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Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 06:18
by aaryngend
https://www.ageofempires.com/news/aoe3de-hotfix-6847/

Good day, everyone! Today’s small update introduces a handful of fixes for issues that continue to disrupt normal play. The team is continuing to work on improvements to the game based on feedback and issues identified by the community, so keep weighing in on the topics that are most important to you on the official forums or Steam discussions.

We will be watching the performance of today’s hotfix as we continue to prepare a new game build with additional fixes and additions. We’re here for the long run, and appreciate everyone who has been communicative and constructive in helping us improve the game over the past month!

—The Age of Empires Team
GAME

Stability & Performance

- Fixed an issue where players would receive a “low disk space” warning when queuing for multiplayer matches.

Audio

- Added new voice-over lines for Chinese units.

GAMEPLAY

- Reverted the change which encouraged Settlers to seek out and collect distant resources, as it could lead to several unintended behaviors.
- Corrected an issue where the building and upgrade buttons could shift down in the UI after receiving certain cards from the Home City, thus making them inaccessible.

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 06:22
by deleted_user
wait, is DE good now?

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 06:26
by harcha
Short changelist but at least they're working, nice to know.

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 06:33
by aaryngend
deleted_user wrote:wait, is DE good now?
I wanted to use the
Image
meme but realized that I would have to lie in this case... so I refrain from doing it.
Nevertheless, it is fairly good now, with the shift-bug gone and more shenanigans fixed, like clicks not registering well.

But we still can't view Ladder page 2...

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 06:36
by helln00
lol I was so surprised by the new chinese voices when I played this morning

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 15:01
by TheNameDaniel
Why did a 43.5 Mb update take so long for me to update... preallocating space took 5 mins, the download took 1 second then the disk usage was constantly at 100-150mbps for 15 mins for a fucking 43.5mb file this is insane

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 15:02
by scarm
Its the ransomware you got with the package deal

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 15:09
by Riotcoke
TheNameDaniel wrote:Why did a 43.5 Mb update take so long for me to update... preallocating space took 5 mins, the download took 1 second then the disk usage was constantly at 100-150mbps for 15 mins for a fucking 43.5mb file this is insane
The game basically has to reinstall itself as it checks the previous data first and then installs the new data.

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 15:11
by Challenger_Marco
TheNameDaniel wrote:Why did a 43.5 Mb update take so long for me to update... preallocating space took 5 mins, the download took 1 second then the disk usage was constantly at 100-150mbps for 15 mins for a fucking 43.5mb file this is insane
same here.

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 15:49
by harcha
i feel like my performance has been significantly reduced, at least halved. i'm playing on linux. will keep checking

also random crashes keep going on. so far i've had my game completely freeze once on 6847 and twice on the previous patch

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 17:38
by I_HaRRiiSoN_I
yeah your right its taking fucking ages to even start updating

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 19:42
by CuCkO0
Mine took a few minutes I swear? What potatoes are you guys running your interthenets on? You all live in the desert running sand fibre+?

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 20:38
by EAGLEMUT
CuCkO0 wrote:Mine took a few minutes I swear? What potatoes are you guys running your interthenets on? You all live in the desert running sand fibre+?
It's not about internet. The transferred files are in fact very small, but this comes at the cost of repackaging the game's huge data archives in order to apply changes. The packaging process can take quite a while, depending mostly on speed of the drive where AoE3 is locally installed.

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 19 Nov 2020, 23:02
by CuCkO0
Come on eaglemut, I couldn’t of made that post anymore sarcastic if I tried. You’re better than this.

But thank you for teaching me something new honey pie x

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 10:03
by ShinkuroYukinari
harcha wrote:i feel like my performance has been significantly reduced, at least halved. i'm playing on linux. will keep checking

also random crashes keep going on. so far i've had my game completely freeze once on 6847 and twice on the previous patch
I've played some campaign maps yesterday on my Mint and I haven't noticed any new performance issues. I'll try playing some MP today, maybe it's due to that in particular.

