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KOGAHAZAN!! posted:Having played a bunch of Planetary Annihilation recently, this just makes me want to play more Planetary Annihilation. and seeing this makes me want to reinstall supreme commander
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appropriatemetaphor posted:and seeing this makes me want to reinstall supreme commander And seeing this makes me want to reinstall Total Annihilation
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Oct 3, 2021 21:19
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I merely wished to indicate that I had found the demo uncompelling, not start an edition war. 
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Oct 4, 2021 02:18
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Actually played some of it, and in the pantheon of probably-too-indie-for-their-own-good TAlikes, I'd say Rusted Warfare is def better.
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Mordja posted:Speaking of This is a game I am really looking forward to. Small scale solar system. I would love a something similar to this with the missile focus of Aurora.
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Oct 4, 2021 06:27
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I liked the Starship Troopers demo, though I hope they can make the line of fire a little more forgiving. As it is right now there were more than a few times where I had units lined up side by side and if the enemy was coming from just a bit to either side one of the units just wouldn't fire at all.
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Oct 5, 2021 14:42
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Because of Actraiser Renaissance existing, I was finally reminded of Smelter, decided to try that game out instead. The tier 2 zones are kicking my rear end hard, in what's probably a good way? The eastern region has some kind of lost woods style maze going on that I need to figure out and stop space from warping. The western region has moving electric traps - I'm sure I have all the necessary movement techniques to clear it, but I don't have the personal skills to pull it off yet. The northern region was tough, but I improved enough to reach the boss. The problem is I can't figure out how to handle the boss yet. The checkpointing system is good, and I could try the boss as much as I want when I reach him, but I'm exhausted from the day and getting through the dungeon first - and can't do a proper save mid-dungeon. So I've got to get back there and through while not being dead tired, so I can figure out what to do. Probably going to have to shelve it till I have a good day to tackle it with my full wits.
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Oct 5, 2021 19:42
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 There is a game similar to They Are Billions releasing into early access soon called Age of Darkness: Final Stand. It's got some stuff I've always wanted in TAB, namely non-volatile saves (so you can retry on good map seeds). The main survival mode also doesn't have a fixed duration like TAB so you just keep going as long as you can. There's other neat stuff too such as being able to build anywhere, hero units, and a day/night cycle. edit: releasing into early access Brutakas fucked around with this message at 18:48 on Oct 7, 2021 |
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Oct 7, 2021 04:19
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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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Brutakas posted:
Came here to post about this, there's streams of it on twitch and it basically looks like warcraft 3 crossed with TAB. end of night enemy raids look absolutely horrifyingly intense. Albeit the guy I'm watching is playing on the hardest difficulty.
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Oct 7, 2021 06:09
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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. In other news, there's a kickstarter with a standalone Sheep Tag game! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lunawolfstudios/sheep-tag-2 Hell yes, I loved Sheep Tag, and from talking to the devs it looks like they're aware of the various implementation problems it had as a Warcraft 3 custom map and had some different solutions in mind.
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Oct 7, 2021 21:29
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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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sirtommygunn posted:I liked the Starship Troopers demo, though I hope they can make the line of fire a little more forgiving. As it is right now there were more than a few times where I had units lined up side by side and if the enemy was coming from just a bit to either side one of the units just wouldn't fire at all. The second that intro said it was based on the Starship Troopers films with no mentions of the book I nearly quit straight away. I played heaps of Starship Troopers: Terran Ascendancy back in the day and the fact there seems to be zero exosuits and just a few different infantry units turned me right off. Still played through the first 2 missions of the demo, but it just felt flat, and the line of fire mechanic seemed really tedious.
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Check it, a mod for the original Red Alert (but not the remasters) that makes the entire campaign co-op. https://www.moddb.com/mods/command-conquer-blue-alert Rudager posted:The second that intro said it was based on the Starship Troopers films with no mentions of the book I nearly quit straight away.
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Rudager posted:The second that intro said it was based on the Starship Troopers films with no mentions of the book I nearly quit straight away. I'd rather play a game about a movie series that makes fun of a fascist power fantasy than a series of books about a fascist power fantasy where the bugs are literal stand ins for the Chinese and Vietnamese. Give me massive amounts of bugs, little fragile soldiers and an over the top, cynical congratulations for losing thousands of men and women to conquer a piece of dirt.
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Oct 9, 2021 19:08
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skaianDestiny posted:Age of Darkness ATM is basically the survival mode of They Are Billions but better, and I'm all for it. I hope it sticks the landing because for whatever reason, I *really* dig the concept (same with The Last Spell) For some reason magical end of days speaks to me, but zombie apocalypse does nothing, even though it's just a different color of paint
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Oct 9, 2021 19:13
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Mordja posted:And seeing this makes me want to reinstall Total Annihilation I love Total Annihilation, but I'm forever spoiled by the UI features that Supreme Commander brought to the table. Also in that imgur thread that someone posted, the TA screenshot has obviously got some mods installed.
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Oct 9, 2021 19:26
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Zero K Zero K Zero K It owns
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skaianDestiny posted:Age of Darkness ATM is basically the survival mode of They Are Billions but better, and I'm all for it.
