Oct 30

Age of Empires IV – Season Twelve Update 15.1.6970

Age of Empires IV: Anniversary Edition - Lady Eridani

Today’s a huge day for Age of Empires IV! Not only are we starting a new Ranked Season, chock-full of exciting battles and seasonal events, but we’re also officially welcoming brand new players to the Age IV community with the start of our Early Access period on PlayStation 5. This update enables crossplay across all platforms, including those joining in for Early Access, and also brings with it AI improvements, a rework to the House of Lancaster’s Manors, plus additional updates made to our seasonal events approach, balance changes, and more.

In the meantime, make sure you have your calendars marked for November 4, when players will first be able to test their mettle in The Crucible and lead four new formidable armies in Dynasties of the East.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

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Thanks again to our amazing community members, all of whom have helped to make Age of Empires what it is today!

—The Age of Empires Team

Please Note: As part of updating to this latest build, any saved games and observable matches made on previous builds will be unable to be loaded or replayed.

◆Update 15.1.6970◆

Season Twelve
Ranked Season and Events Update
As we mentioned way back at the start of Season Eleven, we’re aware that our seasonal approach means you’ve had limited access to exciting game modes, maps and biomes, and events. With that in mind, starting with Season Twelve, we’ll be adjusting our approach to seasons. Moving forward you’ll see:
Seasonal content – such as game modes, maps and biomes – unlocked and made permanently available. We started this in Season Eleven with by making Map Monsters and Enchanted Grove permanently available, and we’re excited to share that with Season Twelve, you’ll be able to play as much of the Map Monsters, Full Moon and Season’s Feast game modes as you’d like in custom matches. Game modes will now come with a pre-selected biome for best experience. However, this can still be tweaked in the map options.
Rotating through events! In the past, events and the rewards that came with them were time-exclusive. Moving forward, we’ll be rotating through these fun and familiar events to ensure you’re able to collect the items you may have missed out on.
During Season Twelve, we’ll be bringing back a few classics meant to celebrate the season (both spooky and delightful) with Hallow’s Hearth, Season’s Feast and Something in the Water.

Hallow’s Hearth – Event 1
The wolves are howling, and a chill wind can be heard whispering through the trees. Get ready for a spooktacular second edition of Hallow’s Hearth with terrifying treats and monstrously fun challenges!

Login between October 30th at 10:00AM PT (17:00 UTC) and December 4th to stake your claim.

In addition, we have made several improvements to the Full Moon mode:
Added a new night atmosphere to the Full Moon game mode, to be transitioned to during the Moon Surge event. The atmosphere should transition back to the biome’s initial one after the event is over.
Werewolf unit name and description updated to be more accurate.
New werewolf spawning VFX have been added.
It’s time to face a powerful enemy, the wolves roam the land, they have grown larger and more powerful than before. When the Moon is full, the wolves will attack, build your walls and prepare for their approach.

Season’s Feast – Event 2
This event is full of gifts to celebrate the Season! We have many challenges and rewards to customize your profile to match the season of giving. As well as a brand-new game mode filled with gifts to get you those victories! Keep your eyes on the battlefield and see how many gifts you can find.

Login between December 5th at 10:00am PT (1:00pm ET / 18:00 UTC) and February 5th to share in the season’s festivities!

In addition, we have made several improvements to the Season’s Feast game mode:
Improved spawn logic for the gift boxes so that they are not spawning in inaccessible locations and to maintain balance.
Gift boxes can be easily located with the new visual indicator.
See the presents fall from above, find and collect them all over the map.

Something in the Water – Event 3
The relaxing waves have brought back old friends but with new rewards! They might be monsters, but you’ll be the one sinking your teeth into the challenges while you take on the competition.

Improvements to the Map Monsters mode:
Improved spawn logic for the monsters preventing them from spawning in inaccessible locations.
Monster discovery results in the monster despawning with a visual effect.
Login February 6th at 10:00am PT (1:00 PM ET / 18:00 UTC) through April 2nd at 10:00AM PT (1:00 PM ET / 17:00 UTC) to claim your bounty!

Ranked Season Twelve Updates
Get ready to dive back into the action! Season Twelve is officially kicking off, and it’s set to be a big celebration.

This season is about honoring the heart of the game, and the upcoming months are packed with beloved game modes & major holiday festivities! But don’t forget about the main event: We’re dropping a massive, brand-new DLC that will change the way you play.

