Do you denie that it had great potential to switch to OB? I still think there is great potential. There is just a panfully obvious lack of programers for this mod plus a lack of willingness to apply peoples suggestions. Has the dev team ever/even posted a "To Do" list to show that they hear us? all we seem to have are mouth peaces that say "We might put that in" or "we will see", or my favorite "its on the list at the bottom."
I was thinking perhaps that l4d was pretty much the same engine as orange box, but might have some slight improvements or something and wouldn't be a big deal to port, but anyway, perhaps there should be a todo page on http://wiki.empiresmod.com?
There haven't really been any huge improvements from the OB move. Maps load a bit faster. A few new hammer features. Slightly better graphics. That's about it. Weigh it up with the downsides: Broken guns Broken tanks (fixed to some degree now) Broken SoF
you know, I think I just feel like the game needs an art upgrade pretty badly. A new engine is probably not what is needed.
You forgot that it used the steamfriends too, making it way easier to keep track of people. And, the downsides are fixed by now ^-^
there is if you had noticed but, it doesn't contain 1/15th of the things the devs have said are going to happen.