- Fixed an issue where civilization icons could persist for removed AI players in Skirmish after changing the civilization set.
- Fixed an issue where the player icon progress could reset after restarting the game, causing unlocked 10-win icons to be lost.
- With Extended Stats setting on, fixed an issue where the Build Queue would overlap with the Nearby Enhancement Count icon on the Achaemenid Town Center and Georgian Fortified Church.
- Fixed an issue where using the arrow keys in certain text boxes could cause the UI to become unresponsive.
Xbox[]
- Fixed an issue where menu narration on consoles failed to announce required button prompts across multiple menus, impacting accessibility.
- Fixed a hotkey / input related crash affecting Xbox Series S and Xbox Series X players.
PlayStation[]
- Fixed an issue where menu narration on consoles failed to announce required button prompts across multiple menus, impacting accessibility.
- Fixed a memory related crash affecting PS5 users.
Gameplay[]
- Fixed an issue where groups of Monks lost their charged conversion when switching targets, preventing conversions from completing.
- Fixed an issue where Monks stopped pursuing targets they were converting despite having Line of Sight, instead of continuing to follow until the conversion completed.
- Fixed an issue on the Aquarena map where invalid or missing Sea Gates, walls, or towers, could generate especially with odd player counts, leading to blocked or unbalanced spawns.
- Fixed an issue where Gurjara Camel Scouts lacked standard scout behavior.
Chronicles[]
Achievements[]
- Indica achievement now unlocks after both collecting all 10 treasures and encountering all events (in Alexander the Great 17: A Voyage of Discovery).
Audio[]
- Fixed scenario music for Battle for Greece 21: The Fall of Athens and Alexander the Great 18: Wrath, where the scenario music would play over the final cutscene audio.
UI[]
- Fixed an issue where the Battle for Greece grand campaign difficulty selection was not narrated, failing to announce the current setting or changes, when menu narration was enabled.
- Users who do not have any Chronicles expansion installed, when clicking on the Chronicles tab on the main menu, will now be prompted "You have no Chronicles DLC installed".
- In English, fixed an issue where the Thracian civilization technology tree preview was truncated, preventing all of the bonuses from being displayed.
Tooltips[]
- Fixed tooltips for Chronicles civilizations' Merchant Ships and Transport Ships incorrectly mentioning "Mouse and Keyboard" input on console.
- On console, fixed the tooltips for the Kopis and Kotthybos upgrades at the Macedonian Command Post not appearing on the gamepad radial menu.
Localization[]
- The Puru civilization name now appears as "Orang Puru" in the Malay language, in parity with other civilization names.
- Alexander the Great 17: A Voyage of Discovery: Fixed incorrect Spanish Latin American translation for Empty Supply Cart (now reading "Carreta de suministros vacía") and removed an extra exclamation mark for Nearchos' dialogue.
- Fixed an issue where Japanese subtitles were cut off for Alexander the Great campaign cutscenes.
Campaigns[]
- Battle for Greece 5: Chasing Smoke: Fixed an issue where the final arrow volley from Ambush Site 5 could get stuck mid-air instead of completing its shot.
- Alexander the Great 4: Right to Rule: Fixed an issue where an extra post-victory dialogue played after defeating 3 of 4 tribes, incorrectly referencing the fourth tribe.
- Alexander the Great 12: The City at the End of the World: The tooltip title for the Town Center's top icon now reads "Constructing Districts" on console gamepad radial menu.
- Alexander the Great 6, 7, 12, and 14: Fixed an issue for PS5 users where visual text indicators for objectives were not appearing.
Lobbies and matchmaking[]
- Fixed an issue where creating a Chronicles custom lobby on first launch could wrongly block match start with a "You do not own the Chronicles DLC" message despite owning the expansion for Console and Microsoft Store players.
Lobbies and matchmaking[]
- Fixed an issue where players without expansion ownership could load into matches as expansion civilizations in co-op (same color) by readying up and swapping civilizations in the lobby.
- Fixed an issue with matchmaking for Quick Play, and Ranked Lobbies where an error would appear when queuing for a match.
AI[]
- Fixed Return of Rome AI players not allocating Villagers to resources and sometimes remaining idle.
Modding[]
- Fixed an issue in the folder path logic for Return of Rome mods, causing certain mods in this game mode to not work correctly.
