Empires is out!

Damn it, I've got to study. Homework and the size of the file sucks too.

But man, I want to play it.
 
I think they've kinda botched the release, though. They really should have expected the rush on their servers, and thought to have found a few more mirrors.

Still, looks like it could be fun to play.

-Angry Lawyer
 
i started downloading, 3 hours later on the only server working it stopped at 350 megs, and finished, so thats 3 hours of waiting and all i have is a corrupt file.

..great
 
I see a lot of mirrors now... They released this at like 2am =p i was sleeping
this is awesome, can't freakin wait! I heard the server downloads were horrible so im going teh bittorrent way.
 
can somebody please post some mirrors?
 
the site is down. Someone please post a mirror or a torrent!
 
Torrent!

There are a few more mirrors in the official hl2.net news thread, but I found the torrent to work best. I got 58kBps on it, don't know what it would be now. I'm still uploading at least and I bet others are too.

Do report on speed if you use the torrent. I find this technology extremely intriguing.

.bog.
 
torrents hate me ;( I'm getting 18 kbps, is there anyway I can configure it to go faster? (bittorrent newbie)
 
pvtbones said:
torrents hate me ;( I'm getting 18 kbps, is there anyway I can configure it to go faster? (bittorrent newbie)
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Make sure you have the listen port open?
Use Azureus?
Don't use bittorrent for this?
 
I am in fact using azureus and my listening port is open.
 
Serveres in the game seem to be pretty laggy if they have vehicles on.
 
No... Just no...

The good and the bad:

+all new
+ragdoll
+fun concept
+good looking vehicles
-that control like broken RC cars
-lag
-few servers
-servers kick automaticly (and crash)
-poor balancing
-team control? HA! think not
-source engine but bland game
-guns are very boreing
-BUGGGSSS!
-you and your vehicles get stuck frequently so RC carefully
-problems building
-inaccurate "accurate" weapons
-havn't i seen this before? (renegade)
-where is the physics engine?
-no server options
-no bot support
-so so inviornments

*just missed the rts feel
*needs more custom things
*needs servers that dont go down
*needs polish badly*

After some work it could be good. At first it seems fun and refreshing to counterstrike or hl2, but fairly soon it gets boreing. The repeditive feel for it feels a bit like renegade. Anyone remember Renegade? Its about exactly the same but with... dare i say it? Worse vehicle support? *ouch!* The game just seems bland, nothing too impressive used with the source engine and the guns remind me of a nintendo 64 game (big, bulky, bland). With some modifications this could be good; add some better vehicle support, and fix the bugs; but at the moment, its looking like a new (non improved) renegade.

I hope it improves and becomes a good game, as i can see potential. Unfortunatly i've seen better freeware games with stronger servers, less bugs and better graphics. *not going to plug names.*

Anyway, happy gaming.
 
they really need to streamline some things, badly

and seriously, why would they make it so that you always spawn with only 1 clip for each weapon. Having to restock every single time is such a waste of time. And how the hell can i get a 3rd weapon on the AFVs to work? I set the damn rocket launcher to work for the 2nd player but when i switch to second position to fire it, its not there. Also for some reason the only way to exit the commander view is to hit your flashlight button.

needs lots of work
 
It's a Beta 1.0. I greatly doubt many of you were around for the first release of Counter-Strike. Or even for the first few Beta releases when it was still pretty rough. And they didn't even have vehicles or anything really groundbreaking.

Give it time. It's a first release.
 
to be honest i was never excited about this mod, it looked shabby. the idea is ok, but not all that, and it's being done better elsewhere.

still, i'll give it a go.

my top two are nuclear dawn and neotokyo

but alec is right, with time this mod could be a CLASSIC.
 
your top two haven't had any kind of release yet, beta or otherwise.
 
AlecRazec said:
It's a Beta 1.0. I greatly doubt many of you were around for the first release of Counter-Strike. Or even for the first few Beta releases when it was still pretty rough. And they didn't even have vehicles or anything really groundbreaking.

Give it time. It's a first release.
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I think people realize this, but the point still stands. The mod, beta or no, lacks polish and has soem very big, very glaring problems. Dystopia did too, and they've managed to correct quite a few of them, so I don't think anyone's implying that this mod is hopeless... it certainly isn't.
 
Pi Mu Rho said:
your top two haven't had any kind of release yet, beta or otherwise.
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One of which, codewise, currently stands as just HL2DM with new models :p

-Angry Lawyer
 
Flyingdebris said:
they really need to streamline some things, badly

and seriously, why would they make it so that you always spawn with only 1 clip for each weapon. Having to restock every single time is such a waste of time. And how the hell can i get a 3rd weapon on the AFVs to work? I set the damn rocket launcher to work for the 2nd player but when i switch to second position to fire it, its not there. Also for some reason the only way to exit the commander view is to hit your flashlight button.

needs lots of work
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you press 2, whilst in the front seat.
 
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