Empires Mod needs you

[War_Ferret]

http://store.steampowered.com/app/17740/

It's been around for many years. It's probably my second most played game (evah) after crpg, although I haven't been playing it in a long time. Last night I wanted to play another round, but apparently it's hard to find a populated server on a week day by now 

In my opinion Empires is the best FPS/strategy hybrid ever made. It's a source-mod and a bit like Natural Selection, but the scale is much larger. Where NS is pretty claustrophobic, Empires has large and open levels. There's research, building, designing and constructing vehicles, 4 different infantry classes with customizable equipment and unlockable skills, squads, one commander per side, ressource locations to be fought over... it's epic. Would be a real shame, if it died. It's about team work, planning ahead, tactics, improvising, personal skill... and it's free!

[War_Ferret]

[Brrrak]

Oh fuck, I remember getting on this once when a group (including myself) were looking for good, free games to play.

I can't remember if we thought it was good.  We didn't play it much after.

[War_Ferret]

It's not the kind of game, where you join for the first and have a blast shooting stuff. It has a good amount of depth and you will need to invest a few hours to learn what it's all about. But then it's really great, as long as you want more than just spawning, running, shooting, spawning, running, shooting. After all, it's as much an RTS as it is an FPS. I can't use my Steam atm, but I could imagine, now would be a good time to check for active servers, if anyone cares.