Update/Patch?

[Mato]

I've been wondering what CA tried patching or updating that ended up breaking eveything. Would someone be able to tell me what happened, because I just lately realized the effects

[rivercitydreams]

Patch 1.51 ruined the game basically.

[Iceni Total War]

They added MP support since Gamespy closed down plus they added language support for Italian ,German,French and Spanish and by doing this they somehow messed up the siege AI. Their patch for M2TW broke even more aspects of that game.

[Mormacil]

The rumor is they lost documentation on Rome1, so when patching MP and language they stumbled around blind, apparently breaking stuff.

[malek]

Originally posted by icenii:

They added MP support since Gamespy closed down plus they added language support for Italian ,German,French and Spanish and by doing this they somehow messed up the siege AI. Their patch for M2TW broke even more aspects of that game.

What did they break in M2TW?

[Iceni Total War]

In game sounds but there,s been a patch adressing this, don,t know how successful it is also black stripes appearing on buildings, not shadows another patch addressed this also many mods compatability was broken several workarounds have been suggested for this.

[Mato]

Originally posted by Mormacil:

The rumor is they lost documentation on Rome1, so when patching MP and language they stumbled around blind, apparently breaking stuff.

My god that's horrible, these total war games are getting their jimmies rustled.

[Mormacil]

I know, then again how old is Rome1 and how much stuff has happened to CA. It's just stupid to attempt this and not give us the old files as a backup.

[chon]

Well I'm a IT specialist and this seems very shady. Multiplayer support has nothing to do with the AI. Some say they lost the source code but that sounds stupid. All software companies keep their source code to later help build something else based on it if needed.

[Mormacil]

Hey it's the same company that gaves us the AI of Empire and Rome 2. Not to mention every other buggy launch they did. Published by the publisher of Aliens: Colonial Marines.
Is it shade, incredibly bad and stupid? Yes. Is it impossible? Sadly no. Things are easier to attribute to stupidity then malice but on this case I'm torn :P

[x260bm]

Originally posted by Barristando Selmiano:

Originally posted by icenii:

They added MP support since Gamespy closed down plus they added language support for Italian ,German,French and Spanish and by doing this they somehow messed up the siege AI. Their patch for M2TW broke even more aspects of that game.

What did they break in M2TW?

Sea trade is no longer working.

[Iceni Total War]

Originally posted by x260bm:

Originally posted by Barristando Selmiano:

What did they break in M2TW?

Sea trade is no longer working.

Yeah with all the problems on the Steam version i uninstalled and just reinstalled my disk version and have been playing Divide and Conquer sub mod for Third Age, disks work fine.

[trusteft]

Any chance the game was broken on purpose so that more people buy the sequel?
Not that I am going to, just wondering.

[3am]

Originally posted by trusteft:

Any chance the game was broken on purpose so that more people buy the sequel?
Not that I am going to, just wondering.

I'll take cockup over conspiracy every time.

[Skittles161]

Does anyone know a way to get rid of the most recent patch?

[Mormacil]

On Steam there is none. If you got the old DVDs, you can manually patch those.