They will set up a defensive dome and marshall their troops, threatening to lay siege to a bridge or sabotage a vulnerable generator.
PSR can now exclusively reveal the identity of the eagerly awaited Fourth Empire - thought to be going live early in 2005. It is rumoured that, on a "specific, but unspecified date", an earth-shattering event will culminate in the capture of a tower on Searhus...by North Korea!
Empire-specific weapons are said to include the "retro" stylings of RT-2P 'Sickle' Long Range Ballistic Missiles with Nuclear capabilities. Great!
A new class of Cloaked Weapons - like the cloaked 9mm shown in the character selection screen - fires translucent ammunition and special, invisible tracer rounds. Sadly, weapons are relatively scarce, as 98% of NTUs are needed to maintain the tower's impregnable force dome.
"This will be a unique empire, quite unlike any other," says dev S**k**u**er (name partially withheld to slightly hide identity).
"There will be a single CR5. All other players will be BR1 CR0 forever, so there’s no gruelling xp grind. And in return, your leader promises to actually listen to all your /sitreps, to record them in fact. You have a duty to submit regular situation reports on your friends and family, particularly regarding unsanctioned activities."
"Unless you're very lucky, or connected," says *m***j**p**, "you'll have quite limited options. "
"There's only one outfit, of which membership is compulsory. Obey all the Globals or your spawn rights are revoked, sometimes permanently! We're all really excited," he gushed.
"Their one good ANT sweats out its power, hanging in there at seventeen health, while the engineers are bee busy, poking their guns into dark-lit corners, and hunting down cloakers and other transgressors, using their see-through weaponry. But mostly aiming, warily, at each other," quoth he, almost poetically.
Ah, tears were shed that day, my friend.
An Apology: In last month's "Leaked" we may have stated, ok, did state, that the Fourth Empire would comprise a bunch of giant, Telekinetic Frog People riding experimental piezoelectric Sky Mopeds.
We now accept that this might have been, ok was wrong, and we're sorry for any confusion, heated arguments and broken marriages we might have...ok ok, did cause.
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