Age of Mythology: Retold Update 18.65484

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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Expansion Pass and the Demeter God Pack DLC – Available Now!

You can pick up the Expansion Pass today to access the new Major Goddess, Demeter!

The Expansion Pass will bring additional new content over the coming months with the Ultimate Fan Pack, the Blood and Bones Pack, and the Obsidian Mirror DLC, which brings the Aztec Pantheon to Age of Mythology: Retold.

Demeter Major God

• A new Major God for Demeter that comes with the Wither God Power and new unique bonuses for those who choose to follow her.
  
• Includes three new Minor God choices: Pan, Hestia, and Persephone.
  
• Each Minor God comes with new God Powers, including: Arcadian Meadow, Communal Hearth, and Underworld Invasion.
  
• Each Minor God brings new Myth Units, including: Lykaon Villagers that turn into Lykaon Wolf units, Hamadryads that can shapeshift into trees, and Sirens who can lure their prey.
  
• All followers of Demeter also have access to the Harpy from the Fortress.
  
• New Heroes to lead the charge: Orpheus, Iolaus, Icarus, and Midas.
  
• New technologies to research and gameplay experiences to explore!

Brand New Mythical Battle: Silent Sanctuary

Silent Sanctuary is a new, fully voiced Mythical Battle that follows Chiron and Orpheus on a dangerous descent into Hades. Their goal is to recover Demeter’s sacred relics and restore balance to the suffering lands that worship her. The journey takes them through shifting terrain, ancient threats, and the heart of the underworld.

With fresh god powers, unconventional myth units, and a story rooted in renewal and the cycle of life, the Demeter God Pack offers fertile ground for new strategies and new legends!

Check it out by navigating to the Campaign menu, then selecting Mythical Battles, and choosing the Silent Sanctuary entry from the list.

New Achievements with Demeter God Pack

There are 10 new achievements to earn! You can earn these achievements if you own the Demeter God Pack content by playing the new Mythical Battle and by playing as the new Demeter Major God.

Gauntlet Mode Updates

New Bonus XP!!

A few players have already pushed Gauntlet to its limits, reaching level 99 to earn the achievement. Well done to these players! Leveling up will now be a bit easier to achieve across all difficulties. There are now a couple of ways to earn extra XP while playing the Gauntlet game mode. These changes flatten the requirements so that all difficulties are a little more achievable for leveling up to unlock the Favor Stash rewards and working toward earning the level 99 achievement.

Co-op Bonus

• As the host, you will now receive a bonus of 500 XP for each node that you complete with an invited partner.
  
• As a person joining another player’s Labyrinth node, you will gain a bonus 1000 XP for each node you complete.

Labyrinth Completion Bonus

• If you have earned all the available Legends and Blessings from the Final Boss node, there is now a bonus random XP hoard awarded. You will earn between 8000 and 15000 XP as a bonus for completing each Labyrinth. The amount awarded is random and is not impacted by difficulty.
  
• You can also earn this bonus while playing in Co-op! If you play with someone who would be earning this XP bonus, then you will also earn the bonus XP. The amount of XP may vary for each player.

Demeter Joins the Gauntlet

You can now find nodes scattered in some of your Labyrinths with the new Major God Demeter. Similar to other Major Gods, you may find situations where you will be playing with or against the new Major God. Labyrinths do not retroactively update. If you have an in-progress Labyrinth run, then you will not see any of these new Nodes until you begin your next run.

In addition to joining the Gauntlet, Demeter’s unique myth units are now possible rewards when purchasing the “Hire a Buddy” Favor Stash Item. You may also see them appearing during the “Enemy Incursion” Chaos Event!

Other Gauntlet Bug Fixes and Updates

• Fixed a bug that caused the “you have already earned this reward” pop-up to show in unintended situations. The pop-up will no longer show after you successfully complete a Labyrinth Run and return to the Labyrinth UI.
  
• Fixed a bug that caused increases to the total count of Labyrinths completed every time the game was launched under some specific conditions. You may see your Labyrinths’ completed stat update after you launch with this new update to show a fixed value if your stats were affected.
  
• Updated the wording of Badge Challenges for Gauntlet to clarify that the Blessing quantity that must be active or inactive only includes those chosen before the match begins. Blessings granted in the form of your single selected Legend and any granted through the Player Blessing mechanic are ignored by these challenges.
  
• Fixed bugs that prevented completion of the God and Demigod badges unless they were completed during a single gameplay session. The stats were not saving correctly and would reset back to only one of the successful completions as credit after each game restart. You can now complete these challenges to earn the badges over multiple gameplay sessions.
  
• King Halogi and Nuchou now benefit from Apollo’s Sun Ray technology. This change brings these Legends in line with Setna and Reginleif.
  
• King Halogi, Circe, and Theris now use the hero minimap icon to match other Legends.
  
• Opening the leaderboards for Gauntlet will now default to the difficulty you are currently playing to show the most relevant results.
  
• Updated the description for Conqueror of Olympus to indicate it only counts base-game gods. This change is to make it clear that Demeter is not included among the challenge requirements.
• Fixed a bug that could result in Chaos or Blessing Events occurring unintentionally while playing Campaign missions.

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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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.

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