I have an itch for a Sci-Fi strategy game, any recommendations?
Hard mode: No Starcraft/Warhammer 40k
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>>333517738
Aurora 4x, unless you're a filthy casual scum.
>>333517738
Sword of the Stars (1, don't touch 2)
Endless Space
Distant Worlds
>>333517738
Total Annihilation and SupCom.
Avoid SupCom 2.
Ashes of Singularity also looks promising.
>>333517738
Dark Reign 1/2
>>333520310
>Ashes of Singularity also looks promising.
Don't do it. Supcom 2 is better. Ashes has units with even less personality than a supcom game and next to no base-building, apparently because baby Wardell has a hate boner for fixed artillery in TA-likes.
I got it for free due to some fuckery and only played a couple skirmishes before I uninstalled.
>>333520603
Should clarify, supcom2 is better than Ashes. TA and supcom 1 are still better than 2, it's just that 2 has the leg up on Ashes because it has really solid skirmish AI and despite the fuckery it still has base building and some fun units.
>>333520756
It's that bad? As in worse than SupCom 2 that is considered bad?
Darn.
Sins of a Solar Empire
>>333520928
To be fair I don't consider supcom2 as bad as a lot of people do, but yeah. Thought Ashes was pretty fucking bad.
They also tried to sell the "You group units up as armies so they become one mega unit!" thing but even in my couple of skirmishes the armies system seemed garbage. Had multiple instances where a supposedly cohesive force would split up, because one side of it bumped some neutral hostile units while the main body moved to where I ordered it to move, and then got shot up because the rest was fucking with dumbass neutrals instead of in the main fight. Not to mention some super muddy sounds (The computer voiceover/narrator/announcer/whatever chick is fucking awful, can't understand a word she says if there's anything happening on the screen) and the fact that units don't leave husks/corpses behind. None of that TA/supcom satisfaction of a crater-scarred battlefield filled with dead robits. Ashes just puts some black decals on the ground and calls it a day.
Fuck, getting angry just thinking about the game again. THANKS A LOT ANON YOU ASSHOLE
>>333521447
>THANKS A LOT ANON YOU ASSHOLE
S-Sorry.
>>333517738
>He still plays Sci-Fi strategy
I MEAN COME ON
>>333521109
John Oliver is based and you only spout that shitty meme because you can't refute any of the actual points he makes in his informative, well-researched reports.
>>333520207
>Sword of the Stars 2
I put 110 hours in through sheer pig-headedness.
Metal Fatigue.
Best RTS I've ever played.
>>333517738
GalCiv III
>>333521765
Hi OP, trying to force the thread to go off-topic? Nice try.
>>333517738
Imperium Galactica 2.
It's pretty old by now but it's fucking great.
>>333521818
>110 hours
Do you have some weird video masochism fetish?
>>333517738
I suppose FTL is a strategy game, kinda.
Speaking of FTL, i feel like that game should have some kind of a sequel, it feels like they set up a pretty interesting setting and now they're just gonna drop it.
4x/Turn based or RTS?
>>333521896
>GalCiv III
GalCiv II fixed it for ya. 3 is shit.
>>333521818
Damn, sorry to hear that. I waited until the "We totally fixed the game, guys" patch and only did 2 hours before I dropped it. They had a lot of cool ideas, and it was technically functional at that point, but the cool ideas were implemented in fuckawful ways.
For example, the "Orders" system is a cool idea. Giving relatively generic orders to fleets since you're space emprah instead of micromanager, cool. Building an exploration fleet at the homeworld which then can't be given an exploration order due to limited fuel because they're too retarded to get space gas en route to the frontier and have to be re-based on the edge of your empire, god awful.
>>333521896
Galciv a shit. You a shit.
>>333521958
When it wasn't crashing and making my saves unusable, I had decent fun with the empire management and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXp8mSUyojA on an infinite loop.
![cnc3walls02[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/k4E8Pps.jpg "cnc3walls02[1].jpg")
>>333517738
Command and Conquer Tiberium Wars!
