SC2 co-op was fucking great. You could grind and get levels and skin unlocks and aesthetic, WHILE playing "pve" against the AI with a friend. So many cool subraces in SC2 that they could've given WC3 reforged the same treatment. An elf subrace with Illidan as a hero and naga units..
also this. RTS multiplayer doesnt have to be 1v1 tournument style game. W3 custom games proved it long time ago
Yeah, for all its faults I liked AoE3 for that aspect as well, grinding levels would allow you to unlock new cards (which fucking sucked in PvP because stronger cards were level-locked but they did away with it after a while and you'd start with all cards unlocked in PvP thank fuck) and would also let you unlock new aesthetics for your home city. Speaking of cards, that was a pretty cool element as well and I'm glad they expanded it in DE. It allows civs to have many different builds and can even transform how units function, for example there is a card for the Japanese which gives Samurai units a small mortar and turns them way more deadly against buildings (and they already start with insane siege damage).
Gameplay-wise I hear mixed things.
well thats a fucking shame
To sum it up I'd put it this way:
You can also get a game finished in only a few hours instead of days unlike Stellaris. I'm hoping we get some solid mods going for it in the vein of Distant Stars and Interregnum. Personally with the new engine I'm hoping for a Battlestar Galactica mod because I can't think of any other space game out there that will allow for the proper amounts of anti-aircraft dakka a Battlestar can put out, especially with the missile/PD mechanics. Oh, and the ship modules for even more build diversity, including both new weapons and even special abilities. As far as sequels go its definitely not as good as Sins 1 was, but that was after years of updates and a ton of expansions. Its got big shoes to fill, but I think it will grow into them.
That's disappointing to hear. From what I saw on the Steam page the devs were very much pretending it was absolutely not Red Alert and C&C crammed into one game.
Shit
A remake
None of these are even out yet.
W:RD is an RTT, not an RTS. Moreover, it's just something some of the Eugen team wanted to work on. It isn't like there were rabid fans begging for new content. RD is dead as fuck, which is a good thing. Fuck Eugen, fuck the French, and MadMat should blow his fucking brains out for giving the Leclerc medium stealth because someone on the forum said it was "kinda small."
Wargame RD is an RTS and until the current sale more people played Wargame than Warno. Can't blame them the retarded unit system is a hard pass from me.
Which is kind of weird; you would think people who enjoy RTS are fucking autists and spectre people.
Could be because the genre is really niche now though I'm only basing this on the current state of AoE2 and AoE3 players as they're the only RTS games I am interested in. The vast majority of top players are oldfags who have either been top players since the time the games came out or they played the game as kids and eventually through hard work, dedication and learning reached the top spots once they got older. There wasn't nearly as much troon brainrot when they grew up and now most of them are just regular ass working dudes who unwind by playing some AoE. I watch tourneys and when the casters are on facecam (and they most often are high level players themselves) it's almost always guys who are either 28 at the youngest or in their early 40s. Genres that got troonified like fighting games only really became such just before Covid, though the fighting game community was never really worthy of respect to be fair, too many tards have been running around even decades ago.
Well the scene is not completely free of trannies. Don't follow it much anymore, but SC2 has Scarlett who's MtF and at was one of the better players outside of Korea a few years ago. Community simped for him hard too. There was also Puck who was either FtM back to F again or just MtF. Always looked like a faggot but can't remember if I'm confusing fucker with some other pooner or not.
