Why must we wait this 5-6 months for Version 3 of empires? I read this somewhere and was wondering why this is. Feedback would be nice Version 3 being the addition Aircrafts, New models, New Gameplay, etc.
Why new models? They look pretty good to be a HL2 mod compared to other mods (Im meaing characters here, not tanks, buildings...)
From the current rate of progress, I doubt the future of empires is going to see anything beyond bugfixes, minor gameplay alterations and a slow descent into stagnation and eventually death. The dev team has no modellers aside from megel who hasn't actually produced anything recently which is usable in the game, a few overworked coders, and various hangers on who might contribute if you ask them nicely. Not exactly something you can push the boundaries of RTS/FPS gaming on the source engine with.
Empires development has slowed right down, don't expect too much so soon. Expect optimisation and more efficient code.
Optimization is great. Minor game balances/changes are great. Minor bug-fixes are great. It might be slow, but like a glacier, it will be big. And cold.
That sounds so exciting! I can't wait! Maybe we can get some new variable names too? :p Well put, but nothing new if you look at the last 2 years since 2.0 release.
Whats with the pessimism here, if you really think that Empires is in such a bad shape what are you doing here? We have awesome guys doing groudbreaking work on the source engine POM, client side missiles, to just name two things that are awesome and where implemented recently (praise mootant). Stop being such pessimist tards kthx.
if people cant see it, people wont like it if the devs would post like, a chart or something even just a populistic chart that has no real scientific basis but is a good guesstimate of the effects, people will appreciate the work more
I wasn't being pessimistic, good code is good, and it needs to be done, just saying that that's all that is being done, so new models etc shouldn't be expected.
