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Empire: Total War Update Released

April 29, 2009, 10:19 am - Valve - Product Update

Updates to Empire: Total War have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The specific changes include:

Crash Fixes

• Fixed crash when disbanding generals unit
  
• Fix for crash on trying to merge ships from port into ships next to port
  
• Fixed rare crash relating to boarding
  
• Fixed crash to do with reinforcing armies
  
• Fixed crash on revolution video attempting to play
  
• Fixed crash for double clicking on sinking ship on campaign map
  
• Fix for crash on merging units but moving into fort before army arrives
  
• Fixed several crashes related to rakes
  
• Fixed crashes relating to battles when running Czech or German versions of the game
  
• Fixed crash on moving army into region of faction player has military access and then cancelling military access
  
• Fixed crash on trying to exchange ships between 2 fleets
  
• Fixed crash on spamming move orders to puckle guns locked in melee combat
  
• Fixed hard lock on inviting host to their own MP game
  
• Fix to prevent loading of mod causing crash post patch
  
• Various end turn crash bugs fixed
  
• Fixes to crash bugs relating to completion of revolutions
  
• Some fixes relating to merging and disbanding
  
• Fix for several crashes in land battles
  
• Several crashes relating to attacking cities fixed
  
• Several load save game crashes fixed
  

• Armies now placed correctly on battlefields in relation to campaign
  
• Fix for nearby ships sometimes not being included as reinforcements for battles
  
• Fix for incorrect numbers sometimes showing on trade routes
  
• Units with limits on how many can be recruited now show how many are available
  
• Various fixes relating to rakes and infiltrating
  
• Fixes relating to problems moving armies/merging into army's right next to settlements
  
• Various trade bug fixes
  
• Fix for moving agent from settlement moving army instead of agent
  
• Fix for several bugs relating to military access and armies being in regions
  
• Fix for tattered flags appearing on fleet/armies even when at full strength/fully repaired
  
• Fix for sallying out armies breaking siege at times even when losing the battle
  
• Fix for bugs relating to capturing ships on returning to campaign map from naval battle
  

• Improvements to path finding have been made
  
• Some fixes to units not garrisoning buildings
  
• Fort gate ownership made clearer with faction flags appearing at the gatehouse
  
• Fix for problem relating to artillery unlimbering after being ordered to limber
  
• Fix for puckle guns moving on their own in some circumstances
  
• Fix for big slowdown in unit movement on some battle maps in the Road to Independence episodes
  
• Fix for missile cavalry not reloading when out of combat
  
• Jaegers now have muskets instead of incorrect rifles, Prussian Jaegers keep rifles
  
• Quebec episodic land battle fixed ground type in deployment area
  
• Fix for unrealistic numbers when ending a land battle by quitting on the battle results screen
  

• Several fixes for ships clipping into each other
  
• Improvements to boarding have been made. Crew is more fluid in attack and more resolute in defence. Men survive long fall and officers join in the boarding attack
  
• Crew uniforms improved to make identification of the crew type and faction easier
  
• Defending ship is not allowed to fire cannons anymore during boarding procedure
  
• Improved naval grouping UI and group movement made
  
• Improvements made to ship collisions to reduce chance of ships getting stuck
  
• Fix for sail damage not being shown when volumetric effects turned on
  

• Various fixes for joining games/game lobby issues
  
• Fixes for problems relating to spectators being kicked/locking up on other players joining games in certain instances
  
• Long riflemen and winged hussars removed from early era battles
  
• Fix for insufficient funds always showing on unit cards even when enough money is available
  
• Player name is now displayed on unit tooltips
  
• Team chat is now displayed in a different colour
  

• Basic fix for AI being unable to move army by fleet
  
• Aggression of factions in campaign improved, as well as tweaks to diplomacy
  
• Improvements to campaign AI relating to its waging of wars, recruitment and movement of armies
  
• Improvements made to battle AI to make it more reactive, use buildings better as well as squares and rakes
  
• Siege battle AI improvements made
  
• Improvements to naval AI to make it bunch up less, its use of galleys and long range units such as bomb ketches
  

• Delete save game button added to save game list
  
• View replays button added to single player Play Battle menu
  
• Various sound fixes and improvements
  
• Various incorrect text messages fixed
  
• Fixes to various graphical glitches with display of walls
  
• Fixes made for stuttering videos
  
• Fix for several game option settings not being saved correctly, including settings such as floating flags
  
• Fix for unit voices/attack confirmation being heard for all units in an alliance instead of just for the player’s army
  
• Armour and shield values are now added into melee defence value shown on unit cards
  
• Lots of other small and minor bug fixes
  

• Land unit recruitment cost in campaign has been increased, with higher cost on higher difficulty level
  
• Ship recruitment and upkeep costs have been increased in campaign
  
• Various balancing and cost adjustments to improve multiplayer land battle balance
  
• Ship costing improvements made for both campaign and multiplayer
  
• Economic tweaks have been made to campaign to reduce amount of money made in later part of campaign
  

• We are aware of an issue with community created maps that results in a crash when someone without the map tries to join the game. This crash will be fixed in the next patch
  
• Further work is being done on improving AI Naval invasion behaviour and this will be included in the next upgrade patch