What do you think of supreme commander?

Richdog · 20 Feb 2007 at 14:30

Looks like he was saying it (SC) was slow compared to DC...

geeza · 20 Feb 2007 at 14:33

-Tauren- said:
just been playing this game today for a bit. so far it seems ok. need a monster cpu for huge battles. but so far so good. the best part for me so far was unleashing a "test" nuke on a couple of friendly bots. unfortunately i under estimated the power and wiped out half my base. (if you remember red alert nukes, think slightly more devistating)

Nah, its much easier and more fun to get a carrier then transport your commander into the middle of the enemy base and watch him blow, along with the enemy base

AFK_Matrix said:
A great function I like is the Replay feature, means you can go back and watch your game and find out why you just got owned lol. Well hope to see some of you new players online, and for those poo pooing the game I hope you havn't just played the single player cos the multiplayer/online part is awesome.

a la starcraft

The_morrell · 20 Feb 2007 at 15:13

I just tried this game out properly yesterday, played against a few AI. I used to play TA a lot and I do mean a lot. It seems to be a very well put together game. I can see a hell of a lot of tricks that can be proformed with the amount of diverse units and buildings that are available.

Also I would like to point out to all the none believes TA was a great when it came out. But what made it was the additions after it came outsuch as the extra units and maps.

Anyone fancy having a game in a couple of nights time? I want to get used to the units and the building process.

The_morrell · 20 Feb 2007 at 15:15

-Tauren- said:
just been playing this game today for a bit. so far it seems ok. need a monster cpu for huge battles. but so far so good. the best part for me so far was unleashing a "test" nuke on a couple of friendly bots. unfortunately i under estimated the power and wiped out half my base. (if you remember red alert nukes, think slightly more devistating)

Yeah I was impressed by the nuke power as well, though I found out by killing an AI commander. Nukes are more powerful in this than they were in TA :eek:

though I never like the idea of using nukes in a game it can finish a game to quickly

Richdog · 20 Feb 2007 at 15:41

Anyone got this running on dual screen? If so please post pics!

Mobius 1 · 20 Feb 2007 at 15:54

The_morrell said:
Yeah I was impressed by the nuke power as well, though I found out by killing an AI commander. Nukes are more powerful in this than they were in TA though I never like the idea of using nukes in a game it can finish a game to quickly

the EUF also has an amazing artillery cannon that can reach anywhere across any map. that in combination with nukes is great because you can take out all their anti missile structures

Richdog · 20 Feb 2007 at 15:56

-Tauren- said:
the EUF also has an amazing artillery cannon that can reach anywhere across any map. that in combination with nukes is great because you can take out all their anti missile structures

So the game essentially ends when the UEF build a couple of artillery emplacements?

Frosti · 20 Feb 2007 at 16:08

i'm pretty sure that by the time the UEF can build that artillery, the other sides can produce some rather "interesting" units.

Mobius 1 · 20 Feb 2007 at 16:13

Richdog said:
So the game essentially ends when the UEF build a couple of artillery emplacements?

bear in mind it takes ages to build one of those artillery units. and you need a load of mass and energy.

edit: infact it took so long. and i got tired of waiting

http://video.google.co.uk/videoplay?docid=-8375182469898306912

Caustic · 20 Feb 2007 at 17:04

If it is the one I am thinking of, the default build time is 375 minutes! Other experimental units take ~30 minutes. Admittedly, you can have loads of constructors building it to speed things up but it still took me over 20 real minutes to build one. But yes, it is more or less game over if someone builds it without the opposition destroying it fairly quick. It fires a shot every 5 seconds which is pin point accurate, anywhere on any map and destroys any building first time. Even a small area of effect to take out attached buildings.

