Phoenix Rising v2.0 Beta file

Play the Galactic Civil War your way from 18BBY with the full range of PR tech in the sandbox campaigns.
Experience the lead-up to A New Hope from both sides of the Galactic Civil War, as told in the Legends universe, in the Operation Skyhook campaign.
Capture or defend Coruscant in the Road to Coruscant.
Defeat Thrawn's attempts to reassert the Empire or fight with him to eradicate the New Republic in the Thrawn Campaign.
Unite the warring Imperials or liberate the galaxy in Imperial Mutiny.

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_Beta. Inside the Phoenix_Rising_v2_0_Beta folder, there are two .bat files, for disk/GoG and Steam versions.

Disk/GoG:

Copy Phoenix_Rising_v2_0_Beta.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_Beta

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