Yeah, I hope the patch is released eventually.

There are bugs to be fixed for sure, like the phase stabiliser issue, distort gravity ability issue (group-selected cap ships sometimes do not accelerate when affected by distort gravity of marauder cap, but will go faster if you select them one by one and give order), or vulkoras dropping siege platforms when the planet is out of their range.

Well, at least those I managed to notice after one week of playing exclusively as Vasari.

I also sincerely hope you guys do NOT follow Creative Assembly as they treated Medieval2:TW. Released a buggy game, fixed <10% in 3 patches over one year, released expansion that introduced a TON of new bugs (there were about 5 new mission types introduced in the expansion, two of which were not working!! that's 40% bugged rate and not only in case of missions...), then promised a huge bigga patch that would repair everything they knew of, delayed it for another half a year and when it goes out it turns out to fix only the most idiotic bugs of the expansion, leaving the game awfully bugged as it was.
After experiencing that sort of treatment from CA, I actually dropped gaming altogether for almost a year and their attitude made Empire:TW the first game of the TW series that I am NOT looking forward to.
As said, I hope you are not following this scheme.

If you want to speed it up, help beta test it?

Right and soon is what in your book? They have been saying that literally for months with deadlines missed and a potential money maker on the horizon one would surmise that they are just going to force us to get it with the mini expansion. I could be wrong but IC hasn't said a darn thing about it hence why I am asking if we will see it, coming soon isn't an indication of there intentions so I am looking for something a little more definitive.

It's a conspiracy, I tell ya!

Soon™

where is 1.096? I haven't seen a patch since this whole impulse thing got started. Am I just loking in the wrong place? It's either in the game's page or the updates right? Thank you in advance.

-B

I've got nothing in updates, Impulse sees my game, says its version 1.05. I'm not sure how much more registered I need to be. I just updated the serial, didn't do a thing.

Click the blue orb in the upper-left corner and check the box that says 'Show pre-release versions'.  Done.

Mods won't work with any version beyond that which they were coded for.  That being 1.05.  Archive your application before updating if you want to switch between playing mods or playing the most recent beta patch.

Once 1.1 is out in its finalized form, probably alongside Entrenchment, I'm sure the active modders will update their work to be compatible with it.

I'd expect it out around the same time as Entrenchment, now. You own't have to pay to get the patch though, just the new stuff like Starbases.

Yeah its taking a long time, but sometimes thats how software development goes. Unexpected stuff comes up.