Empire: Total War patch 1.4 details

3 September 2009

Creative Assembly has announced that it’s recently released Empire: Total War will be receiving patch late in September.

Upon released the game was plagued heavily by bugs, poor performance and disappointing AI. Each patch seems to be improving the game significantly and 1.4 may finally be the one to get the game  to where it should have been at release.

Changes to be made in patch 1.4

•    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.

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