8f3064 No.14211452
Well we never figured out what panties were correct for RTS.
In other news:
AoE Remastered confirmed Windows 10 exclusive surprising absolutely no one.
DTA just got an update.
Some autist made a VR RTS game that nobody can be bothered to check out.
Whatever Petroglyph released turned out to be boring shit surprising no one and it as an admission that they've learned absolutely nothing from history have decided to approach EA in talks to make Empire at War II, good luck if that will ever fucking happen.
Other than that, time for the usual. RTS night when?
2a2ec4 No.14211478
>>14211452
We playing DTA?
I'm out for a few hours but someone could just set up a room and post details ITT.
8f3064 No.14211500
Might be up for DTA if we play it like EDF. Actually want to get those Ants missions cleared
dda338 No.14211613
>AoE Remastered confirmed Windows 10 exclusive surprising absolutely no one.
How long until the inevitable Steam release with support for Windows 7/8.1? Keep in mind that AoE 1 is extremely popular in China and Vietnam and most people there still use Windows 7 according to the last Steam survey.
Microsoft is making AoE Remaster Win10 exclusive to promote their store, but I don't think they'll be successful.
586142 No.14211629
>Petroglyph approaching EA to make a game
Petroglyph belongs in the cuck shed
a227fb No.14212075
>>14211629
Aren't they Westwood guys? Fucking idiots
8f3064 No.14212093
>>14212075
>Aren't they Westwood guys
Aye.
623ce4 No.14212117
>decided to approach EA in talks to make Empire at War II
I didn't even know petroglyph was still in buisness.
8f3064 No.14212174
>>14212117
They are in business with Team 17
cebcad No.14212200
>we never figured out what panties were correct for RTS
I thought it was clearly established?
2ac370 No.14212215
>>14212174
I'm surprised Team 17 has lasted all these years. I thought they stopped being relevant sometime in the mid-2000's.
>>14211452
>have decided to approach EA in talks to make Empire at War II
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
8f3064 No.14212229
>>14212215
>WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
It's even better when you discover that Petroglyph was made up of former Westwood employees who left Westwood after EA bought and raped them to death.
I wonder if they heard of the phrase that begins with "Fool me once…."
2ac370 No.14212658
>>14212229
Yeah, I remember when Petroglyph was formed. That was the big selling point for the studio - "it's Westwood all over again, this time without EA!" Sad to see what's become of it; they just can't seem to make another IP with the weight that C&C had.
8f3064 No.14212701
>>14212658
I saw a good post in the last bread about them not learning at all from their mistakes but also importantly not learning from their successes as well. Petroglyph just doesn't improve upon what was good about their previous titles and instead leaves it to stagnate or worse toss it out completely.
Casing points was the EaW and UaW titles; or the alamo engine in a nutshell. They never looked at the good aspects of the games and engine so failed to make improvements to them.
c3c8b5 No.14212716
>>14212701
>casing points
I hope this was a typo, anon.
8f3064 No.14212726
>>14212716
It was
I actually need my sleep, been shitposting 25hrs a day
e82b8a No.14212747
>>14212726
Naughty anons that don't go to sleep get spanked then put to bed.
8f3064 No.14212752
>>14212747
Fortunately I'm not The AVP2 gamenight hostfag
730c06 No.14212765
b6079a No.14212779
How's that iron harvest or whatever rts?
c3c8b5 No.14212790
>>14212779
Considering it's being made for consoles and pc, I wouldn't get my hopes up.
61045b No.14212808
2ac370 No.14212834
>>14212701
That's a pretty good point, yeah. They never iterated on past successes. The world is still waiting for a proper successor to RA2 (even just a spiritual successor) but we've yet to get it.
443757 No.14214625
>>14211452
Someone should change it to "the african kAngdoms" tbh
Anyone still playing coh/bk? Still the best RTS
4b39a7 No.14214642
>>14214625
Haven't played it in some time.
ffa783 No.14214741
>>14211452
Portuguese here. Good to see my country has memetic relevance.
>>14212701
>UaW
I finished that a couple months ago.
It didn't seem that bad, just severely unpolished and maybe ""IMBALANCED AS ALL FUCK"" but otherwise pretty fun.
Got to play with a couple of friends for shits and giggles since we all enjoy assymetrical RTS.
The tripods were cool looking but strangely not that hard to take down. They make a big deal out of those, but they actually die easily.
I found it hilarious how bad the "High-Tech" faction had it. Maybe I played them wrong, but their troops seemed really, really weak and the infantry did jackshit unless you unlocked that suicide-jump thing.
I'm not even sure what they did wrong.
All I knows is that I felt something strange about the game, something I wasn't particulary liking. Then I tried Grey Goo and the same feeling was there. Like there's something missing, or inherently wrong with it.
Can't really tell you what though, I play RTS to make big bases, big blobs and then watch thousands of tiny things dying.
Any RTS-master want to explain what was wrong with those games to me?
7221b4 No.14214762
>>14214741
>Portuguese here
We always had memetic value, we walk a fine line between banter and butthurt.
feels good knowing we barely have any muslims and terrorism here, if only we were in a better economic and political position
Also, have you played the best AoE clone yet?
cf3bb3 No.14214784
>>14214625
I still play CoH Unmodded with a couple of friends a few times a month. We mainly do it to pubstomp and because we're whores for BoB though.
c41074 No.14214811
>>14214625
Not played it for a long while, been doing spearhead instead. I like how the coh2 engine does dynamic line of sight. How is it now, is it still as silly with certain stuff like it used to be? I remember never bothering to build things like stubby panzer 4s or 75mm shermans or cromwells because their HE never hit infantry, did less damage to things like halftracks than the AP, and even with AP they couldn't hurt their counterpart. Watching a stubby panzer 4 trying to kill a cromwell or 75mm sherman was just depressing.
ffa783 No.14214823
>>14214762
Wew, never knew that existed.
Googled a video. That repeating "Sim Senhor" sent my sides on a crusade.
I kinda wish the country never gets more rich than what we currently are, least we get american entrepeneurs and investors come shit up the place.
Are there more of us in 8ch? I never found board for our country here.
ffa783 No.14214853
>>14214834
Bet we could go to Israel, shoot up the place and get away with it.
>Sir, someone slaughtered the entire population of Israel!
>WHAT? Who did it?
>The… the Portuguese.
>…who?
>I uh… I dunno.
>Isn't that a province of Spain?
>I think it is!
>Nuke Madrid. That we'll teach those taco-munchers.
And then the Iberia breaks, with Portugal floating into the Atlantic ocean bringing back Galizia because we're stealing it too.
We'd become the new Atlantis, but with codfish instead of high technology.
ab9c8d No.14214858
>>14214853
I'm in. Shit, my family is from the Azores already…
ffa783 No.14214867
>>14214858
Ah! The Atlantean Vanguard, charting the seas where the main city will travel!
32a0ea No.14214874
Can someone give me a list of questions or something like this to determine, if I even like RTS games?
I know that I really don't like turn-based strategy, even though I played Heroes of Might and Magic. Only did it because I was a kid and it was available. I would have prefered a Total War: Might and Magic though.
Anyway, do it or don't. Nothing matters anyway.
32a0ea No.14214885
>>14214874
>list of questions
I meant a survey. Couldn't think of the word.
ffa783 No.14214928
>>14214874
Hey, I started a thread about Endless legend here: >>14214171 and some anon posted a link to a really good guide.
Give it a pirate and try it out, it's great and might change how you see 4X games.
