Welcome, friends, to January 2020 and the first MAJOR update of the new year! Once again, the team has been working hard to put together a list of bug fixes, changes, and new features to continue moving Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition along the path to world domination. This month’s update introduces a significant number of stability and performance improvements, a planet’s worth of map and map-generation changes, as well as AI and pathfinding improvements to help your armies as they traverse the world.

Today also marks the arrival of the LUNAR NEW YEAR event! Complete challenges to unlock new profile icons and special holiday mods; more details can be found in the section below.

We’re already working on February’s major update, so be sure to drop by any of our discussion channels to share your feedback with the development team:

Have an amazing new year; we’ll see you on the battlefield!

—The Age of Empires Team

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Download on the MICROSOFT STORE Open the Microsoft Store.

Click the [ ∙ ∙ ∙ ] symbol next to your profile picture.

symbol next to your profile picture. Select Downloads and updates.

Press the Get updates button to automatically detect, download, and install the latest changes to your game!

button to automatically detect, download, and install the latest changes to your game! Open the game. The title screen should read Build 34699 Remember that you’ll need update your game in the Microsoft Store: That’s it; you’re ready to play! Download on STEAM Open Steam.

Click on Library to see your games list.

to see your games list. Click Downloads at the bottom of the Library window.

at the bottom of the Library window. [If the new build does not download automatically,] click the Download Now button to manually download the new update.

button to manually download the new update. Open the game. The title screen should read Build 34699 Remember that you’ll need update your game in Steam: That’s it; you’re ready to play!

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