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Tournament Edition Mod for EaW

This is the version for the base game Star Wars: Empire at War
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Current Version: v0.10.1

Mod ID: 1973616046

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Index

1. Mod Description
   
2. Notable Features
   
3. Additional Tournament Maps
   
4. Bug Fixes and Balance Changes
   
5. Map Changes
   
6. Tournament Settings

The Tournament Edition Mod for EaW is the culmination of a long history of competitive play, of Clans and Tournaments, of players that pushed the boundaries of this game, formed a Community[discord.gg] and didn't give up on the game after the GameSpy servers were shut down. Now, with the Steam version having restored multiplayer, old veterans of this game are joined by new blood learning the ropes of how to win this amazing game full of strategies, mindgames and risky moves.

The mod adds a way to spectate live games and improves EaW with bug fixes and balance updates alike, in an effort to enhance the multiplayer aspects of this game in every way possible.

Our innovation of a full-fledged spectator faction with dynamic fog of war reveal has made this game worth spectating: You can find replays of casual games as well as tournaments and challenges on either the Empire at War Community Discord's Twitch Channel[www.twitch.tv] or YouTube Channel.



Spectating Features

• Space: Spectator faction added which dynamically reveals FoW on all skirmish maps.
  
• Space: Spectator faction sees teams' upgrades in the sidebar.
  
• Land: Spectator faction added that totally reveals FoW on all skirmish maps.
  
• The Spectator faction can see the credits of competing players to a limited extent. (Currently it displays 6 digits as the spectator’s own credits, with 3 digits for Rebels followed by 3 digits for Empire. A display of 420.322 translates to 4200cr for the Rebel side and 3220cr for the Empire side.)

Lobby Features

• All maps max player count increased to 8 (for spectating purposes).
  
• Multiplayer Skirmish: Removed Advanced Options button to enforce tournament settings.
  
• Singleplayer Skirmish: Starting Credits range from 2-8k to 1-50k for convenience and sandbox testing.

Quality of Life Improvements

• Space: Added Unit Stats, Ability Stats and Build Times to unit tooltips.
  
• Space: Added Affected Units and Build Time to upgrades.
  
• Space: Teammates' planetary weapon status and progress shown in the sidebar.
  
• Space: Enemy Starbase location, as well as turret pad and mine locations visible at the start of the game.
  
• Space: Ion Nebulae are visually distinct both ingame as well as on map previews.
  
• Improved Minimap icons for many things.
  
• Empire Pirate Fighters use green laser bolts, empire laser FX and blue empire explosions.
  
• Fighter & Bomber units Mouse-Over Radius sizes have been reduced (to make it easier to see specific fighters HP values and still easy to click them).
  
• New multiplayer team ping minimap icon showing the player color more clearly.
  
• And many, many more.

TEM comes included with custom maps which are approved for competitive play and are set up to appear in the “Official Maps” tab ingame. Additionally, many of the classic maps have seen tweaks to them, which are applied auto-magically!

Additional Space Maps

• (2) Dantooine in Dismay
  
• (2) Ilum Incident
  
• (2) Corulag Conflagration
  
• (4) Devastation of Balmorra
  
• (4) Taris in Despair
  
• (4) Advance on Bestine IV

These new maps must be installed into the base game Maps folder to appear ingame. We have included a batch file "install maps.bat" in the mod directory, which will install the maps for you when you execute it.

Mod Directory:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\32470\1973616046 - by default
D:\Steamlibrary\steamapps\workshop\content\32470\1973616046 - usually found here if your steam games are not installed in the default location

Manual Method
If the automated method doesn’t work for you, then

• First select and copy the maps found in the TEM_Maps folder in the mod directory.
  
• Then paste the maps into your base game's "GameData\Data\Art\Maps" folder. You may need to create the "Maps" folder if it does not exist.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Data\Art\Maps - by default
D:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Star Wars Empire at War\GameData\Data\Art\Maps - usually found here if your steam games are not installed in the default location


See Change Notes for balance changes and bug fixes


See the Map Changes discussion page for details


See the Standard Tournament Settings discussion page for details