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.

Report article Empires 2.21 Update Released

Empires 2.21 has been released and includes several bug fixes for 2.2.

Posted by Krenzo on Jan 3rd, 2009 digg this super bookmark


Empires 2.21 is released, with quite a few small additions, such as muzzleflashes, bullet shell ejection, and a whole host of bugfixes, including Dig-In correctly working again, Repair station repairing left armor, and a possible fix for the dreaded commander crash.

 
You must have 2.2 installed to apply this patch.

Empires 2.21 Changes:

Added: Shells now eject from all weapons
Added: Muzzleflashes now light up the area around them
Added: Rudimentary stat tracking interface. Only records maps wins/losses for now.
Added: emp_sv_stats_enabled cvar.
Added: Customizable falloff for vehicle MGs.

Modified: Added more tickets to Canyon (prev: 200, now 300)
Modified: emp_mvalley: Uses nice looking water
Modified: Re-enabled the bump maps for BE building textures
Modified: Joining a team with more players is not possible.
Modified: Concussion grenades don't blind spectators.
Modified: Entering a vehicle after throwing a sticky grenade at it no longer does damage to the vehicle
Modified: Jeeps can now carry 4 plates of reactive armor.
Modified: Infantry weapons have been slightly modified.

Modified/Fixed: Canyon Optimizations, viscluster added, increased the size of hint brush covering skybox

Fixed: Scoreboard text wasn't properly aligned.
Fixed: emp_glycencity: Fixed vehicles clipping through short walls at the middle flag
Fixed: Mines could be dropped in the commander interface
Fixed: Sever skipping maps
Fixed: Map brush wasn't properly unsticking people.
Fixed: Commander could change team in command interface using jointeam.
Fixed: Rifleman armor, 'dig in', and squad armor aura now affect damage received.
Fixed: Repair station not repairing vehicle that has armor left.
Fixed: Melee attacks were not lag compensated.
Fixed: Possible fix to commander crash relating to physics
Fixed: It is now possible to revive people who have killed themselves. It doesn't give a point.

Comments
MrCowThing
MrCowThing Jan 3 2009, 9:36pm says:

Looks cool!
Downloading.

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Spooboy
Spooboy Jan 4 2009, 1:55am says:

Didn't work, it had a engine error and crashed. Funny tho it opened up with the lost cost menu screen...and then it crashed.

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arklansman
arklansman Jan 4 2009, 2:22am replied:

Did you install 2.2 then 2.21?

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CaptainSource
CaptainSource Jan 4 2009, 3:05am says:

Looking good guys, some needed fixes done..

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petemyster
petemyster Jan 4 2009, 5:43am says:

im in that trailer :O

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Betelgeuze
Betelgeuze Jan 4 2009, 6:39am says:

I hope this gets on steam! ;)

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limagic
limagic Jan 4 2009, 7:04am says:

Never played this mod very much before when i downloaded because of crap pc was to slow but new pc now will download looks really fun like battlefield.

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NullSoldier
NullSoldier Jan 4 2009, 6:35pm says:

I've been playing the latest version of this mod and the 40 player servers are absolutely amazing. They really polished this mod since I last played. Absolutely wonderful.

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L3TUC3
L3TUC3 Jan 4 2009, 6:57pm replied:

I'm glad you like it.

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M1ckey
M1ckey Jan 5 2009, 5:18pm says:

i love this mod but when im treying to go on a server all most every time "Serve is useing different class table" or my map is not ok whit the servers map!! WTF :o

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L3TUC3
L3TUC3 Jan 5 2009, 5:29pm replied:

It means that some of the scripts differ form the ones the server uses. Make sure you've got 2.2 (full install), the 2.21 patch installed and that you're trying to join a 2.21 server.

Also, there's a few servers that run non-standard scripts for testing purposes. These update quite frequently and unfortunately this makes people not able to join.

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