RTS are all about:
>Information
Keeping a couple units around the map, keeping an eye on the minimap and knowing more than your oponent knows about the battlefield
>Resource planning
In Age of Empires for isntance, infantry consumes meat + gold while archers consume wood + gold. Knowing how to strike a good balance is key and knowing when to drop resrouces on infractstructure to get more resources instead of more units is also important
>Micro
Depends on the game. But most RTS will have units that have advantages against others (spearman rape horses, horses buttfuck archers and archers slay sowrdsman that kill spearman really nice).
Usually you have to pay attention to the formation and have the right units atacking the right enemy to maximize effectivness
Which is fucking shit and I wish modern RTS let me automatize this process or gave some A.I to the units. The german machine gun is firing at you, why don't fuck don't you run into cover, it's 2 meters away from you FUCKING FUCK.
At the very least, if you don't want to be competitive, you can just play against bots on skirmishes and make massive blobs of enemys, then atack-move them onto the enemy base and watch a massacre that rivals the holocaust in spectale.
Don't worry with people insulting your blob-armies, blobbing is a lot of fun.
c973ba No.14214961
>Decide to give Age of Empires II HD a try
>Play skirmish mode
>AI is able to spam units out it's ass like it's got infinite resources
>Decide to quickly check
>AI has something like 4x more resources collected than me with a quarter less villagers
The actual fuck? Was the AOEII AI always this cheaty?
ab9c8d No.14214967
>>14214902
>JÁ PASSA DO MEIO DIA CARALHO!
I'm actually an American of Portuguese descent and Bom Dia is about the extent of my Portuguse Goddamn it Dad, why didn't you learn our language and pass it on to me?!
32a0ea No.14214971
>>14214902
>>Do you like controlling many units?
I'm neutral about it. Depends what that means. I don't like micromangement.
>>Do you like seeing your force grow from zero to hero?
Yeah, I like Grand Strategy.
>>Do you like overwhelming your opponent either by rushing a fuckton of units or tactically outmaneuver them?
Yeah.
>>Do you like Metagame?
Not really. That isn't the only reason why I don't play Dota anymore, but all those patches that constantly change everything where you have to relearn the game don't sit well with me.
>Age of Empires 2
Bitch please. I grew up in the 90s and early 2000s.
> CiV or Endless Space/Legend
But I don't like turn based games.
>>14214904
No.
Yes.
>>14214928
I remember that name. Whenever I got depressed over the last three years and didn't have any Let's Plays to watch I would search for games like that.
I watched them, but nothing really sticked with me.
>RTS are all about:
I know, bruh. I played them. I played Warcraft 3 and Starcraft 2. I even watched Day9 daily for some time to get better.
>Which is fucking shit and I wish modern RTS let me automatize this process or gave some A.I to the units. The german machine gun is firing at you, why don't fuck don't you run into cover, it's 2 meters away from you FUCKING FUCK.
Me too. I recently (one year ago, but every day is the same for me) replayed Popolous and it had better mechanics to make micro easier on you, than many strategy games.
You could just literally have the Population tab open and play by only selecting your warriors from there. No need at all to select your units manually or some shit.
ab9c8d No.14214997
>>14214971
>Popolous
DosBOX version? I've been playing 1 & 2 recently in DosBOX and I've been having a blast.
32a0ea No.14215006
>>14214997
No, I meant 3 of course.
>replayed it a couple of times since my childhood, but only relatively recently realized there was an expansion
Best feeling there is.
b6ef18 No.14215035
>>14214961
It becomes something special when the AI is playing as the goths.
7221b4 No.14215042
>>14214967
Your grandpa was probably too busy beating his ass honestly
c08ab1 No.14215092
7aea75 No.14215107
>>14215042
I like that they even stole the Nabisco logo.
88027a No.14215197
>>14214961
They made the ai harder in HD
2ac370 No.14215462
>>14214625
Yeah I still do some BK every once in a while. I agree that it's still the best RTS and I'm pretty fucking sad Relic shit the bed so hard.
I never did competitive play or anything but I used to watch the Frontline Fatalities videos on YouTube at my old job. Shit was comfy.
4baf24 No.14216494
>>14214961
Actually you've got it backwards, the AI in the original game would in fact cheat but in HD they are simply much more competent. There are numerous tactics they just can't counter though, generally if you survive their first buildup and onslaught or attack early you can have them on the back foot the rest of the game.
6139af No.14216535
If anyone's up for it, i'm gonna be idling on the DTA lobby with a game room and wait for anyone that wants to play. There is a new update (1.169b) that just came out minutes ago with no log about what was changed on ModDB so if you don't have it, download it.
Room's name is Vidyagames with pass infv
6139af No.14217266
>>14216535
Thanks for the games for the one dude who joined. We may play again tomorrow at around the same time.
8f3064 No.14217288
>>14216535
I kind of missed this cause I was drunk
I need to organise my time better so I get to play some RTS more.
6139af No.14217325
>>14217288
We can play tomorrow if you want, i can't right now due to time restraints and weekday problems, but we can certainly get a party going down at around 19-20:00 8ch post time, assuming it doesn't depend on the system that's reading it to display the timer.
ff00d3 No.14217339
How worthwhile are the AoEII HD expansions? My understanding is that the Forgotten is pretty good, but Kangdoms and the other one look unremarkable. I think one of them added siege towers but they were buggy as shit kek
a227fb No.14217346
>>14217339
>siege towers but they were buggy as shit
The problem is they don't work against people who use houses as walls
6139af No.14217361
>>14217339
Siege towers were added with the Kangdoms expansion and are completely shit. They are a super expensive siege unit that deals no damage and is completely useless for anything that isn't transporting infantry or archers over walls. The main problems of it is that
>it requires castle age
>it tends to fail and instead spawn infantry behind itself
>it can be completely blocked by making double-lined walls or houses
A regular ram with like 4 infantries as opposed to a Siege Tower with 10 infantries is x10 times the value in military power in how itll actually kill the wall AND whatever's behind it as long as you protect it with archers.
2a2ec4 No.14217676
9b3124 No.14218617
>>14217676
I thought we used IST round here?
cfc308 No.14218636
>>14212808
>AVP2 Hostfag likes a spanking
Figures Ask your sister to spank you again for being too lazy to look it up on saucenao
1d2059 No.14219260
What does Windows 10 exclusive even mean?
Only via the Windows 10 store?
Because I deleted it when I upgraded…
And yes it was a huge retarded mistake to upgrade from Windows 7, now my PC is running on malware
2a2ec4 No.14219559
>>14218617
>Tea gardens in Assam do not follow the Indian Standard Time (IST), which is the time observed throughout India and Sri Lanka. The local time in Assam's tea gardens, known as "Tea Garden Time" or Bagantime, is an hour ahead of the IST. The system was introduced during British days keeping in mind the early sunrise in this part of the country.
Clearly TGT is the superior timezone.
2a2ec4 No.14219560
>>14219260
I think it means it's tied into their new API or something.
7221b4 No.14219612
>>14219260
>>14219560
Locked to their OS, API and Store plus their own DRM.
e9553f No.14220164
>>14215092
>hue
br is not portuguese my friend
c7853a No.14220340
>>14214853
>bringing back Galizia
>Portuguese are literally Southern Galizians
e9553f No.14220455
>>14220340
>huurr Americans are southern Canadians
That's how dumb you sound
c7853a No.14220508
>>14220455
Nice dubs
now to the point portuguese and spanish are much more alike than Canadians and Muricans we share a lot of history (even tho we later went different ways) and if it wasn´t because of the fact that Spain got ruled by two of the most retarded dinasties in Europe (the Austrias and The Bourbons) we would be one country
887853 No.14220524
>>14214853
>And then the Iberia breaks
Spotted the Comie Saramago -fag.
