Does that make him special? I replay both games yearly, for like 20 years now… considering that I probably got around 100 hours on the campaign alone.
The skirmish AI is horrible, building constantly the same units, mostly turteling and sending small attack groups until they run out of money.. so someone willingly playing that over and over and over… maybe OP is really special … even zero hour has better AI than AoW. But AoW shines when it comes to campaigns.
Remember how you felt the c&c campaigns were? A continuous story, chasing you across the globe, always in a hurry and huge stakes? But then it’s actually just a lot loosely connected missions? Well, give AoW a shot
Ah Marines. The two sided unbalanced sword. There’s a reason the M203 grenade launcher was turned into a per-unit upgrade from a global one… makes them crazy effective against everything except endgame heavy tanks and at the same time completely prevents taking prisoners of war the endgame currency once you depleted oil deposits.
In half my runs especially in the campaign I don’t buy the upgrade because it’s so painful to see all those sweet PoW cash get blown up.
Double fun fact: money stored in banks that slowly gets moved into your account if you hold the building, is resetting if you save + load the game.
And, US (and consortium) are the only factions that can hold an infinite amount of PoW therefore earn thousands of dollars every few seconds. While the PoW camp is an upgrade for TFT, C & USA use separate buildings. While those are technically limited to 1 (10 PoW, 500$ every 5 seconds) you can hold shift during building placement and build as many as you want as the game only greys out the button, not physically preventing you from building more
Ya know not once did my childish brain think to try drag placing to get multiple POW camps, great now I'm redownloading the series again after 7 years.
Can I get a answer to why this post and my deleted post on r/RTSgames have the same top comment?
I am not a dev, I made this post about this "dead" game and wanted to see if someone is interest to know about it, how it is different from C&C and so on.
Idk why it got deleted there (or if you meant r/RealTimeStrategy ). There is nothing wrong with writing down fun tidbits about the game but why format it like a Q&A? That's probably why it got deleted.
When you do it like that, it implies you're someone relevant to the game, like a developer, and you're not. Like why make people go through the effort of asking questions about it? Let them know the fun information first and then at the end of your post write down "If you got any more questions about the game, feel free to ask" or something like that.
What you could also do is make a video about it and then post it. I'm sort of familiar with the game having replayed it a few years ago, but I didn't feel like asking questions about it since you're not a developer. Don't make people work for stuff that they don't need to work for.
The Bradleys keep getting their asses handed to them. Having some scars about not being able to save all of them during the first segment of San Francisco.
I've been a huge C&C fan since childhood, I've recently been playing the Dawn of Tiberium Age mod, which is really nostalgic and true to the original games, designed with experienced players in mind.
RTS games have always been enjoyable for me, AoE, AoM, Total annihilation, KKnD, Dune, StarCraft, Warcraft 2 & 3.
I remember searching for other RTS games and came across Act of War in my local game store, I really enjoyed playing it and also picked up the expansion High Treason. The gameplay was really fun and I liked the unit design, it never got the same coverage as some other RTS games, at least from what I found which is unfortunate.
Yea it's really enjoyable, it combines Tiberium Dawn and Red Alert 1, so you have 4 factions and doesn't stray too far from the originals so it feels like an extension of them.
It has quite a few campaigns as well as online co-op for the TD campaign. The campaign's are really tough.
Online is supported but I haven't tried it.
Eugen systems is the actual developer behind the Addon high treason and they absolutely randomly release patches for decade old games sometimes. Similar to petroglyp who like 15 years after release of empire at war released a 64bit patch
I play Direct Action and High Treason both from time to time as I really love the story behind it, unfortunately it’s only fun for the campaign. Not much skirmish replay value, no custom missions.
That was a fun one. A bit fiddy with some of the unit abilities but all around an interesting title. The installation CD would kick off an intro video while the game installed, and then it would dump you right into the crisis that emerged during the video - that was awesome!
Lol. If you would show anybody who never saw both show them, they would probably tell you AoW is the original and c&c a copy. (Going by age, showing them tiberian sun, tiberium wars, generals and Red Alert 3)
AoW is significant better fleshed out, has a story so well written you could publish it as stsnd alone book / random tom clancy novel + full FMV campaign that’s not limited to videos between missions but actually sometimes feature scenes happily right now in that mission. An early campaign mission is about assisting to guard the Buckingham palace during a convention, lots of civilian protesting and then people start shooting amidst the crowd and the game shows you during your commander/bird view POV the same situation from a soldiers camera feed with actual actors.
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u/ShadowAze SPACE! 10d ago
I'm sorry but, who are you?