Total Annihilation fans unite!! new Supreme Commander news and screens are here.

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CLICK ME for the screenshots (a lot of new ones, but some older ones too)

CLICK ME for the gamespot E3 content preview.

ive played ta at least once a week since 1997 when i bought it 2 weeks after its release, i was a core boneyards member who`s rank was commander and I loved the online system. a lot of the principles for TA have been held in supreme commander, for example, the way resources work, the ideology of a central commanding unit and many other things, so most of us TA fans are looking upon this game as the ""spiritual" sequal to total annihilation i cant wait.

release date 1st quarter 2007.

 

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Looks absolutly stunning.

indeed from the water effects id say it was an sm3.0 game, looks like possible HDR or Bloom effects too,

 

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i really cant begin to explain how much i want to play this.. it looks stunning and i utterly loved TA, however i suspect it will slip back probably to 2008 which is a real shame (looks like i am becoming very scepticle of initial release dates these days lol)

im on the Gas Powered Games forums, weve got january 2007 confirmed. we knew it would either be august 06 or if they needed more time, january 2007. we have chris taylors word that january 2007 is more than enough time for them to complete and tweak the game.

 

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I dont buy many games, but this one will be pre-ordered. TA was the pinacle of RTS gameplay, and is just behind HL1 imo as the best game of all time.

how true

hope your right i would love to see it that soon i just have the usual doubts

lol, come on now, this is chris taylor here... not EA games or some shoddy company, chris taylor!!

 

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When's C&C 3 out as well?

I think these two games will defo be on pre-order. Looks awesome!

i didnt think they were making one, even if they do though, its not gonna have a scratch on supcom simply because the initial westwood magic has long since been sold out and devoured by EA GAMES.

where as Supreme Commanders being made by the man who made Total annihilation and founded Cavedog. the only difference this time around is the massive ammount of technology he can now use to build this

 

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Finally an RTS that shouldnt feel like its been through the generic RTS maker 2000 standards.

damn right,

 

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What the hell is that ???

 

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Huge-stompy-robot-multi-death-twocolors-red-blue-explosive-death-mo-tron FOR THE WIN!

ION CANNON!!!

 

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im so glad so many of you like it im looking forward to giving you all a run for your money

 

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I'm confused, half those screenshots are 2D and the other half are 3D

which is the game actually going to be?

i.e. the same unit is in pictures 14 & 37 but their both completely different.

lol, silly boy, there all 3d, picture 14 is from the side, picture 37 is top down view, they are just different camera angles, the gaming view can be changed if you read the full article it explains the camera useage there will be 4 killometers of rendered map for your computer to hold in the memory, youl been running multiple battlefronts so youl be zooming out, moving to the next front and zooming in to that particular battle to give instructions.

 

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Ahhh thats cool then!

Would prefer the game 2Dish but if it only goes to 3D when you zoom in close thats okay. The zoom out on one of the pics looks good with all the blips showing you and the enemy...then the nuke in the middle! hehe

they are standard features of total annihilation from 1997, so you can see how far ahead of its time the game was

 

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(anyone remember that 2player coast map that was wide as?) the naval metal map from it stands out most for me...absolutely huge! me thinks il be playing this again tomorrow actually

shore to shore, and the massive naval metal map is called seven islands was playing it with 3 others 2 nights ago,

 

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in fact, anyone here know where i can buy this again (not from ebay) i cant find my previous two copies

because i strangely have an urge to play it again

re-edit: the only places i cant find it seem to be dodgy, as in offering only battle tactics or something lame like that

also, are there any compatilibility issues with XP?

its compatable with winblows XP, otherwise i wouldnt still be playing you can get it dirt cheap off amazon, the expansions are free to download if you cant find them to buy (you only need Core contingency realy, nobody bothers with battle tactics. but make sure you get the free expansion called TAUIP and the TADEMO recorder, true its not legal but they are Veeeery hard to find in the stores and on fleebay.

youl need to install TA, then CC, then TAUIP (selecting NO to installing front end and NO to repacking all units) then apply the 3.1c patch from www.funthings.org then install the TA demo recorder.

 

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Looks amazing, i was a big fan of the orginal, first lan game i played i think? Can't wait for this.

same here it was my first online game too

 

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1st online game as well, good ol' Wireplay

TA had fully capable ip protocols built in for online play yet another feature that was ahead of its time

 

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well as long as the ship AI is better, hell all the AI.
I remember back in the day of ship spinning in circles to get to a position.
But i am looking forward to this title.

the bonzai A.I. booster patched fixed all A.I. problems, but the problem your describing is called unit path finding, TA was always lacking in this area as after say 45 minutes of play, suddenly your units no longer walk in a straight line and will get stuck on each other and the scrap around them.