I can't both manage my base and command an army, it's just too complicated :kitty-cri-screm:

  • TheCaconym [any]
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    3 years ago

    And that's among a long long list of cool things. There is a Open Source "remake" of a similar engine, by the way; it's called Spring. It has been more than a decade in the making (though it was already perfectly playable at least 10 years ago). It is very very good - it's truly an engine: you load a game file that completely changes the game depending on what you want to play.

    For the supcom/total anihilation feeling, Balanced Anihilation is great.

    And here is a list of the most popular games you can load in the engine.

    It goes without saying the engine runs on Linux natively (as well as Windows), of course.

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I played Evolution RTS and that's what made me realize how cool RTS games are. Haven't played many since though. Planetary Annihiliation mostly.

      • Scarry [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Planetary Annihiliation

        how is that game? I've heard the AI sucks, do you just play it online?

        • blobjim [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          I played it online a while ago, didn't do single player much. Had some issues with some games and it takes a long time to load in but it was pretty fun. I haven't played many other RTSs to compare it with. I just really like how it uses a solar system with planets and you can build satellites that serve a couple different functions, and send units between planets, and crash planets into other planets (in addition to nukes). It feels a lot more three dimensional than other similar games. The game can get laggy eventually as would be expected, and the menus are laggy, and they kept changing the UI design. I don't think there's many players in it these days. The studio developing it could have done better but it was a Kickstarter funded game I believe.