Empire: Total War Updated to Version 1.4

September 22, 2009 3:05 PM

Creative Assembly released the much-anticipated 1.4 patch to Empire: Total War today. The update should automatically download by way of Steam. This isn't one of those tiny updates that only addresses random bugs, either. Beyond the two historical battles added to the game's content, there are significant bullet points to examine, including an "overhaul of naval balancing" and plenty of major fixes.

Check below for the full patch notes: New Content

Two (2) new historical battles: Battle of Rossbach and Battle of Fontenoy. Both available in single player and multi player
Missile cavalry can now fire and reload whilst on the move

Balance Changes

Overhaul of naval balancing
Dragoons are available from higher building levels and now have fire by rank
Light Dragoons have gained longer range guns to allow them to skirmish better
Reworked cavalry costs to better reflect their value on the battlefield
Increase in cost to Windbusche Jaegers and Ferguson Rifles
Some improvements to projectile balancing
Balance improvements made to Road to Independence Episode 3

Fixes

Fix for auto unlimbering causing the attack order to terminate prematurely resulting in an inability to stop the unit from firing
Fix for troops on fort walls not using fort gun range when judging when to fire on enemy troops
Fix for fort guns using wrong targeting formula
Fixes to fort pathfinding and use of ropes
Multiplayer soft lock fixes
Fix crash in quotes table
Improved AI diplomacy
Cumulative updates to improve AI invasion behaviour
Added tooltips for alliance button in diplomacy
Bug fixes and improvements to AI counter offers
Improvements to AI diplomatic valuation of military access and alliances
Fix for wind sounds not working in naval battles
Fixed ship wakes not always working
Fixed disembarking subsets of armies and agents from navies
Fixed potential crash disembarking agents from navies
Fixed armies not being booted out of regions when losing military access gained by joining an ally in war
Improved AI diplomacy valuation of technologies
Fix for bug where general's unit for an upper class rebellion was coming from the region owning faction rather than the faction rebelling
Fixed reinforcements from unreachable positions
Fixed bug preventing disembarking
Balance of power fix for attack of opportunity
Fixed bug that was causing issues with embarking an army containing multiple characters
Minor tweak to stop some ship sails endlessly play furling sound
Fixed path blocked bug
Diplomacy counter-offer improvements
Fix for fast forward not working as intended on some PCs. Will always speed up if camera is still, if camera moves fast forward will be as fast as possible on each PC

Nick Breckon

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September 22, 2009 3:52 PM

How are you doing Nick? Can you play this game reliably now? Have you been coping well with the pain of not being able to play in the past? Does this fix your issues? I still feel sad when I think of your shining innocent anticipation for this game, only to be savagely crushed beneath the heal of its indifferent bugginess. I hope this patch makes things better for you.
- DM7
  
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  September 22, 2009 5:14 PM
  
  He stated on the idles thumbs podcast in the past that he stopped playing it. But maybe in the future he would start it back up again. Wether or not he did that is the case.
- Alice O'Connor
  
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  September 22, 2009 5:26 PM
  
  I am astonished to see Nick posting about Empire as he went through several months of expensive hypnotherapy to completely bar its existence from his mind. This doesn't bode well.
- tboomer2
  
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  September 23, 2009 6:44 AM
  
  I'm playing through as Sweden this time around on 1.3 and had't touched it since it's release. I found it fairly bug free. I'm hoping to christ it doesn't force me to restart my campaign.