Yeah, World in Conflict. By some weird coincidence or something, it also happens to be one of my fave RTSes to play online.

(Hell, it’s the ONLY RTS I play online. It’s awesome)

Unless, of course, the crate you open next to your spawnpoint happens to be a plague that wipes out your last hope for survival. But that’s at least hilarious for everyone else.

To be fair, I can enjoy online FPSes more because they’re not as goal-centered.

…Well, okay, maybe they are a lot of the time. But the fact remains that I can enjoy myself a lot of the time even if I’m not contributing towards the goal. I do, of course, but it’s not the be all and end all whether our team wins or loses. As long as I can shoot some dudes, I’m happy.

(Also, it helps when you have team-mates to fall back on/pick up your slack.)

Whereas in most RTS, you have to win in order to gain any enjoyment out of it. And since I suck at RTS, most of the games I lose; and losing takes so long, it becomes painful. (The fact is that I’m a bad loser, so spending ten minutes watching my forces being butchered isn’t FUN, which is the main goal of playing)

Then again, I felt exactly the same way about online FPS until I got into TF2. I owned the orange box for about three months before I even ran TF2, despite being head-over-heels in love with the screenshots that whole time.

Multiwinia, on the other hand, is brilliant right from the get-go, and only gets the more fun once you realise all the features they forgot to mention in the tutorial. Stuff like Retribution Mode (torture those who defeated you!), Turret Control (right-click on a turret to jump in! personal recommendation: flameturret, that you’ve placed amidst a huge battle on top of one of your squads; just keep spinning and firing), and that special moment where your teammate in a 2v2 nukes your spawnpoint in an attempt to get rid of some pesky bees. Well, that’s not a feature, but…

…aww, I did the long comment thing again. You know, you could just buy both and high-five independent developers.

Seriously though thank you for pointing this game out. I saw Darwinia but it didn’t appeal to me that much, Defcon I loved the idea but barely played. This though I love the absolute randomness that can occur. The short game time means nice short frantic battles.

More people need it as there don’t seem to be many online games, I would tell the public more but they don’t seem to listen to me after that duck incident…

I get this barrier in most RTSes; I realise that I’m going to have to start thinking of what I have to do; then I start to panic, and if the option presents itself, I quit.

I think I have a problem. The game is nice, but I can’t play it; it might be that I just don’t want to spend so much time on a game just to lose.

(It’s the same with DEFCON: I love the IDEA of it, it looks starkly fantastic, and it feels good to incinerate the Eastern Seaboard with SLBMs. But I’m just no good at it, I always get trashed. So I don’t play it.

Not dissappointed with the game though. That’s awesome. Well, except for the lack of being able to organise games with people because I don’t have the Steam version, but hopefully the next patch should alliveate that somewhat.

Also, I now have statistical proof that I am awesome. I had suspected it, but I am now quite sure. So thank you for that.

Ross got everyone to sing happy birthday for you Tom, I hope you appreciate it.

and google knows how cool i am D:

Grill: says Mr Seventy-Six Percent. You can’t trust anyone with a double-barreled first name.

Missed a trick there, didn’t you Tom?

I’ll Google it now, sounds great. Defcon was great fun.