Update Notes

Return of Rome team game support, conversion counter, and more!

Age of Empires 2

• • Added a conversion counter to the stats panel. Hover over the icon to get a more detailed breakdown!

• • Added support for Roman units' charge attack stats

• • Repeated market events in quick succession are now merged in the notifications

• • Added many new tooltips around the UI

Return of Rome

• • Support for team games

• • Support for artifact, ruin, and wonder victory conditions

• • New graph slide-out panel. Access it by pressing Ctrl + Alt + P

• • Support for changing player color by clicking on the player's civ emblem in the dashboard

• • Return of Rome specific tutorial and quick reference overlays are now available

Other changes

• • Support to display assets for recs of both game modes at once in the rec browser

• • Added a game mode filter to display only Return of Rome or Age of Empires 2 recs

• • Added a fix for match dates being stuck in 1970

• • Fixed a display error that would occur in some specific situations

• • Initial localization support. CADE is now available in all the 17 languages the game supports!*

• • A lot of under-the-hood fixes and optimizations**

Minor Fixes

• • Fixed an issue with the sticky techs overlapping with other UI elements when many technologies were being researched

• • Fixed an issue that caused secondary text fields in the scoreboard to fade out when they had enough space to display completely

• • Fixed an issue where a "Voice language not found" error message would trigger multiple times when changing the language

• • Fixed an issue with the loading screen disappearing too soon, leaving the user waiting for the terrain to load

• • Added support for additional unit names and portraits for Return of Rome

• • Game details from a different game mode are hidden in the replay list

• • Addressed some minor styling issues in the Return of Rome layout

• • Fixed several crashes related to switching game modes

Return of Rome Expansion Support

Minor Fixes

• • Added compatibility with Age II: DE replay files for games played after patch 81058

• • Added names for new armor classes in the armor/weapon tooltip of the unit panel

Minor Features

• • Added the ability to pan the camera view using the arrow keys

• • Added compatibility with Age II: DE replay files for games played after patch 75350

• • Added an option to the general settings to hide average team score in team games

• • Added an option to the scoreboard settings to hide the score dots indicating the winner of each individual match

• • Elo will be displayed in the scoreboard if available and the seed/elo setting is blank

Minor Fixes

• • Fixed a bug where right-clicking a bookmark in the timeline caused the tooltip to get stuck

• • Fixed a bug where the wonder construction/timer wouldn't disappear after reversing time

New Community Games Layout

Minor Fixes

• • Fixed the look of fish swimming underwater

Minor Fixes & Compatibility

• • Ctrl + Click on unit portrait will now deselect a unit when only one is selected (useful when the Unit Panel is showing units from two teams).

• • Fixes disproportionate lag caused by many organ guns firing at the same time.

• • Relic carts will now show up on the minimap and won't cause a crash when garrisoned inside a transport ship.

• • Fixes localized text formatting to ensure comments in the source are not displayed (visible in, e.g., some Latin American Spanish text).

• • Jump to the beginning or end of notification history with Shift + Page Up and Shift + Page Down.

• • Add small alert for when a new notification arrives while viewing old notifications.

• • Support for the new graphics format in Age II.

Custom Images / Flags in Scoreboard

• • It is now possible to use custom images and flags in the Scoreboard. The image/flag for each side can be configured on the Casting tab.

Minor Fixes

• • Resolved audio issues that were introduced in 1.5.3.

• • Improved compatibility with OBS: more capture modes should now work with CA:DE.

• • Fixes for minor graphical issues.

Staged Rollout of Update

Range Circles

Sounds

• • Added more impact sounds for projectiles.

• • Added sounds for buildings on fire.

• • Made taunts play in the selected language.

OBS

Minor Features

• • The selection panel will now show the sum of resources held by the selected units. The highest resource number will show up in the panel, all resources can be seen with a mouse-over tooltip.

• • Added bridges to the minimap.

• • Scoreboard will keep overwritten player names between games where possible.

• • It is now possible to have the scoreboard enabled but hide the score itself (allowing custom team / player names without having to show a "0-0" score). This can be controlled in the Caster Settings tab.

