Age of Mythology: Extended Edition

Age of Mythology: Extended Edition had no directly documented content drop in the supplied record, while Age of Mythology: Retold became the main relevant development through pre-orders and a closed beta. Extended Edition owners also received a discount on Retold’s Premium Edition.

• No direct Extended Edition update: The supplied record listed no new campaign, mode, patch, or system for Age of Mythology: Extended Edition.
• Retold pre-order offer: Age of Mythology: Retold opened pre-orders ahead of its September 4, 2024 release, and Extended Edition owners received a discount on the Premium Edition.
• Retold closed beta: The Age of Mythology: Retold Closed Beta ran from July 12 to 14 for Premium Edition pre-order customers and included the Tutorial, the first five missions of the Fall of the Trident campaign, Skirmish, and Multiplayer.
• Pantheon testing: The beta let players try the Greek, Norse, and Egyptian Pantheons.

No verified content release landed for Age of Mythology: Extended Edition. The tracked material centered on the announcement of Age of Mythology: Retold, rather than a shipped update to the Extended Edition.

• Age of Mythology: Extended Edition: No verified DLC, patch, mode, or gameplay update was captured.
• Age of Mythology: Retold: The announcement did not count as a released change for Extended Edition.
• Medusa, Pegasus, and Cerberus: Their reported art and gameplay updates were not verified as shipped additions to Extended Edition.

A Boatload of Balance Changes was the main gameplay update, with broad tuning to civilizations, units, god powers, and technologies. The June 29, 2020 update also introduced Blue Lagoon, expanded modding support, and improved multiplayer stability.

• A Boatload of Balance Changes: General adjustments affected civilization units, powers, and technologies across the game.
• Blue Lagoon: The new map entered the Random, Random All, and Random Land Map pools. The update also added a unit health display option that showed health while units took damage.
• Expanded Scripting Functionality for Modders: Modders received broader scripting capabilities, while Several new Cheat Codes were added for Age of Mythology: Extended Edition and Tale of the Dragon owners.
• Desync Fixes: Optimized desync checks improved multiplayer performance, while Fixed various crash issues addressed crashes involving match exits, unit conversion, and other scenarios. A memory leak caused by improperly defined audio files was also removed.

Tale of the Dragon released on January 28, 2016, delivering the game’s first major expansion. It added a Chinese civilization, a fully voice-acted campaign, new maps, and 12 Chinese gods, including three major gods and nine minor gods.

• Expansion content: Tale of the Dragon introduced the Chinese civilization, its campaign, new maps, and the final Mythic Age gods.
• Single-player addition: The Titans option arrived for single-player games in June 2015, allowing players to set it to default or none.
• Multiplayer and performance improvements: The June 2015 update added several practical changes:
  • Dynamic Performance Adjustment System automatically adjusted detail settings on slower machines.
  • Multiplayer performance and animation improvements made online matches run more smoothly.
  • Custom Games stopped counting as ranked matches, while civilization-specific hotkeys gained additional functionality.
• Post-expansion support: The March 2016 update addressed several issues affecting Tale of the Dragon and online play, including desyncs involving Chinese Barrage, Restoration, and Ulfsark starting units; it also restored missing tech trees and hotkeys, corrected amphibious-unit terrain traversal, and fixed the AI’s Yellow River pathfinding problem.
• Launch event: The Tale of the Dragon Countdown provided daily previews of the expansion’s minor gods before launch.

The ranked-game grace-period removal changed competitive play by deleting the one-minute buffer on August 22, 2014. The same update gave Poseidon Statues Poseidon’s Trident and corrected campaign victory audio plus No Titans recorded-game playback.

• Ranked games: The one-minute grace period was removed following community feedback, making ranked matches begin without the previous buffer.
• Poseidon Statues: All Poseidon Statues received Poseidon’s Trident, giving the statues their expected signature weapon.
• Campaign missions and No Titans: Campaign victories played the correct win sound, while recordings made with No Titans selected played back correctly.