Im waiting for Stellaris, you might be interested as well.
https://www.paradoxplaza.com/stellaris
Starsector with mods.
>>333522290
this
>>333522272
>playing on the most straightfoward competitive 1v1 map
>building some retarded "realistic" base with a walls mod
What is going on in this screenshot?
>>333517738
Tiberian Sun
Dark Reign
Homeworld
Earth 2150
Tiberian Sun
Total Annihilation
Supreme Commander
Warzone 2100
Tiberian Sun
Homeworld is on Humble bundle right now.
>>333522272
How the hell you've got walls?
It's moded?
HARDCORE. MECH. STRATEGY.
>>333522506Jackie Chan
John Oliver must be delighted
I'm surprised Alpha Centauri hasn't been mentioned.
It's still one of the best games ever made.
>>333522446
I used to just build giant bases in Tib sun all the time because I enjoyed it more than Sim City. Maybe that?
>>333517738
>this is the most intelligent person on american television
>>333522597
>that feel when no one to play metal fatigue with
>that feel when never going to play metal fatigue with another human being
>>333517738
AC I guess.
Maybe MoO2.
Those with Starcraft is what I'd probably play if I wanted to play scifi strategy right now.
>>333522446
only comfy rts players will understand it
>>333522446
>>333522567
>>333522810
It's not my screen, just found it on google. Maybe a promotional picture, or yeah, mods.
I really wish they kept walls and basebuilding in CnC3, IMO that is probably its biggest flaw. the bases in Tiberian Sun were just so much more thorough and encompassing.
>>333522907
You know you had all the fun you ever can on that map with the alien mech in the middle of it.
Ground Control
Homeworld Cataclysm
Battlezone/Battlezone II (mix up of vehicle fps and rts, got lots of mods)
Has John Oliver acknowledged the current year meme yet? He has to be aware of how idiotic he looks like resorting to such a fallacy.
>>333522597
>>333522907
>>333523051
>That feel when no sequel
>That feel when no spiritual successor
At least hoping that GOG will get it in their retail if the voting goes well.
>>333523161
>GG
GGIII never...
>Cataclysm
Goddammit Gearbox for not getting the source code and not making it HD.
>Battlezone
I love it.
>>333523361
Go back to your containment board, we are discussing sci-fi strategy games.
>>333523361
>Has john oliver acknowledged a 4chan internet meme?
You okay, man?
>>333523420
>if the voting goes well
Elaborate. Explain. Extrapolate.
>>333523482
Fuck, that reminds me. Didn't realize Frozen Synapse 2 was going to be some freakish open-world sandbox strategy game. I'm kinda excited about that.
M.A.X.
No one talks about it.
Who's excited as fuck for the Battlezone '98 remaster?
Sins of a Solar Empire
>>333523523
Ive seen it outside of 4chan
>>333523590
is it good? its still on my backlog
>>333523361
He said the current year thing like, once. You /pol/tards blew it the fuck out of proportion like you do with everything else.
when you get bored of RTS games doing the same old thing, try this little slice of innovative bullshit.
>>333523579
I never really got into FS, much though I meant to with friends.
Offworld Trading Company is leaving early access in 3 weeks. Anyone played it?
>>333523534
https://www.gog.com/wishlist/games/metal_fatigue
People are voting for GOG to add the game to their retail.
5000 votes makes GOG consider it. 10000 is think really seriously to go and add it. So vote if you want the game.
>>333523590
>>333523857
M.A.X. 2 is much more awesome.
Robotic Walker is OP and I love it for this.
>>333523594
didnt even know that, hope its not another failed relaunch shit
>>333523920
I loved FS for its mp. Playing by email was fucking great. I would have like twelve matches going at once, felt like a chess grandmaster playing multiple tables.
Was top 300 at my best, but I did noticeably worse on maps with no explosives.
>>333524226
They're barely altering it, just giving resolutions support and bringing back multi servers. I hope /v/ gets a group for it, that game kicked ass back in the day. Still have my disc somewhere.
