Re: Microid's 2024 Empire of the Ants demo came out yesterday!

PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 23:54:32 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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PW <iamnotusingonewithAgent@notinuse.com> wrote:

On Wed, 16 Oct 2024 02:12:02 +0000, ant@zimage.comANT (Ant) wrote:

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https://store.steampowered.com/app/2287330/Empire_of_the_Ants/
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And I'm still too busy and using an old video card (MSI NVIDIA GeForce
GTX 750 Ti (N750TI-2GD5/OC; 2 GB of VRAM) so I can't play it for now. :(
Maybe I will finally play it in a decade when it is free and have better
hardwares. Ha! :P

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Maybe we should all chip in and get Ant what he needs to play his
family game.  Or maybe Spalls will find something good at the
dumpsters for Ant.

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I am downloading the demo now :-)

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Please kindly let us know how it is. I know it's pretty, but is it fun?
I didn't like the original game back in Y2K/2001:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_of_the_Ants_%28video_game%29.
Funny, the company gave me a free retail copy back then! They should
give me this one and a better video card/PC. ;) Did anyone play that one?

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It is pretty for sure, and detailed.   I find the angle low to the
ground hard to see things and move, especially moving the mouse and
making orders.  Maybe I should try a controller.. I have ordered a
couple of my two groups of ants to attack and claim territory but that
is it so far.  Looks like there will be lots to do.  But not sure how
much I can take at a time.  A little bit of a learning curve, of
course.

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I am going to try it again maybe tomorrow.

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Interesting. I thought this RTS game would be perfect for keyboard +
mouse combined like other RTS games.
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I am itching all over the place now! :-)

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Do I make you itch too? ;-)