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The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Izzy@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I’d like to know what the game even is. Is it necessary for the 3 screens to be rotating at all times? Perhaps that is just part of the challenge.

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  • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    If they ever explain the rules in the show, they haven’t sunk in for me. It just looks like a light show.

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    • eva_sieve@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      As far as I’m aware they never explain the rules of Stratagema. I feel pretty comfortable saying it seems like a terrible esport to spectate. You’ve got

      • Incredibly quick games (Data’s first game with Kolrami ends in less than thirty seconds), so there’s little to no time to appreciate whatever finer strategies are going on
      • crap graphics-- style is very bland and more importantly user unfriendly–as far as I can tell there are four colors, navy/blank, some sort of territorial highlighting colors (blue and yellow), and a red that appears to be units/agents of both players, which are not visually distinct except for small markers (seriously, why?).
      • probably crap controls-- I get you have to move multiple things simultaneously, but you’d think they’d make something more intuitive for whatever 3-D controls this game needs. With the benefit of modern video game hindsight I think something like a mini keyboard in one hand would be a lot more believable for whatever quick selection and movements are needed by this game.

      Basically, take a minimalist strategy game like Go and an RTS game and stick them together in a way that uses the strengths of neither. That’s Stratagema. Don’t play this game, it’s dumb.

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      • The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They should’ve just kept adding more layers to chess.

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