Empire: Total War Patched

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Empire: Total War, already reigning triumphant over the sales charts, has now declared victory over a variety of bugs and glitches following the rousing of a new patch.

The smattering of fixes includes campaign problems, multiplayer issues and savegame bugs--hopefully including the ones which rendered the game unplayable for many. Click through for a full list of casualties:

  • Multiplayer can now find friends across regions
  • Load time detection on trade routes to fix pathfinding crash in campaign
  • Some General Sound balancing improvements
  • Fixed UI Chat hang when spectator leaves unranked match with 3+ players
  • Varies Campaign Crash Fixes
  • Some Save/Load fixes
  • Boarding fix where cannon crew board order was not being deleted properly causing crash
  • Fix to kill characters instantly to stop crashes in campaign on agent/general deaths
  • Save games limited to 1000
  • Fix to animation glitch causing repetitive sounds when battle is launched
The update will be downloaded automatically upon restarting your Steam client.

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From The Chatty
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    March 25, 2009 11:18 AM

    Please let this patch have fixed the hard locks that happen minutes into starting a game on a system with nvidia's SLI enabled...

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      March 31, 2009 6:35 AM

      I have GTX280 SLI enabled and haven't noticed any lock up problems. Explain what you are referring to.

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