Empires 2.4 has been released! Now working for everyone!

Nearly 2 years in the making, with nearly 20 developers and community developers contributing to this release, I am proud to present you:

Empires 2.4

After a traumatic week of trying to distribute this patch via Steam, everything is now working properly, with the final fix for the last 1% of users arriving at some point in the next 48 hours. Everyone else should have no issues.

A partial changelog for this release can be found below. Script changes will be added in a day or 2, with extra bits and pieces being added to the changelog once we track them down through 2 years of commit history.

Expect proper PR, screenshots, extended changelog and other stuff over the next few days. Thanks for your patience with the issues we've been having. I'll see you all ingame.

 

Reserved.

 

Yay for update! Did you get help from Valve about the steampipe thingy?

 

A little bit, but the majority of the fix was our end, I'm not sure if their stuff was necessary for our temporary fix. But their stuff will be necessary when we do a long term fix. The fix now is really a workaround that we're able to distribute to everyone via Steam.

 

Congrats, it actually managed to happen.

 

nice work man that's an impressive changelog

 

Great Job!

 

Woohoo!

Thanks for all the hard work, devs. I was fortunate enough to be able to jump on without a problem when 2.4 was released and it's been a blast. Not like I needed any help getting addicted.

 

sweet, my life is updated now

Thank you everybody who participated on making the update

 

What's with the EmpiresLauncher.exe running?

 

Awesome. Great job.
I would like to donate some money for the hair plugs

 

You know that this is a good patch when you can actually pull Mashav out of retirement to play.

 

Good job guys. Thanks for the hard work and all the effort. It was a a long journey but looking at those changes it seems to be worth it.

 

EMPIRES LlVES

 

That's the fix. It launches Empires directly via SDK Base 2007. It's a temporary solution because it shouldn't really be required, though a few games do actually use this method.

 

Aww man, that changelog was very attractive, too bad right now I'm in another country, but once I come home I'll play again.

 

I think the news about 2.4 being released should be on the front page of the main site as well.

 

Updated. Does anyone have some PR-style shots of the new maps and models?

 

this changelog makes me grumpy.

 

So is the Steam version going to be updated?

Also if I want to use the Brenodi Empire and the Northern Faction in a fan fiction, who would I ask? Because I'm working on a HL2-TF2 Crossover called the Human-Combine Wars that features the Empires Universe and I've already the published the first story where I call them different names, but I want to use their actual names. It's based of a series of GMOD poses that I doGMOD Poses(None related poses in included)