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.