Empires Mod

Empires

Released: Jul 28, 2008
Platforms: WindowsLinux
Last updated: 04 Sep 2026, 21:45 GMT

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21 Feb 2026Developer post
Empires 2.39.4 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.39.4 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Bugfixes Fixed a server crash caused by
We're happy to announce version 2.39.4 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Bugfixes
Fixed a server crash caused by players repairing tanks that have been parented to other entities.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry
Weapons
Northern Faction’s .50cal Rifle
Increased Cycle Time from 0.25 to 0.3
Brenodi Empires’ Burst Rifle
Reduced Cycle Time from 0.5 to 0.4
Vehicles
Armor
Transferred Absorbant Heat Dissipation property to Ablative
Increased Absorbant’s Damage to Heat Absorbed from -0.15 to 0.01
Reduced Ablative’s Damage to Heat Absorbed from 0.01 to -0.15
Increased Ablative’s Regeneration from 1 hp/s to 2 hp/s
Chassis
Artillery
Reduced Cost from 775 to 650
Increased available Weight from 255 to 270
Engine
Changed Engine Heat Zones to have better defined identities ( See https://git.neoony.com/empires_public/empires_scripts/-/merge_requests/327 )
Standard Engine: Low, Medium and High Heat Zones are equal, and critical is small
3 Phase: Smaller High Heat Zone, and Smaller Critical Heat Zone
Fission: Larger High Heat Zone, and Larger Critical Heat Zone
Bio Diesel: Larger Medium Heat Zone
Adv. Coolant: Much Larger Low Heat Zone, Much Smaller High Heat Zone, and Much Smaller Critical Heat Zone
Gas Turbine: Larger Low Heat Zone, and Smaller Medium Heat Zone
Weapons
Railgun
Reduced Damage from 130 to 120
TOW Guided Missile Launcher
Reduced Cycletime from 1.25 to 1.1
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25 Jan 2026Developer post
Empires 2.39.3 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.39.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Bugfixes Minor optimizations to the vis
We're happy to announce version 2.39.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Bugfixes
Minor optimizations to the visibility system.
Minor fixes to the layout of the vehicle weapon HUD.
Vehicle weapon reload is now properly telegraphed via the vehicle HUD. Previously, no progress bar would display if reloading a weapon.
Fixed an issue with prop_static entities not blocking explosion damage as intended.
Fixed a regression that allowed players using hide to be spotted by other players.
Fixed a bug where players could detect enemy commanders in the command interface using the scout’s enhanced senses skill.
Improved mine defusal while inside buildings.
The player camera angles are now snapped to the vehicle turret position when entering the driver seat.
Speculative fix to prevent spotting diamonds appearing on the HUD where they shouldn’t.
Speculative fix for a client crash while using the research menu.
Script/Game Balance
Vehicles
Armor
Increased Deflective Angle Modifier from 0.8 to 1
Engine
Increased Fission Reactor’s cooling at max from -3 to -4
Weapons
Medium Chain gun
Projectile Spread decreased from 0.0275 to 0.0225
FalloffEnd increased from 1250 to 2000
Nuclear Missile Launcher
Changed ammo pool to be 10 clips of 1 missile. This allows the reload sound to play when ready to fire again.
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24 Jan 2026Developer post
Empires Shitmaps 2026
🚨 Get Ready for Shitmaps 9! 🚨 It’s that special time of year again when we all cozy up, grab some cocoa, and load into Empires Mod to experience the best of the worst. Welcome to Shitmaps #9 , the annual holiday tradition where mapmakers crawl out of their Hammer dungeons to un
13 Dec 2025Developer post
Empires 2.39.2 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.39.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Features Further adjustments to the vis
We're happy to announce version 2.39.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Features
Further adjustments to the visibility system introduced in 2.39.0:
Optimized functionality of the visibility manager game system.
Implemented a console variable on the server to control the update rate of the visibility manager processing. emp_sv_vis_manager_update_interval - This is in seconds and the default value is 0.01 (update per frame if running at 100 tickrate).
Various improvements to speed of processing, reducing the processing of detectable components where possible.
Remaining vehicle carcass recycle amounts are now shown on the full screen mini-map (default key bind = M).
This may be subject to change or be removed but this has been added for testing purposes. It may be disabled by default in a future update, with an option to enable it in the multiplayer options menu.
Bugfixes
Speculative fix to prevent spotting diamonds appearing on the HUD where they shouldn’t.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry
Weapons
[p align="start"]Increased ammo reserves after reviewing & testing the recent changes in 2.39.1.
[p align="start"]Engineer:
Increased reserve ammo from 2 clips per weapon to 3 for most weapons.
Shotgun ammo increased from 16 to 18
SMG1 ammo increased from 70 to 105
SMG2 ammo increased from 80 to 120
Machine Pistol ammo increased from 30 to 45
Pistol 1 ammo increased from 28 to 36
BE Pistol 2 ammo increased from 14 to 21
NF Shotgun Pistol ammo remains at 8
[p align="start"]Grenadier:
No changes to reserve ammo values.
[p align="start"]Rifleman:
Increased reserve ammo from 3 clips per weapon to 4 for most weapons. 1 extra seismic grenade.
NF Assault Rifle ammo increased from 120 to 150 (5 clips)
Burst Rifle ammo increased from 120 to 150 (5 clips)
BE Heavy Rifle ammo increased from 120 to 160
Machine Pistol ammo increased from 45 to 60
Pistol 1 ammo increased from 36 to 48
BE Pistol 2 ammo increased from 21 to 28
Seismic Grenade ammo increased from 3 to 4
[p align="start"]Scout:
Increased reserve ammo from 3 clips per weapon to 4 for most weapons.
SMG2 ammo increased from 120 to 160
SMG3 ammo increased from 42 to 56
Machine Pistol ammo increased from 45 to 60
Pistol 1 ammo increased from 36 to 48
BE Pistol 2 ammo increased from 21 to 28
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06 Dec 2025Developer post
Empires 2.39.1 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.39.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Features Further adjustments to the vis
We're happy to announce version 2.39.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Features
Further adjustments to the visibility system introduced in 2.39.0:
Commander visibility tweak: Commanders can now see entities within 5000 units of any friendly player, regardless of spotting status. (Also fixes an issue that caused some entities to be hidden from the commander.)
Dead player visibility restored: Visibility for dead players has been reverted to the previous behavior, allowing them to see nearby entities. Entities that are visible only to the dead player are not shared to teammates.
The mini-map is now disabled for the unassigned team.
Bugfixes
Fixed vehicle damage hit-ticks not displaying.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry
Damage resistance against biological damage over time effects have been removed.
Grenadier reduced from 0.1 to 0
Rifleman reduced from 0.05 to 0
Scout reduced from 0.1 to 0
Weapons
[p align="start"]Rebalanced ammo capacities across all classes to better reflect their combat roles.
[p align="start"]Scout: Receives additional reserve ammo for extended combat longevity, allowing for sustained engagements while maintaining mobility.
