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Good but can absolutely munch a lot of pcs out there in larger battles. Huge numbers of tactics though!
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yeah will eat your pc, gets a bit much for casual gaming I thought, but a true epic game!
E8400 @ 4.2Ghz
4Gb PC8500 Hyper X
GTX 260 overclocked as high as i can on stock cooler @ 60%
Just ran the game, and it looks nice, maxed out settings, but x8Q AA.
Any tips for the armies/factions and who to choose? The Saraphim (sp?) look good.
4Gb PC8500 Hyper X
GTX 260 overclocked as high as i can on stock cooler @ 60%
Just ran the game, and it looks nice, maxed out settings, but x8Q AA.
Any tips for the armies/factions and who to choose? The Saraphim (sp?) look good.
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Takes a while to learn this game, but the blue faction (humans) get the big base shields from what I remember they are a godsend!
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p.s I think that system will be more than enough!
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Me and my housemates have been LANing this solidly for about 2 months. It's ridiculously in depth, and while you may find something which seems on the surface to be unbeatable, there's always ways round it.
If you fancy playing against AI, search for one called Sorian AI, as the standard one is a bit easy, whereas the Sorian is viscious. Be ready for your PC to start grinding to a halt though.
Personally I love the Aeon, although my housemates maintain that the infinite resource generator, combined with rapid fire artillery is too overpowered XD
If you fancy playing against AI, search for one called Sorian AI, as the standard one is a bit easy, whereas the Sorian is viscious. Be ready for your PC to start grinding to a halt though.
Personally I love the Aeon, although my housemates maintain that the infinite resource generator, combined with rapid fire artillery is too overpowered XD
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Would have to agree, but during the many many games I had with housemates at uni over the years the one who played as Aeon hardly ever got to build either of those structures - only if we were playing against an AI and it was a very long game did he get the resource generator up and running.
It was quite good fun though as there were 4 of us and we each liked to play as a different race so it worked out pretty well - I was always UEF given the chance!
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I used to like it but I ended up gettin too good at it I can beat the ahrdest cpu easily and online I only ever seem to get people who are new to the game and I end up owning em in like 20 mins.
Or if I got for about an hour and have about 10 experimentals they bitch at me and rage quit. Had the same problem with TA yearsss ago on msn zone I got so good it could barely ever loose
I wish they make a great divide 2 type map for supcom though I used to love the great divide 2 on TA heh
Anyway yeh its a good game dont think it was as good as TA but its still very good
Or if I got for about an hour and have about 10 experimentals they bitch at me and rage quit. Had the same problem with TA yearsss ago on msn zone I got so good it could barely ever loose
I wish they make a great divide 2 type map for supcom though I used to love the great divide 2 on TA heh
Anyway yeh its a good game dont think it was as good as TA but its still very good
Well, I've noticed that Aeon seem to be relatively weak until they tech up, so I just tell him to make sure he kills me before I have a chance to build any of them!!
Besides, he plays UEF, he gets a tactical nuke on his commander and an artillery that can shoot anywhere on the map with surgical accuracy XD
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You should try Spring+ BA
I have played spring for a while, and tried supcom but didn't really get on with it. I am used to the minimalistic spring UI I think
pic here: http://www.zen23322.zen.co.uk/images/forum/games/spring/babug1.JPG (slightly bugged)
It has user-made widgets for pretty much everything:
Show ally resource bars
Auto highlight enemy nuke/antinukes
Nice UI to show selection groups
Auto metalmaker control
Widget to stop all production if you are E stalling and want to fire dgun
Has other mods too, not just TA clones.
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Actually the seraphim are the strongest shields followed by the Aeon then UEF and then Cybran
The UEF have the biggest shields, which is arguably not the most useful thing because splash damage hits all adjacent shields meaning if they overlap they both take the same damage.
The best Shield combination is UEF shields with Cybran T2 shields next to them with UEF mobile shields around each of the shield bases and anything vital.
