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LordSloth posted:AI War came up a while ago; following up on that with this: Fantastic. I don't have time yet to play it (though it was an immediate release buy for me), but an LP I can sneak in now and then. I plan on campaigning for one of my preferred features from AI War 1: on loss of focus, auto pause and drop CPU/GPU usage to a minimum--for that extra "should really not be multitasking right now" goodness.
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Samopsa posted:Yeah it's way simpler, in a good way. I’d also add that the game has a pretty good internal AIWarapedia and I haven’t had to look at a Wiki yet.
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LordSloth posted:For co-op RTS gaming there is AI War: Fleet Command. It pretty much is the definition of long-form campaign. I’m not sure if I’d recommend it in the case of an 8-year old, however- not even considering it has a sequel now (co-op not yet implemented). AI War lets one player play a single, powerful, upgradable "champion" ship instead of a faction. Still maybe not an 8-year-old's first choice. AI War 2 is fresh out of course, and maybe they'll implement this feature later. Does Majesty let you do co-op?
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Nov 17, 2019 19:06
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1000 Brown M and Ms posted:Who'd be interested in a write-up on Heroes of Might and Magic? Admittedly, I've never played V, VI or VII, but the older ones are some of my favourite games of all time. right here 
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That was a great HOMM writeup, thanks. For the first time I'm looking at playing HOMM but also eyeballing the Eador series. All the games that sorta look like that have a Euro fantasy map look to them and it's hard for me to tell what's good and what ain't. Even when they were on US store shelves in the late 90's and early 00's, they just blended in with generic RPGs that I had no way of telling which were good or bad, so I'd just hunt for the next FPS. But these days they look like bright warm blankets to wrap myself in during the winter months. What I'm also saying is, more detailed writeups of strategy games are most welcome.
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Dec 18, 2019 01:10
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An overview of cheap/free Panzer replacement games "for the stony broke."quote:If Panzer Corps 2 is to drop a fascine into my corpse-dotted Ditch of Doubt, it will not only have to hold its own in the company of modern greats like Unity of Command 2, it will need to offer me experiences I can’t get for nothing or next-to-nothing from hexy alternatives like…
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C.M. Kruger posted:On the Steam forums the dev has said he's not planning on doing MP until Regiments 2 because (paraphrasing) he wants to build a good base game first instead of putting that effort into something that fewer than 20% of players will try (most only once) and will be dead after a month. A wise fellow
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Haven't played it, but Conquest of Elysium 5?
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Jun 9, 2022 19:12
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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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Aug 19, 2022 20:09
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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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Aug 19, 2022 21:03
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Bremen posted: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. Already bought! There's something about how weird-looking and scif-fi and ambitious it is, kind of appeals to the SMAC-appreciator in me. Although I guess it's more like the Spartan faction on Planet than anything else. alarumklok posted: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 Thank you! One of the worst things about buying a game like this is knowing that it probably needs mods and having no energy to figure out which ones are actually worth the time. edit: wow their forum is slow. doctorfrog fucked around with this message at 04:27 on Aug 20, 2022 |
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In every strategy game I play, I want to play against an AI that almost beats me, but instead I just barely beat it, and feel real good.
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Took me an embarrassing amount of retries to beat the Beachhead at Thalassian level in Total Annihilation. I am bad at RTS. I kept doing poorly and restarting, finally figured out how important it is to balance metal production, desperately assembled a simple kill squad, and went looking for whatever manufacturing base was out there... and it turned out to be a limited fleet with no production or landing capability. I could have run out the clock with them just by churning out units until the end of time. I keep wanting to be able to do things I can't do in this game:
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Nov 10, 2022 23:03
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Yeah, this is *with* the patch. But your link made me re-read the readme and learn a few new hotkeys. Still surprisingly fun, and IMO it's proof you don't need high poly models in a game like this.
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Nov 11, 2022 01:12
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Love Stole the Day posted:New Zero Hour-like came out with a playable demo: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1965470/Barkhan/ Good to see the RTS engine from Space Rangers branching out into new places
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Apr 10, 2023 02:10
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I think it was related to refusing to add female battle bros, and some problematic flavor text indicating support for a traditionalist view or something. Both excused by some insistence on how history and people are just naturally nasty brutish and short or whatever.
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The premise of most 4X's is bullshit anyway: "everyone starts on the same even footing at the same time and the cleverest wins!" Just like human history!
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