The Biggest Change Empire at War Still Needs 

The biggest upgrade they could make to the game is letting you give orders and fully control units on the strategic layer while paused.

I'll pass this request on to the programmers. It seems like a good improvement.

Being able to have the build bar and reinforcements widows scroll so you can see more units would also be helpful.

Very specific thing I just noticed 10 mins ago while playing. In FOTR the CIS’s Hex emblem on the Recusant Dreadnought is incorrectly orientated, has a point at the top instead of a flat side. Immersion broken, I will never play again… xD

You're telling me the reason why the NR AI stills gets to build the Viscount even though I took MonCala early is because they don't need to interact with the menu😮

An unlikely update as it would essentially merit rebuilding the game from the ground up but multithreading capability would be such a godsend.

The love for this game i played the demo and bought on release almost twenty years ago is unbelievable

The like and subscribe joke alone was worth the watch 😂. But anyway, great video. Thanks.

On the ground there is/was a feature where you could point and position your troops. Think something like the drag and position function in a Total War game. Something like that would be really nice to see in EaW to make creating and maintaining formations easier.

One thing I think would be really good to add to EAWX is the option to pre make the reinforcement groups. Like for space I want to be able to go into a tutorial space battle, summon 5 corvettes in certain positions, and save that. Then when there's an actual battle, if I have the units, I have the option to just drag the 5 corvettes out of the reinforcement menu together, not individually.

Make pause button bindable

Having more than three faction hyperspace control colors.

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They added individual unit ids keeping connection bewteen campaing and battle map? Great. I somehow missed it.

Idk if this has been implemented since I've not played for several years now but, being able to select multiple units during deployment would be amazing so I don't have to individually set up a few dozen ships every time I start a battle in the late game.

Good points, very informative

I would have thought the biggest reqequest would have been to enable multi core CPU support as I know larger space battles can really chug; or has it been established to be infeasible?

It seems like that's the key to making an almost entirely different game in the sense that you could upgrade AI behavior and incorporate more new mechanics and gimmicks that both the player and AI can utilize to spice the game up.

I just hope they find a way to reduce lag and stuttering. Nice all these modding things but the game is getting pretty close to being unplayable. But that would probably require eaw 2 to be made 😭

it just needs multicore support and a devkit modding tool nothing more

With the new ability to target the same unit on the tactical and galactic level, it'd be cool if there was some sort of mechanic where you could rename a ship and maybe it gets some small bonus from surviving a certain number of battles or the amount of damage it has output or something.

A change that may not be needed for modders but would be great for players would be being able to give movement orders on the Galactic Map shile paused.

Essentially, you're trying to communicate with the AI (not to mention the game itself) about how it should react/behave - but you're limited to a flannelgraph... in the dark! xD

I wish i could put ships of any faction any where from the troop menu in fleet builder

Any chance of better multithreading support too?

I just want better performance on galactic map

Being able to queue up movements while paused would be top of my list.

Posting at 4am is crazy Corey but great video keep up the amazing work

I'd love some multi thread or something more for us players to make battles not slow down so badly. and with those background changes you mentioned for the modders to make life better.

Holy cow! I've not modded or played EAW for years. I didn't realise it was still being modded or even played. Kudoes.

I am really really really hoping that they are working slowly and diligently on a new sandbox overhead strategy Star Wars game. I’m holding out hope

my top request would be control groups it's one of the better quality of life improvements in modern strategy games

I'd say manual deployment of units in the defensive battles would be nice 🤔

First person views and control of that soldier. Lol

I wish I could play these cool mods in multi, but that would require some major changes is my understanding.

I would like a way to do diplomacy cause I can’t maintain combat capable fleets let alone armies at every planet that borders another faction

Better AI pathfinding and actual collision detection for ships in space combat.

I get what you're saying, but as a player, my GOD I wish we could give orders to fleets on galactic while the game is paused and to organize fleets while paused... Like 1400 hours of EAW - like 1300 of which have been EAWX since 2.2 and this is still my #1 wish. Second choice would be WASD support instead of the arrow keys and a keyboard bindable pause button...

Haven’t played in a good bit. Are we able to set a pathfinder and start sending fleets while game is paused now? Would be great quality of life upgrade

The biggest change I'd personally want to see is the re-enabling of all those systems that were SUPPOSED to be part of the game and still have code snippets all over the place - like the things for political control, maintenance costs, etc...I also wouldn't say no to logic for multiple resource types (because credits alone is just way too basic), or adding a chance to fail for CERTAIN UI-based abilities *glares at Sabotage*. EDIT: Another two things I wouldn't mind getting directly concern the Superlaser ability. 1: Firing arc restriction (because 360d might work for the Eclipse, but it looks really derpy on units like the Darksaber or the Harrower Dreadnought - Silencer variant. 2: Either a damage delay setting or a setting for forcing the firing sound to play all the way through at least once, so if a ship gets one-shot by the initial firing, the sound still has a chance to play more than a nanosecond of the file.

Here's something we still need: support for modelling programs _that aren't 3DS Max._

I want deploying fighters to be an option rather then automatic

I wonder if it's possible to make a custom faction option in Empire at war?

I said I wish games wouldn’t crash every time you capture a planet

It needs a sequel that updates and changes but doesn't drift a lot from the og essence and soul .

I want an easy to use GC editor :)

Is it possible to un-hardcode many of the pathfinding variables that units use to calculate movement in the tactical map? Im not a modder, but Ive heard that if you wanted to change how the pathfinding works, much of that is hardcoded. I think it would open alot of interesting gameplay decisions regarding firing arcs and manuveurs that the AI and player could make if the pathfinding could be changed more.

push push push

Can the game run on multiple CPU cores or do you still recommend reducing to two?

Corey when will the next big update be available. I'm looking to do a fall of the Republic play through. And I know how the non compatible saves are.

have you tried applying to the company and or just asking for the code? You have done more for the game then they have lately. Please keep up the work.

When is the mod coming out for old reblic

making the cpu use all cores

Does EAWx have any plans to add unit XP?

Why is it always Empire at War? Why not Empire at PEACE?!

I'm still waiting on them to bring the 64bit upgrade to the GOG version. C'mon, don't sell people an inferior version of the game!

Someone points out a problem, corey ignores it and or silences them. Someone tells corey the mod needs some work they're told to shut up by the fans/corey's staff. Corey finds a problem with the mod and all of a sudden it was an unknown problem that no one could have figured out. It's 2024 and Thrawn's Revenge still plays like its 2015, how is it other mods have figured out this issue and you're still struggling in 2024? Probably has to do with the lack of criticism this garbage mod has gotten and any time you get criticism you just remove/ban/silence anyone who says otherwise.