Minor Fixes

• • Fixed suspected underlying cause of being unable to use CA:DE and receiving the error message "Error initializing resources". Issue #105

• • Shrivamsha Rider's should now have the correct attack value.

• • Fixed bug that could cause the wrong player name to be used in the Chat/Event log.

• • Various fixes for graphical and UI inconsistencies.

Hotfixes

• • Fixed graphical glitch most often seen on stables, mills and palisades.

• • Use the correct civilization sounds for new DLC civs.

• • Fixed an issue with inconsistent responses when clicking the Event/Chat Log filter buttons.

• • Changed the setting "Minimize Age II automatically" to be off by default after some users reported issues with the Age II interface when returning to it after CA:DE had minimized it.

• • Overriding player names in the scoreboard settings will now apply to names in the Event/Chat Log, and will allow editing names of co-op players.

• • Fixed causes of several rare crashes.

Minor Features

• • Added option for disabling chat sounds / taunts.

• • Event/Chat Log filter settings will now be saved instead of resetting every game.

• • Added tooltip on the range value in the Unit Panel with additional range information (e.g. minimum range).

Note on Game Patch

Dynasties of India DLC Support

Performance

• • Major and minor CPU optimizations throughout the application.

• • Game speed should no longer drop as much when using CA:DE on larger games.

• • Selecting a large number of units at the same time has been significantly optimized.

• • It is now possible to use CA:DE with Age II minimized. When Age II is minimized it uses less GPU and therefore performance in CA:DE may be improved in some cases. By default CA:DE will now automatically minimize Age II when you focus the CA:DE window. This behaviour can be turned off in the main Settings tab.

• • By default CA:DE will now use more GPU memory if available. This value can be changed with sliders in Graphics settings.

• • Reduced RAM usage in some conditions.

• • Significantly reduced RAM usage when watching games with AI players.

• • Reduced and in many cases eliminated periodic stutters.

Chat & Event Log

• • Added unit trained, research complete, monk conversion and attack notifications.

• • Chat/Events can now be filtered - use Page Up to see the available filters. Left Click on a filter button to toggle that category on or off, Right Click to select only that category and turn off all others.

• • Chat messages will now indicate which players they were sent to.

• • Left Click on event icons will jump to their location (where relevant).

• • Pro Left Click on event time will jump to the time and location (where relevant) of the event.

Selection Panel

• • Fixed the displayed unit speed for some units.

• • Added attack delay stat.

• • Armor values will take into account Obuch debuffs.

Sounds

• • Added town bell, chat, taunt, age up, attack notification, unit train, research complete, and successful conversion sounds.

• • Added filters in Sound settings for some sounds (options are to play sounds for All Players, Current Player, or None).

Replays List

• • Added Elo (where relevant) and game duration to the replay list and preview panel.

• • Added ability to hide potential spoilers (e.g. game duration) in replay list.

• • Replay date/time is now based on when the game was actually played, not on when the file was created.

Usage While Playing / Support for Live Spectating AI games

• • It is now possible to use CA:DE while playing if you have "Allow Cheats" turned on in the game options in Age II. This allows you to, for example, monitor key stats with CA:DE while grinding build orders. It also allows spectating AI vs AI games by adding yourself as a player to the game.

• • Known Issue: CA:DE cannot control the speed of the game while you are playing. If CA:DE gets behind the game it will start to use more RAM until you catch up, which eventually will cause a crash. To avoid this issue set CA:DE to max fast forward so it keeps up with the game as it is played.

Caster Settings

• • It is now possible to add a scoreboard to FFA games.

• • When going between games CA:DE will now attempt to keep the previous settings and score so long as one player on one team is the same.

• • All player names can be edited.

• • Added additional "Seed/Elo" text for each side of the scoreboard. In a future update we are planning for this to automatically show the Elo of the players in a 1v1 (where relevant).

Minor Changes & Fixes

• • Civ icon, age and alliances (diplo only) are now shown in the score.

• • The scoreboard will now display civ icon and name.

• • Building a dock will now count towards Eco APM rather than Military.

• • Playback speed will now reflect the speed the game was originally played at.

• • Market hotkeys have been corrected: Ctrl + M will now go to market, and Ctrl + Shift + M will select all markets.

• • Fixed foundation and unit visibility in some edge case conditions.

