I love closed in areas like this in RTS maps so much

>that anon that loves having one entrance surrounded by mountains in the base and builds peacefully like in Sims
>that anon that has 5 entrances to his base since mountains are split and gets attacked constantly and fights constantly like in DOOM.
The duality of RTS players

>>715250902 (OP)
That's because it reminds you of the room corner behind your wardrobe where you used to hide on Friday nights when daddy came rushing up the stairs after having one too many beers. This piece of the map reminds you of that safety you felt in that corner.

>>715250902 (OP)
Comfy isn't it?
Although I am not sure I'd play RTS games for comfy reasons.

>>715251190
Who hurt you anon?

>>715251331
Clearly his dad.

>>715251331
They are just trying to fit in lol

>>715251331
He's talking about an alcoholic father, so I asked chatgpt and it said "your subscription has expired". Hope that clears things up for you.

>>715251190
trying too hard/10

>>715251190
Get help, anon.

>>715251190
What an odd thing to say

>>715251471
Its name is google

>>715251165
the latter is an absolute psycho

blazing hot take: RTS are only fun when they're treated like model trains

>>715251165
>that anon that plays on a sphere (Planetary Annihilation)
>that anon that plays on several spheres

>>715252007
I don't understand why looping maps (2D) or little earth/infinite maps (3D) aren't more common.

You could make games with more than 2 factions and fairly distribute them because nobody is getting sandwiched between other teams and you don't need to implement invisible walls

>>715251165
a well-balanced horde RTS is insanely satisfying.
Unfortunately, they rarely exist

>you begin the game with a single villager
Kino...

>>715252368
they made that Starcraft 2 mission into a full co-op custom map where you defend against zerg+infected terrans

>>715251978
I only have fun when I'm learning something new or overcoming a challenge.

>>715250902 (OP)
>playing the reshartster
tranny

okay fuck this bs retarded impossible mission tholugh

>>715253148
yes i like improved graphics and decent widescreen support and mulithreading, kys

I really should give 0a.d. another go.
but yeah a secluded nook that you dedicate to building for aesthethics and not militant necessity is nice and calls to mind all manner of old tales of lost cities and temples.

>>715251190
You know, city-builders exist for people like you.

>>715251331
Society

>>715253185
>improved graphics

>>715251190
I would compare it to anon's mother womb

>>715250902 (OP)
I can't play RTS, multitasking is not for me

>>715252007
>that anon that plays on archipelagos with only one point of entry

>>715253787
should try AOM retold, you can pause anytime and it has a fun rts campaign

>>715250902 (OP)
Why does this look worse than the original?

>>715252326
>or little earth/infinite maps (3D) aren't more common.
Playing on spheres in Planetary Annihilation felt awful to me. It's confusing, your vision is limited because you can only see so much of the sphere at once, and good luck making a useful minimap of a sphere. It just isn't very intuitive for us, since we essentially spend all our lives living on what, from our perspectives, may as well be a plane.

>>715254563
Flatearthers not even once

>>715254563
yeah, if there was just some kind of way to have maps of the earth

>>715254945
There's a reason we have so many different versions of maps of the Earth. Even after settling on a projection, you still get different versions with the center in different locations because things get messy at the edges.

>>715251978
Hotter take: trying to win in RTS games is actually fun

>>715255169
its fine though because in a game you don't need perfect accuracy, not like a game can project perfectly round things to begin with.

You can over-project the edges if you have to, but all the important informations are there and its intuitive.

>>715254370
it doesn't, its just zoomed out, the remaster haters are some schizos, it runs great for me

>>715252368
>>715252865
They are Billions

>>715251978
this is why i liked black & white 2
chill city builder with basic rts elements that aren't too difficult

>>715253185
That looks like desaturated ass

>>715254370
>>715256056
The original looks 10 billion times better stupid zoombie

>>715250902 (OP)
Isn't it because it makes you feel more secure? Fun fact: one of the more popular multiplayer coop maps in AoM is that one where a hill range splits the map into two and there exists only a single canyon through which you can cross. It is fun.

When I was young, I was always real annoyed that you couldn't actually put down roads to make your cities look cool like all the screenshots I saw

>>715253043
>>715259041
>unironically recommending tower defense games
lol. /v/ - mobile and flash games

>>715260186
>roads offer more speed to units
that sounds like a great idea. The problem with roads is the increase in complexity of pathfinding I guess. You would expect your army to use roads as much as possible leading to traversal conflicts technically.

>>715260213
Terran command is not Tower Defense, you moron.

>>715259716
>posts a picture which doesn't look better

>https://store.steampowered.com/app/266840/Age_of_Mythology_Extended_Edition/
is this my best chance if I don't want to deal with the shitty demaster?

>>715251190
Odd reactions to this post tbqh

>>715260503
retold is actually better (in several aspects) but if you still believe that the original is better you can go for it. Extended edition has multiplayer bugs but nothing major in single player.

>>715260503
The irony of this post is so fucking absurd.

>>715260845
>retold is actually better
is it really?
>>715260940
yeah I see they've added stuff like global illumination and other shit that makes it look uglier. I just want to play the original man.

>>715260425
it's not an RTS game. It's RTT if you're being generous.

>>715260986
It's ironic because you call an actual, honest-to-god good remaster shit while wanting to play the genuinely bad, older remaster.

>>715261017
do you think RTT means Real Time Tower defense retard?

>>715261046
i thought extended was just a 1:1 of the original game with touched up graphics

elaborate or shut the fuck up

>>715260425
>>715261017
terran command is definitely an RTS its quite basic but meh

I highly suggest tempest rising to any CnC fans though, it feels really premium, the campaign lacks some cnc polish and charm but its super fun

>>715260986
>is it really?
your only issue seems to be with how ugly the new artstyle is. I do think it's not the direction that ensemble would have taken if they were still alive and had to remaster the game but still the game is technically better now with bug fixes and modern day QoL additions.

>>715261165
Nah, go fuck yourself. You should've just asked which version was better like a normal fucking person for once in your life. So sick of you absolute morons spouting the most retarded shit known to man and then getting defensive when called out. Waste of fucking air.