106afe No.14221540
what's DTA?
>tfw nobody knows how to make good RTSes anymore
586142 No.14221568
106afe No.14221632
>>14221568
I never could start playing 2D C&C, can't make myself do it. I did have a lot of fun with Shockwave and RotS mods for Generals, though the latter is probably not developed anymore.
106afe No.14221922
>>14221568
>naval units
I could swear original TS didn't have them. Naval units are rare in general, unless the game scale is a bit bigger, otherwise they're too situational.
I always liked how snow settled on your units standing still and buildings in Earth 2150. I don't think there's any other game with this effect.
6139af No.14221976
Alright, does anyone want to play DTA? I'm gonna be idling at the lobby with a game up.
Room's Vidyagames, pass is infv
0477a3 No.14223324
Battlefleet Gothic Armada good? It looks like a fusion of Total War's naval battles and Empire at War's space battles. I'm guessing its nothing like Homeworld.
8224ce No.14223356
>have Portuguese friend
>doesn't like RTS or any strategy games
>asked him about the history of Portugal
>said he didn't know much
>would rather talk about his dinner, anime, and school
>you will never talk about Portugal because you don't know much either
>you will never visit Portugal
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
e14699 No.14223450
>>14223356
why would be interessed in portugal or any contry that speak portuguese for the matter
0477a3 No.14223519
>>14223500
>Devs are just retarded
How so? I read the game is overpriced because of GW jewry and the DLC is essential because of the base game lacking content but nothing about the devs being retarded.
96a5a1 No.14223918
Portugese are smelly fish eating half breed brazilians and probably communists too galicia not çalicioa or whatever they call it ok
*eats a fried calamari sandwich*
>>14223519
The balance is all over the place and most of the game modes on the campaign battles are retarded (kill this ship hidding behind the entire fleet or move one of your ships to a spot behind the enemy fleet before the time ends, but you have just enough time to do the objectives and you have to ignore the enemy fleet destroying you), so you have a really great game if you're into captain tactics, spoiled with bullshit tactics and unfun campaign
8dabcb No.14224416
>>14214961
the HD ai is pretty good and doesn't cheat
best you can do is build walls and hope you can come close to having as good of an economy as he does
in a 1v1 you might be in trouble, but in a 2v2 you should be able to sustain creating more onagers to deal with the ai swarm
alternatively just play huns and spam troops until you overwhelm him. it's the only time i've managed to beat the ai in a 1v1
speaking of which, anyone wanna play aoe2HD?
cbbd1f No.14224463
>>14224416
I'll play if you buy the game for me :^)
8dabcb No.14224467
>>14224463
i have bills to pay so no
shit goes as low as 75% during sales though, that's only worth like a few slices of pizza
8f3064 No.14225379
Well in other news I managed to get World in Conflict server working in Few Player Mode. After going through everything turns out autobalance was crashing the server.
I'll leave serb up for about 8hrs in case anyone is interested:
Serb Name: Infinite Treehouse
PW: treenigger
038547 No.14226273
>>14225379
i am on right now, waiting for fags
7221b4 No.14226322
>>14223918
It's true
>>14225379
>>14226273
Joining, glad I never uninstall this game
>>14226316
Stock exchange
8f3064 No.14226333
>>14226316
Offworld Trading Company i.e. all the economies are shit and you just get lucky over random bullshit
038547 No.14226350
>>14226322
yes two of us, waiting for morefags
8f3064 No.14226355
>>14226350
Not sure you will get that many more with about 6 gorillion gamenights going on. I might show up later but I am pretty sleepy and need food.
7221b4 No.14226364
8f3064 No.14226367
>>14226364
Yeah I just saw from my serb client. Your side or did the serb fuck up for both of you?
038547 No.14226371
>>14226367
i think i am on the server still
7221b4 No.14226375
>>14226367
>>14226371
My side
>Just crashed again
What the fuck
038547 No.14226381
>>14226375
is it the fucked windows update thing that you need to delete in order to play problem?
8f3064 No.14226386
7221b4 No.14226398
>>14226381
>Got a pirated version of Winblows 7 that I haven't updated in years
Surely that can't be it, I didn't update since the last time I played.
>>14226386
No, it's Mauer
I'll try again and redownload the custom maps if I crash again.
It gave me the warning before I got in
8f3064 No.14226411
>>14226398
Could also be DirectX10/11 mode. iirc any mode other than DirectX9 was notoriously unstable.
7221b4 No.14226422
>>14226411
Graphic options don't give me an option to change API though.
038547 No.14226438
>>14226273
still waiting for morefags, two fags on atm
038547 No.14226480
>>14226453
>no one will ever join
7221b4 No.14226495
>>14226480
Try again tomorrow lad
I'll go play Xonotic
Haven't touched that since I got back from Burgerland.
7221b4 No.14226519
>>14226480
Or we could 1v1
038547 No.14226522
>>14226519
sure i mean w/e we could 1v1 for a while but i am not very good, lol
7221b4 No.14226542
>Click ready
>Not working
>Come back
>Click ready
>Crash again
169e51 No.14226548
>>14226480
what year is it?
7221b4 No.14226565
>>14226556
>Remember Mauer is an official map
038547 No.14226573
>>14226548
i think you meant to post pic related. Also it's 2009, obviously.
7221b4 No.14226590
>>14226573
Get in faggot, let's try one last time
038547 No.14226599
3c4881 No.14226618
i got company of heroes 2 for free a while back. never played a strategy game. it is worth a try?
3570dc No.14226635
>>14226618
It's an okay introduction to the genre but not having certain DLCs will make you want to cry in real life.
3c4881 No.14226646
>>14226635
>not having certain DLCs will make you want to cry in real life.
why?
3570dc No.14226654
>>14226646
You will feel the lack of content that other people have.
3c4881 No.14226667
>>14226654
i dont plan on playing it online
8f3064 No.14226931
>Lost connection to my own serb
wew
8f3064 No.14226943
Restarting serb for 1vs1
Apparently FPM fucks things up and requires a full game to start.
8f3064 No.14227238
3 nigs in serb but can only set it to play freely if I make it not FPM which isn't fun with low player counts.
It will be 1vs1, I'm taking a break. Unless more anons show up of course then I might put it back to 2vs2.
Serb should remain up for a couple of hours or so.
7221b4 No.14227383
>>14227238
2vs2 please, finally finished shit I had to do
8f3064 No.14227387
>>14227383
wew everyone just left though and I am shutting down serb for the night.
8f3064 No.14227446
>>14227393
At least you aren't pissmeister
Anyway time to upload some screenshots and sleep after I installed Red Alert, An Ass Beyond
8f3064 No.14227463
May have a few in .bmp to convert somewhere.
5a8109 No.14228402
shit anons, Iron Harvest Devs are planning to Kikestart. Place your bets that Iron Harvest Dies or It will be fun
source: their facebook group
bc7a8a No.14228431
>>14228402
Sad, the game had a great concept.
5a8109 No.14228483
>>14228433
its not an article, just a facebook Post. I just screen cap it
Though if you want, i'll link the Survey
8f3064 No.14229786
>>14228402
Didn't they have a Kikestarter before?
Also
>Developing a game using kikebook
How does anyone have faith in this project?
8dabcb No.14230643
dead thread yet?
i'm still waiting for someone as bad as me to play aoe2 with
8f3064 No.14231223
>>14230643
We literally had a WiC night yesterday. Not dying anytime soon.
