Patches

[SirPeacemaker]

I would like to ask players of Empire total war, to share their opinions about any new patch the CA released. Because there is soo much confusion. No one really knows, if the latest patch has been released or not. Because the lousy Steam says nothing. Or the game. No info in a menu, your game version is 1.02 for example. We all know, the CA released 1 patch and one quick hotfix (because of problems with other languages). But some people say, there is another patch out, but I dont think so. If there is any new patch out, please tell us in this topic. But only if you are 100% sure. Because guess only causes even more confusion Thank you.

[The_Dude]

if steam doesnt have an update for ETW then there is no patch, simple as that.

[SirPeacemaker]

if steam doesnt have an update for ETW then there is no patch, simple as that.

Really? How come the Steam says nothing about hotfix??

[mrhenrik]

Because it already installed without you noticing.

[The_Dude]

Really? How come the Steam says nothing about hotfix??

what i meant was, if you start the game and have the auto-update function enabled and it doesnt download an update then there is no patch.
dunno if the patch notes are displayed in the update news, never bothered to read them.

[SirPeacemaker]

Yes and that´s my point. I had absolutely no CTD before the patch. And suddenly I have lot of CTD. I would never know something has changed till I read comments here. And that is why I want to be informed, if there IS a new patch out and if it caused any problems. Do you get my meaning?

[Tullaris]

right click empire total war in steam and click on 'update news'

[SirPeacemaker]

right click empire total war in steam and click on 'update news'

You CANNOT see the hotfix there, can you?

[The_Dude]

You CANNOT see the hotfix there, can you?

which hotfix ? point me to the any kind of official post/announcement/whatever about this hotfix.
the only thing i can find is this:
http://shoguntotalwar.yuku.com/topic...formation.html

and thats almost 10 days old. your not making a lot of sense at the moment.

[Willowmound]

I seem to have been patched twice.

[Constantin_the_Great]

i need a patch my game has bugs....

this is a useless thread

[Thunderhit]

There have been 2 patches. The release one and the one from a week ago with its glorious language problems. In the update news is the latest patch from the 10th, the first was a release one so no further notice. Whats your problem?

[Legion 88]

To be honest i had a few CTD's and since there first patch i think i have had one, but steam say's there's only been one patch as of 10th March

[SirPeacemaker]

To be honest i had a few CTD's and since there first patch i think i have had one, but steam say's there's only been one patch as of 10th March

Yes, exactly! And that´s my point. Steam says there is only one patch, but the reality is, there is another hotfix. That is what I am trying to explain here for god´s sake. Share your information about patches and fixes. Nothing more or less.

[Spazza]

I have had what appears to be two updates through steam and currently the game appears to be running normally, well it's not CTD or anything......Would be nice if a version was added !!

[Legionary Titus Pullo]

does anyone know when the next patch is coming out ?

i saw somewhere that they were planing 1 a week, but i dont think that can be right. surely


But to answer your question there have been 2 patches so far the first was the long update on the day of release. "Day0" patch.
and the second was the one released a week later. but there has been nothing since.

[dippysea]

Actually there has been 3 downloads

1 . zero day patch
2 . Patch on 10th March, officially. Caused lots of problems with Foreign Language versions
3 . Automatically downloaded one on 11th March, after taht Foreign Language worked. No official note on Steam.

I know this because I normally play offline, then go online just to check for patches. Then immediatly go offline. When I went online on 11th It went to updating, then was ready 100% again.

I do think Steam / CA should put an update note for the 11th. It fixed problems people were experiencing so should let them know to go back online.

[Archimonday]

I generally get the feeling, that after 4 years of development that CA was under a lot of pressure by SEGA to release the game, which is often the case with games that seem to have problems at release. I'm not going to go as far as to blame CA for what is happening with Steam, and the bugs in the game, but I will go as far as to blame SEGA for rushing CA into a release. This push is the most likely cause for all the problems being experienced with Steam and the game in its early iterations, CA hasn't had enough time to test the Steam system and get it properly operational, just like they didn't have enough time to effectively eliminate many of the bugs which are apparent now.

If publishers would stop rushing developers perhaps we would have seen a much better release, and hell, they may have even made more money.

[SirPeacemaker]

Thank you for your opinion Archimonday. But please respect, this topic is not about criticism (there is enough another topics about that and on my opinion, they are right). As you can see, some people believe there was only one patch (see firt page) and this is what this topic is about. When is out another patch, if it causes any problems etc.

[crazypeon]

Just go into your ETW\Data folder and take a look at the date of the patch.pak and patch_YOURLANGUAGE.pak.