World in Conflict, anyone ?????

[bruce555]

@kiwik

I've been playing RTS's since C&C1 that I got for my birthday when I was 12 on my P1 @ 133mhz.

Listen, to me this game gives quite an emursive feel. I love calling in the support strikes and having a constant bombard while you're zoomed close to the action. That is a great feel.

To me though, I'm not overly happy with the zero resourse gathering or base development. If this was set up closer to the way COH is then it would make this game perfect.

EDIT: Are you saying you don't like the graphics or feel of the battles?

 

[M3d]

All these new RTS games look awsome but I can't seem to move on from AOE 2. 🙁

 

[justinmcg67]

World in Conflict was the best $50 I ever spent. It's really that good...

 

[BigMac]

@kiwik

EDIT: Are you saying you don't like the graphics or feel of the battles?

No, he's saying that he hates RTS players that care more for graphics than for strategy play. I'm not sure why he thinks that applies to you though, as you only said you liked the graphics and you did not mention gameplay at all.

 

[bruce555]

Well I commented on the intense battles, and it is. What makes it intense is that there is so much focus on how you use your units that you pay all of your attention to them.

Launching support to first clean out an area, then move in your ground units to take out any AA then have your heli's come in and support the rest of your units. If you don't use each of your units special abilities than your dead.

This definatly isn't a end all game to RTS's but I think it's something innovative that should be experienced.

 

[pous]

All these new RTS games look awsome but I can't seem to move on from AOE 2. 🙁

Lol, I'm still playing Starcraft and Warcraft 3... so don't feel too bad 😀

I do like these new ones though (Mostly just World in Conflict... I didn't like SupCom)

 

[M3d]

I looked into SupCom and it looks great but it just seems to much is going on for me. It kind of looks overwhelming.
I might try the demo for World in Conflict. From reading here it seems its more about fighting and tactics than resource management.

 

[spuddyt]

But I'll have to check it out. I'm kind of sick of RTSes. I haven't really liked an RTS since Myth 2 and that was because it focused on fighting instead of tedious building and resource management.

well, WIC has practically no resouce gathering at all
oh and btw, I LOVE SUPCOM!!! 😀

 

[lakedude]

I just saw WIC for the first time last night, along with Stranglehold, and the new MOH. Now mind you I've never played a RTS before so my opinion counts for diddly-squat but......WIC is awesome!!!!! The graphics OMG! Brought my new Core2-Duo/8800GTS to its knees! WIC is the first RTS (I've seen anyway) that looks so cool it is forcing me to open up to the world of RTS. So tonight I look forward to playing all these new games but WIC is the first one on my list of must plays.

Any advice for a first time WIC/RTS player?

 

[triggersix]

WiC isn't a very hard RTS game. It has a slightly steep learning curve but once you have the idea, its really quite straight forward. CoH (company of heroes) is a far more intensive RTS game and not for the newbie RTS player.

I would suggest you simply learn the strengths of each unit and employ the special abilities of each unit as often as possible. It took me a while to realize the HOLDING down the E button is necessary to employ a special ability (you cant just press E and then click an enemy unit). Other than that, you might have tough time coming to grips with all of the regular RTS controls that have evolved over the years, but it should make sense once you have them down. I really like the WASD control mechanism this game employs, it makes it feel very interactive compared to a lot of other rts games where you have to move the mouse to the edge of the screen to move around the battlefield.

 

[lakedude]

Thanks Trigger-dude!

I didn't actually play last night, got too busy tweeking the video settings. It seems my system is CPU bound cause cranking up AA and AS does not change the frame rate much at all.

Thanks again for the hints.