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I played the new Stronghold 4 demo made by FireFly Studios in Unreal Engine 5. This game is a mix of a “castle builder + RTS game like Age of Empires”. Firefly Studios said they choosed Unreal engine because their previous property engine weren’t able to make their vision for the future of the Stronghold serie and they have some of the same problems that World’s Edge faced with Essence Engine: mods, zoom in and out, fps problems, readability and more. Stronghold 4 will have battles and sieges with thousand of units with amazing details, physic, blood and gore, beautiful enviroments. I would like to show you some in-game screenshots and videos made on ultra settings and 4k resolution (minimum specs are very acceptable too) Enviroments and buildings (click on image to see it on 4k quality) host immagini per community online Animals, buildings and animations Maps are big with different terrain levels Models and Units: realistic, with realistic materials (iron is iron and not plastic, wood is wood etc.) Stronghold4 Shipping 27_06_2026 14_20_26 1920×1080 2.2 MB I’ve some problems to upload the 4k images so i’ll share them on low resolution (click on them to see on high quality resolution) Video of battle: pretty realistic and finally Blood Personally i really would excited for future AOE titles in Unreal Engine. Now imagine this graphic on a new set in the ancient times or Napoleonic Era: simply stunning. Another little updates: Forgotten Empires is actively hiring for Unreal Engine 5 so i think they will be the main or one of the developers behind the next titles.

Build Number: dr-activerelease1 16.2.10884.0 Platform: Steam Operating System: Windows 10 Issue: Relics do not properly cycle through Monasteries if there are three garrisoned Relics In Update 16.1.9737, it was stated that Relics will now keep track of their cooldown when placed in a Monastery instead of refreshing. When removing a relic with a monk, the one which has been in the building for the longest will be removed. However, this is only the case with the first two Relics. If there are three Relics garrisoned, the third one will not follow this ‘first-in, first-out’ behavior and will never get removed as long as there is another relic in the monastery. Trigger Event: Default behavior Repro Steps: Collect three relics and deposit them in a Monastery. Take one out, perform a mass conversion while holding it, and put it back in the buidling. Take another relic , perform a mass conversion while holding it, and put it back in the building. Then take another relic out, and you will see based on the cooldown that it is the Relic on which the first conversion was performed, instead of the third relic on which no conversion was performed. Repeat this to see that only the first two Relics ever get taken out.

Build Number: dr-activerelease1 16.2.10884.0 Platform: Steam Operating System: Windows 10 Issue: Mountain Hall Defense Bonus does not affect Docks As described in title. Based on other similar abilities such as the Sea Gate Castle, I would expect this ability to be able to affect Docks with Naval Arrowslits, but it does not. Trigger Event: Default behavior Repro Steps: Gather 1000 Karma with Mountain Hall Observe Attack speed difference on Dock with Naval Arrowslits

Build Number: dr-activerelease1 16.2.10884.0 Platform: Steam Operating System: Windows 10 Issue: Advanced Roller Shutter Triggers no longer correctly updates Springald attack speed after update 16.1.9737 With update 16.1.9737, Roller Shutter Triggers was changed such that the attack speed increase was buffed from 25% to 30%. The Mongols’ Advanced Roller Shutter Triggers is supposed to provide an extra 10% attack speed. This means a total of +40%. This behaves correctly if Advanced Roller Shutter Triggers is researched after the standard technology. However, if Advanced Roller Shutter Triggers is researched from the start, it incorrectly only increases attack speed by 35%, since it did not get the correct update. Here you can see attack speed values in the order: Default → RST → AdvRST RST then ARST 1771×479 311 KB And here it is researching Advanced Roller Shutter Triggers directly: Default → AdvRST ARST Only 785×324 124 KB Trigger Event: Default Behavior Repro Steps: Observe springald attack speed Research Advanced roller shutter triggers Observe new attack speed. Repeat, but this time research Roller Shutter Triggers, then Advanced roller shutter triggers Observe discrepancy.

Build Number: Platform: Steam / Microsoft Store / Xbox / PlayStation Operating System: Windows 11 / Windows 10 / Windows 8 / Windows 7 / Mac / Linux Issue: Great Wall Bastion does not improve Springald ship upgraded weapons after researching Naval Crossbows As described in the issue. Great Wall Bastion states that ALL Bed Crossbow weapons gain the attack bonus. Naval Crossbows states that it upgrades Springald ships to have Bed Crossbow weapons. But they do not get improved by the Great Wall Bastion. This seems unintended or illogical. Trigger Event: Default behavior Repro Steps: Create Springald Ship. Research Naval Crossbows Build Great Wall Bastion Observe no change to weapon stats.

Build Number: dr-activerelease1 16.2.10884.0 Platform: Steam Operating System: Windows 10 Issue: Hippodrome Riddari cannot build Runestones As described in title. This seems unintended, since I don’t see any logical reason why the Riddari should be able to create Runestones but the Hippodrome Riddari cannot. Trigger Event: Default behavior Repro Steps: Default behavior

Build Number: dr-activerelease1 16.2.10884.0 Platform: Steam Operating System: Windows 10 Issue: Cistern’s Favor can incorrectly be used on Keeps Cister’s Favor (the ability on the Macedonian Dynasty version of the Cistern of the First Hill Landmark) can be used on Keeps. This seems unintended, since it has no effect. It doesn’t decrease the research speed of any of the emplacements or technologies. It does, however, use up a charge. Trigger Event: Use Cistern’s Favor on a Keep Repro Steps: Use Cistern’s Favor on a Keep

Build Number: dr-activerelease1 16.2.10884.0 Platform: Steam Operating System: Windows 10 Issue: There are several newly-introduced UI and tooltip errors in the game I previously made a compilation of tooltip and UI errors here . Almost all of these are still in the game. These are new ones that I have discovered since then. Once again I am combining them all in one post to avoid spamming the forum Abbasid Dynasty The Algebra ability icon on the House of Wisdom (after researching it) has the Camel Unease icon for some reason The Culture Wing Tooltip (when hovering over it) still refers to Medical Centers (after it was removed and replaced with Algebra) French/Jeanne d’Arc The Fortify Ribauldequin ability tooltip says ‘5.0’ palings (the value only makes sense as an integer) Golden Horde The cooldown timer on other edicts after changing edicts is always stuck at 0 Jin Dynasty The Jin Dynasty tech tree gives no indication that they benefit from the Chinese dock work rate bonus The Great Wall Bastion is described as a ‘Military and technology landmark’ despite clearly being a ‘Defensive landmark’, keeping in line with other ‘keep-like’ landmarks. Knights Templar The Harbor HP boost ability does not display an icon in the units UI like most other abilities (nor does the dock healing aura for that matter) Macedonian Dynasty The UI only displays the increased torch damage from the Hippodrome Scout while units are actually attacking with torches, not by default. This can make it seem like the ability doesn’t work at first glance. Rus The Militia handcannoneer UI incorrectly describes it as a ‘light’ ranged infantry (it does not have the ‘light’ unit type Ottomans The Sea Gate Castle text says ‘Defensive Strucutures’ (The word ‘Structures’ is misspelled) Istanbul Imperial Council description should indicate that global xp boost is only for producing units, not for age ups or wonders. Zhu-Xi’s Legacy On resource nodes affected by the Meditation Gardens, both the maximum and c