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Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation (www.videogamer.com)

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[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

I don't know what you mean, do you mean the advanced layer on holding space? Sc2 also has that for building, and it makes the game significantly more ergonomic, the new ui makes it a lot more clear too.

i had a few people who have never played rts play it and nobody had a problem with that.

[-] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 days ago

It's been a while since I played but from what I remember build/train/upgrade command each had a second page you had to tab to, so some things took 3 buttons instead of 2. This felt really awkward instead of having dedicated basic/advanced buttons.

[-] communist@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

It never takes 3 buttons, you remember wrong

it's a hold space for advanced, too, so it's at most two buttons at the same time, plus you can see both pages, so it massively improves ergonomics and doesn't really matter in terms of intuitiveness.

i've played with 3 people who have never played an rts and they had no problems with this, and they reported having a great time, and two that are diamond sc2 players who also didn't have a problem with it.

there is a setting for accessibility to make it a toggle instead of a hold that might've been enabled for you, I can see how it would be a problem then, but that's off by default and only really for the disabled.