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Testimonial: This game consistently delivers dynamic game play and heaps of fun. The only game I have played that I have not gotten bored of, even after 5 years.
- |JPL| Kamber

Empires 2.25b released

Submitted by MOOtant on Thu, 04/29/2010 - 09:21

Download it at: <client download page> <server download page>

Full changelog:

Balancing changes:
+ Fission reactor 90 s -> 60 s
+ Chemistry 90 s -> 60 s
+ Improved Heat Transfer Fluids 90 s -> 60 s
+ Advanced Coolant Engine 120 s -> 90 s
+ Mechanical Engineering 90 s -> 60 s
+ Upgraded Chassis 90 s -> 60 s
+ Medium Tank Chassis 120 s -> 90 s
+ Gas Turbine Engine 150 s -> 120 s
+ Electrical Engineering 90 s -> 60 s
+ 3 Phase Engine 60 s -> 30 s
+ Biology 90 s -> 60 s
+ Regen armor 180 s -> 150 s
+ Reactive 150 s -> 120 s

+ Standard MG damage 40 -> 30
+ Medium .50 cal damage 50 -> 40
+ Heavy .50 cal damage 60 -> 50
+ Chain gun damage 24 -> 16
+ Medium chain gun 32 -> 35

+ RPG missile damage 105 -> 120

Removed:
+ White flash when firing cannon or missile launcher.
+ Outdated map-specific config files.

Modified:
+ Optimized particle effects.
+ Steam avatar is now used as voice chat icon.
+ Disabled pushing away from other players.
+ Resource amount on emp_streetsoffire changed to 75% of current value.
+ emp_sv_refinery_multiplier 3 -> 10 on emp_escort.

Fixed:
+ Fixed crash when drawing crosshair.
+ Fixed crash when using vehicle factory from commander view.
+ Fixed crash when creating engineer kit sparks.
+ Fixed engineer sparks created multiple times per frame on client.
+ Tickets used are saved for reconnecting players.
+ Fixed exploit where player could skip delays between bursts.
+ Player could select weapons not belonging to his class/team.