>>715261103
Real Time Tranny?

>>715261306
relax buddy, it's Saturday and you are seething again

>>715251978
I dunno, Warcraft 3 is fun because the macro is really easy and the heroes are cool.

I fucking loved bottleneck turtling in KKnD Krossfire. Just spam engies to fix turrets 24/7 and micro all that shit. Series 9 had the best turrets for it.

>>715261189
Tempest rising sucks balls. It has very poor unit visibility and bad story. cnc fans would do better if they wait for DORF.

>>715261724
the story is cool
>unit visibility
didn't have a problem

>>715260426
you have no brain

>>715261017
>It's RTT if you're being generous.
So? RTTs are great. It's certainly not tower defense by any stretch of the term.

>>715260845
>>715260940
>>715261046
>>715261295
>>715261306
kill yourself deranged remaster cultist. The original version of any given game is always the best version. Eat shit and die

>>715261874
stupid tard contrarian, Age of empires 2 remaster revived the rts genre, you shit slurper, it has excellent DLCs too which added tons of campaigns

>>715261772
None of the characters stick out. There is zero ingenuity in the plot since it is just copy pasted from c&c. Unit visibility is terrible with units blending into the environment all the time.

>>715261928
>exception proves the rule
still not playing your gay ass StarCraft remaster faggot. I'm still playing the original

>>715262096
>The original version of any given game is always the best version
>except when it's not
Why not just be honest? Everyone can agree that at least 95% of the time remasters/remakes are worse but not always. When a good one happens then you should put it on a pedestal so others can see how it should be done.

>>715262272
because you're giving the one and only counterexample which isn't even completely true because the best version of AoE II is HD, not the vomit-inducing actual remaster

>>715262272
this, truth is a lot of old games just suck to play on modern PCs, at least without any community patches etc, try playing system shock 2 out of the box without any patches and such and tell me how it goes

meanwhile I just played the remaster and had a blast, 0 issues on modern hardware and widescreen, no need to be an insufferable faggot about reviving great games

>>715262416
kill yourself and die corpo cultist braindead consoomer

>>715260059
Dawn of war replicated the map design with into the breach and it was one of the better maps, just sending waves and waves to their death while the none-disappearing corpses piled up until the floor of the gap was just nothing but bodies.

>>715262373
>isn't even completely true because the best version of AoE II is HD, not the vomit-inducing actual remaster
see what I mean
you're just a contrarian retard hipster
totally disingenuous

>>715262486
1. Remasters
2. Always
3. Look
4. Worse

are the terran command DLCs worth it? I played through the game once on normal and am willing to go through it again on the next difficulty up but fuck that max difficulty stat increase shit

>>715262459
unlike you I actually play games instead of just being an insufferable faggot about them, and I've tried running a bunch of 90s-early 00s games on modern PC, it always sucks without patches, remasters especially of games like Turok 1-3 are great meanwhile, continue being a whining faggot for no reason

>>715262373
>one and only
REmake 1
Metroid Zero Mission
Metroid Prime remaster
Quake 1 and 2 remaster
Starcraft remaster
AoE1/2/3/M remaster

I can see you're shitposting but there, an honest response made in good faith. I'm sure there's more but that's a few off the top of my head.

>>715250902 (OP)
I love RTS games so much bwos.

>>715262596
I play nothing but 25+ year old games

>>715262694
yeah cause you're a hipster faggot lmao

>>715262529
Starcraft Remastered looks fantastic.

>>715262603
I'm not shitposting. All of those are trash and desecrate the games. I am never going to approve of any remaster unless it's a 1:1 of the original game made to run on modern systems.
>REmake 1
that's literally a remake, not a remaster, you dumb gorilla

>>715262536
No. It's not. It's barely an RTS game. Don't listen to the guy who shills it. Bet that guy would peddle literal crap like northgard or dune spice wars as good RTS games.

>>715262776
*but worse than the original

>>715262672
game? It looks familiar but I can't quite place it

>REmake 1
Completely different game, some things better, some worse.
>Metroid Prime remaster
Nah.

Also C&C Remastered Collection is the best of them all.

>>715262790
Like I said, shitposting. I like how you didn't even acknowledge Zero Mission.

>>715262851
>It's barely an RTS game
Obviously it isn't, its clearly a tactics game but i'm not going over to some dead /vst/ thread full of biased people to tell me to spend 20 extra bucks

>>715262773
Those games are still amazing to this day. Stick to your goyslop, junior

>>715262864
Dustfront RTS. It has not even released yet.

>>715262672
I have tempered expectations about this game but it's one of the few games I'm genuinely hyped for.

>>715262864
Dust Front. It's still in development with no release date.

>>715262937
I don't give a shit about console games (they are worse than PC games to begin with). I know nothing about that series so I can't say anything

>>715262790
Don't act like you're cool with remakes but fill your pants with shit at the thought of remasters. You hate both.

>>715263030
Remakes are worse in some ways. There's more nuance there. I never implied otherwise

>>715262951
I've played every single one, also all the new remasters and ports etc of all the classic RTS, and they're generally fine with a few flops here and there, modern screens aren't built for running low resolutions, it always looks absolutely horrible, you have to be half blind to tolerate running 640x480 on a 27 inch screen, remasters are a necessity for these old games to keep receiving love, ideally with an option to swap between any new graphics and old, like how the CnC remasters did it, and wacraft 3 I guess... but it wasn't necessary because even original wc3 ran widescreen with latest patches

i love chokepoint/bridge maps in rts
places where i can lay down fire and mow down the ai as it tries to get in
but only know of workshop maps in coh2

>>715251190
Wow, we have a real case of projection over here
We're sorry you had to go through with that, but shut the fuck up

>>715263141
so you like tower defense games? go play bloons or something

>>715261017
Real Time Tactics > RTS

>>715263121
bro that screenshot I just posted of StarCraft was played through entirely on a 1080x1920. It looked fine. The crunchy graphics give it a more pleasing and comforting quality. I don't want any sterile looking games

>>715263214
tower defense is just protecting an exit
i want chokepoints

>>715262672
if only that was a real game

>>715263220
>micro > macro + micro
nah. you're retarded.