>>333524030
yeah, I played it a bit but its been a long time since I tried it last.
It was pretty fun. especially on multiplayer but gets old after a while.
>>333523920
I never got in to it much either. Phase-based strategy is cool, but the interface felt clunky. Might've been better if I learned any/all hotkeys but I mostly just did a few games with pals.
Still, the open world shit in 2 is pretty interesting.
>>333524030
I haven't, and even though I generally dislike everything Stardock touches I'm still interested in that. I've skipped it during every sale though because what I've heard (And seen by watching some gameplay) is that it's basically only fun against other humans. Some people think that about ALL strategy games but I still enjoy me some comp stomps, but OTC specifically is only fun against people since there are more economic mind games going on. Since none of my friends give even half a shit about it I couldn't justify picking it up myself since playing with random internet shits would be about as bad as bots.
>>333523361
He only said the current year thing once, and it wasn't even on his own show. He doesn't need to talk about it because he doesn't fucking say it.
He has acknowledged idiots on the Internet making fun of him, though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuNIwYsz7PI#t=2m4s
>>333524546
I like the meme because its funny and dislike Oliver because he fucking isn't.
VOTE ON THIS YOU FUCKS.
>>333524103
Done and done.
>>333524030
>Anyone played it?
I played it like 14 months ago.
It was good then.
Curious to see what it's like now.
Campaign was fun, even though you snowball like hell.
>>333524363
about 2 or 3 years ago i came back to bz2 and some community fags did patch up the original further. updated graphics and stuff, made it work on newer hardware etc. there was even a master server online to host mp games. was really cool. seems to me like they now just want to cash out on things already existing (like baldurs gate hd -> same thing as bg1 with mods). maybe it will cause some players to come back to it though, would be cool.
last patch version i found was BZ2_v13_PublicBeta_5_1_english
>>333524421
b-but Demigod...
>>333524993
My issue there was I vastly preferred BZ1 to 2.
>>333524817
Well done!
>>333524845
Looks fun.
>>333524993
>Demigod
Wished GPG did a new game...
>>333524993
>b-but Demigod
Chris Taylor is turning tricks in a bathroom in Moscow right because Stardock dropped the ball on Demigod so hard it killed GPG.I actually slightly liked Demigod too. Not a big DotA-like fan but for some reason that one wasn't complete garbage.
>>333525124
the campaign in bz1 was better imo, the mp in bz2 was fun nevertheless
>>333517738
>John oliver
IT'S
>>333524421
>is that it's basically only fun against other humans.
Its ok against bots. The AI is very good (even too good, it was nerfed at the early during development) the only thing you are missing out is the trash talk (which I wont lie, its very fun to trashtalk someone before and after you do a crippling sabotage against him)
Found the BZ redux trailer for whoever is interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bp57Lo2grfM
>>333524030
>we caught a dirty rat trying to break our stuff
Did they change voices? please don't tell me they did.
someone remembers urban assault?
>>333524742
I don't think he's funny, but his pieces do get pretty in-depth.
>>333525487
Fuck off.
Can anyone suggest any good RTS from after 2010?
Yeah, I know I'm a fucking retarded child autist who needs pretty pictures, but I can't get past shitty graphics. Playing Supreme Commander literally hurts my eyes, no matter how much I know the mechanics might be solid.
>>333526064
Looks a lot like Warzone 2100, any relation?
>>333526508
Europa Universalis 4?
>>333526508
>Playing Supreme Commander literally hurts my eyes
Wut.
HOMEWORLD
>>333517738
Age of Mythology was originally released in the year 2002 and there still hasn't been an RTS that's better or even as good.
>>333526508
R.U.S.E.
>>333526508
>literally hurts my eyes
Literally the only people I've ever heard say this about old graphics were the obnoxious autistic kid I went to middle school with and the different obnoxious autistic kid I went to high school with.
>>333526508
Aurora 4x, constantly being updated.
>>333517738
Oh hay current year man.
>>333517738
dawn of war
>>333526718
I think Supreme Commander has hideous graphics and I like the look of original isometric XCOM.
