Chewbacca can now capture the AT-ST without crashing in performance patch for classic Star Wars RTS Empire at War

For several years, Petroglyph has been annually updating its classic Star Wars RTS, Empire at War, with performance patches to address various issues and improve frame rates. This year, they’ve released another update, this time rectifying a bug that occasionally caused the game to crash when Chewbacca attempted to capture an AT-ST, or any other vehicle for that matter during land battles.

Empire at War has maintained a steady player base over the years, consistently reaching peaks of over 2000 users on any given day, largely thanks to this support from Petroglyph and the modding community.

It’s clear to see that the RTS market is underserved at the moment, but we have had some good releases so far this year with, Age of Mythology: Retold, 9-Bit Armies: A Bit Too Far and Godsworn. We have Tempest Rising, Battlefall: State of Conflict, and Global Conflagration on the watchlist, but of course, we would love to see more. EA is said to be working with Bit Reactor on a Star Wars strategy game using Unreal Engine 5.

It’s always nice to jump back into the old classics though, so let’s take a look at the full patch notes to see everything that was changed with this new “Maintenance Patch”.

Empire at War Patch Notes October 2024

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

• Performance improvements of up to 50% frame rate improvement in large galactic maps. [FOC only]
• Fixed bug where the player wouldn’t be prompted to enter a password when trying to join a passworded game in the online lobby.
• Fix for crash when retreating from a land battle after capturing a vehicle with Chewbacca.

You can grab the Gold Edition of Empire at War on Steam.

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