Wolvenpit :: Far Dawn (RTS)

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@Petteri_Mommo @Lfromthenorth Slavs–slaves connection is not solely of Lithuanian origin, as even the famous Italian "ciao" derives from Venetians proclaiming themselves as sclavus ~ sciavus ~ sciavo ~ (s)ciao 'Slav/slave/servant' to their superiors. Compare still-common German "servus".

@Lfromthenorth Linguistically profiling here: you´re Germanic but it´s fair to pigeon-hole Finns as Slavic. The nomenclature dates back to Lithuania´s hyperpower era when anybody they could take as a slave was known as a ... Slav. Finnics fit the bill.

Finns are not Slavic. We're Uralic, together with Estonians and Hungarians, and some smaller, less-known, Asian ethnic groups. I wont accept this slander 😠

@heinn_dev Awesome work! And always great to witness progress of a fellow RTS developer.

villagers, and one of my favourite features of wc3 : per-unit funny corpses

@MickCraftGaming RoC Humans, RoC Undead (best being the first chapter, then slowly descending in quality over the course of the campaign), TFT Undead Sylvanas chapters, TFT Humans ~ Blood Elves (with quality descent again towards the end). TFT Night Elves is actually quite solid as well.

The Scourge of Lordaeron This has to be my favorite campaign from Warcraft 3. The now iconic character of Arthas gets his start in this campaign, and you even fight alongside Uther the Lightbringer. What is your favorite WC3 campaign? Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos (2002)

@AMAZlNGNATURE This is actual expected behavior in Finland everyday.

Big wild gorilla encounter humans in his way, seems like he doesn’t want to bother.

@MickCraftGaming Blizzard website design early 2000s was something that I spend time nostalgically reminiscing far more often than a mentally relatively stable adult should.

Who else remembers these Warcraft 3 bonus maps that would come out on Mojo Stormstout's Warcraft III Strategy Guide? Today is a great day to play "Funny Bunny's Egg Hunt!" 🐰🥚

@MarcoRedwolf @tobi_horn @fasc1nate You never thought that each of these monochrome images could again be filtered when composing them together for the final image, restoring the corresponding luminance for each of three colors? A reminder how important knowing the basics and studying the history is in any field.

@tobi_horn @fasc1nate Totally different technology. 3 color process began in 1710. There is absolutely no relationship between black and white photos taken through colored filters and ink printing. Black and white film can only produce a black and white image . Period end of discussion.

Long before color film existed, Russian photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky created vivid color images by taking three separate black-and-white photographs through red, green, and blue filters, then combining them into a single full-color picture. This self-portrait is more than 113 years old. More rare photos: bit.ly/44OpIzi

@Nadav33742377 @oldyzach Absolute harmony and calmness guaranteed, especially in hotseat.

@wolvenpitstudio @oldyzach Especially in multiplayer, your peers will love you for it

If anyone were wondering what tranquility looks like.

@heyshipz The Witcher series. Then again, I was never into lengthy conversation simulators.

What game is this?

@RinoTheBouncer They both are red pills.

Who else be like this?😎🚀

@3linker @oldyzach The most audiovisually pleasing, by far. Sure HoMM3 is more advanced almost in all technical senses, but can it make up for the personality and the atmosphere of HoMM2? Ask me, and the answer is a clear no.

@oldyzach HMM2 is actually my fav part of the series

I'm starting to compile a list of games that are perfect for me to play while traveling (train, plane, bus, wtv). I definitely include Heroes of Might & Magic II in that group, combined with that marvel known as fheroes2.

@lmickyd @ReviewsPossum "The road to hell is paved with good intentions." Evil is not only evil. Also what starts off as good can become what shall thenceforth be known as evil.

@ReviewsPossum 🤦‍♂️ Tolkien was never trying to be cool. He was teaching us a lesson. Evil is evil. And the people who convince themselves it isn’t are the ones who allow it to progress into world war

Dude who wanted to take the Ring for himself to save his kingdom but decided the mission to destroy it was more important because it would save the world, and died for that cause. King who initially refused to aid another kingdom because they didn't help when they needed it, but ultimately decided fighting evil and saving their civilization was more important than his petty grudge, and died for that cause. Guy who lived a life of cruelty and greed who got corrupted by a quasi-demonic force that turned him into a monster and made him suffer in loneliness for hundreds of years until given the chance to redeem himself and genuinely tried but ultimately failed by giving into temptation and betraying the only person who could bring him salvation. "No moral complexity."

@MatthewPGilbert @SandyofCthulhu Firebats and vultures replaced with non-splash damage grenade-launching marauders and radio-controlled-toy-looking hellion. Guardians learned to spawn broodlings and were renamed brood lords, while arbiters somehow became motherships. StarCraft II? StarCraft 1.5.

@MatthewPGilbert @SandyofCthulhu StarCraft II is not the brave, innovational return to the RTS stage it looked like during development. It's taking the units and concepts in StarCraft 1 and slightly tweaking them, renaming some of them in the process and making everything look plastic.

Our bitter rival at Ensemble Studios. We had JUST released Age of Empires and then StarCraft comes out. All the cute girls at the club hung out at StarCraft’s table. We only got the nerdy ones. We punched back in 2002 with Age of Mythology which carried StarCraft’s asymmetry even further. Then in 2005 we did Age of Empires 3 which was the best graphics anyone had seen in an RTS game to date. And, again, lots of asymmetry. StarCraft always stayed the cool jock though. While we were the smart kid with taped glasses and a pocket protector over in the corner of the cafeteria.

@SandyofCthulhu Age of Mythology is an excellent RTS, one whose asymmetry I won't even try to match in my own game. But more asymmetric than StarCraft? I argue against. Most importantly, zerg produce their units completely differently -- and are the only ones with traditional technology tiers.

@WholesomeMeme Would make a good male adventure companion for my female video game avatar. (I myself, a male.)

@SpiteAndTrotz @thisislux *Szyslak

@thisislux As Moe sizlack said, if they are dissing your fly girl hut 'em with the old one two

whats with these homies dissin my girl

@GhastlyBar85419 @KostasFnord @N_ticx @memeslich A quick visit to the map editor in WarCraft III reveals it to be the first Blizzard RTS that calculates random damage dealt by units using dice rolls: for example's sake, 19–22 could actually be generated as 1d4+18.

@KostasFnord @N_ticx @memeslich Lot of older games actually did that with underlying d20 rolls, usually invisible. Think Morrowind, KOTOR 1/2, Neverwinter, etc. Though I think BG3 is fantastic and made the right call going turn based.

why are devs not copying baldurs gate 3?

@yegormethod Well, at least you are direct and sincere about your bigotry. Why care about the second-largest continent in the world, both by population and landmass, that is home to not only a myriad of cultures but also riches and resources for a wannabe big biznis man like you.

For the idiots: Romania is wrong, Afghanistan is wrong Not the main language of each country, but one you can speak and be understood by a majority I frankly don’t care enough about Africa to color it French is useless due to 80% of the speakers being useless for biz These are the 5 languages that unlock the most biz opportunities Anywhere in post Soviet / eastern bloc Russian is still understood and a requirement to get most public facing jobs

learning "dutch" or "french" or "italian" is useless each language learned should unlock an area on the map maximize your ability to be useful in a multitude of situations and locations

@eeldenden Spain does need some serious fast-tracking, to be fair. Not that any of the others would be well-prepared for crisis, either, save for Poland.

Map of the proposed Two-Speed Europe; Under Germany's invitation, six EU states dubbed "E6" have just agreed to fast-track integration on economy and defence without waiting for the unanimity of the rest of the EU