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Anyone want to play a game of Netstorm?

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Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
Last Edited: 2008-12-15 20:14:33
December 15 2008 20:11 GMT
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For those who don't know, Netstorm is a real time strategy game made abiout 10 years ago by Activision. The premise is that there is a world of nothing but islands floating in the sky, all fighting for control of "storm powesr" which is the only resource in the game. Each island has one high priest, who constructs the main buildings. The goal is to capture the enemy's high priest, and sacrifice him on your alter. (yes, you really do that! Although usually in multiplayer everyone leaves before that happens)

The thing that really makes netstorm unique among RTS games is that there are no units. Well, there are workers for gathering money, but those are the only units which you can actually control. Instead, all the fighting takes place from buildings. You can place these anywhere that is connected to your main island by a bridge. So, you spend most of your time placing bridges and plunking down buildings as fast as you can. It's one of the few RTS's I know with as much macro as Starcraft. Actually, it's sort of like a pure-macro version of Starcraft.

In order to create the fighting buildings, you have to construct a workshop with your priest. There are 4 types of workshops: Thunder, Rain, Wind, and Sun. Usually you only have one type of workshop, maybe 2, so you have to choose from the start what kind of units you want. I'm still pretty noob, so I can't really tell you whether all the units are balanced or not, but it seems fairly balanced to me. Thunder units are strong and expensive, Wind units are fast and do a lot of damage but die quickly, Sun units are very cheap, and Rain units have a lot of weird special abilities. Sound familiar?

So, anyone interested? Since Activision no longer supports the game, you can download it for free here. It's really fun and you can learn it very fast by playing the single player campaign.
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
Vharox
Profile Blog Joined June 2004
United States1037 Posts
December 15 2008 20:23 GMT
#2
I totally remember my older brothers playing this.
Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
December 16 2008 00:20 GMT
#3
Nobody? This game is really fun and fast-pacd.
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
Phantom
Profile Joined September 2004
Canada2151 Posts
December 16 2008 03:21 GMT
#4
shit i remember talking about this in gr.6 >_> it was a choice between this and starcraft tho...hahaha
http://www.gosugamers.net/starcraft2/members/Phantom
Ry-Masta-T
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States478 Posts
December 16 2008 08:24 GMT
#5
So I've played single player for a few hours and it's pretty fun, but im sure multiplayer is way better. I'm just scared to get pwned =/
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Luddite
Profile Blog Joined April 2007
United States2315 Posts
December 16 2008 18:11 GMT
#6
Yeah, that's why I made this thread. All the people online (and there aren't many) have been playing for years and they're really good. I got owned 5 times in a row by the same guy last night, even though he was obviously taking it easy on me. Anyway, I thought it would be fun to get some people from TL together and we can all learn at the same time. Let me know if you want to play, Ry.
Can't believe I'm still here playing this same game
Ry-Masta-T
Profile Blog Joined April 2008
United States478 Posts
December 17 2008 08:30 GMT
#7
I'd be down to play. iCCup is frustrating atm and I'm getting tired of being limited to 5 units on the campaigns.
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