They can decimate an unprepared unit, with plumes of fire, huge blasts and charges. From the cooldowns of various abilities to having units that directly counter others, mechs were not above this balance pass. Like any truly great RTS title Iron Harvest has looked to balance units in a variety of ways. Mechs pack a punch, though they aren’t unstoppable. Still, it looks great at 1440p, minus a couple of screen tearing elements when loading in. On top of this, more as an annoyance, the game doesn’t run too comfortably at 4K. Alas, seeing this immediately ejects the player from the immersive battle, which the rest of the visual appearance worked so hard to create. Interestingly, the correct and selected target will have been shot. Occasionally, when a unit in cover fires a gun aiming in one direction the shot is fired in a completely different direction – sometimes even at a right angle. A few odd animations detract from what otherwise is amazing combat to watch. Unfortunately, not everything is perfect when it comes to the presentation – with small oddities snapping players out of the immersion. After grenades, cannon shots and more, what could have been an area enclosed with fences could be more like an open field, which is a lot riskier to fight in. It also creates a very interesting angle to small skirmishes, with players needing to pick better cover or move before it becomes worthless.
The usage of destructible cover and environmental features go a long way towards making the explosions feel powerful and give weight to the bigger mechs. With a strong amount of zoom, players can see the realistic textures across the battlefields from muddy skirmish sites to arctic snowy ruins through to the plumes of smoke. The lore helps craft the world but it is the stunning look of the gameworld that sells the locations and the animations that makes it believable. It isn’t an Oscar winning script but as RTS plots go Iron Harvest has one that is well worthy of experiencing. You’ll even come to care for some of the characters, something which is a little unusual in an RTS game. Playing through them players get a sense of what has made each nation different, explaining not only the plot differences but why the nations specialties are what they are. The three campaigns move the player forward through a narrative rather than the story being there just to glue the missions together. They take known characters, as they appear in the board game of Scythe, and allow fans to discover some of their backstory, or they just help show what is shaping the 1920+ world. These early missions, and the campaigns as a whole, do a great job of filling out the lore of the alternate 1920s Europa. They are intuitive to understand though, like crouching behind cover being a better defensive position than in the middle of an open field.
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Still, it does teach players how to do those things. It doesn’t shout out exactly how impactful things, like cover and being unseen, can be.
With the start acting more like a tutorial, the early missions guide players loosely through some of the key features – as well as the basics that RTS veterans will speed through. There has already been a hugely popular strategy board game created using this unique setting, Scythe, but does it work in a video game? Let’s find out!īooting up the game there is one place to start and that is the Polania campaign. Since the end of the war there has been what’s called an Iron Harvest, since the lands were littered with the remnants of war.
Based upon Polish artist Jakub Różalski’ 1920+ universe, nations have dieselpunk like mechs at their disposal, as well as ground troops. It’s 1920 and The Great War has ended, but in this alternate reality tensions between the key nations of Europa are still high.
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