Welcome heroes to another exciting update for Age of Mythology: Retold, loaded with goodies and we’re excited for everyone to get their hands on and experience these changes. In addition to the Fortifications changes, there is a new game speed toggle available, difficulty/balance tweaks made to the Fall of the Trident campaign, and more! So take a peak at the notes before jumping in game!

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 Mythology: Retold a success thus far!

—The Age of Mythology Team

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Fortifications Game Pacing Update

As a new gameplay evolution to improve defensive options, we bring you a fortifications update! This has been on the dev to-do list for some time, and we’re excited for the community to try it. Please share your thoughts on the forums – we’ll be looking out for them!

• Buildings are more resistant to hack damage with higher increases for some defensive buildings, such as Towers and Fortresses.
  
• Towers and Fortresses now deal significantly more damage to help players defend their bases.
  
• Siege weapon damage has been increased to allow them to serve their role better as anti-building units, now that buildings are more resistant to hack damage.
  
• A new technology called “Advanced Fortifications” is now available to further improve Fortress-type buildings in the Mythic Age. The “Advanced Fortifications” technology further increases the damage and armor of Fortress buildings.
  
• Villager train times have been increased; this should make the window of opportunity to punish booming strategies larger, to compensate for the stronger defenses.
  
• For the full details about changes applied as part of this balance change, please read more in the Balance section of this change list!

New Updates for the Monthly Community Event – Pantheon Pin-Up

Congratulations to the community for your impressive display as you all worked together toward the first month’s rewards, which included the new alternate art Poseidon God portrait reward!

This month’s objectives are well underway as we all work toward the Oranos God portrait reward and other new profile images as a community.

To further encourage participation in more of the weekly objectives, some changes have been made to give you earlier access to rewards if you put in the effort to help the community. These changes include the following:

• When the community reaches its goals, the rewards are now unlocked shortly after the goals are reached instead of waiting until the event has concluded!
  
• You can access the rewards even earlier if you fully participate in the challenges each week! Completing all the challenges for each week will unlock the associated reward for your account. Players who don’t complete all the challenges will still unlock the same rewards if the community goals for each challenge are reached. The goal of these changes is to reward those who support the community goals.
  
• Challenges for each week no longer lock after each week ends. After challenges become available to complete, they will remain available until the end of the month.
  
• The Weekly Challenges objective tracker in-game will now only display the last up to four incomplete challenges to prevent your UI from being overwhelmed. The list of challenges shown will only update when new matches are entered. The challenges that are not currently visible are still being tracked and will be completed once the necessary conditions are met.

These changes apply retroactively to the currently active event! If you missed out on completing any challenges from the first two weeks, you can now jump back in and help the community push toward the 100% completion goal!

New Gameplay Speed Control

In the thick of a fight and feeling overwhelmed with controlling your army? Or perhaps the creation of your next army feels too slow? Now you have the control to enjoy the game at your speed!

• Slow, Medium, and Fast Gameplay Speeds can be cycled through at any time in allowed game modes. This includes most single-player modes, such as Skirmish and the Campaign.
  
• Mouse and Keyboard players can use the new button in the top right of their screen to cycle through the gameplay speeds.
  
• Controller players can open the Pause Menu and press the new binding to cycle the gameplay speed. While playing on Xbox, use the Right Bumper (RB). On PlayStation 5, use R1.

Fall of the Trident Campaign Quality of Life and Difficulty Adjustments

In the last update, we made adjustments to several Fall of the Trident Campaign missions to improve the player experience. This update brings new changes to more missions, along with additional updates to those that were modified in the previous patch.

• The changes made to these missions focused on:
  
  • Making goals clear to the player through additional or improved messaging.
    
  • Adjustments to difficulty, primarily for moderate and lower levels, to bring the experience closer to what should be expected at these levels of difficulty.
• The following missions have had changes since the last patch:
  
  • Fall of the Trident 04: A Fine Plan
    
  • Fall of the Trident 05: Just Enough Rope
    
  • Fall of the Trident 06: I Hope This Works
    
  • Fall of the Trident 08: Bad News
    
  • Fall of the Trident 11: The Lost Relic
    
  • Fall of the Trident 12: Light Sleeper

If you were struggling on one of these missions or haven’t tried the campaign yet, now is a great time to experience the story in Age of Mythology: Retold.

In addition to these specific level changes, many players may find the Gameplay Speed Control detailed above to be a helpful tool for experiencing all campaigns at a comfortable pace.

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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: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.

