Publicado originalmente por luckz:SMACX is available on GoG, is it not? So when Firaxis started working on SMAC, well, that was the same month Deadlock got released - July '96.
Identical!!!11Īs for claiming Deadlock stole from SMAC, let me give you the timeline: and ChCh-t factories never stop or two more soldiers and we'll have a swarm // Seventeen times seven times seven and a half new ChCh-t every month (Deadlock II lines) are exactly ants that have strong factories and strong population growth. For example Master of Orion features the Klackons, ant-like insects that build fast and spread fast. Right now it's been too long with both games for me to judge if the factions really are similar to those of SMAC, or if they aren't just common video game tropes of the time. The only thing old games like this can do on Steam is count your playtime (if you don't need to launch them via a differently-named third party exe), otherwise you have no benefit versus a better-patched DRM-free version like you'd typically find on GoG. Further the more prominent role of the "shrines", which are of course a major plot point and welcome resource in smacx. The fact that Deadlock is a clone becomes even clearer in "Shrine Wars" as the user interface, tech tree especially, imitates smacx perfectly. Those elements are the factions of Deadlock, although they _are_ the smacx factions in disguise (Tarth = Spartans, Cht'Cht = The Hive, Maug = University, Uva Mosk = Gaians, Humans = Morganites, Cyth = Hive/Believer mashup, Re'lu = "Peacekeepers") and those awesome but mostly useless defensive facilities (they just look cool, especially the simple Laser Defense, for my taste). Who else here is an avid SMACX fan and uses this game, in particular, as a surrogate and because it's simply available on steam, unlike Smacx? Why isn't smacx available on steam? )Īnyways, these games are very similar and while I find smacx clearly superior to Deadlock, there are a few elements from the latter, that I do miss when dusting off my old Thinkpad with my last remaining "install" of that timeless classic.
This game is essentially a "Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri" clone, which brings me to my main question or topic. This is slightly fixed in its successor "Deadlock II -Shrine Wars". Loved it since back in the day, but the main drawback is its rather clunky colony management, foremost unit movement and control and workeforce distribution. It took a few tweaks to get going, but thanks to other user's advice it was really easy. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Just played this game for a couple of hours. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. Some unofficial phone apps appear to be using GameFAQs as a back-end, but they do not behave like a real web browser does.Using GameFAQs regularly with these browsers can cause temporary and even permanent IP blocks due to these additional requests. If you are using the Brave browser, or have installed the Ghostery add-on, these programs send extra traffic to our servers for every page on the site that you browse, then send that data back to a third party, essentially spying on your browsing habits.We strongly recommend you stop using this browser until this problem is corrected. The latest version of the Opera browser sends multiple invalid requests to our servers for every page you visit.The most common causes of this issue are: Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests.
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