Since the end of October, Age of Empires 4 is finally available after a long development period and knows how to assert itself. Nevertheless, there is still room for improvement, especially on the technical front. With a first patch, developer Relic is now addressing a few of these problems.
That Update 7989 for Age of Empires 4 is primarily dedicated to some technical inadequacies and also makes an initial balance change. We’ll tell you what will change with the update and how your saved replays are doing.
By the way, you can take part in our survey while the update is loading. We would like to know from you which features you would like for Age of Empires 4. Click here for the survey:
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Age of Empires 4: That changes with Update 7989
To dampen the anticipation a little: There are no patch notes that are long with this update. Instead, the developers are focusing on five specific changes:
- Performance: When panning the camera over the map, there should now be fewer FPS drops
- Life bar: The life bars should now be displayed permanently and no longer disappear if you have activated the option
- Mongols: The Mongolian village center can no longer be placed next to an enemy village center. Instead, it must now be in a revealed area and more than 20 spaces away from an opposing village center.
- Steam: Players on Steam can now link their account to their Xbox Live account
- Minor improvements in translations
When will the patch be available?
How big is the download? Despite the few changes, the update in the Xbox app is 9.62 gigabytes. With Steam you only have to download 367 MB (thanks to community member Dingenskirchen
for the information).
Saves and replays: you need to know that
If you save a lot of repetitions of your matches, you should arm yourself before downloading the update. According to Relic Entertainment, you will no longer be able to use replays of your previous matches after the update. If you want to save some particularly exciting matches, you should save them separately using external recording tools such as OBS.
On the other hand, there should be no restrictions for scores of ongoing matches. The team have taken additional steps to ensure that your saves are not affected by this particular update.
One hundred percent, however, it can obviously not be ruled out that incompatible save versions could possibly arise.
More about Age of Empires 4
Age of Empires 4 is one of the most important games of the year – not only for our GameStar community, but also for the real-time strategy genre. In our test, our strategy expert Fabiano will tell you whether Age of Empires 4 can withstand this pressure:
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In addition, we can help you with numerous guides. Whether it’s a complete solution for the campaign, tips and tricks for the individual factions or build orders: you will definitely find what you are looking for in our guide collection for Age of Empires 4.
