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Update 153015

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Update 153015

Update released August 12, 2025, recording 849 change items across Stability and performance, Graphics, Audio, UI and other areas.

Update 153015 Age of Empires II update artwork
Update 153015 Age of Empires II update artwork

Overview

Update released August 12, 2025, recording 849 change items across Stability and performance, Graphics, Audio, UI and other areas.

What this version records

Update 153015 is a version-specific change record for Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, dated August 12, 2025. It records 849 changes in the TTK release. The section labels below identify which parts of the game were touched; consult the current unit, building, or technology entry for values that may have changed again in a later patch.

  • Stability and performance: 3 change items
  • Graphics: 11 change items
  • Audio: 8 change items
  • UI: 27 change items
  • Settings: 1 change items
  • Hotkeys: 3 change items
  • Multiplayer: 2 change items
  • Xbox: 11 change items
  • PlayStation: 6 change items
  • General: 98 change items
  • Fixes: 17 change items
  • Tooltips: 9 change items
  • Pathfinding: 33 change items
  • Campaign: 6 change items
  • Wild animals: 25 change items
  • New random maps: 25 change items
  • Random map changes: 107 change items
  • Ensemble Studios maps rework changes: 170 change items
  • Real world map changes: 8 change items
  • Random Map Scripting: 27 change items
  • Additions: 37 change items
  • Scripting: 5 change items
  • Scenario Editor: 11 change items
  • XS scripting: 57 change items
  • Data file: 15 change items

How to use this reference

Update released August 12, 2025, recording 849 change items across Stability and performance, Graphics, Audio, UI and other areas. Release record: August 12, 2025; 849 recorded change items. Areas covered: Stability and performance (3), Graphics (11), Audio (8), UI (27), Settings (1), Hotkeys (3), Multiplayer (2), Xbox (11), PlayStation (6), General (98), Fixes (17), Tooltips (9), Pathfinding (33), Campaign (6), Wild animals (25), New random maps (25), Random map changes (107), Ensemble Studios maps rework changes (170), Real world map changes (8), Random Map Scripting (27), Additions (37), Scripting (5), Scenario Editor (11), XS scripting (57), Data file (15). Read this entry as a version-specific record; a later update may have changed the current values of affected units, buildings, or technologies.

Also known as
Update 153015
Focus
Game update
Signature / category
Update
Release / context
Definitive Edition
Classification
Update

Release record

Released
August 12, 2025
Change items
849
Release context
TTK
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