What am I in for?
>Objective: SURVIVE
>Mission 4>"Okay anon, you're about to be ambushed by Russian forces. Bunker down and hold out. Here, have these new turrets we unlocked for you.">Cool>Do just that, build up my defenses>Probing attacks from Russians get run off>Okay, I am doing something right>Do not attack enemy base, take my time researching Combustion vehicles to replace the shitty Solar ones>"NOOOOOOO WHY DIDN'T YOU ATTACK THE ENEMY BASE?! I AM TRANSFERRING COMMAND TO DONALDSON!">what>All my units get taken away>They all bumrush the enemy, even the Scientists and Engineers>WHAT NO>Get gunned down by turrets, the vehicles I do have aren't able to break thru because the AI is stupid and can only rush(and sometimes it cannot even do that, I had more than one occasion where my medium vehicle fucked off and did nothing in the middle of the map while his friends were bleeding to death)>All my turrets are now useless and my main character is just sitting in a gunner's nest, stunned at what he saw>Now sitting here alone expected to take down an enemy base with no reinforcements and a rogue medium vehicle that is just sitting in the middle of the roadFun game
>All the vehicles try rushing the enemy base>One Light Solar Vehicle staying behind to plink at the enemy Warehouse>It keeps running out of juice and having to sit still every few seconds to rechargelmao, this will take an hour at this rate, and it won't even matter because everybody else is deadPlease don't tell me all missions are like this
>>1738874get fucked turtler
>>1739262Fair enough, but the game straight up tells me that this is going to be a holdout mission, so what was I supposed to do?As>>1738230said one of the first objectives in the game is literally "SURVIVE" so I assumed some of the missions will just be a simple time test. Guess I was wrong.I changed my strategy to create a vehicle armada to break thru the enemy lines. I still don't have enough of them to destroy the last few enemy vehicles and turrets at their main base, but I did convert my guy into a Mechanic so that I can compensate for the stupid AI and use them as a distraction to slip in and destroy an enemy base with a vehicle of my own. Hopefully it works, otherwise I am starting the mission again and going full aggressive mode instead of researching turrets.
>>1738103US Campaign>we dindu nuffin>BUT also kill everyone and civilian scientists in particular because Murica iz da bezt>RU Campaign>FOR THE MOTHERLAND>Kill everyone and civilian scientists in particular because Russia iz da bezt>take actual pleasure in killing said scientists (one if which is AM campaign's gf)>IT WASN'T REAL COMMUNISM>Multiplayer>one faction is clearly more versatile than others, one faction literally cannot compete in ways other than early rushes or going into support mode and one can theoretically become the best but the time and cost of it is too high to bother unless your team starts to play around youthat being said, it's still the best RTS that I have ever played. It's sad that you were a bit too late because the price has been doubled or even tripled for no real reason like a few weeks ago. Previously you could've bought that for 5 bucks normally and for less than a dollar on sales. Now you'd have to stick to key reseller sites.
>>1738103>What am I in for?Terrible english dubbing. Play with czech/polish voices or don't bother
>>1739910It's not so bad from what I'm seeing, and I love the comic book artwork going on. Very soulful.>>1739908Oh I bought this years ago for like less than 2 dollars. I know because I had pennies left on my account and I was looking for games I could buy for that amount. Are any of the mods good? I've seen that there is a completely new Arabian campaign available and I want to play that after Russian one.
>>1739908Wow I didn't notice that the price exploded. Even in my shit currency I only spent 2 bucks for it a few years back, now it's 40
>>1739913>Are any of the mods good?NoIt's either too gimmicky and too much of a fanfic or "fuck you and your mother"-tier masochism which literally FORCES the player to resort to exploitsdoesn't help that one of the mod creators wants to be really fucking serious about it and shills it as the 2nd coming of christ to the point of sending BOX RELEASES AND MERCH FOR THEIR MOD to streamers.normal people play multiplayer
>>1740130>doesn't help that one of the mod creators wants to be really fucking serious about it and shills it as the 2nd coming of christ to the point of sending BOX RELEASES AND MERCH FOR THEIR MOD to streamers.>normal people play multiplayer...lol, the steamchart says that there is like 4 people playing this. How big is the community for this game, exactly?
>>1740143many don't have it on steam because they still have box releases; patches can be downloaded straight from the guy who has the source code and does all the work for freeit's hard to calculate because as always there's the sp/mod and mp split, but realistically, there is enough people to play 2 3v3 or 4v4 games simultaneously, as long as they show up. sometimes when one of the streamers casts MP games there is not enough space in the room for everyone to play. If you want to play, you'll find the people for that. 1v1 is low-key dead. That's all I can say.
So, what is the point of soldiers in this game? It seems to me that the meta are vehicles and special units
>>1743221Humans are for running your research/production and defense or rushes. Human drivers are also the best way to level up your mechanics. Apemen are for minor repairs, manning turrets/barracks and transporting resources where the terrain doesn't let cargo trucks pass.Specialist units sometimes are enough to get through missions, since the campaign doesn't have any unit restrictions (unlike MP, max 5 specialists and max 15 non-manual vehicles), so you can run 20 bazookas or 200 AI vehicles.
