Beyond All Reason

[arghblarg@lemmy.ca]

I played Total Annihilation many years ago w/friends at a LAN party... good times (I always sucked at it, the name described my fate well :P)

Looks fun!

[sanctus@anarchist.nexus]

+1 bump for bar

[wisefirefighter7299@sh.itjust.works]

umm

[daddledew@lemmy.world]

I wish someone made a mod for this game that restored the names of the units and buildings to all their Total Annihilation equivalents.

[myfriendgodzilla@lemmy.world]

Community built, actually free, AND is an incredibly good game all round. It excells beyond all reason!

[myfriendgodzilla@lemmy.world]

The naming was something that had to change due to copyright issues, though the original TA creators have given their blessings to the project iirc.

[daddledew@lemmy.world]

I understand that, but if a third-party was to make a mod that restores the old names, I don't see how they could possibly be held legally liable for it.

[amidfuror@fedia.io]

We used to hide copies of Snipes on the school network and play it on their LAN during programming class. No GPU required.

[gladaed@feddit.org]

Bottle neck for RTS would neither be memory or GPU but parallelization, cpu performance and memory speed.

[droechai@piefed.blahaj.zone]

Is it similar to games in Spring engine?

[redacted@infosec.pub]

This is a huge issue for Command and Conquer: Generals. I can't play it even with 13700k with high difficulty bots because sooner or later I get few FPS. I don't remember the game actually lagging this bad on older hardware

[gladaed@feddit.org]

I remember sup com lagging, badly. Never did CNC.

[little8lost@lemmy.world]

Seen the large scale wars on youtube. I am scared of trying it because i dont have time

[obscureotter@piefed.ca]

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

[kalpol@lemmy.ca]

Gog has TA and you can still play it, and stil multiplayer with some fiddling. Supreme Commander is good too. I think you can swap out AI engines on TA but never tried it.

BAR looks fun.

[doodleschmit@lemmy.world]

I played a fair amount of SupCom Forged Alliance with a community patch/mod called FaF. It's amazing the work that team put forth to make the game run well, but this must've been the problem they couldn't really fix entirely. Played amazingly when I played solo against AI, but once I played with friends online, the in-game speed would start to slow to a crawl by the mid to late game, seemingly driven by unit counts/activity. Game was tons of fun to play, but it was hard to play with my group when the endgame was basically playing in slow motion.

[daddledew@lemmy.world]

IMO Supreme Commander failed to capture the original game's soul. You had a sense of an epic battle going on when playing. I think it was because it always devolved into playing all zoomed out, watching tiny strategic icons moving across the map, blinking and disappearing. I can't even tell you what any of the units looked like because we almost never see them. The fact that they gave generic names to units and structures such as "level one point defence turret" didn't help either.

BAR does a much better job of keeping the player zoomed in and into the action, seeing and feeling so the cool details of the battle going on. Heavy plasma batteries blowing up chunks of advancing armies and terrain, lasers blowing up individual targets in rapid succession, sending debris flying everywhere, this was all what TA was about.

[zod000@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Making your own AI variations was one of the coolest things about SupCom.

[bogosort@discuss.tchncs.de]

It is a fork of Spring engine, called Recoil, so yes.

[icastfist@programming.dev]

Where can I get 8 5 1 friend for LAN play?