Is for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Please look over our and before posting. If you're looking for 'lighter' gaming-related entertainment, try!The goal of is to provide a place for informative and interesting gaming content and discussions. Submissions should be for the purpose of informing or initiating a discussion, not just with the goal of entertaining viewers.For an in-depth explanation of our rules don't forget to check our andSubreddit CalendarWant to schedule an AMA with us? Read our for more information! I've spend most of my time today playing Star Wars: Empire at War and the expansion Forces of Corruption again after 2 years.Not many talk about this RTS anymore and I thought it would be time we have a chat about it!As a Star Wars fan myself Empire at War has everything I wanted from a RTS. The most fun I've had was in Galactic Conquest mode and a build massive fleet of Star Destroyers.The ground aspect of the game is a mixed bag personally.
It isn't as much fun as space battles, but depending on the map and mood I enjoyed it.Sadly the game story isn't canon anymore, including the expansion Forces of Corruption, which centered around Tyber Zann.What did you enjoy about EaW? Let's discuss it here inFor those interested, here is the Steam page:The game is also available on GoG.
Le photo le dj shashi remix. Alright this is the perfect thread actually since I've spent the past year playing this game very intensely and I spent a good majority of my childhood playing both the base game and it's expansion.The main appeal to me as a kid was just the ability to control and use the awesome ships we see in the star wars movies. The game just captivated me as a kid and seemed to be perfect. That was me as a kid, however.Playing the base game now is just not as fun as I remembered it.
The vanilla game seemed so shallow and didn't have much going for it. The campaign was alright but seemed to not have any real major highlights, the skirmishes are kinda boring and the same with the galactic conquest, which is really where you will spend most of your time.
The ground combat is an awful experience and seems to take away from the real meat of the game which is the space combat.The expansion added a lot of cool stuff but also seemed to break the game. While the base game was kind of bland, it seemed balanced enough to not give me as a child any real problems. The expansion on the other hand, added a new faction that was really just too powerful. The units and special abilities the Consortium had, made them annoying to fight and easy to win with. The expansion, however, turned out to the saving grace for the game.after getting tired of the base game and it's expansion, I started to look for new ways to enjoy the game. This lead me to find one of the greatest, most dedicated modding communities I had ever seen. The amount of mods for the expansion are astonishing.
There's mods that add new units, new factions, new maps, pretty much anything you could ask for.That's what my fondest memories of this game are. The modding community is the life blood of this game. I've spent the last year playing different mods for this game on my youtube channel, and I've been having such a great time. The game isn't a deep RTS and it doesn't have any really complicated aspects to it, but it does give you a chance to just play around with some of the amazing ships and weapons in the star wars expanded universe.If I had to recommend some mods for this game, I'd recommend Thrawn's Revenge, and Absolute Corruption Mod. Thrawn's Revenge is to me the most interesting mod I've seen so far for this game.
It's like the sequel we never got. It adds in a veriery of different factions, units and a new time progession system into the Galactic Conquest that makes it much more interesting. It takes place in the time right after the fall of the empire up until right before the vong invasion. The level of polish for this mod is just incredible. So far it's been my favorite mod because each of the factions seemed unique and enjoyable in their own way.Absolute Corruption Mod is more of showcase of some of the coolest ships in the Star Wars Universe. It isn't structured around an almost story experience like Thrawn's Revenge. It seems to just add in a bunch of new units and changes some of the mechanics a bit.
I've found it to be a lot of fun just getting to see some of the awesome ships in action. That, to me, is what this game is about. Letting you experience these awesome battles in the Star Wars Universe.So, is the game perfect? Of course not. In a lot of ways, it's a forgettable game. The biggest selling point is the fact that it's a star wars game.
Because of that, it has such a strong modding community that is dedicated to making it an awesome Star Wars experience. If you're a fan of the Star Wars lore, you should definitely think about trying out this game with some of the mods available. If anything, you can fanboy out on how awesome these ships can look. Sorry to reboot a pretty old thread but you seem passionate about the game, and after spending a lot of hours in SWEAW, I've finally gone and bought FOC (because my new laptop doesn't have a DVD drive.).I spent a lot of time with Steiner's Advanced Unit mod for EAW which changed the balance and gameplay quite a lot, and also Conflicts in Space (which is hilariously unbalanced looking back).
I'm going to play FOC without mods for a bit to get used to the changes, whatever they may be, and then probably try both the two mods you suggested.Are there any other exceptional mods to try, bearing in mind that I like the feel or SAU, and also will probably spend more time in skirmish battles than GC because I don't really enjoy land battles too much. If you can provide a compelling argument for GC I could be tempted, but I was never that good at the management side of it to be honest.
