Are there any newish RTSs that are active? It seems like there's way more users for older ones.
10x more playable than SC2.
In BAR micro feels quite good:
* the game pace is overall a bit slower
* projectile weapons actually take time to land
* many quality of life features, in particular, ability to give a whole group of units an order to get to specific positions by 'drawing' where you want them to be
* a lot more options for static defense play
* different options - surround, ranged attacks, kiting, AoE weapons vs evasion
Recent steam demo is super, super fun
It’s a shame aoe3 didn’t manage to pull over the sizable aoe2 audience and build upon it. That is basically the only major rts release in years. And it is really good but it was never going to be aoe2 and that’s not good enough for that hardcore player base.