Star Wars: Empire at War update!

[RogueTadhg]

• Gamespy completely removed as multiplayer solution in lieu of Steam multiplayer back-end in both FOC and EAW
• Enabled windowed mode support
• 2 internal crashes found / fixed – no specific repro steps available
• Fix for broken object shadows in Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
• Fix for start game button not highlighting on mouse over
• Fix for multiplayer campaign save/load not picking the right save game on the client
• Support for more than 3 AI players in applicable games
• Fix for galactic save/load not loading a save game unless it's in slot 0
• Disable General Network Options button – This was only applicable to old modem/GameSpy players
• Hooked up community/web buttons to appropriate Steam overlay pages/websites as applicable (The old Gamespy buttons simply don’t work anymore so we repurposed them)
• Enabled selection/list of player mods on hard drive
• Crash fix for attempting to load an FOC mod in original EAW game
• Bug fix for creating units that are non-selectable in very long duration galactic mode games (makes save games unplayable past a certain point)

 

[jeremyshaw]

Neat, Disney is probably gauging interest in another Star Wars RTS game with this late update, and they finally fixed the dead Gamespy issue.

EDIT: it should be noted: steam-only. Retail and GoG are left out, apparently.

 

[Pivo504]

A real star wars rts with supreme commander style zoom would be epic. Still don't understand why this was never created!

 

[termite]

Hell yes.

 

[Pivo504]

Now that I think of it using the planetary anhilation engine would be insane. Have several planets including the death star,hoth, etc !