SMG2 ammo decreased from 200 to 120
SMG3 ammo decreased from 60 to 42
BE Pistol 2 ammo decreased from 28 to 21
NF Shotgun Pistol ammo decreased from 12 to 10
Machine Pistol ammo decreased from 72 to 45
[p align="start"]Rifleman: Receives additional reserve ammo for fighting longevity, befitting their role as the primary combat class.
BE Heavy Rifle ammo decreased from 160 to 120
BE Pistol 2 ammo decreased from 28 to 21
NF Shotgun Pistol ammo decreased from 12 to 10
Machine Pistol ammo decreased from 72 to 45
Seismic Grenade ammo decreased from 5 to 3
[p align="start"]Grenadier: Receives extra pistol ammo as it’s their only ballistic weapon choice, compensating for their focus on explosive ordnance.
Pistol 1 ammo decreased from 72 to 60
BE Pistol 2 ammo decreased from 56 to 35
NF Shotgun Pistol ammo increased from 12 to 14
Machine Pistol ammo increased from 72 to 75
[p align="start"]Engineer: Receives less reserve ammo as they carry ammo crates and can resupply themselves and teammates, reducing the need for large starting reserves.
SMG1 ammo decreased from 140 to 70
SMG2 ammo decreased from 160 to 80
SMG3 ammo decreased from 48 to 28
Pistol 1 ammo decreased from 36 to 28
BE Pistol 2 ammo decreased from 28 to 14
NF Shotgun Pistol ammo decreased from 12 to 8
Shotgun ammo decreased from 24 to 16
Machine Pistol ammo decreased from 54 to 30
Vehicle
Weapons
Railgun
Armor penetration damage reduced from 20% to 15%.
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30 Nov 2025Developer post
Empires 2.39.0 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.39.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Features Major overhaul to the visibili
We're happy to announce version 2.39.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Features
Major overhaul to the visibility system that drives the networked information used by the mini-map (and in-game visibility of entities).
For more information see the detailed write-up here. https://www.empiresmod.com/posts/visibility-system-overhaul/
Updated the resource income display on the HUD and mini-map:
Resource delta and income values now show up to two decimal places when appropriate (e.g. a refinery output of 1.75 will now display as-is, instead of rounding to 1.8).
Decimal places are hidden entirely if the value is a whole number.
Slightly increased the width of the top-right HUD panel to accommodate the extra digits.
Resource delta now uses a moving average of changes over the last 1 second, instead of displaying changes instantly and clearing them after 1 second. This change was made in response to player feedback that the numbers were updating too frequently and were distracting.
Bugfixes
Fixed a server crash relating to the command vehicle being unexpectedly removed.
Fixed a server crash relating to maps that spawn buildings without an initial team being set.
Fixed a bug with capture points awarding victory to the incorrect team.
Fixed a problem with ablative armor’s HUD icon. The VTF texture file became corrupt due to an issue in the build pipeline that publishes the game.
Fixed a bug where the Biological Machine Gun’s damage-over-time effect was being unintentionally reduced by armor angle modifiers.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry Weapons
SMG3 (NF Heavy Carbine)
Damage reduced from 32 to 30
Minimal Damage reduced from 18 to 14
FalloffEnd reduced from 10000 to 5000
Clip Size increased from 12 to 14
Reduced overall accuracy
Vehicle Armors
Adjusted the angle modifier range from 0–45° to 0–60°. Damage now decreases more gradually, reaching the full reduction only at impact angles greater than 60°. The modifier is used by all armor types, most notably Deflective armor.
Regenerative
Increased Regeneration from 3/s to 4/s
Absorbant
Increased Speed to Damage Reduction from -0.00007 to -0.0001
Capacitive
Reduced Damage to Heat from 0.05 to 0.02
Reduced Speed to Damage Modifier from 0.000035 to 0 Ablative
Increased Damage to Heat from 0 to 0.01
This is something all armors have, it was forgotten until now
Deflective
Reduced Angle Modifier Damage Reduction from 1 to 0.8
Vehicle Engines
Engine heat from driving input is now only applied if handbrake is off and the vehicle is moving.
This has been changed to combat Fission engine cooling being applied while stationary. (Handbrake or driving against walls etc.)
Fission
Reduced Heat at Max from -4 to -3
Bio Diesel
Increased Cooling by 0.25
3 Phase
Reduced Heat Output at Max from 4 to 3
Vehicle Weapons
Nuclear Warhead
Increased Weight from 150 to 180
Increased Heat from 75 to 100
Railgun
Added armor penetration. 20% of damage will ignore armor. (Calculated after damage multipliers and armor resistances.)
Salvo Homing Missiles
Heat from 5 to 4
Other changes
Explosions that apply heat or biological damage-over-time now reduce effects based on distance to the explosion (falloff).
Reduced the rate at which the repair station repairs the armor and hull of command vehicles.
Reduced Repair Station Repair (Hull) from 75 to 5
Reduced Repair Station Repair (Armor) from 0.25 to 0.025
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26 Jul 2025Developer post
Empires 2.38.3 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.38.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Bugfixes Added a number of safety measu
We're happy to announce version 2.38.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Bugfixes
Added a number of safety measures in the game’s codebase to try to resolve a server crash introduced in 2.38.1
Changed emp_sv_player_refinery_multiplier to allow input values of 0 to disable this functionality entirely.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry Weapons
NF Heavy Carbine
Increased spread for all player stances. This was too accurate overall, but mostly when prone
Vehicle Armors
Pykrete Armor has been renamed to Ablative Armor
Ablative Armor
Reduced Regeneration at low heat from 2/s to 1/s
Reduced Regeneration at medium heat from 1/s to 0
Increased Melting (negative regeneration) at high heat from 0 to -0.5/s
Vehicle Engines
Fission Reactor
Reduced Cooling at Max by 1 for all chassis
Research
Superheat Material Physics
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
Increased Time from 90 to 120
With these changes the total cost is increased from 360 to 600
Plasma Tipped Rounds
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
Increased Time from 60 to 90
With these changes the total cost is increased from 250 to 450
Depleted Uranium
Increased Time from 45 to 60
With this change the total cost is increased from 180 to 240
Nuclear Warhead
Increased Cost (per second) from 5 to 6
Increased Time from 240 to 300
With these changes the total cost is increased from 1200 to 1800
Improved Flagration Compounds
Reduced Time from 45 to 30
With this change the total cost is reduced from 90 to 60
Explosive Tipped Bullets
Increased Time from 45 to 60
With this change the total cost is increased from 180 to 240
Upgraded Chassis
Increased Time from 200 to 300
With these changes the total cost is increased from 600 to 900
Artillery Tank Chassis
Increased Time from 150 to 180
With these changes the total cost is increased from 750 to 900
Advanced Chassis
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
With this change the total cost is increased from 1200 to 1500
Heavy Tank Chassis
Increased Cost (per second) from 5 to 6
Increased Time from 200 to 300
With these changes the total cost is increased from 1000 to 1800
Advanced Machining
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 3
Increased Time from 150 to 180
With these changes the total cost is increased from 600 to 540
Gas Turbine
Increased Time from 90 to 120
With this change the total cost is increased from 360 to 480
Railgun
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
Increased Time from 90 to 120
With these changes the total cost is increased from 360 to 600
Salvo Homing Missile Launcher
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
Increased Time from 90 to 120
With these changes the total cost is increased from 360 to 600
TOW Guided Missile Launcher
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
Increased Time from 90 to 120
With these changes the total cost is increased from 360 to 600
Biological Machine Gun
Increased Time from 45 to 60
With this change the total cost is increased from 180 to 240
Biological Cannon
Increased Cost (per second) from 4 to 5
With this change the total cost is increased from 480 to 600
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13 Jul 2025Developer post
Empires 2.38.2 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.38.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played. Changelog: Bugfixes Fixed a number of bugs introdu
We're happy to announce version 2.38.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check our Discord events to see the date and time of when games are played.
