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My first thoughts are that it looks eirely like StarCraft. What year is it?

>>16521430

>atroxguy is back

Give up. Surrender to reality ! It was never popular and never will be.

Now if you host a few games we might dick around with it tho.

Looks almost exactly like Starcraft.

http://modsreloaded.com/topic5596.html

ATROX:

Atrox is astonishingly similar to Blizzard Entertainment's smash hit "Starcraft". The gameplay, the graphics, units, buildings, even single animations are extremely close to the famous original.

The game is a real-time strategy game where the player controls one of three races (Hominides, Inteliom, Kreators) and tries to destroy all the others on the map. To accomplish this task, he can build a base with many different buildings such as weapon factories, barracks, power plants and so on. He also has to gather resources to build all his stuff, in this game, he needs to get Quark and some liquid crystal.

The game features three different campaigns (one for each race) as well as skirmish mode, network and online play (the latter using a server).

Published by:Shoebox

Developed by:Joymax Co., Ltd.

Released:Nov 26, 2001

Platform:Windows

Genre:Strategy/Tactics

Visual:Isometric

Pacing:Real-Time

Setting:Sci-Fi / Futuristic

how many factions are there and what are they?

>>16521739

there is literally nothing wrong with turning the older C&C games into a castrated version of C&C3 that plays nothing like the old games

>>16521739

>embarrassment that is OpenRA

How bad is it?

>>16523851

For some context, C&C engineers are a 500$ unit that has no weapons, is slow and dies to nearly everything that can actually shoot in seconds, if not instantly. Which is rather costly for an infantry unit considering that the most basic counter, regular infantry, only costs 100$, or 80$ for Soviets. Their caveat? You could use three of them at vanilla RA settings to instantly capture any enemy building, albeit leaving it damaged in the red, granted that you somehow transported them there and they went in unnoticed.

OpenRA nerfed them by making them work like C&C3 engineers/Generals infantry, by requiring them to sit outside the building for around 7-8 seconds and pinging an alarm to the enemy commander that a building is being captured, giving the braindead enemy ample time to just put up any sort of defensive structure and shut down any attempt at capturing anything.

>>16524412

>I fucking hate the fact these cunts are the ones making the shots on what gets into games

Well, it's open source so anyone could change it back.

>>16524525

Yeah. Also anyone can change kikepaedia bullshit to truth if he wants to.

>>16524666

That's what infogalactic is for.

>>16524412

Well that's what we get out of 15-50 year olds who use zoomer mentality and education. Should have brought the leather belt and applied it.

Really loved those engineers, far far more effective than Starcraft 1 and Empire Earth where it takes forever to mind control or reach the high-end units with that ability.

In most RTS games there was no chance of stealing the high-end tech only, you had to steal a worker and work your way up the tech tree which took forever.

There are some combinations of units and spells which can prove exceptionally unbalanced.

The unit Blade has a shield which can reduce 50% damage of all ranged attacks and Novadis has a force field which also reduces 50% damage of all ranged attacks for all units that stay in that shield.

Jesus Christ the Createse's transport unit allows the units inside it to attack while it's still airborne.

>>16523881

>C&C3 engineers

C&C 3 engineers were instant capturers just like the originals. Kane's Wrath toned them a little bit down so they have to wait like 2.5 seconds before capturing a building. Generals infantry takes like 15 fucking seconds.

>pinging an alarm

OpenRA continues to amaze me with its shitness.

>>16528763

I think OpenRA also allows for separate construction of buildings AND defenses so if you don't build a wall around your construction yard you're basically retarded to begin with

>>16523881

>Nerfing engineers

>A unit that the majority of players have never trained unless they were playing the campaign or against the AI

What kind of pussy-ass response is it to nerf engineers instead of adding a checkbox to lobbies that lets shitty players just disable them or something? Let's be honest, a player who is bad enough to get shat on so hard by engineers isn't good enough to clutch-repair a building with an engineer, so the button is just taking UI space up for them.

Actually, why even change game mechanics? When you start applying your own custom balance changes and mechanics, you're just making a fan game at that point. They should at least have the balls to stop pretending that they are an open source red alert, and accept that they're just some random fan game that anyone can contribute to. Why are so many of these open source games nowadays breaking the vanilla gameplay?

>>16521430

Man, when will devs stop cutting stuff at the last minute? I looked through Atrox promotional pictures and I remember playing it a long time ago.

https://www.gry-online.pl/S055.asp?ID=11635

In the promotional pictures the leveled up units receive a pinkish aura like some DBZ kaioken bullshit. I also see a lot of units with mismatched stats and unit pictures. A lot of spellcasters with basic attacks which aren't in the final game. Some spells/abilities which aren't in the final game.

In the final version of the game I also noticed 2 enemy hero units in a mission which beyond an in-game cinematic aren't used for gameplay reasons at all, they just sit in the middle of the map and do nothing.

>>16523881

You know I've never understood how exactly a single engineer can take over a whole building. He can't shoot anyone and everyone inside the building doesn't suddenly die or anything, what does he just have mad charisma? Nod mind control devices used by both sides? He actually is a bad ass but needs access to a gun?

>>16531252

If you play Renegade you'll conclude that most of the building is automatized and the guy is a Software Engineer.

The 1 and only cinematic this game had was pretty cool, wish it had a FPS counterpath.

The story in the game has some potential, but it's barely barely explored. In mission 3 of the Hominians you have to deliver your hero to a goddamn underwater city.

The actual underwater city is nowhere to be found and all you get is a puddle where you larp that your hero went through the entrance to the underwater city… which is nowhere to be found in gameplay and cinematics.

Oh and the 3 endings again have a lot of potential. It's a real ball buster to learn what awaits you at the end.

>>16524525

>>16524666

>>16524412

Someone should just fork it, revert everything back to the original rulesets, and call it "TrueOpenRA" or "RealOpenRA" or something similar provocative.

It's not like editing wikipedia, it's like copying all of wikipedia, revert all their kikechanges, and call it RealWikipedia.

>>16531252

Briefcases are not only stylish and handy, but they're deadly.