Empire Total War Update

Today Empire Total War has been updated with some Fixes and some new content for both Single player and Multi-Player. The changes have been applied Sept. 22, and can be read as following.

New Content

• Two (2) new historical battles: Battle of Rossbach and Battle of Fontenoy. Both available in single player and multi player
  
• Missile cavalry can now fire and reload whilst on the move
  

Balance Changes

• Overhaul of naval balancing
  
• Dragoons are available from higher building levels and now have fire by rank
  
• Light Dragoons have gained longer range guns to allow them to skirmish better
  
• Reworked cavalry costs to better reflect their value on the battlefield
  
• Increase in cost to Windbusche Jaegers and Ferguson Rifles
  
• Some improvements to projectile balancing
  
• Balance improvements made to Road to Independence Episode 3
  

Fixes

• Fix for auto unlimbering causing the attack order to terminate prematurely resulting in an inability to stop the unit from firing
  
• Fix for troops on fort walls not using fort gun range when judging when to fire on enemy troops
  
• Fix for fort guns using wrong targeting formula
  
• Fixes to fort pathfinding and use of ropes
  
• Multiplayer soft lock fixes
  
• Fix crash in quotes table
  
• Improved AI diplomacy
  
• Cumulative updates to improve AI invasion behaviour
  
• Added tooltips for alliance button in diplomacy
  
• Bug fixes and improvements to AI counter offers
  
• Improvements to AI diplomatic valuation of military access and alliances
  
• Fix for wind sounds not working in naval battles
  
• Fixed ship wakes not always working
  
• Fixed disembarking subsets of armies and agents from navies
  
• Fixed potential crash disembarking agents from navies
  
• Fixed armies not being booted out of regions when losing military access gained by joining an ally in war
  
• Improved AI diplomacy valuation of technologies
  
• Fix for bug where general's unit for an upper class rebellion was coming from the region owning faction rather than the faction rebelling
  
• Fixed reinforcements from unreachable positions
  
• Fixed bug preventing disembarking
  
• Balance of power fix for attack of opportunity
  
• Fixed bug that was causing issues with embarking an army containing multiple characters
  
• Minor tweak to stop some ship sails endlessly play furling sound
  
• Fixed path blocked bug
  
• Diplomacy counter-offer improvements
  
• Fix for fast forward not working as intended on some PCs. Will always speed up if camera is still, if camera moves fast forward will be as fast as possible on each PC
  

GameSpot: All Time Greatest Video Game Hero Controversy

For many of you who have recently visited GameSpot may have found yourself on the "All Time Greatest Hero" bracket. You may also noticed that the first round is plagued with unfair match-ups such as Cloud Strife vs Lester K. Chaykin, or Master Chief vs Bub & Dub. But if you were like me an you saw Bub & Dub you immediately voted for them, because they gave you some of the best times you've had playing games growing up. Even last week me and 4 of my friends, lost our selves in gaming bliss playing Bust-A-Move for the SNES for 4-5 hours straight. And if you did vote for them you also weren't surprised that Bub & Dub were winning.

But many users and GameSpot admins have found themselves quite angry that Master Chief was losing.
The part that is hard to understand is how people could be upset over a popular vote. For once the under dog over came the #1 Fan Favorite and this is being called "Garbage"? Better yet, why was Master Chief up against Bub & Dub? It could seem to appear that GameSpot was trying to give Master Chief a pass. Why not put him up against Gordan Freeman, or Snake?

I have noting against Master Chief or Halo, but the point is, no matter who wins or who losses, people will still not find themselves happy.

Team Fortress 2: Cheater's Lament (Honesty Halo)

For many Team Fortress 2 players the method of obtaining new hats has not been favorable.
But for some players Third Party Programs and Idle Severs were a god-send for obtaining the stylish new hats. But in the recent update many players who have used the Third-Party programs for idling may have found that their items have been removed that were "illegally obtained".

But for many of the players playing fair, they have been rewarded with a new stylish hat to reward their honesty.