Games you WISH you were good at.
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Thanks for the advice, but the main problem is that as soon as I start the enemy really quickly manages to have troops in my borders and while I'm deperatly hangig on, their already progressing through the ages. I'll have to try it again sometime it's been a while since I abandoned it.henrebotha said:Warcraft 3 and Starcraft. I actually like the story (yes, the story! It's what those little cutscene things in between missions are all about) and the setting of both, but I am utter crap at RTSs.
Good man!whiskey rock n said:CivIV is awesome. Specialise your cities towards production or commerce (so don't go building a Bank in a production city, or a Forge in a commerce city). Don't automate your Workers or your citizens - assign them yourself. Don't found religions. Choose a handful of Wonders that are absolutely crucial to your strategy and pursue them to the exclusion of others. Settle your 2nd city by 2000 BC. ALWAYS build a Worker first unless your capital is on the coast, there's seafood within its borders, and you start with the Fishing tech, in which case Work Boat first is better. Try and be the first to Liberalism. TRADE TECHS - try and trade a tech away to multiple civs in one turn, so that you can benefit without them really being able to trade it to each other. If you're building a Wonder, hold on to the tech that allows you to build it until you're close to completion, then trade it away for as much as possible. If you're playing as Inca and you find an opponent nearby, rush them with Quechua (especially on higher difficulties, when AIs start with Archery). If you're playing as Persia or Egypt, beeline to Animal Husbandry, hook up some Horses, and rush someone with Immortals/War Chariots. If you're playing as anyone else, you can rush with Axemen but not with Swordsmen (Iron Working takes too long to research). Have around 1.5 Workers per city. BUILD MORE SIEGE UNITS! Take at least twice as many siege units to a battle as normal troops. Use them to first bombard away city defenses, then sacrifice a few of them to deal some collateral damage (you'll see two or three suicide catapults usually increases your combat odds from ~15% to >60%). If you wage early warfare, get to Currency or at least Alphabet as soon as you possibly can - this will enable you to build Wealth and Research respectively, thereby scraping you out of the economic grave you've dug yourself once the war is over. Keep good cities but raze the bad/mediocre ones. Aim to have 4-6 cities at 1 AD.
That's as much advice as I can think of right now.
hey snap.PoisonUnagi said:
i got really good at one point but then i just went on TF2 like once and lost it all and have been shit ever since.
now i suck at tf2 thanks to rainbow 6 vegas 2
I feel exactly the same. On my first game I just went with whatever the game threw at me and ended up discovering electricity before gunpowder, and uranium before the cannon. I felt like a monkey pressing buttons.JMoney156 said:
How about that Day of Defeat? Is it a good multiplayer game for someone used to Unreal Tournament and HL2: Deathmatch?
rts games. I really like most of them, especially company of heroes, but I'm an absolute mess. I'm not a total moron at combat tactics, but I'm a total moron on micromanaging.
And usually have two plans of action.
I usually either build a house and two squads of infantry, then go run my merry way into the thick of battle, where all my soldiers, each of which I've given a name and background, face horrible death in the german's relentless mortar assault, which is beautifully accompanied by four panzers and eight platoons of superbly trained and equipped SS officers.
My maing strategy however, is absolutely overwhelming myself with a massive army, then going into battle without my AT gun setup, my MG teams sitting in my base, and my batallion of tanks all gasping at the beauty of french countryside. All this while my two squads of infantry are twisting in agony inside a makeshift bunker, while I'm in some sort of limbo, trying to decide whether I should give veteran status to my armor, or my support units.
Best thing about it is that I'm fairly solid on all other games, so on most lan parties people don't realize it's me who's dragging them down. Then after a shameful defeat, they go "Wow, this score system is really unfair, it shows Klepa having ridiculously low score, but I saw his artillery and armor occupying nearly every spot on the map, and all his infantry reached veterancy way earlier than anyone else's! He even had MG's covering his own base, that's a really good plan!"
And usually have two plans of action.
I usually either build a house and two squads of infantry, then go run my merry way into the thick of battle, where all my soldiers, each of which I've given a name and background, face horrible death in the german's relentless mortar assault, which is beautifully accompanied by four panzers and eight platoons of superbly trained and equipped SS officers.
My maing strategy however, is absolutely overwhelming myself with a massive army, then going into battle without my AT gun setup, my MG teams sitting in my base, and my batallion of tanks all gasping at the beauty of french countryside. All this while my two squads of infantry are twisting in agony inside a makeshift bunker, while I'm in some sort of limbo, trying to decide whether I should give veteran status to my armor, or my support units.
Best thing about it is that I'm fairly solid on all other games, so on most lan parties people don't realize it's me who's dragging them down. Then after a shameful defeat, they go "Wow, this score system is really unfair, it shows Klepa having ridiculously low score, but I saw his artillery and armor occupying nearly every spot on the map, and all his infantry reached veterancy way earlier than anyone else's! He even had MG's covering his own base, that's a really good plan!"
I could be better at FPS's. I'm decent at Call of Duty, but I have some issue consistently getting a positive K/D ratio.
RTSs, right now im playing red alert 3 and got stuck at the pearl harbor level, also having a hard time with dawn of war 2
I wish I was better at the Battlefield games online...
Overall I'm pretty satisfied with myself
I think I might get better with BF if I put a lot of time into it, but I don't really like to keep playing when I keep getting pwned a load ;-)
Overall I'm pretty satisfied with myself
I think I might get better with BF if I put a lot of time into it, but I don't really like to keep playing when I keep getting pwned a load ;-)
I wish I were good at Street Fighter, particularly 3rd Strike. I just got Anniversary Collection, and fucking shit, this game is hard to learn!
Even being pretty godly most of the time on COD4 (well mabye demi-godly... how do you classify 5:1 K/D every game?) I frequently wish i was better. I often wish i could really get into (be interested in) an MMO but i'm convinced that's a matter of the game in question and pure luck.