>>333526650
Man like I acknowledged that I'm an autist for liking graphics. Just accept the premise and move on.
I don't know what it is about the strategy genre that gets neckbeards so defensive. If I ever said "I don't want to play old shooters" nobody would breathe down my neck.
Maybe because RTS is a dying genre and people want to preserve what they see as the greats?
>>333526237
And always in the same direction. I don't need to be talked down to by some failed limey comedian who is so awful at his own profession that he was forced to make an hour loung Daily Show ripoff with half the jokes and twice the self righteousness.
>>333526887
His post actually reminds me, try Rimworld.
>>333517738
Shadowrun for genesis
>>333526887
We just think you're an enormous gaping faggot if you put graphics over literally any other aspect of a strategy game.
>>333526508
Try Deserts of Kharak on sale, it has a really good campaign and is a joy to look at. Just overpriced.
>>333526856
Which is a perfectly reasonable opinion. Do they literally hurt your eyes, though?
Is Sins Rebellion worth buying without the DLC?
>>333526674
samefag here. deserts of kharack is also cool
>>333527167
The DLC barely adds anything. Rebellion is fantastic, though.
is aurora 4x the new name for ms excel?
>>333527050
Bold statement. I disagree.
Anything from Arcen games
Interplanetary if you have friends willing to play with you.
Supreme Ruler Ultimate. not really Sci-Fi though, more near-future.
>>333526856
What? dude SupCom has great graphics. Horrible UI I'd agree (which was fixed in Forged Alliance)
>>333527143
No. I think my PS Vita is faulty though, because after prolonged gaming sessions my eyes literally hurt, and that never happens with PC monitor.
>>333517738
somewhat related
there was this old 90s, maybe early 2000s game, where you piloted insect-like mech and everytime you died, you used another one until you lost them all and game over.
The game had a demo on PC-Gamer but I can't find it, nor do I know anything other than one of the mechs sort of looking like a beetle and being hueg and powerful
>>333527250
Dont mock it until you tried it. Theres a legendary game hidden behind that disgusting UI and brutal learning curve.
>>333526973
Oh no, he also states the counter-argument, like this:
"Well sure you could say that *legitimate counter-argument*, but it would be like *unfunny ridicule analogy*."
He give the ilusion of going in-depth, but cherry picks left and right and actually only scratches the surface into a well package bit for people to regurgitate into an hashtag. Once you start seeing how his texts work you really start seeing how well he bends everything into his side.
It's hilarious people discussing topics that were in his show, because they assume they know everything while only seeing one side of the picture.
>>333527253
Well, that's your opinion, I can't imagine how you contain shit in your colon with such a massively gaping arsehole though.
>>333520207
You have the taste of a true 4X Epicurean.
>>333517738
C&C3 has lasers in it, and aliens.
>>333527786
Because you're a hugely gaping faggot if you put graphics ahead of any other aspect of strategy games, do you have a reading problem faggot?
>>333527895
I do not understand.
>>333517738
Space Ranger 2.
>>333521765
Some of his videos are pretty informative but when he try to much to be funny he is the most unfunny man in the world
>>333527804
Thanks, Riker. You gonna pick up the new Endless Legend expansion released today? I'm tempted but I think I might hold off for now. Might do it anyway though just 'cause Amplitude can do no wrong.
>>333528040
I'm insulting you, you faggot.
>>333528480
You are not doing a very good job of it.
>>333528549
You're rather dumb, it is a hindrance.
>>333517738
Sins of a Solar Empire
>>333528307
Firing it up as we speak, lol
>>333528709
I'm running out of Edmund pictures, could you please pretend like you're really offended?
>>333528813
I don't even know who that is.
>>333521678
>still
>implying games get less fun over time
>implying that is solved by playing newer games
go fuck yourself with a cactus made out of barbed wire and AIDS
>>333528649
>>333528480
>>333527895
>>333527745
>>333527050
>>333528813
You're baiting, right? Just trying to make sure you don't actually care that much.
>>333528869
Do any of us?
