Musket & Pike and Sword & Siege Updates
Today we bring you yet another round of updates for the Musket & Pike and Sword & Siege series of games. This round is primarily bug-fixing... we have made so many changes during the American Revolutionary War and Crusades Book II development cycles that it required touching the vast majority of the code. And with adjustments come unintended consequences. This round has been in testing for many weeks now, and all customer-reported issues have been resolved. So, this should be the last batch for a while.
Important Note - all of this content is using the new code signing cert mentioned on Monday with the release of the Age of Longbow update. You can read more about that here.
Before pressing on further, though, we want to highlight that Thirty Years War goes on sale this evening, August 14th, on Steam:
If you already purchased it, a free Steam Key can be found in your Store Account. Keys will also be issued for all future purchases.
Additionally, Steam Keys have been added for Great Northern War, which is up for wishlisting now and will be released for sale at the end of the month.
As I said in the intro, most of this round is bug fixing; see this changelog for details. There is one new feature included with these updates, though, and that is the inclusion of the SoLoud Sound engine. You can access this through the Sound sub-menu under Settings.
This 4.06.4 update is being released for the following 7 titles today:
American Revolutionary War
Thirty Years War
War of the Austrian Succession
Great Northern War
Vienna 1683
Seven Years War
Renaissance
The first 4 games are all Updates, so if you are on 4.06.3 for those games, then you can simply apply the update and press on. You should be able to continue ongoing games through that process.
GNW has received a major sound overhaul, so that update is a large one, at 300+ MB.
The last three titles require completely new full installs. Lots of major changes are included for these titles, so a new install is unavoidable. You remove your old copy of the game, delete any remaining files from the old folder, then download a new full installer from your Store Account and run it. Be sure to pull your new License Key for each from your account as well, as the serial numbers have been retired.
You must complete ongoing games in VEN, SYW & REN before moving to the new version, as the old files will not work with these new versions.
Likewise, the remainder of the Sword & Siege series is coming up to version 4.04.5 today, following Age of Longbow, which received its update on Monday when it was announced as Game of the Week.
Both Crusades titles & the Demo can simply be updated if you did the full install with 4.04.4; otherwise, grab a new installer from your store account. In progress games should be able to be continued between 4.04.4 & 4.04.5.
As always, if you have questions, just drop us a line at the Help Desk, and we'll clear things up.
We'll leave you with a few screenshots from the updated games for today. Enjoy!
I’ve said it many times before, but I’ll say it again, thanks to all involved.
Fantastic updates, thank you! Already love the SoLoud sound options!! Now I can set that background music where I want it!! Keep up the GREAT WORK Guys!
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