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Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works

Anon misses the RTS genre (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] Zehzin@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

RTS died when zoomers were like 5, nerd

[–] LetterboxPancake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

Wow, I didn't manage to kill a whole genre when I was 5. Some ants maybe, but not a genre.

[–] Zirconium@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 years ago

True. There's a picture of me at five years old playing dawn of war

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

StarCraft killed it by being too fucking good.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Pretty much. Blizzard supported the hell out of that game. Tweaked everything until it was perfect. At launch, it was as good as anything else at the time, but it wasn't knife-edge balanced like it became.

Modern Blizzard isn't capable of that anymore, and neither is anyone else. The genre can still innovate and provide perfectly good experiences otherwise, but it will always have this spectre of "not balanced like Starcraft" hanging over it.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

The genre can still innovate and provide perfectly good experiences otherwise, but it will always have this spectre of "not balanced like Starcraft" hanging over it.

Which is weird, because if you have a 3 faction RTS, the simplest, most balanced solution is to copy Rock, Paper, Scissors.

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I do not remember starcraft being perfectly balanced....

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Grandmaster:

Protoss: 57%
Terran: 57%
Zerg: 55.2%

Masters 1:

Protoss: 52.7%.
Terran: 52.5%
Zerg: 51.9%

Masters 2:

Protoss: 51.2
Terran: 51.1
Zerg: 50.9

IDK, looks pretty balanced to me

[–] Daft_ish@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Maybe because I only observe high level play.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

Higher than Grandmaster and Master?