Good day, everyone! This week’s minor update comes with a handful of stability, bug, and crash fixes to improve your game experience, as well as a few quality of life updates to enhance some of the game’s basic mechanics. There are plenty more fixes in the works for another update later this month, so if you don’t see a fix for an issue you’re encountering, be sure to visit our known issues page for insight into what’s on the way. You can also visit one of our official channels to share your experience with the community:

As always, there’s more to come! For now: enjoy the update, and 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 35209 Remember that you’ll need update your game in the Microsoft Store: If you are unable to launch the game after downloading the update, make sure you add (or re-add) the Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition client as an exception to your firewall and antivirus program. 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 35209 Remember that you’ll need update your game in Steam: That’s it; you’re ready to play!

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