🎵 Music: Frank Klepacki - Conclave

p.s. the best track in the soundtrack, in my opinion! Frank Klepacki is the GOAT!

TL:DR - I understand that for RTS, story is not the most important part, but that does not excuse how weak the storytelling here is. Since your character does not voice anything on their own, this game should have had in each campaign some second-in-command character that would represent players own agenda (even if for most of the game the agenda would just be to not get screwed, which is identical theme in all three campaigns).

Long version:
One thing that really irked me on GDF and NOD Dynasty campaign was how the story was told.

You were some miracle working commander that just had no agenda of his own and went along with whatever whoever just ordered you to do at the moment.

Your leader orders you to do something? You do it without questioning. Next mission previous leader that is planning kinda coup orders you to do something? You do it without questioning.
Just doing whatever you are told to, with absolutely zero input or care from your side.

Of course, you are mute protagonist, who does not speak for himself. But Devs completely missed how that is solved in Red Alert by always having some secondary character who is fully supporting you, have no agenda of their own and which voices your concerns on your behalf.

In Tempest rising, there are some secondary characters, but they either do not support you specificaly, and are just generaly on your side, or they have agenda of their own.
Often they play both the role of someone throwing you to the wolves while doing story exposure while also trying to play the "concerned ally" at the same time.

I hoped that with Veti campaign, they would have made more effort. But I was quite dissapointed when it was more of the same.
Wake up and do this because you are told to. Now you are told to work for enemy because you must. Now you are told to try and subvert your enemy in this specific way. Now you are told to defeat that enemy.

But in all three campaigns, the story feels as if someone made cliffnotes about how the story is structured, and then when making cutscenes forgot to actualy develop it and instead they used just those cliffnotes.

🎵 Music: Music Imaginary - Intel

I love these things so much. Stacking drone and laser buffs just makes them so good

For units it seems to be the same? Revenants and wardens or golems and subjugators with phantom artillery against mass infantry and gorgons against mirrors. I suppose Messengers aren't useless anymore. And of course, the War Ender is as awesome as ever.

It seems the early game has potentially changed as well, with people just spamming base ascension anchors with Ascension doctrines 1-3? It's too complicated for me so I still just stick with two anchors at the beginning for the resurrection anchor and the power plants/refinement altars.

🎵 Music: Frank Klepacki - Power Distribution

I play a bunch of RTS games, my favourite RTS game at the moment is Axis & Allies (RTS), not to be confused with the strategy game one. Love everything about this game, the graphics, the building system, the economy, recruitment, the abilities. Everything. The problem is that it is not on steam, so no multiplayer these days

It is very important for me the unit abilities and also some super powers are also cool, and Company of Heroes was the best in that. Though CoH absolutely sucks in terms of economy, building system and recruitment system. It does have the best artillery system of all modern rts games i played. Though no actual air force (only in abilities).

Red Alert 1 and 2, are gems, but i hate that everything is about ore, and the freaking trucks are so expensive.

So how does TR fare in these mechanics?

🎵 Music: Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen - The Red Button

Wrapping up POE2 0.5.5 till 1.0 on Dec 11
Wanna get a RTS we can play versus comp need @ least 3V3 how’s Tempest Rising ? How many maps are there in 3v3 ?
Thanks

My game keeps crashing during the campaign just after I deliver the 4 scientists to the hospital. The cutscene starts and then the game crashes. Tried deleting autosave files, verifying my game files, direct 11 and 12, and nothing is fixing it. Very frustrating

🎵 Music: Music Imaginary: Cielecki/Skorupa/Wierzynkiewicz

🎵 Music: Cory Richards - Ignition

Or adding it to the already-existing one?

I've been liking the vibe of the new tracks and wouldn't mind an opportunity to support the composers while at the same time being able to listen to them without needing to use the in-game jukebox.

🎵 Music: Cory Richards - Polarity

Now I understand why the Dynasty are so annoyed by GDF's drones XD

I had been watching this game and patiently awaiting its release. I played the MINUTE it went live. For some reason, probably age of empires 4, and multiplayer not being ready or something I vaguely remember, i didn't get too deep into it. Played a bit of the campaign.

Curious how it is now? Multiplayer? I play SC2, aoe4 and i really miss c&c and recently built a pc (7800x3d and 9070xt all white build, I LOVE) And I was thinking of putting the new ssd to work and re downloading it.

Can anyone give me the rundown? Just about to watch a video from wintergaming on my work break, hoping it's in a little better of a spot.

Really sad to see starcraft 2030 release not an RTS.

THIS MAY BE OUR ONLY NEW RTS HOPE 😞😓

🎵 Music: Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen - Pest

I Have a metaquest three.And I want to play tempest rising.

I'm New to steam deck and VR and all of this So I'm just trying to figure out how to play this game on VR because I saw a really cool Youtube video. Anyone can help me figure that out. I'd really appreciate it.

🎵 Music: Cory Richards - Into the Fire

🎵 Music: Sigurd Jøhnk-Jensen - A Distant God

Veti mission 3 feels like a completely different beast now with having to juggle both the objectives and the constant base harassment.

Kind of makes it feel like mission 4 when trying to keep all nodes intact in that it's easy to get overwhelmed.

Kudos to the mission being actually difficult now, but struggling a bit trying to figure out how to deal with it.

Spoilers for anyone who hasnt played the Veti Campaign

Talon are an interesting sub faction. Combined GDF and Dynasty stolen tech united into an anti Alien force.

Renamed units like the Hunter tank becoming the Heavy Tank and the grenadier becoming the napalm grenadier. Stolen building too.

But theres the odd reskin here and there that went beyond “they have this” which was really nice.

Im on my way through the Veti Campaign on insane and the campaigns name is “to kill a mocking god” so to speak. And mission 8 comes along and we hit the talon stronghold.

Thought to myself “lets capture their buildings, see what this “4th” faction can do”

They all self destruct.

What are you hiding Saber?

Is Talon just a campaign gimmick? Or is there something else cooking at HQ.

Personally id love a 4th campaign