Zootopia - Empire Earth II Multiplayer Gameplay YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5fhpKfmR74
Evil Plan - Empire Earth II Multiplayer Gameplay YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2Ad2zhrJvI
Today (21.03.2020) there were over 112 players online on the Multiplayer Lobby. Due to heavy Server load, I was forced to prepare a Lobby update to reduce the number of database queries (cache instead of individual). For that, lobby will be restarted at night or in the morning.
Minor Update 157033 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157033
#Coronavirus made EE2.eu Multiplayer Lobby as active as never before. On 15th of March 2020 at 21:00 we had max. 75 players online at the same time. The previous best activity (before pandemic) was on 27th December 2017 with only 38 players online.
For all shit-talkers, who after so many years with Unofficial Patches for EE2 still don't trust it, and even dare to insult on the Support Chat - here is a response from Microsoft regarding the latest false-positive detections of EE2.exe and EE2X.exe in Windows Defender:
The Support Chat from UP1.5 Launcher has been integrated with a #❓-support-chat channel on Discord! This will speed up helping process, and prevent fragmentation. You can join our Discord at: https://www.ee2.eu/discord/
Changes in the Ministry of Game Affairs since 07.03.2020: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25507#p25507
- Department of History. New Minister: Laetitian.
Congratulations!
Behind every successful woman is Herself. Have a wonderful Women's Day!
Multiplayer Lobby - Audio Taunts for certain messages - additional information & a list of taunts: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=5314
Minor Update 157031 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157031
An old RTS game from 2005: Empire Earth 2 & Empire Earth 2: The Art of Supremacy with Unofficial Patch 1.5 supports the Tobii Eye Tracker devices for panning the screen when looking at the edge/corner of the screen. Learn more at: https://www.ee2.eu/blog/018-tobii-eye-tracker-in-empire-earth-2.php
On 27th of January 2020 - Minor Update 157030 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157030
MULTIPLAYER: Jokes (or rather insults) against Chinese players with messages about the new coronavirus 2019-nCoV will be awarded with 3 months ban. No discussion, no approval of Department of Justice needed.
Minor Update 157028 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157028
Wilparra Gets Super ICBMed in a Game with "No Nukes" Rule (YouTube video): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzInXYDxI6Y
IMPORTANT: The Multiplayer Lobby Peerchat Server TCP port has been temporary replaced from the default IRC port 6667 to 28955. It's to test if random "ping timeout" disconnects still occur. The UP1.5 Launcher will automatically overwrite this port in game process on game start.
Minor Update 157027 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157027
Multiplayer issues fixes & improved support for Tobii Eye Tracker devices.
Empire Earth 2 & Empire Earth 2: The Art of Supremacy with Unofficial Patch 1.5 now supports the Tobii Eye Tracker devices for the on borders/corners camera scrolling. Learn more at: https://www.ee2.eu/blog/018-tobii-eye-tracker-in-empire-earth-2.php @tobiigaming
Minor Update 157026 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157026
The update adds support for Tobii Eye Tracker devices. @tobiigaming
Minor Update 157025 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://www.ee2.eu/patch/changes/#157025
The update re-balances Tanks & Hercs and adds Summer textures for Tundra trees!
The best way to spend money on Black Friday is making a donation: https://www.ee2.eu/overview/#donate
I'm aware of the random Multiplayer Lobby disconnects that occur since 3rd of October 2019 (after the Server migration). It seems to be Ubuntu 18.04's systemd-resolve related. Today I applied a new workaround. Hopefully it will solve the problem... https://askubuntu.com/questions/1058750/new-alert-keeps-showing-up-server-returned-error-nxdomain-mitigating-potential
We managed to "collect" 50 users on the new Discord, within just 4 days! It's only 20 less than before, where we "collected" users for over 10 months! Thanks to everyone for the support and for the incredible activity during the last days.
Dear Discord users! The owner of the old EE2 Discord has kicked me out, causing integrations with EE2.eu / lobby to stop working due to lack of API/webhooks permissions. Setting it back took 6 hours of work. Please join a new Server using: https://www.ee2.eu/discord/
I don't know if it's not placebo, but for me it feels like Minor Update 157024 resolved lags in game completely (those little 0.5sec+ freezes, not the low FPS issue). Maybe increasing the maximum sound memory from <5MB to 100MB really was the key? What are your thoughts about it?
Minor Update 157024 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25368#p25368
Good News! MonaNAT® Server in the USA is again online. It was down since ~20th of October 2019 due to unstable provider.
The Multiplayer Services Status can be checked at: https://www.ee2.eu/status/#multiplayerload
Minor Update 157023 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25362#p25362
The EE2.eu Multiplayer Lobby has been integrated with a Discord channel. It allows to see the list of online players and send messages between those platforms, even from mobile devices. More information: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?f=58&t=5288
The Multiplayer Lobby Languages Translator has been improved to prevent unnecessary translation from the "exotic" languages. More information: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25324#p25324
EE2, EE2X - Language Changer has been updated to version 1.0.3.000 to a fallback to HTTP protocol, when modern version of TLS for HTTPS is unsupported on the Operating System (for example Windows XP).
https://ee2.eu/download/languagechanger/
The "Cycle Time of Day" option has a minimal impact on the game "freeze" during time switching. The real "lag" is caused by Autosaves which are done at exactly the same time (by default every 5 minutes). It's just a coexistence of those two features that makes user think negative
All graphics settings in EE2 should be set to highest possible, except Shadow Detail (Medium), and Lighting Detail (Low). EE2 is a CPU-intensive game, and GPU usage is usually low. By using lower settings, we get an effect opposite to the intended, because CPU gets more load.
Minor Update 157022 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25309#p25309
Minor Update 157021 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25291#p25291
PRESS INFORMATION: The upcoming Minor Update 157021 will have a new option: "Reduce visual weather effects for Blizzard and Sandstorm". More details: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25290#p25290
EE2.eu Server migration completed. The Server IP address has changed, it might be needed to clear the DNS cache (in case you can't access EE2eu). CMD -> "ipconfig /flushdns".
EE2.eu Server Migration will be done today (03.10.2019) between 5:00-7:00 CET. The domain address will change, but I'll try to make this process without noticeable downtime.
Minor Update 157019 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25279#p25279
The beauty of the Tundra - Empire Earth II (new climate) preview on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vN--3ZJNBLs
POLL: "Do you like the current weather effects during the Blizzard (snow storm) in EE2?" https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=5264
Today we experienced problems with: Multiplayer Services, Minor Update, Launcher News module (and probably more), caused by a faulty Linux update: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libidn2/+bug/1843507
It has been resolved, and everything should be running correctly now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
Read about the "Empire Earth II: Tundra - Free DLC" which is now available in UP1.5, at the EE2.eu BLOG: https://www.ee2.eu/blog/016-tundra-free-dlc.php
Minor Update 157018 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25185#p25185
Minor Update 157017 for Unofficial Patch 1.5 has been released! Changes list: https://forum.ee2.eu/viewtopic.php?p=25171#p25171
Tundra Climate Crash: Please use High terrain details to prevent game crashes on Tundra. We're investigating the issue.