Patch Notes

Website

• Age-up paths are here: explore players' landmark choices and win rates.
  Age-up paths

App & services

• Age-up paths are here: explore players' landmark choices and win rates.
• Open Age-up paths from civilization details or Statistics > Meta.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Website

• The battle simulator has been rebuilt: set up two armies and let them fight on real unit stats.
  Battle Simulator
• Production plans are here: save the plan you calculated, share it, and browse other players’ plans.
  Production Plans
• The hotkey guide and hotkey practice are live: learn the keys, then test your speed.
  Hotkey Guide
• The cheat code guide is here: every code, what it does, and how to switch cheats on.
  Cheat Codes
• Performance improvements: pages load faster.

App & services

• AI Coach V2 is here. View your match reports with both the current coach and Coach V2.
• Tell us which coach is more useful. Your feedback helps us improve the AI match coach every day.
• Match analysis is available with credits, Premium or Premium Plus.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Website

• The hotkey guide is here: explore game commands, default keys, and professional players’ hotkey layouts.
  Hotkey Guide
• You can now rate all guide content: let us know what you like and help improve the guide by reporting missing or incorrect information.
  Guide

Website

• The production calculator is here: choose the units you want to train per minute and see the resources and workers required.
  Production calculator
• Customize your economy plan by choosing a civilization, age, and gathering technologies.
• Add passive income and review worker and passive income separately, alongside each resource’s surplus or deficit per minute.
• Plan limited units separately, see total population requirements, and share your calculation with a link.

App & services

• Production Calculator added: calculate the resources, villagers, and production buildings needed for your target unit production.
• Daily Quiz rankings and rewards are now weekly: finish in the top three, earn AI credits, and explore past weekly champions.
• AI match coach improved.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• Villager pages now include a “Gathering rates” card: explore resource gathering rates, carrying capacity, and the effects of technologies.
  Guide
• Next up: a production calculator that uses this data to help you plan your economy.
• Civilization bonuses on unit pages are now easier to browse; select a civilization to read its bonuses.
  Guide
• Performance improvements.

App & services

• Villager pages now include a “Gathering rates” card: explore resource gathering rates, carrying capacity, and the effects of technologies.
• Next up: a production calculator that uses this data to help you plan your economy.
• Civilization bonuses on unit pages are now easier to browse; select a civilization to read its bonuses.
• After completing the Daily Quiz, you can review the questions, your answers, and the correct answers.
• The Daily Quiz leaderboard has been refreshed and now displays monthly rewards.
• Topics from quiz questions you missed now appear as learning suggestions in Tip of the Day.
• Performance improvements.

Website

• Guide pages load much faster; the delay when opening them is largely gone.
  Guide
• Performance improvements.

App & services

• Daily Quiz is now in the mobile app: five questions a day on which civilization owns a bonus, unit, landmark or technology. Keep your streak going.
• AI match coach improvements.

Website

• New Deleted tab in the match page's Villagers section.
• New Villagers chart on the timeline, showing each player's villager count.
• Villagers a player deletes themselves no longer count as raid losses or earn the "Got Raided" title.
• Refreshed villager production view; first blood now shows the unit's icon and the player.

App & services

• AI match coach improvements.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• Fixed incorrect wood amounts in build orders.
  Build Orders
• Improved translations.
• Fixed an issue that made the map appear rectangular in short matches.
• Performance improvements.

