Empires Mod Released!

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That's right. Click here to download.[br]In the second high-profile, high-quality mod release in 24 hours (Christmas has come early, it seems), Empires, a mod combining real-time strategy, brutal shooting and great big tanks in wide expansive outdoor maps has surfaced. One player on each team takes the role of a commander and watches his troops on the ground rush around like tiny, tiny ants, all the while dishing out orders, supplying them with vehicles and erecting defences..[br]
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[br]If the recently-released trailer is anything to go by, Empires is a little rough around the edges but makes up for it with sheer action-strategy awesome.
Click here to visit the site and find out more.
Click here to download Beta 1.0.
 
GREAT... downloading right now and everybody should do the same so i have someone to fight:sniper: . BTW props to the Dev team:cheers:

PS: God bless the mods.
 
W000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000t!
 
OMG a release! :D
I was planning to do my homework today! ...damn

nooooo, download servers are down :(
 
This is insanely awesome (and unexpected, on my part) news: but as yet, I can't find a download link that's not having every ounce of its bandwidth hammered out of it. Not that that surprises me!
 
The current mirrors are sheit beyond comparison!

We demand a torrent!

.bog.
 
Damn it, I'm still downloading at 72% now ;( . What a dang big file.
 
Sulkdodds said:
like tiny, tiny ants
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Little too much emphasis on the tinyness of the ants. To a flea, an ant is gigantic! It's sometimes good to look at thing from the perspective of a flea.

IN fact
hailants.jpg
 
Just download, it'll be faster. I started downloading about 4 hours ago... EDIT: Yeah... just finished. I laugh at those who are still downloading or haven't even started. EDIT: But I kneel down before those who have installed it... damn it, it's going to take a century to install.

Man, this rocks. Both Minerva and Empires were released today. Great day for the mod-scene.

EDIT: OMFG, the final install is a STAGGERING 832MB
 
Installing as we speak. I'll be playing this all weekend, for sure.
 
I just had a quick look, some issues i'd like to mention

- when getting in a tank you look at the tank (you always have to rotate 180° to see where you're driving)
- when driving to the end of the map, the player position clips outside the map causing the 3Dskybox to dissapear (looks uncool)
- the desertmap suddenly stops into nothing, would be cool to make the map stop, a raveen or something, would make more sence then just running into an invisible wall
- the menu doesn't work accuratly in widescreen, i need to click next to some buttons to be on the button

Those are just some issues I found while having a quick look. None the less, the game looks really cool so far, and how the placement of the units works and all is really cool.
Congrats on the first release!
 
Alrighty, for those who've played the mod thoroughly...

Is it worth a reinstall of HL2?
 
pls metion that it is a BETA. I have tried it and its good. Reminds me of C&C Renegade. Some issues .......

The level design doesn't look soo good (don't now if the MOD team want it to look like that)

Its realy good to play and if they fix those issues and do a little bit fine tuning, then it will be very nice.

gz Luc
 
I v been testing it for a bit now.
-it's fun when you understand what you have to do
-it's really laggy as far as I could tell, I was not the only one with the problem
-it's really hard to play with kids who just want to jump on tanks and drive around
-there is a points-reward type of thing, which pushes people to play as a team, making it very enjoyable.
to be honest I still have many questions regarding this mod, I need to have a closer look at the FAQ. I have spotted some annoying bugs but I am sure they will be fixed soon.
all in all I will play it again (once I can find a server with a free slot....) and I would recommand it to others, even if it is just for the joys of charging the oposite team with an oversized tank.
 
I'm impressed but it's a Beta. Lots of problems and many suggestions
GUI is messed up for me, extends well passed the screen which causes many problems selecting weapons
Weapon animations are non existant
Really laggy in vehicles which made them just about pointless for me

I don't like the fact that you start with like 3 bullets and need to get more, meh. It's far too realistic, feels lot like DoD:S in that you die from a few shots. The crosshair seemed to jump around when I was in vehicles and the crosshair gets far too big when running. The cannon movement restriction on some of the tanks is lame.

I still don't know everything in the game and on the up side the levels are pretty huge and the performance is pretty reasonable. The two sides seem to be pretty uniquely designed, the vehicles look and drive pretty cool (offline that is). I'm not sure the direction they are going to take it, it needs a lot of work (yes beta blah) but I'm interested.

I think it would be god damn amazing to have something like a Starcraft version of this. Imagine you being a firebat and zerg rush, man that would rock. :borg:
 
nutcrackr said:
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GUI is messed up for me, extends well passed the screen which causes many problems selecting weapons.....
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try to restart steam and start the game again, it schould work fine then...
 
i also forgot to mention the great work they did. The HUD looks awesome.

The bulding Mode is cool, and build a wall around the base is alot of fun. They did a grat job for this beta....

keep the good work up

gz Luc
 
To be honest, there aren't any good servers up, so I've been unable to play it. Looks promising though, although I can imagine public servers degenerating into lots of people doing bollock all.

-Angry Lawyer
 
Can anyone contrast it with the old bf1942 version for those that are still downloading?

It sounds relatively similar from these posts.
 
boglito said:
The current mirrors are sheit beyond comparison!

We demand a torrent!

.bog.
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*narrator*
and it was recieved... and all was well once again. :imu:
 
Infern0 said:
Can anyone contrast it with the old bf1942 version for those that are still downloading?

It sounds relatively similar from these posts.
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The concepts are the same, but this shouldn't be a buggy piece of crap like the bf1942 version was.
 
NeoNight said:
*narrator*
and it was recieved... and all was well once again. :imu:
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Torrents rock. I'm currently uploading (seeding? feeding? no idea what the term is) the file@118kBps. Nobody should release mods or trailers anymore without including a torrent.

.bog.
 
a lot of lag, a lot of noobs(maybe we all are after 1day), but all in all great mod! Defenetly playing this one for some time!
 
The mentioning of lag is a REAL turn off for me. I think I'm going to pass for a while with this one...
 
hah, w00t for not-well-known-forum links to downloads.
Getting 340KBps from one.
 
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