While an alternate World War 2 with bizarre chimera sounds a bit brilliant, the actual origin of Company of Heroes is a little more down to Earth. “It was set in the ‘30s in an alternate timeline.” “It was originally a continuation from Impossible Creatures,” jokes game director Quinn Duffy, Company of Heroes’ senior designer. We’ve talked four of the original developers into taking a trip down a potholed, tank-lined memory lane with us. I’ll mostly remember it as the reason I got chewed out by a lecturer for dozing in class, after a long night of liberating Europe. It remains one of the most acclaimed RTS games of all time, lavished in 2006 with glowing reviews and heaps of awards. Relic celebrated the game's tenth anniversary this month. Space and sci-fi had been its muse for years, but it found, in the increased cultural interest in World War 2, another setting and the impetus for Company of Heroes. Its only purpose is to protect the Shrieker by keeping it out of range.In 2001, Band of Brothers was still airing on HBO and Canadian developer Relic Entertainment was finishing up development of Impossible Creatures, its freaky animal RTS. If the Shrieker is killed first or it manages to escape before the nest is destroyed, no items will drop. But when destroyed, at Apprentice difficulty it drops 1 trapezohedron, 1-3 at Veteran and 3-5 at Champion. Reclaiming these items will not be easy, for the Shrieker is a terrible foe and will defend its Nest from any intruders. The avaricious avian is known to take Trinkets from the bodies of our dead and, more vexingly, has made a habit of stealing straight from our coffers. Between the filth and ruffled feathers of the nest lies a treasure trove of shiny and glittering Trinkets and gems, the only things decorating the nest that make it somewhat appealing to look at. A twisted heap of branches, twigs and half-rotten corpses, the Shrieker’s Nest is a twisted mess like the repulsive raptor that made it.
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