Website

• The build order library has been updated: you can now filter by season and strategy. Strategy icons were added to list and detail screens, and the resource split and timeline are easier to follow in the detail view.
  Build Orders
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• The tech tree is now drawn from the game's own tree definition: in all 23 civilizations every tile sits where the game puts it, with the same links.
  Guide
• Building pages list what they train and research — the technologies only a landmark offers included.
  Guide

Website

• The tech tree has been redrawn after the in-game screen: every building on its age row with what it produces beneath it; landmark abilities and building headings open too.
  Guide
• Archive tiles on the tree (the Jin Grassland units, for one) now open; descriptions read as lists.
  Guide

App & services

• The tech tree has been redrawn after the in-game screen: landmark abilities, building headings you can tap for details, and a share button.
• The guide keeps improving: descriptions read as lists where the game writes them that way, and missing translations were filled in.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• The guide keeps improving: civilization bonuses now show on the pages of the units they affect.
  Guide

App & services

• Top games under Social in the app: watch the latest matches of the players at the top of the leaderboard, with full details.
• The matchup simulator has a refreshed design.
• AI match coach improvements.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• Unit, building and technology icons now use their in-game colours.
  Guide

App & services

• Matchup planner in the guide: pick the civilizations in the lobby and see how your opponent will play and what to do about it. 1v1 only in this release; team games are coming soon.
• Guide improvements and fixes.
• AI coach narration improvements.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• Guide technologies cleaned up: a unit lists only the technologies that really apply to it, and each technology page now names the units it affects.
  Guide
• Unit stats now include conditional upgrades: research that only works in certain situations sits beside the number's sources.
  Guide
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

Website

• Civilization bonuses moved into the guide: a bonus is now written on the page of every unit, building and technology it touches, so you no longer have to open the civilization page to find it.
  Guide
• Unit, building and technology pages now show damage per second, attack speed and range; those numbers sit in a card of their own apart from health and armor, and every one of them carries its unit (tiles, s, tiles/s).
  Guide
• Tapping the upgrade arrow beside a number now opens a list grouped by the building that researches it: the Blacksmith's 1/3-2/3-3/3 line reads as one chain, with what researching all of it comes to on top.
  Guide
• Unit comparison gained damage per second, attack speed and range rows, and the technology picker now opens in a panel of its own.
  Compare

App & services

• The same notes show up on the unit, building and technology pages in the app, and the missing artwork is complete.
• Search landed on the app's home screen: type a civilization, unit, building or technology and go straight to its page.
• The AI coach works from more match data, so its analysis is sharper.
• Fixed the problem with linking a Steam account.
• Performance improvements.
• The same numbers landed in the app: damage per second, attack speed and range on unit pages, technologies grouped by research building, and three new rows in unit comparison.
• You can rate the guide pages in the app: tell us straight away when something looks wrong or missing — those reports are what we work the corrections from.

App & services

• The app can link an account now: Google, Apple or Steam.
• Your profile, subscription and credits are kept in the cloud.
• The same account opens from another device.
• If you have already verified your Steam profile, you are set: that same Steam account links there.

Website

• Replays are here: browse recent games from the top of the ladder, download the game's own recording and watch it back in Age of Empires IV.
  Replays
• The match page now links to the replay whenever there is one, and the page behind it explains exactly where the file goes.
• Every match in the list opens its full detail — not just the ones played by someone we already track.

App & services

• Replay files come from the game's official archive; nothing is stored on our side.
• Rate limiting and an upstream budget were added behind the new download path.

Website

• The leaderboard page was reworked: ranked solo and team now sit next to every quick match ladder, with a PC/console switch and the current map pool.
  Leaderboard
• Unit, building and technology names in the guide now use the game's own translations.
  Guide
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

App & services

• Leaderboards reworked: quick match ladders now sit next to ranked.
• Statistics reworked.
• Registered players now see all their quick match games too.
• Guide names now use the game's own translations.
• Fixed the ranked rank display issues from Season 14.
• Performance improvements.

Website

• The website is now available in Simplified Chinese as well.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

App & services

• The app is available in Simplified Chinese as well.
• When a new update arrives you can see what changed right inside the app.
• Performance improvements.

Website

• The Play menu is now Tools — lobbies, draft and tier lists sit in one place.
• Tier lists arrived on the website: rank civilizations, units and maps your way, then save the list and share its link.
  Tier lists
• Patch note items now link straight to the page they are about.
• Performance improvements and bug fixes.