8dabcb No.14231250
>>14231223
it's dead to me
8f3064 No.14231296
>>14231250
Are you just wanting things to get spooky?
b9622a No.14231331
>>14231296
>It Was Me starts playing
6139af No.14231446
>>14230643
We can play aoe2 if you have the OG AoC+TFE mod.
8dabcb No.14231472
>>14231446
nope, only the steam one without any patches
not worth bothering to fix it just for a game
6139af No.14231521
>>14231472
Pirate OG AoE+AoC then. Steam's HD version is shit even with the new FE expansion because of shitty alpha version that has monks still teleporting through seas.
8dabcb No.14231530
>>14231521
i don't want to bother fam
one of the two is already installed and working without any further work, i don't feel like installing a game twice just to get more people to play with
6139af No.14231591
>>14231530
Then why bother to say something's dead if you can't even put a single ounce of effort to fix it?
The only one who's dead here is you.
56d4fe No.14232507
For the sake of interest, what were the most memorable missions or scenarios you played in RTS games?
Total Annihilation:Kingdoms had one mission where you basically take over a ragtag bunch of farmers and peasants who are upset that their local lord allied himself with the bad guy, storm a small fort, and take control of the trebuchet contained within.
You spend the rest of the mission shooting the main base of the enemy to pieces (trebuchets in that game can shoot over half the map and then some) while you have to defend the siege weapon with your trash-tier units and some proper soldiers you pick up on the way.
1f3fdc No.14232652
>>14232507
>El Cid standing in front of his castle, dead. The hero you've been using for 5 missions you can now not allow to come to harm.
>Kharak burning.
>Defending Trun in the Falaise Pocket in CoH.
>Defending Minas Tirith and then seeing all the cavalry you've built up come save the day.
d6f78f No.14232773
>>14212747
sick fuck, that's a little boy
6c1776 No.14232779
>>14232773
No, it's me and I'm getting spanked by my mom/GF.
832039 No.14232815
>>14232773
No, that's you in a few moments.
e4dec7 No.14233170
>>14212658
>I remember when Petroglyph was formed. That was the big selling point for the studio - "it's Westwood all over again, this time without EA!" Sad to see what's become of it; they just can't seem to make another IP with the weight that C&C had.
I doubt many of the good employees made the jump from Westwood to Petroglyph instead of outright quitting. The best games they make are just okay, doing some things well while having heaps of terrible decisions/mechanics.
>Star Wars: Empire at War
Below average ground battles with good space battles.
>Universe at War: Earth Assault
Neat concept but absolute shit balancing, the Hierarchy (the factions with the walkers) is hyped up being the best and most powerful faction when it's just the opposite. The tripod walkers which are suppose to be the faction's siege engines, unit factory and basically their base replacement have paper armour. You "need" the damage they bring to fights but if you lose one you've lost so many resources and upgrades (they're build into slots in the walkers).
>Games for Windows Live
Petroglyph in their retardation decided to release UaW on 360 as well so they used GFWL for their PC version. As you know GFWL is absolute cancer and turned many people off it before a purchase. Microsoft also has a bullshit patching system for games that use GFWL so you are only allowed 2-3 patches across the games entire lifetime, not to mention the absurd and drawn out verification process for each patch. (I remember reading a post from Relic saying DoW2 patches took more than a month to get verified).
>Panzer General: Allied Assault
A shitty XBLA/board game they released.
>Guardians of Graxia
Previously called "Rise of Immortals".
This is the consolidation of bad decisions for Petroglyph and shows me that the people making the decisions are beyond fucking retarded. It's of course a MOBA, it's fucking shit, P2W (a common feature in Petroglyph's F2P games) and the only time it had players was during the 2011 Steam Summer sale when you could get coal/free games by getting an achievement in it. They also released a shit board game based on the universe called "Heroes of Graxia" which, of course, sold like shit because it was shit.
>Mytheon
I haven't played it but recently got it dirt cheap in a bundle from Fanatical (bundlestars). It has mixed rating on Steam with owners ranging from 6-12k. Mind you this was released before the flood of games unto Steam so for indie games it was easier to get sales even if a game was shit (less choice) so even after 8 years it hasn't even broken the median sales of ~32k it must be bad.
>Battle for Graxia (aka. Guardians of Graxia v2.0)
After the failure of Guardians of Graxia they decided to revamp it. It failed of course and the servers were shut down 7 months later.
>Coin a Phrase
A shitty phone game with in-app purchases.
>Grey Goo
I wanted this game to be good but it wasn't. 15 missions in the campaign (5 per race, with around 3 of those missions being "tutorials" for that specific race). The balance was shit on release, goo was basically unstoppable with an early rush and took a few weeks for it to be fixed (ayylmaos were defenseless while the humans needed to waste resources building 2 turrets ASAP just to avoid insta-dying). All the units felt too disposable being made from paper mache except for your "ultimate" units. The population cap also felt far too restricting. No unit felt good when using it, not even the ultimates, everything is lacking weight and proper feedback. 5 months after release they added a single player DLC with 3 new missions (previous owners got it for free), it added the first hero unit, he isn't that good nor can he be healed. I will note a year after release they added a 4th race for free so that's something.
e4dec7 No.14233171
>>14233170
>End of Nations
Unreleased because it was so shit during testing.
Originally it was designed to be a paid game, then changed to a F2P MMORTS game. During alpha testing it was full of grind and P2W microtransactions. If they removed both of those and went with a paid traditional RTS game like originally planned it could have been half decent. Overwhelmingly the feedback from the alpha was negative so they decided to turn it into a MOBA (gotta have that LoL audience). Eventually they sold the game to Trion Worlds who tried to fix it but the game was so terrible they just stopped development all together.
>Battle Battalions
Surely with the players loving the previous F2P P2W MMORTS Petroglyph worked on they decided to make another. Using your perks takes in-game currency, buying new battalions needs in-game currency which you can run out and be fucked. Leveling up your battalions takes so long even a korean MMO autist would drop because the grind is too much. But don't fear, get out your credit card and pay for the stacking bonuses (three x2 bonus for max of x8 for all three) and you get XP and in-game currency at 8 times the rate of a filthy free player. It's on Steam with 1-4 people playing it concurrently on the weekend.
And don't worry they removed the PvE content so you'll either be faced up against a die hard autist that still plays or not find anyone at all.
>8-Bit Etcetera
They are soulless RTS games that attempt to recreate the magic of old RTS games with voxel graphics. It obviously fails and plays like an empty budget RTS lacking content.
>Forged Battalion
Of course it's early access, every one of Petroglyph's games have been in permanent early access, at least they are being honest about it now. It seems more like a Warzone 2100 than a C&C game. You design the units (like WZ 2100) but since there are no races and only one base template so everything looks basically the same minus a different colour and minor trimmings on the model. No tech tree, instead of having tech buildings or upgrades you choose your upgrades outside the match. Since there's no tech buildings you build barracks into light vehicle factory into heavy vehicle factory and you got your top tier units and super weapon unlocked.
Basically every decision made by a Petroglyph leader has been fucking retarded.
8dabcb No.14233666
>>14232507
defending tenochtitlan was probably the most memorable one for me
5b102c No.14233781
>>14214811
>I remember never bothering to build things like stubby panzer 4s or 75mm shermans or cromwells because their HE never hit infantry, did less damage to things like halftracks than the AP, and even with AP they couldn't hurt their counterpart
HE was revamped across the board. In fact HE 75 mm shermans are one of the most cost effective units.
e9377e No.14234927
>>14214834
I am a Portuguese man that sexually identifies as a horse mackarel and i say this man is a liar and a history revisionist,we here treat our minorities with the utmost respect and compassion.
