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ninjewtsu posted:Is there still people who play AI wars? It's been sitting in my library for years and I'm finally starting to feel like it might be a fun thing to play, but as I recall you need a group of people to play it and there's no way I'm gonna be able to convince any of my friends to learn it Only thing I could find with the name "AI wars" is AI War: Fleet Command which is a single player game.
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ninjewtsu posted:Store page lists it as coop, and I pretty distinctly remember starting it up and having an info box tell me "this game is meant to be played with others" and, at the time, there being a somewhat active goon community playing it Co-op is very optional.
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If you're fine with reading  here's a real good essay on the failings and successes of RTS genre elements and what it could do to improve.https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FZRRACcwKzDHyi1U31Wm8RAOD4e6E03IQpAtzBbsbgE/edit
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Mordja posted:I'm playing through Homeworld Remastered, beat HW1 last night, about five missions deep into HW2. Unpopular opinion: so far, Homeworld 2 has the superior campaign. To play, I mean, I fully understand why people aren't down with the mysticism and prophecy bullshit, and it doesn't have a hook as compelling as the first game's exiles' return. But Homeworld's mission design was really pretty simplistic and some levels could be completed in under ten minutes. Like, a later one is just "swat some ships away from the Bentusi, mission complete." Meanwhile, HW2's had me protecting inbound crew ships and taking down border forts. I've also held that HW2's gameplay is also better, but that's not a new thought for me. Did you make your judgements on HW1's gameplay based on the original game or the remastered version? Because the remaster absolutely hosed a lot of HW1's gameplay mechanics because they built it on HW2's engine. This means that it doesn't have the fuel mechanic for fighters or the fact that HW1's projectiles were actual projectiles that had to travel through space to hit something instead of being set dressing for the RNG "hit or miss" HW2 has. Not gonna remark on the mission mechanics since HW2 does have more variety.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pz_CKhycqN4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3Y5rJbktbM https://store.steampowered.com/app/1202130/Starship_Troopers__Terran_Command/ quote:Starship Troopers: Terran Command (2020) New Starship Troopers RTS coming out in 2020. Graphics look average, but hopefully the game play is decent enough. It's also got the power armor and mechs.   
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Mordja posted:Looks like they got the original EVA back to re-record her lines. https://www.reddit.com/r/commandand...udio_recording/ Link hosed.
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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. That's pretty respectable.
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Ambaire posted:Are there MOBAs with flying only heroes? Or water only heroes? If they're all land only heroes, then that seems very limited, as the RTSes I've enjoyed the most all have flying, land and water units (Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge and Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, especially). There's a ton of variation even with just land only. I mean League of Legends has like 140 heroes. Heroes of the Storm also has a ton of variation.
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A friend is playtesting a new space RTS. https://store.steampowered.com/app/887570/NEBULOUS_Fleet_Command/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK5sRwg0Yw0 Looks pretty cool.
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New indie RTS. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwT3q5trUgs Basically, instead of directly ordering individual units around, you draw orders and your forces will be attracted to them.
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I've always been a fan of They Are Billions and been disappointed with its lost potential, so this definitely has my eye!
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Age of Darkness ATM is basically the survival mode of They Are Billions but better, and I'm all for it.Cicero posted:That game looks cool except that, like They Are Billions, it has no co-op. I have a lot of interest in playing this kind of game with my friends, and zero interest in playing it by myself. They do have multiplayer as one of the roadmap goals.
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Now this looks interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtxXcWC_1sw
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JSjZqV-YK8 THIS IS BEING MADE BY BLACKBIRD INTERACTIVE???
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Music for Tempest Rising. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dwQGUNRKFk They definitely got the C&C music feel right.
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There's even a mission where an optional objective is getting a fancy specially-colored mech and have it kill bugs for propaganda purposes. It even has an special AI camera crew squad (complete with one of them having a camera "gun"!) that follows it around at a short distance!
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Tiny Timbs posted:The Starship Troopers RTS was fun. I wish it had gotten some more polish and more interesting variation in the unit designs but it has a nice, lengthy campaign with fun levels. I should note that modding is also extremely easy to do! Changing unit abilities is as simple as editing values. There's mods to increase the number of bugs and even one in progress that lets you play as the bugs! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv1wOaDmhpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Q73j2XMaMM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kBlYhNvlDOI
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This looks interesting! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-GplhKxijQ
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lmao imagine playing rts for the esports
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Age of Darkness is releasing the first 2 of 3 parts for their campaign mode on April 19th. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl2dutfy4n0
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Corbeau posted:I put that game on my watch list years ago because they had multiplayer on their planned timeline. The latest update about multiplayer (coop) was some pics in December 2022. https://steamcommunity.com/games/1426450/announcements/detail/3642880749800463938   I don't think they're a large team at all so I'm fine with waiting.