Almost nothing but combined heavy art (3+) will break that!
You are not that good. 20 min is the standard time for a match on all but the largest maps.
20 min NR x2 is over in 60 else it hits stalemate and gets boring, but at that point you should be producing 10 expermentals a minute.
The Aeon are relatively weak at close range and there T3 ground units suck due to the shield bug.
You need Radar and formation as the Aeon else you will lose in a 1v1
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You should try Spring+ BA
I have played spring for a while, and tried supcom but didn't really get on with it. I am used to the minimalistic spring UI I think
pic here: http://www.zen23322.zen.co.uk/images/forum/games/spring/babug1.JPG (slightly bugged)
It has user-made widgets for pretty much everything:
Show ally resource bars
Auto highlight enemy nuke/antinukes
Nice UI to show selection groups
Auto metalmaker control
Widget to stop all production if you are E stalling and want to fire dgun
Hey ive never seen this before this look awesome lol is it popular on multiplayer?
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Spring is open source and free, fair size community (around 250+ players online at peak times).
It's still being developed (mainly bugfixes),although the graphics are not cutting edge, it doesn't look too bad. CA has slightly better effects than BA, but it's nowhere near the eye candy of supcom. It does run really smooth though, and someone is even developing a multi threaded version (currently BETA).
It's very practical though, can zoom right out and see the whole map on screen, or zoom in really far, can go first person and control units too. There's even a widget so spectators can follow the camera movement of another player, and another widget to show ally mouse/cursor positions.
If you are new to it, best to play against some bots first, or watch some replays, or spectate some games. Really steep learning curve.
Mod info here http://modinfo.adune.nl/index.php?MOD=ba685 if you want to get technical.
Replays here: http://replays.adune.nl/
It has pretty good peripheral programs, Spring downloader will autodownload maps, mods, widgets and has built in torrent system if the mirrors are down. It also integrates with Teamspeak to autoassign teams to their own channel.
There's two lobby clients, TASClient and Springlobby, SL is newer and not as stable/well developed yet, but works on Linux, IMO TASclient is easier and faster.
Same guy that wrote SD also made an autohost program that will host games all day, players just use !help !balance !start !votemap etc, so there's no host to ragequit or lag out. (There's also a similar program written in Perl that does pretty much the same thing).
Graphics can be buggy if you are using an ATI card and could be hit or miss with drivers, but once it works it's usually pretty stable.
Just got some screenshots (clicky for large)
Can zoom right in to the commander name badges.
It's still being developed (mainly bugfixes),although the graphics are not cutting edge, it doesn't look too bad. CA has slightly better effects than BA, but it's nowhere near the eye candy of supcom. It does run really smooth though, and someone is even developing a multi threaded version (currently BETA).
It's very practical though, can zoom right out and see the whole map on screen, or zoom in really far, can go first person and control units too. There's even a widget so spectators can follow the camera movement of another player, and another widget to show ally mouse/cursor positions.
If you are new to it, best to play against some bots first, or watch some replays, or spectate some games. Really steep learning curve.
Mod info here http://modinfo.adune.nl/index.php?MOD=ba685 if you want to get technical.
Replays here: http://replays.adune.nl/
It has pretty good peripheral programs, Spring downloader will autodownload maps, mods, widgets and has built in torrent system if the mirrors are down. It also integrates with Teamspeak to autoassign teams to their own channel.
There's two lobby clients, TASClient and Springlobby, SL is newer and not as stable/well developed yet, but works on Linux, IMO TASclient is easier and faster.
Same guy that wrote SD also made an autohost program that will host games all day, players just use !help !balance !start !votemap etc, so there's no host to ragequit or lag out. (There's also a similar program written in Perl that does pretty much the same thing).
Graphics can be buggy if you are using an ATI card and could be hit or miss with drivers, but once it works it's usually pretty stable.
Just got some screenshots (clicky for large)
Can zoom right in to the commander name badges.
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