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Another RTS in Beta, Battle Aces, bites the dust.

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Former Blizzard employee David Kim was also on the development team, but it again shows another example of former Blizzard "talent" going elsewhere and failing. The game also appears to be another of those "that game existed?" type of games.
 
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Thiletonomics said:
Another RTS in Beta, Battle Aces, bites the dust.

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Former Blizzard employee David Kim was also on the development team, but it again shows another example of former Blizzard "talent" going elsewhere and failing. The game also appears to be another of those "that game existed?" type of games.
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Definitely didn't know this existed, and apparently hardly anyone else did either I guess.
That's from 11 months ago with 31k views, and it just looks like a bunch of non-distinct stuff moving around with some larger but still generic looking units later on in the video, and no apparent base building mechanic. Looking at some of their other videos it really seems like they wanted to skip base building and resources entirely and just rely purely on micro management and APM.
This video has some commentary, but it looks bland as fuck with no interesting visuals, faction distinctions, almost as if they wanted to focus purely on the esport aspect of blizzard RTS games which is pretty terrible for the 90% or more of the playerbase that can't be bothered with that.

It manages to look more generic than the early Stormgate footage, of which Frost Giant Studios has at least updated a bit of that recently so it's not so boring

 
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Requesting recommendations for American Civil War RTSes (and/or turn-based strats too I suppose).
 
GloryToArztotska said:
Requesting recommendations for American Civil War RTSes (and/or turn-based strats too I suppose).
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I think it’s going to be very slim pickings for you but I believe that there was a Cossacks game (ancient ass and mindless semi-realistic AoE-like) that had playable Union and Confederacy factions.

Wars of Liberty for AoE3 (abandonware as far as I’m aware, and a bloated fuckfest) had an American faction with the gimmick of getting to choose at every age between Union and Confederacy and (because of its original focus on the War of the Triple Alliance) a roughly 1860s focus for every other Latin American civ. Some Latin American civs have access to Confederados as an “Immigrant” sub-civ.

In the sense not of AoE-likes but including Total War-likes, and besides mods, Ultimate General Civil War and Grand Tactician Civil War (the latter is an actual in depth war simulator at the grand strategic level).

Fire and Maneuver looks kind of trash and has turn based Civil War campaigns in a DLC and a Confederacy faction to join its Union faction.
 
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Would somebody who plays Men of Ass2 and Gates of Hell like Red Dragon (and the 1st game)? (how is sp content etc...) also i seen some people in steam disc complain how after years of neglect devs came back banned like 30% of playerbase then fucked off how true is that ?
 
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Seminar said:
Would somebody who plays Men of Ass2 and Gates of Hell like Red Dragon
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Bigger scale, less micro, some gameplay mechanics are simpler ( like penetration mechanics being a simple penetration - armor value ), small warning, most of the DLC factions are gay powercreep even after nerfs.
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(how is sp content etc...)
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Mediocre, AI is critically retarded, blatantly cheats but still can't do anything beyond throwing meat into meat grinder, single player scenarios are fine, but difficulty scaling is absolutely nonsensical, both of the "easy" campaigns are far worse than all others.
 
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StormGate are pushing out the the first campaing out
i only saw the 1st mission. it looks better, story not as copy pasted anymore from warcraft 3 but still will end up as hero that betrays the humanity, its really obvious
humor sucks, but designs look better, still a bit overwatchy for my taste
 
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Seminar said:
Would somebody who plays Men of Ass2 and Gates of Hell like Red Dragon (and the 1st game)? (how is sp content etc...) also i seen some people in steam disc complain how after years of neglect devs came back banned like 30% of playerbase then fucked off how true is that ?
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Eugen has banned a good number of people from Wargame servers in the past year for hate speech. Kind of a slap in the face to see 235 players online and then you get a month ban for saying faggot.
 
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