• • Fixed a crash that was caused by having too many trees on the map.

Statistics

• • New data sources tracking efficiency and other stats across the match are now available, including Total Resources Collected and Pro Productive Worker Time.

• • View a comparison of data points at any time by hovering over the chart.

• • Chart format and data transformation functions can now be configured.

• • Chart options can be saved and loaded.

• • Pro Statistics table will now show values from the time you are viewing rather than the values from the end of the match.

• • Pro Added the ability to Right Click on the chart to jump to that time in the match. Right Click a technology to jump straight to the building just before the technology completes.

• • Pro The Time Control bar is now visible on the Post Game Statistics screen.

Minor Features

• • Button on the bottom right of the Minimap to switch Minimap Mode.

• • Button to open save game folder directly from CA:DE.

• • Camera position will now start at the TC or unit of the first player, rather than in the middle of the map.

• • Choose team captain by clicking on a player's name in the Casting Settings tab.

• • Pro Jumping in time is now a lot quicker.

• • Pro Right Click on the Time Control Bar will add/delete bookmarks.

• • Pro Dedicated buttons on the the Time Control bar for jumping to the beginning/end of the match.

Bug Fixes

• • Map resources (trees, minerals etc) no longer have a kill statistic in the unit panel.

• • Fixed various minor display bugs.

Hotfix for Nomad Starts

• • Fixes team assignment for treaty conditions in nomad starts.

Minor UX Changes

• • Recorded game compatibility for latest Age II patch (56005).

• • CA:DE should no longer suddenly fast forward when a spectated game with spec delay ends.

• • Age indicators in top panel will show when an age tech has been queued.

• • CA:DE will check that you have installed the Enhanced Graphics Pack DLC before attempting to use it.

• • Reduced input lag when typing in scoreboard fields.

• • Adjusted the unit kills tooltip.

New Analysis Features

Selected Unit(s) Kills

Selected Unit(s) Efficiency

Single Selected Unit Attack/Armor Stats

Military Technologies on Timeline

General UI/UX Improvements

• • Clicking on production dots in the unit composition display will take you to the relevant building.

• • Clicking on the Age icon for a player at the top of the screen will take you to their oldest Town Center.

• • You can now disable some tooltips via checkboxes in the Caster Settings.

• • Techs will now show for a few game seconds after they have been completed.

• • FPS is now capped by default at 60fps. This cap can be turned off in the Graphics Settings tab.

• • The zoom level will default to whatever you set in Zoom Preset 2 in the Casting Settings.

• • When navigating to a bookmark, fog of war and player perspective will be restored to what they were when the bookmark was created.

• • CA:DE will now check if you are running Windows 7. If Windows 7 is detected then an alert will appear informing you that Windows 7 is not supported, and the application will then exit.

Bug Fixes

• • Fixed the "blocky" terrain bug that has affected users with certain GPUs for months.

• • Fixed an issue in which technologies would linger after they were completed.

• • Converted villagers will no longer show up as separate units in the unit composition display.

Minor UI Changes

• • Added unit movement speed to unit panel.

• • Added market prices to market unit panel.

Minor Performance Improvement

• • Added a cache for some commonly used texture data. This should improve performance and reduce stutter slightly.

Bug Fixes

• • Made units from new civilizations (Poles & Bohemians) use the correct language.

• • Use the correct player colors when displaying replay file information.

• • Fixed replay parsing for files from the latest patches.

• • Fixed a chart scaling issue on the statistics screen that could occur when changing which players' data were visible.

Speed Control UX

Minor Fixes

• • Fixed one cause of CA:DE getting stuck on the "Waiting for interface" loading screen.

• • Selection sounds are now not played when selecting dead objects (e.g. dead boars/sheep).

• • It is now possible to select dead animals through buildings (e.g. dead boar under TC).

• • Selection sounds will only play once on double click rather than twice.

• • Static technologies will now be on by default. You can turn them off again by pressing Alt + T

• • Fixed various graphical glitches in the Statistics graphs.

• • Fixed a bug that caused the wrong unit type to show in the "Most created unit" item on the End of Game panel.

• • Added charge attack indicator to the Unit Panel (affects, e.g., coustellier).