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Raise your banners, and ready the blessings of the gods. A new chapter of Age of Mythology: Retold is almost ready to unfold. Worship the gods, command new heroes, and summon the yokai of Japan in an all-new expansion: Heavenly Spear. Play a sweeping 12-mission campaign, wield the powers of an entirely new Japanese Pantheon, and command samurai and mythical creatures to achieve victory on the field of battle.

Experience the legend – wishlist Heavenly Spear now on Steam, and will launching Fall 2025 on all platforms.

PLUS, if you own the Premium Edition of Age of Mythology: Retold, you will already be able to access Heavenly Spear on launch day in Fall 2025 on Steam!

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Age of Mythology: Retold – Heavenly Spear unleashes an all-new Japanese pantheon, 12 powerful gods, a new roster of units including ninjas and mythical creatures, and a divine campaign filled with honor, chaos, and celestial power.

What’s waiting in Heavenly Spear:

• 12 gods from Japanese mythology, each with unique blessings and playstyles
  
• 12 new myth units drawn from ancient legends
  
• A 12-mission campaign filled with divine conflict and heroic choices
  
• New god powers, techs, and strategic layers to master
  
• Expanded Skirmish and Arena of the Gods experiences

Unleash the might of 12 new gods—each offering unique playstyles, god powers, and strategic possibilities. Awaken Raijin’s thunderous drums, send whole armies flying across the map with Fujin’s Smiting Gust, or even summon Watatsumi’s swirling dragon typhoon to devastate your enemies. Each Japanese god offers unique ways to dominate the battlefield.

Battle across six new multiplayer and skirmish maps, inspired by the sacred mountains, misty forests, and mythic landscapes of Japanese legend. These maps are more than battlegrounds—they’re living mythologies waiting to be conquered.

Whether facing friends online or perfecting your build orders in solo skirmish, these new environments offer fresh tactical challenges and strategic depth.

Myth units blend iconic Japanese folklore with inventive gameplay mechanics:

• Kitsune: fox spirits who serve as scouts and strengthen nearby units, making them perfect for intelligence-gathering and supporting raids.
  
• Shinigami: a terrifying spirit whose shout scares away enemies and who respawns into a more powerful form when defeated.
  
• Tengu: winged master swordsmen who leap into battle.
  
• Samurai: skilled human soldiers who become more powerful with every victory.
  
• Shinobi: expert assassins and saboteurs adept at hasty escapes.

Heavenly Spear follows Yasuko, a peaceful farmer’s daughter whose destiny changes when she discovers a magical spear hidden in the countryside. As war looms and chaos spreads across the land, Yasuko is thrust into a world of gods, monsters, and mortal ambition. With the guidance of Akari, guardian of the spear, Yasuko must uncover the relic’s secrets and prevent it from falling into the hands of Kagemasa, a ruthless warlord who seeks to imprison the sun goddess Amaterasu and claim godhood for himself.

Yasuko’s journey spans 12 hand-crafted campaign missions, each rich with cinematic storytelling, unforgettable characters, and escalating stakes. Along the way, she’ll face mythical beasts, forge divine alliances, battling against Kagemasa to restore balance to the world.

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Hello Heroes!

Looking to see what's ahead for our next update? Then look no further as we have just enabled the Public Update Preview Program for our June Update.

Jump in to get an early look at the upcoming changes, see which bugs have been addressed, and help make our release even better by helping us find any last minute issues and lending your voice to our forums.

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Please join us in strengthening the quality of Age of Mythology: Retold by sharing your voice on the official 🛠 Public Update Preview forums. (Note that you must own the game and login to Steam to access the PUP forum.) We’re definitely listening, and looking for every opportunity to make this the game you love to play! :)

- The World's Edge Team

With the Pantheon Pin-Up Event started last month, we've got a whole new set of challenges to take on and new rewards to earn in June! Everyone will need to work together to earn the rewards, with monthly score targets in place to unlock cosmetic rewards. Can you play your part in reaching the final goal and unlock a new god portrait?

Remember, objectives will vary in difficulty; from completing any kind of match to winning a timed game.

Any contribution towards the total goal makes you eligible to earn all the rewards unlocked by the community each month. So you just have to show up and play a part!

Track the community’s progress in the Community Event tab in-game. There you’ll see the community score, goals and objectives.

Play each month to ensure you don’t miss any rewards!


The event is happing NOW, with 4 new rewards up for grabs. Each month has a chosen theme, which the Community works towards unlocking during the previous month. May was focused on unlocking Poseidon, and June challenges unlock Oranos - the Man in the Moon! We’ll post on social channels each month about the new rewards and goals so be sure you’re following Age of Mythology.

