New Models, Animations, and Sounds
- Many new world models and animations including projectile explosions, building sparks, weapon models, and tank deaths
- Completely new set of ingame sounds
- Updated graphic user interface
- All new first-person weapon models: Northern Faction Mines, Northern Faction Engineer Repair Tool, Imperial Assault Rifle, Imperial Heavy Rifle, Imperial Sniper Rifle, and many more!
- Many weapons now have ironsights: Northern Faction Assault Rifle, Imperial Assault Rifle, and many more!
- Loading screens appear while new maps are loading and display helpful gameplay tips
- New kill/death icons
Changes to Gameplay
- Scouts can now sabotage buildings to disarm or damage enemy infrastructure
- All classes can now go prone
- Vehicles can run over infantry
- Major rebalancing of infantry and vehicle weapons
- Riflemen and Scouts can now use sticky grenades to destroy vehicles
- Rebalance of vehicle weight restrictions to force armor vs. weaponry choice
- Repair stations can now be used to rearm a vehicle that has outdated weaponry
- Improved vehicle handling (including 2nd seat passenger no longer rotating with vehicle turret)
New & Updated Maps
- Maps have been rendered with HDR
- Four all new maps: Cyclopean, Glycen City, Streets Of Fire, and Urban Chaos
- Updated versions of Canyon, Crossroads, District, Duststorm, Escort, Isle, Money, Mvalley, and Slaughtered
Retailored Squad System
- A commander is now voted in at the beginning of the match using the new commander voting feature
- All new squad interface to make it easier to join or leave a squad
- Squad leaders emit an aura of special class-dependent skills
- Squads accumulate points for special squad skills that the squad leader can use
Game Code Improvements
- New network code to tremendously reduce lag and allow for bigger games
- SourceTV support
- Many new server variables to give server administrators more Empires-specific control of games
- Improved spectator interface
- Ingame chat is colorcoded to differentiate between Northern Faction, Brenodi Empire, Commander, and Spectator
- When a round ends all client camera views are brought to the reason for the round ending using the CV DeathCam
- The user scoreboard now has a scrollbar and ability to mute annoying players
Risk-style League Gameplay
- Concurrent with the release of Empires Mod 2.0, the Empires League will begin its first season
- Clans will compete for territory on a gameboard map