• • Research progress now accounts for the Portuguese research time bonus.

• • Added tooltips on hover for text that is clipped.

• • Added help tooltips for most common UI components.

• • Villager/combat volume sliders now change all of their respective targets' sounds instead of just some of them.

• • Fixed a bug in which enemy units were incorrectly displayed in the minimap fog of war.

Dawn of the Dukes Compatibility

• • Compatibility for new civilizations in Dawn of the Dukes.

Minor Fixes

• • Various particles (smoke, ship trails etc.) will now be in the correct position, rather than slightly offset.

• • Addressed a suspected cause of lingering CA:DE processes.

• • Updated replay game version detection.

Minor Bug and Stability Fixes

• • Fixed a crash that could happen when first launching a game.

• • Fixed a crash that happened when the only player dies in a 1 player game.

• • Fixed an issue in which CA:DE would wait forever to join a game.

• • Fixed a display issue in which the lobby countdown in CA:DE was not showing when waiting in a lobby with spectator delay.

Minor Update

• • Added a quick access menu, which you can open with the CaptureAge shield button to the left of the minimap

• • Multiple minor stability, user experience and cosmetic fixes.

Hotfix

• • Fixed a rare issue when updating the CA:DE client

GPU Performance Improvement

Increased GPU Compatibility

Minor Changes

• • Added more search options and filters to the replays tab of CaptureAge's menu

• • Changed texture filtering: the dark edge on objects no longer has a small gap in between

• • Fixed multiple stability issues

Hotfix

Game Integration

Replays in CA:DE

• • Added an Overview tab where you can directly load the latest replays into CaptureAge

• • Added a Replays tab where you can filter replays.

Run CA from AoE2 directly

• • The replays tab in the save games section of the game

• • The spectate tab in the multiplayer section of the game

• • The main menu in the game's own spectate mode

Easier to start analyzing replays

Control replay speed from CA

Learn to CaptureAge

Quick Hotkey Reference

Tutorial

Minor Changes

• • CaptureAge can now be used without an internet connection

• • Added an Overview tab to the main menu as the default page

• • Added a News tab displaying news about CaptureAge and AoE2

• • Added an Updates tab displaying the CaptureAge changelog

• • Added a hotkey to quickly show the fog of war of the selected units' player and switch to their perspective if the units belong to a one single player. (Hold Tab )

• • Added a hotkey to change to the perspective of the selected units' player ( Ctrl + Space )

• • Added camera zoom hotkeys 1 , 2 and 3 to jump to a preset zoom level. You can adjust the levels in the Casting settings menu tab

• • Moved Sound settings as a tab into Settings

• • Moved Graphics settings as a tab into Settings

• • Additional minor performance improvements

Bug Fixes

• • Fixed an issue where some map names where not properly displayed

• • Fixed some minor stability issues

Performance Improvements (CPU)

Performance Changes

New Major Features

Worker efficiency breakdown

Effective Actions Per Minute

Victory screen

Minor Changes

Statistics

• • Added the option to split Economy and Military population, a new dropdown was added to support this

• • Added a dropdown to filter players from the timeline

• • Added a legend to the timeline

• • Age and Pro economy technologies can now be toggled on and off through a checkbox

• • Pro Added APM tab

• • Added labels for the axes on the population chart

Sound

• • Added Age up and Victory sounds

Interface

• • Enabled support for 1 player games using the FFA overlay mode

• • Changed control speeds to 2, 4 and 8 respectively from 5, 10 and 50 to cover more use cases. For now, when using Pro, larger leaps can be done by clicking on the playback bar.

• • Static technologies in team games now show the icon of the best researched technology by any player in each team

• • Added support for displaying large numbers we wrongly assumed were extremely rare

• • Added and improved tooltips content, more with more to come.

• • Improved tooltip positions

• • Unit icons in the army composition can now be clicked to select units

Interaction

• • You can now select buildings and resource nodes by clicking on the underlying terrain

• • CaptureAge now more gracefully goes back to live after using the time control feature

• • Added an alternative hotkey to toggle fullscreen: Alt + Enter

• • Pro Improved memory usage when jumping on the playback bar

Bug Fixes

• • Fixed a rare case in which clicking on the map always selected a TC

• • Fixed an issue that stopped some graphics from rendering, such as tower rubble.

