Its a good game, been playing it over LAN for years now. Its really playable in MP once you customize the gamerules a bit. One minus about the game is that it has a shitton of different superweapons that can destroy everything in large areas with ease, so trying to stop them is pretty close to impossible, unlike for example Red Alert.There are only like 3 weapons in the game that are considered unstoppable and they cost outrageous amounts of resources and they rarely ever get built because they are hugely cost inefficient. If you allow your opponent the resources and time to built one of these, you would have lost anyway even if he used convential units. They are in the game to break turtling. All the other super units called experimentals are strong, can tip the balance of a game if built at the right time, but can be countered by a variety of things.
Unless it has an active pause, in the name of all strategy games please don't call this strategyI don't see why you need the ability to freeze time to have strategy in a game, but if we are going to discuss semantics than this game is indeed a real-time tactical game, but not because it does not have pauses.
I'm playing through Forged Alliance SP campaign right now, great fun :)True, some very nice design to streamline the experience. You can play the entire FA and SC campaigns coop as well through the FAF client, but yeah multiplayer is great fun as well. Might seem a bit overwhelming at first, but if you just play noob teamgames it doesn't get so crazy.
What i love about this game is how it has a number of really cool features that not a lot of other RTS games have (but should) - such as ferrying orders for groups of transports or the way you can queue orders for everything and see it represented visually or a number of other things to make the game so much less of a chore.
This looks interesting, might give FAF a try.
Unless it has an active pause, in the name of all strategy games please don't call this strategySupCom is a strategy game.
It's the best RTS, period. There are so many different angles of attack. Defense actually works, because of harvestable wrecks, scouting is top priority, everything is perfect in this game (in which other game can you do a combined ground forces/bomber strike without having to manually time everything?). We regularly play it on LAN parties, and it's always a blast (there's a 16 players mod and we played with 12 players this christmas...works great).
Very average laptops with around 3gb of videomemory
Clearly everybody has their own definition of average. You were wrong about the cores, RAM and HDDs btw. 3gb of vidmemory is pretty average. Unless you buy a laptop with a completely crappy onboard, but why would you do that when you know for a fact that you are gonna game with it. Better to save up on ram, CPU and harddrive then GPU, dont you agree?
Better to save up on ram, CPU and harddrive then GPU, dont you agree
I have a 3 year old pc which was a game pc on a tight budget when I bought it and I have been playing 5 vs 5's no problem whatsoever. If you have anything that below 5 years old that was intended to be able to run video games at some point, you should be fine. Poor performance probably depends more on CPU than GPU anyway, thats the price you pay for having a game in which every shot fired is an actual physics based projectile instead of just an animation like in gay RTS games like Starcraft.
What the hell? 2GB graphics are usually considered high end man. Laptop with 3GB GPU is usually going to cost around 1000+ dollars. If that is average for you, you have pretty high standarts.My average is based upon what ive seen people have around me. And they are not rich, not even close. And 2GB? High end? Lolwut? And no it doesnt cost 1000+ dollars if the other specs are average or even below, which they are.
Better to save up on ram, CPU and harddrive then GPU, dont you agreeI admit I fucked up here. My engrish is not so good atm. I ment to say get shittier CPU, harddrive and ram but get better GPU.
My average is based upon what ive seen people have around me. And they are not rich, not even close. And 2GB? High end? Lolwut? And no it doesnt cost 1000+ dollars if the other specs are average or even below, which they are.
I admit I fucked up here. My engrish is not so good atm. I ment to say get shittier CPU, harddrive and ram but get better GPU.
SupCom is largely CPU-bound. If you have only 1 PC that struggles, it will reduce the speed of the whole game. Also, it's better without AI, and can be really bad with AI on some maps.
All that said it ran pretty well with 12 players, 6 vs. 6. A bit slow, but stable.
I think i have the CDs somewhere on the shelf... I would totally rip your asses apart in pvp! I often resort to all-in sneaky plans, involving moving-shield units, radar jammers, assault bots in mass, combined with a vicious frontal strike to divert attention :D
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Spring NOTA is nice free alternative. In my opinion even better and more epic then SC.
If you can go over worser graphic. But it is TA.
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oh damn! it's GOO-OOO-NE!! :(
Meh, Gunship spam. I always have interceptors, lots of them.
1st technology bomber spam is better imo ;]
Looks interesting actually, especially since i dont know where my damn SC CDs are... Will definitely have a look at it, when back from work.Just fiddle with setting a bit.
http://nota.machys.net/
The more i read, the more i like it! Can't wait!
Where is the forged alliance sub-title?
I dont think so.
My first instinct at the start of the game is to build up air and land defense. T1 bombers get ripped to shreds by flak cannons pretty easily.
T3 UEF gunships have shields, so they can easily hit and run, while also having on-board weapons. One of best non experimental unit in my opinion.
They take long as hell to prepare though.
Oh and I like mech marines :)
The balance between eco-ing and teching and spamming early units is probably my biggest problem.
T1 spam can be deadly when pulled off right. But that warrants rushing and rushing is for my old friendgets,
Spring NOTA is nice free alternative. In my opinion even better and more epic then SC.i was more into the BA/TA games/mods when i used the spring engine (http://springrts.com/wiki/Games)but yes, the engine rocks!
If you can go over worser graphic. But it is TA.
i was more into the BA/TA games/mods when i used the spring engine (http://springrts.com/wiki/Games)but yes, the engine rocks!Nota is slower paced and most similar to SC. So things I prefer.
Played it for 3 months every day a few years back when i had a cRPG pause :rolleyes:
Hey ho, time for a bump. Apparently Supreme Commander Forged Alliance is on sale until 10 March. It goes for 2,5 euros now which is nothing for such an amazing game. I played 85 matches now and still enjoying the hell out of it. Corsair and Phoenix also play it.
Here is another good match cast by Gyle, give it a glance if you like RTS games.(click to show/hide)
Here is a really amazing game, but it is one and a half hour long.(click to show/hide)