Rusted Warfare [Steam], a 2D RTS from Corroding Games is now on Linux. It reminds me a little of Total Annihilation & Red Alert and it was originally an Android game that's made it to PC.
In my youth I discovered Total Annihilation, a strategy game from Cavedog and it quite literally changed my life. I put entire days and nights into it and it was pure joy. Sending hundreds of units at my enemy and later playing it online when we discovered the wonders of the internet. Rusted Warfare reminds me of it a lot, as it has a lot of the same basic ideas, but with a much more colourful look and a few more up to date features.
I actually personally found it on Android quite some time ago and I was impressed at how there was a proper RTS on Android. It has tactical zoom, lots of units, resource collection, different tech levels and so on. Now I'm even happier as it has released on Steam with day-1 Linux support. Rusted Warfare is a proper, traditional real time strategy game. I had no idea it was coming to PC, let alone Linux too!
Features
It has single-player missions, skirmishes against the AI, an endless build and survive mode and proper online multiplayer too. You can host your own game through Steam, or play it on dedicated servers. The multiplayer is cross-platform between Windows, Linux and Android!
I managed to give it a go earlier and I'm pleased to say I haven't encountered a single issue. If you see less activity on the website from me, you can probably start blaming this game. The AI is reasonably competent too, I battled against the Medium AI (there's three difficulty levels higher) and was quite surprised to see it see off my attacks for a while, that was until I upgraded to get the huge experimental units that leave a path of destruction behind them.
The AI will actually expand around resource nodes, build up defences, repair their base when you attack and generally act as you would expect. I've been quite impressed with it for sure! This could be a little hit, with proper traditional strategy games not really made much any more, especially not with Linux support.
It's a very surprising little strategy game and I highly recommend checking it out if you're in need of a proper one. This could happily be a regular game we play! Don't knock it due to the graphics, it will surprise you. It's not an Early Access game either, this is a complete and fully functional strategy game.
You can find Rusted Warfare on Steam for £3.99, with 10% off until 21st July.
Small update: After posting this to reddit, the developer commented and it turns out it's built on Linux!
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In my youth I discovered Total Annihilation, a strategy game from Cavedog and it quite literally changed my life. I put entire days and nights into it and it was pure joy. Sending hundreds of units at my enemy and later playing it online when we discovered the wonders of the internet. Rusted Warfare reminds me of it a lot, as it has a lot of the same basic ideas, but with a much more colourful look and a few more up to date features.
I actually personally found it on Android quite some time ago and I was impressed at how there was a proper RTS on Android. It has tactical zoom, lots of units, resource collection, different tech levels and so on. Now I'm even happier as it has released on Steam with day-1 Linux support. Rusted Warfare is a proper, traditional real time strategy game. I had no idea it was coming to PC, let alone Linux too!
Features
- Over 40 unique units with many upgrades
- Optimised multi-core engine easily handles battles of 1000's of units.
- Experimental units for the big late-game battles
- Zoom out to view and issue commands across the whole battlefield
- Create your own battles in the sandbox editor then play them in multiplayer
It has single-player missions, skirmishes against the AI, an endless build and survive mode and proper online multiplayer too. You can host your own game through Steam, or play it on dedicated servers. The multiplayer is cross-platform between Windows, Linux and Android!
I managed to give it a go earlier and I'm pleased to say I haven't encountered a single issue. If you see less activity on the website from me, you can probably start blaming this game. The AI is reasonably competent too, I battled against the Medium AI (there's three difficulty levels higher) and was quite surprised to see it see off my attacks for a while, that was until I upgraded to get the huge experimental units that leave a path of destruction behind them.
The AI will actually expand around resource nodes, build up defences, repair their base when you attack and generally act as you would expect. I've been quite impressed with it for sure! This could be a little hit, with proper traditional strategy games not really made much any more, especially not with Linux support.
It's a very surprising little strategy game and I highly recommend checking it out if you're in need of a proper one. This could happily be a regular game we play! Don't knock it due to the graphics, it will surprise you. It's not an Early Access game either, this is a complete and fully functional strategy game.
You can find Rusted Warfare on Steam for £3.99, with 10% off until 21st July.
Small update: After posting this to reddit, the developer commented and it turns out it's built on Linux!
QuoteVery cool to see my game here, I'm the developer of the game so let me know if you have any questions. The game was built entirely in Linux so you will likely find it runs slightly better on Linux than it does windows.Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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slaapliedje Jul 21, 2017
Quoting: TiedemannI must try this. I can't stand the LoL type RTS stuff :P
The landing pad thingy reminds me of Dune and some units looks like upgraded Red Alert/C&C.
I was thinking Dune 2 as well, and this reminds me, I need to try out Dune 2 on my Atari Falcon.
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Quoting: TiedemannI must try this. I can't stand the LoL type RTS stuff :P
The landing pad thingy reminds me of Dune and some units looks like upgraded Red Alert/C&C.
Me neither, even if Dota happened to be be built on top of an RTS originally it isn't really an RTS and luckily I don't think most people claim it (or other games in the genre) to be one either. Both the "MOBA" and "ARTS" monikers are stupid but at least the first one doesn't give anyone the false impression that these games are somehow similar to RTS when they have very little in common with them.
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Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: TiedemannI must try this. I can't stand the LoL type RTS stuff :P
The landing pad thingy reminds me of Dune and some units looks like upgraded Red Alert/C&C.
I was thinking Dune 2 as well, and this reminds me, I need to try out Dune 2 on my Atari Falcon.
Your house is either a museum or a Tardis
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slaapliedje Jul 23, 2017
Quoting: razing32Quoting: slaapliedjeQuoting: TiedemannI must try this. I can't stand the LoL type RTS stuff :P
The landing pad thingy reminds me of Dune and some units looks like upgraded Red Alert/C&C.
I was thinking Dune 2 as well, and this reminds me, I need to try out Dune 2 on my Atari Falcon.
Your house is either a museum or a Tardis
A bit of both! Long live Atari! Probably the most impressive thing I have seen someone do on the falcon is have Quake 2 with texture mapping demo moving at more than a slide show pace.
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given it a go for the price it is amazing really fun old school rts enjoying the missions hope the game is a big success would love to see what these guys could do with a little bit more money backing them up.
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