All this to say that no one particular unit felt overpowered or imbalanced, and there was a workable counter to all threats with some planning. However, a heavy armored unit could mow down trees. If they held up in the wooded areas, it would not only provide the aforementioned buffs, but prevent light vehicles like humvees and transports from being able to run over them. Armor would decimate infantry in the open field, but if an anti-tank squad was able to hold up in a garrison, that cover could turn the tide for them. However, infantry were able to fight back against helos very well, especially when garrisoned in a building or taking cover in the tree line. Aircraft dominated armor, and most armor units were completely unable to fight back against them.
And if they are destroyed, you have to make due with what you have left until their points are finally available to spend again.Īll RTSs have a sort of rock, paper, scissors mechanic between units, but it was very noticeable in WIC. You could chose to spam heavy tanks, but you won't get but 3 of them and have a few leftover points to spend on whatever, leaving your super powerful units to get overwhelmed if approached from all sides. If these units died, their value in points trickled back into your pool over a period of time, forcing a sort of cooldown to unit spamming. Deploying a light tank along with your infantry gave them some cover to fight from.
Infantry would treat stationary vehicles the same way, so armor really was armor. Infantry will take cover from enemy infantry behind obstacles (trees, buildings, rocks), which give them both an accuracy and defensive buff. I can chose any combination of these units I desire, and several of them will work together in different ways. An infantry squad may cost 2, an anti-tank squad costs 3, a humvee costs 4, a light tank costs 5, heavy tank costs 8, a transport heli costs 4, a heavy attack heli costs 8, a light attack heli might cost 5. So for example, let's say I had 30 points. You had a pool of "reinforcement points" (I don't remember the actual terminology so bear with me) and each unit cost a set number of points. Instead, you had a deployment zone, which is where the units you chose would spawn. WIC completely cuts out the base and tech tree mechanics. In most RTS games that I've played, the gameplay loop is generally establish your base > set up as many income lines as possible > run through the tech trees > spam stronk unit. World In Conflict was released in late 2007, so I was 15 when I got it and it's still stuck in my head today because of the way it approached three things: I wanted to win by outTHINKING the opponent, and this game was able to scratch that itch. In my eyes, that's more unit/base management than it is strategy. I get that getting money is technically a strategy, but that aspect of these games always seemed counterintuitive to the term "strategy" to me. By the end of a match, it almost always devolved into a faceoff of who has the most money to spam the most meta units to overwhelm the enemy. There was one thing about those games that I always hated though. I had played RTS games since I was a little kid (Command & Conquer, Age of Empires, etc) and always loved the genre. This brought one game to mind for me-World In Conflict. So I just found out this sub existed and saw a couple posts talking about hidden gems within genres that didn't get the recognition they deserved. The old /r/patientgamers Essential Games List Please use flair to display what games you’re currently playing, not a punch line, username, tag, URL, or signature. New, mobile-friendly spoilers can be posted using the following formatting: Want to play online in a dead gaming community? We expect you to know these rules before making a post. Please click here to see our current rules. We no longer maintain our posting rules in Old Reddit. Join our Discord Join our Steam Group Follow us on Twitter Posting Rules Whether it's price, waiting for bugs/issues to be patched, DLC to be released, don't meet the system requirements, or just haven't had the time to keep up with the latest releases.
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