since around 2004, and met some great people and learned an awful lot about developing non-trivial software, so it was a great experience regardless of the game being perpetually two years away from release. Well, technically it's only been alpha for 7 years - before that it was called "pre-alpha". is showing promise but has been in alpha for over a decade There's a rise and fall due to complexity here, too map editors got more complex for these games until the mapmaking community practically retired when the SC2 one came out since it was too complex Warcraft III custom maps are still probably the apex Custom maps can be half the games being played (or more) for Blizzard RTSs Custom maps are often less "clicky" than melee competitive players in StarCraft II's Nexus Wars can have an APM as low as 40 MOBAs didn't start around the time WarCraft III came out they were a custom map for WarCraft III (Defense of the Ancients), which hybridized RPGs and RTSs Tower defense started out as a custom map on StarCraft
All the way back to WarCraft II, Blizzard RTSs have allowed players to customize maps including unit names, rules, and gameplay 150 APM also includes "extra clicks" from pros, where they try to keep their rhythm up by right-clicking to move three times instead of onceĪ couple other things from WarCraft/StarCraft on custom maps, which were not well-explained: Which was a totally broken tactic and had to be banned.Ī couple things from the WarCraft/StarCraft side of the aisle on APM: I was also the first person in our group to realise the best use of nukes was nuking spice fields near the enemy.
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Obligatory great moment in C&C - playing in a games cafe (remember those?) and seeing a transport copter full of engineers land inside my base.(how much spice does all of that cost?) "Hey, Ray?" "What? I'm about to kick your ass." "Watch this." *PEW* Best use of orbital ion cannon for the win.
It's also a pity that the more Sim-City style RTS games (Settlers and Anno) seem to have vanished up their own arses, with recent releases being markedly inferior games to their predecessors. I haven't seen anything better than half-decent since. It's a pity that CoH Online got nuked in favour of other projects. Technical limitations aside (the engine really struggles on large, player-created maps, lacks 64-bit support, the graphics engine is horrifically outdated), it was nearly perfect. Company of Heroes was the last great RTS game. It managed to make map control essential before DoW and CoH introduced a hard-wired mechanic for it. So much depth there, though at a competitive level the units were almost irrelevant next to the endless scramble for resources. TA + the UberHack kept me going for years. You're spot-on about the balance, because it's quite notably what further games from the same programmers (Supreme Commander, Planetary Annihilation) are missing. I was also a huuuuge fan of Total Annihilation. And the game would declare "Sic transit gloria mundi" and end for both players if too many nukes were launched. If one person started to use nukes, it was almost impossible to not respond in kind. I especially loved the CHQ nuclear war mechanic, which I thought modelled reality fairly well. I always felt that Modem Wars and Command HQ don't get enough credit for pioneering multi-player RTS.