In praise of Warzone 2100 Resurrection
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In praise of Warzone 2100 Resurrection
I still find this old RTS completely enthralling... something about the balance between attack and defence, and building your own weapons. There's 3D terrain, and I always had more fun with it than TA (although that may be because I always just play against the computer).
Since it was released as a GNU GPL, the folks at http://wz2100.net/news.html have reworked it and it runs with much higher screen resolutions than the old days.
There's a fairly active forum there as well.
Since it was released as a GNU GPL, the folks at http://wz2100.net/news.html have reworked it and it runs with much higher screen resolutions than the old days.
There's a fairly active forum there as well.
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This was in my opinion a very underrated game that pretty much overshadowed some of the others that came out at around the same time, like Earth 2040 or something like that. Eidos had a hit on their hands, but unfortunately their lack of promotion for it killed it. One thing I really liked was the constant additions for it. Each week, the developers would release new things for it, like new technology and a tech tree. One of the fan sites became adopted as the official site by the devs and the devs would hang out with us in the forums.
One of my friends who was heavily into it as well was one of the N.E.W.S.T founders.
Kelric, it appears that you don't need the original game for it to work. I haven't seen anything on the website that says you do.
One of my friends who was heavily into it as well was one of the N.E.W.S.T founders.
Kelric, it appears that you don't need the original game for it to work. I haven't seen anything on the website that says you do.
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Re: In praise of Warzone 2100 Resurrection
Semi-bump to this thread (from a discussion started on the 10 year lookback thread). Just to mention that they are still pumping out community fixes to this one. The most recent version (pull the nightly master to get the latest - GitHub Link about half way down the page under "Latest Development Builds") seems to be pretty stable and contains a lot of fixes/enhancements even to the last version I tried a few years ago. The installs are very light (~1GB each), so I actually have a few different versions I am testing at the moment. The AI has improved quite a bit as well (although sadly not the path finding so larger more open maps are better). I don't think sensors/artillery and counter battery artillery have ever been done quite so well in any game since.
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Re: In praise of Warzone 2100 Resurrection
Loved that game and played quite a bit with a friend again, after it went open. I don't mind to have another look!
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