Custom games? :D I miss playing "tree tag" on Warcraft3 Battle.net

BlueTemplar · on Nov 19, 2023

Kind of : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gr3RVDMJsEY

Though in WC3 (and SC1/SC2) IMHO this was enabled by a very easy to use «map» editor, combined with a tremendous popularity of the base game.

So if even, in theory, you can do even more (libre software), in practice what you see is not as ebulliently diverse.

You can also compare it to the Spring lobby games - Zero-K has improved on the presentation, but something has been lost by not being able to easily fork the game yourself, build on it, and then just put up whatever the resulting mess is, start a game, and it being listed in the list of games :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8by5C6dJDA

Including «Com Shooter» FPS using the built-in «possess unit and use FPS controls» showcased here : https://youtu.be/MpKqQxTURik?t=107

Which shows another tension in game development : more recent Spring-Recoil games disable that feature outright, because of the balance headaches it causes, and potential modders can't use what they are not aware exists !

But modding scene does exist in ZK : http://zero-k.info/Mods

(In addition to the game setup itself being typically WAY more open than what you find in other RTS.)

wheelerof4te · on Nov 19, 2023

These types of RTSs are way less "arcadey" than Warcraft 3 or Starcraft, so I don't think supporting custom games is on the devs radar.

What you're usually after in these games are huge battles on massive worlds with thousands of explosions leaving craters and debris everywhere.

chaps · on Nov 20, 2023

What? Custom game modes is ABSOLUTELY on their radar. Less so than the main game for sure, but to say ZK doesn't support custom game modes is flat out wrong.