The 2.0 demo has been updated to 2.0.2 with a set of bugfixes. See the news post on the main page for details.

After 5 years, we finally have v2.0 of Phoenix Rising ready to demo, with the Operation Skyhook Campaign.

Experience the lead-up to A New Hope from both sides of the Galactic Civil War, as told in the Legends universe

A selection of missions provide guidance in the early stages of the campaign. The later stages are up to you!

Command the Rebel Alliance from hidden fighter bases, striking against Imperial convoys and trying to discover the location of the Death Star construction site

Lead the Galactic Empire to victory, protecting the Death Star and crushing the Rebellion across the galaxy

The Galactic Empire is recommended for first time players of Phoenix Rising.



Short summary of changes:

Sweeping optimization improvements, including a "light" campaign for those having performance problems.

Rewritten galactic conquests (Demo featured: Operation Skyhook)

Rewritten AI to be more intelligent and challenging

All hyperspace travel now done via hyperlanes, with bonus speed and income from different sizes of route

Complete overhaul of planet locations, bonuses, and abilities

Over 50 new ground maps for v2.0, many new space maps

Both land and space skirmish are available (though land skirmish is still unfinished for the CSA)

Space skirmish has been completely rebalanced to be more of a competitive experience.

New armor/shield/damage system for space combat, bringing it in line with our ground combat changes from v1.2. New space units and ground vehicles

Improved weather system and atmospheric effects

New hero system



For a full changelog, visit www.eawpr.net..

Installation:

Unzip into your Forces of Corruption Mods folder so that you have \Mods\Phoenix_Rising_v2_Demo. Inside the Phoenix_Rising_v2_0_Demo folder, there are two .bat files, for disk/GoG and Steam versions.

Disk/GoG:

Copy Phoenix_Rising_v2_0_Demo.bat into your Star Wars Forces of Corruption or EAWX folder, alongside swfoc.exe and then put a shortcut to the .bat file wherever you want.

Steam:

Recommended to use the workshop version of the mod for easy installation, available here:

Steamcommunity.com



Copy Phoenix_Rising_v2_0_Demo_Steam.bat into your "...\Steam\steamapps\common\Star Wars Empire at War\corruption\" folder, alongside StarWarsG.exe and then put a shortcut to the .bat file wherever you want. Alternatively, use the in-game mod launcher, or the Steam launch options using MODPATH=Mods\Phoenix_Rising_v2_Demo



Recommended: install onto an SSD and use a CPU with good single-core performance for best results.