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!
