A good RTS

Lemm1w1nkz · n00b Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 7 Location: U.S.

Hello, this is my first time on these forums

I have gentooX on my xbox, i cant get the video card to work beacuse it is a way new model.

but anywho, i just want a good solid RTS that doesnt use the video card (cause it doesnt work) like a game similar to glob2. Does any one know of a good one?

Wolven · Guru Joined: 05 Aug 2003 Posts: 325 Location: Norway

I know you are asking for a RTS, but I want to recomend a turn based game. Battle for Wesnoth.

Lemm1w1nkz · n00b Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 7 Location: U.S.

thanks alot, turned based ones are good too

Xaid · Posted: Sun May 15, 2005 4:40 pm Post subject:

you should checkout glest as well, I played it for a bit and it seems like a cool game, here's a link:
http://www.glest.org/
Last time I tried it there was no "save" option, which was kind of annoying since you go on and play for hours and can't save...
but its surely worth checking out and its in portage as well.

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

hey lemiwinks! Hows torlan goin man?

charlieg · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 1:17 am Post subject:

If you're willing to pay, I'd go with Starcraft even though it's fairly old.

It's fast paced, well balanced, will run on older hardware and has nice 2D graphics.
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-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

well with starcraft or warcaft 3 if your willing to play, depends on what you like, starcraft is mainly macromanagement and placement of buildings and such where warcraft3 is mainly micromanagement. I personally like wc3 better because I can use my l337 tactix to oust someone with almost five times the amount of power as me if I use my units well. I've won 4v1 by doing things such as rushing in with ground and lettting them get slaughteres but taking out all his anti air as all my air is taking out thier anti air producing buildings and then own them by air. Or like using a spell to kill some long ranged people next to spellcasters and then resurecting skeles to slice through the weak casters like a hot nife through butter. Starcraft is ok, I just am a lot lot worse at it. Warcraft 3 = lvl 16 random char, starcraft = like... 1.5 silver stars :lol:

. War3 also takes care of a lot of the auto casts for you, makes it easier to do things.

KozmoNaut · Posted: Mon May 16, 2005 7:10 am Post subject:

There is but one true RTS, and its name is Total Annihilation.

I implore everyone to go get this game as fast as they possibly can. Just don't get Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, because it sucks donkey balls

TA pioneered things like build queues, command queues, configurable AI for units (aggressivenes etc.) and of course earth-shaking, planet-pounding explosions :twisted:

It is not rare that a good game of TA ends up being a full head-on arms rush. 1 nuke per side like in other RTS games? Try 15! And sometimes, that's a low number. The sheer massive scale of this game is not to be underestimated. And of course, you've got your massive artillery guns, your loads of expendable units, your all-powerful Commander and of course your building-sized 4-fusion-plants-requiring gatling cannons

Get Total Annihilation and the Core Contingency expansion pack. The music alone is well worth it. Classical music and destruction go so well together.
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Nuage · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 39

glob2 can run without opengl! So if you have X you can play it. Just run with:

Lemm1w1nkz · n00b Joined: 15 May 2005 Posts: 7 Location: U.S.

Glob is a great game, i also tried a game for the stratagus, but i rember playing glob a while back and there was no one online. If there are more now i would love an online RTS, ill go give it a try.

-=GGW=- $ol!d $n4>|e · Veteran Joined: 12 Apr 2004 Posts: 1616 Location: USA

yeah, im fuag from the forums I left a while ago in muddy water because I Realized that its really not a time in my life that I can spend all of it developing a copy of an old game, if we were actually making a new game, it prolly woulda been different, im just not enough of a halo fanboy anymore i geuss.. :lol:

Total annihilation looks cool, I remember thinking it looked cool when it first came out but then never picking it up for no real reason, is there a native linux client?

charlieg · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 12:23 am Post subject:

KozmoNaut · Posted: Wed May 18, 2005 11:46 am Post subject:

MIT_Service · Guru Joined: 29 Nov 2002 Posts: 355

Just because it wasn't mentioned yet: Kohan is a really great RTS.

stobbsm · Guru Joined: 23 May 2004 Posts: 452

if I'm not right, I'll sound like an idiot, but

is this the same lemi from the infoceptor forums?

as for strategy games, wesnoth is one of the best I've played. Otherwise, go with wine and use starcraft
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Gherald · Posted: Thu May 19, 2005 1:32 pm Post subject:

TA is the best.

The interface is far better interface than Starcraft, though I understand people like Starcraft's variety of races more (I personally couldn't care less, interface is paramount in an RTS)