Hello, wonderful Age of Empires IV community! We hope you are enjoying Season Nine so far! First, we want to thank you for your feedback regarding changes introduced in this season. Based on what we’ve heard from you, we have some news to share regarding some of the gameplay changes we have arriving in an upcoming patch as well as some of the areas we’re continuing to observe for additional tuning in the future.
Our philosophy is that the game should grow and evolve alongside our player base, and siege and late gameplay are two areas where we saw a lot of opportunity to bring refreshing changes after three years of growth and play.
While we’re excited to tune the meta in this way, we also prize good balance – and we know you do as well. The process of balancing this much change will require iteration and incremental improvement, guided by your responses and the strategies we see you develop over time. Based on your initial feedback following the Season Nine release, we’ve already made some small changes introduced on October 31st and we have some other early adjustments coming to specific areas, such as cavalry being too strong in team games and balance around both infantry and siege.
To address these areas, we will be adjusting the following and more; Biology, siege damage against buildings, springald power level, and bombard cannon damage against elephants. Furthermore, adjustments to the strongest ranked civilizations in team games, such as the Abbasid Dynasty, will also be included in this patch. We hope you enjoy these changes when they release, and we’d ask that you please keep posting your feedback in the Official Forums as it is immensely helpful for us to see and digest your thoughts as we continue our planning for an early 2025 patch.
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As we continue onward with Season Nine and approach the incredible milestone that is our tenth season, we want to look ahead as a community of developers and players towards the future of the game and the path we are set on together. We’ve already shared that 2025 is an exciting year for Age of Empires IV with DLC on the way, and we truly believe that fine-tuning and refreshing some of the gameplay experience along the way lends itself well to some of the excitement to come.
Thank you, good luck, and have fun!
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