App & services

• The battle simulator in the app was rebuilt: the calculations were improved and a timeline now shows how the fight unfolded.
• Tier lists also shipped in the app, where a list stays tied to your account.
• New sign-ups now get every match they played in the current season synced automatically.
• Match result update flows were improved.
• The badges on the profile screen were redesigned.
• AI features keep getting better.

Website

• Fixed bonus damage in the unit comparison duel: bonuses like spearman against cavalry were being ignored, so the result now matches what happens in the game.
  Guide

App & services

• The same bonus damage bug affected the battle simulator and the unit duel in the app; the fix ships in the next update. Thanks to the player who reported it.

Website

• The player profile was redesigned: recent matches now hold the main column, and the list shows 8 matches instead of 5.
  
• The profile header now shows the civilizations played lately and the teammates who turn up on your side more than once.
  
• Bug fixes and performance improvements.

Website

• Russian and Italian are here — the site is now available in 10 languages.
• Find teammates (under Play) was rebuilt from scratch: players post a “looking for a game” ad from the mobile app and join each other, and the site lists every open ad live.
  Find teammates
• Improved the match detail charts: the raid chart, the deaths breakdown and the score leaders are clearer and easier to compare.

App & services

• The app is now available in Russian and Italian too.
• Match details: the raid chart, the deaths tab and the unit ledger were rebuilt, the build order timeline is tappable, and free-for-all matches finally read properly.
• The match list now says more at a glance: duration, the title you earned, win/loss streaks, a surprising MMR gap and the opening you played.

Website

• Overhauled the guide data top to bottom: wrong numbers and missing descriptions were fixed, and civilization-specific bonuses now show on every unit, building and technology.
  Guide
• Added achievement badges and a match score to match details: a 0-100 score per player across military, economy, trade efficiency and technology, badges like MVP, and strategy tags such as Rush and 2TC.
  

App & services

• The AI Match Coach and the other AI features keep being improved.

Website

• Improved the build order library: every build now credits and links aoe4guides.com, and one click opens it on their own page. Thanks to aoe4guides.com and its admin “Exe of Doubt” for keeping this open to the community.
  Build Orders
• Added the Meta page: what the top of the ranked ladders actually plays — civilization picks and win rates, the matchups that keep repeating, the map spread and a card per player. Refreshed every couple of hours.
  Top player meta
• The language switcher is now visible in the header, and the site is available in 8 languages: English, Turkish, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Polish and Dutch.

App & services

• AI features were tuned against how people actually use them, so coach and guide answers land closer to the question.
• Missing descriptions and wrong names in the guide are still being corrected.

Website

• Added Civ Draft: ban and pick civilizations before the match, send your opponent the draft link and share the spectator link with everyone. Free, no account needed.
  Draft
• Reorganised the top menu: pages are grouped under Players, Play and Guide, and each heading opens a page of its own.
• Updated the guide data, and it keeps being updated — gaps are fixed as your feedback comes in.
  Guide

App & services

• Improved match synchronisation and the correction sweeps: stats for finished matches show up faster and more completely.
• General service stability and performance improvements.

Website

• Added new charts to match details so you can follow how a match unfolded far more clearly.
• Added a Social page: watch live Age of Empires IV streams from YouTube, Kick and Twitch in one place, and see the channels of verified players from the app.
  Social
• Added build order favorites and reworked the favorites screen.
  Favorites
• Made the build order detail view easier to read and follow.
  Build Orders
• Badges earned in the app are now shown on the profile screen.
  

App & services

• Improved the AI Match Coach: its analysis is more accurate and more detailed.
• Improved the other AI summary features too — summaries are more consistent and easier to read.
• Fixed the day-one server errors and improved overall service stability.

Website

• Added the coaching system: send your matches to a coach and get personal feedback.
• Added a lobbies system on the web.
• Improved AI features.
• General performance improvements.