EPTThe main differences, I'd say, are that units are not as "snappy" as in starcraft, meaning that most of them have a firing animation and turning rate. Also the races are in my opinion not all that different from each other. And it has more a focus on strategy over mechanical skills. Micro mistakes don't punish you as much as they do in starcraft. This is both a strength and a weakness as it makes the better player win a higher percentage of games while also making comebacks incredibly hard to pull off.
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stenole
Norway870 Posts
The main differences, I'd say, are that units are not as "snappy" as in starcraft, meaning that most of them have a firing animation and turning rate. Also the races are in my opinion not all that different from each other. And it has more a focus on strategy over mechanical skills. Micro mistakes don't punish you as much as they do in starcraft. This is both a strength and a weakness as it makes the better player win a higher percentage of games while also making comebacks incredibly hard to pull off. | ||
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DetriusXii
Canada156 Posts
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stenole
Norway870 Posts
At least the beast vs fallen matchup seemed balanced, because the best players of those races would insist that it was as long as no one played random (which among other things made fallen unable to fast expo). I would be more likely to agree on the imbalance of fallen vs empire, but not because of the hive guards ('mutalisks'). Some of this perceived imbalance seems to me just to be that fallen strategy was more evolved in the community. Fallen players did not seem to mind sharing cookie cutter strategies on how to tame the wicked empire. And after the last patch there weren't that many good empire players around. Being an empire player, I found the biggest problem to be scouting and dealing with the multiple openings the fallen player could try on you. But if you had a good idea of what your opponent of doing, you had a pretty good chance of beating him if his mechanical skills weren't superior to yours. Late game, you needed a better economy or a surviving army of level 5 units otherwise his tech units would chew you up. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17875 Posts
And detrious: I don't know if you played the last version of the game (1.4) but hive guards ain't easy to obtain there. Sure they're good harrassers but they consume quite a bit of resources (including 40gems each) and their build time is pretty long compared to other units you get in the hive so to cripple enemy's economy it's usually better to get some zerglings (sorry, forgot the name of the basic unit and now I have regionalized version so it's different) and upgrade them with wings then just lift off -> land in enemy gold line -> see your tiny bugs rape their workers. Zerg players should be really happy to play fallen I believe, fast expos, ling rushes, FvF is played more or less exactly like ZvZ (mutaling), changing trees into lurkers that can even hit air (at least that's what the tooltip says). The only difference really is part of the protoss mechanics there (building, a lot of spells and spellcasters etc.). Come to think of it, Fallen could just as well do as the PZ hybrid race  | ||
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Baalzamon
Germany106 Posts
 . i dont know if you are still able to get updates for aox, i still have a 1.4 patch on my harddisc though. | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17875 Posts
btw. does anyone still have the AoX smart moves video? If yes pls upload it to youtube or something, I want... | ||
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Baalzamon
Germany106 Posts
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stenole
Norway870 Posts
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Woyn
United Kingdom1628 Posts
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XCetron
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brambolius
Netherlands448 Posts
 Armies of exigo ez the best rts after starcraft ! | ||
GTR
51715 Posts
me and stenole are up for 2v2's when theres no sc games on and he's available | ||
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Manit0u
Poland17875 Posts
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magicbullet
Singapore163 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17875 Posts
http://rapidshare.com/files/72433661/Replay.rar.html There you go. Ahh sweet memories I go under the nick C1erN in some of those, the numbered ones come from aoxtactics.com and I believe they're mostly fallen replays as I was playing them at the time and wanted to learn from the best btw. welcome to TL.net ^_^ Edit: I've just watched all of those replays. Definitely the best are #462 (LoveWithOlessia - E v F - artoflukas), #473(artoflukas - F v B - woah_PT) and the last one of the numbered ones (LoveWithOlessia - E vs B - rhzownage). 472 is FvF I think (artoflukas vs DSDaysleeper) In 473 all Zerg players will most likely shout "ZEEEEEEERG!!!" for the most part of it (and enjoy the awesomeness of wave after wave of bugs pouring on the poor - orly? - enemy). Definitely my favorite replay, a bit slow opening from both players but then it's just pure ownage with a lot of back and forth action. Edit2: I might have gotten the replay numbers wrong | ||
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stenole
Norway870 Posts
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Manit0u
Poland17875 Posts
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stenole
Norway870 Posts
http://rapidshare.com/files/72536517/clafter_iloveolessia.rar.html Players I think are of particular interest are: artoflukas, clafter aka galmarz, kyxlum, woah, daydreamer and daysleeper To be fair many of the games involve experimental strats and "fun" strats. Not all of them are optimized strategies towards winning with the highest probability. | ||
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magicbullet2
Singapore1 Post
I want them quite badly and rapidshare hates singapore. Thank you | ||
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Dknight
United States5225 Posts
On November 24 2007 06:36 KissBlade wrote: What's wrong with Dawn of War? The huge imbalance in it. Instead of patching the balance, Relic decides to come up with an expansion pack that only makes it even more imbalanced. Necro just rapes everything. | ||
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