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Age of Empires designer believes RTS games need to finally evolve after decades of stagnation
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This sounds a lot like what Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance has been doing for ages, and that expansion came out in 2007. The only difference is the unit limit but that's mostly for performance reasons (and is rarely hit in competitive matches anyway).
How are these mechanics next-gen if they're more than 15 years old?
Ive played faf its a very different feeling game. Faf feels awful. I'd say bar is next gen because a total annihilation style game has never been a huge rts title and I think bar is the one that can reach the mainstream rts audience and beyond.