Mark your calendars! The season begins on October 30th and runs all the way through April 2nd! You won’t want to miss a single challenge, reward or event.

Map Pool Rotation
We’re excited to share that new maps coming with the Dynasties of the East expansion are making their debut appearance in Ranked Map Pools, starting October 30th! We’re feeling confident in these maps and can’t wait to hear what you think of them! Test your mettle on this season’s new terrain and unique mechanics.
1v1 Ranked Map Pool
Altai –> Flankwoods
Archipelago –> Boulder Bay
Canal –> Ocean Gateway
Enlightened Horizon –> Golden Heights
Rocky River –> Relic River
Hill and Dale –> Craters
Carmel –> Cliffside
Team Ranked Map Pool
African Waters –> Canyon
Hedgemaze –> Craters
Nagari –> Ocean Gateway
Waterholes –> Continental
Lipany –> Hidden Valley
Hideout –> Flankwoods
Enlightened Horizon –> Prairie

New Maps
We’re thrilled to be releasing 8 new maps with the Dynasties of the East expansion on November 4th, but you can get a sneak preview of three of them already as we add them directly into our Season Twelve Map Pool.
Craters
A meteor shower leaves behind deep craters that scar the surface of the land; some have filled with water and provide limited fishing opportunities while others contain meteorite fragments which can be gathered by daring Villagers. Meteorites can be mined for both Gold and Stone at the same time, but such a precious resource will surely be a catalyst for conflict.
Canyon
A waterlogged canyon snakes its way through the center of the map, dividing teams equally on either side. Teams can reach each other by ramps that lead down to the base of the canyon and by crossing the shallow water there, perhaps catching the glint of Relics reflecting on the water’s surface. Town Centers perch precariously on the Canyon edge; it’s rumored that if you watch carefully enough, enemy movements can be seen at the edge of the fog of war.
Ocean Gateway
Surrounded by rugged cliffs, the four gateways provide critical access to the bounty of fish and naval trade available at the map’s edge. However, limited space for docks and wide-open flanks make Ocean Gateway a challenging balancing act between both land and water.

Map Pool Biomes
With this release we have also updated all the available biomes for each map while playing in ranked or unranked, meaning that you’ll see more biome variation than before and the appearance of new biomes in multiplayer matches.

Matchmaking Improvements
As you may have noticed, earlier this month, we made a change via the server to improve matchmaking. You should notice faster queue times in Quick Match and Ranked!

Manor Rework
House of Lancaster’s gameplay will be changing this season, with a much-requested rework to how Manors generate resources. Manors now generate less resources passively, instead Manors have an aura in which Villagers generate Food and Wood when they are within the Aura. Lancaster players will need to strategically place their Manors to make sure they capture as many Villagers as possible.

This is just a small taste of what is coming in the latest update. For a more complete list, please visit our site and check out our blog. Happy Gaming!

:alertalert: DISCLAIMER
This list is subject to change and should not be considered a comprehensive list of all the known issues we’re tracking. The above is to inform you of the team’s current priorities, which will change as other issues arise or take precedence.

For the latest updates and announcements, please visit our social channels.

Oct 30

Update v1.11 - Health & Stability | Have Your Say

Predecessor - Steggs

It may feel a little early to start talking about the new year, but this one's been such a popular request from our community that we wanted to get started on it now!

1.11 - Health & Stability

Update 1.11 launches in January 2026 and our focus will be on the health and stability of the game.

2025 has been an incredible year for Predecessor, packed full of major updates and new content for everyone to enjoy. But we've heard the feedback loud and clear - a focus on bugs, stability and quality of life would be great for everyone.

The idea of an update dedicated to health & stability has been floating around the community for a little while now, it's clear you want us to squash some bugs, and we do too.

The Details

Update 1.11 will focus primarily on:

Stability (crashes and server hiccups)
Bugs that negatively impact the experience
Quality of life changes

This doesn't mean there won't be more exciting content in the patch though! You can expect a new Hero, that you may find fits in pretty well with the whole "health" theme... alongside new skins, balance updates and more.

Have Your Say

This is where you come in! We have a list of issues we know we'd like to address, but we also want to make sure we’re tackling the things that matter most to you.

We've created a dedicated Discord forum where everyone can submit the issues they feel has a negative impact on their experience. It could be a UI bug, an ability behaving strangely, some unexpected visual oddities, and more - we want to know.

You’ll also be able to react to other players’ posts with an upvote or downvote to help us see which issues matter most to the community.