RTSniggers are worst niggers that have ever niggered in niggerstence and they deserve nothing good

Into the breach is peak.
But then IG shoots your base with its fucking basilisks or a mass of Stormboyz jumps over the walls.

>>715263141
Kinda unrelated but the bridge map in They Are Billions got me good first time.
>one path and a lot of time to prepare? sounds simple enough
>I'll just put some more rows of walls and soldiers, surely it can't be that bad
>oh
>oh god

I bet none of you RTS enthusiasts even play recent RTS games like CoH4, AoE4, Homeworld 3 or tempest rising. You're all poser retards who just want to act as if you like RTS games but never support the devs by buying games. Fucking niggers.

>>715263730
>>715263141
they are billions is next on my to play rts list, looks sovl

>>715263483
nigger

>>715263747
new RTS games look like shit

>>715263483
>>715263747
Shut the fuck up.

>>715263747
I pre-ordered and rly liked it

>>715263174
Ah, a VPN or to the defense of his boyfriend? You must have same real father issues from him being drunk and beating the shit out of you. Was it scary for you? Was daddy mean as he beat mummy with the belt buckle? Did he draw blood, and the neighbors had to comes, and you had to make up stories about where the bruins came from so as not to admit your bad was a drunken, abusive piece of shit? Bet you're still angry about it, huh?
Is that why you're so obese? Does eating and eating take the pain away, drown it out, make you feel less ugly? Are you able to even look in mirror, or does it still make you sick?
(I was here discussing GAMES motherfucker. Don't try to get into mind games with me, this is where I was trained, and I promise you, I will ALWAYS win).

>>715263919
>>715263747
same with this one
but never played any homeworld so idk about 3
not rly into "space rts" unless ofc its starcraft
or supcom

>>715250902 (OP)
Me too OP. It's the best.

Are we excited for this RTS anons? Against the storm is kino af.

>>715263979
nigger

>>715259716
>10 billion times better
that's a lot of times

>>715264301
>bat girl with yummy armpits
You've got my attention.

>>715262469
sounds awesome

>>715264301
sex

>>715264412
>focused on armpits
>not on the thighs
sorry to break it you anon....you are gay.

>>715264559
You need help

>>715263483
Why?
Why are you so angry at people enjoying a genre you're bad at?
Go back to candy crush, nigger.

>>715264594
I just like monster girls
never played against the storm, but I'm not a fan of these graphics

>>715264583
Thighs are top tier too but good pits are harder to come by.

I hate the antichrist

>>715264301
First time hearing about it. The picture threads the line of blizzshit, can't tell if it crosses

>>715264958
I don't know what you mean by blizzshit but it's a pretty comfy city builder RTS hybrid with some mechanics to keep every mission interesting.

https://youtu.be/egxzPAywNEs

>>715251190
>am i fitting in, 4chan?

>>715264301
not an RTS

>>715263747
I have 200 hrs in aoe4 but I also think its fine if people just wanna play old rts too

>>715265132
>I don't know what you mean by blizzshit
Stuff like Stormgate, Zero Space, Battle Aces. It all looks the same as they're just copying SC/WC

>>715265132
>fluffbeak
is that from a new update or something? 150 hours and almost every deed completed and I've never seen that

If you like co-op RTS, get picrel

>>715265754
What emboldens you to speak such a challenging, yet undoubtedly authentic truth?

>>715265132
>>715265904
those graphics hurt my brain
on first glance at least
but I'll check it out regardless
need some more cozy rts

>>715265971
its definitely cozy but yeah if you dont like the graphics it might hurt your enjoyment. maybe there's an option to turn down saturation or something? I like the visuals myself so I've never bothered messing with it

>>715265968
>HRTSW
That's not a name, you bastid

>>715266179
It seems to be Skylord Reborn. The official page is fucking awful

>>715264301
While I love ATS for being addictive fun
Its not an RTS but a roguelike city builder

>>715264786
I don't even understand how to articulate it but right looks like its a small warcamp while left looks like some duplo block playset

>>715262694
i hate this mission

>>715265970
idk probably the fact that its challenging and undoubtedly authentic

>>715263775
it's a very nifty blend of city builder, tower defense, RTS

the hero missions are tedious as fuck, look up a guide to find all the pixelhunt collectibles

>>715267169
>find all the pixelhunt collectibles
why would I do this, benefit or completion?

>>715267239
benefit. they give you research points or something like that. they aren't IMPOSSIBLE to find but there are a handful that are a real cunt. and it sucks giving in and reading a guide only to find you have to plod slowly back to the other side of the map

>>715265904
It's from the upcoming DLC.

deranged OP
get some taste

>>715262672
wtf I love RTS too

>>715270462
lmao looks like one of those fake mobile game ads.

>>715270462
>organic chad dunking on metalcels
based

>>715263747
Bought CoH3 on release
>trash
Bought Homeworld 3 on release
>trash
Bought Tempest Rising on release
>Ok

>>715271069
CoH 3 campaign was laughably bad, I was super disappointed

>>715250902 (OP)
Man, I used to have a well-built castle in Stronghold Crusader that I used to beat my friends. I had this whole thing just like the CPU characters would where I would perfectly place buildings, towers, walls, moats into a nice little template where not a single piece of space went to waste and I had the perfect amount of population while being able to constantly pump out a specific set of soldiers. Out of all my video game shit this is genuinely the only thing I regret. That I didn't save my castle design. I tried to replicate it once many years after and I failed and just became miserable.

>>715271409
Are you really going to die incomplete like that? You must rediscover that design

>>715263141
There was a mission towards the end of Dynasty campaign in Tempest Rising where you have to defend three friendly AI bases down the middle of the map while fighting attacks from the north and south until you built up enough to hit their bases - definitely scratched that itch for me playing on hardest difficulty

>>715262672
Blatantly AI generated

>>715259716
>better
lol, you fucking people and your obsession with OLD shit.

