Defense
Since the release of the Watch Signal and Grenadiers, AoE:CS has steadily received updates that focused more on viable options for attackers. This patch we’d like to give some love back to defense. We’re taking some modest steps in this direction to start, and will watch the impact of these changes closely. Our goal is to have a breadth of diversity in both castle layouts and offensive strategies.
Keep
- Increased HP of Age 7 Keep by 20%
- Increased HP of Age 8 Keep by 25%
- Increased HP of Age 9 Keep by 30%
Caltrops
- Duration of caltrops increased from 10s to 60s
Heroes
Saladin & Edward
- Saladin and Edward have had their damage increased so that they can reliably take out most towers in a single ability use (except for Crossbow Tower Lv6 and the Musket Tower)
Nikephoros
- Increased the range of Nikephoros ability by roughly 50%
Balance
Ram:
- Increased movement speed by 25%
- Increased Ram’s bonus damage against Gates by 100%
- Increased HP by 20%
- Reduced the range that rams will seek out gates, allowing them to be more reasonable in target selection
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where John Kourkouas would occasionally crash the app if infantry budged in between him and his intended path.
- Conrad the Elder, once exiting his Siege Tower, will now possess the light pillar that highlights his position in the battle
- Alliance messages older than 90 days will now be discarded from chat
- Fixed an issue where targets being burned by both Tariq’s Field of Fire and Nevsky’s Scorched Earth would only receive damage from the first ability fired. Now both will apply.
- Fixed an issue where abilities that provided buffs would have inconsistent results when stacked on top of each other
- General improvements to usability, stability, crashes and connection errors
What do you think of the patch notes?
