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What type of game do you want to see? (pawb.social)

submitted 5 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I am a really big fan of base building in RTS games, which is why I never liked Starcraft. Bases in Starcraft feel like they have such little rhyme or reason. They are messy and ugly. I always build a ton of bases in games like Tiberian Sun, that, while gameplay wise, are a waste of time and money, feel fun to build and fun to defend and destroy. I think a really cool strategy game idea would be a logistics themed game. One where building more realistic bases all over a map is a strategy so that they can supply and support each other. Maybe you start out with a FOB and you need to expand into guerilla held territory, but you need to build COPs and Logistics centers to keep your troops supplied and protected.

I always hated in Starcraft how clicks per second is a means to measure how effective some one is at the game. I really want to see a game where tactics and unit composition matter, where a platoon of mechanized infantry face off against like a BTR platoon and, using strategy, you pull through. Have each squad with a realistic composition of like a Squad leader, 2 team leaders, a radio man, 2 squad weapons, a crew served weapon, 2 anti tank units, a combat life saver, and 2 rifle men. I think something with that depth, but with a more coherant interface than like Shockforce, and with pausable real time combat would be awesome. Like Arma but an RTS.

What games would you want to see?

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Little side-tangent, but @[email protected] if you like base-building RTSes, you should check out Earth 2150 if you have not already. It's old, but it's imo one of the best out there.

There are 3 factions, each with their own campaign, and very different styles of units, and during the campaign you have a home base that you build, and from which you can build and send out units to your in-progress missions (i.e. build a tank in your homebase, load it into a helicopter, send the helicopter to your in-mission base's landing zone, and unload tank for use... and vice-versa for keeping units that you build in the mission zone, etc).
Eurasian Dynasty is very traditional tanks and helicopters, and ballistic weapons
United Civil States is bipedal walkers and sleek hovering aircraft, and uses energy weapons
Lunar Corporation is space-y hovercraft with arcing, electric weapons and AOE pulse weapons
There's tunnel-building and tunnel warfare, which is so damn cool...
There's unit customization, like choosing the types of weapons for the tanks, building giant bipedal walkers with 3 different weapon systems, etc
There are aircraft and boats, not just ground units
You are using the resources you farm in the mission locations to construct a giant colony ship to escape from Earth, which is a great mechanic to give you a reason to actually extract resources other than just to build more units

Now I have to go reinstall it... xD

There are also Earth 2140 and Earth 2160, but I never fell in love with those 2 (Earth 2160 isn't bad, and has a cool alien faction that is basically a roaming mothership that builds units, rather than a traditional 'base').