Age of History II — patch notes and updates
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| Update | Date | Excerpt / source |
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| Play the Demo: Age of History 2: Definitive Edition, Available Now! | 2026-04-17 | The Demo Is Live, Age of History 2: Definitive Edition! The limited AoH2: Definitive Edition demo is available now, don’t miss it! Experience Age of History 2 like never before. Discount for AoH2 Owners! Age of History 2: Definitive Edition, Available Now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3381680/Age_of_History_2_Definitive_Edition/ Upgrade Bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/55391/Definitive_Edition_Upgrade_Bundle/ Demo gameplay What's New The Definitive Edition of a grand strategy classic, now featuring improved gameplay, a new map with 13,892 provinces, expanded diplomacy, wartime capitulation, faster army recruitment and movem |
| Age of History 2: Definitive Edition Out Now! AoH2 Owners: -30%! | 2026-04-15 | The Age of History 2: Definitive Edition is finally here! 30% Discount for AoH2 Owners! Original AoH2 owners get an exclusive total discount of 30% 10% launch discount + an extra 20% just for owners. New players can enjoy the 10% launch discount for a limited time. Check it out: AoH2 Definitive Edition https://store.steampowered.com/app/3381680/Age_of_History_2_Definitive_Edition/ Upgrade Bundle: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/55391/Definitive_Edition_Upgrade_Bundle/ What's New The Definitive Edition of a grand strategy classic, now featuring improved gameplay, a new map with 13,892 provinces, expanded diplomacy, wartime capitulation, |
| Age of History 2: Definitive Edition - What's New 2026 | 2026-02-12 | What's New - Age of History 2 Definitive Edition https://store.steampowered.com/app/3381680/Age_of_History_2_Definitive_Edition/ Note: This list is not final. New world map with 13,892 provinces, 23 scenarios, and 225 formable civilizations. New province border drawing system with smoother border lines. Province names displayed directly on provinces. Civilization and province name animations appear after zooming out. Multiple army selection and movement: Press and drag with the middle mouse button to Select and move multiple armies at once. Using the "Move to" action or right mouse button, you can now move and split an army into multiple prov |
| Steam Achievements - Bug Fix | 2024-03-01 | Steam Achievements - Bug Fix |
| Fixed an issue with saving and loading the game. | 2024-02-20 | With new version 1.24 of the game the problem with saving and loading games should be fixed. Fixed an issue with saving and loading the game. If something stopped working you can post here: http://www.ageofcivilizationsgame.com/topic/238775-age-of-history-2-fixed-an-issue-with-saving-and-loading-the-game/ In your free time, check out Age of History 3! |
| New map of Asia with 4431 provinces! | 2020-12-22 | New map of Asia with 4431 provinces! Changing to the a new map in the game: Games -> Map -> Asia -> X5 |
| Europe - New Map | 2020-02-12 | The newest map for Age of Civilizations II has over 1787 provinces, it's one of three available maps For AoC II. More great maps available on official forum of the game: www.AgeofCivilizationsgame.com |
| World War I for Europe map | 2019-12-23 | World War I, new scenario for Europe map! |
| Europe - New free map for AoC2! | 2019-12-21 | New free map for AoC2: Europe :) Over 550 new provinces, have fun! To change map: Games -> Map ->Europe -> X4 |
| Map Editor for Age of Civilizations II | 2019-01-02 | Map Editor for Age of Civilizations II http://www.ageofcivilizationsgame.com/topic/717-map-editor-aoc2/ https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/52b75686f755e3b6378c962a9b0510a48d3d5891.png |
| Official Age of Civilizations Forum | 2018-12-27 | New forum of the game http://www.ageofcivilizationsgame.com/ You can publish and share scenarios with the community on the official page https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/ae019e8b843219629f2858922202393a827110ab.png |
| Victorian Era, 1836 | 2018-12-20 | New scenario for AoC2 Victorian Era, 1836, made by Chexier https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/7bb40889a83871d7c5a782c965c7dc91e179e5b3.png |
| AoC2 - Ancient Greece | 2018-12-13 | New scenario for #AoC2: Ancient Greece made by Fan https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/0c882d9d9d900d189de4a3195307f334ab390b44.png |
| Age of Civilizations II - Rewritten system of saves | 2018-12-09 | New update: Rewritten system of saves in game, some of you had a problem with saving and loading the game, now should be fine! https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/ae019e8b843219629f2858922202393a827110ab.png |
| Minimum army to attack & Napoleonic wars | 2018-12-09 | New: Minimum army to attack and capture any province must be over 10 units New scenario: Napoleonic wars 1792 https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/b3b2412b73c73428d08a41f68e6eb9d51002be2f.png |
| New Achievements | 2018-12-04 | New Achievements https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/94dfcc624a988c2bc22e22dc53b810f825cb0204.png - Vassals - Unions - Alliances - Changing type of government |
| AoC2 - Saves | 2018-12-04 | Some of you had a problem with corrupted saved games Now every time you save the game, a backup file will be created of that save https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/e97804d79936821855b550d104bbd0ba287c3fbe.png What to do if you want to recover saved game? Go to folder with files of the game, then: saves\games\Earth\ and find corrupted saved, in this example it will be "1543943864877peaoeoej" 1543943864877peaoeoej - is a last save 1543943864877peaoeoej_BACKUP - is a backup All you have to do is to remove file "1543943864877peaoeoej" and change the name of "1543943864877peaoeoej_BACKUP" to "1543943864877 |
| New achievements and Fixes | 2018-12-02 | New achievements https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/eb18e8970f1962405fc4ab8637b20380f1a8c2b0.png - Form Austrian Empire - Form Italy - Form Ottoman Empire - Form Australia-Hungary - Form Japan - Form Russian Empire Fixed unions name bug A little bit of optimization between each turn |
| Low stability of province - Revolutionary risk | 2018-12-01 | Now low stability of province increases the revolutionary risk in province https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/60c7d32eb5c8c0b21d9963104f7e215cb7f96d97.png What is the province stability? The stability of the province is reduced if most of the province's residents do not come from the nationality of your Civilization. For example the province was recently conquered To increase the stability of the province, you can assimilate the province by promoting the culture of your civilization Having large army in that province will increase stability as well Assimilation What is the difference between "Confirm > |
| Age of Civilizations II - New Leaderboard and first Achievements | 2018-12-01 | First achievements added in AoC2! And also added in update new leaderboard with statistics of conquered provinces by all of the players https://steamcommunity.com/stats/603850/leaderboards/3115144/ https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/clans/28075039/3a91820c9b3874a76d8fae8a80f9aad29ba309c3.png |