Age of Empires II: Definitive Edition, despite being the second remaster the iconic RTS game has received in recent years, is still incredibly popular. So popular, in fact, that it recently received an expansion pack that added new civilisations. It's decisively ahead of the other two Age of Empires remasters at least, and the developers are continuing to devote resources and support towards the strategy game via patches and new initiatives.
One of their new ideas involves rolling out a "public update preview" program, whereby owners of Age of Empires II DE on Steam will be allowed to access a 'beta' branch for testing out new tweaks or features the developers have coming down the pipe. This is inspired by feedback they have received from the community regarding keeping them in the loop on upcoming changes.
These new test branches for Age of Empires II DE won't require a passcode to unlock, and so are publicly available to everyone who has the game installed. New branches will appear as and when they are made live.
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