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I haven't noticed a thread about this yet, so I thought I'd start it.

First up, this game looks positively sweet. The spiritual successor to Total Annihilation, it totes a slew of new features such as being able to queue units before the building is finished and so on. From what I've seen of the game, it's finally going to bring strategy back in to RTS, and damn all those 13 year old ADD kids that want "action now, now, now".

If you haven't had a look yet, check it out. It's released this month.
 
I hope it will be a great game, i loved total anihilation, i've played it for many years without loosing interest and i hope that the same ting will happen with this game.
 
I'm going to dig this one until I read the review: "Most of the 3 factions units behave exactly despite different speed and damage value difference"

For now, I will get it just to torture my new comp (on its way) :twisted:
 
Considering the huge map and the incredibly minute detail on every one of 100's of units I expect you'll need the most cutting edge computer available...with its own dry ice heat sink.

Sincerely,
The Vault Dweller
 
this game gets extremely hoggy on your processor once it gets over a few hundred units but its one hell of a game... too bad you need a new ultra powerfull pc to play it...

IMO - this is a great example of a good successor to a game - Beth Should take note - even if its not called TOTAL ANNIHILATION 2 - thats what it is ... it feels great, doesnt chop off features of the previous game .. it actually enhances them and adds some to boot ... just saw it at a friend played the beta & demo ... and all i can say is (now comes the part that makes me sound like a fanboy)

+ points for excellent gameplay depth and vitality
+ huuge number of units
+ some things like the zoom takes getting used to but after that its like second nature
+ great modabillity

storyline not as thick as one would like and some might say some of the maps lack detail ... but hey:)

gonna buy this when it hits romania :D
 
yea i've seen TA Spring in action quite the amazing piece of fan work - sadly it lacks a unified art direction - it couldve been a real nice standalone game based on TA ... problem with TA was that everything was designed for the pseudo 3d world view of the original TA ...

new units design (based on the originals) - modified distances and behaviours to suit the new envirom wouldve been better ...

Sup Com looks very moddable also :) hope it gets a similar modding comunity as TA had back in the day ...
 
radnan said:
yea i've seen TA Spring in action quite the amazing piece of fan work - sadly it lacks a unified art direction - it couldve been a real nice standalone game based on TA ... problem with TA was that everything was designed for the pseudo 3d world view of the original TA ...

new units design (based on the originals) - modified distances and behaviours to suit the new envirom wouldve been better ...

Sup Com looks very moddable also :) hope it gets a similar modding comunity as TA had back in the day ...
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I give the game 1 year before modders recreate ARM and CORE. I really miss the Big Bertha and the ability to build multi-layered defenses. The game is out boys, get your machines ready.
 
got it love it but it was rushed still the devs are slowly making up for it .. with a day 1 patch and so .. still lacks a few things and you need a monster rig to play it full on ... but its a step in the right direction ... really does smth else with rtses ...

as for the modz .. yea its crazy easy to mod it .. there allready is a fan made map editor and its really open to modding ... i'm sure its gonna go teh classic, ww2 mod, TA mod, star wars mod way...

i dont think its the case to compare them but it outmaneuvers c&c in gameplay and balance by far ... c&c from what i can see is a big budget production with great art and campaign and no substance to the gameplay
 
I've been playing Supreme Commander obsessively for the past week or so with 5 friends going upward. I'm helping spread the game like wildfire, eventually we might even have a Supreme Commander LAN Party, when we have like 10 or 20 people willing to play with capable machines.

I have to say that I am impressed by the game's ability to smack my PC around. I just recently upgraded in Dec 2006, and Supreme Commander gives it a moderate time running. I will most likely buy a 8800GTS because of this game.

Gameplay-wise, the game is a true spiritual successor to Total Annhiliation. It is not 1:1 identical to the old game, but I would consider Supreme Commander a worthy sequel. As for the poster above, the developers already recreated ARM and CORE - known as UEF and CYBRAN now, although the Cybran look more like the NOD from Tiberian Sun than the CORE from TA. (Especially because of the engineers - they look exactly like the NOD buggies from Tiberian Sun).

In any case, the game is already good and should be getting better progressively with more patches. The newest 1.0.3217 patch added a feature that I was hoping for - a minimalistic UI that takes up much less screen space than the traditional UI.

If you want to play a good RTS, I suggest that you get Supreme Commander. :D
 
I'm crying right now, rocking back and forth, clutching my shitty four year old processor and cursing the heavens.
 
Dark Legacy, the AI is terrible and it gets very repetitive, very quickly. The campaign is horrendously boring aswell. I haven't played multiplayer though, so I can't comment on that.

Anyway, I've got 2gb of ram, a GeForce 8800GTS and a Conroe 6600 and when I play the biggest maps with the highest unit limits and so forth, it gets laggy.
 
Specialist said:
Dark Legacy, the AI is terrible and it gets very repetitive, very quickly. The campaign is horrendously boring aswell. I haven't played multiplayer though, so I can't comment on that.

Anyway, I've got 2gb of ram, a GeForce 8800GTS and a Conroe 6600 and when I play the biggest maps with the highest unit limits and so forth, it gets laggy.
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My hardware is more or less the same aside from having an overclocked 7800GTX instead of your 8800GTS. I've also pushed the CPU and RAM to their limits. 5200 3dmarks on 06' is as far as I could shove it without upgrading further. (And I still play Fallout 1 + 2 on my machine!)

You're right about the AI, the game isn't much fun playing the AI. The real fun of the game comes when you play with or against friends (real people in general - not computers). We had one battle where everyone agreed not to fight until we all reached Tech 4, and when that happened - oh boy. The battle was something right out of the Supreme Commander trailers. I had three spiderbots, 300 or so Tech 3 assualt bots, 50 bombers and gunships, along with a good amount of interceptors. We had four players in total, and I had like 500 units alone. My computer nearly choked on it's own vomit when they were going at it in the center of the map. :D
 
DarkLegacy said:
We had four players in total, and I had like 500 units alone. My computer nearly choked on it's own vomit when they were going at it in the center of the map. :D
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Well, that sounds like fun.


NOT!



Anyways, I never thought much of Total Annihilation, so I don't think I'll try this game out.
 
DirtyDreamDesigner said:
DarkLegacy said:
We had four players in total, and I had like 500 units alone. My computer nearly choked on it's own vomit when they were going at it in the center of the map. :D
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Well, that sounds like fun.


NOT!



Anyways, I never thought much of Total Annihilation, so I don't think I'll try this game out.
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It's one of those jewels of a genre. Fallout is the best thing that's ever happened to RPGs, and TA would be the best to RTS games.
 
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