In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games

Re:In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games by spywaregorilla on Tuesday July 27, 2021 @07:57PM (#27978993)

I think the entropy curve of RTS games tend to be poor. The most addictive games have a random start with different elements and a fair bit of luck (think battle royale and roguelikes).

RTS games tend to have a standard opening minutes setup where you just do your own thing and then follow a flow chart of how to progress based on how things develop.

If you're playing someone decent, and are not a top tier player, you don't actually get to experiment and do interesting things so much as try to execute better on your original book of plays.

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Re:In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games by the_only_law on Wednesday July 28, 2021 @08:25AM (#27982942)

Yeah this is what killed my interest in the genre. Ultimately it seems that it comes down to learning the meta, and APM with strategy only superficially involved.

I do play some AoE3 still since they released the DE for that one and I will say there’s been one players running around pulling off victories that shatter the meta, and ofc the establishment players have referred to that as “toxic”.

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