RTS suggestion, post WC3 addiction :)

spud999

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Hi all! Been lurking for some time and finally took the plunge and registered ^^

Been playing Warcraft 3 and the expansion for 3 years nonstop(about 15 hrs/week!) and everytime ive tried to get into another game ive failed miserably!!

Tend to be fairly obssessed with multiplayer competitive RTS, starting off with Total Annihilation, then Red Alert 2 and then WC3.
WC3 on battlenet has been amazing with such a competitive ladder, frantic micro, very rare lag and just generally amazing gameplay.

Tried Dawn of War and it seems to be fun but nowhere near as intense as WC3- same with C+C generals . Also tried Rome Total War but too slow paced. Found AOE3 involved too much building/collecting rather than all out skirmishing/battles such as in DOW + Wc3.


Sorry to be so fussy but looking for an RTS game that has the following:

A strong competitive community+ ladders.
Minimal building/resource collecting, more action.
Smaller armies that are more fun to micro ie able to micro individual units rather than squads.
Hero units that make a big contribution.

Tried the BFME2 demo+ not impressed :(

Maybe WC3 suits me best and im destined to play forever :D

Thx in advance + sorry for long post!
 
Dawn of War is a very cool game. I've only played the single player campaigns though, which seem to be pretty straightforward. Age of Empires 3 seems to be popular here as well though I've never played it.

Oh and welcome to the forums. :)
 
hmm seeing as your a wc3 fan it kinda makes a lot of the real rts games out there null and void because wc3 is more of a rpg/rts style game with small battles.

Personally I would try dawn of war first, its a easy rts to get into before you work onto the real stuff.

Can't believe you didn't like bfme2 :)
 
thx all- dawn of war just seems to be a swarm of armies battling it out with some general micro of squads but no close control of units- if i learn to play dow well, is the micro intense and does close control make a massive difference to the outcome?

WC3 has been such an amazing multiplayer experience- if you enjoy any RTS and have the patience to learn during multiplayer while taking abuse from better team players, its SUCH an amazing game. Single player is crap of course as with most RTS games.
 
Hero units suck. Buy StarCraft, it's much more competitive than WCIII and at least 3 times the game WCIII is. WCIII was an enormous disappointment after playing starcraft.

SC is much more micro oriented as well.
 
Kreeeee, you know a link to a demo of Starcraft?

Seeing as you keep pimping it and unbelivably its one of the games i let go past me id like to try it!

EDIT: Anyone else find RA2/Generals pants online?? Its just build and rush and its sooo boring, no tactics at all. When i play on my LAN with have a rules that no one can attack for at least 10 mins!
 
Dawn of War Gold is the best RTS I've seen for a longtime. Depending on what race you are, there's a fair bit of micromanaging.

However, as you are after competitive multiplayer, it's difficult to look beyond Starcraft (as far as RTS go...)
 
HangTime said:
However, as you are after competitive multiplayer, it's difficult to look beyond Starcraft (as far as RTS go...)
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*dances*

Yes generals is pathetic online. Once i got the tank rush timing down it becomes easy and very dull. Generally Generals is a terrible game. Not tried RA2 online.

Edit: If you're trying starcraft then don't judge it by its campaign mode, which is now dated. Online competition in things like WGT and PGT is where starcraft excels.
 
ive never tried starcraft- i think 7 or 8 years ago many people chose either TA or Starcraft and slagged the other off. I was a big TA fan !

Might give it a try though suspect it will feel a bit 'old'.

Used to love RA2 but tried it online recently and laughed at the players massing units before a big final battle- wtf is the point!!
 
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