[:AT:] Havok Wars Release Version 0.9.9.314

A nice idea. But you can't play with other people. Unless they also buy the HUD. There is no function to send guests a HUD so that they can play with one. You can't demand that everyone spends 1000L$ just so you can play. That really should be changed. In my opinion, the purchase was simply useless for me. Money wasted. Because there was NO information in the description that others are forced to buy it to play. It's a shame, actually, the idea was really good.

But unfortunately it was a bad purchase.

The game seems fun and I really wanna play it, I played the start with a friend but we were unable to really do much do to us hitting the prim count at our place. We were a bit curious on why and found out building and vehicles are like 10 prims each.

This game *REQUIRES* you to own your own parcel pretty much and or have a parcel you are able to play it on. I wish the models were updated and improved upon to be 3-4 prims even instead of 10 or more. Most sim owners wont let you play this on their sims either do to how many prims it takes and the amount of space it takes. Its almost impossible to find anywhere to play it.

Although if you do find a place it seems to work similar to command and conquer which I'm excited for trying at least.

Overall I'm more than satisfied with what I got here, and that's not counting the fact the free version gives you the faction which is most familiar to RTS players and in line with the "meta" of typical RTS games. It's fun playing it all in SL, and the novelty is well worth the cost, as long as you know the inherent limitations of SL make this RTS very janky.

There's still a few issues I'd like to see solved even now though: units really struggle to tackle ramps/inclines over 22 degrees, units like to make sure they're as upwardly oriented as possible and this leads to extra-flat and fat units riding their noses up against steeper inclines to the point of immobility. Also, while I doubt this is anywhere near as feasible as I describe, the ability to have prims that act-as water so one doesn't need to use terrain water just to have naval battles.

It'd be ace if the game also came with some scripts for map design like constant damage scripts for lava or capturable resource-objectives that could be used to encourage players not to turtle so much and extend out to fight for said resource points. We've just been using neutral buildings to achieve this so far and they've made our 8 player skirmishes a lot more interesting!

This being said, a lot of this is hopeful, and ultimately you still get a whole RTS In SL you can go and play in any sandbox (an average match should probably last around 2 hours just for sanity's sake). Even if your playing field is just a big flat area you can have plenty of fun with as many friends as can be bothered to play.

Pros: its a RTS game inside SL :L
Cons: needs a few improvements such as: better AI movement (so they aren't constantly trying to drive THROUGH buildings), A map/prim hud for group selecting rather clicking on things individually, needs a formation option for rally points, needs a barracks building for increasing population count rather than making multiple factories, why does income decrease over time? stahp dat!

It's amazingly well built from a technical standpoint. The texture work isn't BAD but it's got a few problems here or there, but that was only because I was specifically looking at the textures.
Might want to improve on those for future products.

Gameplay wise this is extremely fun and well built. It has a few situations when a unit might not respond immediately but for the most part is functions just like every RTS I've played.

Loved it!
It's a lot like Command and Conquer Generals

Controls are smooth, the factions all have different playstyles, AND you can play anywhere! RTS junkies, do yourselves a favor and buy this, it's very much like Command and Conquer and Supreme Commander.

Can't wait for more factions!