Totally agree! RTS has gone real bad, last good ones were warcraft III and C&C Generals (although that didn't even live up to expectations)
I played Nexus and gave up after a few hours. It took me nearly 25 minutes to get rid of 2 enemy ships, and it honestly wasn't because Im bad at it or anything. The AI is just terrible. You tell your ships to attack a certain enemy subsystem, and 5 minutes later they will have finally positioned themselves at an angle where they CAN actually hit this "subsystem". Then they hit it for a while until they are out of range and by the time you get back in position, the enemy has fully restored the subsystem to 100% hitpoints! (repeat to infinity). If there was even a "fastforward" button similar to the likes of "haegemonia" or(oldie)"frontier" if would have greatly improved gameplay.
It's certainly never getting reinstalled on this machine again anyway.
i now use a 19" CRT, was really thinking about a flatscreen a while ago, but i used some flatscreens in action beforehand. the main reason that made me really make my decision was when surfing on a page and pressing the middle mouse button, and scrolling down, text became blurey! i know this isn't the same for all LCD's but most Dell ones are like this. i am a LAN party addict and every time i play games on LCD screens i always noticed a slight delay too!
it's oh so very slight though! but still wrecks my head after a while!
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Totally agree! RTS has gone real bad, last good ones were warcraft III and C&C Generals (although that didn't even live up to expectations) I played Nexus and gave up after a few hours. It took me nearly 25 minutes to get rid of 2 enemy ships, and it honestly wasn't because Im bad at it or anything. The AI is just terrible. You tell your ships to attack a certain enemy subsystem, and 5 minutes later they will have finally positioned themselves at an angle where they CAN actually hit this "subsystem". Then they hit it for a while until they are out of range and by the time you get back in position, the enemy has fully restored the subsystem to 100% hitpoints! (repeat to infinity). If there was even a "fastforward" button similar to the likes of "haegemonia" or(oldie)"frontier" if would have greatly improved gameplay. It's certainly never getting reinstalled on this machine again anyway.
i now use a 19" CRT, was really thinking about a flatscreen a while ago, but i used some flatscreens in action beforehand. the main reason that made me really make my decision was when surfing on a page and pressing the middle mouse button, and scrolling down, text became blurey! i know this isn't the same for all LCD's but most Dell ones are like this. i am a LAN party addict and every time i play games on LCD screens i always noticed a slight delay too! it's oh so very slight though! but still wrecks my head after a while!