Changelog:
Bugfixes
Fixed a number of bugs introduced in 2.38.1:
Fixed some issues with visibility of entities when using the commander interface. Most notably, buildings that were not fully built and vehicles were not visible when they should have been.
Fixed a bug that prevented team participation score being processed correctly. The following were not working correctly:
Commander score bonus.
Squad participation bonus.
Squad leader bonus.
Fixed an issue causing vehicle carcasses to be displayed on the mini-map.
Fixed an issue where Brenodi reinforcements weren’t being set correctly by map inputs on emp_info_params. (It was using the NF setting for both teams.)
Fixed a bug in GetBuildingCount() function in code, it was only able to return a count of team radars, regardless of input parameters.
Fixed an issue where the radar & engineer radar were trying to spot dead vehicles.
Fixed an issue where recycling the radar wasn’t pausing the radar functionality of the building. (Changed to match all other buildings.)
Fixed some potential issues in the ray cast detection used when reviving players. These are used to attempt to put the player on the ground and avoid putting the player inside terrain.
Added additional safety checks to ensure additional ray casts weren’t used if the initial cast failed.
Added a small delay to unstuck functionality if stuck inside building geometry, rather than attempting to get the player unstuck every frame if attempts failed.
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05 Jul 2025Developer post
Empires 2.38.1 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.38.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Changelog: Bugfixes Fixed a bug causing mini-map icons
We're happy to announce version 2.38.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Changelog:
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug causing mini-map icons to appear as the wrong building / vehicle type.
Fixed a regression, where the mini-map wouldn't reveal both team's units at the end of the game.
Fixed a bug where revived players would occasionally be teleported to the map origin.
Fixed a bug where recycling a radar caused the emp_info_params entity to miscount the number of radars a team currently has. This was due to the counter decrementing twice, requiring teams to build two radars to compensate. The logic has been rewritten to eliminate reliance on manual increment/decrement operations.
Optimized some of the heavily used functions in the game code. While functionality remains unchanged, these refinements offer small improvements to server performance and enhance overall maintainability.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry Weapons
SMG3 (NF Heavy Carbine)
Decreased Damage per bullet from 37 to 32
Vehicle Weapons
Homing Missile Launcher (2 slot)
Decreased heat from 10 to 8
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20 Jun 2025Developer post
Empires 2.38.0 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.38.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Changelog: Features Replaced vehicle shell particle ef
We're happy to announce version 2.38.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Changelog:
Features
Replaced vehicle shell particle effects with the new particle systems. Each cannon can (and now does) have a different trail of particles.
This may make it easier to identify the locations of artillery tanks, and notice incoming artillery shells.
Large rework of the vehicle heat mechanics
Added a fourth “Overheat” heat region.
Now there is “Low” (Green), “Medium” (Yellow), “High” (Orange), and “Overheat” (Red)
The portion of the heat bar that is not filled will still be displayed, but in a way more muted color.
The positions of the various heat regions can be defined per-engine.
When a weapon cannot fire due to overheating, the ammo indicator for that weapon will turn red.
This was already in the code, but the definition of overheating used was incorrect so this condition was never actually triggered.
Engines will now begin stalling at the High region, and completely stall at the Overheat region.
Weapons can have a “Critical Heat Zone”. When a weapon is fired while the vehicle is in this zone or above, then it will fire a crit.
Crit shells can have a different firing sound, impact sound, and trail particles.
Crit shells do increased damage
Only the Plasma cannon currently uses this feature, and likely only the plasma weapons will use this mechanic.
Only shells have crits implemented. If this idea is kept, then we’d want to implement the same for MGs, missiles, and grenades.
Due to simplifications of the engine stall code, the “Heat Stall Penalty” value on engines now indicates the maximum amount the throttle can be reduced to via engine overheating, instead of the square root of the maximum amount the throttle can be reduced to via engine overheating.
Added an additional info panel to the vehicle HUD
This panel is displayed to players currently inside a tank
The panel shows the following information, from left to right:
The armor the vehicle has equipped
The engine the vehicle has equipped
The current number of passengers, out of the vehicle’s total capacity
Whether the vehicle will not detonate mines (i.e., the driver or a passenger has the Defuse skill)
Whether the vehicle has a spawn point
Added Pykrete Armor
Pykrete armor is made of ice reinforced with complex hydrocarbon chains.
It uses ambient humidity to slowly regenerate when vehicle heat is in the low region, but melts faster in higher heat regions. This introduces a new melting/regeneration mechanic to the game.
Research now drains resources over time, instead of spending all of the resources up-front.
Commanders can pause and resume research at any time.
If there is insufficient resources for research to continue, then research is paused automatically.
The entire team will hear the “Insufficient Resources” sound clip.
When research is complete, the entire team (and all spectators) will hear the “Research is now complete” sound effect, instead of just the commander.
Added a new mapmaking entity emp_logic_resource_drain to allow mapmakers to specify their own similar resource drains.
Improved the resources HUD display. The resource total and income are now displayed more accurately than before.
Resource total updates more frequently, to better reflect the actual value. Previously it was tied to a timer.
Resource income now displays all manual adjustments to income, not just income from refineries. This should cover all gains/losses but to list some examples it includes resource adjustments from vehicle purchases, vehicle carcass recycling and building purchases/refunds.
Recurring resource income is now displayed alongside the dynamic income, this figure excludes manual adjustments and resource drains. Essentially, this displays income from recurring sources, for example refineries.
Engineer and Commander radars now also spot fully-built enemy buildings, in addition to enemy vehicles.
Added additional HUD icons for certain F-menu requests.
Added additional cancellation and suppression criteria for certain F-menu requests.
Notably, requests for ammo, health, and repairs are automatically cancelled as soon as any health or ammo is recieved, as appropriate.
Added new listener mapmaking entities, emp_logic_resource_listener, emp_logic_ticket_listener, and emp_logic_research_listener.
Added a sound effect that plays when a tank loads ammo.
Pressing the suicide hotkey (delete by default) while already dead force-kills you, preventing engineers from reviving you.
