What do you want from future RTS games? - Page 2

ZeroByte13

751 Posts

May 08 2025 09:18 GMT

#21

On May 08 2025 12:14 Latham wrote:
In CoH (I only have experience with CoH 2, didn't buy CoH3 and I've already forgotten CoH1) people would usually field 4-5 infantry squads and 3-4 vehicles. Also a King Tiger costs a lot more vehicle pop space than a clown car.

I tihnk I had about 13-14 squads + vehicles in total in CoH, at most. In some campaign levels.
In multiplayer you probably almost never have more than 10-11.

Garrl

Scotland1972 Posts

May 08 2025 13:45 GMT

#22

I want LAN mode, or some alternative that means the game will still be playable even if the devs decide to shut down the servers (like open sourcing the server code, or direct P2P). Stormgate isn't worth investing the time to learn because it'll be unplayable when the studio folds, while on the other hand, BW will be forever playable at any patch.

Yurie

11756 Posts

May 08 2025 16:14 GMT

#23

On May 08 2025 12:14 Latham wrote:

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In Starcraft and Warcraft, units cost a varying amount of supply. A zergling costs 1/2 of pop, an Ultralisk 4. A peon costs 1, a grunt 3 and a tauren 5.
In AoE2 everything is uniform and costs 1 supply.
In CoH (I only have experience with CoH 2, didn't buy CoH3 and I've already forgotten CoH1) people would usually field 4-5 infantry squads and 3-4 vehicles. Also a King Tiger costs a lot more vehicle pop space than a clown car.

Bolded is incorrect in more modern versions:
https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Karambit_Warrior
https://ageofempires.fandom.com/wiki/Mahayana

Are the first two examples I could think of. (The general point is still true, they don't use this mechanic much.)

JimmyJRaynor

Canada16642 Posts

May 09 2025 13:12 GMT

#24

I want alphastar styled AI opponents at various skill levels.

WGT-Baal

France3343 Posts

May 09 2025 15:57 GMT

#25

On May 07 2025 11:28 Latham wrote:

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For me its:
1) Base building and tiers/ages. In my opinion base building is as much a core part of an RTS as resource gathering.

2) Scope. I need to be able to field BIG ARMIES. OK, maybe not on the level of Supreme Commander, but definitely more than say Dawn of War 2 or Company of Heroes. The maps need to be big, open, with multiple paths to outmaneuver your enemy and launch surprise attacks. Game has to be macro-friendly. On that note, micro should be its own reward. Don't put in needless abilities on units just for the sake of clicking them so the player has something to do. I'm looking at you Red Alert 3...

3) "rule of cool" factions and something that makes them unique. I don't want to say "unique races" because that kind of disqualifies Age of Empires 2 (and 4?) right now, because the civilizations in that game are very copy/pasta of one another, but obviously have their own strengths and weaknesses and UNIQUE UNITS (from the castle). I think AoE2:DE is currently the best RTS on the market.

absolutely agree with your 1) and 3). 2) i think i d have to see how it s done, but i have no strong feelings either way on the number of units. Absolutely agree again on multiple paths and that micro should be its own reward and not an ability for the sake of an ability (i already think sc2 went too far there vs bw).

Hopefully we also get LAN and decent AI as well (including PvE!), those are important. Looks like we re converging to a cool list y all

let s make a studio! j/k

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