Season Five Update – Ayyubids

Tuesday, May 16, 2023 #705861Season 5 update

"We’re turning up the heat in Season Five with Map Monsters: Summer Party Edition! Scout the land and scour the sea in search for the elusive Wild Man and mysterious Dragon Turtle in our Summer Party event! Start a match off strong in Empire Wars – a new, quick-to-action game mode where players start with a burgeoning empire of pre-built buildings and villagers already tasked to resources. But that’s not all: We’ve packed this update with loads of new content and features, ready for you to dive in starting June 15th!"

A few highlights include:

Three new maps: Golden Heights, Migration, and Volcanic Island!

The start of Ranked Season Five, bringing with it new rewards and an updated map pool rotation!

Team Voice Chat – strategize with your friends in-match with the new team voice chat! Or use the speech-to-text feature to more easily send communications to your team!

Visual upgrades, and performance-related improvements!

New trade updates based directly on community feedback!

New unique options for every civilization! From unique tech to unique units, we’re making design changes so that each civilization’s personality shines through!

Additional support for mods that make it easier for everyone in the lobby to start the match.

… and a whole lot of bug fixes & balance changes!

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Gameplay Changes for All Civilizations

  • New technology available from the Stables in the Imperial Age increases the line of sight of scouts

  • Scouts no longer gain extra line of sight as the player Ages up.

  • Spyglasses has unique remappable hotkeys for the Abbasid Dynasty, Chinese, Delhi Sultanate, and Malians, as they have unique Stables.

  • Cost increased from 100 wood / 225 gold to 300 wood / 400 gold.

  • Health decreased from 1500 to 1250.

  • Units standing on walls that idle aggro will no longer leave the safe walls to chase enemy units.

  • All defensive building’s attack radiuses are now made visible to any player when selected.

Naval Updates for All Civilizations

  • Cost Reduced from 200 food / 500 gold to 150 food / 350 gold.

  • Research time reduced from 45 seconds to 30 seconds.

  • Naval ships under Attack Move orders will now continue along the shortest path to their destination after destroying a target.

  • Arrow Ships now target the center of enemy ships correctly, this improves the arrow visuals and communicates when they hit or miss better.

  • Increased the Springald Ship’s bonus damage vs buildings from 45 to 55.

  • Springald Ships now properly target and shoot enemy units that are close by.

Developer note

"When looking at this unit’s damage vs a dock relative to its resource cost, the time was too long. We’ve increased the bonus damage to make Springald Ships destroy all buildings faster."

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