The debug console command emp_debug_spawn_shell now has three parameters:
1: The weapon index of the shell to spawn
2: The number of shells to spawn (between 1 and 128)
3: Whether or not the shell is a crit shell.
Commanders can now see player request icons from further away, especially requests for commander attention.
This distance is 12k units for commander attention requests and 6k units for other requests
For comparison, requests are normally 3k units and revive icons 4k units - Added Aircraft
Bugfixes
The C++ code for the mini-map has been extensively refactored. This update resolves several longstanding issues and improves maintainability, making it easier for developers to add new features and enhancements.
Fixed a bug causing homing missiles to fire without any spread when fired without entering missile lock.
Fixed a crash involving the vehicle info HUD element.
Fixed a bug where reviving in water would cause the player to appear far beneath the surface.
Fixed a bug where players changing teams to spectator while in a vehicle retain collision.
Fixed some issues with the method in which tips were selected to be displayed on the loading screen.
Script/Game Balance
Buildings
Armory
Reduced Carcass Removal Time from 30 to 10
Barracks
Reduced Carcass Removal Time from 30 to 20
Radar
Reduced Carcass Removal Time from 30 to 15
Repair Pad
Reduced Carcass Removal Time from 30 to 15
Research
All research costs have been divided by 60, to account for the change from up-front costs to res/second costs.
Added a research item for APC spawn points.
Costs 4 resources per second for 120 seconds. (480 resources in total.)
Added a research item for Pykrete Armor in the Chemistry tree within Improved Heat Transfer Fluids, next to Advanced Coolant Engine.
APC Chassis is researched by default
The Homing Missiles research now unlocks the 2-slot homing missile instead of the 3-slot homing missile
Re-enabled research for Salvo Homing Missiles and TOW Guided Missiles
Nuclear Warhead
Increased research cost from 4 to 5 (Total cost 1200)
Increased research time from 180 to 240
Infantry Weapons
NF Heavy Carbine (SMG3)
Improved Overall Weapon Spread
Increased damage per bullet from 27 to 37
Increased Time between shoots from 0.12 to 0.20
Increased minimal damage per bullet from 13 to 18
Decreased clip size from 20 to 12
Also adjusted spawn/max ammo counts - engineer spawns with 4 clips and scout spawns with 5 clips. (Without ammo increase skill.)
Vehicle Chassis
NF & BE APC
Increased available weight from 235 to 265
Vehicle Armors
Capacitive Armor
Buff
Decreased Cost per plate from 20 to 18
Increased Health per plate from 80 to 110
Decreased Damage To Heat Absorbed from 0.1 to 0.05
Nerf
Increased Weight per plate from 15 to 18
Added Speed To Damage Modifier 0.000035
Decreased Infantry Grenade Resist from 0.55 to 0.35
Decreased Infantry Mine Resist from 0.55 to 0.50
Decreased Infantry Missile Resist from 0.40 to 0.20
Decreased Infantry Mortar Resist from 0.40 to 0.20
Decreased Infantry Explosive Sticky Resist from 0.25 to 0.20
Decreased Infantry Sticky Stun Resist from 0.25 to 0.15
Decreased Squad Arty Resist from 0.55 to 0.40
Composite
Increase Sticky Bomb Resistance from -0.716 to -0.6
Vehicle Engines
All Chassis
Increased Heat Dissipation for Advanced Coolant Engine by 1
Vehicle Weapons
Shells and missiles now use uniform circular distribution when applying spread instead of bounded uniform distribution.
All this means is that spread is applied using a radius around the crosshair instead of using random min/max bounds. (Circular distribution instead of square.)
Plasma Cannon
Decreased damage from 84 to 60
Now fires 2x damage crit shells when in the high (orange) heat region or above
Salvo Homing Missiles
Increased cost from 105 to 150
Increased clip size from 4 to 10
Increased reload time from 3.75 to 8
Increased missile lock on range from 5000 to 8000
Decreased lock on time from 0.6 to 0.5
Decreased lock on radius from 0.35 to 0.2
Decreased lock on range modifier from 0.00040 to 0.00025
Decreased damage from 40 to 28
Increased Heat from 3 to 5
Decreased weight from 100 to 80
Increased Explosion range from 80 to 150
Homing Missiles (2-slot)
Increased cost from 80 to 95
Decreased missile Speed from 2500 to 2300
Decreased weight from 70 to 60
TOW Guided Missiles
Increased cost from 135 to 150
Increased Missile speed from 2100 to 2300
Increased Missile Range from 6500 to 8000
Increased clip size from 5 to 6
Increased Explosion Radius from 115 to 150
Decreased Cycle Time from 1.3 to 1.25
Biological Cannon
Increased Damage from 80 to 90
Reduced Biological Damage from 10 to 5
Biological Missile Launcher
Increased Damage from 50 to 60
Reduced Biological Damage from 10 to 5
Homing Missile Launcher
Increased Lock On Radius from 0.1 to 0.2
Reduced Lock On Range Multiplier from 0.00025 to 0.0001875
Lock On time increased from between 0.5 to 2.5 seconds to between 0.5 to 2 (up to 40% faster)
Biological Grenade Launcher
Reduced Cycle Time from 2 to 1.6
Increased Clip Size from 6 to 8
Reduced Total Ammo Clips from 5 to 4
Reduced Vehicle Biological Damage from 10 to 5
Increased Vehicle Bio Time from 4 to 5
Medium Artillery Cannon
Increased Projectile Spread from 0.001 to 0.25
High-Explosive Artillery Cannon
Increased Projectile Spread from 0.001 to 0.30
Ranged Artillery Cannon
Increased Projectile Spread from 0.001 to 0.15
Other changes
Several unused features have been removed:
Research can no longer upgrade ammo damage.
Vehicle weapons can no longer be “disabled”, and research cannot disable vehicle weapons.
Servers can no longer disable vehicle horns with the emp_sv_vehicle_allow_horns cvar
Increased the default value of the emp_sv_vehicle_fadeout_time cvar from 30 seconds to 180 seconds.
Increased the default value of the emp_sv_vehicle_fadeout_time_partial cvar from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.
We did a large refactor to the minimap code. You shouldn’t notice any huge changes, but the scaling might be slightly off from what it was before. This can be adjusted with the emp_map_size cvar.
Removed some less useful statistics from the vehicle preview in the vehicle creation panel.
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03 Jan 2025Developer post
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19 Oct 2024Developer post
Empires 2.37.4 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.37.4 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine
We're happy to announce version 2.37.4 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Bugfixes
Fixed a problem where upgradable buildings were not precaching their models correctly, resulting in invisible models when placing the building for the first time.
Script/Game Balance
Research
Advanced Chassis
Increased Cost from 750 to 900
Increased Time from 250 to 300
Heavy Tank Chassis
Increased Cost from 750 to 1000
Increased Time from 150 to 200
Infantry Resistances
Scout
Reduced Explosion Bonus Resistance from 10% to 5%.
Reduced Bullet Bonus Resistance from 10% to 5%.
Rifleman
Reduced Bullet Bonus Resistance from 20% to 10%.
