STAR WARS™ Empire at War: Gold Pack News

Maintenance Patch Update

Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are:

▪ Both games have been converted from 32-bit to 64-bit applications, which will solve many out-of-memory bugs and crashes that players were experiencing.
▪ Multiplayer out-of-sync issues have been addressed, which should improve stability.
▪ There have been numerous gameplay fixes addressing balance and incorrect unit behavior.

Maintenance Patch Update

Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are:
▪ [FOC] - Crash fix for the corruption of Coruscant
▪ Fix for long save/load times

The best Star Wars game is still getting updates, 15 years later

Star Wars: Empire at War is a unique high point not only for Star Wars strategy games, but Star Wars games in general. A spiritual successor to the grand strategy classic Star Wars: Rebellion, Empire at War was the debut title of Petroglyph, a studio made up of ex-Command & Conquer devs (who recently did excellent work with the Command & Conquer Remastered Collection).

Empire at War was released in 2006, with the Forces of Corruption expansion dropping later that same year. It featured a turn-based grand strategy layer where - as either the Empire, Rebel Alliance, or the 'underworld' - you had to compete over control for planets on the galaxy map and build up your forces. Whenever the two sides met, you would then fight out either a real-time space battle or a land battle, depending on the situation. It was (and still is) an excellent romp if you're a pre-Disney Star Wars fan.

As the studio moved on to bigger and better things, support for the game became increasingly sporadic, with the previous patch before now dropping in mid 2018. Thankfully, after managing to find a few spare weeks between projects, the developers were able to put some time into releasing another new patch.

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Maintenance Patch Update

• Additional multiplayer maps
• Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are:

Some ground units targeting accuracy adjusted
Fighter Hero Locomoters fixed
Rocket projectile AoE damage fixed

The best Star Wars: Empire at War mods

We've been served pretty well by Star Wars games over the past couple of decades. There's been ups and downs for sure, but generally speaking this is an IP that gets the right treatment more often than not. If we were to be picky, the one area that could do with some TLC is perhaps Star Wars strategy games. There hasn't been a truly decent entry for a while, but Star Wars: Empire at War can be considered one of the greats in this space.

The spiritual successor to Star Wars: Rebellion, Empire at War is a grand strategy game created by Petroglyph (of recent Command and Conquer: Remastered fame) that brings the Galactic Civil War to life in a way few strategy games in this universe have achieved. You have to expand your influence over planets across a galaxy map strategic layer, build armies and fleets, and then duke it out in real-time tactical battles in space and on the ground.

One reason this game has such an enduring appeal is, of course, mods. The Empire at War mod scene is healthy, if not especially varied. There aren't many specific quality of life improvement mods, but plenty of the big mods come with bug fixes, and even updated graphics in some cases.

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