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[Slightly Wonky Robob]

TheDR, on 20 April 2025 - 20:30, said:

Slightly Wonky Robob, on 20 April 2025 - 20:20, said:

At this level of the sport, is the real qualification just sheer disrespect for one's life?

You might be on to something...

[TheDR]

Chyros, on 20 April 2025 - 21:13, said:

Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early .

Whoops!

Slightly Wonky Robob, on 20 April 2025 - 21:17, said:

TheDR, on 20 April 2025 - 20:30, said:

Slightly Wonky Robob, on 20 April 2025 - 20:20, said:

At this level of the sport, is the real qualification just sheer disrespect for one's life?

You might be on to something...

Good for him

[General]

Chyros, on 20 April 2025 - 21:13, said:

Tempest Rising accidentally launched a week early .

Just like me, comes early

Also,

need a character to die brutally in your series? Pedro Pascal is your man!

Edited by General, 21 April 2025 - 03:25.

[Destiny]

apr 23 apocalypse rising

[General]

Wanna know what else is rising?

[Destiny]

ankara lol

[General]

Ankara means "harsh" in Finnish

[Chyros]

Destiny, on 21 April 2025 - 06:18, said:

apr 23 apocalypse rising

Yeah I definitely wanna check that out as well, though last I looked this wasn't announced anywhere on their website .

[General]

Nope, tried again and Tempest Rising just doesn't click for me.

I guess i will wait and hope for a proper remakae of Generals.

[TheDR]

I think games, and specifically RTS games, might be quite hard to create.

[Chyros]

What is it exactly that you're looking for? Other than just, you know, Generals.

[General]

Art style and unit design seem to be even more important for rts games.

Red Alert 2 and Generals, even Tiberium Wars had perfect unit design. Distinct, easy to read, fun.

[Chyros]

That's fair.

To be honest I really like the Tiberian universe and visually it's a lot closer to that than Generals, or even Red Alert. Though it definitely also has RA elements.

So far I like it. Not blown away or anything, but a fun playthrough. Don't know how good skirmish is gonna be but I haven't seen that many of the units and stuff yet of course.

[TheDR]

I want it to do well just so we get more RTS games.

[Chyros]

Indeedely do. Although I feel like Tempest Rising is kinda eclipsing other RTS games that are coming out.

That said there are a whole bunch more I want to try, including Endeavor, which is already out.

[TheDR]

This one? What appeals about it? I think it looks a bit uninspired.

I feel like we need an open source engine that has the basis for a good game that people can put the creative overlay on the top. A bit like how Unreal engine allows for action/fps games to at least have a base to build upon. All these developers have to spend so much time recreating the mechanical elements of RTS games that they never get time to make a good game.

[Chyros]

TheDR, on 21 April 2025 - 11:46, said:

This one? What appeals about it? I think it looks a bit uninspired.

I feel like we need an open source engine that has the basis for a good game that people can put the creative overlay on the top. A bit like how Unreal engine allows for action/fps games to at least have a base to build upon. All these developers have to spend so much time recreating the mechanical elements of RTS games that they never get time to make a good game.

Yeah that one. It looks a little bit like a midpoint between BAR and C&C.

As for the engine, I'd say BAR's is quite good. It can handle tens of thousands of units on the map without any lag. For more C&C-style games, maybe there should be another one. Although I don't see why Unity or Unreal wouldn't work Oo .

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Nothing like a friendly game of golf.

[General]

Maybe the real friends were the golfs we played along the way

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

Indeed.

[TheDR]

Chyros, on 21 April 2025 - 12:24, said:

TheDR, on 21 April 2025 - 11:46, said:

This one? What appeals about it? I think it looks a bit uninspired.

I feel like we need an open source engine that has the basis for a good game that people can put the creative overlay on the top. A bit like how Unreal engine allows for action/fps games to at least have a base to build upon. All these developers have to spend so much time recreating the mechanical elements of RTS games that they never get time to make a good game.

Yeah that one. It looks a little bit like a midpoint between BAR and C&C.

As for the engine, I'd say BAR's is quite good. It can handle tens of thousands of units on the map without any lag. For more C&C-style games, maybe there should be another one. Although I don't see why Unity or Unreal wouldn't work Oo .

The BAR engine is quite old now and is likely to be very geared towards Total Annihilation type games.

Unity and Unreal aren't created with the complexities of RTS games in mind, and from my quick half an hour of research, some devs use Unity or Unreal but then design another engine to work along side it to deal with navmesh/pathfinding/simulation stuff.

Edited by TheDR, 21 April 2025 - 16:18.

[General]

Ah, there it is. The dreaded "pathfinding"

[Slightly Wonky Robob]

I'll find your path in a minute.

[General]

*Bob gets stucked inside the rocks while trying to find the path*

[General]

So I finished watching Lost



Waited 6 seasons for the answers. Finally Jacob says that he will give them all the answers, and gives them fuck none!


Game of Thrones last season was bad? No, it was a fucking masterpiece!