Grenadier
Reduced Explosion Bonus Resistance from 20% to 10%.
Infantry Weapons
NF Shot Pistol
Increased Damage from 14 to 16.
Increased Minimal Damage from 7 to 8.
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08 Sep 2024Developer post
Empires 2.37.3 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.37.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine
We're happy to announce version 2.37.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Bugfixes
Fixed a bug preventing explosion damage from being blocked correctly.
Fixed a bug that would allow one too many players to join a team before being classed as unbalanced when using mp_teams_unbalance_limit.
Script/Game Balance
Research
Capacitive Armor
Increased the research cost from 240 to 360
Increased the research time from 60 to 90
Reduced Cost of APC Chassis research from 360 to 240
Reduced Time of APC Chassis research from 90 to 60
Vehicle Armors
Capacitive Armor
Increased the weight from 13 to 15
Reactive
Reduced Health from 120 to 110
Infantry Weapons
SMG1
Increased Clip Size from 30 to 35
Increased number of clips from 3 to 4
SMG2
Increased Clip Size from 35 to 40
Increased Engineer’s number of clips from 3 to 4
Increased Scout’s number of clips from 4 to 5
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18 Aug 2024Developer post
Empires 2.37.2 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.37.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine
We're happy to announce version 2.37.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Bugfixes
Fixed a few bugs caused by a large refactor of the game’s codebase:
Fixed a bug with ML turret targeting.
Fixed a bug with wall preview models not being visible.
Removed a left over debug statement from vehicle code. (Console would spam “WL_WAIST” if vehicle was partially submerged in water)
Script/Game Balance
Research
AFV and LT are now set to be researched at the start of the game (Start_Researched 1).
Map creators can still set disable AFV/LT by using emp_sv_unresearch_item in the map’s cfg file.
Increased Upgraded Chassis time from 120s to 200s
Increased Advanced Chassis time from 150s to 250s
Increased Advanced Machining time from 120s to 150s
Buildings
Increased Radar cost from 300 to 400
Infantry Weapons
SMG1
Reduced Damage from 18 to 16
Reduced Minimal Damage from 11 to 7
Reduced Spread Increments by 10%
SMG2
Reduced Damage from 19 to 17
Reduced Minimal Damage from 12 to 8
Reduced Spread Increments by 10%
Vehicle Weapons
.50 Cal Machine Gun
Increased clip size from 80 to 120
Other changes
Updated material surface properties:
Reduced Snow friction from 0.75 to 0.6
Reduced Ice friction from 0.6 to 0.3
Upgraded the platform toolset for compiling the Windows version of the game from v120 to v143. The codebase has been refactored to support this update, and no issues or new bugs are anticipated.
Alternate names for these toolsets are Visual Studio 2013 (MSVC 12.0) & Visual Studio 2022 (MSVC 14.3).
Known Issues
Armor impact sounds are often too quiet to be heard well. (Carried over from 2.37.0)
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14 Aug 2024Developer post
Empires 2.37.1 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.37.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine
We're happy to announce version 2.37.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Features
Added the recycleGivesRefund (“Give Refund on Recycle?” in Hammer) parameter for building entities.
If set to 1 (the default), then when the building is recycled the resources are refunded.
If set to 0, then when the building is recycled, no resources are given to the team.
The commander will get feedback for what the refund cost will be when triggering a recycle on a building.
This change allows level designers to strategically place buildings without worrying about commanders using them to gain additional resources through recycling. For instance, pre-spawned turrets are placed in starting locations to prevent early rushes. However, in the past, commanders have used these turrets to gain small resource advantages during the early phase of the game.
Although none of the official maps have been changed to adopt the above behaviour, this may be implemented in the future.
Buildings can now require research to be placed.
If a building has the “Research” parameter set to the name of a research node, then the building will not be able to be placed until that research is completed.
Previously, this parameter was only used for turret upgrades.
If a building is unresearched, then it will show up in purple in the build menu.
The highlight color of unresearched buildings are purple, and have a tooltip indicating that they are not researched.
Bugfixes
Reverted grenade physics behaviour back to how it was prior to 2.37.0.
We now fake the grenade bounce sound without detecting surface type. The previous VPhysics based detection did not actually detect the right surface type most of the time, so this is not much of a regression.
Changed physics timestep to match server tickrate. (Instead of DEFAULT_TICK_INTERVAL - for Empires that’s currently 66 tick)
Removed code that disables vertex-lit materials being applied to detail models. (It no longer replaces the model with error.mdl)
Comprehensive refactoring of vehicle code, both client & server. The aim of this is to improve code readability & maintainability while implementing minor bug fixes and reducing code complexity. It will allow us to iterate easier in the future when adding new features. Some related bug fixes
Fixed some bugs caused by the vehicle self-destruct functionality. When the self-destruct timer had elapsed it would cause the self-destruct damage to be applied first, then ignore any subsequent damage/regeneration that may happen in that frame. Essentially, if a vehicle was taking self-destruct damage it would be invincible to biological damage-over-time and armor would stop regenerating.
Fixed a number of potential crashes.
Fixed some issues with how vehicle water level is detected/set in code. This has no impact on gameplay but is now working as intended.
Fixed a bug with vehicle damage assists. Assists had the potential to be awarded because other entities had damaged the vehicle. (trigger_hurt for example).
Significantly reduced memory required to store a vehicle object through removing unused variables and optimization.
Reduced CPU usage by optimized code in various places.
Script/Game Balance
Infantry weapons
Modified the Heavy Machine Gun for both teams to deliver sustained fire with decent accuracy, despite initially lower accuracy compared to rifles and SMGs, thanks to its low increment for longer, stable bursts.
HMG spread is based on DuckingSpread
HMG is 100% less accurate while Standing
HMG is 200% less accurate than Standing while Jumping
HMG is 20% more accurate while proning
HMG Spread Modifier is based on Spread
HMG is 200% less accurate while moving
HMG increment is based on Standing Increment
HMG increment is 20% slower while Crouching
HMG increment is 40% slower while Proning
Adjusted the cycle time for the following weapons to align with servers operating at a 100 tick rate.
SMG 1(Both teams)
CycleTime 0.09 -> 0.08
SMG 2 (Both teams)
CycleTime 0.075 -> 0.07
NF Assault rifle
CycleTime 0.106 -> 0.1
Engineer Tool
Increased heal amount from 4 to 6
Reduced Heal Modifier from 3 to 2 (Heal upgrade multiplier)
Vehicle Weapons
Biological Machine Gun
Reduced Clip Size from 80 to 60
High-Explosive Machine Gun
Reduced Clip Size from 70 to 50
Depleted Uranium Machine Gun
Reduced Clip Size from 100 to 80
Railgun
Increased Clip Size from 30 to 40
Biological Cannon
Reduced Bio Time from 10 to 5 seconds
Homing Missile Launcher
Increased Lock On Time from 0.4 to 0.5
Reduced Lock On Modifier from 0.4 to 0.25
Homing Lock On Time reduced from 0.4-3.6 to 0.5-2.5 seconds
Homing Lock On Speed increased is 25% faster on average
Vehicle Armors
All armors
Increased Sticky Resist from -0.714 to -0.6
This reduces Sticky Bomb damage from 300 to 280 which means they won’t destroy LT/APC with 1 grenade when equiped with plain or absorbant armor
Plain Armor
Increased Health from 60 to 70
Absorbant Armor
Increased Speed to Damage Modifier from 0.00005 to 0.00007
Composite Armor
Increased Speed to Damage Modifier from 0.000025 to 0.000035
Introduced new Capacitive Armor research under Electrical Engineering.
