Update: Patch 1.20 information

Greetings everyone,

The team has wanted to come back to Rise of Nations for some time and give it an update that will both fix some of the outstanding bugs and roll forward the multiplayer code onto a more modern architecture. These changes will set the game up better to keep it running for the next 10 years and beyond. We started that process with patch 1.20.

We’ve been monitoring the issues impacting player connectivity and other regressions closely. We are going to get those bugs fixed as soon as possible.

In the meantime, we feel like the right thing to do for now is to move Patch 1.20 into a Beta branch while we fix the bugs and let you keep playing on v1.10. We are making that change now. For anyone that wants to stay on Patch 1.20 Beta and help give us feedback as we work on it – instructions follow.

Your mainline branch will be 1.10. The beta branch will be V1_20_beta. To switch between branches, right-click on the game name from your Steam library and select Properties. Select the Betas tab. Use the drop down box to either opt out of all betas, or choose the V1_20_beta branch.

Thank you for your support. We are committed to working through the bugs in 1.20 and when we get there, the resulting multiplayer code will be much more future-proofed than before.

-The Rise of Nations team.