• Join in with the community and help to achieve the monthly goal!
  
• Participate by completing objectives each week to maximize your personal contribution to the Community Goal progress.
  
• Each month there will be 4 rewards to achieve as a community. The first reward is collected by participating at least once during the month. The rest are achieved by community total contribution.
  
• Participants can claim their rewards during the month following a community event.
  
• The Major Reward for completing the full community goal each month will be a new Major God Portrait.
  
• The second event started today, June 2nd!

Hello Age of Mythology legends! Here is a minor update with a much-anticipated fix for the PS5 initialization error, as well as some other fixes we wanted to make available immediately. Please remember to also fully reboot your game system after this update to ensure full effectiveness!

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—The Age of Mythology Team

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Stability & Performance

• Applied a fix that will hopefully fix the 0001-0001-ffffffff error that was preventing some players from accessing multiplayer activities on PlayStation 5. The fix modifies how tokens are issued to avoid issues where too many tokens are requested in a short period. We will be monitoring to ensure the fix is working as intended.
  
• Fixed a crash that occurred while updating player friend data. Some players were repeatedly crashing on launch while experiencing this crash.
  
• Fixed a crash that could occur when the News pop-up failed to download or display an image.

Developer Note: For players who are continuing to experience the freeze issue after the previous update please try fully rebooting your PlayStation 5. Some players have reported that this was required for the change to fix their experience. Our development team have shared a development technical blog on the Reddit platform. For interested players you can read that post here: PS5 Fixes Developer Update : r/AgeofMythology

UI

• Fixed a bug that caused the spectator/replay UI to display incorrectly in some situations.

Controller

• The “Quick Find Selects Control Groups” setting for the controller will respect your setting choice once again after it was broken in the most recent patch.

Community Event

• Added support for new server-driven challenge types that may appear in next month’s Community Event.

• Fall of the Trident 06: I Hope This Works – Removed an unintentionally included developer skip. When selecting a specific tower, portions of the mission were skipped. You can now expect the mission to play as expected with no risk of skips accidentally happening!

Developer Note: Thank you to the community for reporting issues. For a few of these fixed issues, the community called them out, which allowed us to get those fixes to you in this patch!

Investigation

As always, we are continuing to track issues reported by the community for future updates.

For other known issues, please visit this page[support.ageofempires.com] to see what’s being tracked!

: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.

Welcome heroes to another exciting update for Age of Mythology: Retold with brand new AI Personalities, more balance updates, PlayStation 5 performance fixes, and plenty of new features! So take a peek at the notes before jumping in game!

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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—The Age of Mythology Team

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AI Personalities

AI Personalities Selection and Difficulty Level

AI personalities have always been part of Age of Mythology as a way to adjust AI behavior alongside the traditional difficulty modifier. This patch revamps and improves many of the features related to AI personalities to empower players to enjoy the game experience in their own ways!

This feature lets players create custom thematic battles tailored to their playstyle. Team up with two Defenders to hold the line while you go on the offensive against three enemy Overwhelmers, or join forces with two Conquerors to take down four enemy Economists before their economy takes off. Mix and match difficulty levels, personalities, maps, player counts, and teams for endless strategic possibilities and fun!

[h4]7 New personality options to choose from![/h4]

Conqueror[expand type=details]No unclaimed Settlement is safe for a personality with such an expansionist mindset:

• Can claim more Settlements on Standard/Moderate/Hard than the other personalities.
  
• Aims to claim Settlements faster than other personalities.
  
• Attacks less frequently.
  
• Expands the number of buildings within its bases quickly to maintain control of its base

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Overwhelmer[expand type=details]Don't expect small forces from this personality, it's go big or go home:

• Only attacks if it has built up a large army.
  
• Prioritizes ally defense more often than other personalities.
  
• Prioritizes upgrades that improve military units.

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Supporter[expand type=details]The eyes of this personality are always fixed on its allies, to see how it can help them:

• Periodically sends resource tributes to allies, with a priority for human allies.
  
• More inclined to accept tribute requests.
  
• Prioritizes the defense of allied players.
  
• Attacks less frequently.

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Passive[expand type=details]You don't have much to fear from this personality in your own base, but it will defend itself:

• Does not attack unless a human ally uses the correct taunt: number 15.
  
• Prioritizes the defense of allied players.
  
• Avoids claiming Settlements near enemy territory.

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Economist[expand type=details]Wars are won or lost on logistics, that's what this personality strongly believes:

• Builds Village Centers.
  