>>715271409
crusader definitive edition coming in 3 days, get your ass back in here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXejCnia8tc

>>715271918
retard

>>715251190
Nice projection nigger
But your daddy left for a pack of newports and never came back

>>715273038
lol wtf does that prove

>>715273038
I've heard that this game is being developed by one dude and he has been at it for like a decade. Fucking impressive if true. But also rises certain suspicions about it ever getting finished.

>>715252007
Was that game good?
I loved original SupCom, and that's supposed to be like a spiritual sequel, yeah?
Shoulda thought about it during the summer sale.

>>715260213
TaB isn’t inherently bad for its TD elements. It can be a pretty challenging game if you’re not managing your expansion and defenses properly. Certainly is not a mobile or casual game.

Pic unrelated

>>715251978
>blazing hot take: RTS are only fun when they're treated like model trains
how do i treat an RTS like a model train?

There will never be another good undead campaign like Warcraft 3 and I'm still mad about it.

They can't just let necromancy run wild in most games, there's always some dumb bullshit mechanic that doesn't let you make an undead army.

>>715274641
Not like you could really do that in Warcraft 3 either honestly. I've heard Heroes of Annihilated Empires had a good undead campaign, but I never got around to play it. Also heard it can be a pain in the ass to run on modern systems.

>>715274641
>>715275043
closest I can think of to living out something like that is just playing TW warhammer as undead, tons of summoned units, skeleton army
etc

>>715274641
Do you just want to raise the dead or do you want an undead-themed campaign that acknowledge your faction as necromancers with a story to go along it? Because if you just want to raise hundreds of dead bodies, you can do it with Spellforce.

>>715266506
The elevation implies there's only two camps there because it would be hard to build more, the rest could be offscreen
the first one is just empty flatness

Is Desperados 3 any good?

>>715276168
No.

>>715263747
you forgot to mention Stormgate for your trollpost, maybe DoW3

>>715276741
Damn.

Any RTS for this feel?

>>715276995
Warlords Battlecry 3

>>715275440
wait how, didn't all summons drain your mana

>>715276995
Against Rome, Lost Technology, Skylords Reborn

>>715276995
Sex with mare sex with aura sex with

>>715276995
Overlord.

>>715263141
Same. My friend and I's favorite map for coh2 was Eisenfaust. We spent many weekends fighting mostly expert AI here with the rougher matches lasting over two hours.

>>715277526
>sex with aura
gay

>>715277194
These don't drain mana. You just create a bunch of workers, kill them by "deleting" them and raise a horde of skeletons from their bodies. Rinse and repeat as much as you like. Eventually there's so many skeletons the game becomes difficult to play because units have collision and their bony bodies form impassable roadblocks. Their power as units is very low though, they cannot work as anything other than meatshields for fun.

>>715277706
For me, it's The Scheldt.

>>715276995
Dungeon Keeper

>>715250902 (OP)
>He built walls but no pegasus
You retard. You need to have some idea of when attacks are coming.
>>715251978
That's a city builder game. Different kind of game, different sense of satisfaction, different kind of autism.
>>715253185
Stop being bad.

>>715270845
It was the kickstarter trailer for it. It didn't get funded because uber entertainment has blown all good will by that point

>>715278876
I managed to beat it with the usual, hydra spam, that unit is so absurd
previously I just couldn't get over the hill where the enemy had a billion units, but with 10 hydras it was no problem
the onagers are fucking cancer

>>715278065
Also a good map, nice and asymmetrical

>>715279046
>the onagers are fucking cancer
they also make your base defenseless absoloutely worthless even if the enemy has 1 of them
I really don't like that
in age 2 castles are CASTLES, unless they have trebs, the AI is fucked

>>715277706
So many multiplayer maps in CoH2 and they'd rather cycle between the same 5 in matchmaking. Why do they do this?

>>715250902 (OP)
For me it's islands maps.

>>715251978
Settlers VI was perfect for faggots like you.
(no seriously, it is the best of the series BY FAR)

I love bombing niggas in RTS. Why do so few of them have bombers?

>>715280353
play world in conflict immediately

>>715280353
I FUCKING LOVE RISE OF NATIONS

>>715279864
Naval maps are gay.
I'll accept hybrid maps, but pure naval maps are just unbearable cancer.
>Oh you got funny mapgen that means your dock is up late
>You now are playing from behind just because your first dock is up 10 seconds later
That being said I have played AoM Retold against people that think Mediterranean isn't a naval map and trounced them hard because of how much of an advantage fishing is.

>>715253043
Kino OST
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NLNEnxt6Ks
>1:00
>2:10

>>715280394
I don't remember WiC having planes at all
Also not really an RTS

>>715280714
it is an rts though
just no base building
and half the game is calling airstrikes on shit

>>715280353
Uh, buddy, C&C?
Also, why is there nothing in your build queue? Why's it taking 40 minutes to kill a single AI?

>>715280813
>Ending the game before I get to use bombers and cruise missiles
Why would I do that

>>715280787

>>715250902 (OP)
this faggot definitely plays mobas too

>>715274387
I liked it.
If you do single player, there is a fanmade AI that is acceptably good in single planet (challenging at x1.2 or x1.3 cheating) but absolutely horrible at multiplanets.

>>715251165
>Not having a period of grace to build up your comfy town and then having to figure out how to keep the swarm from wrecking it

>play RTS campaign
>spend 1+ hour turtling and gathering resources in a mission that could be completed in 15 minutes

maximum comfy. there is nothing more satisfying than controlling your army of little men and raising buildings

why don't grand stategy or pure city builders scratch the same itch as singleplayer RTS?

