Anyone still play Total Annihilation

1kiwi · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:30

I've played since boneyards and then once zone was axed i quit for years. Just back into it and it's still as good as ever.

Strife212 · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:37

When I got into Supreme Commander all I could think was "this isn't as good as TA" is it just nostalgia or is TA actually better? lol

Skeeter · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:39

Yes, its awsome, especially for LAN play. Got it working on the school computers a few years back too...

Much better than SupCom!

1kiwi · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:40

Well i play on WarZone all the time.

If anyone wants help with patches etc i'm free to help. Don't get me wrong, i like COD4 etc but TA is just simple tactics. Really makes you think

Indy500 · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:41

WarZone? Last time I played the only client I could find was PhoenixWorx. You have Core Contingency installed as well?

Skeeter · 2 Jun 2008 at 22:56

beh* said:
Well i play on WarZone all the time.

If anyone wants help with patches etc i'm free to help. Don't get me wrong, i like COD4 etc but TA is just simple tactics. Really makes you think

I always got very confused by the patches. there was so many official and unofficial ones that didnt work with each other that we resorted to just playing over LAN with either Clean TA with CC and BT addons, or the Absolute Anihilation mod.

Indy500 · 2 Jun 2008 at 23:01

I just used TA, CC then the official 3.1 patch. Followed by TA-bugfix 1.6 (since it fixes unit behaviour issues, and a few other important things).

1kiwi · 2 Jun 2008 at 23:12

as above, then 3rd party maps and units + 1500 unit patch and you are good to go.

Indy500 · 2 Jun 2008 at 23:14

beh* said:
as above, then 3rd party maps and units + 1500 unit patch and you are good to go.

I tend to play with just official units, but I do like new maps

Alexrose1uk · 3 Jun 2008 at 00:10

Still get it out to play occasionally, really was a mint game

Lil old me · 3 Jun 2008 at 00:45

Ive just loaded up TA Spring (open source mod/amazigness for TA classic) its a totally updated engine with new functionality and its pretty amazing. Def worth a look!

1kiwi · 3 Jun 2008 at 12:20

LInk?

Lil old me · 3 Jun 2008 at 12:39

google is your friend but....http://spring.clan-sy.com/ as im feeling nice.

platypus · 3 Jun 2008 at 13:09

Too easy to tank rush, but yeah it was a helluva game.

kkbigal · 3 Jun 2008 at 13:30

Strife212 said:
When I got into Supreme Commander all I could think was "this isn't as good as TA" is it just nostalgia or is TA actually better? lol

I think what I'd say is that when I played Sup Com, I realised just how advanced and forward-thinking TA was, because in terms of game mechanics, there's surprisingly little difference between the 2 games.

However, it's not a better game. Total Annihilation's AI was very, VERY poor in many respects; apparently the AI was able to build nuclear missile launchers but it didn't know how to build missiles INSIDE the silos

One area I do think TA excelled was the orchestral music score, which I thought was fantastic

Kreeeee · 3 Jun 2008 at 13:51

kkbigal said:
However, it's not a better game. Total Annihilation's AI was very, VERY poor in many respects; apparently the AI was able to build nuclear missile launchers but it didn't know how to build missiles INSIDE the silos

You don't play strategy games against AI as it removes the strategy element.

Gashman · 3 Jun 2008 at 15:22

kkbigal said:
I think what I'd say is that when I played Sup Com, I realised just how advanced and forward-thinking TA was, because in terms of game mechanics, there's surprisingly little difference between the 2 games.

However, it's not a better game. Total Annihilation's AI was very, VERY poor in many respects; apparently the AI was able to build nuclear missile launchers but it didn't know how to build missiles INSIDE the silos

One area I do think TA excelled was the orchestral music score, which I thought was fantastic

must say i got nuked a fair few times on TA, albeit that was with some 'banzai AI' or something

HeX · 3 Jun 2008 at 15:30

Much prefer TA over SupCom.

And yeah, if you got the better AI packs the CPU players were damn good!

Gackt · 3 Jun 2008 at 15:46

I play it when I go home on my old laptop.

Phyre · 3 Jun 2008 at 15:55

Haha.. Good ol' TA. I remember when my computer couldn't handle Seven Islands because it wanted 64MB of RAM. Playing on Metal Heck instead, though, with 3 AI. That was awesome. Positioning a Big Bertha so it could aim right down the map without hitting any of the terrain. Ah.. Good times!