Beyond All Reason - Free RTS

[Vidar]

Just discovered this absolute gem of a game a few days ago and I'm completely hooked!

A spiritual successor to the Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander games, it's still only in alpha but plays very well and feels nice and polished. It's also 100% free!

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Are any of you folks playing it? If so do you fancy a match I'm getting a little jaded at the AI stomping me to death

 

[Vidar]

Thanks for the heads-up - looks interesting!

No problem pal, fair warning though the proper AI called (I think) Barbarian is probably the toughest in any rts game I've played. Impressive considering it doesn't cheat.

Literally had a 6hr game last night, I thought it was a stalemate as neither of us could build units fast enough, it then started targeting my naval structures, I literally couldn't get a foot hold on the water despite lobbing nukes left right and centre. Nevermind though I'd built a significant airforce and my base was so well defended nothing had penetrated. I was about to launch my 500 tier 2 fighters and bombers when it happened... over 1000 naval units pinged on sonar while at the same time 6 Titans approached from the opposite direction. My 500 planes vanished in seconds, my shields fell almost instantly and my nukes got shot down as they launched, all 20 of them. They just steam rolled my ***! It totally suckered me in. Cracking good fun though.

 

[Vidar]

I honestly don't find the game too complicated at all. There's none of the issues from the Supreme Commander or Planetary Annihilation games here that I can tell, so far anyway.

Yes there's a large selection of units, there's not as many as the other games I've mentioned above. There's a little bit of a learning curve, you can't just spam tanks to win but I'm quickly learning as a solo player what works for me and what doesn't.

I now know the importance of a large navy, I now know its important to build ballistic missile defence early, I've discovered the ai will lob nukes quicker than me, I've discovered I don't need to build 10 ICBM launchers to try and break their defense I can just use an emp launcher first.

I think there's a few improvements that could be made, an additional unit or building here and there but not much.