However, Sierra promised a lot more to their reviewers than they could deliver, and rushed out an unfinished game with a lot of missing content and more than its fair share of bugs. The original Outpost was released in 1994 to critical acclaim, with its hard science approach to extraterrestrial colony management getting a lot of attention from gaming magazines of the day. Published by Sierra On-Line in 1997, Outpost 2: Divided Destiny requires a bit of backstory on its predecessor to really be appreciated. The same goes for vehicle bases, which evolve from rovers to tanks in short order, while none really go obsolete. The military technology starts off with laser beams and microwave emitters and just goes on from there. Thankfully, a game like that exists, and it’s called Outpost 2: Divided Destiny. And in my opinion, the people who enjoy running over defenseless players with their giant tanks should get a crash course in what it’s really like to struggle for survival against all odds. I may not have studied the top five best buildings and units to start off with for every faction, and tagging unit groups to a number key is the height of my hotkeying sophistication, but I do feel like the early-rusher picks the pocket of the late-gamer every time. Now, I know I’m not the most effective RTS gamer out there.
It smothers any chance at a fair fight, but those e-sports professionals in their Mountain Dew baseball caps who get money every time they eat Spicy Nacho Doritos on camera act like they’re just better gamers than anyone else for these mean and underhanded tactics. If there’s one big complaint that I have about real-time strategy games, it’s this: All that the so-called “strategy” boils down to is churning out military units like there’s a fire sale and throwing them en masse at the other players before they’re even ready to put up some kind of resistance.
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