A new month, a new Empires. We're happy to announce version 2.13.4 which is live on Steam right now. Changes include:

• Flags will now be (slowly) captured if the full team is present on that location, even if the amount of players is lower than the configured minimum.
• Added turret turning speed parameter to vehicle scripts.
• Rotation in second seat no longer coupled to turret rotation.
• View rotation is persisted when entering / exiting vehicles.
• Artillery now has slight horizontal movement ability.
• Slightly prettier tank deaths.
• Added HUD element to warn players of CV attacks.
• Research is now paused when the last radar is destroyed.
• Added tutorial bot spawner entity (emp_tutorial_bot_spawner).
• Added commander target entity (emp_commander_auto_target).
• Enabled detail shapes
• Detail models now hide when under a building.
• Detail draw distance is now controlled by the server instead of the client.
• Added javascript moddable HUD elements.
• Added static vehicle crosshair.

• Fixed chat swallowing character after a %.
• Flags no longer continue capping after a game ends.
• Vehicles are now lag compensated, allowing you to hit people with hitscan weapons while driving.
• Removed tank cannon kick to fix aiming with double cannons.

• Included new cliff textures.
• Renamed stock maps to indicate play type to help players vote for maps: (affected: district402, urbanchaos, eastborough, glycencity, escort)
  • Conquest maps (like district, vehicletraining) begin with con_
  • Commander maps stay emp_
  • Assault maps (like escort) begin with as_
  • Fun / intermission maps (like minigames) begin with fun_
• Better statistics tracking

• Amount of units required for getting a point by recycling 150-> 100.
• Lowering wages.
• Deflective & Capacitve cost 20 -> 18.
• Rename Seismic Grenade into Seismic Resonator.
• More explosive force for arty cannons.
• Slightly decreased machine gun damage to compensate for lag compensation.

A new month, a new Empires. We're happy to announce version 2.13.4 which is live on Steam right now. Changes include:

• Flags will now be (slowly) captured if the full team is present on that location, even if the amount of players is lower than the configured minimum.
• Added turret turning speed parameter to vehicle scripts.
• Rotation in second seat no longer coupled to turret rotation.
• View rotation is persisted when entering / exiting vehicles.
• Artillery now has slight horizontal movement ability.
• Slightly prettier tank deaths.
• Added HUD element to warn players of CV attacks.
• Research is now paused when the last radar is destroyed.
• Added tutorial bot spawner entity (emp_tutorial_bot_spawner).
• Added commander target entity (emp_commander_auto_target).
• Enabled detail shapes
• Detail models now hide when under a building.
• Detail draw distance is now controlled by the server instead of the client.
• Added javascript moddable HUD elements.
• Added static vehicle crosshair.

• Fixed chat swallowing character after a %.
• Flags no longer continue capping after a game ends.
• Vehicles are now lag compensated, allowing you to hit people with hitscan weapons while driving.
• Removed tank cannon kick to fix aiming with double cannons.

• Included new cliff textures.
• Renamed stock maps to indicate play type to help players vote for maps: (affected: district402, urbanchaos, eastborough, glycencity, escort)
  • Conquest maps (like district, vehicletraining) begin with con_
  • Commander maps stay emp_
  • Assault maps (like escort) begin with as_
  • Fun / intermission maps (like minigames) begin with fun_
• Better statistics tracking

• Amount of units required for getting a point by recycling 150-> 100.
• Lowering wages.
• Deflective & Capacitve cost 20 -> 18.
• Rename Seismic Grenade into Seismic Resonator.
• More explosive force for arty cannons.
• Slightly decreased machine gun damage to compensate for lag compensation.

Due to some crashes we uploaded a hotfixed client, we hope this makes things more stable.

Due to some crashes we uploaded a hotfixed client, we hope this makes things more stable.

• Class selection now remembers your previous equipment choices for that class.
  
• Class defaults to Engineer now instead of Scout.

• Fix for infinite pumping on shotguns when at 0 ammo.
  
• Fixed SDK bot spawning
  
• Fixed shotgun using wrong sounds when firing
  
• Reverted problematic sounds
  
• Fixed more blurry textures on low settings

• Some sounds reverted to old ones. Along with some fixes to the newer sounds.
  
• emp_money:
  Refinery resource income increased from 3 -> 5 each
  Vehicle clips added above platforms
  
• emp_coast:
  Fixed hole in the ground.
  Fixed texture behind ladder near BE spawn
  Set all level 4 displacements to level 2
  BE and NF main bases now start with a pre-built refinery to prevent Commanders building anything BUT a refinery first
  Viscluster brush added to ceiling to improve performance. Visible clusters reduced from ~8 million to ~4 million. More optimization can be done, but this is a huge increase for now.

• Shorten Heavy-duty ML's GUI name to fit.
  
• Fixed ordering of tanks to prevent new players from accidentally building artillery.
  
