FORO OFICIAL: Age Of Empires 2

Patch 2.3
Patch 2.3

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As some of you have noticed, we made a few tweaks to 2.2 and are pushing a 2.3 patch out to everyone today. You may need to restart steam to get the patch once it has fully rolled out across the servers. The focus here with 2.3 was to resolve a number of outstanding bugs that users were experiencing, as well as a bunch of quality of life improvements (vsync, mouse clamping, building queues etc).

The multiplayer lobby browser is also now set to the maximum we’re able to through Steam, so users will likely see more games available now. Please remember it is a peer-peer game, so your connectivity may affect gameplay.

For users experiencing the white screen due to unsupported GPUs, we’ve adjusted some of the game settings and added a new option for object shadow AA. Disabling this may resolve the white screen issue you experienced (though this is GPU dependent).
For full details on the patch, simply read below. As always we’ll be keeping an eye on the results here.

New Options:
Object Shadows Anti-aliasing (Enabled by default in builds prior to 2.2 for the improved shadows). Disabling may help improve performance & allow for expanded GPU support with some older Shader model versions.
Enable VSYNC option (can help reduce load on higher end GPUs)
Clamp mouse to window when in foreground
Quick match speed default to normal but can be changed to fast
Display mode options from main menu: Windowed, Fullscreen, Fullscreen Desktop (for multi-monitor)
Fullscreen desktop requires monitors to have matching vertical resolutions. Mismatched resolutions resulted in truncated UI and was disabled. You can still drag the game in windowed mode across multiple monitors.
Gameplay Modification:
Added nine additional grouping hotkeys and made group creation / selection keys modifiable.
After getting the patch you may be forced to re-create your hotkey file.
Group hotkeys can be changed by accessing options -> Hotkeys -> Game Commands.
Group Selection hotkeys cannot be modified by alt or shift keys, as these keys have special meaning in game (e.g. alt + group selection key = select and center on)
If multiple buildings of the same type are selected, unit training will sequentially be divided amongst buildings (Multiple building unit queues)
Bugfixes:
Missing grey background behind some tooltip text resolved (to improve text clarity)
Localization fixes
Unlocalized Launcher Buttons
Missing campaign text
Unlocalized Russian UI
Additional various localization fixes
Additional Achievement fixes
Trebuchet attack range fixes
Various campaign crashes due to string length overflows
Game ‘win’ counter should increment correctly
Quickmatch Map Size properly filters based on map size chosen
Performance warning typo fixes
Fixed AI files not being unpacked properly from workshop mods
Fixed workshop downloading only one update per launch of the game
Other:
When getting booted from the game, you will return to the main menu. This is by design due to the gameflow and how the title processes game information.
Gameplay version changed to 2.3
Matchmaking settings changed to the ‘widest’ setting permitted by Steam’s system.
Users may see different game lists for several reasons including:
User location (the system should return games that present a better play experience first)
Game legitimacy
Steam account standing
Filters
Please note when joining games that high pings may result in poor gameplay experiences.