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Empire Earth II: 20th Anniversary🎉 & Unofficial Patch 1.6

Dear Empire Earth II Player,

This year marks the 20th anniversary of Empire Earth II. The game was released on April 26, 2005, and remains one of the best RTS games ever created, featuring unique mechanics unmatched by other titles.

Since 2012, Dr. MonaLisa has been improving the game with monthly Unofficial Patch updates. These updates add new features, enhance performance, and ensure compatibility with modern operating systems and hardware. You can check the full changelog here.

🌐 Multiplayer Improvements

In February 2025, the Unique Ping Reduction System was introduced, realistically reducing command lag by up to 66%🚀!
In 2016, a network of relay servers (MonaNAT®) was created, allowing all players to join and host games with 100% success chance, even if their ports are blocked or their routers are behind Symmetric NAT.
Following GameSpy’s shutdown in 2012, the new EE2.eu Multiplayer Lobby was launched in October 2015 as its replacement. Accessing it is straightforward: simply click Multiplayer → Internet in the main menu. We invite you to revisit EE2.eu Multiplayer.

🌟 Enhanced Features

In October 2023, we introduced special Enhanced Features for players who supported the project with donations. These features improve UI and terrain textures, offering a fresh in-game experience, while keeping the original design:

• AI-enhanced UI & Terrain Textures (over 3000, including icons) 🖼️
• Custom Mouse Cursor Scale option (100%-400%) 🖱️
• Magic TILDE` Key and Smart Building Hotkey Memory ⌨️

🎮️ Other Significant Features

Thousands of improvements have been made to the game over the years, but the core goal remains: keeping the original game balance and strategy unchanged. Playing with Unofficial Patch 1.6 guarantees you the same strategic experience as when you first played the game.

Some major features include:

• 🌧️🌲 New ultra-high quality ambient & weather (rain, snow, wind, dust storm) sounds for all climates, including land and forest sounds. They replace the low-quality original sounds while staying as close to the original style as possible. These sounds are fully licensed (purchased) and can be safely used in YouTube gameplay videos. Watch the presentation video.
• 🎧 Improved music quality thanks to EE2 music composer Michael Gordon Shapiro, who provided uncompressed .wav files. Check out Michael's music.
• 🖥️ DirectX 9/12, support for all screen resolutions (including 4K), Automatic Font Size, high refresh rate tweaks, multi-display support and AutoFOV.
• 🏰 New campaigns and scenarios (e.g., Loew's Pacific Campaign), available in the Single Player → Play Campaign menu.
• 🏔️ New climate: Tundra, with new terrain textures, ambient colors, Sun directions, animals, sounds, forests and more.
• 📡️ A new "Missile Defense System" with Radar, Static/Mobile/Naval anti-Missile launchers, alert sirens and new ICBMs.
• 👀 Support for Tobii Eye Tracker devices.
• 🛠️ Hundreds of stability improvements, bug & crash fixes, and performance enhancements.
• 🌍️ Language Changer which allows you to change the game language for 3 separate components: Text, Audio, Video.

Explore all features on the Unofficial Patch 1.6 website.

❤️ Support the Project

Unofficial Patch is downloaded over 2000 times per month, yet only ~0.2% of new players decide to support it. This is a free, non-commercial project, but donations keep it alive, allow us to purchase new content and cover servers costs.

If you're happy of how Empire Earth II was supported over years, please consider donating, even if you have done so before. Donations also award you with access to Enhanced Features.
Due to financial difficulties, we decided to send this newsletter — the first in 12 years.

📥 How to Play Again?

In order to use the patch, you must have Empire Earth II, optionally with the expansion pack Empire Earth II: The Art of Supremacy already installed on your computer. If you own a legal copy but e.g. cannot use the 💿 CD/DVD drive, email proof (such as a photo of your CD, game box, or guidebook) to help@ee2.eu, and we will assist you for free.

Download the Unofficial Patch 1.6 from: https://ee2.eu/patch.

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Thank you for reading this email. We hope you’ll visit the Empire Earth II community again soon.

Best regards,
Dr. MonaLisa

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