Listen here nigger,i see you bringing any more attention to this and i'll have 3 pot bellied hairy fisherman sodomize you in ways you didn't think possible.We already have enough to BS to deal with.
7221b4 No.14235208
>>14234927
Soon enough you'll have human shit to worry about
976613 No.14235493
>>14221922
It was not just that the units would appear snowy - the game had a full-fledged weather system where snow or rain would reduce visibility and the speed of your ground units, strong winds would cripple the movement of your air units, and freak lightning or meteor storms could seriously harm your units. Not to speak of terrain deformation (which hilariously ended up with your builder unit immobilizing itself some 50% of all times) and the tunnel system.
Too bad nobody ever played with these effects on because competetive Earth 2150 was putting the rally flag in the rough direction of your enemy and shitting out as many units as possible.
>>14233170
>Grey Goo
Agreed. The entire game just felt counter-intuitive, as if you had tought an AI to design a video game but never told it that said video game was supposed to be played by humans.
8f3064 No.14235862
Huh only had one screenshot saved here.
18c1f2 No.14235911
>>14235493
I think that E2150 was too clumsy in general for any kind of competitive play… I doubt people would make anything but some tanks with certain guns and would rather have it all predefined anyway. There were mods to balance the game, but a mod can't save the game.
8dabcb No.14235947
>spend 2 hours fighting 2 opponents in one stupid water crossing where neither side can push
>teammate can't handle a few paladins and gives up, leaving my sides undefended
the one time i actually manage to play the game right
4ead8d No.14237528
>>14235947
I am still amazed to this day the amount of people who will play a game and jump immediately into MP without having played a single skirmish match.
2a2ec4 No.14237861
>>14235862
Is that from the WiC gamenight?
559378 No.14238481
>>14237528
>tfw i always play multiplayer when starting an RTS forth first time
although I'm usually playing by LAN with other people who have never played before
fa9176 No.14239443
>>14237861
No, we played WiC during gamenight.
2a2ec4 No.14239457
>>14239443
Yeh, I read the rest of the thread after.
24face No.14239496
Nomad in AoE2 is ridiculously fun. So much crazy shit can happen.
>Sandwiched between aztecs and mongols from the start of the game
>2 AIs build their TCs within the firing range of one another
>Settle next to an AI and make a mini-Auschwitz for them
>Think you've settled in a nice location, then explore a bit and find out your TC is 4 tiles away from a coast (and the AI loves to spam boats)
8dabcb No.14239612
how do i git gud at micro
just had a 1v1 as italians vs britons
brits got 5 relics, and just spammed longbowmen+halberdiers all game long
for the most part i was able to handle the longbowmen with light cavalry/hussars, but by late game it's impossible to keep up with them
at this point i had managed to pierce through the walls of his base multiple times, but even that place is stockpiled with longbowmen and it takes forever to do any kind of damage to it. meanwhile he's steamrolling through my defences with a few trebuches and killing whatever defenders i can send with the longbowmen
by the end of the game i had managed to take over his old base, but all my other resources had been destroyed, while he still had a legion of longbowmen and halbderdiers, that i simply couldn't handle anymore.
8ac256 No.14240453
>>14214834
This is actually false, look up New Christians.
7221b4 No.14241763
>>14240453
>Implying that converting the kikes ain't the same as genociding them
There's a reason we barely have any jews here and that our corrupt money grubbing politicians want them back.
8dabcb No.14242876
looking for more like this
8f3064 No.14243029
3e0846 No.14246119
>When mods are so butthurt over generals they are secretly picking ID's at random and deleting all posts by that IP in a effort to purge the thread hoping nobody would notice.
Yeah we're fucking onto you. This isn't the first time you faggots have been caught out doing this. Stop deleting legit posts thinking we won't notice. Seriously anons should have a look through posts in this thread and look at what the replies were to. Does it even remotely look like the posts that were deleted were breaking the rules?
8f3064 No.14246141
>>14246119
>Mods being overzealous with delete by IP
Yeah that's a trend I've noticed. Someone has a series of legit posts then makes one little shitpost, someone gets triggered, cries to mod, mod deletes their entire post history without thinking.
Frankly I am getting a little tired of this shit.
If memory serves me right some good posts got deleted in this thread breakdowning what went wrong with Battlefleet Gothic, Economic RTS games, and a few decent Age of Empires posts. None of these deserved to get deleted and I am getting very suspicious of mods myself cause I saw the same shit happen to the C&C thread where a load of posts were deleted unnecessarily cause someone made just one shitpost.
2a2ec4 No.14246146
>>14246119
I'm not certain it's an intentional policy but yes, mods need to be much more careful with delete by IP.
ff00d3 No.14246156
>>14246141
>>14246119
>>14246146
Watch these posts get deleted for not talking about videogames.
3e0846 No.14246173
>>14246156
Considering how that kike and his crew operates everything else will get deleted in this thread and these posts will stay. Because godfuckingforbid we are allowed to talk about vidya on vidya games board.
5fd6fe No.14246204
>>14214961
>tfw can't beat Empire Earth's AI on easy
>always start on prehistoric age and can barely make it to medieval
>planning on just starting the next game in the nano age because an army of death robots is fun
d78ead No.14246216
>>14246204
Have you led Novorossiya to its rightful glory and genocided the not as efficient peasants of the world yet?
ff00d3 No.14246231
>>14246204
Empire Earth's AI is the worst case of cheating AI I've ever seen. See those villagers it sends about collecting resources? They're just for show. The AI doesn't even use the resources it collects, it doesn't need them. The only limitations it has are time and the difficulty setting which determines how hard it tries to kill you.
Don't feel bad, anon.
Empire Earth II is better anyway.
8f3064 No.14246256
>>14246204
>>14246231
Empires Earth AI is just not fun to fight against period. I+II cheat so much that it sucks all the enjoyment out of playing and III's AI doesn't cheat but is laughably easy to beat.
4901f6 No.14246282
>>14246231
>empire earth 2 is better anyway
ff00d3 No.14246424
>>14246256
II also cheats but isn't nearly as bad as I. It's actually beatable without cheating or cheesing, for starters. Never played III since I've heard nothing but bad things about it.
>>14246282
fite me u cunt
519aea No.14246685
I got into the AoE DE beta
3e0846 No.14246932
>>14246685
You have Windows 10? That's a paddlin
cebcad No.14248747
>>14246282
Boxxy should be spanked for your shit taste.
39a4d6 No.14249099
Without Core Contingency, is Core a viable faction in multiplayer?
cebcad No.14249170
>>14249099
You know when I first glanced at that I thought it was a spaceman spraying his pee.
39a4d6 No.14249180
>>14249170
Sounds like something only Arm vermin would do.
081d7f No.14249266
>>14249099
>Terrible vehicles overal outside of cost-efficient tanks
>Terrible kbots overal outside of T2 heavy kbots
>Arguably worst Air outside of rocket gunships
>Still best navy even against ARM Battleships
It's mixed, really. If you get early rushed, you lose as CORE, but if you don't, you wreck ARM in the midgame until they get mass bombers and stealth fighters. Krogoth usually doesn't come into play until the ultra-late game because if you rush it, you cripple yourself economically too hard to really make it count.
However, if the map has some heavy focus on naval play, the situation is reversed with ARM taking the lead in the midgame with subs killers and frigates meanwhile CORE has it great in the early and late game with destroyers, cheap subs and laser battleships.
9febc0 No.14249280
>>14249099
I don't think CORE gets much of anything from CC so they're probably more viable without it. They were always good on some maps, but less in general. You can sometimes do cheesy things like Weasel rush or bomber first, but if you get Flash/Peewee'd you'll just die, so usually you're stuck on the defense. Most of ARM's strengths are lost on water maps and CORE has better navy anyway.
