Does ETW need another patch?

**Beskar** · 10-16-2009, 23:49

It needs the promised developer kit released so the fans can fix the game.

**Owen Glyndwr** · 10-17-2009, 02:22

Originally Posted by Beskar

It needs the promised developer kit released so the fans can fix the game.

this x 1,000,000,000,000,000

**aimlesswanderer** · 10-17-2009, 02:40

Hell yeah it needs one, but given the "improvements" that previous patches have made, it may not help things at all.

So, I think that it would be better to let the modders fix the damn thing, and I think that the result will be far superior to any so called "update".

**Mr Frost** · 10-17-2009, 06:34

Originally Posted by Beskar

It needs the promised developer kit released so the fans can fix the game.

Agreed , it's been far too long already .

**Grombeard** · 10-17-2009, 08:28

It definately needs a patch, be it an official one or a modders work. While 1.4 was kinda playable, with 1.5 my tech trade panel is all weird and other "funny" things happen, too, so i effectively can't play the game atm. And when i hear from others that you still cannot repair walls and such things... i mean... the game is out FOR OVER HALF A YEAR NOW! And the developers still got bugs THAT BIG in their game? If the game wasn't connected to my steam account i would have sold it already... or had brought it back to the store...

ANd instead of telling us whats up with patches or hotfixes now, they open a poll forum about NTW... is this supposed to be funny or are they just that insensitive in those things?

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 10-17-2009, 10:36

Patch 1.4 was good. Then they released Warpatch 1.5 giving everyone warpath even if didn't buy it. I have warpath but can't play it. I wouldn't care if my game would run as smooth as it did in 1.4. A new patch would probably mean new mechanics and new re-balancing everything giving poor Brandybarrel a job to renew his Fusil, but I really hope that we get a large patch that only fixes bugs. And does something about diplomacy.

**Fisherking** · 10-17-2009, 11:19

It is just my thoughts but it could use a patch.

There are some distracting bugs or perhaps some are features that we just don’t care for.

CA has done a decent job in fixing most things, to this point, but now we just don’t know.

We don’t know either how NTW will change ETW and if they are that directly linked.

The only thing we know about the MP Beta is that it should be coming. I would think they would want it beyond Beta prior to NTW being released...

Release of Modding Tools may come post NTW...just a wild guess.

I had expected to see some people who didn’t think it needed patching but so far that is not how it is going.

As for a blanket statement of no more major patches, I am a little confused, did they ever intend to take the MP beyond Beta?

**Durallan** · 10-17-2009, 15:48

I didn't think there was ever going to be a public MP beta, they were going to work on it and once theyd finished patching empire, they were going to finish it off and release it before the release of Napoleon.

**A1_Unit** · 10-17-2009, 16:03

ETW still has bugs that could be fixed.

**Seyavash** · 10-17-2009, 17:33

I would like to see a patch to reduce the bugs that popped up with 1.5. I was quite happy with 1.4 but the crashes have definitely increased for me.

However, besides bugs I think we are probably at the point where further tweaks will come from modders.