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Empires HL2 Mod beta out -- RTS + FPS

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Geez, big night for HL2 mods. Episode 2 of Minerva drops, now this! Empires is a very polished looking mod for HL2 that has one player playing a traditional RTS style game, building buildings and vehicles and the like, with all the other players on the team acting as the ground troops. Load up Steam and you should get a News popup link to watch the trailer, if you're so inclined.

http://www.empiresmod.com/download.php

server's getting hammered right now, so if you can't get through, here are the mirrors that it lists:

http://www.3ddownloads.com/Action/Half-Life%202/Mods/Empires/
http://downloads.g4b2s.com/files/empires/Empires_V1Beta.exe
http://66.228.112.92/Empires_V1Beta.exe

415 megabytes, so i won't be able to play it for a wee bit, but I figured some people might like to know about this. BF2 is a game I really enjoy, and while this game has the commander pulling even more duties than in that game, I still think it has a lot of potential. Actually playing the game will tell, hopefully smile.gif


edit update: enough servers are around now to have a relatively un-lagged experience, but you'll still want to stick to the low player count servers, probably ~16 or less.
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  • KDR_11k
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    KDR_11k polycounter lvl 18
    Lots of HL2 mods and no HD space to install the game...
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  • gauss
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    gauss polycounter lvl 18
    i sympathize, but come on, that's one of the lamest excuses going these days, when HD space can be had at the rate of a one gig for less than a dollar. so go buy another harddrive or clean out some of that porn stash so you can get crackin' on the mods! laugh.gif
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  • KDR_11k
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    KDR_11k polycounter lvl 18
    It's more partition size than HD size, I've allocated 50GB to games and those are full.
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  • Moz
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    Moz polycounter lvl 18
    Downloading... should be done in the next century.
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  • acc
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    acc polycounter lvl 18
    This mod is a lot of fun. Then again, I used to play C&C Renegade and Savage so you could say I'm a fan of this hybrid genre in general.

    There's a lot of bugs at the moment which is to be expected, first release and all. Vehicles lag like hell, the insides of buildings disappear on low detail, etc. It also has a painfully bad framerate on high detail, but medium seems alright if you turn off some of the bells & whistles.

    Overall it's a great start, though. And lots of good servers have been put up now.
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  • gauss
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    gauss polycounter lvl 18
    acc: it does seem like they're shooting for a cross between Renegade and BF2... pretty damn ambitious, but the groundwork has been laid. i just got done playing a round... with the turret and wall building it even reminds me of Tribes as well. fairly fun stuff, though i couldn't vouch for the quality of my commander that time. i suppose it'll be a little while before we even have commanders with any experience, much less players in general. still pretty good so far, i'll continue to give it a try in the coming days.
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  • AstroZombie
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    AstroZombie polycounter lvl 18
    [ QUOTE ]
    with the turret and wall building it even reminds me of Tribes as well

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    oooh! Downloading! ooo.gif
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  • KDR_11k
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    KDR_11k polycounter lvl 18
    Hm, getting rid of FEAR would allow HL2 to be installed... Said, done.

    Will this mod ever have bots?

    EDIT: Man, Steam is already taking hours just to update itself, didn't even start patching the games yet. And why aren't the scrollbars working at all?

    Now it's telling me it'll take 2 hours to start the game. What's there to update about Empires? It's not in the Steam listings so what updates is it installing? Meanwhile the bandwidth monitor says it's using ~10kB/s average. I knew Steam was retarded but it wasn't this bad last time I used it.
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  • acc
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    That's weird KDR, there shouldn't be any updates. Guess it isn't surprising, because you're right about Steam being retarded. I only got it under control recently and I've had HL2 since the day it came out.
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  • KDR_11k
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    Well, I managed to start the game but the class selection menu is stretched horribly and doesn't even fit on the screen and the customization menu ignores all changes I make...
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  • gauss
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    gauss polycounter lvl 18
    i've had some trouble with the hud too, with Empire and with regular old HL2. they say that it's a known issue, if you change the resolution and don't restart the game you might experience some artifacts... but after that, you can enter "hud_reloadscheme" in the console to reload the hud, which hopefully should help those issues.
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  • KDR_11k
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    KDR_11k polycounter lvl 18
    The GUI looks better now but customize still ignores me...
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