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Mordja posted:Looks like Bohemia is making a Battlezonelike. Given the RTS part is actual top down as opposed to Battlezone still being in first person for the strategy bits, I'd say it's actually closer to Urban Assault. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sg0zA4EQeqQ God this brings me back.
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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/ You say it's a Zero Hour-like when it's clearly trying to be a modernized Dune 2000.
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Mordja posted:It's also not actually out... A demo is out, is what the OP was saying.
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Mordja posted:My one complaint is that the dev hired a new artist but I kind of thing I prefer his own older, greeblier ship designs. I'm pretty sure it's because the older designs were all public domain/asset repository designs. Falling Frontier ship:  Ship from an indie space RPG Between the Stars: 
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Oh this looks interesting. https://store.steampowered.com/app/2088550/Dying_Breed/
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Pirate Radar posted:Are those literally just Red Alert 1 assets (aside from the worms etc) or did they make their own copies? They've got some slight differences. There's only so much you can do at that scale.
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Jarvisi posted:I thought supreme commander 2 was universally hated by everyone? If this isn't a bit it's StarCraft 2.
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Terminator RTS demo is out. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1839950/Terminator_Dark_Fate__Defiance/
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NZAmoeba posted:I got nostalgic about a demo for Close Combat 2: A bridge too far, that I used to play the poo poo out of. I decided to watch a Let's Play of the campaign to scratch that itch, but got really frustrated at the first result on Youtube, which was some guy constantly sending his dudes on bayonet charges into machine guns because he had no patience. Then he'd be confused when his units started ignoring his orders. Oh man this is hitting me in the nostalgia. I remember playing the demo of one of the Close Combat games with I think Russians vs Germans and it captivating me even though my like 8 year old self was absolute dogshit and barely knew what to do. I'll have to check this series out.
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Has anyone here played Mech Engineer? It's a strategy/tactics game in the same vein as the original X-Com where you manage resources, loadouts, research, and production on the strategic layer while sending out teams of mechs into combat with hordes of aliens on the tactical layer, with the very stylistic and diegetic yet fairly obtuse UI along the lines of Highfleet. A lot of its systems are rather obscure or not given enough information about to the player, but once you get a handle on them it becomes pretty compelling. There's been improvement in giving more information to the player via tooltips and an in-game manual, but it can still be fairly daunting. Despite that, manipulating the finer points of your mechs' design such as weight reduction or increasing power consumption to a weapon gets to be pretty fun. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1428520/Mech_Engineer/ This video is a good overview on how to get started in the game, though some stuff is inaccurate/outdated. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PNwidEf_dCU While messing around and trying to figure things out can be compelling, I also highly suggest checking out the user-made guides for more direction. The dev is also trying to get modding working on this, which is a feat considering this was made in GameMaker. There's a fairly good rebalance mod that helps push some weapons/mechs to be a bit more viable.
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Another thing that was changed since the video I linked to was that you can now deploy up to 8 mechs to a mission instead of 4. The aforementioned rebalance mod also ups that to 16 mechs total.
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The Terminator RTS game is out BTW. Is anyone here trying it?
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Deakul posted:The one thing that stops me from loving TAB is the fact that you're pretty much hosed if a single enemy touches your base, it escalates way too quickly. There's no building infection mechanic, they'll just destroy your buildings instead.
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Mordja posted:Does it have coop? It's one of the things they're working on, they have some preview videos of it on their devblogs IIRC.
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dubLEs posted:I've been looking for an experience that distills the large-scale battles of a Total War game into something quicker and more arcade-y. I'm iffy on the card mechanics, however. Does anybody have any recs for me on something similar? You can try Winter Falling! I found it real fun and I've seen people compare the overall feel to Total War. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1285060/Winter_Falling_Battle_Tactics/ It's got a unique command system because you can't just send out orders to your units willy nilly; you have a small selection of messenger birds you have to use to send out orders. Different birds have different cooldowns, number of orders that can be sent simultaneously, etc. It really makes you think about when and where you tell your troops to go or activate abilities. It's still in early access but it's got a lot of potential. skaianDestiny fucked around with this message at 18:07 on Mar 25, 2024 |
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Quixzlizx posted:This looks cool, but should I be worried that the last update was a December post noting that the upcoming big update needs to be delayed until January, then radio silence for 2024? Yeah he's still posting updates on his discord server, it's just as said he's been suffering from real life problems.
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