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FYI - I'm having a lot of trouble getting any information at all from this comment, because so much of it is tied up in abbreviations that I don't understand.
by CWuestefeld 9y ago
FYI - I'm having a lot of trouble getting any information at all from this comment, because so much of it is tied up in abbreviations that I don't understand.
- swypych 9y agoThank god it's not just me, am I getting old?
- SeanDav 9y agoDoW3: Dawn of War 3 CoH2: Company of Heroes 2 bots: Robots / Automated game play RTS: Real Time Strategy DotA: Good explanation provided at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dota_2 ... and just in case anyone is confused by your abbreviation: FYI: For Your Information :P
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- masklinn 9y agoDoW = Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War, a real-time strategy series set in the Warhammer 40000 (http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/TabletopGame/Warhammer...) universe CoH = Company of Heroes, WWII-themed real-time strategy game RTS = Real Time Strategy DotA = Defense of the Ancients, a (the original?) MOBA MOBA = Multiplayer Online Arena Battle, initially a more action-oriented subgenre of real-time strategy, though IMO closer to real-time tactics games as it's smaller scale with more important units and itemisation, no base construction/management and more limited resource management. I think the RTS link only exists because the "original", DotA, was a mod on an RTS (Warcraft III) (it was not the original one but as with e.g. Minecraft it basically opened up and popularised the genre), probably the most popular eSport category today AoE = Age of Empires, real-time strategy game set in a semi-realistic past, the first two installments were roughly set between the stone age and the middle ages or renaissance, the third one does not exist and is set during the Age of Discovery
- mattmanser 9y agoSorry, fell a bit into /r/games speak!