>>1743304Ah, you can equip your guys with bazookas later on, gotcha. In the earlier missions, basic soldiers seem to be useless when anybody can be turned into a mechanic and be infinitely better with even the shittiest vehicles.
>>1743937you can win most of the early missions with just soldiers though. either through abusing AI (or the lack of it, unironically) or proxy barracks. In missions where resources are scarce, the enemy has a build-up phase or you're at a severe numbers disadvantage this really can do wonders.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1SkfWuofYQ
>>1738103Play the game instead of asking stupid questions.Also, as mentioned, English dub is horrible, so use original or Polish
>>1744201MacMillene! Říkal jsem na SEVEROVÝCHOD!After all these years I still hear it.
>>1744201Meh, the English dub is fine, at least as of right now. It might change later in the game. I've certainly heard worse.
>>1738874Holy hell I finally completed this mission. Here is my war story:>Load earlier save>Know what's coming>Build as many vehicles as possible>Some with solar arrays and some with fuel, latest ones off the production lines also have gatling guns>Alright, here we go>Everybody charges, I stay behind not to get killed>They die every time, bad AI + not enough firepower>Last vehicle is given to John, I can maybe make a difference>Switch him to an Engineer, stay behind but help the horde take out turrets and vehicles>Everybody dies off, but I still have a vehicle>Even hijack a Russian one>Eventually, I run out of fuel>Oh shit.jpg>Try this again, this time hijack a Russian vehicle and a Solar vehicle I constructed once the dipshit driving it inevitably dies>Infinite energy>Use hit and run tactics against vehicles, turrets and buildings. AI surprisingly docile and stupid, but smart enough to keep all of it's special units bunched together so that frontal assault is harder>Enemy units plucked away, only a few vehicles and special units as well as one machinegun nest remaining>Objective is to kill everyone, I assume I have to destroy the vehicles>Hard to take one down before it is repaired, but it has nowhere to refuel anymore, this could work>They simply have too much firepower for a frontal assault and a Mechanic that can repair their vehicle as I do mine. I still have one more man with me, but of course he's fingering his asshole in the middle of the road as I do all of the work>Eventually, I have enough of this and just rush in to kill just the Mechanic>He dies, mission ends>What>Cutscene plays, Russian vehicles flee>My guy is still active during the cutscene so the battle music plays and he tries killing the units on the way out>Game tells you not just to dig in and hold out but to later take out the entire enemy base>None of these things were trueWell, that was indeed Baptism by Fire, but for the wrong reasons.
>>1744259>Kde kurva naši předci sebrali takovýhle zbraně? Vždyť jsou líp vyzbrojení než my.
>>1738103A game that was released halfway thru its development cycle - the megamod which gives the Arabs a full campaign might as well me its official addon, as it's made in consultation with the base game's storyline writer.
>>1746013>as it's made in consultation with the base game's storyline writer.Neat. Didn't know that.
>>1746013if you're talking about sands of siberia then you couldn't be more wrong.
>>1738103man screaming
>>1746013Should I play the Arab campaign before or after Russian one?
>>1746816US > RU > ARone because it's in difficulty order and two because RU is a wild drive story-wise compared to US.AR very clearly isn't written by the OGs even if they had official notes. It also doesn't have voice acting and way too many missions are pointlessly hard and gimmicky compared to the rest, often violating established lore.
>>1745099Oh, here is the best part>One of the next missions literally has a timer visibleWhy didn't they do that in this mission, then take away control from me when it ran out? Would have been peachy then because I would have a grasp on how much time I have to prepare
>>1746854actually most missions have some sort of hidden timers and you get medals for being fast (Medals matter because each medal gives you a chunk of XP to spend on your characters, even the no savescum bonus). Some even go far enough to directly impact the next mission if you're too slow. Visible timers are mostly when you have a very clear goal (no building, destroy the enemy base or collect crates)
>>1746831>often violating established loreDidn't play it but I'm curious.
>>1745099>>1746854Dude, Idk but I remeber beating US campaing when I was 11 or so. At that time my family didn't even have an access to the internet so no guides, no walkthrough. Game really is not that hard until last two or three missions. If I remember correctly (which I can't vouche for) you have to attack Russian base before they take away your command. Basically you have to take initiative and not follow orders blindly.
>>1746831>It also doesn't have voice actingpositive desu
>>1743221>What's the point of the most efficient way to kill motherfuckers deadYou won't even get half-decent vehicles when motherfucker with swarm of soldiers is going to rape your ass
>>1744996>The cope of EOLYou realise you can turn on English subs and have better voices... right?
>>1746831The established lore is three different stories. Meaning: there is none. On one had, there is the original (ha ha) plotline that's just adaptation of Jeschke's "Last Day Of Creation". Then there is the plotline of the early development game, distancing itself from the source material. THEN there is late dev plotline, when they've realised they are 3 months behind the schedule and shit has to get cut and condensed. Those are effectively three different plotlines for the game.
>>1738103the worst parts of any RTS game
>>1739913>I know because I had pennies left on my account and I was looking for games I could buy for that amount.Literally the only reason I bought this game too and I still regretted it.