8f3064 No.14253177
FPS/RTS hybrid did get me thinking. There does seem to be a lot of RTS/FPS hybrids coming out lately.
8dabcb No.14255321
is there some kind of list of things to do in order to beat aoe's ai?
1: build 2 houses and farm, first 7 villagers on sheep
2: next 4 villagers on wood
3: next 4 villagers on berries
4: send sheep villagers to lure/hunt boar
5: next 3 villagers on gold
6: feudal
7: next 3 villagers on stone
build market+blacksmith
build 2-3 towers to defend from enemy archer rush
8: castle
9: ???
10: get swarmed by the enemy because he has twice my economy, and even in the best case scenario he just converts my onagers
i always end up getting swamped during castle/imperial
if i can't beat the AI, i sure as fuck can't do anything in multiplayer unless it's a team match
for the record i've only been playing as slavs for the last few games
6c1776 No.14255339
>>14255321
Players don't cheat.
8dabcb No.14255346
>>14255339
neither does the AI
his economy advantage happens gradually, and in replays he doesn't magically get resources out of nowhere
25610a No.14255776
>>14232507
I will never forget the Russian or German campaigns from EE1
b509e6 No.14255810
>>14212075
they are made up of some of the people who were in westwood but not all of them as there's also some still in EA and the actual talent fucked off to somewhere else
>>14221922
I'm so sick of the current roster of 1 or three infantry, one or two light vehicle, one heavy vehicle, one or two air vehicles and some "epic unit" RTS games have nowerdays. only one game got real multilayered gameplay right and that's metal fatigue
081d7f No.14256167
>>14255346
AI can get more resources than you can simply because of its insane micro ability, but as you said, hampering its ability to get resources can pay off. Your best bet is rushing it early with archers or scouts and defending with your own towers instead of fast-castling. If you see the AI building archery range first always, go with scouts, they counter archers PLUS you can raid with them faster, but be mindful of the Food investment in them. If the AI counters with its own scouts, use the inexpensive pikemen to defend key areas as they can easily kill 2-3 scouts on their own without much issue as long as they don't get focused down. Skirmishers also work as anti-archers but you probably don't want to use them for the cost and buildtime early game and instead use Towers against archers. If everything is going too fast at all fronts, use control groups for snapping to everything important or lower the game speed.
Scouting is essential. So is how you build your starting area regardless of how open or closed it is. Act like the AI is a dumbass and try to block as much access to your base as you can to try and funnel it into a killzone by leaving direct access areas open, houses are great for this so don't be dissing everyone else for Huns. I've seen fags beat 1v3 Hardest AIs simply by a well-executed early rush that boxed one of them in with archers before transitioning into knights and later with siege ram support with some clever townhall defense.
0291db No.14256516
>>14255810
At some point more unit variety becomes meaningless, as meta assigns certain roles and there are some meta role units and units that don't fit those roles for various reasons (typically being non-optimal).
8f3064 No.14257804
>>14256516
There was an RTS that I played not too long ago but completely forgot about because it was that forgettable that had loads of redundant units that there was only half a dozen units ever worth producing.
0291db No.14257868
>Age of Empires IV is being made
wut
>by Relic
Ok I might be slow, but what fucking timeline we're in?
THE ONE WERE IT'S A W10 EXCLUSIVE HAAA
8f3064 No.14258587
>>14257868
Be careful, the last anon that made a joke like that an hero'd himself.
8dabcb No.14260989
>nomad
>accidentally start right next to my two enemies
>teammate surrenders 2 minutes in
why
9d57d8 No.14262408
>>14246231
It's been a while, but I think the EE1 AI players regularly kill off villagers to make it look like they are fighting among each other as well. Go into a FFA match with multiple AIs sometime and take a good look at the statistics at the end.
8f3064 No.14266336
>>14260989
Was he playing as the Franks?
7ddddb No.14268371
>Kings and Castles never ever
>new Chris Taylor game never ever
8f3064 No.14269428
>>14268371
>New Chris Taylor game
Be careful what you wish for anon.
39a4d6 No.14270564
>>14269428
I hope is akin to TA & FA and less like SupCom 2
8f3064 No.14271891
>>14270564
It's neither of those things
6d5ded No.14272630
Out of curiosity, has Anon ever used petards to some effect? Closest thing I can think of is quick wallbusters, but even then, it just seems horribly inefficient.
At least demo ships can be used to nuke stacked naval forces (if they get close enough).
Same thing for Karambit warriors. Having zerglings with a gold cost just seems wasteful.
23c626 No.14272684
Every single one of you deserves to die
8f3064 No.14273297
>>14272684
Only if you can get past our pillboxes faggot.
9685bc No.14273659
Anyone tried putting in mods?
7221b4 No.14273683
>>14268371
>>14269428
>>14270564
>>14271891
I hope you like F2P Mobileshit
http://archive.is/j7ime
>>14272684
Will do, but only if you tell me that's real, Velma is my waifu.
081d7f No.14274081
>>14273683
It isn't real.
And your waifu is shit.
8f3064 No.14274280
>>14273683
Of course we like F2P mobileshit, that's where the market is going obviously and the fans of RTS will clearly be lining up to pay shekels for this game! :^)
7221b4 No.14274614
da5025 No.14276614
>>14273683
Fuck me harder. RTS is a PC-only genre.
>>14273297
>pillboxes
What's the joke here?
4b39a7 No.14276632
>>14276614
Something a certain faggot will never live down.
da5025 No.14276638
>>14276632
Please tell me there's a video of this!
f69259 No.14276647
>>14232507
So… blue attacked white with stealth? But got stopped by a pillbox?
f69259 No.14276651
4b39a7 No.14276655
>>14276647
Yes while white had the entire north of his base open and could have easily lost if blue wasn't retarded.
da5025 No.14276890
>>14276643
That's 3 pillboxes and a turret. I feel robbed. But no that was a miserably handled attack.
e3c98b No.14277115
I've been playing some DoW 1 now for the first time and I was excited after realizing there's 3 expansions for it but then I found out only the main game and winter assault have proper campaigns while the other two have just some half-assed map-painter mode as a "campaign". What a shame because I really like this game and DoW 2 seems pretty disappointing.
Is there any custom campaigns for this or anything a noob should know?
06ad6a No.14277162
>>14277115
>shittalking the campaign map
fuck you play it first before you be a nigger about it
f69259 No.14277169
YouTube embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>14277115
>He doesn't know of Indrick Boreale
We are the spehss mahrens! WE ARE THE EMPRA'S FUREH!
Seriously, play DC's campaign, pick a faction and do the stronghold missions. They're pretty fun and I always love playing as Sisters in Soulstorm.
e3c98b No.14277179
>>14277162
>>14277169
I've already played Dark Crusade campaign for a bit as Necron and will continue playing it. It's still a shame it doesn't have a proper campaign. The turn based map-painter part is a fucking joke but some of the individual maps are fine I guess. I've wrecked the Imperial Guard and Chaos HQs already so I know some of the maps aren't standard skirmishes.
06ad6a No.14277182
>>14277179
I think you're stupid, because it does. It's just missions are played though the campaign map. Fucking newfags.
867cb7 No.14277185
>>14277179
Necrons were OP, but in general map painter is fun. I'd love to see this 'global conquer' mode better realized in RTS games as an alternative to traditional campaigns, but game developers hate putting effort into things.
Soulstorm shit it up though.