>>715283565
My nigga. My personal tier list of all the RTS campaigns I've played

>S: AoE2DE with all expansions, CoH1, Warcraft 3, Starcraft/Brood War
>A: Dawn Of War, Warcraft 2, Homeworld, Red Alert 2
>B: AoE3, Starcraft 2, Age of Mythology, C&C Generals/Zero Hour
>C: Rise of Nations, Red Alert 3, Halo Wars, CoH2
>D: AoE4, CoH3

>>715283565
they're not conclusive, city builders are never-ending basically, and grand strategy has no action, just spreadsheets

>>715284069
play world in conflict
S++ for me, I replay it all the time

>>715281635
kek

>>715284185
Will do. I also have Stronghold to play next, but I don't know if it's really an RTS

>>715250902 (OP)
Thinking of picking this up on PS5. Never played AoE before

>>715251978
You just described every RTS casual who screams about multiplayer, that's an ice cold take

>>715285121
if you can hook a keyboard + mouse to that thing, idk how any rts plays w controller

RTS games look so cool but I don't like building bases. I would prefer a game that's set up like an RTS but you control a set number of units and you don't build you just kill people.

>>715285390
WARNO
Wargame: RD
Broken Arrow

>>715285390
play world in conflict
theres tons of rts games with no base building besides WiC even, but yeah its a good start

>>715259716
Anon this better be bait.

>>715285572
these games are way too hard, especially for an rts beginner, no way, just play WiC which is what these games are an autistic version of

>>715283565
Sovl

>>715285390
If these >>715285572 feel too abstract for you, check out Gates of Hell

>>715285390
>>715285601
>>715285705
oh and company of heroes, technically it DOES have base building but its extremely braindead, like 3 buildings thats it, most of it is about unit control, awesome campaign

>>715285390
That's usually called real time tactics games.

>>715285390
Play Company of Heroes. It focuses on squad/unit combat, you only build so you can deploy squads, and maybe bunkers.

>>715251190
>he got to have a relationship with his father

>>715250902 (OP)
Yeah that's why aoe and aom are shit because it's mostly just open area with trees and resources spawned in clumps

>>715286297
AoE2 pretty much has endless maps to cater to all tastes

>>715264301
you think posting a hot monstergirl will get me to play your game?
well you're right

>>715264301
>>715286717
I had a question about this, how important is the DLC? Is it just extra campaigns? Cause the base game is like 5$ on key sites
I might pick it up

>>715286297
>>715286383
>small 1v1 maps for quick 10-15 minute rush matches
>big open 4v4 maps where everyone focuses on economy and scouting

these are the best

>>715285390
Soldiers: Heroes of World War II
It's Men of War prequel, and it plays like Commandos + Silent Storm + RTS + twin-stick shooter. No base building. Lot of tactics, lot of advanced physics, very interactive world, plus they updated it recently, after 20 years of silence, now it has achievements and map editor and workshop support and steam multiplayer support and it runs properly on modern Windows with high resolution and all the fluff, and unlike Relic faggots it's a free update.
I might just be a fanboy but I'm pretty certain Company of Heroes borrowed a lot of stuff from it. And both Men of War and Company of Heroes suck because they have much bigger scale. Here, you usually control 2-4 soldiers at most.
Yes, I'm shilling it for free. I fucking love this game. There's no game other like that.

>>715280353
play blitzkrieg

>>715262672
i have a feeling this is gonna turn out like DORF where it's just all art assets and no actual game

>>715286961
normally I avoid multiplayer in all rts out of fear of being toyed with, but one of my first age 2 online matches I won with a goths rush, it felt so fucking great to swarm that guy with my 30 barracks, I love age 2, its such a matured RTS, multiplayer wise even, singleplayer it pretty much has over 200 hours of content probably easily

>>715286995
hmm, it looks cool, but what does this game do better than men of war? like why play this over the 10 men of wars

>>715286383
It doesn't have handcrafted maps. Or well I mean pretty sure it does but that isn't the standard way of playing + no idea what kind of maps people prefer creating. I would imagine they're still very similar to what the standard map types are like.

>>715286995
>>715287249
tell me now nigga
I'm about to buy it

>>715283565
I'm the same way lol
>tfw you win because the AI just straight up runs out of resources and you can quietly take out their inactive bases at your leisure
the missions where you have to be aggressive or there's a hard timer stress me out though

>>715260213
>talking shit about flashgames

>>715283565
>>715287817
I play generals like this

>>715287249
As I said, much smaller scale, so more tactics and less tank rush. Also the maps are usually very open, so you're free to do whatever you want, like capture the artillery on the other side of the map and just blow your target with it, or capture a tank, or burn the whole village, or pick a single solider and give him a machine gun and turn on direct controls and just play Alien Swarm. You care about every single soldier. Every solider has inventory, so he can be anything depending on the tools you find, every tank is important, every tank needs a soldier to be used, every tank can be partially broken and can be fixed and you need a soldier and tools for it, any war machine can be captured and used against the enemy, any small building and any small cover can play a key role, every solider might be a hero.

>>715287992
>try to do that in RoTR
>AI is buffed specifically to prevent that
Wew

>>715251190
>people unironically raging at this post
lol

Any wicked sci fi RTS, bros?

>>715288185
Also MOTHERFUCKING PHYSICS.
Probably of all the tactics games, only Silent Storm has better destruction physics.

>>715288374
starcraft 2
probably the biggest budget rts campaign of all, not the best, but the biggest budget

>>715285390
>>715286098
yeah, either play CoH or men of war series, where using the right weapons and positioning matters more than just outproducing your opponent.
CoH2 is the best if you want to play multiplayer (coh1 is good too, never touch 3). CoH1 has an EXCELLENT single player campaign.

>>715283565
>Campaign mission has a fairly strict time limit

>>715251190
Gonna be real, I miss being small and having small corners of the house to hide in. Mag stash under the bed's head shelf was peak comfy.

>>715283565
Here is your turtling mission bro

>>715289279
genuinely what was their fucking design goal with this mission? I can understand the base defense even but who's fucking idea was it to have the enemy bases set up like they were where the fucking air base can only be assaulted by air and surrounded by AA?

>>715289384
mp patches fucked the sp

>>715289074
>>715289279
>mfw timed missions in Company of Heroes 1 where you have to hold off enemy waves with limited number of units

Some of the most stressful panic inducing shit ever

>>715251190
Why are so many people rattled by this? Pretty peculiar if you ask me.

