in westwood games

the gameplay was to control the units around efficiently 😛

whilst theyd be figuring out which one should move for the other to pass through

many hours lost in red alert 2

i realise it's a massive challenge and the games were very playable and enjoyable with their solutions

@svarozhyc Yup. The pathfinding wasn't perfect.
But even getting the pathfinding up to that level was quite difficult back then.

They had to do a lot of things completely from scratch. There were no reference to take ideas from.

yeah they pretty much made the genre

westwood and blizz

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nFKPVfDrgU

damn EA

and blizz having a midlife crisis lol

I'd argue that the team behind Total Annihilation have a big share of responsibility for the genre.

ahh the warsaw pact https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xngKi0jFVBs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM

@svarozhyc Did you ever try out the TA team's latest installment PLANETARY Annihilation? 😉

Pretty fucking insane as far as RTS games go.

https://youtu.be/mO1N_gehg-M

nope lesseee

never played the TA games

oh shiet that looks noice

What the TA/PA series is notorious for is the complete absence of a unit cap.

Basicallu you can field as many units as each players computer and bandwidth can handle. 😁

👌

member cossacks had the same lol

Wait for the last 20 seconds of the video. It's orgasmic <:ahegon:566797166258028548>

I'm playing this populace throwback right now- pretty addictive, simple yet not so bad https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-PIgPGR_k

or the cap was too high for me to have reached on my system back in the day

but i had 1000s of units

oh no death star

haha the trailer leaves me with one crucial question: how does that work in gameplay

games with death stars

i member empire earth blew me away when i first saw the trailers 😛

but then it was more age of empires lol

@Mentrex I love how you can see him trying not to laugh

and emperor battle for dune looked amazing throughout but was simplified to the level of -no detail-

😛

@JackH670 i know right lol

That game was fantastic

then they made the abortion that was 3

Spent a summer playing it, not very well

oh that looks aight red

That Citizen Kabuto game- anyone play that?

@svarozhyc Oh it all works. And yes, you can strap giant rocket engines to smaller moons and essentialy turn the moon into a giant projictile, flinging it straight into an enemy held planet to destroy it.

It's also possible to build death star lasers to annihilate planets with. 🤣

i loved the idea of populus but when i played it, it was a bit too dunno linear