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It started with a single red pixel on a blank canvas. It ended 72 hours later with a vast work of art created by more than a million people, capturing one of the most interesting social experiments of our time: Reddit Place.It was ostensibly an April Fool's joke, the latest in a series of projects initiated by the social news site Reddit, but as the hours unfolded it became clear that was something much more remarkable. This is how its creators introduced it to the website's users on March 31, 2017:There is an empty canvas.You may place a tile upon it, but you must wait to place another.Individually you can create something.Together you can create something more.The canvas measured 1,000 x 1,000 pixels, and anyone with a Reddit account could contribute. It was described by one user as a massive multiplayer version of Microsoft Paint, in which each player can only fill one pixel every five minutes from a palette of 16 colors. But the simplicity of the concept masked the complexity of how it was played.With no guidance beyond these four lines, it was perhaps inevitable that the first forms to emerge on the canvas were swear words, swastikas and penises, but as communities came together and coordinated on projects, these scrawls were soon covered over with more intricate and thoughtful designs.'
Early on, Place definitely resembled the kind of graffiti you would see in a bathroom stall,' Josh Wardle, a senior product manager at Reddit who came up with the idea for Place, tells Newsweek. 'What was really amazing was seeing how quickly the community organized and started to self-police the canvas to keep it positive.'
As the self-proclaimed 'front page of the internet', and with close to 250 million users, Reddit provided the perfect platform to explore social interaction on a huge scale. With more than one million unique users laying over 16 million tiles, it may also be the largest artistic collaboration ever attempted—outdoing the of 2007, which involved less than 27,000 collaborators.Over the three days, communities came together and split apart, nations went to war, and strangers strategized on how best to create and defend the artistic representations of their passions—be that a sports team or the late socialist leader, Hugo Chavez. It was a war waged in five-minute intervals that showed at its best and worst.Hundreds of Reddit users answered a call for help with a marriage proposal, with the plan to write 'Lisa I love you will you marry me' on 153 pixels of the canvas. While this briefly worked, it was soon vandalized to read: 'Fuck I hate you Lisa you cunt bitch.' This message was also soon taken over. Reddit Place showed the best and worst sides of the internet, as this hijacked wedding proposal shows. RedditIt took less than a day for flags to start appearing on the canvas, as members of Reddit communities (known as subreddits) dedicated to individual countries began to mobilize.
One of the largest was the German flag, created through the efficient collaboration of Germany's subreddit, and it soon began to grow toward a smaller French flag nearby.Despite calls by some members to not invade their neighbor—one user, 'last time we did well let's say it didn't work out that great in the end'—the black, red and gold stripes had completely covered the French tricolor. To bring an end to the battle, one Reddit user came up with 'Operation EU Love,' which saw hundreds of users paint the European Union's flag on the disputed territory between the historical enemies. A heatmap of Reddit Place shows where some of the most intense battles for territory took place. Reddit/ MustafaihssanIt wasn't the only instance of borders being joined with symbols of peace, with territorial battles between communities often resolved with a love heart that took the colors of each side.Perhaps the most ambitious projects were the two artworks that feature prominently on the final canvas: Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night and Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa. Both masterpieces required not only skilful design and patient collaboration, but also the endurance to survive waves of attacks, most notably from a nihilistic group called.
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A pixelated version of Vincent Van Gogh's The Starry Night was created and maintained by a 300-strong group of Reddit users. RedditThe sole purpose of The Black Void, which grew to almost 4,000 members by the time Place was over, was to destroy the work of other communities by filling the canvas with black pixels. Its greatest achievement came in the final hours of the experiment, when it coordinated an assault on the American flag in the center of the canvas.What started as a small crack at the bottom of the flag soon fractured and spread to a black emptiness where the stars and stripes used to be. With national pride at stake, Americans came together to restore their flag, to the point that when Place finally finished, only four black pixels remained. In the final hours of Reddit Place, The Black Void community attempted a takeover of the U.S.
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RedditThe finished tableau is confusing and chaotic, and uniquely beautiful. Zooming in to any section reveals the plethora of vast and diverse communities that contributed to its creation. 'We are at a point where the internet enables humans to communicate and collaborate in ways they have never been able to before,' Place's creator Wardle says. 'My hope is that the success and collaborative nature of projects like Place will encourage other internet companies to take some more risks when exploring ways that their users can interact.' Place is what happens when you give the internet a blank canvas, a hive mind spewing its collective conscience onto a pixelated piece of Reddit real estate.
Studying the mesmerizing timelapse of its creation offers a lesson in diplomacy and democracy, in creation and destruction, in war and peace. And of course, no representation of web culture would be complete without a Rickroll: If you look closely you will find a QR code in the top-left corner, which leads to the video for Rick Astley's 1987 hit Never Gonna Give You Up.It was, in its essence, nothing more than a coloring-in contest. But what Place captured was the internet in all its wonderful and horrific glory, for those 72 hours in April 2017.
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