The latest version of the Empires mod for HL2 has just been released. Info, screenies, download and movie HERE Start guide Wiki HERE

Ill have to take a look... From a fun angle I liked the look of 'Pirates, knights and Vikings 2' also- they intend to add a total of 15 classes so should be good.

Gave this a go, and it was fun, for a few minutes anyway.

Trouble is, there were only 3 servers with anyone on and it was confusing to play. The buildings are so indistict you don't know what they're for unless you play commander, I had no idea how you were supposed to replenish your health (all I found was a small health box in the Brenodi side's armoury) and the grenadier was rubbish at anti tank. That rocket launcher is piss poor. Does hardly any damage and you only get 3 rockets. The rockets travel at a snails pace too.

That, and I shot a guy 4 times with a tanks rocket launcher and he was still standing.

What I think it did well is large battle spaces. Coped surprisingly well and whilst just about everyone had a ping at least over 100, I didnt notice any traditional signs of lag.

I tried it wayback, when there still was massive lag issues. Haven't tried it since, probably gotta give it a go now that they fixed it more

It's really not good. Despite the mod teams admirable aspirations, the gameplay is still a huge letdown. I think the idea itself is a great one, but perhaps it's more suited to another engine of some sort.

Been playing empires recently and tbh i think its good. its not perfect but ive pretty much been running around and still had good fun. The main 2 problems ive found is one the sniper sucks for the most part. the second is that you basically have to play with loads of people. So i thought where do i know a large amount of people to play with....hmmmm. Anyone up for it?

How about the mod called Iron Grip?

http://www.moddb.com/mods/4726/iron-gri ... on-concert

"One team consists of one human player, playing a full RTS style game, building and commanding AI troops while the opposing team consisting of human FPS players only!"

Was fun for a few hours, that was before everyone stopped playing it

I am just waiting for Natural Selection Sauce (any news on its release>), that should be the best FPS meets RTS on sauce