Rating: 8.5/10 (Excellent)
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Genre:Strategy
Cost: Free
File Size: 4.07MB
Can be downloaded from: http://www.yoyogames.com/games/show/5727
Game Description:
Dronewars is a action RTS. The game got two phases, setup and battle. In setup you buy and upgrade ships, while in battle you control your ship while commanding the rest of your army against the evil red army.
Review
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Drone Wars is a very interesting strategy game that test a player's skill in management and piloting skill. Drone Wars heavily focused on player's strategies in each different battles.
Starting:
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You will start with 10000 credits and some army. You also have a special ship that contains all kinds of weaponry (except the tropedos) and made up with the thickest hull. Your very first battle is most probably the easiest. You can do upgrades on your ships or buy more ships and drones. You start with owning 10% of territory and the enemy having the other 90% (duh...). As you win more battles, you gain more territory, as you lose more battles, you lose more territory and may eventually end up with negative territory. Your fighter crafts (as well as other crafts except for drones) will then deploy drones throughout the battle. While you have less then 50% of territory, you will be playing defensive, having you the only army with turrets, while you have more than 49% of territory, you will be playing offensive, with both armies having turrets.
Battle Setup:
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Every battles starts with a different setup. Sometimes you rounded up the enemy in four corners. You have an advantage in the location however, you will have your fleet split into 4 smaller groups. Sometimes you will start with the enemy rounding your fleet from the left and right side. The battle setup changes dramatically over time.
Orders:
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Once the battle starts, you are recommended to give orders to your fleet. By default, they will be under free control, as you give different orders, they will carry them out accordingly. It is always wise to give orders then having your fleet fighting in their own style.
Buy Screen
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Here is where you will be before starting another battle. Here, you can buy drones, fighters, battleships, turrets, do upgrades, buy additional weapons and sell crafts.
Whatever crafts you buy, you will only be able to sell them back at half-price. All crafts, except for drones and turrets, will take up dock space. Larger crafts will take more space while smaller ones will take less space.
Once you are ready, will will be able to launch your attack.
You can buy additional weapons for your crafts, different classes of crafts will have different sets of weaponry. Upgrades will also be classified into different groups.
When the War Starts!
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When a battle starts, it is time to set your weapon types and heat up your engines. You are the only craft that have a wide range of different weaponry. The Primary Weapon will consume you Cooling Meter, when it overheats, you will not be able to fire. The Secondary Weapon, usually the ones that changes the tide of battles, will consume both your Cooling Meter and Ammo Meter.
When either one of them reaches 0, you will not be able to fire. Weapons will also need to be recharged and Ammo and Cooling Meters will regenerate over time.
When you are dealing with large ships, secondary weapons comes in handy. With a few accurate shots, you will bring them down. Still, you can use primary weapons, but it will take some time.
You will lose the battle once you dies (even if your army is still alive). So keep yourself safe at all times.
The Troublesome, Commanders
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This is the part where trouble comes in. Usually, when you are winning, they will send in a transmission and send in their own fleet to bother you. What they are most capable of is to destroy you. So, always leave them to your fleet if you can.
The commanders will change over time. As you become more and more powerful, commanders that will bother you will become more and more powerful too.
Normally, there will only be at the most, 2 commanders bothering you in a battle.
It is very normal to see that commanders will have a very different ship from any you can buy or own. Those ships are extremely dangerous and their size of the ship seems to grow continuously. The strength of the fleet also gets bigger and bigger.
Normally, those ships can take quite a beating before they fall apart. So remember to upgrade your ships' armour. Once they are defeated, they will tempt to flee and withdraw the rest of the army. Always, they will succeed in escaping.
Aftermath:
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Once the battle is over, a list of checks will appear. They will tell you how much ships you lost and destroyed and how much you earned (even if you lose) and territory changes. After you are done, you will go and prepare the next battle.
Cons of the game: (you might want to read this)
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However, there are some bad things about the game. First, and very often, you will find the game getting increasingly difficult. If you played wrongly, you will end up managing the subsequent stages alone, with no credits to buy any ships and you will most probably not hesitate to restart.
The second thing, the ship you control would not be easy to pilot, constant practice is needed to allow you to pilot the ship to your expectations, normally you will end up speeding to the enemy side and get crushed.
The third thing is that, upgrades will get increasingly expensive and eventually too* expensive. The docks will require 50000 credits to upgrade once you reaches level 5 Dock. Many other upgrades would also experience the same results.
The fourth thing is that, in the late games, both armies will have a big number of ships and drones and eventually, the computer will start to break down and lags.
The last thing, usually in the late games, enemies will have tropedos installed and they will try their best to send one homing to your craft. If your craft's armor is bad, you will die in a hit and there goes your winning to a straight lost.
In All
In all, it is a very good game that i suggest every strategy-game lovers to try out. It does not require a high-tech computer to play it and it is very addictive, fun and challenging.
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