Age of Empires III: the Warchiefs by Ensemble Studios - English retail v1.02 patch

Patch 1.02 - Quick Search updates and bug fixes

CLIENT FIXES

- Fixed mercenary selection in Saloons for custom maps.
- Better anti-aliasing support for NVIDIA GeForce 8 series cards
- A number of Windows Vista compatibility issues fixed
- Several low level network optimizations have been added

BALANCE CHANGES

- Reduced Rodelero building bonus
- Reduced Spanish shipment bonus
- Reduced Cetan Bowman hitpoints by 10
- Increased Kanya Horsemen hitpoints by 20

NETWORK AND ESO FIXES

- ESO statistics tab now defaults to show statistics for the game you are playing
- Decks are now limited to 32 per home city
- Quick Search - the civilizations of other players are no longer shown when the initial match is made
- Quick Search - games no longer follow the two minute resign rule and will count toward your rating as soon as they begin
- Power Rating values will now update more quickly after a game


Patch 1.01 - Balance changes and fixed some exploits

CLIENT FIXES

- Bonus from the Agents card reduced from +200% hitpoints to +50%.
- The 8 Spy home city cards for the British and Portuguese moved to the third age from the second age. If you have this card in your deck, the card will be moved to the third age in your deck as well.
- Cards that reduce the wood cost of buildings changed to prevent building cost from being zero or negative.
- Wallenstein contract now affects the new WarChiefs mercenary units.
- Queued shipments from your home city are now removed properly during revolution.
- British team animal fattening cards now work as described.
- Reduced longbow ranged attack by 2 and hand attack by 1.
- Fixed a possible exploit with shipments from team cards.
- Fixed several new cards that did not have a shipment cost.

NETWORK AND ESO FIXES

- Fixed a bug with stats uploading
- Fixed an issue that caused some users to be stuck on the "Connecting to ESO..." dialog box.
- Statistics window rendering fixes.