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WARBORN - turn-based tactics with mecha
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MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
terrible pitch.
Hobo Elf
Arcane
Eh.. I think I'm good, thanks.
Actually, some of the Steam reviews complained about a lack of mecha related mechanisms, and described it as a reskinned advance Wars.
MadMaxHellfire
Arcane
so i'm perfectly right.
miles teg
Scholar
- Joined
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I'm playing this baby on Switch. It's clearly an indie product and yes, the mechas could be reskinned as tanks or elves, it wouldn't change anything in terms of gameplay.
It's an extremely streamlined version of Wargroove with smaller maps and no map scripting. Each mecha is unique and there are three types of damage: projectile, energy and explosive and three types of armors. World's tiles give different boots to different type of armor, depending on what's on the tile.
The main problem is that the campaign is VERY easy (I'm playing on normal). The tactical AI is not too bad (it knows what to move and where), but the strategic one is terrible: it just spawns cheap units, instead of saving points to get the stronger ones, it doesn't even try to recapture the refineries, so it's just doomed to lose.
The hardest part of each mission is the beginning, because the enemy tipically has some strong units already deployed on the field and you need to capture his refineries to get point to deploy anything.
At least, missions are pretty short, so it's not a slog.
I tried multiplayer once, but I couldn't find any player, which is a pity, because I believe this game, even if simple, can have some potential when playing against other humans. What I like is that it's not necessarily following the typical rock/paper/scissors paradigm and you don't really have a lot of hard counters. But with no one in multiplayer, I guess I'll never know.
It's an extremely streamlined version of Wargroove with smaller maps and no map scripting. Each mecha is unique and there are three types of damage: projectile, energy and explosive and three types of armors. World's tiles give different boots to different type of armor, depending on what's on the tile.
The main problem is that the campaign is VERY easy (I'm playing on normal). The tactical AI is not too bad (it knows what to move and where), but the strategic one is terrible: it just spawns cheap units, instead of saving points to get the stronger ones, it doesn't even try to recapture the refineries, so it's just doomed to lose.
The hardest part of each mission is the beginning, because the enemy tipically has some strong units already deployed on the field and you need to capture his refineries to get point to deploy anything.
At least, missions are pretty short, so it's not a slog.
I tried multiplayer once, but I couldn't find any player, which is a pity, because I believe this game, even if simple, can have some potential when playing against other humans. What I like is that it's not necessarily following the typical rock/paper/scissors paradigm and you don't really have a lot of hard counters. But with no one in multiplayer, I guess I'll never know.
Eh.. I think I'm good, thanks.
Wulfric Pinewood
Prophet
Looks like shit to be honest but if you like it.
holla_cabezas_de_mierda
Arcane
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Latro
Arcane
was interested (because I love front mission) until it turned out there's very little tactical mecha stuff going on (mecha modification, individual part hp and stats,e tc).
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