#Mushroom wars playstation 4 upgrade

I never thought you could make an RTS fun with a controller-goodness knows I still have Vietnam flashbacks to Starcraft 64-but they managed to pull it off. Zillion Whales had the game playable at Play NYC 2017. I got the same feeling that I did with trying to juggle everything in an RTS (production, defense, scouting, attacking, etc.) but at a lower level. I actually had very little in the way of downtime. The game is simple at its face it seems that there's only one type of unit and three or so different kinds of buildings (the majority of which on the map are regular huts), but the mechanics of how Mushroom Wars 2 plays out means that a lot can happen very quickly. What I would really like to see is a couple of high-level Starcraft II pros play the game because I think it'd be amazing. Zillion Whales has more or less made an RTS Lite that is still a ton of fun.

#Mushroom wars playstation 4 upgrade

You have an economy & upgrade system of sorts with the mechanic of upgrading huts to generate troops. You have macro elements (upgrading your forts, managing your garrisons) and micro elements (ordering attacks and defending your huts on the fly). You move troops between buildings, but you don't control the units themselves once they're moving. I think it's fair to compare Mushroom Wars 2 to something like Starcraft II (or really any other RTS) in multiple respects, though it's also different. After that, it all snowballed to a point where I was able to overwhelm my opponent. I crept up the northern side of the map to secure additional forward bases to press my attack. Although I had to fend off some attacks and we traded huts here and there, I more or less had the advantage of tempo. While my opponent was dealing with the troops in his midst, I still had production going on back at home. I moved quickly to send a bunch of small attacks to weak points to sow chaos. Any additional troops after the initial attack immediately garrison, which meant that I could use my new hut to attack anywhere else. I sent a large attacking force in to capture it. After glancing around the board, I noticed that there was a hut that had almost no troops in it. I had my troops concentrated in a few forward bases because, well, that seemed to make the most sense to me. Mushroom Wars 2 supports multiplayer for 2-4 players, both cooperatively and competitively.Ī few probing attacks on my end (and vice versa) resulted in some weaker huts trading hands, but we were more or less fighting evenly. I also upgraded buildings where I could, a mistake that I had made in the first game buildings can be upgraded to increase production of units by sacrificing units already garrisoned there. I had begun by reinforcing my side of the map and building up my forces. I ended up winning the second match, but it was a much evener battle. I then when up against a different member of Zillion Whales who admitted that he wasn't as good at the game. I'm amazed that I held out for as long as I did (which wasn't very long at all). I was then told that they put me, a complete newbie, up against the guy who designed the game. It wasn't long before I had been completely overwhelmed. I thought I was doing alright until I noticed the number of huts that were in my color was rapidly diminishing. I sat down to give it a whirl after getting a basic understanding of the mechanics.

Zillion Whales representatives on site explained the basics of the game to me while another pair of people were playing the game. What made it especially challenging was that troops took the most direct path from A to B, so sometimes you couldn't be sure where an attack was landing until it was already hitting. If you had to focus on ten pucks, defending your three goals, and attacking the three enemy goals, we're talking about something entirely different. If you only focused on one puck, it wouldn't be that hard to keep track of it. Imagine, if you will, a game of air hockey with a bunch of moderately-paced pucks and three goals. However, it takes time for the troops to move from their origin to their destination. Yes, you can see where attacks are directed.