Real-Time Strategy (RTS)

17 days ago by mrmaplebar to c/newcommunities

Hey there! Are you a fan of classic, intense and borderline overwhelming real-time strategy games like StarCraft or Age of Empires?

If so, then welcome to @rts@fedia.io, a brand new fediverse community for fans of the real-time strategy (RTS) game genre!

I hope this will be a great place on the fediverse to talk about all things RTS games--be it news, strategy, memes, game design, modding, reverse engineering, or what have you.

What's more, in addition to this fediverse community I've also just set up a brand-new Matrix space, #realtime:matrix.org, for real-time discussion and matchmaking for various games (with each game having its own subspace and plenty of room for null

That's !rts@fedia.io and #realtime:matrix.org!

See you there!

JohnnyEnzyme 12 points 17 days ago

Sounds like that should be a successful community. Dune 2 was a major classic that I used to love. I'm kinda too old for RTS's anymore, but you might share these free versions with your community. They play right in browser...

8-bit retro version:
https://www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=47155

Original version:
https://dune2js.com/

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OptimusPrimeDownfall 7 points 16 days ago path: 0 26017604 26019634, hotness: undefined, score: 7, children: 3
corsicanguppy 1 point 16 days ago

Isn't that what became Zero-k?

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OptimusPrimeDownfall 2 points 16 days ago

Nope, Zero-K is much older than BAR. I believe zero-K got "full release" in like 2017, 2018 and BAR is still under active development.

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AwesomeLowlander 2 points 16 days ago

No, they're 2 distinct games that are spiritual successors to Supreme Commander.

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nocturne 2 points 16 days ago

Dune 2 was a major classic that I used to love.

I am partial to Dune: The Battle for Arrakis.

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JohnnyEnzyme 1 point 16 days ago

Huh! Was that a sequel?

(god, this stuff was so long ago!)

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nocturne 3 points 16 days ago

Looks like we are talking about the same game.

Dune II: The Building of a Dynasty (titled Dune II: Battle for Arrakis in Europe and Dune: The Battle for Arrakis in North America for the Mega Drive/Genesis port, respectively) is a 1992 real-time strategy game developed by Westwood Studios and published by Virgin Games.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_II

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JohnnyEnzyme 2 points 16 days ago

Brilliant game, thank you.

Age sucks, lol.

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Quokka 8 points 17 days ago path: 0 26018531, hotness: undefined, score: 8, children: 1
mrmaplebar 5 points 16 days ago

I see. (Damn search sometimes...)

Subbed! Maybe I didn't need to make one after all... though at least it doesn't seem like there's much RTS presence on Matrix. (Or at least that I can find, Matrix search is even worse...)

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MxRemy 8 points 17 days ago

Oooh, yes please!! I hope there's lots of B.A.R. 😍

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OptimusPrimeDownfall 6 points 16 days ago

I started !bar@discuss.tchncs.de a looooong time ago and I'm not seeing any BAR content there, at least for right now.

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MxRemy 4 points 16 days ago

Oh wow, I missed this! Sweet

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Rentlar 3 points 11 days ago

I'm glad to see you still are around, I'll subscribe to that and save your comment, sometimes i worry if the posts are years old if the community is unmoderated. If I get into BAR again, maybe I'll post.

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OptimusPrimeDownfall 2 points 11 days ago

That was my problem too. I moved on to other games. I'll get back to BAR at some point, but for right now, not my main game.

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Wayepoint 2 points 9 days ago

More RTS to the people.

I grew up with StarCraft and later got into more in-depth strategy games like Europa Universalis and Stellaris. I’ve been building a persistent multiplayer 4X steampunk RTS called Border Empires where everyone shares the same planet and the game keeps running while you’re away.

Even though it’s designed to be idle, you’re constantly choosing where to focus your limited resources. Once they run out, you can only watch what the other players are doing β€” and wait too long and you might have to fight for the resources you could have claimed first.

There’s still a lot of work to do and every step forward mostly seems to reveal how far the game still has to go. =D

If world domination is for you, I'm constantly looking for more testers: https://discord.gg/BU6hWKbKp

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rimu 1 point 16 days ago
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