November is a time for wanting again on the previous, whether or not that is via Bonfire Evening, Thanksgiving, or in a more moderen custom, randomly patching up old-ass video games. Final week, Valve have been patching decades-old bugs in Half-Life as a part of the sport’s 25’th anniversary celebrations. Now Star Wars: Empire at Warfare is getting 64-bit help, 17 years on since its launch.
Issued as a “upkeep patch replace”, the headline change within the patch notes reads “Each video games have been transformed from 32-bit to 64-bit functions”. This has been accomplished to “remedy many out-of-memory bugs and crashes that gamers have been experiencing.”
Alongside this conversion, the patch additionally addresses “multiplayer out of sync points,” and makes just a few steadiness modifications, together with fixing “incorrect unit behaviour”, as a result of there’s nothing worse than your Insurgent Alliance rebelling within the fallacious manner.
Whereas this might sound out of the blue, Empire at Warfare’s new patch is significantly much less stunning than Half-Life’s latest bugfixes. The sport has acquired small annual patches on Steam for the previous couple of years, as a joint challenge between the sport’s builders Petroglyph and Star Wars’ house owners Disney. Final yr’s patch stopped Coruscant from crashing, whereas 2021’s replace added a number of multiplayer maps. Actually, this cooperation goes all the best way again to 2017, when Petroglyph issued a significant patch that added options like windowed mode help and eliminated the completely outdated Gamespy as a multiplayer resolution.
Clearly Petroglyph has an everlasting affection for its RTS all these years, and it is sensible for Disney to need to preserve the present finest Star Wars technique sport ticking over, no less than till Bit Reactor’s sport launches. Regardless, it is nice to see Empire at Warfare being stored updated all these years on. The sport’s big modding neighborhood additionally means there’s loads of methods to modernise it too, such because the bold Empire at Warfare Remake mod.