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You'll love what the community did with Supreme Commander, Chris Taylor's spiritual successor to Total Annihilation: https://www.faforever.com/ https://www.fafo

by jhoho 3y ago

You'll love what the community did with Supreme Commander, Chris Taylor's spiritual successor to Total Annihilation: https://www.faforever.com/ https://www.faforever.com/ They even created a Coop-Campaign and a completely new faction.

willis936 3y ago
I put a lot of hours into SupCom. It was always a buggy mess, but I do remember it quite fondly. Planetary Annihilation has felt like the right progression in the spiritual series. It was always a very smooth experience and fixed the technical issues with scaling up to massive scale combat while fixing the balance issues of turtling. The skill ceiling is immense and I could never beat high level bots. The nature of having one to many planets also means you can play cooperatively with up to several friends. It's a good time.
rl3 3y ago
Supreme Commander's getting its own spiritual successor: https://www.sanctuaryshatteredsun.com/ https://www.sanctuaryshatteredsun.com/
- disintegore 3y ago
  I thought Planetary Annihilation was a spiritual successor to both TA and SC
  - rl3 3y ago
    That's technically true. Planetary Annihilation was a heroic effort lead by Jonathan Mavor (formerly of Gas Powered Games) that fused elements of TA, SC, and its own crazy ideas on what amounted to a shoestring budget. Supreme Commander's budget was about $50M USD (circa the mid-2000s), and Mavor was lead engineer on the project. Beyond All Reason is arguably more similar to Total Annihilation than Planetary Annihilation. By that same token, Sanctuary is the closest thing to a complete remake of Supreme Commander. Granted, Forged Alliance Forever has had such incredible work put in by the community that it comes close, but it's ultimately stuck on the same engine. Turns out Mavor has a new company now, and I'm elated to hear someone's finally combining Factorio with a decent RTS component: https://industrialannihilation.com/ https://industrialannihilation.com/
    - drannex 3y ago
      I am incredibly excited for Industrial Annihilation, really looks close to my ultimate dreams RTS. > IA is a unique blend of genres: deep factory building combined with real-time strategy action.

by jhoho 3y ago

willis936 3y ago

I put a lot of hours into SupCom. It was always a buggy mess, but I do remember it quite fondly. Planetary Annihilation has felt like the right progression in the spiritual series. It was always a very smooth experience and fixed the technical issues with scaling up to massive scale combat while fixing the balance issues of turtling. The skill ceiling is immense and I could never beat high level bots. The nature of having one to many planets also means you can play cooperatively with up to several friends. It's a good time.

rl3 3y ago

Supreme Commander's getting its own spiritual successor: https://www.sanctuaryshatteredsun.com/ https://www.sanctuaryshatteredsun.com/

disintegore 3y ago
I thought Planetary Annihilation was a spiritual successor to both TA and SC
- rl3 3y ago
  That's technically true. Planetary Annihilation was a heroic effort lead by Jonathan Mavor (formerly of Gas Powered Games) that fused elements of TA, SC, and its own crazy ideas on what amounted to a shoestring budget. Supreme Commander's budget was about $50M USD (circa the mid-2000s), and Mavor was lead engineer on the project. Beyond All Reason is arguably more similar to Total Annihilation than Planetary Annihilation. By that same token, Sanctuary is the closest thing to a complete remake of Supreme Commander. Granted, Forged Alliance Forever has had such incredible work put in by the community that it comes close, but it's ultimately stuck on the same engine. Turns out Mavor has a new company now, and I'm elated to hear someone's finally combining Factorio with a decent RTS component: https://industrialannihilation.com/ https://industrialannihilation.com/
  - drannex 3y ago
    I am incredibly excited for Industrial Annihilation, really looks close to my ultimate dreams RTS. > IA is a unique blend of genres: deep factory building combined with real-time strategy action.