Halo Wars: Definitive Edition news & patch notes

A new patch is rolling out today for Halo Wars: Definitive Edition. This latest update includes:

• Added a volume slider for cinematics
• Added per-AI difficulty settings, selectable via the player card menu
• Fix scaling of supply gathering icons to match overall UI scaling
• Miscellaneous localization fixes
• Allow the middle, fourth, and fifth mouse buttons to be mapped to controls.
• Added voice chat. This can be disabled via the options menu for users that prefer to use third party chat applications.

Thank you for your continued support of Halo Wars: DE!

All units! A small update is rolling out today with improvements and fixes to a few issues the team has been tracking. Here's what's included with this patch:

• Added Single Player Campaign Leaderboards.
• Added support for keyboard text to toggle between global (/g) and team (/t) chat.
• Text chat sender names are now colored according to player color.
• Fixed various graphics errors that sometimes occurred when a large number of units were on screen at the same time.
• Optimized CU download sizes. Any future CUs will be much smaller.
• Fixed a few small crashes that were happening in obscure scenarios.
• Added an anti-trolling fix. Any player kicked from a lobby will not be able to rejoin for a period of time.
• PC Leaderboards should now say LEADERBOARDS (FRIENDS) in the header to help clarify that Leaderboards on PC are friends-only.
• Corrected an issue that was preventing PC users from setting desired AA values for cards that support 16x.
• Fixed a bug that meant changes to Graphics Options resets were occasionally not being saved.
• When typing chat messages, camera control will no longer be affected when using keys that also control camera movement.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred during excessive chat messaging.
• We’ve addressed an issue with texture resolution changes when switching from Low to High or High to Low graphics settings.
• Game language will now be based on whatever language is selected in the Steam client.

As always, thank you for your feedback and continued support of Halo Wars: Definitive Edition!

All units! A small update is rolling out today with improvements and fixes to a few issues the team has been tracking. Here's what's included with this patch:

• Added Single Player Campaign Leaderboards.
• Added support for keyboard text to toggle between global (/g) and team (/t) chat.
• Text chat sender names are now colored according to player color.
• Fixed various graphics errors that sometimes occurred when a large number of units were on screen at the same time.
• Optimized CU download sizes. Any future CUs will be much smaller.
• Fixed a few small crashes that were happening in obscure scenarios.
• Added an anti-trolling fix. Any player kicked from a lobby will not be able to rejoin for a period of time.
• PC Leaderboards should now say LEADERBOARDS (FRIENDS) in the header to help clarify that Leaderboards on PC are friends-only.
• Corrected an issue that was preventing PC users from setting desired AA values for cards that support 16x.
• Fixed a bug that meant changes to Graphics Options resets were occasionally not being saved.
• When typing chat messages, camera control will no longer be affected when using keys that also control camera movement.
• Fixed a crash that sometimes occurred during excessive chat messaging.
• We’ve addressed an issue with texture resolution changes when switching from Low to High or High to Low graphics settings.
• Game language will now be based on whatever language is selected in the Steam client.

As always, thank you for your feedback and continued support of Halo Wars: Definitive Edition!

All units! A small patch is rolling out today that migrates the latest round of changes from the Beta Branch over to the regular version of the game. This update addresses two issues that have been reported by some players:

• Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would ocsasionally disappear
• Fixed an audio glitch that impacted some players

A history of all the updates thus far can be found in the forum. Thanks for your continued support and for helping us identify and fix these issues!

All units! A small patch is rolling out today that migrates the latest round of changes from the Beta Branch over to the regular version of the game. This update addresses two issues that have been reported by some players:

• Fixed an issue where the mouse cursor would ocsasionally disappear
• Fixed an audio glitch that impacted some players

A history of all the updates thus far can be found in the forum. Thanks for your continued support and for helping us identify and fix these issues!

Hello! We hope you had a great weekend playing Halo Wars: Definitive Edition here on Steam. We have another hotfix release today that addresses a few more issues the team has been tracking since release:

• We’ve updated Multiplayer session browsing to be searchable worldwide. Previously, players weren’t seeing games registered outside of the region set in their Steam client. You’ll now see all sessions globally regardless of your region.
• The game will now notify you if the Steam Overlay is disabled when you’re trying to use functions that depend on the Overlay (i.e. viewing user profiles and inviting friends).
• The GameConfig.dat is now more robust against bad data, which should help eliminate a crash on launch for a small number of players.
• We’ve also added a -safemode flag to startup, which will ignore reading the GameConfig.dat if you’ve selected settings your PC doesn’t support. This will allow players to launch the game and revert settings if needed.

We’ll monitor the rollout of this update and we’re looking forward to seeing the impact on Multiplayer sessions. As always, thank you for sharing feedback and please do let us know if you encounter issues. If you do experience a problem or issue, please try to include as much detail as you can (PC specs, OS, and if you’ve been able to reproduce the issue, how you’ve done so). Thanks!

Hello! We hope you had a great weekend playing Halo Wars: Definitive Edition here on Steam. We have another hotfix release today that addresses a few more issues the team has been tracking since release:

• We’ve updated Multiplayer session browsing to be searchable worldwide. Previously, players weren’t seeing games registered outside of the region set in their Steam client. You’ll now see all sessions globally regardless of your region.
• The game will now notify you if the Steam Overlay is disabled when you’re trying to use functions that depend on the Overlay (i.e. viewing user profiles and inviting friends).
• The GameConfig.dat is now more robust against bad data, which should help eliminate a crash on launch for a small number of players.
• We’ve also added a -safemode flag to startup, which will ignore reading the GameConfig.dat if you’ve selected settings your PC doesn’t support. This will allow players to launch the game and revert settings if needed.

We’ll monitor the rollout of this update and we’re looking forward to seeing the impact on Multiplayer sessions. As always, thank you for sharing feedback and please do let us know if you encounter issues. If you do experience a problem or issue, please try to include as much detail as you can (PC specs, OS, and if you’ve been able to reproduce the issue, how you’ve done so). Thanks!

First off, a huge thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome around the launch of Halo Wars: Definitive Edition on Steam! We're thrilled to be here and greatly appreciate your support. Speaking of support, we’ve been monitoring community feedback closely since launch and we’ve just released a hot-fix to address a few issues that have been reported by players. The hotfix moves Universal CRT to App-Local deployment, so users should no longer have to manually install VC redists. It also removes a dependency on Windows Media Foundation, which was affecting players with Windows N editions. We’re aware of a few other issues and are working diligently to resolve them – further updates are on the way. As always, please keep the great feedback coming! Thank you

First off, a huge thank you to everyone for such a warm welcome around the launch of Halo Wars: Definitive Edition on Steam! We're thrilled to be here and greatly appreciate your support. Speaking of support, we’ve been monitoring community feedback closely since launch and we’ve just released a hot-fix to address a few issues that have been reported by players. The hotfix moves Universal CRT to App-Local deployment, so users should no longer have to manually install VC redists. It also removes a dependency on Windows Media Foundation, which was affecting players with Windows N editions. We’re aware of a few other issues and are working diligently to resolve them – further updates are on the way. As always, please keep the great feedback coming! Thank you