Never heard of it before. Seems like they learned a lesson from the troubled development of Paragon (MOBA by Epic) which was very good and very refreshing and novel in multiple ways, but sadly it had several major groundbreaking changes as if it was an exercise in redesign on the go. Then it was killed by Fortnite, all of the resources was reallocated to this newly crafted PUBG-clone, which was some kind of a coop-shooter-minecraft thing at first (talking of redesign on the go...)

I loved Paragon in it's multiple iterations - each had it's own good sides. It was, basically 3 or 4 different games at different times. But the first major problem that they had not been able to solve for a long time was fast travel. The first map was HUGE and it took very long time to travel it, so they introduced the fast travel thing - you can activate it anywhere and almost at any time to move faster (but not attack) and it broke the metagame, because it's very effective to run with the whole team across the map and just kill opponents from the start. This thing alone cost them many month of making a new map and a complete redesign of the timings and other game mechanics. Some things they've just scrapped in the end.

So, seeing this stupidly... just looking absurdly easy fix to that problem here is kind of funny and sad at the same time. Oh I hope they'll deliver!

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Not sure about all the hate comments here, but I thought I would join in in the end. No DP port and having HDMI is a bad idea, considering recent news about their licensing scam with drivers.

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Once beloved genre and now I just don't care. The only RTS that I would like to play is Supreme Commander (Forged Alliance Forever - the community project makes it playable under Linux and in multiplayer). Also I should commend Beyond All Reason for the great achievement of being fun and spectacular, especially being open source - it's usually hard to pull that effectively. I loved old Blizzard games, but for me the genre seems dead now. It was stagnant for years and I don't see anything interesting in that. I just can't even collect myself to care.

I am strangely attracted to Total Annihilation style games now, even if I suck at them. But that was true usually even with the Blizzard games of old. It's interesting that in the 2000s there was more branches of RTS subgenres with different approaches and experiments. Earth 2150 had modular units, terraforming and underground tunneling. Command and Conquer series had its unique UI and production logic (at least before the Generals). Total Annihilation had it's streaming economy and multiple tiers of units. Age of Empires had ... ages.
And I'm not going to bring up Shiny's (genious) Sacrifice or Bullfrog's Dungeon Keeper, because they are in their own league and respective subgenre.
So, my question is this: was there something of interest, even if flawed in the last 10 years that an old internet dweller can feast his eyes or imagination on?

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I bought this game some time ago and never touched it. I just wait for an update named "you can play already! Stop waiting and just relax". It's a problem I have with this game and all of the games by Trese Brothers - Star Traders Frontiers was released 6 years ago and now on 350th update! I just can't... I feel the need to re-buy it and cut the internet cord to play it without getting another plethora of game mechanics and balance fixes. I understand that it's a nice problem to have, but I would love to just play without this lingering suspicion of some game breaking update waiting to pounce on me. HELP!

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Reminds me of Iron Lung by the creator of Dusk. This one seems like more of a retro and hands-on experience, whether Iron Lung is more like experimental and short indie dread simulator. Both are water based. Well, Iron Lung's version of water is the "ocean of blood", but let's not get technical here. There's also Soma. Hope this one will also deliver.

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Nateman1000, It's a can of worms you're opening. The most popular answer on any such question is that this is all a fabrication, fake news, no such thing, you are lying, it's staged, never in a million years, it's impossible. Also: USA bad.

Why are you trying to argue with someone, who suggests disabling comments when there's "a pattern" in a discussion about some particular company. There's no good faith here from the start.

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Kind of expected that the only apology of Kaspersky in the comments is literally "USA bad".
Kaspersky (the man) himself is a KGB-school graduate and for YEARS held the most idiotic positions publicly. Such as destroying any vestages of anonymity on the internet, for example. He argued that everyone should be represented by their formal government-issued identification on the web. So, nicknames and silly avatars should be banned, essentially. In Soviet Russia, the internet connects to YOU!

He loved to applaud any soviet-style initiatives of the current government and jumped through multiple hoops to signal how he loves the Party and the president.

Then they had some switcheroo with his ex-wife in the CEO seat, tried some damage control, smoke and mirrors tactics, but I won't believe anything. This company is rotten and was that way from the start.

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Hey, wouldn't you want to upgrade your monkey vision with the state-of-the-art 30fps next-gen FullHD uberOLED pancake lensed cordless box of warm and fuzzy gaming joy? Step right up! We will screenshot your monitor forever, get your location, bio, medical and personal info in a secure place in a very professional manner. Get your NFT collection in order with microsoft's own copilot++ enabled and bing enhanced search on the blockchain technology in VR AR VRR 3D-accelerated app.

To hell with them. It seems that Big Tech is in some kind of degradation spiral, they sprint and stumble and crash into each other trying to deliver the most useless and invasive feature, but with all of the buzzwords of today.

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Liam, sorry for off-topic and kind of a personal question, but for the year or so you switched multiple distros as far as I can see. You tried fedora and endeavourOS if I remember correctly. I switched to endeavourOs partly because of you and the discussions here. Do you intend to share your experiences and thoughts on the state of the distros today and what was those things that kept you moving? Thanks!

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Also you can run an old version of the game through Luxtorpeda [External Link] (it's a project that swaps the engines of certain games to a modern and native ones). I tried it some time before, seeing that they're modernized and opensourced the engine. Worked fine, but the gameplay seemed like a dated slog, even though I have a good memories about the game. Anyway, the game was and still is revolutionary and has very interesting ideas and mechanics that seem fresh to this day, especially considering that the whole RTS genre degraded and died soon after.

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I find the town addition a bit undercooked and not very engaging. There's various systems in place that were introduced just on release and had no proper public testing it seems and arguably it bloated the whole experience. Before that it was very close to the Slay the Spire formula - it was so lean. Now the main gameplay loop is almost the same, but there's this town and building and unlocking mechanic that gives player options, but introduces a bit of a headache with the cancerous mobile-web-idle-gaming resources collection. Technically it's okay, no screaming bugs or inconsistencies. It's still a good game, but I think they should have left it on the development stove for half a year or so.

Basically, just imagine playing Slay the Spire, but after each run you are forced to play some 10 year old knock-off gardening game from facebook where they are force-feeding you some dialogue about some chicken and a frog. It's still a good game, just because the main gameplay is great. Doesn't make the facebook gardening addition worth your time, though.

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