It seems this is a month of reviving older games with massive patches. First we had a massive patch to Dwarf Fortress, and now fan favorite massive space RTS Glactive Civilizations 2 (2006, Stardock software) is getting what can only be called a full re-work patch. 2.20 is what the patch official name is. the patch notes are after the jump but they take up a full three pages of text in the post on the developers website. Perhaps this is the start of something new? An age of patching fan favorite but out of date games with still active communities.
Version 2.20 makes an asston of changes to the sci-fi strategy game. Some of which are fan suggested and some of which have already been modded by the community. Stardock’s CEO Brad Wardell says that it “was awesome being able to work with the fans to integrate years of their own mods and tweaks into the base game. They also gave me a long list of areas where they thought I could improve the AI, which I used to dig into the now 10 year old AI source code base to implement”.
Hit the jump for the full pathc notes
