Well, Auld Lan Syne was a lot of fun. The sleeper hit (imo) was a resurgence of RTS gaming in the form of Command and Conquer 3.
Fumbles’ (now famous) five-minute-custom-maps provided exciting gameplay through new challenges and unique opportunities:
- Map 2 (which I have dubbed “Guerrilla War Fair”) forces players to fight cat and mouse for scarce resources (discouraging turtling).
- Map 5 “Fields of Death” provides one main centralised field of Tiberium, then denied players the ability to build Refineries nearby. This results in most action focused around the Tiberium fields with opportunities to harass less well defended bases.
- Map 6 “Epic Turtle Armageddon” gives each player a quarter of the map and near limitless resources, they can amass vast armies before unleashing them on each other in epic waves (these brought my i7 rig shuddering to it’s knees).
The maps are available for download from the Members Only section for beta testing. But Fumbles might release them publicly in future.
I know many of us already own CnC3, but if you don’t and you’re interested in a bit of RTS action in coming weeks, pick it up and let us know.
If you’re interested in further map testing, patch up to version 1.09, then download Fumbles’ maps, and install them (as per instructions).
Hope to see you online for a bash!
PS All Command and Conquer games are on sale on Steam today (good timing). I am going to pickup Kane’s Wrath expansion now (and maybe Red Alert 3).
strategy gaming, will have to ponder … what’s with having to disable UAC every time?
i have picked up RA3 on sale today if anyone is interested.
Yeah I picked RA3 and the extention to Kane’s Wrath the extention to Tiberium Wars.
Looks like Kane’s Wrath (via Steam) is a standalone superset of CnC3 features and Uprising has no multiplayer. If you still haven’t purchase and are interested I’d say grab Kane’s Wrath and Red Alert 3, they’ll probably be the ones we play most. 8 hours left!
BTW I found a way to schedule Steam downloads for “offpeak”. Also, I’m using the free version of System Scheduler because I find it easier than Window’s Task Scheduler (like this).
Nice. Seeing as I just blew 7 GB on RA3 today I will look into this.
Also i love that “Dirty Idlers” vid you linked on your YouTube channel. Thats gold. I also get the idea that we are not the only ones who are struggling with L4D2 survival. There doesn’t seem to be that many gold medal runs on YouTube and the vid I posted of our run on “Motel” has garned a lot of interest so far.