Ended up doing Nova's mission after Tosh's frustrated me after a couple tries, and I think it was worth it for the cutscene at the end, and Swann picking on Jim.
Tosh's mission was like playing single player DoTA. It was actually pretty awesome, and even in normal I had to think on how to get the two side objectives.
I'm still waiting for an RTS that involves more actual strategic, macromanaging gameplay rather than the usual "click-faster-than-the-other-guy micromanagement with rock-paper-scissors" style gameplay.
But hey, that's just me.
I am enjoying the SC2 campaign mode quite a bit, though.
Might I suggest Supreme Commander 2? The singleplayer campaign isn't worth it, but if you want online multiplayer it might be what you're after.
It focusses a lot more on the larger scale strategy, and winning a 3v3 or 4v4 (personally my preferred game modes) requires a fair amount of teamwork and strategy as to who's doing what (land / sea / air / whatever). Assuming your opponents are half way decent anyway.
I mean as an example, in Starcraft 2 there's a big emphasis on queuing up one unit at a time, then going back and starting the next one as soon as the first one is finished. This is to basically prevent resources being tied up. In SupCom 2 you set the build order for your factory (say, 1 tank, 1 missile launcher), and set it to repeat. That's it, you largely leave it alone after that, apart from maybe changing the rally point, or pausing it to build resources for some other stuff.
There aren't really any activated abilities or spells either (baring one or two things like teching up to teleport on your units), so outside of base building, the strategy mainly comes down to unit composition and teching. If you decided to go with a dedicated land army for example, are you going to be focussing on teching up a powerful conventional army, or will you instead focus on getting experimentals? Stuff like that.
All in all I liked SupCom2's multiplayer quite a bit. It's fairly configurable for new people as well, and they actually did a pretty good job with the AI (cheating or not), so comp stomps are actually entertaining as well.
To do the secret mission, however I am unable to select it. I have unlocked it, but it does not show up in the list and I can't go back to the Hyperion view to see the starmap for missions. I only get access to the mission archives via the continue button from the main SC2 screen.
Do I have to start a new campaign, or load an old save, or what?
I really don't want to have to start over, or play that mission yet again.
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Might I suggest Supreme Commander 2? The singleplayer campaign isn't worth it, but if you want online multiplayer it might be what you're after.
It focusses a lot more on the larger scale strategy, and winning a 3v3 or 4v4 (personally my preferred game modes) requires a fair amount of teamwork and strategy as to who's doing what (land / sea / air / whatever). Assuming your opponents are half way decent anyway.
I mean as an example, in Starcraft 2 there's a big emphasis on queuing up one unit at a time, then going back and starting the next one as soon as the first one is finished. This is to basically prevent resources being tied up. In SupCom 2 you set the build order for your factory (say, 1 tank, 1 missile launcher), and set it to repeat. That's it, you largely leave it alone after that, apart from maybe changing the rally point, or pausing it to build resources for some other stuff.
There aren't really any activated abilities or spells either (baring one or two things like teching up to teleport on your units), so outside of base building, the strategy mainly comes down to unit composition and teching. If you decided to go with a dedicated land army for example, are you going to be focussing on teching up a powerful conventional army, or will you instead focus on getting experimentals? Stuff like that.
All in all I liked SupCom2's multiplayer quite a bit. It's fairly configurable for new people as well, and they actually did a pretty good job with the AI (cheating or not), so comp stomps are actually entertaining as well.
Do I have to start a new campaign, or load an old save, or what?
I really don't want to have to start over, or play that mission yet again.
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