Update 40874 is a patch in Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, released on September 22, 2020.
Challenge scenario[]
- Barbarossa Brawl: A new scenario available from the main menu.
Stability and performance[]
- Implemented additional safeguards to defend against unsanctioned cheating.
- Fixed an issue where queuing for consecutive matches with the same party could result in the loss of connection to multiplayer services.
- Fixed a rare desync caused when players used "layering mode" in the Scenario Editor before joining a multiplayer game.
Gameplay[]
- Fixed a rare issue where Gates could be permanently (unintentionally) locked in the "open" position.
Map balance[]
General[]
- Increased the average distance between Berry Bushes and players' starting Town Center from 8 to 10 squares.
Maps[]
- Arabia: Reduced the number of starting forests to 3 wooded areas per player, and increased their distance from the starting Town Center. Added elevated terrain around players' bases. Reduced the size of the oases and the length of cliffs that spawn throughout the map.
- Bog Islands: Players now start with five extra Fishing Ships on Empire Wars, thus restoring the starting economic population to the standard 27 units.
- Fortress: Removed unnecessary resource and animal spawns from the Deathmatch and Infinite Resource match types. Now, 7 extra Villagers will appear on all game modes, not just Regicide.
- MegaRandom: Fixed a particular map generation which denied some players of their starting forests
- Scandinavia: Players now start with a Mill and five extra Villagers next to their Deer on Empire Wars, thus restoring the starting economic population to the standard 27 units.
- Socotra: Removed unnecessary resource spawns from the Infinite Resources match type. Starting resources are now generated farther from players' Town Centers.
AI[]
- Fixed an issue where Villagers could endlessly bounce off each other in certain circumstances.
- Fixed a rare issue where Villagers could get stuck when navigating to resource drop sites.
Localization[]
- Fixed several Historical Battles where the incorrect audio lines would play when set to Castilian Spanish.