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 https://store.steampowered.com/app/1605220/Dune_Spice_Wars/ Dune Spice Wars is a "Real Time 4X" from Shiro Games (developers of Northgard which this game apparently takes a fair amount from, I don't know I haven't played Northgard). It was released into Early Access back in 2022 with its 1.0 release coming in 14th September 2023. It's available on Steam and Xbox,  and is also on Game Pass for PC, Console and Cloud with the House Vernius DLC includedI tried it on Game Pass and was surprised at how much I loved the game. It's a fusion of real time strategy elements with 4X design, and what I would characterise as almost boardgame-esque design sensibilities (lauditory). There's a small but loyal playerbase singing its praises and I wanted a thread to evangelise it to Goons and chat about it. The game has three game modes: Conquest - The single player campaign. Not really a traditional "campaign", but a series of games played against opposing AI factions. Each map you play can have modifiers or conditions to vary your playstyle, and completing optional objectives on a map will grant you bonuses that persist across the rest of the campaign. Skirmish - Standard 4 player multiplayer. While the default is 4 human player FFA, also supports AI opponents and team games allowing for comp stomps with your friends. Can configure a number of parameters ranging from map size to permissable victory conditions. Kanly Duel - A 1v1 mode against either another player or AI. Played on a small map with each player starting with significant resources, some other modifications to resource generation rates etc. to speed the game up. Not really as popular as the Skirmish mode. In this game you can:
The game has adjustable speed and is freely pausable, which is great when you're learning the game or playing against AI. Most organised multiplayer skirmish games are played at 1.5x speed with no pausing; once you're acclimatised to this pace, games will usually only take 60 - 120 minutes which for a 4X game is almost no time at all. A note for those who might be put off by the idea of having to manage your armies in real time; army sizes are significantly smaller than most RTS games and although the game does reward a level of good micromanagement in fighting (e.g. getting your melee units into contact with their ranged units), it more significantly rewards good positioning and timing when commencing an attack. If I, an idiot dummy who is bad at RTS, can manage this then I promise you can too. Screenshots!   
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People To Watch Turin - Organises, runs and streams multiplayer tournaments for this game. Runs Turin Multiplayer Discord which has some good resources and a multiplayer community for this and other strategy games. Daevohk - Streams matches he plays with commentary. Super informative and approachable for new players to follow along, and has started putting out some excellent guides for factions. Discords I'll add any goon discords if we've got folks playing/organising games? Otherwise I'll suggest these: Turin's Multiplayer Discord - link at the top right of this page. There's also the official Discord run by Shiro Games here: https://discord.gg/qWDe4ng9FE General Guides Beginner's Guide (text) Slightly out of date but still sound text overview of all the game's systems: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3058990585 A more recent beginner's guide/overview of the game: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMze46sIwdc Assassination Guide: The game does a very poor job of explaining how assassinations work. This video gives a thorough explanation of both launching assassinations and defending against them. Faction Guides Atreidies TBD Harkonnen TBD Corrino - Doghead has a written guide on Turin's discord (linked above). - Daevohk has a video guide Fremen TBD Smugglers - Doghead has a written guide on Turin's discord (linked above). Ecaz - Daevohk has a video guide Vernius - cyrix has a written guide on Turin's discord (linked above). Mode 7 fucked around with this message at 14:46 on Apr 12, 2024 |
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It's really cool, much more interesting than northgard imo
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I've never really been a big RTS enjoyer outside of the big genre tentpoles of the 90s, and I've absolutely never been interested in playing them competitively, but something about the design of this game and the way everything fits together really makes me want to learn and play against other players a bunch! I'm still bouncing between factions trying to get a basic grasp on them, my favourite so far has been the Smugglers both because of their theming but also the parasitic nature of their economy and ability to seize disparate and far-flung territories without penalty is really cool. Planning to dig more into Corrino as well given that they're pretty good at playing 'tall' which I like. Absolutely could not wrap my head around the Fremen in the one game as them I played, but I've seen some vicious early rushes with them.
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Mode 7 posted:I've never really been a big RTS enjoyer outside of the big genre tentpoles of the 90s, and I've absolutely never been interested in playing them competitively, but something about the design of this game and the way everything fits together really makes me want to learn and play against other players a bunch! It's really neat game yeah. I think a part of it is that you don't have to be hyperaggresive all the time like SC or C&C, and that there's so many win conditions. Also there's like 8 resources to spin 
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I like this game, it is good, i like this thread, it is good. saw a Turin stream 16 ffa tourney today, the 1 big falling is that there is no dedicated spectator view, but every game ive watched has been a cluster truck of antics from sleeper hedge wins to double assassinations. It's a good time all the time!
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Daevokh did a fremen guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hYzZjVJ_p4 Ya hya chouhada!
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