• Plasma Cannon Prototype
  Heat to Target 5 -> 7
  
• Plasma Cannon
  Heat to Target 7 -> 8
  Explosion Radius 300 -> 270
  
• Plasma Machine Gun
  Projectile Spread 0.03 -> 0.02
  Heat to Target 1.8 -> 2
  
• High Energy Plasma Machine Gun
  Heat 1.1 -> 1.4
  
• Projectile Spread 0.02 -> 0.015
  
• Heat to Target 1.9 -> 2.3
  
• BE Medium Tank
  Axleratio 0.7 -> 0.85

• Class selection now remembers your previous equipment choices for that class.
  
• Class defaults to Engineer now instead of Scout.

• Fix for infinite pumping on shotguns when at 0 ammo.
  
• Fixed SDK bot spawning
  
• Fixed shotgun using wrong sounds when firing
  
• Reverted problematic sounds
  
• Fixed more blurry textures on low settings

• Some sounds reverted to old ones. Along with some fixes to the newer sounds.
  
• emp_money:
  Refinery resource income increased from 3 -> 5 each
  Vehicle clips added above platforms
  
• emp_coast:
  Fixed hole in the ground.
  Fixed texture behind ladder near BE spawn
  Set all level 4 displacements to level 2
  BE and NF main bases now start with a pre-built refinery to prevent Commanders building anything BUT a refinery first
  Viscluster brush added to ceiling to improve performance. Visible clusters reduced from ~8 million to ~4 million. More optimization can be done, but this is a huge increase for now.

• Shorten Heavy-duty ML's GUI name to fit.
  
• Fixed ordering of tanks to prevent new players from accidentally building artillery.
  
• Plasma Cannon Prototype
  Heat to Target 5 -> 7
  
• Plasma Cannon
  Heat to Target 7 -> 8
  Explosion Radius 300 -> 270
  
• Plasma Machine Gun
  Projectile Spread 0.03 -> 0.02
  Heat to Target 1.8 -> 2
  
• High Energy Plasma Machine Gun
  Heat 1.1 -> 1.4
  
• Projectile Spread 0.02 -> 0.015
  
• Heat to Target 1.9 -> 2.3
  
• BE Medium Tank
  Axleratio 0.7 -> 0.85

A highlight of the changes in this version:

• Voice pop-ups now display avatar and map coordinates.
  
• New mass unit selection feature for commanders.
  
• De-selection improvement to compensate for increased selection efficiency.
  
• The squad menu now has a compass-like feature, the arrow directs you to your squad leader.
  
• Added translation support to empires.
  
• Added and updated a lot of sounds.
  
• Achievements!
  
• HUD updates
  
• 3-slot vehicle weapons + research
  
  And a lot more: https://wiki.empiresmod.com/Version/2.11.x

A highlight of the changes in this version:

• Voice pop-ups now display avatar and map coordinates.
  
• New mass unit selection feature for commanders.
  
• De-selection improvement to compensate for increased selection efficiency.
  
• The squad menu now has a compass-like feature, the arrow directs you to your squad leader.
  
• Added translation support to empires.
  
• Added and updated a lot of sounds.
  
• Achievements!
  
• HUD updates
  
• 3-slot vehicle weapons + research
  
  And a lot more: https://wiki.empiresmod.com/Version/2.11.x

Change log can be found here!

In your Steam library, right-click Empires and click Properties. Click the Betas tab and choose Beta - Empires Beta Test.

Close the properties window. Steam will now update Empires to the beta version. Click Play to launch the Empires beta then join the beta server!

• A fix to hopefully address the "Enemy Too Near" bug that occurs.

• Darker UI in general
  
• New squad power icons
  
• New nuke particle effect
  
• Removed emp_noreturn
  
• Removed duplicate sourcetest folder
  
• New prop models

• 3-slot Plasma CN cost 80->130 Damage 80->82 Speed 3000->3100 Gravity 0.4125->0.4 Exp Radius 325->300
  
• Cost of most vehicle weapons redone. (mostly increased)
  
• Adding 2-slot plasma CN, creating separate research for 2-slot and 3-slot plasma CN.
  
• HE CN explosion radius 450->425
  
• Vehicle speed drop. (very slightly)
  
• Capacitive Damage to heat absorbed 0.045->0.04
  
• DUMG Projectile Spread 0.02->0.018
  
• 180mm&203mm arty buff.
  
• Max ammo of NFHR and HMG will actually be multiples of clipsize.
  
• SMG3 rework part 2 (buff)
  
• NF med cost 150->170
  
• NF med max weight 1092->1077
  
• Guided ML speed 1200->1400
  
• Overall slight nerf for BEAR.
  
• SMG2 headshot modifier 1.2->1.4 (same as SMG1)
  
• Adding Bio Cannon.
  
• HEMG damage 10.5->10
  
• Bio ML tweaks.