Empire at War 2 feels unnecessary 

Ah yes, the venerable imperial imperial star destroyer

"The engine does to what feels like 25% speed" FAF players: "25% IS normal speed"

My list of must play Empire at War mods in no particular order: -The Age of Legends -Awakening of the Rebellion -Empire at War Remake -Fall of the Republic -Republic at War -Thrawns Revenge

I'm not a Star Wars fan and I never played Empire at War before, but I bought it to play the Stargate mod, which is really good.

Just wanted to mention: There is a planet finder option in the game. Basegame has it, and all mods kept it. If you click on the question mark and go to the tab on the right side, you can scroll between all planets listed there, ordered alphabetically. If you click on a world, you get automatically ported there with the camera. This way players don't have to search for a planet the entire time.

One thing I missed was some of the cool features of some ships they added such as the capture shuttles to not limit yourself from other factions ships if you want to use certain ships in conjunction with each other

a bit disappointed that you didn't mention that you can board and capture enemy ship, it my favorite thing to do in the game

Zade, never, EVER say the word "Deck". Ever. Also I laughed pretty hard at the 1:58 mark :D

Rachel, TR dev here. just watching this tonight and finding your review, I thank you humbly. Seeing things like this is why we continue to do the things we do for the community out of our spare time.

I always enjoyed the space battles more than ground wars. Auto resolve was perfect

My personal favorite, the EaWX mods! Imo, each battle and campaign feels different, no one strat works every time, which is not always the case with EaW.

Well spoken and structured with timely visuals. Nice channel. Sub!

I played both base games first then Fall of the Republic because its simpler than Thrawn's Revenge and made by the same team so when I got to Thrawn's Revenge everything made sense. I never look at damage of weapons or shielding stats and I play on Cruel difficulty so you can ignore that you just need a good composition to get Fighter/Bomber superiority and have smaller ships with point defence to stop any Missiles. Also defending/Capturing Planets that are chokepoints is good as it frees up other forces to defend or attack other sectors.

Thrawn’s Revenge is pretty much the only mod I use whenever I play Empire at War. It’s just my favorite given it’s era system and how it changes over time.

0:10 Oh no. It became bitter? What happened?

EaW 2 would allow to add some really nice feature though. EaW is great, but it does have some flaws that could be fixed, like moving units between fleet during pause, engine upgrades etc. Performance tends to nosedive with some mods due to engine limitations.

10:04 - As someone called Tom who was playing a game on my other screen whilst watching this video, this bit nearly killed me.

Their are many mods i would Recommend for Empire At war. Thrawn's Revenge, Fall of the Republic and the up coming Ravens Revenge all from the same team. Then we have Awakening of the Rebellion (my personal fav so far), their is also the Remake Mod and as of recent REPUBLIC AT WAR got updated like last month.

I need Empire at War 2 for new graphips and more.

There are a couple of things that a modern sequel could do a bit better. One of the major ones is compatibility with multi-core processing. EaW only uses a single processor core, and that is hard-coded into the game and can't be modded. This is why even ultra-high performance modern gaming rigs can still struggle on larger maps or with the highest graphics settings, even though the game itself is literally old enough to vote by now. Altering the code to utilize the features of more modern processors would be a godsend, and would drastically improve gameplay experience and late-game lag. Another frustrating issue (which is also hard-coded in and un-moddable) is the inability of the player to issue movement orders while the game is paused. While the AI is pretty stupid (which is, itself, another thing that needs more fixing than mods are really capable of), this gives it a huge advantage, because in the time it takes the player to issue a single move order, the AI can re-deploy its entire fleet simultaneously. Giving the player the ability to set up movement orders while paused would level this playing field, and reduce the instances of your plans failing due to timing screw-ups. Basically, what I want is Thrawn's Revenge, but with better graphics, smarter AI, Better ground battles, and the above issues fixed. That would take a sequel to accomplish. The problem is that in all likelihood, any studio that develops a sequel is not going to be content with such minimal changes. They are likely going to want to completely rework the game, and I have exactly zero trust in the quality of any official Star Wars project since the Disney buyout.

He should cover awakening of the rebellion

Heyyyy. My recommendations are taken into consideration.

Empire at War 2 ideally would be a mix between EAW and Rebellion, With a large galactic map where you need to collect resources and allies and wisely use your characters while engaging in diplomacy and creating secret bases in the unkown regions and outer rim. While also keep the fast paced and epic space battles of Empire at War and maybe even the ground battles

2:34 Can’t believe there are people who DON’T like the land battles

I found Thrawns Revenge to have the best performance of all the mods but then again no two systems will ever run the same so another mod may run better for other people. I will say without Thrawns Revenge we would never have gotten new updates to the game from Petroglyph Games which i am still shocked EA singed off on and even before that the TR team found a few things out about the game and its engine that they passed on to other modders.

