Happy December to our Age of Empires IV community! 2025 has been an exciting year for Age IV – filled with updates, patches, our launch on PlayStation 5, as well as the releases of Knights of Cross and Rose and Dynasties of the East – and we can’t wait to see you in 2026!
Before we start prepping for the New Year, however, we wanted to deliver on some important bug fixes and balance changes, many of which impact content newly introduced in Dynasties of the East.
This patch brings additional fixes to issues resulting in lost Perk Points, changes to our Ranked Map Pool, and adjustments to units like the Torguud, Worker Elephant, and Healer Elephant.
This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!
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Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!
—The Age of Empires Team
Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.
◆Patch 15.2.7380◆
Season Twelve
Ranked Season and Events Update
Season’s Feast
This event is full of gifts to celebrate the Season! We have many challenges and rewards to customize your profile to match the season of giving. Keep your eyes on the battlefield and see how many gifts you can find. Login between December 5th at 10:00am PT (1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC) and February 5th to share in the season’s festivities! In addition, we have made several improvements to the Season’s Feast game mode:See the presents fall from above, find and collect them all over the map.
- Improved spawn logic for the gift boxes so that they are not spawning in inaccessible locations and to maintain balance.
- Improved spawn logic for the gift boxes so that they are not spawning in inaccessible locations and to maintain balance.
- Gift boxes can be easily located with the new visual indicator.
- Season’s Feast’s rewards that spawn in water can now be picked up.
Map Pool Rotation
We’re excited to roll out a mid-season map pool update, bringing several iconic maps back into play. This rotation aims to refresh the experience while keeping the pool structure balanced. We hope you enjoy revisiting these classic maps and exploring how they shape up in the current meta. 1v1 Ranked Map PoolTeam Ranked Map Pool
- Craters –> King of The Hill
- Golden Heights –> Ancient Spires
- Flankwoods –> High View
- Boulder Bay –> Four Lakes
- Craters –> Mountain Clearing
- Continental –> Lake Side
- Hidden Valley –> Lipany
- Ocean Gateway –> Waterholes
This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!
:alertalert: DISCLAIMER
This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence. For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.
Patch 15.2.7445
Thank you to everyone who reported performance decreases following our release last week. Today we're releasing a new build, which should remedy the performance drops you're seeing when selecting larger numbers of units. Those of you who were reporting responsiveness issues or stuttering on the main menu when USB devices are plugged into the system should also see improvements.