New Content — Age of Empires Mobile: PC Edition News

Dear Governors,

Dear Governors,
To improve your gaming experience, we'll be optimizing and fixing certain in-game content. Server maintenance is scheduled for July 20, 2026, 07:00–10:00 UTC+0 (actual timing may vary depending on circumstances). Once maintenance is complete, compensation will be sent to your mailbox, and we'll activate a 1h Peace Shield for you. To ensure the best experience, please update your client to version 1.13.100.0, then claim your maintenance and update compensation in-game. Thank you for your understanding and support.

[New Content]
1. New Gear Quality: Mythical. Governors can now use Gear Refine to upgrade Lv.80 Legendary gear into Mythical quality, with all existing progression carrying over after refinement.
· Overview: Mythical gear's level cap increases to 140, and its rank cap rises to 8. The level cap unlocks gradually with 20 levels at a time, and the upgradeable rank depends on the gear's current level.
· Gem Slot: Once Mythical gear reaches Lv.100, a new Gem slot unlocks — reserved exclusively for Composite Gems, which carry two attribute entries that both take effect as soon as the gem is inlaid.
· Required Materials: Advancing Mythical gear requires Crimson Meteorite. During the current Stellar Dynasty Season, Crimson Meteorite can be earned through Island Challenge mode; in future seasons, look for it in the relevant season stores instead.
· Unlock Requirement: Lv.30 Town Center.
2. New Feature: Gem Smelting. Governors can now spend existing gems and Smelting Points to smelt Strategy, Hero, or Tactics gems into Composite Gems with dual attribute entries.
· Smelting Rules: Each smelting requires 2 gems of the same quality from the Strategy, Hero, or Tactics types, plus a corresponding number of Smelting Points. The higher the gem quality, the more points required. Currently, Rare is the highest smeltable quality.
· Smelting Points: Governors receive 40 Smelting Points immediately upon unlocking this feature, with 40 more automatically restored daily at 00:00 UTC+0. Points will not accumulate beyond the storage cap.
3. New Season Feature: Season Orders. Governors who reach Stellar Dynasty R2 will unlock a new season feature — Season Orders — letting them freely view, unlock, upgrade, and learn different Season Orders.
· Overview: Season Orders are skill effects usable on the World Map, split into two types: Battle Orders and Support Orders.
· Progression: Governors spend Edicts to unlock Season Orders and Queen's Medals to upgrade them. Related items can be earned by completing Season Quests.
· Loadout: Each Order has its own compatible unit types, activation conditions, and cooldown, and some support Auto Activate. Governors are free to choose and learn the Orders that best fit their troop composition and battlefield needs.
· Season Reset: As a season feature, Season Orders reset at the start of each new season. Unlock status and upgrade levels are cleared, and related season items expire at season's end.

Note: Availability of the above content is subject to the actual launch times of each event, feature, or in-game system mail.

[Optimizations]
1. Improved the item-purchasing experience across various Stores by increasing the maximum single-purchase quantity for certain items.
2. Improved the Exploration experience. Ally Events are now officially live, with adjustments to how many events refresh per round and how many appear on-screen at once.
3. Improved the War Strategy experience: tapping Deployment Coins now takes you straight to the corresponding acquisition method.
4. Updated the rules for attacking City Gates. After declaring war on a city, your Alliance Land must now be connected to the target city before you can attack its City Gate.
5. Improved point acquisition in Wonder Contests, so Governors now earn more event points for defeating monsters within the mode.
6. Adjusted certain Class Quests in Battle of Dawn, adding new Class Quests tied to occupying Dawnbreak Spires and Temples. This change takes effect one week after this update. Please check in-game for actual availability.
7. Improved the Castle Facility experience by adding a feature-unlock prompt to Castle Facility Extension Tab II.
8. Improved Queue Management. It now includes Event-related content, supports quick reward claiming, and allows direct navigation to related features and modes.

Feel free to contact our customer service team if you have any questions. Happy gaming!

Age of Empires Mobile Team

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