[pkaler]

This is a blast from a previous lifetime! I worked at Relic Entertainment during that time. Both Relic and Radical's offices were in Yaletown in Vancouver at that time, IIRC. Radical ended up moving to Main & Terminal.

I worked on Company of Heroes and Dawn of War during this era. The code looks very familiar. It's the same style of C++. The code looks very similar to Homeworld. https://github.com/HomeworldSDL/HomeworldSDL

I went to SFU, where Neall Verheyde one of the programmers from Radical lectured one semester. Sadly, it looks like he passed away a few years ago. https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/west-vancouver-bc...

[benoliver999]

Company of Heroes was a favourite among my university friends. We spent hundreds and hundreds of hours on it when we should have been working :)

"Ready ze panzerfaust"

[cjrp]

CoH is the game that taught me about nebelwerfers. Fun _and_ educational!

[rasz]

Wasnt 'Company of Heroes' a 'Men of War' ripoff?

[Pannoniae]

Yeah, I truly lament the ruination of the Company of Heroes series. The newest installment, CoH3, is so atrociously soulless, greedy and straight-up broken that it's basically almost mocking the playerbase.

Similar things are happening with the Men of War franchise (a similar but more realistic game).... enshittification is happening everywhere, and nothing is becoming better.

[ethbr0]

The problem with making a great game is that people will play it forever.

CoH was amazing. CoH2 was eh. And CoH3 is atrocious.

I hate SaaS with a passion, but it provides a financial incentive to continue improving an already great product.

[KronisLV]

> Yeah, I truly lament the ruination of the Company of Heroes series.

The original CoH felt like such a well balanced and interesting game!

I have to say that oddly enough Iron Harvest has a similar feel to it, gameplay wise, even if the setting is different.

Then, you already mentioned Men of War, there's also Call to Arms, both of which still seem decent in my mind.

Where available, community made mods can be a nice touch! The community for those isn't too large, though, given the somewhat niche genre. There are also some free RTS games like Beyond All Reason (though it's more similar to Total Annihilation), or some others made in the Spring engine: https://springrts.com/wiki/Games

Very few WW2 themed ones, though. I'd also mention Steel Division, the first game of which had great balance, but the second game in the series feels almost too large scale for me (like Wargame, less about micro with individual units).

[MrBuddyCasino]

I will always remember Company of Heroes fondly, played it a lot with my friends. Such a well made game with much attention to detail and a great sense of humor. Sadly, the magic was lost in the newer versions.

[SgtBastard]

Hey - thank you for Dawn of War. My gateway drug into the long dark spiral of plastic and paint despair that is Warhammer 40k.

Amazing game.

[deaddodo]

DoW is probably one of the best modern "classic" RTSes. It distilled all of the classic mechanics (resource collection, army management, upgrading, etc) into just refined enough without dumbing things down. It's a shame it progressively got worse with each sequel (focusing more on RPG and MOBA elements).

[nailer]

Apparently Boltgun (new FPS) is a 40K game and has been getting rave reviews from FPS youTubers

[JadoJodo]

Each of the games you’ve mentioned (including the article one) have been among my favorite games of all time. Thank you for your work.

[yawnxyz]

Thanks so much for making those games — those were some of my favorite games I've ever played!

[williamvds]

Oh hey, I also worked on Company of Heroes, but a good decade later while porting it to iOS. It was definitely among the nicer codebases I worked on at that job. But we did some unholy things to port it and get it working with touchscreens, I'm glad none of the original team have to see that. Decently chuffed with what we managed to bolt on to the existing UI system though.

[omgmajk]

DoW is an all time favorite, best RTS ever made.

[izacus]

Second best, with Homeworld being the best RTS ever made ;)

[markdeloura]

Thanks for sharing that info on Neall... It had been a few years but he was great to work with on ps3 rollout and other tech fun back in the day. Sorry to hear it :(

[vanattab]

Oh CoH was amazing. TY.