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 11:00
by harcha
@ShinkuroYukinari seemed to run better after restart

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 13:13
by aaryngend
This update seems to bring back the memory leak? After long teamgames, the probability of a crash is so much higher if you keep playing without restarting.
Had another crash while we were about to win that one 2v2.. I hope it wasn't done deliberately by abusing some OOS bug... :hmm:

Also, did the Hauds lose the 2nd wood crate at game start?? They start with 100 :coin: and 100 :wood: now. Did I miss something or why wasn't this in any kind of patch note? I know this was a hotfix, but the patch before didn't seem to introduce this change either.
How am I able to start with a TP every game now ?!? :cry:
Cba to find a wood treasure or gather myself..

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 13:25
by helln00
I havent really felt anything, if anything all of my usual crash cases (long comp stomp games) seems to be gone

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 16:55
by helln00
Correction there is probably a memory leak, its using 77% of my memory somehow, even on relatively low settings

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 17:30
by harcha
helln00 wrote:Correction there is probably a memory leak, its using 77% of my memory somehow, even on relatively low settings
77% of what? and 100% of that 77% is age?

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 17:36
by gibson
helln00 wrote:Correction there is probably a memory leak, its using 77% of my memory somehow, even on relatively low settings
been having a similar issue. Sometimes the game uses 2 gb of ram, other times it uses 7 haha

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 17:38
by helln00
harcha wrote:
helln00 wrote:Correction there is probably a memory leak, its using 77% of my memory somehow, even on relatively low settings
77% of what? and 100% of that 77% is age?
77% of 16gb

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 17:52
by SoldieR
aaryngend wrote:This update seems to bring back the memory leak? After long teamgames, the probability of a crash is so much higher if you keep playing without restarting.
Had another crash while we were about to win that one 2v2.. I hope it wasn't done deliberately by abusing some OOS bug... :hmm:

Also, did the Hauds lose the 2nd wood crate at game start?? They start with 100 :coin: and 100 :wood: now. Did I miss something or why wasn't this in any kind of patch note? I know this was a hotfix, but the patch before didn't seem to introduce this change either.
How am I able to start with a TP every game now ?!? :cry:
Cba to find a wood treasure or gather myself..
Iirc iro has not started with 200w in like 3 years of EPs

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 20 Nov 2020, 18:04
by Mitoe
aaryngend wrote:This update seems to bring back the memory leak? After long teamgames, the probability of a crash is so much higher if you keep playing without restarting.
Had another crash while we were about to win that one 2v2.. I hope it wasn't done deliberately by abusing some OOS bug... :hmm:

Also, did the Hauds lose the 2nd wood crate at game start?? They start with 100 :coin: and 100 :wood: now. Did I miss something or why wasn't this in any kind of patch note? I know this was a hotfix, but the patch before didn't seem to introduce this change either.
How am I able to start with a TP every game now ?!? :cry:
Cba to find a wood treasure or gather myself..
haud.png
From day 1 release log: https://www.ageofempires.com/news/aoe3d ... ne-update/

Re: Age of Empires III: Definitive Edition — Hotfix 6847

Posted: 21 Nov 2020, 10:01
by aaryngend
Mitoe wrote:
aaryngend wrote:This update seems to bring back the memory leak? After long teamgames, the probability of a crash is so much higher if you keep playing without restarting.
Had another crash while we were about to win that one 2v2.. I hope it wasn't done deliberately by abusing some OOS bug... :hmm:

Also, did the Hauds lose the 2nd wood crate at game start?? They start with 100 :coin: and 100 :wood: now. Did I miss something or why wasn't this in any kind of patch note? I know this was a hotfix, but the patch before didn't seem to introduce this change either.
How am I able to start with a TP every game now ?!? :cry:
Cba to find a wood treasure or gather myself..
haud.png
From day 1 release log: https://www.ageofempires.com/news/aoe3d ... ne-update/
But those are the Day 1 patch notes! I could SWEAR that I started with 200 :wood: some weeks ago... :hmm:
Thought that got changed in later builds.. I guess not...
Or my mind is playing tricks on me.. or did I play legacy during that time ??! :cry:
Too confusing, thanks anyway Michael :pop: