[Update] A Surprise Update Restores Star Wars: Empire At War's Multiplayer

The 2006 RTS lost multiplayer functionality inwards 2014 when Gamespy went offline.

We described the 2006 Petroglyph RTS Star Wars: Empire at War every bit "a deep in addition to beautifully-rendered direct maintain on Star Wars strategy" inwards our 2015 history of Star Wars on PC. More contemporaneously, nosotros every bit good said that it's "probably every bit unopen every bit we'll e'er become to the grand RTS that the films deserve." So inwards brusque it's a genuinely expert game. There's solely 1 problem: When Gamespy was shuttered inwards 2014, it spelled an effective halt to Empire at War multiplayer, in addition to thence a big argue to genuinely purchase in addition to play it.
That all changed today, however, every bit Petroglyph in addition to Disney released an update that re-enables multiplayer support through Steam, inwards both the heart game in addition to the Forces of Corruption expansion. The land every bit good adds modernistic back upwards via Steamworks in addition to fixes a number of graphical in addition to stability issues, "so you lot won’t become interrupted past times errors in addition to glitches every bit you lot struggle for command of the galaxy."
"We direct maintain continued to spotter the EAW community closely over the years in addition to  appreciate all the splendid back upwards you lot direct maintain given us in addition to the game," Petroglyph said. "Our thank you lot to all of you lot for the dandy feedback, awesome modernistic packs, in addition to  overwhelmingly positive reviews in addition to Disney for facilitating the liberate  of this work.  We promise you lot savor this particular update."
Coincidence or non (and I await it isn't), the Star Wars: Empire at War Gold Pack on Steam is every bit good on sale over the weekend for one-half price, cutting it to $10/£7.50/€10. The amount land notes are below.

• Gamespy completely removed every bit multiplayer solution inwards lieu of Steam multiplayer back-end inwards both FOC in addition to EAW
• Enabled windowed vogue support
• 2 internal crashes institute / fixed – no specific repro steps available
• Fix for broken object shadows inwards Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
• Fix for get-go game push clitoris non highlighting on mouse over
• Fix for multiplayer elbow grease save/load non picking the correct relieve game on the client
• Support for to a greater extent than than iii AI players inwards applicable games
• Fix for galactic save/load non loading a relieve game unless it's inwards slot 0
• Disable General Network Options push clitoris – This was solely applicable to quondam modem/GameSpy players
• Hooked upwards community/web buttons to appropriate Steam overlay pages/websites every bit applicable (The quondam Gamespy buttons only don’t piece of job anymore in addition to so nosotros repurposed them)
• Enabled selection/list of thespian mods on difficult drive
• Crash ready for attempting to charge an FOC modernistic inwards master copy EAW game
• Bug ready for creating units that are non-selectable inwards really long duration galactic vogue games (makes relieve games unplayable past times a certainly point)

Thanks PC GAMER