Comments by "Cottidae" (@CottidaeSEA) on ""Diablo 4 Has 700 Viewers in Total"" video.

  1. SC2 is a good game at least. The only problem with SC2 is that RTS is kind of a dead genre. Most people find it too stressful.
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  2.  @Leonhart_93  I love watching SC2, playing it is a different story. LAGTV is really nice, I've been a subscriber for about 11 years. I also used to watch a bunch of Day9. I feel like people just stopped making content about the game shortly after LotV was released though.
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  3.  @Zibi21  You're probably not too far off. I'd imagine most of the developers either created assets for the game or did other stuff related to it and not actually writing code or planning code arcihtecture. Although to be fair, considering what we heard about the inventory being loaded to all clients, maybe they used an intern for that part as well.
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  4.  @Leonhart_93  Yeah, that's really the problem. On a micro level I am good at RTS games, stuff like army management, splitting them up, moving injured units and so on. But then you add in stuff like build orders, queuing stuff mid-fight to have reinforcements and so on and my brain just gets fried. It's why I managed to do fairly well in League of Legends, reaching high diamond eventually but never ended up getting past silver in SC2. Not that I really struggled to increase my rank further, but I know my limits. There's just so much going on that it stops being entertaining and is just stressful instead. That's the issue with every competitive RTS ever. That's one of the reasons why I enjoyed BattleForge, it was simple enough since it was more about deck building and micro. It offloaded the complex parts to before matches. Of course, it was also EA, so the monetization was absolute dogshit, but the game itself was brilliant.
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  5.  @terranu1  The server is the only one which needs to know about it though. Never trust user input is one of the most important rule of development.
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  6.  @Fishbro  That's part of the reason why it's stressful. You have half the time to do what you need to.
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  7.  @sebastianleister355  To some extent, yes. RTS games generally have far more to keep track of though.
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  8.  @sebastianleister355  It's honestly not far from it in terms of required time investment
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