>>333517738
Homeworld Remastered. It's 12 burger bucks on Humble Bundle right now. I just started playing it and it's as good as everyone says. Original version may or may not be better, never been.
>>333528987
>Original version may or may not be better, never been.
does that mean that you have never played the original or that you may never have played the original
>>333528987
>>333529146
For OPs benefit: The remastered edition is pretty but fucked up fleet formations. If youve never played Homeworld I doubt youll even notice, but it bothers those who have.
I will say I thoroughly enjoyed both remastered editions and Deserts, which may make me a minority.
>>333528913
If someone thinks that Supcoms graphics cause them physical pain, then yeah, I care.
I'll ask in this thread
What does Endless legend emperor edition includes?
it's only 13 euro, but I don't know if it comes with all the DLCs, since there's also the Endless Legend Colection for 20 euro
>>333521678
not an argument
>>333520207
>SotS2
I hope no gamer has to feel that feel.
First game is the shit tho.
>>333517738
Xcom2
I liked playing Star Trader on my Android, at least I think that was the name.
What's a good comfy PC game with nice ships and trading and stuff? Combat I just wouldn't want overcomplicated but theres so many space games I can't tell the difference between them.
>>333530941
X3 Reunion
>>333520207
>Endless Space
Try Star Ruler instead
>>333530941
Is turn-based ok?
>>333528704
Best wishes. Hopefully the new pearls system is neat, heard good things.
>>333529427
>but it bothers those who have
This is true. It also uses Homeworld 2-style combat in Homeworld 1. It's not absolutely horrible but it's not a completely clean remaster, and if you've never played the Homeworld games it's not something to give a shit about.
>>333530058
The difference between the emperor edition and regular is that you get a "New" minor faction and hero in EL (Both really negligible in terms of gameplay impact) and a new pod and a new hero in Dungeon of the Endless (Actually adds some meat, but it's the "Deep freeze" addon and can be bought for peanuts for DotE specifically anyway.
Basically no reason to scoop up emperor edition unless you really like EL/Amplitude and wanna throw them a few more bucks. The DotE content is nice but you can get that itself easier.
>>333530417
Man. I like SotS voice acting. It's cheesy but it's good cheese.
>>333531437
>Best wishes. Hopefully the new pearls system is neat, heard good things.
I'm liking it so far. The new race has some interesting abilities for winter-manipulation.
>>333531746
Heard about that. They get diplomacy bonuses during the summer and then lose them and gain combat bonuses in the winter, right? Kinda neat to have a race that leverages the season system in EL more than the rest.
>>333531891
Yeah, it's a very interesting difference from the other races. Gotta love a fantasy game that doesn't stick to elves and orcs.
![gnn_news_master_of_orion[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/ogPD4EU.jpg "gnn_news_master_of_orion[1].jpg")
Actually while I'm in here and talking about 4x, what do you fellers think about the new MoO?
Right now I'm of the mind that it's not "Tear your shirt while screaming at the heavens because of the cruelty of the universe"-bad, but it's also not making me want to play it.
Oddly enough it feels like I wished Civ Beyond Earth was. Speaking in gameplay terms here and not theme of course, but the new MoO feels like a streamlined and clean combat focused 4x, while BE was just Civ 5 only worse. Unfortunately MoO is also dropping the ball in fluff and feel (Pretty dull music, the adviser voice acting is horrific and there's a ton of it, interface needs to be stolen from the Endless games because you can't pick up multiple pops at once and can't right click to back out of menus) which is part of what's turning me off, I think.
>>333532650
>Right now I'm of the mind that it's not "Tear your shirt while screaming at the heavens because of the cruelty of the universe"-bad, but it's also not making me want to play it.
Looked pretty simplistic and nostalgia-focused, but it's not MoO3, so that's good.
>>333532650
Looks pretty good but needs alot of work to hold up to its past games minus the black sheep.
>>333532810
this, pretty much. watched a playthrough online, there's some things I don't like about it but overall it looks good for a newer 4x that isn't supposed to be unreasonably huge
