Check out the fancy new trailer for Beyond All Reason a really great free and open source RTS

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• setInner234@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I have played countless hours of this. Even against AI, this game is great fun. It’s mind-blowing to think it’s free.

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• troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  www.beyondallreason.info

  Looking at it, the engine is GPL: beyond-all-reason.github.io/…/choose-recoil

  But while BAR releases their source, it isn’t really open source (no derivatives): for example, with the many of the art assets, “all rights reserved”: github.com/…/license_general.txt

  It does look good, that said.

  The Recoil engine is interesting to me. It’s not something I’d seen before in the open source ecosystem (sometimes I live under a rock). I suspect the underlying mechanisms (although written for RTS games in the Total Annihilation family) might permit implementing something like a Paradox game with some tweaking.

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• NuraShiny@hexbear.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  BAR is really good and also free to play. If you want a sweaty RTS to play, here it is!

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  • clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What makes an RTS “sweaty”, friend?

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• Cuttlersan@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Nice! Beyond All Reason has been great and runs on all sorts of specs (prefer it portable on my Steam Deck). Can’t wait for modding support to get added one day, and Legion have been fun to mess around with :)

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• bradsmybro@lemmynsfw.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s a fun game. Brings me back to playing total annihilation as a kid. Chaos everywhere.

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