Patch 7 beta has broken campaign... Probably best to avoid it!

**Mhantra** · 11-17-2013, 18:10

My Rome campaign froze as well. I just deleted it and started a new one. I will say, Patch 7 does seem to have more freezes and crashes.

**Bramborough** · 11-17-2013, 20:10

Patch 7 happened to come almost "between campaigns" for me. Almost all my p7 play has come with new campaigns started since the update...so I haven't had this particular campaign start problem. I have, however, experienced several game freezes, most notably the "archer target" issue. Merging units (Ctrl+M) may also be a freeze trigger.

Have considered opting back out of this particular beta, primarily because of the archer freeze. Being able to target specific units is pretty darn important for missile units, to ensure they're firing for max effect. It's even more important when one is playing a steppe nomad faction where the early army is almost entirely horse archers!

**Fridge** · 11-17-2013, 20:39

It looks like I was 'opted out of the beta' - which probably explains why my campaign wouldn't load. Just noticed on a new campaign that the old (pre 7) imperium levels were back, and now I have to opt back in and re-dl the patch. Confused as to how/why this would happen... Anyone else that was in the beta noticed anything similar?

Also - you can merge units?!?! I've tried to drag units together to merge them but nothing happened - is ctrl+m the only way? And is it therefore automatic & all or nothing?

[edit] Just read that you can merge individual units: "Left click mouse on 1 unit, hold down Ctrl and left click on another unit (same class)...Then still keeping CTRL down, click M and the 2 units will be merged." - not mentioned anywhere in manual, so I assume you were just supposed to discover that yourself... Jesus...

**Sp4** · 11-17-2013, 20:44

You can auto merge the units in your armies? Wooohoo. I didn't know that.

**Fridge** · 11-17-2013, 21:26

Yeah, but don't try it (at least with patch 7) - instacrash. Always nice when a bug returns from as far back as Medievil and Empire, it's nostalgic ;)

**Bramborough** · 11-17-2013, 22:08

Yep, select 2 units, then Ctrl+M. I've also experienced a post-Patch7beta game freeze with this, although not as rampant as the missile-unit targeting freeze.

**Slaists** · 11-18-2013, 15:57

There is an update to the official beta post on .com. It seems, they have released a hotfix to the patch. The hotfix is supposed to repair a crash in some battle. Maybe the hotfix broke the game for you?