Join the discussion on Discord

Release Date

The holiday season is fast approaching and we want to give our team the time they deserve to take a break and enjoy the festivities. With this in mind, we're aiming to release 1.11 on January 13, roughly four weeks after the 1.10.x patch.

What About 1.10?

Have no fear, 1.10 is still cooking and we can't wait to show you more! We'll be dropping more information in the next few weeks, all the way up until launch on November 25.

That's everything for now, Champions! Head over to the official Discord and have your say on the v1.11 update coming in January!

Oct 30

The Book of Outcasts is released

The Book of Outcasts - Юрий Петухов

Hello everyone!
Finally, we’re here — with the completed game.

We began The Book of Outcasts four years ago, but the real development started in spring 2024. It’s by far the most complex project we’ve ever made. Combining a visual novel with an RPG dungeon crawler turned out to be a real challenge for our small team.

And because that wasn’t complicated enough, we decided to add both playable genders — giving you the option to play as either a male or female character.

Later came another big test: when the “payment processors” issue appeared, we had to reorganize the entire project and remove a lot of content. Graphics, text, animations — once you cut so much, the whole system stops working like before. Sometimes we even had to read through 250,000 words line by line just to remove certain “triggering” terms.

But despite all that, it was fun. I truly enjoyed reading and reworking the story. Sometimes I couldn’t wait for the next script from the writer just to find out what happens next.

It was also a great learning experience — I even learned 2D animation! When you meet the final boss, you’ll see what I mean.

As for additional content: if you’d like to get more free extras for the game, please visit our Discord or Telegram — links are available on the game’s Steam page.

For those who haven’t played our previous Conussia games, we’ve prepared special discounts. I recommend checking the bundle — you’ll get all the titles at a great price and discover the world of Conussia, which will help you understand the background leading up to this story.

And finally — the future.

We’re already thinking about Outcasts 2. The Steam page is under review, and once it’s approved, I’ll add a widget here. With the UI and combat systems already established, and with our gained experience, development will go much faster this time. Of course, it depends on how this game is received — if players truly want more.

Looking at your wishlists and your posts, we can see your trust in us — and that means a lot.

Thank you for that!

Oct 30

UPDATE 0.14 BETA 5

Into the Radius 2 - Darius_ITR

CHANGES

[Weapons] The OTs-14 Groza can now only be found inside the Radius.
[Weapons] The OTs-14 Groza now has a separate rail attachment, which can also only be found in Radius locations.
[Audio] Different sized items now produce distinct splashes when dropped into water.

FIXES

[Crash] Fixed a crash when moving to the Pechorsk Outskirts location.
[Crash] Fixed a crash when overwriting the first mission save slot.
[Crash] Fixed a crash related to updating available missions.
[Crash] Fixed a crash that could occur when interacting with an ammo box and ammo cartridges placed close together in the backpack in certain sequences.
[Crash] The game no longer crashes if the player kills themselves using the Izh-27, Benelli M2, or Saiga-12.
[Crash] Fixed a crash related to enemy spawn on the Pechorsk Outskirts.
[Crash] Fixed a crash that could occur when spraying cleaning oil.
[Graphics] The dithering effect no longer appears when Shadows Quality is set to High while using DX11.
[Weapons] Gun parts no longer fail to reinstall after being removed, following a save load or when changing locations.
[Weapons] The Laser Sight beam no longer casts shadows.
[Weapons] The error message no longer appears when trying to shoot the PM pistol.
[Gear] Pouches attached to the backpack now work correctly and no longer occasionally stop functioning.
[Gear] Missing objects have been added to the Peninsula map.
[Gear] Mission items no longer start playing sounds again after a save load or when changing locations.
[Gear] The Lost Item marker no longer appears on the map if the mission has already been completed.
[Facility] Missing furniture items have been returned to their proper places.
[Radius Locations] Fixed cases where the player could get stuck or fall through the floor in certain buildings on the Pechorsk Outskirts.
[Radius Locations] Extra weapon crate sounds no longer play, and the intended crate sounds now trigger correctly.
[Radius Locations] Fixed visual bugs across all locations.
[Radius Locations] Fixed a bug where the sleep UI would not appear when using the bed in the shelter.
[Enemies] Creep Hunter no longer continues to emit sounds after being killed.
[Co-op] The client no longer appears underground after moving from Pechorsk Outskirts to Peninsula.