Every rts works very nearly the same as every other one. That's how people who play them avoid that problem. Learn one, you have learned most of them. Of course this means the genre is stuck in the past and can't change things to fix problems without alienating most people who would buy the games, so 90s rts clunkiness is baked in even to new ones.
Offworld Trading Company manages to be fresh without scaring away everyone by not having much direct combat. Like, technically there is combat because you can hire pirates to sabotage your competition and they can in turn hire security and they will fight under player control, but it's simplistic and a very small part of the game.
Used to play 2v2 in Starcraft II years ago with a friend. I can still manage a semi decent APM in pretty much all RTS games if I actually care. Gotta just learn the new hotkeys and everything else translates over really well.
Mostly I just put things on super easy, put on a podcast and try to keep all my little dudes alive :comfy-cool:
Every rts works very nearly the same as every other one. That's how people who play them avoid that problem. Learn one, you have learned most of them. Of course this means the genre is stuck in the past and can't change things to fix problems without alienating most people who would buy the games, so 90s rts clunkiness is baked in even to new ones.
Offworld Trading Company manages to be fresh without scaring away everyone by not having much direct combat. Like, technically there is combat because you can hire pirates to sabotage your competition and they can in turn hire security and they will fight under player control, but it's simplistic and a very small part of the game.
Used to play 2v2 in Starcraft II years ago with a friend. I can still manage a semi decent APM in pretty much all RTS games if I actually care. Gotta just learn the new hotkeys and everything else translates over really well.
Mostly I just put things on super easy, put on a podcast and try to keep all my little dudes alive :comfy-cool:
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