• Ages up faster than other personalities.
  
• Claims Settlements quickly to maintain economic advantage.
  
• Only attacks after building up a large force.
  
• More inclined to accept tribute requests.
  
• Prioritizes upgrades that improve economic units.

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Mythical[expand type=details]The power of fell beasts is what will bring this personality victory:

• Prioritizes building more myth units.
  
• Faster than other personalities at producing a Titan and Wonder.

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Humanoid[expand type=details]It's just like playing Age of Empires! This personality only loves human and siege units!

• Builds no myth units or heroes, focuses solely on human and siege units.
  
• Casts no god powers.
  
• Deletes any myth units it receives.
  
• Doesn’t research upgrades that cost favor.
  
• Doesn’t build a Wonder.

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[h4]Other Changes as part of the AI Personalities feature include: [/h4]

• The “Standard” personality has been renamed “Balanced” to better reflect its gameplay style. Additionally, the change was to avoid confusion between the shared names for both personalities and difficulty levels.
  
• A new “Random” personality option has been added for those who want a surprise during gameplay!
  
• Lobby screen overhaul to neatly display all the personality and difficulty options. This includes 6 new icons to visualize difficulty levels.
  
• A new option, “No AI personality,” allows you to effectively remove an AI from the game. Great for practicing build orders in peace!

Photo Mode on Xbox and PlayStation 5

Accessing Photo Mode from the Pause Screen

• All players will now have access to Photo Mode! This feature was previously made available for PC players and we have been working to ensure the experience works as expected on consoles!
  
• To access Photo Mode, use the Pause menu in singleplayer games!
  
• Settings and Hotkeys are available to control how you experience Photo Mode.
  
• Share your epic moments captured as screenshots to share with the community!
  
• We have enjoyed seeing all the amazing screenshots in Photo Mode since the feature launched on PC and look forward to seeing more now that the feature is available to all players!

Super cool controls on console

New Loading Screen Tips

• New loading screen tips have been added to help players learn about playing Age of Mythology: Retold.
  
• New interface changes for the loading screen have been made to improve tip visibility.
  
• Tips are now visible on more loading screens, including the campaign loading screens.
  
• Some loading screen tips will only show in specific situations. For example, if you are playing as a Greek Major God, the tip may be a specific tip related to playing as the Greeks.

Fall of the Trident Campaign Quality of Life and Difficulty Adjustments

• Now is a great time to play the Fall of the Trident campaign again!
  
• Some quality of life tweaks are coming to the campaign, primarily for moderate difficulty and below.
  
• Examples of changes include:
  
  
  • New worldspace prompts to improve awareness of game dynamics.
    
  • Minor adjustments to some parameters to better align with expectations for a standard and moderate difficulty experience.
    
  • Minor improvements to streamline the experience for newer players, including improved visibility around starting areas.
• Missions where changes have been made:
  
  
  • Fall of the Trident 04: A Fine Plan
    
  • Fall of the Trident 06: I Hope This Works
    
  • Fall of the Trident 12: Light Sleeper
    
  • Fall of the Trident 30: All Is Not Lost
    
  • Fall of the Trident 32: A Place In My Dreams

If you have not started the Fall of the Trident campaign, stopped somewhere along the way, or want to start it all over again, now is a great time to try!

In-Game News

• A new news feature has been added to the game!
  
• Important updates can now be shared through the in-game news to alert players to new patches or direct players to other information that may be helpful!
  
• Look for the red dot next to your player dropdown on the main menu to find new in-game news.

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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: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.

⚠️ We have a quick update about our Pantheon Pin-Up event! A bug caused completion of some challenges to not count.

A server-side fix has been applied. Your current and future challenge contributions should now register correctly. Well done, Heroes, for your community effort!

• ⚠️ Note: A client restart may be required to view the updated total contributions with the fix applied.

Hello Heroes!

Looking to see what's ahead for our next update? Then look no further as we have just enabled the Public Update Preview Program for our May Update available through May 13th.

Jump in to get an early look at the upcoming changes, see which bugs have been addressed, and help make our release even better by helping us find any last minute issues and lending your voice to our forums.

More information on May's Public Update Preview Program can be found here: https://steamproxy.net/app/1934680/discussions/5/598525924943621405/


Please join us in strengthening the quality of Age of Mythology: Retold by sharing your voice on the official 🛠 Public Update Preview forums. (Note that you must own the game and login to Steam to access the PUP forum.) We’re definitely listening, and looking for every opportunity to make this the game you love to play! :)

- The World's Edge Team