Research cost: 240 resources
Research time: 60 seconds
Capacitive Armor is intended to be resistant to infantry weapons but vulnerable to enemy tanks, key armor statistics below:
Weight: 13 per plate
Cost: 20 resources per plate
Health: 80 per plate
Damage to Heat Absorbed: 0.02 (2% of damage received is converted to heat)
Resistances:
HE Grenades: 70% resistance
Mines: 55% resistance
RPG: 45% resistance
Mortars: 45% resistance
Explosive Sticky Grenades: 42.5% resistance
Stun Sticky Grenades: 42.5% resistance
Squad Arty: 55% resistance
Vehicle Engines
Standard Engine
Increased cooling by 0.5
Research
New Research
Vehicle Factory
Parent: Structural Engineering
Time: 60s
Cost: 240
LT/AFV Chassis
Parent: Mechanical Engineering
Time: 60s
Cost: 240
APC Chassis
Parent: Mechanical Engineering
Time: 90s
Cost: 360
Buildings
Radar
Reduced Cost from 600 to 300
Reduced Health from 250 to 200
Vehicle Factory
Reduced Cost from 700 to 500
Other changes
Updated armor descriptions
Known Issues
Armor impact sounds are often too quiet to be heard well. (Carried over from previous update.)
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26 May 2024Developer post
Empires 2.37.0 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.37.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this m
We're happy to announce version 2.37.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Features
Grenades and mines make sounds when they bounce against surfaces.
Added armor impact sounds.
Distinct sounds play when a vehicle’s armor is damaged, a vehicle’s hull is damaged, and when a sticky grenade latches to a tank hull.
Different armors can have different sounds, though most armors currently do not.
Enabled several unused NF taunts.
Updated the commander view’s zoom functionality.
Added zoom-to-cursor functionality. The camera will zoom towards the cursor position when enabled. An option will be added to the advanced section of the multiplayer settings menu.
Camera smoothing has been updated, updated cvars added to control this.
emp_comm_zoom_stepsize - Controls how many units to increment/decrement the target zoom amount per scroll.
emp_comm_zoom_speed - Original cvar, original values should still work with updated smoothing method.
Enabled the trigger_portal brush entity.
trigger_portal is an brush entity in the Source base code.
It moves touched entity to a destination trigger_portal, preserving the relative position and velocity of the entity.
Warning: This entity can cause teleported entities to become stuck or escape the map, and has not extensively tested. Use at your own risk!
Added team-limiting spawnflags to all trigger bruah entities.
Bugfixes
Fixed the game phase material proxy not updating correctly.
Fixed MG turrets continuing to play the shooting sound effect after game end.
Fixed spectator HUD not displaying observer target info correctly.
Added warning message when the vehicle customization menu fails to open because your team has no chassis researched.
Changes to team physics content masking.
Script/Game Balance
Vehicle Weapons
Guided Missile
Increased Maximum Guiding Range from 5500 to 8000
Homing Missile
Increased Maximum Lock On range from 7000 to 8000
Biological Missile
Reduced Bio Duration from 8 to 5s
Vehicle Armors
Regenerative
Reduced Health Regeneration from 4 to 3
Vehicle Engines
Bio Diesel
Reduced Cooling by 0.25
Other changes
Sever operators can now disable the server inactivity timeout by setting emp_sv_inactivity_timeout to 0.
If non-zero, the timeout has a minimum of 120 seconds.
Deprecate the emp_sv_forceteam convar.
This functionality has been replaced by the new AllowedTeams field in emp_info_params.
Setting AllowedTeams to 0 allows players to join either team. Setting it to 2 or 3 allows player to only join Northern Faction or Brenodi Empire respectively.
This function can still be accessed by setting the emp_sv_forceteam convar, but that variable is now deprecated and will not show up in autocomplete.
Remove remnants of the PushMap setting in emp_params
Minimap icons will now be revealed to both teams when the game is over.
When the game ends, the game timer on the HUD will freeze, displaying the final time for that round.
When creating workshop packages, you can now specify a preview image.
This can be done by adding the “Image” “FilePathRelativeToWorkshopItemFolder.jpg” KV pair to the package.txt`
Known Issues
Armor impact sounds are often too quiet to be heard well.
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20 Apr 2024Developer post
Empires 2.36.3 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.36.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this m
We're happy to announce version 2.36.3 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Bug fixes
Potential fix for the player collision issues introduced in 2.36.0
Script/Game Balance
Vehicle Chassis
Northern Faction Heavy Tank
Increased available weight by 60
Brenodi Empire Heavy Tank
Increased available weight by 60
Vehicle Weapons
Biological Cannon
Reduced Weight from 120 to 100
Homing Missile
Reduced Lock On Time from 0.5 to 0.4
Reduced Lock On Range Modifier from 0.5s/1000u to 0.4s/1000u
Locking on is now 25% faster, it takes between 0.4s to 3.2s from 0.5s to 4s
Biological Missile
Increased Total Ammo Clips from 3 to 5
Reduced Cycle Time from 1.5 to 2
Depleted Uranium Rounds
Increased Clip Size from 80 to 100
Biological Rounds
Reduced Cycle Time from 0.38 to 0.12
Reduced Damage from 8 to 4
Reduced Minimal Damage from 6 to 3
Reduced Heat from 1.5 to 0.5
Increased Clip Size from 30 to 80
Reduced Bio Damage agasint Vehicles from 10 to 5
Reduced Bio Time against Vehicles and Infantry from 2 to 1
Plasma Rounds
Reduced Cycle Time from 0.28 to 0.1
Reduced Damage from 10 to 5
Reduced Minimal Damage from 8 to 4
Reduced Heat from 2 to 0.6
Increased Clip Size from 40 to 100
High-Explosive Rounds
Reduced Cycle Time from 0.4 to 0.135
Reduced Damage from 8 to 3
Reduced Minimal Damage from 7 to 3
Reduced Heat from 1.5 to 0.6
Increased Clip Size from 25 to 70
Vehicle Armors
Reactive
New Damage Reductions from Machine Gun changes
Depleted Uranium Rounds: from 25% to 66%
Biological Rounds: from 25% to 66% (not counting the bio effect)
High-Expllosive Rounds: 66%
Plasma Rounds: from 0 to 25%
Research
Turrets lvl 2
Increased Cost from 360 to 480
Increased Time from 90 to 120
Turrets lvl 3
Increased Cost from 480 to 600
Increased Time from 120 to 150
Buildings
Vehicle Factory
Increased Cost from 500 to 700
Infantry
Reduced Scout Rifle’s Headshot Multiplier from 3 to 2
Other changes
Reverted to 2.36.0 version of soft flesh impact sounds.
