Anyone playing They Are Billions? (Game now out of Early Access!)
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They attack from all sides, but "all sides" means one at north, south, west and east, meaning that depending on how the geography is and how your base layout is, there is the possibility of a wall being ignored, but that's kind of hard to plan for...
This game still kicks my ass. I've only beaten it... twice? And that was on the lowest settings.
Played for hours last night and died on the final wave at 75% and considered it a moral victory as I finally had my tech and econ to a decent spot. I really need to keep the day in mind more now though, I would have had a much better shot at the end had I remembered how long I had to prepare and divided up my thanatoses properly. And had about 10 more thannies but that goes without saying.
I definitely have the "still deep down play this game like StarCraft" problem though, really hard to break some habits.
Played for hours last night and died on the final wave at 75% and considered it a moral victory as I finally had my tech and econ to a decent spot. I really need to keep the day in mind more now though, I would have had a much better shot at the end had I remembered how long I had to prepare and divided up my thanatoses properly. And had about 10 more thannies but that goes without saying.
I definitely have the "still deep down play this game like StarCraft" problem though, really hard to break some habits.
Can't be stressed enough. RTS 101 really as you're usually better off building army than static D. Larger army helps thin out waves before they even reach the walls, can grab resources from around the map and is key to letting your settlement grow quickly.
Been fun watching some of the old SC community dip their toes. Some are willing to pause to feel things out and learn. Others have been like; 'Screw pause. I don't pause an RTS!'
My coworker keeps messaging me talking about Artosis and how he still sucks, still won't pause and it's not even fun to watch anymore because it's like he's actively trying to not get better lol. Dude is stubborn as hell, which can be fun but can get a bit annoying since he's not exactly a dynamic, engaging streamer. InControl also kinda sucks but is at least a bit more open to meeting the game halfway.
Version 0.6.0 update
- Community Challenge
- New Languages Available: Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, French, Russian, Polish and Brazilian
- Waypoints for paths: Press and hold the SHIFT key to add more waypoints to the path when the unit is patrolling, attacking or moving.
- New Survival Elements: Old Towers and Explosive Barrels
AND EXPLOSIVR BARRELS JUST LIKE YOU WANTED
...can you build those barrels or are they just found?
First game played since the update and had an old radar tower spawn right next to my base. Pointless and now I have a bunch of unusable land, lol.
I feel like they changed the ranger animation as well. There's a little delay in going from firing to moving that I don't remember before.
I feel like they changed the ranger animation as well. There's a little delay in going from firing to moving that I don't remember before.
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Finally beat map 3. Managed to clear the whole map (freaking spitters everywhere) which really helped for the final wave. At the end I had 60+ snipers, 40 thanatos and 40 executors. My gold income was like 50 haha.
Those extra 20 days are very important for setting up the final defense.
Finally beat map 3. Managed to clear the whole map (freaking spitters everywhere) which really helped for the final wave. At the end I had 60+ snipers, 40 thanatos and 40 executors. My gold income was like 50 haha.
Those extra 20 days are very important for setting up the final defense.
Mine is well worse than this and it runs all right. Actually, it runs perfect until the last wave, but then it doesn't crash or anything, it just lose some fps, it's more annoying than game breaking
I wasn't able to play this for the past few weeks.
They added new orchestrated music and a the tavern.
The current weekly challenge map is wood deprived, so I'm not going to be able to build one. Has anyone tried it?
They added new orchestrated music and a the tavern.
The current weekly challenge map is wood deprived, so I'm not going to be able to build one. Has anyone tried it?
I haven't played in a couple of months but I imagine the advice from the thread is still valid. They haven't changed the core loop of the game just added a few new modes, buildings, and interface presentation improvements. Best advice I can give to a newcomer is get at least a couple of posts up around your botders quickly. Letting even one Tesla tower fall to a lone zombie can quickly be a death sentence in this game with how they multiply
Just bought it and played for a few hours.
Fucking brutal game, and im loving it!! Everytime i try to set up a new game, im learning something new, my personal record is 60days onf the first map, but im improving!
Now they just released a new update, but i dont know how it works
Fucking brutal game, and im loving it!! Everytime i try to set up a new game, im learning something new, my personal record is 60days onf the first map, but im improving!
Now they just released a new update, but i dont know how it works
So apparently the game has been getting really cool steam workshop support? I haven't played in like 4 months but I was looking for a reason to dip back in, any key stuff to reccomend?
Definitely seems like the game is coming along nicely and looking forward to the campaign content they are making!
Definitely seems like the game is coming along nicely and looking forward to the campaign content they are making!
i'm waiting for full release at this point, totally sold on it as a game (spent like 10 hours the first time this wave hit). Only thing is I'll need some kind of... scaling option or something for the final waves because they brought my PC to its knees.
The developers released a couple of blog entries regarding the upcoming campaign throughout the last months:
- 40-60 hour long campaign
- tech tree / research after each mission
- players can choose the next mission, depending on their play style
- difficulty can be chosen for each mission (points system, if you fail again and again it won't be good though)
- they hope to release the campaign and version 1.0 in June 2019
- campaign is around 75% finished (as of 2nd of April)
- no new survival content until campaign is finished, they want to avoid further delays, but it could be that the campaign won't be ready in June (due to problems, translations (core game is being done in Spanish), voice-over, cinematics, etc.
- new survival content will be released alongside the campaign and ver 1.0 (two new themes, new units and structures)
40-60 hours?!
They are gonna get a lot of sales when the campaign drops. I wouldn't be surprised if sales dropped after they announced going all in on the campaign development.
Though, with the announcement of a release date, they may get a lot of people picking it up now.
They are gonna get a lot of sales when the campaign drops. I wouldn't be surprised if sales dropped after they announced going all in on the campaign development.
Though, with the announcement of a release date, they may get a lot of people picking it up now.
Necro bump because the game is out of early access and the campaign mode is out.
I am hyped for this. Downloading the update right now. This game is great and expect big things from the campaign.
I am hyped for this. Downloading the update right now. This game is great and expect big things from the campaign.
Excited to grab this on PS4 next month. I've been really missing a good RTS for consoles (I know, I know).
I had pretty much completely forgotten the Campaign mode was still coming lol. Will download it now, thanks for letting us know!
Anyone play Conan Unconquered? I hear its just like They Are Billions, but with hero classes.