Age of Mythology News

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• A small reminder that all maps in the standard "Random" map set (Painted Desert too now) still support additional observers without corrupting the recorded games (last team method, explained here).
• All maps in the patch now support the brand new much improved observer commands as described here.
• All maps in the standard "Random" map set now support the merge mode as also described in the link above.
• Maps in 5.0 remain very similar to 4.0, but have received various improvements as mentioned below.
• Maps belonging to the standard "Random" map set changes:
- Fixed a large amount (!) of cases where key resources like gold, hunt, or fish did not spawn properly or at all in both 1v1 and teamgames.
- Maps now always warn after loading if any important objects such as settlements, gold, or sources of food failed to spawn (should rarely occur).
- Starting hunt should now always spawn either in starting line of sight for all players or out of starting line of sight for all players.
- Starting gold should now always spawn within tower line of sight (but may barely be in tower range).
- Adjusted forward settlements to reduce the frequency of two settlements spawning very close to each other (note that this does not imply that settlements now spawn closer to the players).
- Midgard should now always spawn the first group of 3 fish directly behind the player (seen from the center).
- Mediterranean should now always spawn the first group of 3 fish directly in front of the player (seen from the center).
- Frozen Wastes now properly spawns gold mines in 1v1 and teamgames alike.
- Painted Desert now properly spawns gold mines in 1v1, preventing cases where one player could end up with a majority of mines on their side.
• The no patch maps' prefix has changed. Previously these maps were prefixed with the word "Classic". Now they are prefixed with "z (ESO)". The z is added in order for the maps to show up last in the map list to prevent missclicks.
"(ESO)" replaces "Classic" because doing it this way makes it clearer what version of the game these maps belong to.
• The "Random BillGregg Tourney Maps" map set has been replaced with the old "Random 2017 Party Maps" map set.
• The "Random All" map set now uses the 5.0 versions of all maps (if they have them) and added to that map set are Frozen Wastes, Blue Lagoon, and Painted Desert.
• Added a new "Random All (ESO)" map set which is the same as the "Random All" map set but it only uses ESO maps.

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• Zeus - Heracles' cost changed from 350F to 200F and 150W.
• Hades - Achilles' cost changed from 350F to 200F and 150W.
• Egyptian - Hands of the Pharaoh upgrade now becomes available in the Archaic Age instead of the Classical Age. (undoing of a previous nerf)
• Egyptian - Mercenary Cavalry hack armor reduced from 40% to 20% and pierce armor reduced from 45% to 35%.
• Ra - Skin of the Rhino is no longer available in the Temple. (undoing of a previous buff)
• Ra - Rain no longer increases Laborer's wood gather rate by 50%.
• Ptah - Wadjet's damage vs non-Atlantean Villagers is now reduced by 25% instead of 50%. (partial undoing of a previous nerf)
• Anubis - Feet of the Jackal's favor cost increased from 5 to 10. (partial undoing of a previous buff)
• Bast - Eclipse's damage bonus for Minions increased from +37% to +50%. (undoing of a previous nerf)
• Hathor - Roc's hack armor reduced from 30% to 10% and movement speed reduced from 4.5 to 4.0.
• Thor - Dwarfen Mine's gold amounts increased: Archaic Age from 500 to 750 and Classical Age from 1000 to 1500.
• Odin - Lone Wanderer's research time increased from 25s to 35s.
• Freyja - Thundering Hooves' food cost reduced from 300 to 250.
• Forseti - Troll's movement speed increased from 3.6 to 4.0 and track rating increased from 5.0 to 6.0.
• Atlantean - Fire Siphon's maximum range reduced from 13 to 11 (undoing of a previous buff and nerfing it more now), Engineers now increases Fire Shipon's range by 4 instead of 2.
• Gaia - Heroes are now 30% cheaper (excluding favor).
• Gaia - Lush's maximum radius increased by 25%, lush's decay rate increased by 25% (this is done to match the increased size so it doesn't take longer to completely fade away).
• Hyperion - Chaos now always converts 3 Human units instead of always 4 (undoing of a previous buff), recharge time increased from 240s to 260s.
• Hyperion - Satyr's population cost increased from 3 to 4.

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• Heimdall - When Undermine was changed to affect all buildings it was supposed to damage buildings to 50% hitpoints at full effect.
This went wrong for the longhouse resulting in longhouses taking about 50% more damage than they should have.
Now longhouses take the appropriate amount of damage which is 50% of their hitpoints at full effect.

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• General - Town Centers under construction will now receive damage from Earthquake and Tornado.
• Egyptian - Laborers now build wall medium pieces at the same speed as other wall pieces (previously they built them a little slower).
• Anubis - Sea Snakes no longer show up as idle military.
• Sekhmet - Slings of the Sun now properly applies its 30% damage bonus for Slingers vs Hypaspists & Throwing Axemen & Axemen.
• Atlantean - Hero Citizens now get their damage bonus vs Set Animals properly applied to their ranged attack instead of their melee attack (they can't use their melee attack versus the animals therefor it did nothing previously).
• Hyperion & Hekate - Chaos and Lampades Special Attack no longer work on Pegasus & Hippocampus & Raven & Oracle Scout.
• Hyperion & Hekate - Chaos and Lampades Special Attack now work on Hades Shade & Serpent & Sea Snake & Sentinel.

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• General - Transport Ships can now carry Caravans.
• Ptah - Shifting Sands' visual indicator reduced from 12 to 10 range, the real range of the god power is also 10 so this is done to match the visual indication to the actual effect.
• Hathor - Locust Swarm now shows up on the minimap.
• Horus - Tornado will not longer show up for 60 seconds on the minimap as an active god power, it will now show up for 20 seconds which is its actual duration.