Latest Empire: Total War Update Adds New Bugs

One of the things that annoys me about Empire right now, is that as my empire expands I almost always have to enable auto construction. The issue is with new towns springing up in the campaign window, there is no clever way to micromanage all those options, particularly over the three seperate campaign maps. Auto construction would be sweet if you could assign a focus, like in MTW, but right now its so hit and miss what it actually considers the priority. I have a region unhappily rioting yet you wont upgrade that bawdhouse for 1500 even though I have 15k, wtf auto construction DO IT DO IT.

One of the most ultra pissed off moments was realizing that my research was so behind my enemies because I wasn't employing all my colleges to research seperate or pooled advances, they just sat there doing fuck all. I'm still excited about the potential, but it really feels thrown out the door in a state of undress.

To bve honest there are bugs and its annoying, but to me its not preventing me from playing the game at all.

You people, stop moaning, and get the greatest game of the year.

The game is really incredible.

Has anyone noticed that when most of your troops choose to take the hardest path towards a destination when in battle?.. ex. you tell your troops to attack a unit on the otherside of a fort that you control and they go out the opposite side and around the entire fort instead of straight through to the opposing unit?

I had this via Steam day 1 but have only played the first part of the Road To Independence campaign. I keep reading these articles and keep pushing the game back and back.

I'm actually sort of glad this game is still having problems. Give me a chance to play with the Medieval 2 factions I haven't played yet, and a good excuse not to get into Empire: TW. I tried it for 15 minutes and was totally overwhelmed. I'm going to sit down and learn2play this one day, but as I said, good to have an excuse to postpone that day for a while :)

Thanks for providing updates on the patch status, guys. I'm holding off on the purchase until we get confirmation of quality fixes.

This is pretty much status quo for all the Total War Games.

I expect it to be stable by 6-8 months after release and the bad ass mods to trickle in shortly after that. With the bad ass mods probably at least a year after release.

I really want to enjoy this game, but myriad bugs and dumb AI (in battle and on the campaign map) make this hard to do.

I'll pony up for this game when they keep up the promise and deliverthe multiplayer campaign i've been wanting for a decade.

i guess only "try not playing the game" would qualify as a dumber solution.