Empires is a mod for Half-Life 2 which will combine the genres of real-time strategy and first person shooter. Each team has four classes to choose from (scout, rifleman, grenadier, and engineer) with unique weapons and skills each. One player will become the commander by entering the team's command vehicle to build the team's base and lead his team to victory. Once your base is built up, purchase vehicles from your team's vehicle factory to open up another facet of Empires' gameplay. Vehicles can be customized with unique weapons, armor, and engines. The commander can research improvements to all aspects of vehicles such as longer range cannons, homing missiles, and armor-piercing machine gun rounds. Once your team is prepared, lead an assault into the enemy base. The enemy team is defeated when all players are wiped out with either no place to respawn or no reinforcements remaining or the team's command vehicle is destroyed.
Here are two more videos showing off our new weapons which will be included in our next release. This time we're showcasing the Northern Faction shotgun pistol which holds two shells at a time and packs a powerful punch. The second weapon is the Northern Faction scout rifle which is now bolt operated.
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Here are two more videos showing off our new weapons which will be included in our next release. This time we're showcasing the Northern Faction shotgun pistol which holds two shells at a time and packs a powerful punch. The second weapon is the Northern Faction scout rifle which is now bolt operated. The bolt action is operated after each shot and serves as a crucial indicator for when the next round can be fired. These videos were taken in the map Slaughtered (created by Hellion) which has received improvements from its previous version in the form of HDR and other graphical enhancements.
Visit our home page to see the videos for these two weapons.
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No, we hadn't given up on aircraft. The flight dynamics are all coded and have been tested with multiple people. The art is not complete yet, however.
First, Great work.
I really can't wait for the next update.
Are there any plans to update building and vechiles in the future?
If we managed to get more artists, then yes. Otherwise, we're going to be focusing our time on finishing up the aircraft and possibly naval units.
Awesome, what i'm intrested in most is better weapons, more buildings and veichles, aircraft and NAVAL UNITS would be awesome. Can't wait for the next patch hopefully a lot more people start playing once it's released, exspecially if you sort out the lag. Also better graphics would be fantastic.
naval units? jeez thats incredible.
The aircraft will be excellent, I almost thought you guys had given up on them.
Will there be server options to limit construction types? some maps I'd imagine being better with or without certain types of unit.
wow...these models are amazing looking...can't wait for this next release.
Damn, so the new weapons were just an April Fools joke all along :(
:P
no!