What do you think of supreme commander?

Sinque · 18 Feb 2007 at 13:08

The whole resource thing just confuses me to hell. Not as simple as DoW, C&C etc... Just had a game there and realised after spending ages building my stuff that there wasn't even an enemy

I'll have to spend some more time on it before I give my opinion but learning the resource stuff is screwing me.

Reppyboyo · 18 Feb 2007 at 13:10

I only played the demo, but I found it so slow and boring.
C&C all over again tbh, build, mass and attack.

No strategy whatsoever.

badgermonkey · 18 Feb 2007 at 13:18

Sinque said:
The whole resource thing just confuses me to hell. Not as simple as DoW, C&C etc... Just had a game there and realised after spending ages building my stuff that there wasn't even an enemy I'll have to spend some more time on it before I give my opinion but learning the resource stuff is screwing me.

I find it easier than other MMOs. You have 2 resources, which buiildings automatically gather for you, the number are just there to let you know how your economy is.

Reppyboyo said:
I only played the demo, but I found it so slow and boring.
C&C all over again tbh, build, mass and attack.

No strategy whatsoever.

Sure you can try playing it like that. If you get into an extended game however then you'll find it requires a hell of a lot of strategy.

calnen · 18 Feb 2007 at 13:30

Reppyboyo said:
No strategy whatsoever.

Are we playing the same game??

Neil79 · 18 Feb 2007 at 13:32

Found this post of interest for you guys -

PERFORMANCE & SOUND

from a guy called sin316

ok, read a bit on gpg forums , and stumbled over 2 commands for target line , /nosound and /map perftest. And i got quite interesting data :

(lower score = better)

settings on low (preset low) /w sound : 253
settings on high (preset high) /w sound : 334
settings on low (preset low) /wo sound : 108
settings on high (preset high) /wo sound : 254

specs :

amd athlon 2800+ barton
1.5 gb ddr3200 ram
gf 6600 fx 256 mb ram
msi kt400 chipset mobo
creative sb audigy (1)

As you can see from score, the /nosound switch made a HUGE difference.

Post your scores

"Some good news on the sound problem some of you are experiencing. If you are using a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card, user joebeard found that turning the audio mode to basic and updating to the latest drivers allows him to play with sound and without a performance problem. "

VeNT · 18 Feb 2007 at 13:36

calnen said:
Are we playing the same game??

sounds like he played the demo

Sweetloaf · 18 Feb 2007 at 14:01

RaMDOM said:
however at the end of the day the geek points having a second monitor gets you are invaluable.

I already have the screens, just not the game

Sinque · 18 Feb 2007 at 14:40

Neil79 said:
"Some good news on the sound problem some of you are experiencing. If you are using a Sound Blaster X-Fi Xtreme Audio card, user joebeard found that turning the audio mode to basic and updating to the latest drivers allows him to play with sound and without a performance problem. "

What if there isn't a basic mode, online Entertainment mode, Game mode and Audio Creation mode?

Even with all my settings on low I get extremely bad performance.

AMD64 3200+ @ 2.4
2gb Geil ram
Xtreme Music SCard
6800GS

Richdog · 18 Feb 2007 at 14:46

Reppyboyo said:
I only played the demo, but I found it so slow and boring.
C&C all over again tbh, build, mass and attack.

No strategy whatsoever.

Sorry, but all that tells me is that you are utterly and hopelessly cack at this game.

It has strategy by the bucketloads, and as for mass and attack? Not on your life, you can repel even the most violent assault with a group of T2 defences and some well-placed shields/walls/units. EVERYTHING has a counter, that's what I love about it.

Reppyboyo · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:12

Obviously im crap at the game as I dont play it as it bores me ****less.

CoH is much better IMHO.
Only thing SupCom has over CoH is the massive battles.

Combat squirrel · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:38

Great game, however im finding that on small maps, whoever builds the tech 3 artillery 'big bertha' gun 1st generally wins

And on any map whoever builds 4 nuke launchers and gets 5 nukes per launcher and launches them all in one go (to overwhelm anti nukes) also, again, generally wins

Am I cheating or is there anything that can be done to stop tech 3 artillery guns? obviously loads of anti nukes will stop the nukes

calnen · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:45

Combat squirrel said:
is there anything that can be done to stop tech 3 artillery guns?

Shielding helps, but wont stop them forever. You just have to take them out somehow really. (Airstrikes, Nukes, attacking them the old fashioned way, etc!)

VeNT · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:45

Combat squirrel said:
Great game, however im finding that on small maps, whoever builds the tech 3 artillery 'big bertha' gun 1st generally wins

And on any map whoever builds 4 nuke launchers and gets 5 nukes per launcher and launches them all in one go (to overwhelm anti nukes) also, again, generally wins

Am I cheating or is there anything that can be done to stop tech 3 artillery guns? obviously loads of anti nukes will stop the nukes

stealth gens will stop it being able to target what it can't see (unless he has the counter to that) and tonnes of shields tbh

calnen · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:47

VeNT said:
stealth gens will stop it being able to target what it can't see

Thats a good idea. I havnt really been using them so far

HighlandeR · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:55

Didnt like it tbh, graphics look like it was designed for a Geforce4, very bland and dull, after 3hrs on the demo all I was doing was sending over mass troop volumes to locations, proberly the 1st time ive ever used the mouse wheel so much just felt like I was zoomin in and out of the giant map 90% of the time, battles looked confusing.

Think ill wait for the CnC3 demo, those guys know how to do it right, simple and fun is the formula

smiley · 18 Feb 2007 at 16:16

i agree highlander

VeNT · 18 Feb 2007 at 17:22

lol
"zomg the demo was trash I'm not gonna bother playing this game"
the demo was pap. the map was smaller than small, the AI was bad.
the full game (hell, even the beta) is MUCH better!

Sweetloaf · 18 Feb 2007 at 17:45

VeNT said:
lol
"zomg the demo was trash I'm not gonna bother playing this game"
the demo was pap. the map was smaller than small, the AI was bad.
the full game (hell, even the beta) is MUCH better!

Calm down mate, no one said that.

Don't take it personally if people don't like a game that you obviously do, It happens.

VeNT · 18 Feb 2007 at 18:25

HighlandeR said:
very bland and dull, after 3hrs on the demo all I was doing was sending over mass troop volumes to locations, proberly the 1st time ive ever used the mouse wheel so much just felt like I was zoomin in and out of the giant map 90% of the time, battles looked confusing.

Think ill wait for the CnC3 demo, those guys know how to do it right, simple and fun is the formula

no-one was saying what?

TheOtherOption · 18 Feb 2007 at 18:34

Combat squirrel said:
Am I cheating or is there anything that can be done to stop tech 3 artillery guns? obviously loads of anti nukes will stop the nukes

The shield generators maxed out are the way to go for protection - although you'll need all of your base covered and even some overlaping areas as the arty takes about half the shields power out in one go (even when upgraded to lvl IV) ...

Make sure any ion reactors (the tech 3 power plants) are protected! As if they get hit and blow up they take other stuff around with em