It looks like the multiplayer RTS Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition is joining the battle royale party. As part of the game’s most recent update celebrating its first anniversary, there’s now a battle royale mode that pits eight players against one another.
In battle royale, players start with only a few units under their command and must roam one of five new maps to find and capture military and supply buildings that grant resources to bolster their army’s ranks. However, players can capture their opponents’ buildings if they overwhelm those buildings’ defenses, and there’s the usual battle royale wrinkle of a slowly shrinking map that destroys everything as it constricts.
Of course, battle royale isn’t all that’s being done to celebrate the RTS title’s first year. There’s also a multiplayer Quick Play feature, a number of in-game tasks for anniversary rewards, and a host of updates to multiplayer and the game overall. More information can be read in the latest patch notes.