• • Made teams in the score area sorted by average instead of the sum of their scores (as intended)

• • Fixed unit panel disappearing if a unit you have selected gets e.g converted or upgraded

• • Some units and buildings, like palisades, are no longer in "in-front/behind"-superposition with regards to other units

• • Pro Removed initial stutter after jumping on the playback bar

Major Bug Fix

Minor UI Improvements

• • Scoreboard now supports up to 21 games

• • Added a text indicator in the unit panel for locked gates

• • Added a hotkey to hide the minimap in the no-ui mode alt + shift + o

• • Added faith bar for monks in the unit panel

• • Player population will now indicate if they are housed / popped

• • Added idle villager . and idle military , hotkeys

• • In the Unit Panel, when modifying selection (e.g. shift-clicking the icons) while having units from opposing teams selected, it now only affects one side of the panel. Holding alt will affect both.

• • Added an option to show the unit panel in the bottom left even when it is empty

• • Improved k/d precision by calculating it in CA rather than using the value found in-game. This means that they now include deaths when a loaded transport ship is sunk. However the k/d will no longer account for activity that happened before you connected to the game. Issue #6

• • Pro Added a visual indicator for time jumps with the playback bar Issue #12

• • Pro Added an option to scale the achievements timeline by pop segment instead of total pop. With this option, the size of the eco and military parts will be 50% of the timeline regardless of eco/military ratio.

Minor UI Bugs

• • Fixed an issue where units in the production queue remain after the player removed them from the queue

• • Fixed an issue where converted units take on the wrong icon in their unit line

• • Use more appropriate icons in unit panel (e.g. single female villager was showing with the male villager icon)

• • Fixed an issue where units near (but not under) the minimap couldn't be selected

• • Account for longer player names in the unit panel

• • Remove jitter in achievements timeline

• • Eco and TC idle time will now be counted correctly from the beginning of the game if you are connected

• • Fixed idle time issue with villagers that have become Flemish Militia

• • Stats (e.g. damage) for converted units should now be correct in the unit panel

• • Text fields in the scoreboard settings are now more responsive

• • Chat messages will show the correct player name in co-op games

• • Adjusted TC/Castle minimap color for some player colors

• • Fixed an issue where age up times on the stats table would not display a star for the fastest player in some cases

• • Logging out will now properly forget your login information the next time you launch the app

• • Fixed an issue which caused auto login to fail for some users

• • Removed sneaky invisible exit button which was found at the top right while viewing a game

CaptureAge Pro

Time Controls

Follow Units

Statistics Screen

Bug Fixes

• • Fixed some common resource leaks after shutting down the app. If you experience high memory usage after closing the app, please let us know.

• • Fixed lack of attack sounds for towers, castles, longboats and more

• • Fixed select next building hotkeys to work as intended (they will not skip random buildings now)

Hotfix 1.2.1

• • Added an achievements screen. You can access it with Ctrl + Alt + S

• • Fixed invisible units; if you experience invisible units after this update please let us know to fix it again.

FFA and diplomacy support

Combined fog of war

Control changes

• • Allow toggling mouse window lock on and off, via a setting checkbox in the main menu and the hotkey alt + shift + c

• • Changed switch perspectives from shift + lmb to shift + rmb

Interface Changes

Split unit panel

Unit composition and production queue

Player color modes

• • Cycle between modes with game -> coldWarm -> warmCold -> game with the hotkey ctrl + alt + c

• • Select individual colors for players by clicking/right-clicking on a player name in the bottom right dashboard to cycle forwards/backwards through colors

• • Toggle classic yellow/blue vs red Team Colors with ctrl + alt + g

Minor improvements

• • Implemented page up and page down in player chat with PgUp and PgDown

• • Added hp bars to garrisoned units in the unit selection panel

• • Losing player names will now be crossed out in the dashboard table

• • Minimap icons now indicate the progress of a partially constructed building

• • Prey and herdable animals will no longer show as under attack on the minimap

Bug fixes

• • Previously explored enemy buildings are now shown correctly on the minimap in fog of war

