Empires 2.0 (or 1.5 or 1.08 etc)

[SKULLCRUSHER]

Hmmm, yea, I heard you guys talk about it but never saw a screen shot from it. It looks interesting.

[Knight Templar]

If any of you want to play the current closed beta, I can hook you up. I think its a wicked fun game, especially with all the new changes (http://wiki.empiresmod.com/index.php/Change_Log). Unless of course you want to noob it up like Cray and Rez did when they played

lol sniper rifle and a jeep kekekekekeke

[Crayola]

i fucking destroyed as commander

[SKULLCRUSHER]

Yea KT, hook a brother up man.

[FLeX]

is it basically like BF2 with source engine? cuz that would be my dream game.

[Knight Templar]

Yeah, Empires is a mix between BF2 and Red Alert. It's like BF2 in that there are huge maps, vehicle and infantry battles (aircraft aren't yet done) and it's an FPS with 4 different classes and abilities/weapons. It's like RA in that there's a commander on each team placing buildings, doing research and directing the battle. Also it feels similar to RA, I can't explain it.

Yes Kry, One person plays the RTS and everyone else on the team plays the FPS

[Krythos]

basically, think of KTs game like this, the commander plays the game as an RTS. where everyone else plays it as an FPS, right KT?

[DeathSniper]

If you've played Battlezone or Savage before - that's how it's like. I gave Empires another spin a few weeks ago and it's gotten quite a bit better since the first time I tried it.

[Knight Templar]

I decided to start a thread about Empires because I hate taking a thread off track. Empires 2.0 will be released soon, maybe in a month when we figure out all the bugs, add the rest of the models and Krenzo (the lead) stops adding new features. A bunch of you have played the game already, so bear with me.

First some background. Like I said Empires is a FPS/RTS hybrid (you could empirically call it the best current-gen hybrid out there, I think) where you play mostly as a soldier in FPS view, but occasionally as an RTS commander. It's set in an alternate universe as a war between the Brenodi Empire and the Northern Faction. There are 4 customizable classes, with varying skill and weaponry, and various vehicles, with various skills and weaponry.

Version 1.00 was released last year and was a lag fest (as all 1.00 mods are). It progressively got better till 1.07 was released last year. - This is the version that most of you have played, as it is the current public version and has been out for over a year. - After 1.07 the devs went for a major overhaul as opposed to bug fixes. New models, new abilities and other changes were added, as well as updating to the newest source engine.
The forum members were added into the testing pool in April for 1.08 RC7. We then went nuts from waiting so long, found a ton of bugs and demanded more features and balancing. We're on RC17 at this moment, and the feature creep (the act of adding more features slowly) is continuing, but at a lower pace.

Empires 2.0 (http://wiki.empiresmod.com/index.php/Change_Log#Unreleased:_Version_1.08) may or may not be the title of the mod when it is publically released next month or so. 2.0 reflects all the changes the mod has made, but we don't want to get people too excited for a game without aircraft, so it might be called 1.5 or stay as 1.08. I suppose it's confusing.

So yeah, I'm excited about the release. If you want to see the new features, you could join the forums (http://forums.empiresmod.com) and get in on the party. I trust you guys not to nub it up, and yes Phil was a good commander (http://wiki.empiresmod.com/index.php/Commanding), and Wise was deadly with artillery (http://wiki.empiresmod.com/index.php/Vehicles).

[Krythos]

and how would we "nub" it up, so to speak? lol

[manofphat]

I moved the posts from the old thread into this one. Little did I know it would own your main post. manofphat.

[Knight Templar]

That's ok, I was a little surprised when I saw that there were 10 posts.

Kry, this is how to be a noob http://wiki.empiresmod.com/index.php/Noob%27s_Guide_to_Empires

It's surprising how many of those attributes Phil and Doug had. I remember them both becoming scouts and driving around in jeeps, two of the most useless things to do (at least at that time, now the scout is useful)

[Crayola]

stop lying, i never rode around in jeeps, i always went nuke tanks

[Krythos]

lol. Id need a crash coarse first, but I wouldnt mind checking it out, last time I checked it out the games graphics wernt the best and the guns didnt seem to be able to shoot right, but mabye that was just me lol well if its better then the last time I checked it out. since I do like the idea,

[SKULLCRUSHER]

OK KT, I downloaded all the files and ran them in order starting at 7 and up. As far as I can tell everything went flawless and I jumped into the game last night for 15 minutes to get beat up. For some reason there was like only one server available to join, which was wierd.

This is another one im gonna have to get used to the various controls for different characters etc.. It looked pretty cool but the movement of the player was somewhat less impressive when compared with CSS, but pretty good overall.

Let me know when you are gonna play one night and you can show me the ropes.

Thanks

[Knight Templar]

Every friday is PUG (Pick-Up Game) day, which means that a good deal of people are playing today as the official PUGS are at 2pm and 7pm. I was planning on playing in the 2pm game (cause I'm the one that organizes them), but I could likely fit in a match or two tonight when the server empties out a bit. As long as I study well for tomorrow exam....

There's only one server because it's the official server, and the game is still in testing. With only one server, the Devs are able to gather all info from crashes etc in one place to fix problems. Don't worry, when the game is officially released there will be multiple servers.

I'm not sure if prone is enabled by default, if not, you could do something like
bind "x" "+prone"
I'm not sure what you mean by weird player movement, they should be stock animations, that is, straight from HL2 and DODS (for prone), and the characters all move the same way and can do the same things, they just carry different weapons and have different skills.

Kry the game looks way better now, with better textures on the maps and better models. The buildings still need some work IMO

[Knight Templar]

RC 18 came out just an hour ago, it lets you upgrade or recycle your vehicles on the repair pad. It's mostly bug fixes though. That means Skully if we're gonna play tonight, you gotta download it.

It's only 3Mb though, I hope you can handle it.

[gOOCH]

did someone say cs promod?

[The Killing Joke]

No. No, they didn't.

[SKULLCRUSHER]

Downloaded.. took all of four seconds, done and done.