>>715289279
>>715289384
>>715289469
theres a patch/fix for that yeah, to fix the singleplayer whose balance is fucked

that mission is still a bitch tho

for me its coh blitzkrieg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCoKJWwS07Y

The voice command gimmick for Endwar was fun.

>>715290189
never worked for me
this game was pretty much temu world in conflict

>>715286383
I wish more RTS games had procedural maps like the Age of games, they did a good job with it imo

>>715250902 (OP)
i hate them. i have said this a gazillion times on here and no one ever gives a fuck, but the simple fact is that rts games looked the way they looked, due to hardware limitations. it wasn't a stylistic choice. these days, there is literally no fucking reason why rts game still have to be zoomed in this much. no, i don't want the max zoom to still be so close to the ground that i can literally see an ant's asshole in full 4k, thank you very much...

>>715289586
once you get gud those missions can be finished off in like 5 minutes by destroying the enemy base.
Watch a few speedruns of coh1, it is insane.

>>715292260
optional zoom out to insane levels is fine... ? But I want zoom in to be able to see the chars' asscrack, its satisfying to watch the action up close..

>>715292403
i am obviously talking about the ability to zoom out.

>>715292403
CoH1 every individual soldier has facial animations and all sorts of other things like hand gestures and such.
Back when games were made by white people hired on merit. Feminism fucking destroyed everything.

>>715288195
RotR AI is hilarious in how much money it cheats even on normal

>>715290189
Tried playing this shit with a 3 euro mic and it didn't work at all. SHIT game.

>>715292260
Same for pop limits, RUSE is one of the few RTS not to have a population limit. Nothing better than to see a thousand artilleries darken the sky with a barrage.

>>715289279
I beat this without issue as a stupid teenager, but I played it unpatched on a mac pro laptop in the pre-aluminum days. How did the multiplayer balance fuck this, exactly?

>>715293642
>RUSE
holy shit
i remember that
thanks for reminding me it exists
played it eons ago

lads I need me some melee RTS
doesn't have to be fantasy, doesn't have to be autistic larp shit so I don't mind if there's flails around or even some 13th century gun even though the game was set during the viking age, just need some really medieval shit like ancestors legacy

>>715292260
>>715293642
Play BAR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfpaFcMvqfE

>>715293642
>>715293732
>RUSE can no longer be bought because of Willys MB Jeep copyright
fucking lel

>>715293705
enemy rocket dudes got some "slight" buffs

>>715293642
>commanding an actual regiment

>>715293940
Licensed music is a plague that made so many 2010's games into effective abandonware.

>>715293607
My mic was fine, but I have a countryside accent in my language so I had to play in English.

>>715294456
>range increased by 75%

LMAO RIP

>>715270462
I know the factorio clone was a cash grab but damn they could have tooken the HR concept and build whatever was made off of that

>>715253043
I beaten that game and I don't know how you ever got into a fucked up situation like that.

>>715283565
The sole reason i never played MP RTS games, why would i ,i wanna enjoy building tanks in Generals, or in DOW Soulstorm, or Red Alert 2, you name it, i want to build, to have buildings all over.
I must share my childhood memory of C&C1 back for PS1 all the way in 2001. i recall playing a map, but not exactly which one, i enclosed my base with sandbags, and enemy was almost gone, so i left the game running, and went to the city with parents, we were there a few hours i think, and since ps1 c8c was uber slow, it took all that time to fill nearly 90% of the map. all that wondrous glow of Tiberium, it remained with me 2+ decades later.
Such amount of joy cant be found in multiplayer games, i enjoy so much playing SP and letting my imagination run loose.

pic semi related.

>>715261017
Does the level stop when the waves end?

>>715285269
Halo Wars and 2 are the best console RTS games for controls
AvP extinction is only second

>>715283565
I loved Heart of the Swarm for this, I would spread my creep everywhere on the map before doing the objective. We need a pure turtling RTS.

>>715295036
Age of Darkness anon

>>715253185
Not sure about the remaster but the in the vanilla, NPCs would shit their pants if builds walls.

>>715295420
if they bring onagers they'll just destroy all the walls anyway

>Steamers play Terminator: Dark Fate on Realistic difficulty.
>As a first time player.

>>715295614
point is they buy time

>>715263747
New RTS is dogshit. There's a reason why WC3 and AoE2 endure.

>>715296000
new rts games have a fraction of hte resources the old ones do, there's some good ones out there, tempest rising, age 4 campaign wasn't bad

>>715295678
That game was pretty damn difficult Loved the soundtrack too.

>>715294798
Did you play on the hardest difficulty? It's the mission you have to keep moving or get overrun.

>>715263747
>Homeworld 3

>>715263747
>homeworld 3

>>715296000
>meantions two games that only schizos still play

>>715297104
WC3 is based fuck you.

>>715274641
Sacrifice, I guess
Charnel is a bro and has the best units

>>715296000
New RTS keep trying to emulate the SC2 or AoE2 competitive scene, leaving very little soul in the game and rely entirely on PvP for player retention. Lack of custom map/campaign builders, short half-assed singleplayer content that's basically just a tutorial, units that do fuck all unless spamming their micro abilities on cooldown, maps that are too symmetrical with overtly obvious base-building areas that don't feel organic, very generic rock-paper-scissors unit types, bland aesthetics, restricted base building if any at all, harsh population limits that can't be altered, lack of diplomacy and resource variety, and lack of era/research/game progression with staying power for longer term matches.
The ironic thing is that they're often made by people who are super into RTS, but those types are often like 5% of RTS players who are really obsessively good at it, so they end up making games for the 5% that fall short for the other 95%.

>>715297104
age 2 is the most played rts game

>>715297656
New RTS is obsessed with golden calves which is fucking retarded since old RTS games were made in complete ignorance. SC2 was so fucking unpopular amongst players that you can't even understand it unless you were there. There are threads of people talking about how they simply don't want to press the "Find Match" button because of anxiety.

>>715251190
Ehm actually it reminds me of the crawl space underneath my bed in which I used to hide whenever my parents would fight

>>715297828
You can experience ladder anxiety in any game where you feel like you are responsible for the outcome.

