On the disc version, this had no issues in-game, except, not all graphical settings supported the high resolution. In fact, with the new 1.5 version, I have found new bugs. Whilst a handful of bugs have been fixed, for example the sound effects slider randomly setting itself to 0, many of the important bugs have been left alone. This is a very sad day for Stronghold 2 fans. There have been many bugs that have plagued even the latest disc version of Stronghold 2 and because of this, within 10 years, we would expect to see many of these resolved. With any update the most important thing to see are bug fixes. This of course makes navigating the settings tab easier on the eyes, and allows us to change settings without any minor inconveniences, not that there ever were. The only difference is the colours look slightly more vibrant and clear. However, there is nothing new in the settings tab. With this launcher we can take a look at the settings tab. To the left of the selections is the 'News' tab, with daily updates made by Firefly, not only concerning Stronghold 2, but other Firefly games. Regardless, the Stronghold 2 launcher is fairly neat, with the option to access the Steam Workshop, visit the website, change game settings, and to simply launch the game. This has become a more popular method of launching games the last couple of years, with mainly MMO games taking the concept, but also games such as Minecraft and Indie Games using it. The Steam edition of the game comes with a now common launcher. Welcome to an in-depth analysis of Stronghold 2 version 1.5. That is what this article will be looking at. That is an insane amount of time between updates and so naturally, you'd expect this 2017 game version to have vast improvements over the 10 (now 11) years old version. The final disc version of the game is v1.4.1, released in 2007. Therefore, getting older games into the digital market allows Firefly to gain more and to also keep games up to date with relative ease.Ĭurrently, the newest Steam edition version is v1.5.

CD ROMs are no longer seen as a requirement of a computer and even pre-built systems often come without. Stronghold 2 on disc has not been selling with the change in computer hardware and in consumer needs.

Fairly recently, Firefly released a digital Steam edition of Stronghold 2 in order to keep up to date with the growing online digital market.

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