Warzone 2100

McPhee · 14 May 2020 at 22:09

Anyone remember this RTS? It wasn't until I saw people discussing CoD: Warzone that I remembered it even existed. Turns out, it's now on Steam. Free!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1241950/Warzone_2100/

About to give it a go. Hoping for some nostalgia from the glory days of RTS (seriously - what happened to this genre?).

agnes · 14 May 2020 at 23:31

RTS has sadly died out and morphed into MOBA

doopydug · 14 May 2020 at 23:41

Warzone
Supreme Commander
Command & Conquer
Total Annihilation

The BEST games ever imo

hardkore · 15 May 2020 at 08:47

Planetary annihilation is pretty good

mid_gen · 15 May 2020 at 09:01

Top game, good fun building your own units

McPhee · 15 May 2020 at 11:17

Turns out there's a bit of a spat going on with the Steam version of this.

The game was released as open source in 2004. Since then, the bulk of development has taken place at wz2100.net. The Steam version is this version (rather than the build released in 2004), but wasn't uploaded by anyone who worked on it. And (allegedly) it's a bit of a mess, with the "Publisher" not even managing to compile to source code correctly, leading to new bugs.

Apparently the license allows for this, so there's nothing technically wrong. But it's a little underhanded. Also, apparently mods don't work on the Steam version (though I'm not sure how true this is - people on the wz2100 forum are a little... salty).

WantoN · 15 May 2020 at 13:22

Is this the one where you could actually pilot the vehicles too? I loved that game.

ci_newman · 15 May 2020 at 16:15

WantoN said:
Is this the one where you could actually pilot the vehicles too? I loved that game.

No, you're thinking of Battlezone

That's available on Steam too though (although not for free). I replayed both Battlezone and Battlezone II last year, some great nostalgia!

C64 · 15 May 2020 at 21:51

people still play company of heroes 1 online and starcraft 2 I recommend both as single and multiplayer