Supreme Commander Preview

Originally Posted by stephen2002
Does anybody that has the beta know if you can run AIs in the multiplayer and if you can is it possible to run more than 1 AI player per human player? I usually play TA with a friend teamed up against AI players but we have to run a couple of extra computers so that we can get enough AI players to make it challenging.

You can patch it to run the AI in multiplayer but the devs don't like it (it generates lots of false error reports). It isn't that polished and has an odd bug that causes a large amount of lag once it hits the unit limit. It works, but it's currently no substitute for playing against a human opponent.

Originally Posted by Skill3d
Can you download and use 3rd party units as well?

AFAIK, the devs plan to make a full set of editors available with good support for mods. There are already a few custom maps out, notably this 81x81km one. Buggy, but great fun :)

eeeeuh...maybe sounds stupid, but what game do you mean by TA?

Originally Posted by 1e8o
eeeeuh...maybe sounds stupid, but what game do you mean by TA?

He mean's Total Annihilation; the unofficial prequel to this.

The game certainly looks impressive, and the worldwide zoom is certainly different. I really hope it lives up to the expectations of TA, which was and indeed still is such a colossal game. I think TA has to be one of the few games from that era that can still make my PC lag , so im guessing its sequel is going to need some pretty beefy stuff to run it :(

Originally Posted by [USRF]Obiwan
So it is basicly "mass-micro-management" ;)

No not really, since that implies micro management, but with even more units, which this is not, it's macro management.

This isn't just TA with a pretty new face there have been some nice changes made, it does play similarly to TA, but sufficiently different.

w00t! me wants! :D

the only 2 RTS ive played and deemed great is StarCraft and Warcraft3. hopefully this will quench the thirst.

Originally Posted by JADS
TA was possibly the best RTS game ever so I may be swayed to return to gaming, but as I am unlikely ever to play an online multiplayer gamer I do hope it has some form of offline singleplayer

awesome game btw starcraft was and still is the best rts around !

it will be until this goes gold.

damn i miss TA. since i 2 years ago formatted my computer and my original cd was broken (lotsa scrathes) i've been waiting it to either become abandomeware or a new version being released, and soon my thirst will be quenched by this massive grafical updated version :D.

Originally Posted by Redbeaver
w00t! me wants! :D

the only 2 RTS ive played and deemed great is StarCraft and Warcraft3. hopefully this will quench the thirst.

Did you ever try the Kohan Series? Warhammer? Ive been playihng RTS since TA and I thought Kohan and War hammer were better that SC or WCIII. ( for warhammer it doesnt get really good till Dark Crusade imo).. Im d/l the SC game as I am typing this. After running the demo a bit I decided to take the plunge.

D/L at 44%%, grr.. Time ot take a break

Originally Posted by Dirge
RTS games should let AI take over when a player is dropped or leaves if he/she starts loosing.

Kohan Series does that..

I'm curious, when is this game due to be released? And do we know the minimum system specs?

it came out the 20th, and specs pretty high it seems..

Originally Posted by dch128
D/L at 44%%, grr.. Time ot take a break

I hope that you are not using an illegal method of downloading.