• • Trade units are now counted correctly

• • Merged duplicate icons for huskarls, tarkans, serjeants and flemish militia

• • Separated missionaries from monks

• • Removed duplicate player names from some chat messages

• • Fixed an issue with lobbies where players did not pick a specific team

• • Improved performance in various situations

• • Now ignores Windows scaling for graphics

• • Adjusted player colors

• • Adjusted minimap colors

• • New minimap icons for TCs & Castles

• • Improved Eco and Military minimap modes (cycle with Alt + M)

• • Added elevation on minimap

• • Added outline to minimap icons

• • Adjusted minimap antialiasing

• • Reduced object size on minimap slightly

• • Made terrain grid fade out with zoom

• • Removed an unwanted gap between the minimap and its background

• • Fixed an issue where having a trebuchet in the unit panel caused an error

• • Fixed an issue where treaty games with two teams were not correctly recognized

• • Fixed an alignment issue with the dashboard background

• • Fixed an alignment issue with static techs on the right side

• • Improved terrain lighting to be closer to the game

• • Adjusted sound

• • Fixed UI for Battle Royal mode

• • Further improved performance

• • Added support for the Lords of the West expansion

• • Added experimental support for graphical mods

• • Added option for smooth zoom

• • Made clicking on dynamic techs move the camera to the researching building

• • Made Chemistry effects visible

• • Increased strength of shadows

• • Reduced tree size on the minimap

• • Changed order of unit types in the selection panel

• • Added a disconnect from game button

• • Added zoom duration setting

• • Added volume controls

• • Added settings for FXAA, bloom, contrast, saturation, brightness and gamma

• • Removed horizontal scroll bar from main menu and settings pages

• • Fixed zooming into upper and lower zoom limits

• • Fixed an issue with minimap zooming

• • Fixed minimap being clickable outside of its area

• • Fixed attack in the Unit panel to be correct

• • Turned Cata-pharms into regular Farms

• • Fixed Villager icons not displaying male/female properly

• • Fixed an issue with packed Trebuchets not being displayed properly in the unit panel

• • Fixed flickering details on units, such as snow and flags

• • Fixed an issue with clickability of buttons

• • Adjusted multiple minor UI elements

• • Added an Experimental option to enable enhanced graphics. Recommended to only use this in 1v1 for now

• • Added options to control texture filtering, this makes the graphics look less pixelated

• • Added an Experimental option to enable small trees mod

• • Added an Option to enable a grid

• • Changed the unit panel to always be the same height, unless there are no units selected

• • Enabled static technologies for team games

• • Enabled the ability to select fish

• • Made some other tweaks to the UI

• • Added goto hotkeys for buildings and kings, using the in-game default combinations

• • Also added select-all building hotkeys and focus selection hotkey

• • Fixed various startup errors users have been reporting

• • Fixed an issue causing some units to disappear in the middle of an animation

• • Implemented some performance improvements, more to come

• • Added a message to indicate that Windows Store installs are not supported at the moment

• • Made edge scroll behaviour more similar to the game

• • Changed zooming behaviour to be more correct

• • Fixed sound volume for units depending on their location in the screen

• • Adjusted selection sounds to fade out with zoom

• • Made point-click select only one unit

• • Added selection like CaptureAge Classic: Double, shift and control click support

• • Added selection modification to unit panel: click, shift and control click support

• • Added ability to change Point of View by shift+click-ing a unit

• • Added sounds for selecting units and buildings

• • Fixed ctrl+number hotkeys to select a player by color instead of lobby number

• • Made it easier to select building foundations

• • Added new hotkey alt+o to hide/show the UI

• • Increased maximum zoom level

• • Introduced minimal ui option in settings menu. The implementation is also minimal at the moment - all it does is hide the military value bar in the balance panel, but more changes are coming!

• • Disabled epic slooowdooooown at end of game

• • Removed tooltips in unit panel

• • Changed health bars for villagers to show above their heads

• • Made monk conversion lines fade out when out of range

• • Added civ icon to 1v1 stats table

• • Fixed bug with delay in scoreboard side switching

• • Resolved errors in app shutdown

• • Addressed some stability issues

• • Resolved authentication errors barring people from using CaptureAge