Almighty Game Designer

Chapter 99: Real-time strategy games

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Chen Mo clicked to enter "Legion Conquer", and soon the game loaded.

This is a real-time strategy game with a theme of modern warfare. It can be seen from the loading interface of the game that it is full of aircraft, cannons, tanks, and various high-tech weapons that look very cool.

After entering the game, the structure of the whole game is also very clear, which are [Battle Mode] and [Network Battle] two modules.

To Chen Mo, this game is a bit similar to "Red Alert", but not the same. One is that the picture is much better, and the other is that the specific weapon packaging is very different.

There are no apocalypse tanks, prismatic tanks, etc. in this game. It mainly uses modern and real tanks, but there are also some fantasy future weapons.

Moreover, the game is not based on the Cold War, and there are no Allied and Soviet camps.

The world view of "Legion Conquest" is an overhead world view. After the Third World War, many countries were subverted, and the major armed forces formed many legions to fight in melee.

And the battle mode here is for the player to play the role of the leader of one of the legions to conquer the whole world.

There are many weapons and equipment in active service, such as main battle tanks, bombers, etc., but everyone can use them, which blurs the concept of a country. This should be out of consideration for global promotion.

Chen Mo registered an account and started to challenge the campaign mode.

Overall, the quality of this game is very good, and the novice guide is also well done. The fly in the ointment is that the plot is a bit too thin. Chen Mo has played two levels, basically there is no main plot, it is nothing more than the commander telling you to play wherever you want. Well, there is basically no sense of substitution in the plot.

Of course, this should be a side effect of the overhead world view and the vague concept of the country, and the planning of the plot is also limited.

But this is a real-time strategy game after all, and the plot is not that important, so it didn't affect its popularity.

The operation mode of "Legion Conquest" is also relatively rough, which is somewhat similar to "Red Alert". The operation interface, shortcut buttons, mouse button function assignment, etc., are not very convenient in Chen Mo's view.

Selecting, moving, and attacking, these three operations are all done with the left button of the mouse, and the right button of the mouse is only responsible for the "cancel selection" operation, which makes Chen Mo very uncomfortable.

Chen Mo studied while playing the story mode.

At this time, a student with the appearance of a teenager with Internet addiction sat on the seat next to him. He was bored during the boot process, so he looked at Chen Mo's screen.

Chen Mo was manipulating a tank to crush the seven or eight soldiers in front of him. As a result, these soldiers fired with machine guns, blowing up Chen Mo's tank.

"Damn it!" Chen Mo was speechless, just like "Red Alert", there is no logic at all, why can this group of soldiers blow up my tank with machine guns? Are the tank armors fake

Yi Le, an Internet addict next to him: "A newbie?"

Chen Mo nodded: "Well, a novice."

The internet-addicted boy said: "The tanks here are pretty rubbish. You can either explode soldiers in the early stage, or hold back the air force or super weapons in the later stage. Exploding tanks in the middle stage will easily lose everything."

Chen Mo was speechless: "Shouldn't modern war tanks be the main force?"

The internet-addicted boy said, "Hey, I wonder too, but that's how the game is set up."

As the internet-addicted boy spoke, he also opened "Legion Conquer" and began to search for online games.

The matching was quite fast, and the opponent was found in less than a minute. This is a four-player map, playing 1v1.

The internet-addicted teenager didn't have time to chat with Chen Mo anymore, so he hurriedly focused on building buildings and exploding troops.

Chen Mo also paused his game and began to watch the Internet addicted boy play.

Mining, constructing buildings, producing soldiers, exploring roads... The Internet addicted boy played it in a serious manner.

In the early stage, the opponent directly blasted the Internet-addicted boy by surprise, but fortunately, he prepared a lot of defensive facilities, which blocked several waves of offensives. Afterwards, the Internet-addicted boy successfully suppressed more than 30 lightning pilots, and the opponent's The base was stolen and the game came back.

"Yes!" The internet-addicted teenager said excitedly.

Chen Mo frowned and said, "This game is quite poorly balanced."

The internet-addicted teenager glanced at him: "Is this not bad? This is already the best real-time strategy game."

Chen Mo said: "Three tanks can't defeat more than 20 infantry, which is unreasonable."

The Internet-addicted teenager said: "That's okay, this is already the most balanced real-time strategy game, it's okay if you accept this setting."

Chen Mo asked, "Why don't you play role-playing games?"

The internet-addicted teenager said: "That's too tiring. That kind of game has no technical content, it's just a race against time, and whoever has more time will be the best. It's not like a real-time strategy game, it's about technology."

"Hmm." Chen Mo nodded.

The Internet-addicted boy added: "If you really love to play role-playing games, playing the VR version is actually the best, including shooting and adventure, all of which are VR games now."

"However, real-time strategy and business simulation games are basically on the PC side, because it is thankless to switch to VR. Moreover, this kind of game does not take time. It may take only 20 to 30 minutes to play a game, and the game is over. I can rest and not be so tired.”

Chen Mo said, "Is there a qualifying match in this game?"

The internet-addicted teenager was stunned: "Oh, there is a qualifying match, and what I just played was the qualifying match."

Chen Mo asked: "So, ranking is the core fun of this game, right?"

The Internet-addicted teenager nodded: "Yes. Playing the battle mode in the early stage, it is all about ranking in the later stage. It is interesting to play against masters. This is similar to the real formation of troops. Real-time strategy is like this. It has depth and research. It won’t be long before you can master it.”

Chen Mo asked again: "Is there any offline competition?"

The internet-addicted boy said: "Of course there are. In the offline competitions, the real-time strategy games are more popular than the PC games. There are several star players in the major clubs, and they are all masters."

The two of them chatted for a while, and the internet-addicted teenager continued to fight in the qualifying competition.

Chen Mo studied the various numerical settings of "Legion Conquer" again, and then left the Internet cafe.

To Chen Mo's surprise, real-time strategy games, which had been cold for a long time in his previous life, are actually quite popular in this world.

Thinking about it carefully, this is actually understandable.

VR games have had a huge impact on PC games, but PC players have not all converted to VR game users. Compared with role-playing games, real-time strategy games are more fragmented and have better strategic depth, so they are still one of the mainstream game types in parallel worlds.

As for mobas? It doesn't even have a prototype!

Originally, Chen Mo was still a little hesitant. For him, making role-playing games is a bit difficult now, but now, he has found a good transition product.

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