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Oct 9, 2021 23:06
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The poo poo ai and necessary constant micromanaging in they are billions makes me just hate how boring that game was and assume the devs are bad at fun and design
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Mans posted:I'd rather play a game about a movie series that makes fun of a fascist power fantasy than a series of books about a fascist power fantasy where the bugs are literal stand ins for the Chinese and Vietnamese. I'd like to see then throw in some stuff from the book for some really black comedy. Have a mission where you build up a unit of K9 units. They try this in the book, and it turns out dogs find the smell, sight, noise and tunneling vibrations of the bugs a unlivable nightmare and every single one nopes out minute one and activate their suicide device. Their human handlers were bonded to them like family, so this also left behind a large number of emotionally crippled soldiers. Next mission can be fascist doogie howser figuring out how to handle the fallout from that.
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Oct 11, 2021 21:09
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Another one of those big C&C Anniversary streams incoming, this one for Red Alert.
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I'm gonna give the Kohan games a try, anyone know anything about them? My only experience was playing the K2 demo way back when.
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Mordja posted:I'm gonna give the Kohan games a try, anyone know anything about them? My only experience was playing the K2 demo way back when. kinda middling sp in another timeline Kohan 1 was a huge hit and influenced rts design for years I played so many hours of 4v4 Kohan, and it was so, so good
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Kohan 1 has you found your own cities, Kohan 2 is more about controlling specific places. Keep your forces, especially your heroes, alive. 1 good squad can easily handle lots of little squads. The trouble is generally making that good squad.
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Mordja posted:I'm gonna give the Kohan games a try, anyone know anything about them? My only experience was playing the K2 demo way back when. Armies are real methodical. Unless you go with... the elvish sorts expect troops to take a while to get into position. The march formation is your friend... until it isn't. Besieged cities don't provide supply coverage.
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I played through the tutorials and there's more to this than I thought. From what I recall, the second game is about capturing semi-prebuilt cities, I think it used a build plot construction system.
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Mordja posted:I played through the tutorials and there's more to this than I thought. From what I recall, the second game is about capturing semi-prebuilt cities, I think it used a build plot construction system. Yep! Ideally you want a specialized troop city and a bunch of resource providers. Not all factions can fit all the relevant buildings in one city but it can save you a bunch of money in the long run.
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Nov 3, 2021 05:47
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Kohan 1: Search the maps in the campaign. There are tech upgrades in many, and you can't go back for them or get them later.
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Immortal, the *craft-like RTS being made by former SC2 modders, is doing a pre-alpha stress test next weekend for kickstarter backers, which includes me! No NDA, so I'll be able to talk. So far it looks sort of in between StarCraft and Warcraft 3 in terms of game focus or flow.
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Anybody got experience with Mainframe Defenders? I've been looking at it on steam for a while, but it just came out on switch so I'm extra interested.
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I have it, presumably the switch version is already version 2.whatever? A bit on the hard side, but a solid tactics/robot building game. Try to figure out which of your bots runs the coldest and have them shoot through walls and other things between you and the objective. Don't be afraid to move your starting equipment around, as long as everybody ends up with one gun. Any amount of hull healing or regeneration is great, status effect clearing is priceless. Don't go all in on direct damage or status effects. Different enemy robots and scenarios can punish teams that don't diversify. Even robots that shoot a bajillion shots have counters by the third act. I personally like a game where the default assumption is that every map is going to end with all of your robots melting down from overheating.
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Men of War 2 got announced, that's right, the second Men of War game, but it pretty much just looks exactly like all the others because 1C's just cranking them out. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y1zhLnZyO4
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Mordja posted:Men of War 2 got announced, that's right, the second Men of War game, but it pretty much just looks exactly like all the others because 1C's just cranking them out. Well, not much info to be gleamed from the trailer. Last I heard about new MoW they were working on a new iteration of their engine (GEM2 or 3 or something), with all new art assets. Then nothing for a really long time. Then they were making basically MoW but with World of Tanks gameplay loop called Soldiers: Arena. Actually now I look it up looks like this might actually just be the rebranded Soldiers: Arena as per: https://store.steampowered.com/oldnews/?appids=421010&appgroupname=Soldiers%3A+Arena&feed=steam_community_announcements
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Mordja posted:Men of War 2 got announced, that's right, the second Men of War game, but it pretty much just looks exactly like all the others because 1C's just cranking them out. "Experience warfare like never before! " Uhh, I think we've experienced warfare like this before dude. There are like a bajillion Men of War games.
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I'm in. Presumably this is based on Men of War 2 Arena and it has a frontlines mode similar to Steel Division's except with MoW scale. That plus an engine that doesn't run like poo poo and less garbage AI is all I ever wanted out of MoW.
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Nov 24, 2021 09:12
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Wasn't there literally a MoW2 already?
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How does this genere not get totally sick of WWII? Just do something different, even WWI would be miles more interesting. EDIT: The answer is Nazis, it's always Nazis
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Mokotow posted:How does this genere not get totally sick of WWII? Just do something different, even WWI would be miles more interesting. There's been other wars, but there's not really an industrial war like the second that suits what the men of war engine is doing.
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Mokotow posted:How does this genere not get totally sick of WWII? Just do something different, even WWI would be miles more interesting. Honestly, the answers is Russians. WWII is an evergreen topic that comes and goes as the trends shift, but it's always the East that keeps churning out WWII eurojank no matter what. And that's really not surprising in that Russia and its closest satellites still care about WWII a whole lot, culturally. In my experience it felt like out there Napoleon's campaign on Russia felt about as alive as the world wars fell in other euro countries and WWII is just... way fresher than that. Then again it's just my gut feel anectodal evidence from coincidentally being in Russia during some related anniversaries.
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