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It looks like it's a clever double-bacronym, since BAR is also "Balanced Annihilation Reloaded" which is what this project started as. Balanced Annihilation bei
by PAPPPmAc 5y ago
It looks like it's a clever double-bacronym, since BAR is also "Balanced Annihilation Reloaded" which is what this project started as. Balanced Annihilation being the most influential and TA-like of the several games built on top of the Spring ( https://springrts.com/ https://springrts.com/ ) engine... which was originally made for TAlikes though there are several other projects on the engine now. Zero-K is also a popular Balanced Annihilation-derived Spring engine game, but is less TA-like.
I think the original Balanced Annihilation had the feature/problem that it used a bunch of a original Cavedog models and Reloaded is carefully avoiding that in addition to visual and gameplay improvements.
I played a ton of Balanced Annihilation like a decade ago and it was already a "better TA" than TA or SupCom in many ways.
- Teifion 5y agoThat's accurate. BAR's roots are indeed with BA but split in part due to this copyright concern. We've since implemented a number of improvements and a huge amount of remodelling.
- icexuick 5y agoRoughly 8.000 commits from 39 contributors since the end of 2018 when development of BAR really (re)started.
- Mac675 5y agoThere is an active BA community. Check discord https://discord.gg/GkvfDMZA https://discord.gg/GkvfDMZA or BA site https://balancedannihilation.com https://balancedannihilation.com.