60025c No.14277195
>>14277115
The Dark Crusade campaign is actually pretty good and well thought out. All those archive tabs actually integrate into the game's story, an example would be one of the archives refers to a guy going around calling himself a Commissar and killing Tau. In the IG campaign that guy is a Commissar you can recruit.
It's much more thought out that Soulstorm which was literally just slapped together in the laziest way possible.
4db0d3 No.14277199
>>14277185
I think that besides campaigns of DC and SS, only Universe at War and C&C 3 Kane's Wrath have something like that.
e3c98b No.14277204
>>14277185
Yeah, the necrons feel really powerful but I wasn't 100% sure whether it was just because of all the honor guards that made it so easy or if the race was imbalanced. I wouldn't mind a proper global conquest mode if it wasn't this half-assed. Kind of reminds me of Battlefront 2 galactic conquest mode which was just a nice little extra feature. Still I'd prefer a more traditional campaign like in the first game.
2a2ec4 No.14277880
>>14277115
Yeh Dark Crusade's campaign is overrated as shit, it becomes quite repetitive. Soulstorm's is even worse.
2a2ec4 No.14277885
>>14277199
Empire at War and Cossacks 2.
8f3064 No.14278002
>>14277185
Rise of Nations did a good rendition of it, with some spice to mission variety. Problem is it didn't happen nearly enough.
867cb7 No.14279409
>>14277199
Well everything about it is kind of great, even if its too easy or if it quickly makes you overpowered. Honour Guard + War Gear is fantastic. Something like that could really make Warcraft 3 or Command and Conquer really interesting.
8f3064 No.14280062
>>14277199
Empire Earth III has it, Rise of Legends has it. Rise of Nations as well.
8f3064 No.14280892
>>14280761
I wonder if he was the one that came up with the Nu-Rebel Bombers for the Cuck wars movie?
656335 No.14282537
>tfw your favourite rts had amber before amber
867cb7 No.14282599
8f3064 No.14282905
>>14282611
God that is a good theme.
6aa5a8 No.14283963
Is there any other RTS besides Rise of Nations and Axis & Aliies which has a world map feature? I am looking for more games that is set between WW2 and the Cold War for that. I tried the RoN game with the World War 2 mod but it doesn't seem to run well with the conquer the world game mode since it crashes when I try to start a spy mission or attack worst korea.
84e95c No.14284389
>>14277199
>>14278002
>>14283963
Do you anons read each other posts?
6aa5a8 No.14284801
>>14284389
Forgive my interruption, my vision has been augmented.
2a2ec4 No.14285410
>>14283963
TripleA is a FOSS version of Axis & Allies: not what you asked for but I'll shill it wherever.
3a7f76 No.14289566
Anyone got any good tips for Supreme Commander:FA? Especially for Aeons
95cc8f No.14289596
>>14211452
Anyone here playing Warlords Battlecry 3?
Not the fanpatch.
I can't find any guides for the races in this game.
6ab87f No.14289605
>>14289596
>Warlords Battlecry 3
My neger. There is a fanpatch? Didn't know about that.
a44ef1 No.14289613
>>14282537
Is this screen from a demo or something like that? I don't recall the UCS having a snowy area for a main base in any of the three games.
95cc8f No.14289617
>>14289605
Steam comes with it, unfortunately.
I refunded and bought it off GOG after I found out because they gimped summoning amongst a myriad of other things.
When I play a game I want to play what the developers intended, not some faggot who thinks he knows better and throws a hissy-fit on a forum when people shit talk his "improved" game.
I started as Daemons (Archmage) but I'm trying out the Wood Elves (Druid).
93639e No.14289625
>>14289596
I want to make a home and grow old with Chitanda.
6ab87f No.14289629
>>14289613
Earth 2150: Escape from Blue Planet, base game. I think that climate in your main base slowly changes (winter goes away) and you might've forgot that.
>>14289617
fuck me that's gay
6aa5a8 No.14289638
>>14289629
>base game. I think that climate in your main base slowly changes (winter goes away) and you might've forgot that.
Yes it does that when you are doing the missions, at least that was the case for The Moon Project.
867cb7 No.14289639
>>14289596
>Make assassin
>Only put points into dexterity and assassination
>Point them at an enemy group
>Goes nuts and kills half of them
>Suddenly dies to one hit
>Oops Ironman mode
Game is fun.
95cc8f No.14289646
>>14289629
It's no different to what Beamdog do tbh
I must admit I think I prefer the Orcs to the Wood Elves since I'm mostly just defending while upgrading units as WElfs whereas with the Orcs I recruit some Orcs and fuck shit up until I get Wolf-Riders and a horde of Orcs assembled.
>>14289639
It is.
I'm quite enjoying it.
Wood Elf Druid is pretty funny because the Sprites you summon are
super good with all the Wood Elf archery upgrades.
6ab87f No.14289663
>>14289638
Reality Pump sure did love to just throw in a lot of ideas in their games.
>>14289646
>Beamdog
They are the Just Politely Correct My Shit Up guys, right?
a44ef1 No.14289678
>>14289663
>Reality Pump sure did love to just throw in a lot of ideas in their games.
And then came Earth 2160.
>>14289629
I remember now. The fact that the entire campaign basically was one giant timed mission was rather off-putting at first, but it's manageable. Especially if you play as the ED and get those sweet UFOs from Area 51.
867cb7 No.14289680
>>14289646
I like making a massive group of those ridey-shooty elves and kiting for days. Some people talked about the game competitively before.
6ab87f No.14289715
>>14289678
Eh, 2160 had some ideas too, but fuck me all games in Earth series suffer from feature bloat and imbalance, however fun they are.
a44ef1 No.14289738
>>14289715
Fun ideas such as hilariously imbalanced Alien ships?
87b2a0 No.14290177
>>14289617
My main campaign strategy was to make a Daemon healer and use the flying demons as my initial troops to deal huge amounts of damage to the enemy early in the game. If they get injured I can heal them, and most ground units can't touch flying units.
583d61 No.14291186
Does anyone play Starcraft/Starcraft2 here?
If anyone does, how do I get better in this game? Tried build orders, strategys, etc.
Should I just keep playing to increase my APM?
>>14214967
Bom dia
Portuguese fluent here
e7aa5b No.14292433
>>14291186
>>14214967
bom dia,
vamos admitir, português é uma língua muito bonita de falar
6ab87f No.14292437
583d61 No.14292680
>>14292433
Verdade, bomdiabomdia.
ffa783 No.14292830
>>14291186
Depends a lot on what you're currently doing and what faction you play with.
You don't need that much APM unless you're going against pros, and even then it depends on what you're doing.
If you're Protoss and micro-ing your Archons like mad, shit's not gonna be really fun, for instance.
If you're just learning for now, stick to Terrain since they are the easier ones to use and learn.
You need to learn how to balance a good economy with army building, make sure that you have roughly 2 workers per crystal cluster nearby and 2 guys going into the Refinery, for one.
However, as soon as you're earning a good amount of Minerals, be sure to pick a single worker and make Barracks so you can produce a small force to defend yourself.
There's a lot of "burden of knowledge" to the units in the game that you need to know about so you know how to counter or use effectively and there's also other concepts like what a trade is to understand if you want to get serious.
But to start, you can pretty much stick with Marines, get the Stimpak upgrade and keep a few Medics\Medivacs nearby them. Then bring Goliaths for siegeing buildings and maybe a few Wraiths for harassment.
Ghosts can help you if you can micro them to drop a few nukes, but you gotta learn what detects invisible units to avoid screwing yourself.
ffa783 No.14292841
>>14289738
You could have units in a queue be automatically added to a control group to keep things tidy, so your Ctrl+1 was Infantry, Ctrl+2 was main vehicles, Ctrl+3 was siege and Ctrl+4 was airborne units.
