The patch is here

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I'm still curious as to the situation with the patch.

I haven't experienced any CTDs, cavalry bugs, and passive AI or any of the complaints those people are talking about.

In regards to crashes, I had more in 1.0 and haven't had any in this version.

For Cavalry, I was suprised during one battle where my cavalry actually continued charging into an archer unit that was running away, in fact they always quickly turn into pursuit but they still kept charging.

Passive AI, so far I have not seen any at all. Being the attacker in the map is a poor way to test this since well...your the one that's suppose to be aggressive, not them.

THe AI IMO is vastly improved over RTW. In RTW, the AI simply charges en masse. Here? Depending on the situation they'll engage with archers first, keeping their own units behind. Then eventually they'll start sending in waves to wear you down. I've even had the AI send a couple of units to try and flank me and I was hardpressed trying to counter this.

I was even more impressed during the siege of Dublin. THe portugese was allied with me and sent an army that helped me take that castle. The enemy sallied out and the Portugese army grabbed their attention. Both enemy armies engaged with their archers first and the Portugese eventually rammed their main line into the enemy. During this time I took the opporutunity to capture the city without suffering a single casualty

When the enemy sieges me, they always go with the siege weapons first. If a spy opens the door, then they'll go for that too once all other options have been exhausted so it's good to see they don't just stay there and do nothing.

BTW I always use battle timers. I think the AI will act more passive when there's an unlimited timer on the map because the AI will say, "Hey, I don't need to go and attack him, I like this spot so why should I?" or other stuff like that.

Though I'm not surprised by most of the complaints. Alot of people say high praise of mods like that Europa Barbairum, that justianian campaign, RTR and Darthmod yet those mods were always unstable for me. However I never critizied them for it as I knew the problem was with my computer so I stuck with the vanilla version. Hopefully the MTW2 mods will be better.

In summary, we make mistakes so we can learn from them. The next patch will be better I guarantee it.