The Team at Ubi said updates will be coming for 1404 as early as today. I would wager that the people most interested in this game are those that played the original so more could and should have been done to make the double-dip more attractive at the price they are charging for it. for higher resolutions is all this new version offers and that could easily have been offered as a patch for existing owners. Unofficial Anno 1404 Venice Patch A user-made unofficial patch for Venice version 2.1 was released in December 2011. It combines the version 1.3 Anno 1404 and 2.1 Venice patch and is only usable for Gold Editions. Graphically it's fine - still looks great now even with the non-functional Transparency setting - but the original game had other issues that they have not bothered to fix or improve on such as the translation.Īdding 64-bit support and scaling the U.I. A Gold Edition patch 3.1 was released December 2010.

This is not even a remaster but for the amount Ubisoft are charging for such an old game, they really could have put more effort into it. I thought some other remasters were lazy but many of those were at least free upgrades. Im running the version of Anno 1404 Venice ive installed the patch and it shows because under anno1404 Venice there is now a scrole which says unofficial patch v1. Even some of them would have been an improvement. ANNO 1404/DoD Venice Unofficial Patch Release Themen-Optionen. Not saying they should have used the patch, but the patch comes with extensively detailed notes on pretty much everything that was changed so they could have used that in conjunction with a patched version of the original to fix the grammar and spelling in the History Edition. Anno 1404 has a dubious English translation, with many places being seemingly machine-translated with spelling, grammar and formatting errors. It requires Venice and will have no effect on the base game. Originally posted by Valkyria:The patch had a lot of issues with it that caused game crashes, using it wouldn't of been wise. The Unofficial Anno Patch is a hybrid localization, bugfix, and restoration patch.

Anno 1404 unofficial patch