>>715264301
dead game

>>715298090
SC2 amplified it because of how insanely powerful cheese was, and how misclicking by a single pixel could lose you the game on the spot. People just didn't like being subjected to that.

I just want a modern RTS's to get controller support . Is that too much to ask?

>>715298886
Controllers aren't designed for accurate input. Sorry!

>>715299118
AoM: Retold
Halo Wars 1 & 2
Iron Harvest

All have controller support and they play great. If you want true accuracy you can also use gyro today. So what's the problem with using controller again? Just lazy devs.

>>715298886
Are they not already? I saw Age of Mythology in the Playstation store.

>>715250902 (OP)
*Sends pegasus over your base*
*Casts meteor on your town center*

>>715250902 (OP)
>remastered
holy shit that looks fucking bad. why would you do this to yourself anon?

>>715299397
They don't add controller support for AOE 2 & 4 on PC even though they have it for consoles.

>>715299776
I think it looks fine + I cba to deal with the widescreen issues n shit that I'll have to deal with if I wanna play the OG + I will play the new chinese campaign too
I really don't know why people are complaining, the underworld level looked great imo..

>>715296545
Cartel missions, besides Chihuahua were kino.

The DLC campaign can be trivialized with REV-6's with M2's and SMAWs, but it's less difficult if you think smart (exploit) the reinforcement blueprint system.

The DLC has it's own soundtrack. There is a 2nd version of Steel Rain (the introduction mission BGM) that has a more organic flavor in Taos because of the controllable units are only Cartel.

>>715299776
>10 hours later
>still trying to force this narrative

>>715299886
>I really don't know why people are complaining,
It's literally one guy. You can tell based on his sentence structure, lack of capital letters, bad punctuation, and such.

Getting old and don't wanna do quick mp games anymore. I kinda just want a good stylized rts sandbox game where i can build my own units, build some buildings, send my beefed units into giant underground complexes to clear out monsters etc. Maybe allow for third person on a commander unit so i can run around in my base.

>>715300775
You don't limit the control of a total sociopath, I.E. the demographic majority of RTS players. It won't make money.

>>715251190

>>715253256
kek, underrated

>>715263141
>but only know of workshop maps in coh2
nigga do you even play RTS?

>>715250902 (OP)
same. it's comfy to hold a choke with halbs+handcannoneers (who need a buff btw) and castles against the endless hordes.

>>715299886
what fucking widescreen issues? the game works out of the box
>>715300113
im glad you think its only 1 person hating on the remaster when i just arrived to the thread. must be nice being able to eat any kind of shit retarded devs throw at you

>>715250902 (OP)
>Warzone 2100 starting base
home...

>>715250902 (OP)
Earth 2150 will never be topped

>>715251190
daddy comes only at night

>>715303481
Super cozy. I've grown fond of Beta base myself.
Fuck Gamma. That shit is cramped as hell.

>>715303481
K I N O
love murdering for oil with my little tanks

>>715305548
Gamma in general is a pain the ass, though I guess it makes sense.
The worst one for me was the second Gamma base. I don't remember the exact mission number but it's the tiny base you have to relocate to when the first map expands and Nexus starts absorbing your units.
Holy shit I love that game, I have to download it again.

>>715250902 (OP)
i just finished sc2 campaign, i had fun with it but the story is so fucking cringe. I wish they released more stuff like the nova campaign, i liked that one

I just like games with lots of artillery

>Who hurt you

>>715310438
Play world in conflict

>>715252615
>that one villager who escapes the massacre and rebuilds the whole nation

>>715295280
thats cute anon
>>715295036
play this instead

>>715251190
>nusoicacas got baited by this

>>715283565
Only way to play, also
>campaign mission where you dont have a base
>always try to keep every unit alive along the way
>heavily wounded units all get grouped slightly behind the active army
fun

>>715313643
Hate the save system on this, or lack there of
>build base for a few hours and hold everything back and whooping ass
>oh wait, there's a hole in the wood lines you by a cliff that was obscured to you due to the camera angle
>zombies get in, you lose

>>715283565
City builders are pretty comfy, you just never gave them a chance and just play the same RTS over and over again.

>>715315236
>press fn+f4
>viola, you can see all the tiles now. congratulations

>>715285390
S.W I.N.E.

>>715315813
You failed to address the actual complaint.

where do i make RTS friends that can game during the same time as me? everyone i try to befriend to play RTS games is a normalfag with a gf/wife and a job, so i can never line their schedule up with mine...

>playing star wars battkegrounds
>all final missions are hard as fuck
>takes me almost an hour to complete
FUCK man

>>715295036
I wish there was more factions like Zerg/Undead that physically spread/terraform across the map. Very good feeling.

>>715315813
Yeah I get that now, but still just let me make my own save. It's lack of save system isbasically on everyone's list of negative about the game. Just give an ironman hard mode as an option for the people that prefer that. I can appreciate the devs making the game they want, but it's such a simple thing to change that's a staple of literally every RTS and its definitely something that held back its popularity.

>>715285390
>>715285936
play company of heroes

>>715319592
>Undead City-builder
The sheer potential

>>715298141
>100000 players aren't playing the game right now????
>ITS A DEAD GAME
you should be executed.

>>715286835
The DLCs adds extra buildings, etc. Just get the base game first. They are ok but not worth the price in my opinion.

>>715315530
I've played city builders and tycoon games before and despite the popular belief they're not quite the same thing. There you mostly play with numbers and try to optimize your logistics and space management, with only time being your enemy. In RTS you have a very clear goal of not dying, and maybe destroying the enemy base, but that's not relevant here. So you work towards not dying, find good defensive positions, erect sturdy defenses, ensure your base doesn't have an open backdoor etc. The idea is to make sure that nothing can break you. This is why I also love Factorio, as it gives you a constant and rising threat of the bugs coming from a blind spot and fucking up half of your production line, so you have to cover a very wide open area with walls and turrets, while keeping the possibility of expansion in mind, and maybe getting a second line of defense in case you get caught with your pants down. You just don't get this kind of thing out of SimCity, or Total War games for that matter.