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24 Feb 2024Developer post
Empires 2.36.2 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.36.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this m
We're happy to announce version 2.36.2 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Bug fixes
Fixed a few issues caused by changes in 2.36.0
Fixed player round stats not restoring if the player reconnected to the server.
Fixed issues with collision of projectiles/players.
Fixed an issue causing soundscape entities to not play any sounds.
Script/Game Balance
Research
Biological Cannon
Increased Cost from 360 to 480
Increased Time from 90 to 120
Vehicle Weapons
Biological Missile
Reduced Cycle time from 3 to 1.5
Reduced Heat from 12 to 10
Guided Missile
Increased Clip Size from 5 to 6
Reduced Reload Time from 5 to 4
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18 Feb 2024Developer post
Empires 2.36.1 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.36.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this m
We're happy to announce version 2.36.1 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Bug fixes

Fixed commander vote issues introduced in the last update.
Fixed a client crash.

Other changes

Changed the colour of the border indicating empty armour plates on the vehicle HUD. These are now dark red instead of grey.
Modified soft flesh impact sounds slightly.
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17 Feb 2024Developer post
Empires 2.36.0 Released!
We're happy to announce version 2.36.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this m
We're happy to announce version 2.36.0 which is live on Steam right now. Changelog below and also on our Website Come join us on Discord! Don't forget to check Discord events to see the date and time of when Games are played. (It's not dead yet) Did you know we are porting this mod to Unreal Engine 5? You can follow its development on our Website and/or Discord Changelog:
Features
Added angle snapping to commander building placement. This shares a key bind with multi-unit selection. (Default key is shift.)
Added firing sounds to MG turrets.
The vehicle health HUD has been improved:
The health of each armor plate and hull are overlaid as a number. This feature can be enabled in the advanced options section. (Default is off)
Each armor plate is no longer drawn as a sequence of overlapping lines. They’re now drawn correctly as polygons.
The corners of armor plates no longer have large gaps. Armor plates are drawn as trapezoids with a defined gap between them, resulting in the armor display looking more rectangular overall.
Armor plates that are missing are now drawn as a grey outlined shape. This should help to communicate to players that there are plates that can be repaired.
Armor plates (or hull) that are affected by biological DoT are now drawn as a darker shade of the current health color and if HP text is enabled, the text will turn green.
The following console variables have been added to customize the vehicle HUD:
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_show_health’’’: Controls whether to display the amount of armor and hull health numerically in the vehicle HUD.
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_offset’’’: How many pixels to offset the armor plates from the chassis in the vehicle HUD.
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_thickness’’’: How many pixels thick to draw the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_proportional’’’: How much the thickness of armor plates in the vehicle HUD is affected by the maximum health of each plate, with 50 hp/plate as a baseline.
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_spacing’’’: How many pixels thick the gap is between the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_armor_spacing_corner’’’: How many pixels thick the gap is between the corners of the armor plates in the vehicle HUD.
‘‘’emp_hud_vehicle_chassis_scale’’’:
Added emp_logic_playercount_listener entity.
This entity fires outputs when the player count changes. You can specify whether to search for Brenodi or Northern Faction players or both, and whether to check for just alive players or all players.
More information is available on the Valve Developer Wiki.
This release includes emp_variable_playercount_template.vmf, an example map to show how you might use this feature to dynamically open and close map lanes as player count changes.
Added outputs to emp_params on almost every game phase transition:
OnPhaseBeginTactics
Note: Since the tactics phase is not currently implemented, this fires at the same time as OnPhaseBeginGame
OnPhaseBeginWait
OnPhaseBeginGame
OnPhaseBeginInfSuddenDeath
OnPhaseBeginCVSuddenDeath
OnGameEnd
OnGameOutcomeNFWin
OnGameOutcomeNFLose
OnGameOutcomeBEWin
OnGameOutcomeBELose
Added the following inputs and outputs to all buildings: (Used by level designers.)
Inputs
SetHealth : “Sets the health of the building, clamped between 0 and the building’s maximum health.”
Destroy : “Set the health of the building to 0.”
RecycleStart : “Begin the recycle process.”
RecycleStartDuration : “Begin the recycle process, with the countdown set to the given number of seconds.”
RecycleCancel : “Cancel the recycling process, returning the building to a functional state.”
SabotageStart : “Mark this building as sabotaged. If the activtor is a player, give them points for it.”
SabotageEnd : “Mark this building as no longer sabotaged.”
Outputs
OnBuilt : “Fired when this building is fully built.”
OnNFBuilt : “Fired when this building is fully built by the Northern Faction.”
OnImpBuilt : “Fired when this building is fully built by the Brenodi Empire.”
OnKill : “Fired when this building is destroyed.”
OnSpotted : “Fired when this building is spotted by an enemy using any method. The spotter is the activator.”
OnSpottedBinoculars : “Fired when this building is spotted by an enemy using the binoculars. The spotter is the activator.”
OnSabotageStart : “Fired when this building has become sabotaged. The saboteur is the activator.”
OnSabotageEnd : “Fired when this building is repaired.”
OnRecycleStart : “Fired when a commander has started the recycling process on this building.”
OnRecycleCancel : “Fired when a commander has canceled the recycling process on this building.”
OnRecycleComplete : “Fired when this building has been recycled.”
There are also two additional outputs for the Radar, Engineer Radar, and Engineer Camera that fire whenever an entity is detected.
OnVehicleSpotted, OnVehicleFirstSpotted, OnPlayerSpotted, OnPlayerFirstSpotted
Bug fixes
Applied a potential fix for player muting via the scoreboard. When the server reaches enough players, player muting would stop working as intended.
Fixed squad heal not removing Bio damage over time effect properly.
Fixed unintended behaviour where the biological damage over time effect wouldn’t extend it’s duration if it was applied to vehicle armor by the same weapon repeatedly.
Fixed an issue where squad recon would spot squad hidden players for longer than intended.
Fixed various issues where the game’s code would skip over the last player when processing through all players in a full server. Unknown what bugs this may have caused.
Changed building smoke to always emit fire when the building is destroyed, instead of sometimes showing unbuilt/sabotage smoke.
Neutral tank turning now rotates around the tank’s local axis instead of world space. This was causing strange behaviour when driving up/down slopes.
Neutral turn is no longer unconstrained in applying angular velocity. Prior to this version, angular velocity was set directly; instead of being applied as an angular force impacting the angular velocity. This will mean that tanks are no longer able to rotate beyond the capability of the force being applied.
Fixed the emp_infantry_restrict team filters being inverted.
3x Crashes have been fixed.
Fixed some minor issues in the vehicle HUD. For example, no longer displaying the armor detection overlay for your own vehicle or dead vehicles.
Map info script parsing system has been refactored.
All parameters present in the map info file have sensible defaults, allowing a map to be played even if there is no map info file or the client fails to download it.
