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Kryptos
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Re: I do a bunch of live streaming. No cam, looking for players. [Re: GenesisCorrupted]
#28497689 - 10/09/23 01:58 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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Sorry, unreasonably addicted to Beyond All Reason.
https://www.beyondallreason.info/
It's free
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Re: I do a bunch of live streaming. No cam, looking for players. [Re: GenesisCorrupted]
#28497778 - 10/09/23 03:21 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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FO4 is quite good. Best FO since FO3. I dunno why, New Vegas just didn't click for me.
BAR is an RTS, yes, but it is fundamentally different from Starcraft/Warcraft. Both starcraft and warcraft have a linear resource system where resources get exhausted. i.e., 100 minerals of marines is 10x worse than 1000 minerals of marines. And, further, as the game continues, the resource stockpiles run out, forcing you to expand.
BAR is a Total Annihilation style RTS, everything is exponential. Resources not only do not end, but you can generate more resources faster as time goes on. Units become exponentially more effective (in terms of damage per resource cost/number of units), and exponentially more expensive. Suddenly, ten marines are way more than 10x more effective than one marine, because of flanking damage bonuses on each unit. Someone that spend 30 minutes focused on their economy will have literally half the economy of someone that spends 35 minutes on it, because of exponential growth.
Oh and the primary game mode is teams 8v8. So all of that works out--you got frontliners using what they got to buy time for backliners, who use exponential growth to grow faster and kick in when necessary to save their frontliners, who, when successful, can cripple backliners by punching through into the opposing backline.
It's hard to describe, it's a very fundamentally different RTS from starcraft/warcraft. But it is still an RTS.
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Oh yeah, part of the fundamental difference might be the ability to simulate literally thousands of units at a time. 12 marines might change the early game, but late game, marines are best used as spotters--they'll spot whatever killed them for artillery targeting.
Edited by Kryptos (10/09/23 03:30 PM)
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Re: I do a bunch of live streaming. No cam, looking for players. [Re: GenesisCorrupted]
#28497798 - 10/09/23 03:35 PM (3 months, 17 days ago) |
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I enjoyed FO4 because what I'd do is simple: I'd load the game, load my save, pick a direction, and walk. Then I'd find something to do in that direction. Bandit hideout or whatever. Very much enjoyed that.
I guess the radiant quests were my go to, because I'm one of those people that binges games, which means stories get ruined if they don't fit into my binge schedule.
I have actually never completed the main quest of any Bethesda game except FO3. Morrowind and FO3 are my favorites by far (edit: of bethesda games), but FO3 is the only one where I played the game deeply enough to actually finish the main story. I just get bored of the game before I finish the main quest. Or I get distracted by side quests and just never do the main. I've done probably 99% of the side quests in Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, FO3, FONV, and FO4, but never actually completed the main quest in anything but FO3.
Edit: I'm more of a Factorio/DSP/CoI player, TBH.
Edited by Kryptos (10/09/23 03:37 PM)
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