Tempest Rising - PC (RTS)

I played it and liked it a lot, very much feels like a modern Command and Conquer, only thing missing was live action cutscenes. Also has a great soundtrack.

I suck at RTS so was waiting for a sale, looks great though.

i played thorugh the two campaigns and i really like it.

I saw you didn't play cnc, but I have told everyone so far that it's like cnc's setting, with some cold war style geopolitical overtones like red alert thrown in.

it has bases like cnc 2 / red alert 2. and units like C&C generals.

to a non C&C player i would say that base defense is pretty good and you generally want to do it. much like C&C you're protecting a harvester who gathers resources as your only means of making money. it gathers the tempest (horrible vines terraforming the world) outside your base and vehicles who move thorugh it take damage so you can't really box in the tempest like you could a mineral patch in starcraft.

The units have WAY LESS clickies you MUST use than wc3 and i guess sc 2. some do, but it's more used for like deploying their version of a seige tank, or putting a special unit in stealth or something.

The mechanics of it were very CnC, so infantry will die very fast to things that kill infantry and aircraft will die very fast to aircrat killers, but you can make a sufficient swarm to just eat losses and push.

I found myself really enjoying it, but i'm more of a campaign/skirmish/generals challenge enjoyer than competitive.

one of the youtubers i follow who did a deep review of it. he pointed out that the engine seems to have some sort of hard cap on units out that means that super massive battles may not be possible. so you could do like 2x2 but maybe 4x4 would shit itself.

no, i'm not familiar with the portia spider. I just like closeups of spiders. they look pretty dope zoomed in. all shiny with big eyes.

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i played thorugh the two campaigns and i really like it.

I saw you didn't play cnc, but I have told everyone so far that it's like cnc's setting, with some cold war style geopolitical overtones like red alert thrown in.

it has bases like cnc 2 / red alert 2. and units like C&C generals.

to a non C&C player i would say that base defense is pretty good and you generally want to do it. much like C&C you're protecting a harvester who gathers resources as your only means of making money. it gathers the tempest (horrible vines terraforming the world) outside your base and vehicles who move thorugh it take damage so you can't really box in the tempest like you could a mineral patch in starcraft.

The units have WAY LESS clickies you MUST use than wc3 and i guess sc 2. some do, but it's more used for like deploying their version of a seige tank, or putting a special unit in stealth or something.

The mechanics of it were very CnC, so infantry will die very fast to things that kill infantry and aircraft will die very fast to aircrat killers, but you can make a sufficient swarm to just eat losses and push.

I found myself really enjoying it, but i'm more of a campaign/skirmish/generals challenge enjoyer than competitive.

one of the youtubers i follow who did a deep review of it. he pointed out that the engine seems to have some sort of hard cap on units out that means that super massive battles may not be possible. so you could do like 2x2 but maybe 4x4 would shit itself.

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Sounds good, company of heroes 2 absolutely broke me with how much micro there was and haven’t really touched one since.

Hatorade said:

Sounds good, company of heroes 2 absolutely broke me with how much micro there was and haven’t really touched one since.

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yea i hate micro in RTS. i was furious when i realized WC3 heroes were an integral part of the skirmish play. i basically stopped after the campaign for that reason. I don't want to be telling my hero to use whirlywhirl attack, or my archers to use bonus arrow button.

My favorate RTS is either supreme commander 1 or C&C generals for that reason. C&C generals has the olde c&C style, but the units would get upgrades from research or salvage. then if they got bonus missiles the unit would kind of just do it on it's own internal cooldown without you being involved.

So in tempest rising you may have a unit that has like "deploy mines" or "set up to scan for nearby units" and those are situational.

the engineers everyone uses just actively repairs nearby vehicles. the GDF engineer can deploy a guard tower (like a starcraft bunker), and the dynasty engineer can put out mines. you don't have to click a heal manually so once your deathball gets going, if you have an engineer in the vehicle mass, it will help keep them topped off.

Oh, one thing i just remembered. it seems like tempest has less of C&C's "units can attack while moving" than C&C. so like a fast tank doesn't do as good a job of manoevering while shooting as like NOD light tanks, or those hover things in SC2. it
's most obvious on the planes and choppers IMO. you can't really do bombing runs like you could in C&C2/3 RA 2/3. you'll send the plane/chopper thing out and it'll zoom right to the target. then slow/stop, do it's attacks, then you mash a button to send it back to the helipad. it's not like the afforementioned C&C games where the jets move so fast they bomb, then run home before being in a ton of danger. kind of a minor annoyance from a long time C&C player. heh

Whats this now, another game to add to the list of shame!?

The Steam trailers look damn close to CnC but I see others have said that as well. Might need to purchase this one...

Aazrael said:

Whats this now, another game to add to the list of shame!?

The Steam trailers look damn close to CnC but I see others have said that as well. Might need to purchase this one...

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yea it's basically all the good thematic, mechanic, and stylistic mechanics from C&C 1/2 and red alert 1/2, and C&C generals.

its QoL is much more modern than any of hte olde c&C games which run like buttholes by today's standards

Man this does look cool but just makes me pine for c&c style alternate history with an interesting geopolitical story and JK Simons leading the way in the cutscenes.