>>715274387
Nah it's fucking dogshit, imagine SupCom 2 with even less depth and you have Planetary Annihilation
>BUT THE MAPS ARE SPHERICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I CAN BUILD LIEK 3 TYPES OF SATELLITE
Shame there is no faction variety and even less unit variety between the single existing faction. It's honestly pathetic. Just pirate it if you want to try it out, then buy it for a very cheap price during the next sale if you like it. As much as SupCom 2 was ass at least the differing factions and tech tree system meant that you had different armies with different strengths in each match. PA can't even manage that

>>715260213
half the board played btd6 because of that guy

>>715317193
You think that's bad? Try this slavjank kino
>Enemy gets unlimited ammo, but yours is limited due to realism(TM)
>You are always massively outnumbered
>And almost always outgunned too, with the AI having considerably more tanks and artillery than you
>Your guys die extremely quickly. At least the enemies die quickly too
>You can directly control individual units but their accuracy is never 100% precise (so you miss and then get 1 hit KO'd by that anti-tank gun)
>The game loves throwing just one more objective at you
>Especially during the "stealth" missions which give you 10 dudes against 100+ enemies and a dozen+ enemy tanks
>Oh and the path-finding is pretty jank
I have a love hate relationship with this dumb ass series. On average each mission (and there are over 20) takes at least an hour as I painstakingly position comrade CYKA #13 so that he can sneak past the entrenched enemy to suicide bomb an enemy tank.

>>715250902 (OP)
Is this Empire Earth 2? It has higher graphic fidelity than I remember

>>715280394
>>715280787
>>715281276
Fucking masterpiece. I wish they made more.

>>715327916
age of mythology remaster

>>715322287
spicy

>>715263747
pre-ordered the deluxe edition after playing DoK and going back to play h1,h2 and cata/emerg.
h3 fails so hard and while i don't think any of the games that came before it were perfect it's easily the weakest on in terms of gameplay and story.
and then to top it off all the post launch content was geared for the 3 player coop mode which sucks to grind alone and good luck finding people looking to play it with at this point since there's 0 reason to continue to do so now that everything was pushed out in one last final patch and it was fucking nothing in terms of content.
this game needed another year or two in the oven to flesh out the missions, some of them are over just as they seem to be getting started and it's like 13 missions, the same as DOK where one is basically a tutorial for moving units around and a few almost play themselves with how simple they are
DoK at least got the battles and missions mostly right with progressively more intense and interesting stuff going on while h3 flounders a lot of it's setups like the asteroid mission where you gotta navigate the fleet is legit a point a to b and there's 0 challenge to it or anything unexpected. nothing compared to the nebula mission from homeworld or even the friggin tornado stuff in DoK where you had to scrap parts and defend from attacks while the valley was getting hit by storms. idk what really went on with the dev team, i read about rewrites and saw the images of some pink haired employee who supposedly influenced the game in the last year or so but whatever happened there it was a bullet to the head of homeworld when the devs were essentially given the keys to the kingdom of a classic RTS series
what really sucks is that i met mattpat at a small family gathering and was talking to him about games, stuff we were looking forward to, and i brought up H3 as something i didn't want to get too hyped about due to all the broken launches of games in the past years but i was hopeful :(

>>715294798
>report bug

Name a RTS game with more custom maps made than this one.

>>715251190
tru...

>>715331093
You can smell the alcohol

>>715329827
The amount of customization the editor allowed is incredible even to this day, and it was simple enough that a person with zero programming experience could figure it out. You could make full non-rts games with it. And it just came with the game as a bonus.

>>715331093
love 'apeson

>>715331093
literally me (on the right) >.<

>>715305548
beta isn't so cozy when you realize half the base isn't actually on a hill but fully exposed

>>715306753
it's not that tiny but yeah its a bit cramped and moving units outside is a pain cause there is only a small corridor out. You don't get to stay there for long anyway since nexus quickly start blasting everything with the satellite lazers and you have to relocate further south to the silo base

Does anyone know that RTS with heroes that had its own installer? And it was very colourful. I think the whole game had a lot of red. I have no idea what it was about, but the game (I think) had a lot of RPG elements.

>>715334631
heroes 3 fits the description except for the real time part. Could use a bit more details.

>>715298886
emulate red alert 3(+ the expansion) or supreme commander 2 on ps3, supcom1 on xenia too but i couldn't get that to load

>>715251190
you guys' dads came home?

>>715331762
I can guarantee you that 90% of dev time went into making the editor, then the devs used the editor to make the campaign.

>>715335689
No, man. The game is much older. I want to say anywhere between 2005 and 2010. Maybe it had something to do with dragons. As in, the thematic was dragons.

>>715336770
>the game is much older
>anywhere between 2005 and 2010
You double underage, HoMM 3 is from 1999.

>>715334631
Sacrifice

>>715329827
probably AoE

>>715329827
Warcraft 3, no question. The sheer volume and variety of custom maps is unmatched. You’ve got everything from epic 6-hour RPG campaigns to cursed meme maps and actual MOBAs - hell, DotA literally came from it. It was less a game and more a platform for a generation of sweaty nerds to misplace their childhoods. Even now, people are still trying to recreate the magic in SC2’s arcade or Reforged (lol), but it ain’t the same.

>>715336935
Clearly I misspoke. I'm 32. You don't need to tell me about HoMM3.

>>715336983
No. It's older--I mean newer than that.

Playing Reforged in classic graphics makes me wanna play OG DotA. I yearn for simpler times.

>>715264301
>roguelike city builder
>RTS

>>715337075
maybe describe what kind of game you mean nigger.
What is heroes, is it in the name is it a game with heroes. Was the game box red or the ingame.
I'm almost sure you are not talking about an RTS game

>>715313643
this game was hard as shit and the hero missions were a lot worse but I finished it and it was fucking great of a game
I really hope they're working on a second game

>>715303481
Man, I could not stay contained in that little base at all. I loved building outposts and small forward bases in the captured territory and spreading over the entire map.