If everything goes according to plan, Creative Assembly will next week release an update for Empire: Total War that will address a number of AI flaws and critical bugs.
While this isn’t the first update the brilliant yet technically “eccentric” game has received, it’s certainly the biggest (with “over 70 bug fixes”) and most wide-ranging.
https://lastchance.cc/empire-total-war-patch-hits-steam-5184808%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
God willing, this update will be out in the “early part of next week”. Shame it doesn’t address the game’s two biggest problems – hanging on ports and an overall slowdown in the later decades of a grand campaign – but hopefully they’ll be addressed next time.