Once you were done setting it up, you could just use 1,2,3,4 to command a self-replenishing army on the front.
The buildings and how they worked was nice as well since there was a lot of customization but still quite easy to use. Except for the tube faction because that shit simply did not work at all in the cramped maps you often had.
Tech being a tree you research overtime, especially with the resource sliders that let you decide how much you spend in it was great, no "tech buildings" burdening you down.
However it had a fuck ton of shortcomings.
Infantry was retarded, you could easily end up spending all your budget on units that were night useless against vehicles.
To make it worse, there was an idea to get pilots out of vehicles so you could put experienced troops in and make them better, but everyone died too fast to justify bothering to keep them alive when they were outside vehicles.
Resources were too fucking short, you could easily run out of resources in your own base before you were finished building it up. For a game with flow economy, not having infinite resource nodes was fucking weird.
The aliens were a goddam chore to use effectively due to how they divided and their pathfinding.
And once you figured out the use of each alien, they weren't really that complex.
Fortunnaly, there's an overhaul on ModDB that supposely changes the game entirely but I haven't tried it yet.
5c66fc No.14292919
>>14292841
>install E2160 from disc out of curiosity
>SERIAL SYSTEM
AAAAAAAA fuck it I'm downloading it from GoG
e7aa5b No.14293309
>>14292919
>E2160
how good is that shit? I think I bought it from GoG some eons ago and never got to play it
ffa783 No.14293393
>>14293309
It can be fun and it's certainly full of some neat gameplay mechanics, but it can get quite frustrating very fast depending on how you play.
For instance, there's several different types of damage, one being electrical that can actually disable vehicles and another being psychic that kills the drivers instead.
You can in theory kill the drivers and then put your own infantry inside the empty vehicles.
However, refer to >>14292841 for some of it's shortcomings.
5c66fc No.14293485
>>14292919
>mod deactivates the game and you can't actually play anything
FOR FUCKS SAKE
5c66fc No.14293590
>>14293485
>localisation files prevent NEP from working
how the fuck can somebody screw up this badly?
361d11 No.14293637
>>14246119
You and the rest of /v/ let the board be run by a nintendoddler overweight kike. What the fuck did you expect, consistency? Do you ever fucking learn what happens when jews run something?
ffa783 No.14293656
>>14292919
>>14293485
>>14293590
Fucking hell, and I though the serial activation by phone was the worst part, lel.
Aren't you playing it in English or something? Pirate the right version.
bb1e30 No.14293701
>>14293590
>localization
Oh lord, that reminds me of the campaign cutscenes and the hilariously bad lip-sync they had. I mean, you don't expect something found in a Hollywood movie for that, but half the time the character's mouths would keep moving in cyka blyat while the English or German sentence they were supposed to say had already finished.
Kind of a pity, really - the German VAs weren't half-bad. IIRC they actually employed the guy who normally dubs Bruce Willis for German cinemas to speak Major Falkner.
5c66fc No.14293724
>>14293656
Dare say which is the right version (+crack). GoG fucks up.
61e16a No.14293761
>>14292919
>>14292841
>>14293485
dont be a fag and play it on the original language, btw did NEP update or they will release the tools for earth2160 modding? or a leasts the 3d meshes so I can render them to my custom yr mod
bb1e30 No.14293770
>>14293761
>spoiler
The LC girls are not for lewding.
Haha, who the fuck am I kidding
750892 No.14293799
>>14232652
God, I really miss pre-rendered 3d graphics turned into sprites. AoE is aesthetic as fuck.
5c66fc No.14293910
>>14293761
No, NEP didn't update. And by "localisation files" I meant "english descriptions".
61e16a No.14294190
>>14293910
Yeah I know, and that playing the mod in that state kinda sucks, also that NEP didn't update sucks as well.
84e95c No.14294467
>>14293770
LC girls are crazed dikes who are canonically into using spankings to discipline their troops
4b39a7 No.14294717
Anyone try Ancestors Legacy yet?
5c66fc No.14294745
ce1de3 No.14294775
5c66fc No.14295441
>>14294775
early medieval company of heroes so far
84e95c No.14295454
>>14294775
Seems a lot of mixed opinions. Mainly bitching about balance and matchmaking.
62a2a0 No.14296939
5c66fc No.14297722
>>14296939
>Relic
Don't get your hopes high
559378 No.14297873
>>14296939
Sure anon, its going to be great
Even if its going to be only playable on windows 10
Its going to have a Moba-lite mode and 3 extremely fun and balanced nations, the other nations are all DLC because they take a significant time to make and that costs a lot. THere fore you have to pay for each team that all look the same except for a few cosmetic differences.
DRM is par the course and denovo is needed to protect the developers sales and stop those damn thieves who drain trillions from their profits although tbf, if you're using Windows 10 you probably wouldn't give a shit about this anyway
Its also going to be always online multiplayer and no single player or campaign, say good bye to those noxious LAN parties and boring storylines, THe real future is competitive play and esports
84e95c No.14298062
>>14296939
The shitshow that will unfold will be glorious.
5c66fc No.14298408
>>14294775
Slavs
>all rounders with best (?) cavalry, because horse archers
Anglos
>DUDE WHAT IF OUR STARTING UNIT WAS RANGED UNIT THAT'S NOT ACTUALLY RANGED AND SUCKS AT EVERYTHING
>also archers and decent late game infantry
Vikings
>no cavalry, but decently mobile infantry with offensive focus
Germans
>slow, tough, expensive, but start with access to both melee and ranged infantry at the start
146869 No.14298419
>>14294775
"Streamlined resource management and basebuilding" and "Native gamepad support" arent exactly the most ideal things to read.
5c66fc No.14298434
>>14298419
>Streamlined resource management and basebuilding
resources is literally CoH with extra steps and basebuilding is done by just ordering building to happen (everything's preset)
eh, there's more nuance in unit control, so maybe you'll find this justified
146869 No.14298459
>>14298434
I never really liked CoH to begin with to be honest. I'll have a look anyway though, it is free after all.
Currently i'm more considering getting AoE: The Age Of Kangs n Sheit. Is it worth my shekels?
84e95c No.14298582
>>14298459
Age of Kangz has performance issues somefuckinghow but worth it unless you already got the games on disc.
6192d9 No.14298631
Anyone else here actually a fan of Age of Empires 3? It's my favorite game in the series.
a51a52 No.14298694
>>14294467
>spoiler
You can't say that kind of thing without providing evidence, Anon.
27f486 No.14298725
>>14273683
It might work if the mobile element is a metagame tied into but unrelated to the PC RTS meat of the game, like a factional grand strategy map-painting game about production and supply line management between battlefields. I'm expecting the worst though.
5c66fc No.14298749
>>14298694
their officers flirt with you through their campaign in 2150
84e95c No.14298876
>>14298694
Play through 2150 and even 2160 LC where there is references to ass floggings
a51a52 No.14299259
>>14298749
That's chiefly because you are one of the very few males in a society that is 99% female.
>>14298876
The only saucy parts I remember from 2150 is that the ED used captured LC girls as "entertainment" in their officer's mess, and that finishing the UCS campign of TMP saw the player character rewarded with the house of the enemy LC commander and the LC commander herself.
088644 No.14300034
>>14298459
AoE 2 HD does have an active community, if they only play 1v1 on Arabia all the time.
9e2ba1 No.14303548
>>14299259
Earth 2160 dials up the lewd up a bit if I recall with LC campaign. I think that it involves a Shota science nerd surrounded by sexually oppressed Aras