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Star Trek™: Armada

My all time favorite game runs great!

GoG team did an awesome job of getting Armada running smoothly on Windows 10! Some technical details: Starting resolution is about 640x480, but it can be changed in the menu. Starting screen and menus are stuck at 640x480, but text is smoothed nicely. We are limited to the original 4:3 resolutions the game came with. 1600x1200 is the highest. Installing unofficial patch 1.3 remedies that. Armada looks AMAZING in 4k 16:9. (but the OSD along the bottom gets stretched all the way across the screen, just as it went all the way across in 4:3.) The videos are prerendered at a very low rez. No fixing that. Don't switch to desktop while in a menu. It'll glitch and you won't be able to get back to the gameplay. However, you CAN pause it and switch to desktop just fine. Use the "Pause Break" key on the keyboard. Just last year I visited the friend who introduced me to Armada. We actually got a LAN game working. That was before GoG enhanced it for their own release, but I would assume it still works. Game review: Armada is the only RTS I've ever been able to get into, and it's my favorite game to this day. I've played this game atleast once a month for over 20yrs now. It's very well balanced. There are lots of counter measures. For example: the Borg have the strongest ships, but they take the more resources and time to build than the other races' ships. Campaign is very well done. You get to play as 4 different races and see the story from their side, however it's deeper and more varied than just "Play the same mission but on the other team now." Only the final battle for Earth mission is like that. Multiplayer (up to 8 players,) even with bots is loads of fun. You can pick teams, no teams, 6 against 2, lots of combinations and aspects you can adjust. Change amount of resources you start with. Change if you need to research tech or get the special weapons automatically. etc. And there's one mission with an Easter Egg that can totally change how you play it.

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