Supcom FA, where are my mass fabricators?

snowdog · 2 Jan 2008 at 18:56

As per title, am I blind or something? I can't find any lvl 1 mass fabricators, where are they ? Have they removed them, if so, why on earth ?

snowdog · 2 Jan 2008 at 19:37

150 ?

40 you mean, they used to be anyhow, why on earth tech 2 now, I used to make hundreds of em my main mass income was from fabricators as extractor make way too little, I used to make huge rows of 50 fabs surrounded by power gens.

snowdog · 2 Jan 2008 at 20:43

Meh, I think I'm going to play @ -5 speed now, I could hardly manage as it was in original supcom.

Yes Skeet I love massive battles with 500 + units, so what

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snowdog · 2 Jan 2008 at 21:18

Tbh I like tech 2 most, don't like t2 stuff is just too powerfull imo.
Ahwell I'll properly get into it after picking up a replacement card for a dud 8800GT, atm with my 6800GS supcom isn't that enjoyable as @ medium-low settings it's 15-25 fps all the time. Can't wait to rock the game on high

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snowdog · 2 Jan 2008 at 23:16

SkeeterPSA said:
I still say you wont gain that many fps. Even the most powerful gfx card wont help as supcom is mainly cpu orientated, so is laggy fps cos of the cpu. Heck i think even them quad conroes have a hard time of it with massive battles. Sup com is one of them games that is too early released cos of the hardware currently out there.

Skeet, when I've had the dud 8800GT I've had 120 fps on the same settings I now get 25 fps, it is cpu orientated yes, however with a 6800GS, it's MUCH more gpu limited. You keep implying a 3 ghz c2d can't handle supcom 2vs2 battles, a 3ghz core 2 duo is quite a lot faster however than your 2.8 ghz AMD x2. It won't drop to 10 fps and stay like that always unlike with your specs... You can't say a better gfx card won't help, because your 1950pro is enough for supcom, a 6800GS however, by far isn't. You say your fps drop to 10 in the late game, well, I don't have that problem, my problem is the fps are poor from start and stay like that.

Anyhow back to ontopic, I don't like FA as much as the original SC, everything seems to take much longer, and even an easy ai can give you a hard time ( I got beaten twice before I finally managed to adjust to the rushing easy AI.). And I managed to finish the game just just 1 minute after I got my first tech 3 engineer, wich is, well err odd, as I could wipe the AI base with just a few tech 2 and mostly tech 1 untis, he didn't build defences at all :confused:

. He did have 10 t2 engineers rushing to upgrade and build mass extractors and mass storage.

snowdog · 3 Jan 2008 at 02:39

Lol the UI is something I'm annoyed over too as I have to scroll a lot for the building construction list, getting used to FA now, cant believe you say it's fast paced though it takes longer to do everything as you can't build up your resource income as fast anymore.

Will take a look on the GPGnet forums.