So anyone can tell me where i can get v.3.2 for GOG, because i can only find it in Steam and nowhere else.

A more modern EAW would solve ALOT of the game and engine limitations.

I'd say new players play through Vanilla and if you want more after that then give it a go

For some reason when I buy ships my credits at the top of my screen dont go down

Want to play EAW again but I cant get it to run properly.

i think you underestimate what a modern UI and some code updates could do for the game. EaW2 would absolutly be fantastic.

I really enjoy conquest modes and Empire At War for me did it better than Kane's Wrath. Universe At War though was the top dog in this category for me

Thrawn's Revenge is really good but I prefer Awakening of The Rebellion. It is a significantly harder mod to get into, but it expands upon many features that Thrawn's Revenge seems to scrap. TR feels like a different game where AoTR feels like a remake of the same game. Not only that, but the land battles are actually really fun and as fun as the space battles are. Edit: Jeez AOTR fans really like to crap on Thrawn's Revenge lol

My major gripe was the new resource management systems which made me disinterested. Wish they had a version with the vanilla economy.

Is this better than the remake? Remake doesnt have ground battles still

... I was watching this on my second screen while I played and feel personally attacked.

I think this is the best Empire at War mod.

It's brilliant, but dang, if I cant play it smoothly with 64 gigs of RAM and an RTX 3080, who can?

Hey you should pick up the New game Silica and give it a review. While it is very much early access its really fun and throws an extra curveball with the FPS players. The AI are particularly bad right now, even though I very much usually hate multi-player I was able to jump in and have a blast.

And mods you'd recommend for a sorta newbie who has a lot of trouble adapting to the jank of the base game? xD

Sllence, new engine for modders to work with might be a boon

Hapes like grapes

"Spicy triangles"

wish somone would make a clone wars mod other than fall of the repblic

You need to do one for awakening of the rebellion and empire at war remake there all so good

Revinge sounds much biter

I am working on it anyway :)

I only play multiplayer and the constant unrecoverable desyncs are too much

I don't know if its just me, but I've tried a lot of EaW mods and found all them to just be too damn hard. I always get overwhelmed by the AI and never have enough resources to fight them off. What am I doing wrong?

Well the map will take while to be finished (literally)

Haven't played thawn but am playing fall of the republic which I'm addicted to bec I perfer the prequel era but the ai is cheap af. It invaded one of my planets with at least 20x cis gunships and another time with 15x artillery cannons. Wish it would chill ans let me win. Space wise it just spams lucahulks so it's slow going atm

My version of instant action works fine, I have no idea why yours is breaking. I also have no idea how it works.

Is there an empire at war mod that doesnt completely rework the game? Like standard empire at war but with more maps and ships etc?

Anything multiplayer is extremely unstable especially when mods come into the question.

The game is almost 20 years old. It is necessary.

Do you have any idea how much duct tape and prayers hold together the Petroglyph engine? Just updating the engine would be a fraction of what was pissed away for either of the most recent Battlefronts. But hey, a trillion dollar industry should rely on free labor to make a good Star Wars game.

so when the triple a devs make empire at war 2, will it be better than these EAW mods?

I like the variety of this mod I just wish they would do their battles like AOTR does. This just feels too meh for me

I love Galactic map gameplay of this mod, but battles gameplay is to arcady for me: there is no strategy and tacticks - just bring more units then your opponent - and u win. Battles just suck. I prefer battles in other mod - AotR - because every unit you bring on the battlefield - matters

how did you know my name is Tom!!

I always read Hapes as vapes

I keep trying to play this mod and instantly get fuked and most my planets get taken within 20mins 💀

This game, barring land battles, is still fantastic.

every call of duty is unnecessary, a empire at war 2 ist very very much necessary

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Don't worry, it's typically not an engine problem, modders aren't great at optimization and tend to leave redundant elements like hidden textures in.

H-apes, not herpes.

a LOT of games where you see people online asking for sequels, remakes, remasters etc etc etc, really don't need them. if the base games are already good and have a thriving modding community, you really don't need disney ruining them. typical consoomers desperately wanting a new thing when "new" doesn't mean better.

Awakening of the Rebellion is an insanely good mod, you should play it if you haven’t already. Probably the easiest but fully fleshed out modded Empire at War to get into

Nah, it needs a new release. The engine is way too old and even the remake thst is amazing can't make the game feel like stellaris or some modern space strategy games. It needs more difficulty and more complexity to the overall mechanics, and it needs to fix the space battles and SPECIALLY the shitty unfixable ground battles. The mods are amazing, but its time to have a new SWEW.

ngl i hate the era system

Thrawns revenge the most well known? I thought that title went to Republic At War Still, to answer the title: *DESPERATELY YES* . At the very least, we need a new engine and if a remaster was nothing more then just porting the game into a modern modable engine without changing a single thing then that would still be enough for a re-buy

AOTR is better

nah i think AOTR is better