What RTS games are you playing now, please?

BAR

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

But... While bar is good, very good. It is also very hard to compete with, so I see it sort of killing any funding for good commercial RTS's for the next few years.

It's non-competitive (I'm burnt out with SC2 ladder a bit), but I've been enjoying Cataclismo, Settlers 3 (THAT is a throwback), and I'm eyeing They are Billions.

Some SC2 youtubers are now covering Mechabellum, Tempest Rising, BAR, AoE4, and some in-dev titles: Battle Aces, Immortal: Gates of Pyre, Zerospace, and of course Stormgate.

These are all on my list but I'm busy enough playing Warframe ^^'

AoE2, baby. Still going strong, decades after launch.

And AoE4, one of the few high profile RTS games of the past years, is dead.

I own all AoE games, and despite having 3 and 4 installed, I don’t think I’ve so much as launched them. Every time I think “I should try this,” I remember I want to try a new strategy in 2 instead.

You and many people.

Give 4 a try! Its multiplayer is excellent. Kind of a hybrid between Starcraft and AoE2 in terms of pacing and civ divergence. (Fewer, more diverse civs)

The archer kiting/dodging mechanic that dominates AoE2 is gone.

I play AoE2, not 4 because that's what my friends play, but 4 is the more interesting one from a strategy perspective. More opportunities to surprise the opponent, use novel strats, go off meta etc.

That was disappointing to see. I thought it was a great game, with some mechanics improved over 2, and missing some of the glitchy behavior that became cannon (e.g. foot archer kiting) The community (nor my friends) didn't seem to go for it, primarily for the reason that it's not AoE2. Exquisite sound design too.

Sins of a solar empire 2. AI War 2. There haven’t been any really “big” ones like StarCraft but some very good smaller ones like those two.

I found Iron Harvest, Last Train Home, Tempest Rising and Company of Heroes 3 to be pretty good.

VERY COOL! I joined the waitlist.

Wow, thanks for making it so easy for me to know who to call and what to say. They answered the phone in 1 second (seriously), I told them what I wanted to say, and they recorded my name and that was it.

Is the joke that every one of those is an acquisition?

I look forward to seeing this on https://killedbygoogle.com in a few weeks.

Preprints.

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To keep the charade up I sent one of every 20 requests to them to do for me.

And easier deletes if customer X wants all their data deleted!

This was an excellent exchange that I learned a lot from. Thank you both.

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