STAR WARS™ Empire at War - Gold Pack

Petroglyph · LucasArts, Lucasfilm, Disney

Released: May 25, 2010
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Last updated: 13 Sep 2026, 04:48 GMT

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22 Oct 2024Developer post
October 2024 Maintenance Patch Update
Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: ▪ Performance improvements of up to 50% frame rate improvement in large galactic maps. ▪ Fixed bug where the player wouldn't be prompted to enter a password when trying to join a pass
31 Jan 2024PC Gamer
TIE Fighters, ranked
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23 Nov 2023PC Gamer
17 years after its release, the best Star Wars strategy game gets converted to 64-bit
November is a time for looking back at the past, whether that's through Bonfire Night, Thanksgiving, or in a more recent tradition, randomly patching up old-ass games. Last week, Valve were patching decades-old bugs in Half-Life as part of the game's 25'th anniversary celebration
22 Nov 2023VG247
Star Wars: Empire at War has been updated to 64-bit 17 years after release
Here's a nice surprise for you: Petroglyph has updated its strategy RTS, Star Wars: Empire at War , 17 years post-release. The update mainly allows the game to run in 64-bit, but it also fixes some minor bugs, applies some balance changes, fixes out-of-sync issues with multiplaye
21 Nov 2023Rock, Paper, Shotgun
17 years after release, Star Wars: Empire At War just got patched to support 64-bit
Star Wars: Empire At War wasn't a great game, but it did fulfill a simple fantasy: it was a real-time strategy game with original trilogy Star Wars units. If what you wanted was to fling swarms of AT-ATs against swarms of X-Wings then, yeah, you could do that. Darth Vader versus
21 Nov 2023PCGamesN
Beloved 2006 Star Wars RTS just got a massive Steam update
Star Wars Empire at War is one of the best games to come out of the George Lucas-created universe. At 17 years old, the 4X space RTS remains a classic of the genre. Nevertheless, despite its age, Star Wars Empire at War is still getting regular updates on Steam, and another huge
20 Nov 2023Developer post
Maintenance Patch Update
Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: ▪ Both games have been converted from 32-bit to 64-bit applications, which will solve many out-of-memory bugs and crashes that players were experiencing. ▪ Multiplayer out-of-sync iss
09 Nov 2022Developer post
Maintenance Patch Update
Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: ▪ - Crash fix for the corruption of Coruscant ▪ Fix for long save/load times
15 Jan 2021Strategy Gamer
The best Star Wars game is still getting updates, 15 years later
Star Wars: Empire at War is a unique high point not only for Star Wars strategy games , but Star Wars games in general. A spiritual successor to the grand strategy classic Star Wars: Rebellion, Empire at War was the debut title of Petroglyph, a studio made up of ex-Command &
14 Jan 2021Developer post
Maintenance Patch Update
• Additional multiplayer maps • Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: Some ground units targeting accuracy adjusted Fighter Hero Locomoters fixed Rocket projectile AoE damage fixed
• Additional multiplayer maps
• Minor bug fixes, player balance changes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are:

Some ground units targeting accuracy adjusted
Fighter Hero Locomoters fixed
Rocket projectile AoE damage fixed
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16 Nov 2020PCGamesN
The best Star Wars: Empire at War mods
We've been served pretty well by Star Wars games over the past couple of decades. There's been ups and downs for sure, but generally speaking this is an IP that gets the right treatment more often than not. If we were to be picky, the one area that could do with some TLC is perha
29 Dec 2019PC Gamer
Re-fight the galactic civil war with this gorgeous Star Wars Empire at War mod
Last year, when we discovered the Star Wars Empire at War Remake mod, Fraser Brown requested to be frozen in carbonite until it was done . I guess we can thaw him out because I just checked the mod page and hot damn . Not only does this mod update the game to cutting-edge visual
13 Nov 2019Rock, Paper, Shotgun
The 10 best Star Wars games on PC
A new hope. After two boring-but-fine Star Wars: Battlefront games, we’re now on the verge of EA’s third swing of the lightsaber with the release of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order . There are reasons to think it might be more interesting than early trailers suggested, after writers
08 Jul 2019Rock, Paper, Shotgun
Modder Superior: Star Wars Empire At War
Every other Monday, Dominic gives you a reason to dust off one of your old games and dive into its mods with Modder Superior. I bounced off Star Wars: Empire At War when it was new, but the siren call of modding beckoned me back. Playing a bit like a 4X strategy game in fast-forw
09 Nov 2018PC Gamer
Star Wars: Empire at War looks new again thanks to this mod
Star Wars: Empire at War, one of the best space games on PC , has never looked this good before. The Empire at War Remake mod has been around for years but the latest incarnation is especially swish, as you can see from the fancy Star Destroyer battle above. “This mod catapults E
28 Jun 2018Developer post
Bug Fix Update (June 2018)
Fixes an issue with the game taking a long time to load after individual battles with mods enabled
11 May 2018Developer post
Maintenance Patch Update
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: Fixes issue with save games getting deleted if too large. Sets maximum render FPS cap to 200. Multiplayer lobbies are now visible if there is a version mismatch.
12 Oct 2017Developer post
Multiplayer Patch Update
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: Out of Sync errors reduced Passwords now work correctly for multiplayer private games Mirror Matches now work correctly
12 Oct 2017Developer post
Multiplayer Patch Update
Minor bug fixes and optimized performance, the most important fixes are: Out of Sync errors reduced Passwords now work correctly for multiplayer private games Mirror Matches now work correctly
01 Sep 2017PC Gamer
A surprise update restores Star Wars: Empire at War's multiplayer
We described the 2006 Petroglyph RTS Star Wars: Empire at War as "a deep and beautifully-rendered take on Star Wars strategy" in our 2015 history of Star Wars on PC . More contemporaneously, we also said that it's "probably as close as we'll ever get to the grand RTS that the fil
We described the 2006 Petroglyph RTS Star Wars: Empire at War as "a deep and beautifully-rendered take on Star Wars strategy" in our 2015 history of Star Wars on PC. More contemporaneously, we also said that it's "probably as close as we'll ever get to the grand RTS that the films deserve." So in short it's a really good game. There's only one problem: When Gamespy was shuttered in 2014, it spelled an effective end to Empire at War multiplayer, and thus a big reason to actually buy and play it.
That all changed today, however, as Petroglyph and Disney released an update that re-enables multiplayer support through Steam, in both the core game and the Forces of Corruption expansion. The patch also adds mod support via Steamworks and fixes a number of graphical and stability issues, "so you won’t get interrupted by errors and glitches as you fight for control of the galaxy."
"We have continued to watch the EAW community closely over the years and appreciate all the excellent support you have given us and the game," Petroglyph said. "Our thanks to all of you for the great feedback, awesome mod packs, and overwhelmingly positive reviews and Disney for facilitating the release of this work. We hope you enjoy this special update."
Coincidence or not (and I expect it isn't), the Star Wars: Empire at War Gold Pack on Steam is also on sale over the weekend for half price, cutting it to $10/£7.50/€10. The full patch notes are below.
Gamespy completely removed as multiplayer solution in lieu of Steam multiplayer back-end in both FOC and EAW
Enabled windowed mode support
2 internal crashes found / fixed – no specific repro steps available
Fix for broken object shadows in Empire at War: Forces of Corruption
Fix for start game button not highlighting on mouse over
Fix for multiplayer campaign save/load not picking the right save game on the client
Support for more than 3 AI players in applicable games
Fix for galactic save/load not loading a save game unless it's in slot 0
Disable General Network Options button – This was only applicable to old modem/GameSpy players
Hooked up community/web buttons to appropriate Steam overlay pages/websites as applicable (The old Gamespy buttons simply don’t work anymore so we repurposed them)
Enabled selection/list of player mods on hard drive
Crash fix for attempting to load an FOC mod in original EAW game
Bug fix for creating units that are non-selectable in very long duration galactic mode games (makes save games unplayable past a certain point)
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