Line breaks can be placed in the objective and description panels using the \n escape sequence.
Map info can be reloaded client-side using the mapinfo_flushscript command, though this currently requires the map to be reloaded for the changes to take effect.
Fixed commander vote count not resetting between rounds.
There are still some client-side vote count issues to resolve but these will be addressed in a future version as it requires large changes to rewrite the client-side vote count system.
Fixed a bug where spotting a building with regular spotting would override the longer spotting provided by binoculars.
The emp_info_params entity inputs SetNFResources and SetBEResources now function correctly. Previously, they would double the current resource value and then subtract the desired value.
The vehicle weapon HUD now displays properly when using a vehicle equipped with weapons that are not researched. Previously, unresearched weapons would not show up in the HUD. This was only an issue for maps that spawned in vehicles.
Other Changes
Added prop_sphere to the FGD and updated code to allow a radius to be set.
Added various team colored developer textures for use when designing maps. (‘‘‘materials/dev’’’ directory)
Added the startResearched research script variable. Researches that have startResearched = 1 will already be researched when the game starts (if this is the correct team).
This allows specific maps to use the emp_sv_unresearch_item command to set the starting chassis as restricted (Jeep/APC/Light tank/AFV).
If there are no chassis available the vehicle menu will not open when players attempt to open it.
Changed all turret/camera/radar models to use metal surface property instead of default.
Lobby server auto-connect has been disabled by default. Auto-connect to lobby can be re-enabled by adding -lobby to the launch options within Steam.
Changes to team joining functionality
The code that decides whether a player can join a team has been reworked
The skill based auto-balance system which decided how players are put into teams has been disabled.
Removed convars ‘mp_autoteambalance’, ‘mp_autoteambalance_smart’, and ‘mp_autoteambalance_skilldifference’ as these were used by this system.
Auto-assign has been reverted to a random selection of the available teams.
Added the emp_sv_forceteam convar, which will force all players to join either BE or NF if enabled.
Completely rewrote the ‘jointeam’ console command code.
Jointeam respects emp_sv_forceteam, emp_sv_forceautoassign, emp_sv_forcespec, and emp_allowspectators.
Added convar ‘mp_teams_unbalance_limit’
This controls the maximum numbers advantage a team can have before players are no longer allowed to join.
The default value is 1, which allows each team to have one extra player.
Setting this convar to 0 disables the limit.
Script/Game Balance
Changes to stamina usage when jumping
Jumping stamina usage has been tweaked so that the stamina requirement to jump is 50% of the actual stamina deduction. Additionally, stamina upgrade now reduces the amount of stamina deducted per jump by 1/4 instead of 1/3.
This means a jump spends 20 stamina (roughly displayed as 3 bars), but you can still jump so long as you have 10 stamina (roughly displayed as 1.5 bars) left. With stamina upgrade, each jump will spend 15 stamina instead of 13.3.
This change was made to make navigating the map less frustrating when out of combat. This should be less punishing when you have completely depleted your stamina, but still enforce the usual restrictions to combining sprinting and jumping while in combat. The values were tweaked to ensure that even with stamina upgrade, you cannot bunny hop when you’re out of stamina.
Vehicle Chassis
Brenodi Empire Heavy Tank
Increased Max Weight from 470 to 490
Vehicle engines
Increased 3 Phase engine heat dissipation by 1
Decreased Advanced coolant engine heat dissipation by 1
Decreased Fission engine heat dissipation by 0.5 (0.7 for medium tank)
Vehicle Weapons
Homing Missile Launcher
Reduced Lock On Radius from 0.42 to 0.1
It should make it easier to pick which target you’re locking, but it also means you have to track it more accurately
Increased Lock On Time from 0.3 to 0.5 seconds
Increased Lock On Range Modifier from 0.2s/1000u to 0.5/1000u (a wall is 256 units)
Reduced Missile range from 8000 to 7000
Reduced Turning Ability from 3.15 to 3.0
Increased Cost from 100 to 150
Nuclear Missile Launcher
Increase Cost from 200 to 300
Biological Missile Launcher
Increased Player Bio Damage from 3 to 5
Increased Vehicle Bio Damage from 8 to 10
High-Explosive Cannon
Increased Cost from 70 to 90
Reduced Damage from 75 to 70
Upgraded Missile Launcher
Increased Cost from 70 to 80
Biological Cannon
Increased Weight from 80 to 120
Increased Cost from 100 to 180
Increased Cycle Time from 2.25 to 2.5
Increased Heat from 15 to 20
Vehicle Biological Effect Properties
Damage: 10
Duration: 10
Interval: 0.5
Total Damage: 200
Infantry Biological Effect Properties
Damage: 5
Duration 10
Interval: 0.5
Total Damage: 100
Plasma Cannon
Increased Cost from 110 to 140
Increased Weight from 80 to 90
Increased Heat to Target from 10 to 12
Railgun
Increased Cost from 120 to 150
Increased Weight from 80 to 90
Increased Damage from 120 to 130
Depleted Uranium Machine Gun
Reduced Cost from 60 to 50
High-Explosive Machine Gun
Reduced Cost from 70 to 60
Plasma Heavy Machine Gun
Increased Cost from 110 to 120
Increased Weight from 55 to 60
Biological Machine Gun
Increased Player Bio Duration from 1 to 4
Increased Vehicle Bio Duration from 1 to 2
Standard Machine Gun
Reduced Cost from 40 to 30
Chain Gun
Reduced Cost from 60 to 45
Grenade Launcher
Reduced Cost from 50 to 40
High-Explosive Grenade Launcher
Increased Cost from 60 to 75
Small Artillery Cannon
Increased Cost from 70 to 90
Medium Artillery Cannon
Increased Cost from 80 to 110
High Explosive Artillery
Increased Cost from 120 to 170
Ranged Artillery Cannon
Increased Cost from 130 to 170
Biological Grenade Launcher
Increased Damage from 40 to 60
Increased Vehicle Bio Damage from 5 to 10
Increased Infantry Bio Duration from 4 to 5
Vehicle Armors
Absorbant
Reduced Speed to Damage modifier from -0.000112 to -0.00005
Increased Health from 70 to 75
Composite
Reduced Speed to Damage modifier from -0.00005 to -0.000025
Reactive
Increased Health from 100 to 120
Infantry Weapons
Rifleman
Fixed BE’s Assault Rifle starting ammo
Wages
Defuse
Decreased from 5 to 3
Capturing a flag
Increased from 0 to 3
Destroying an enemy vehicle
Increased from 5 to 10
Structures
NF/BE Walls
Increased Cost from 10 to 15
Barracks
Increased Cost from 200 to 300
Known Issues
Turret sounds do not play on clients who are too far away from a firing turret, even if they approach the turret as it is firing.
In some circumstances, the button to join a team will be selectable when you cannot actually join that team.
If mp_teams_unbalance_limit is set to 1, you are on team A, and team B has the same number of players as team A, then the button to join team B will be active, even though you are correctly not allowed to join.
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