Empires Beta 2.0 Created 16 years ago2007-12-09 16:21:45 UTC by Soup Miner

Beta 2 was released November 30th. It's superior to the previous, shitty betas. It's awesome.

If you've never heard of Empires:

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.

Think Natural Selection on a grand scale. Like, Battlefield scale.

http://www.moddb.com/mods/2570/empires

I've downloaded this but not tried it yet. It's sitting on my memory stick. I think I'll give it a go soon.

Anyone who's played before got any handy tips for my first game?

Don't let a vehicle blow up with you in it, otherwise you won't leave a body on the ground; dead allies can be revived by engineers without using respawn tickets.

Looks a lot like BF2 with a RTS part to it.

Does it play like BF2?

I haven't played enough BF2 to say. I just know how massive BF2's maps are.