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Phigs posted:Is ultimate General worth it if you like strategy games but could not give the slightest poo poo about the American Civil War, both in the war itself and the overall period it was set in? Still probably yes. It's an interesting approach to that kind of warfare and drawing lines to order units around is satisfying. I think that if it wasn't trying to be historical it could have a slightly better campaign with a little more variety in the missions, but even as it is there's a decent range of different kinds of battles, though towards the end of the campaign it gets a bit samey.
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Mordja posted:Gotta say, Sudden Strike scales up nicely: For some reason my browser chose to play this in 360p and I thought it was a troll.
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FLIPADELPHIA posted:Yeah panzer general was one of my absolute favs growing up. And the entire point of that game is to basically ensure the rise of global fascism with clever tactics. Super hosed up if you stop and think about it for even 1 second. I had the same emotional reaction to realizing that i was blowing up brave baathist patriots in garry kitchen's super battletank
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I've bought Deserts of Kharak, and even though it was like 5 euros, I have some strong opinions about non-rebindable keys and game constantly loving with my view angle after cutscenes and exiting sensors (if at least camera zoom and rotate weren't so floaty). Also unskipable cutscene during which game continues and rolls enemy carrier with whole army right on top of my carrier is  . Otherwise it looks kind of okay
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I couldn't much get into DoK thanks to the hard counter aspects of the units. I guess I just prefer soft counters or the oldschool C&C "all the tanks ever will overwhelm even the mightiest anti tank force" rush/blobbing ability.
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The best part of DoK is going all in on the carrier's offensive power, building an air force, and just trundling over any enemy forces around The second best part was figuring out at launch that Gaalsien's scout equivalents were broken as gently caress and rushing with like four of them to kill the Coalition's harvesters then use the battle carrier or whatever to lock them down and instantly win but they patched that ages ago
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commando in tophat posted:Also unskipable cutscene during which game continues and rolls enemy carrier with whole army right on top of my carrier is Lol I know exactly which mission this is because it happened to me the other day. It also helpfully checkpoints you right there, so you have to start the mission over entirely. The game's vibe and comms chatter are really excellent, though, and I wish every single strategy game had something like Sensors mode (or Invisible Inc's equivalent).
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Looks like the COH3's North Africa campaign's gonna be shown off tomorrow, maybe with a release date if we're luck? Wouldn't complain about another playtest either. https://twitter.com/CompanyOfHeroes/status/1546540674685845510?cxt=HHwWjIC-lZejtfYqAAAA
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Wow I thought this was Italy only.
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V for Vegas posted:Wow I thought this was Italy only. I mean, the Italians were most successful in Africa so it’s not surprising
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Sure enough, COH3 is out in November. Interestingly enough the African campaign will be a linear one, not TW-style map like the Italian. https://www.pcgamer.com/company-of-heroes-3-is-coming-on-november-17-along-with-two-very-different-campaigns/
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Pirate Radar posted:Still probably yes. It's an interesting approach to that kind of warfare and drawing lines to order units around is satisfying. I think that if it wasn't trying to be historical it could have a slightly better campaign with a little more variety in the missions, but even as it is there's a decent range of different kinds of battles, though towards the end of the campaign it gets a bit samey. I love playing as the union and being unable to bring manpower advantages to bear.
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I'm sick of the cowards I command running away from a fight. I'll have them tried for desertion and shot.
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Tankbuster posted:I love playing as the union and being unable to bring manpower advantages to bear. I love it when the Confederates just sort of summon more men from nowhere!!!
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As somebody who still plays a poo poo ton of CoH2 I am excited for CoH3.
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ultimate general is fun but its campaign layer is...well, why is the gettysburg campaign even happening when I just basically annihilated the ANV at antietam half an hour ago?
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Reiterpallasch posted:ultimate general is fun but its campaign layer is...well, why is the gettysburg campaign even happening when I just basically annihilated the ANV at antietam half an hour ago? It's a video game- it has a series of scenarios with a persistent army, there are plenty of strategic level ACW games if you want that.
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Dartis finally managed to make a game whose campaign layer is worse than CA's.
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davecrazy posted:As somebody who still plays a poo poo ton of CoH2 I am excited for CoH3.
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Flipswitch posted:Bring back the Eastern front imob They can piss off Russia as much as they want now!
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Lol, this is mild compared to the anime skins for COH2.
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Yeah didn't SEGA do a cross promotion with one of the Valkyria Chronicles games or something?
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This looks pretty neat. Sounds like it'll be a sort of Age of Mythology-inspired RTS set around the Northern Crusades. Graphics look kinda Warcrafty tho. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1328990/Godsworn/
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generic crusaders with generic angelic backup VS comes across like they wanted teutons VS vikings early on then realised that's the wrong set of atrocities for the bucket helm pricks to be doing, but didn't want to throw out the concept art they'd finished either
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Tankbuster posted:Dartis finally managed to make a game whose campaign layer is worse than CA's. I never got far into it. But the historical battles are dope.
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Mordja posted:This looks pretty neat. Sounds like it'll be a sort of Age of Mythology-inspired RTS set around the Northern Crusades. Graphics look kinda Warcrafty tho. Assessor of Maat posted:generic crusaders with generic angelic backup VS Sir this is a game thread GyverMac fucked around with this message at 15:29 on Aug 5, 2022 |
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GyverMac posted:Sir this is a game thread yeah that's why I'm complaining about aesthetic decisions in a videogame here you halfwit
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Has anyone here played Fantasy General II? If so how did they find it? I picked it up and after some initial missions I feel kinda 50/50 on it? There's something about it I am either not used to yet or just am not agreeing with, though I think it'll take more playing to find out what. Perhaps it a bit more going through the Invasion campaign to really get into it.
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Closest thing we're gonna get to a new C&C game, I think. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGMqlbWM1Ys https://store.steampowered.com/app/1486920/Tempest_Rising/ Real close.
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3D Realms, whoa. And yeah, that's very C&C.
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Very Tiberian Sun. We'll see how it does, I suppose.
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I noticed Shadow Empire is  on GOG, which seems pretty darn good, except... well it's a Slitherine-produced title, is it unofficially abandoned, or about to get a bunch of overpriced DLC or something?
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The dev is still working on it and adding naval stuff so not abandoned at all. Great game.
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doctorfrog posted:I noticed Shadow Empire is None of the above. It's still in active development with everything so far having been added for free. It's definitely a groggy title, but if you like very heavily logistics-based 4X/strategy games, it's good.
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Thanks for the input. I'm pretty poo poo at strategy games, but this one looks like something pretty special to be bad at.
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doctorfrog posted:Thanks for the input. I'm pretty poo poo at strategy games, but this one looks like something pretty special to be bad at. If it looks interesting to you, go for it. It's actually one of the funner games I've played lately and I think the genre being niche is the only reason it's not a bigger hit.
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Shadow Empire owns. Go to their janky rear end official forums and download the card art mod, the artist is loving fantastic and it's a huge step up from programmer art
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