Stability and Performance Improvements:
- Performance optimizations should increase frame rates up to 15%
- Researching spies during treaty should no longer causes a desync
- Extremely long games should no longer desync due to high turn counts
- Quitting via ALT+F4 should no longer cause a desync
- Resigning but staying in game no longer desyncs after remaining players save/load
- The desync message should no longer appear over the post game screen
Community Focused Bug Fixes:
- Hosts are able to set a password for their lobby
- Audio for notifications should no longer overlap and cause a loud noise
- Audio for garrisoning / un-garrisoning should no longer overlap
- Lobby civ pools should now be consistent for each host player
- Lobby civ pools should now display the conquerors civilizations correctly
- Lobby maps should now display random special and real world at the top of the list
- Lobby maps no longer displays random special twice in the list
- Lobby maps now select DLC3 Random Real World maps correctly when appropriate
- The password checkbox should now remain when changing datasets
- Navigating through aoe.net should now correctly prompt the password popup (when needed)
Balance Improvements:
- Magyars no longer need to build a blacksmith to receive free blacksmith upgrades
- Magyars now receive Siege Engineers
- Magyar Scout Cavalry, Light Cavalry and Hussar cost -15% (up from -10%)
- Magyars Recurve Bow now adds +1 attack and +1 range (up from +1 range)
- Indians no longer have the Arbalest upgrade
- Malay Karambit Warrior have +1 attack
- Fire ships have -1 pierce armor
- Fast Fire ships have -1 pierce armor
- Viking warship discount changed to -15%, -15%, -20% (up from -10%, -15%, -20%)
- Italians fishing ships now cost -15 wood (down from -25 wood)