Mobius 1 · 20 Feb 2007 at 17:09

Caustic said:
If it is the one I am thinking of, the default build time is 375 minutes! Other experimental units take ~30 minutes. Admittedly, you can have loads of constructors building it to speed things up but it still took me over 20 real minutes to build one. But yes, it is more or less game over if someone builds it without the opposition destroying it fairly quick. It fires a shot every 5 seconds which is pin point accurate, anywhere on any map and destroys any building first time. Even a small area of effect to take out attached buildings.

which is why the EUF rock. protect that artillery unit with you life.

whats everyones fave faction?

titaniumx3 · 20 Feb 2007 at 17:58

The UEF experimental artillery is devasting not only because of its range but also because if its pin point accuracy and relatively fast reload times. You can just queue up attacks on the enemy tech 3 power plants, which effectively means one power plant taken out every 5 seconds or lots more if the enemy has them bunched together.

Of course you need silly amounts of resources to build one. I needed to get my mass production to over 1000 before I could build just three of them to pound the enemy base on a 40km sea map.

MikeWild74 · 20 Feb 2007 at 18:39

Tis an ace game

Caustic · 20 Feb 2007 at 20:36

titaniumx3 said:
Of course you need silly amounts of resources to build one. I needed to get my mass production to over 1000 before I could build just three of them to pound the enemy base on a 40km sea map.

You built 3??? Surely one of them was enough? They are super powerful.

geeza · 20 Feb 2007 at 20:37

couple of big problems with it.

1. LAN game a message comes up saying connectivity failed. Every other game works fine on lan

2. I try and play on internet and get an error message saying GPG.multiplayer.Client.exe not found or something.

anyone else get these?

HighlandeR · 20 Feb 2007 at 21:09

Alexrose1uk said:
Total Annihilation came out at roughly the same time as the original C&C and was overshadowed by it due to the media, whereas TA was relatively unknown (I found out by it by luck, and thank god I did), but IMO comparing the originals TA was far superior to C&C (scale, unit variety etc), so i dont have such a blind faith in C&C, Im not saying C&C was rubbish, but just I think it has a lot of red tinted glasses view, due to its popularity at the time.

Saying that, some of the people from westwood split off and formed the people who programmed Star Wars: Empire at War, which was ok, but not amazing, so they may not be quite as omnipotent as a lot seem to believe. If C&C3 is good though, I will be quite fair, I just dont want to proceed to believe it'll be the best thing ever based on the C&C name.

Yeah CnC tends to be more simpler, im sure TA/SC are way more advanced and truer RTS but heck simple, fun and lovely graphics tend to work with me also

It would be nice if CnC3 adds a bit more complex units and experimental units or something bit new... obviously seeing the aliens and Alien units adds a new option, wonder if we can send an engineer into there base or a spy to nick there documents and capture there tech

PyroboyUK · 21 Feb 2007 at 08:58

I am quite enjoying Supreme Commander. I was a big fan of TA, that must have been so long ago, i had it on my parents iMAC (which to this day they praise they are better than pc's becuase the dont crash, In the hands of myself i can make it crash pretty quickly

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I think its great but not as big as it has been suggested over the past few years.

The_morrell · 21 Feb 2007 at 12:21

-Tauren- said:
the EUF also has an amazing artillery cannon that can reach anywhere across any map. that in combination with nukes is great because you can take out all their anti missile structures

sounds pretty powerful, I love the monkeylord.. Absolutly quality unit. Though I've only played a few games and it keeps on dieing to the enemy commander when it kills him

badgermonkey · 21 Feb 2007 at 12:26

The_morrell said:
Yeah I was impressed by the nuke power as well, though I found out by killing an AI commander. Nukes are more powerful in this than they were in TA though I never like the idea of using nukes in a game it can finish a game to quickly

Hence why TA and SC both have anti-nukes.

There isn't a single "uber tactic" in this game, there are LOADS of ways to win, and just as many to counter them.

The_morrell · 21 Feb 2007 at 12:30

badgermonkey said:
Hence why TA and SC both have anti-nukes.

There isn't a single "uber tactic" in this game, there are LOADS of ways to win, and just as many to counter them.

Yeah I fully understand, but back in the day when I played TA I used to play against several people who could never get there head around the resources. Thus several players had much more than the others and the use of nukes aload these players to dominate the battlefield.