Server Maintenance - [July 7, 2023]

Age Of Empires Online Celeste Fan Project will undergo planned server maintenance on the 7th of July 2023.
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09:30 CEST: Expected end of maintenance.

 

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Changelog:

Return to Tarsos Quest Pack Now Available

• Balance Changes:
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• Sparta PvP Updates:
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• Map Updates:
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• Bugfixes:
  • Legendary: Get Back!: Fixed an issue where the Norse only spawned with their melee scout.
  • Siege You On the Other Side: Fixed a bug where having your priest die before you converted the warwagon didnt fail the optional.
  • Fixed an issue where the Norse Farbjodr did not receieve the intended buff to its baseline pierce armor. (0.85)

• Quest Updates:
  • Celtic Invasion of Rome Quest Pack:
    • Fabii, You're a Rich Man: Made some adjustments to the unit spawn system from the northern enemy bases.
    • Come Together: Made some adjustments to the quest map to allow Celts to properly build their Gold Mines on the map's Gold Deposits.
    • Only a Northern Town/Get Back!: Made adjustments to some forests in the map to prevent enemy units from walking through.
    • Sea of Holes: Removed the starting age 3 Armory upgrades from the AI.
    • Don't Let Me Down: Made minor adjustments to the quest map.
    • Siege of Clusium: Added a free starting Augur for Celts.
    • Invasion of Rome: Added a free starting Augur for Celts.
  • Conquest of the 9 Realms Quest Pack:
    • Midgard: Replaced the "Build No Markets" optional objective with "Train No Caravans". Changed the color of all enemies to red.
    • Jotunheim: Made several difficulty adjustments and increased the timer for the Time Challenge by 5 minutes.
    • Vanaheim: Split the optional objective to two separate ones. (Train no Priests + Train No Siege)
    • Muspelheim: Replaced the "Train No Cavalry" optional objective with "Train No Palintonons, Stone Throwers or Log Throwers". Made several optimizations to the quest map to improve performance.
    • Niflheim: Made adjustments to the quest's lighting setting.
    • Svartalfheim: Split the optional objective to two separate ones, and changed "Train No Siege" to "Train No Palintonons, Stone Throwers or Log Throwers". (Train no Priests + Train No Siege)
    • Alfheim: Replaced the "Train No Siege" optional objective with "Train No Palintonons, Stone Throwers or Log Throwers".
    • Asgard: Replaced the "Train No Cavalry" optional objective with "Train No Palintonons, Stone Throwers or Log Throwers". Made several optimizations to the quest map to improve performance.
    • Helheim: Made several optimizations to the quest map to improve performance. Replaced the "Train No Siege" optional objective with "Train No Palintonons, Stone Throwers or Log Throwers".
  • Rostam In Zabol Quest Pack:
    • Turanian Trouble: Spread out the nearby gold mines to allow the celts to use goldmines again, spread out the stonemines to allow more villagers to mine at once, fixed the rewards for the Repeatable and Elite version, added a free starting auger for celt players and rebalanced the difficulty some.
    • Return the Favor/Totally Turanian/Join Forces: Made some adjustments to the quest maps to allow Celts to properly build their Gold Mines on the maps' Gold Deposits.
    • Just Deserts: Lowered the resources required for the Time Challenge, and you no longer need to destroy the orange AI to finish the quest.
    • Resistance in Sistan: Made adjustments to the quest's lighting setting. Made adjustments to the quest map's forests so Villagers don't get stuck between the trees while gathering wood.
    • Added more starting resources to the Repeatable and Elite versions of the quests, and increased the time for the time challenges.
  • Treasures of the Nile Quest Pack:
    • The Valley of the Kings: Added a free starting Augur for celt players and fixed the rewards for the Repeatable and Elite versions.
    • Added more starting resources to the Repeatable and Elite versions of the quests, and increased the time for the time challenges.
  • The Adventures of Brennos and Comontorios Quest Pack:
    • Changed the Gear set of the AI on Repeatable/Elite quests to use Rare gear, instead of Epic. (so that it is consistent with every other Quest Pack)
    • Legendary: Invasion of Aegitna: Increased the time challenge timer to 40 minutes from 30 minutes, made the hero units stronger and removed the objective to keep them alive.
  • Aiding Socrates Quest Pack:
    • Megara/Corinth/Calydon: Made some adjustments to the quest maps to allow Celts to properly build their Gold Mines on the maps' Gold Deposits.
  • The Greek Revolt Pack:
    • Sardes: Made several optimizations to the quest map to improve performance.

• 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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  • Global:
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• Updated the Champion Mode Website to the latest build.

• UI Updates:
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• Other Updates:
  • Three new hotkeys have been added. These hotkeys can be found under the "Find Priest Unit Hotkeys" section, and are unbound by default:
    • Select All Egyptian Priestesses of Ra
    • Select All Celtic Druids
    • Select All Roman Clinicuses

• XLive Changes:
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• Backend Changes:
  • Tarsos has been added back to the Quest Rotation System (Repeatable, Elite, Legendary)
  • The duration of all several rotation sets have changed:
    • 9-day sets: duration reduced to 8 days, from 9. (Legendary: Rome, Athens, Lodi, Rhakotis)