Is that true that the only way to update the game is via Steam? There is no way that I can download from work and then apply the patch at home? Thanks.

Can you imagine that after waiting for the game to install for the whole night, it still in the progress. It did not prompt me for the disc change at all. After I register the code, steams says that it will now proceed to install. I click yes and then a box come out that says preparing the local cache or something like that which took very long. I go to sleep as cannot tahan. I then wake up half way and go to check. I forgot what the msg says oredi and I click finish. It then proceed to update and guess what!! the update % only increase to 1% when I wake up to prepare to work. Why is this so? Anything that I can do to make it work? Or anything that I done wrong.

I never had problem with installing game before. This is the first time I am installing game via steam. Pls help.

Thks for your advice. If I take out disc 1 and put it in again (do I need to exit steam?) and click on setup, its to install steam right? Just wanna make sure before I go back tonight and try again. Losing sleep and no mood to work because of this failure. Thks again.

I have bought the extra units. However, there are no downloads after the update I have done last night.

How to activate these new units?

Aiyooo...i hate it like this way....need money buy Unit......need credit card also....haiz

Gormaz got credit card?  help me buy France Swiss Army for Napolean.

can ask CA? i just want to buy France Swiss Army only...LOL others I dun want got discount or not

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Empire: Total War update 1.4 patch plans
Creative Assembly has announced that it will release a patch for Empire: Total War, Creative Assembly's RTS sequel, in late September. The focus for the update has been AI, both campaign and battle along with improvements to sieges and the naval rebalancing. A lot of work has been put into the campaign and diplomacy AI, focusing on how it wages war, makes alliances and peace as well as use of naval invasions. Battle side improvements have been made to most areas of the AI with the focus on the siege AI which has had major changes made to it. Sieges have also had a lot of work done on them with a lot of bugs fixed, improvements made to pathfinding and how guns and troops on walls work.