Server Maintenance - [February 4, 2026]

[martinmine]

Age Of Empires Online Celeste Fan Project will undergo planned server maintenance on the 4th of February 2026.
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18:00 CET: The server will stop responding to login requests, meaning you will not be able to log on from this time.
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18:30 CET: Start of maintenance.
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19:00 CET: Expected end of maintenance.

 

[martinmine]

Game server is now in maintenance mode and authentication has been disabled. Server maintenance will start in 30 minutes.

 

[martinmine]

Server is shutting down now, expected downtime is 30 minutes.

 

[martinmine]

Changelog:

• Balance Changes:
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• Sparta PvP Updates:
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• Map Updates:
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• Quest Updates:
  • Adjusted quest rewards after winter event and re-enabled quests that were archived before the winter event.

• Art Updates:
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• Champion Mode Changes:
  • Greeks:
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  • Egyptians:
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  • Celts:
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  • Persians:
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  • Romans:
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  • Babylonians:
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  • Norse:
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  • Indians:
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  • Global:
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• UI Updates:
  • Some minor translations and text adjustments for German, Spanish, and Chinese.

• Bugfixes:
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• XLive Changes:
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• Backend Changes:
  • Moved the entire server to new infrastructure as Windows Update bricked our server. This lead to the 23 hour downtime. We do however expect the server to be more robust and reliable moving forward as we are now on a more modern infrastructure. No player data was lost.

A special thanks to @Servimomia and @Kire for helping coordinating this patch.