Comment on StarCraft-Inspired RTS From Former Blizzard Devs Losing Online Multiplayer Because Server Partner Was Bought By AI Company - Aftermath (Nathan Grayson)

supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• grue@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I haven’t played Beyond All Reason or this “StarCraft-inspired” game, but I have played Total Annihilation and StarCraft and I wouldn’t consider them to be substitutes for each other.

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  • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I mean if someone wants to make a Starcraft inspired mod in Beyond All Reason, ALL of the equipment is already there, the lobby system, voting mechanisms, replay system etc…

    I think the reason nobody has is Starcraft is so much more limited of an RTS design it feels weird to start from a Total Annihilation inspired rts game engine and take a whole bunch away.

    Still, the Spring/Recoil engine is sitting there. Starting from scratch just to start from scratch seems VERY inefficient to me.

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    • grue@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I think the reason nobody has is Starcraft is so much more limited of an RTS design it feels weird to start from a Total Annihilation inspired rts game engine and take a whole bunch away (shift clicking, build cues, actually 3d trajectories of cannons, complex unit interactions rather than simplistic rock-paper-scissors relationships, actually flying aircraft, organic terrain variation instead of simplistic stepped levels…the list goes on and on)

      Exactly. Those “limitations” (I would use a less biased word, BTW) make it a different game. Not necessarily worse or even more simplistic, but definitely different, kinda like how Chess and Go are different even though they’re broadly in a similar genre.

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      • supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        My point is the Recoil and Spring Engine already exist and could easily have features removed and simplified with modding to create a Starcraft-like or Warcraft-like.

        Or… what about going with 0 A.D.'s engine?

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• smiletolerantly@awful.systems ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Despite having a native Linux build, BAR is the one thing keeping my GF on windows. BAR runs flawlessly for her on windows, it runs flawlessly for me on Linux, but on her GPU on Linux, it has less than 3fps, both in the menu and the game. (Have already tried a shitton of fixes, nothing helped.)

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• mesamunefire@piefed.social ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Im having a great time with the game! Its fun.

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