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I have like 26K matches played in SC2, countless hours spent and I never even touched a single player campaign.
I couldn't even get into RTS genre and always was utterly horrible at it, until I finally started playing against people. At first I kept thinking I need to play the campaigns of every RTS I tried first to get the hang of it and shit. And then get bored and drop them somewhere in the middle of campaign usually. Or in very rare instances where I would actually finish the campaign, I would quit after playing few skirmish matches. I really thought I just plain dislike RTS games for many years and that maybe I was just too dumb to get them too. Only when I was already in 30s I decided I need to try this mp RTS shit. Started with AOE III for about a year and even though I was playing like clueless moron I could immediately tell that games are way more interesting and exciting than any matches vs bots I had in RTS before. I was stuck there on same low-ish rank for over a year. I was even using my left hand to control camera while selecting shit to build with my mouse lol. Well I had fun regardless. Until I migrated to SCII which finally forced me to start using my left hand to click hotkeys and control camera with mouse, the boy became a man. Since then for about 5-6 years I haven't needed another RTS and still having a great time with it. I enjoyed derping in low leagues for first few years and now still derping around Diamond III level, which is a mid league, with all races though zerg is definitely my best one. I think the responsiveness of units and just how good combat feels in general has kinda ruined most other RTS for me at this point.
This Stormgate shit so far does not look at all like something I will want to switch to. Since it's free I will try it anyway, of course. I did like a lot of shit they were saying when it was still all talk. I can definitely get behind an idea of a less frustrating version of SCII, somewhat lower speed/lethality and such. And maybe less bullshit like teleporting or invisible units would be my preference lol. But at least from watching videos so far, Stormgate looks downright boring at times. And SC II, while occasionally frustrating, is at least never boring to me.
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