Incredibly fun rts game, better than the second and worth the money even now :)
If you like RTS games this is definitely worth a look, especially with the price.
If you like commanding supreme's then this is the game for you.
Steam, Right when I say I won't buy anything else this week.
Everyone should buy the Gold Edition right now. I bought it a year back for that price, and I love the game.
This is one of the best rts games i've ever played, you should buy this
Definitely ranked high among my favourite games, just get the gold edition.
I love its massive scale, it has a great UI that makes it easy to control units and reduces the need to micromanage by a lot. And the economy system is awesome as well. And it has awesome units like giant submarine aircraft carriers and ships that can also walk on land.
Sup Com 1 is so much better than Sup Com 2.
It raped my old PC's graphics card, but is a great game for the long haul, matches can take a long time if you go to experimental units.
FA is the one of the best turtling RTS games out there.
Shields [I]everywhere.[/I]
[QUOTE=Teh Zip File;37302157]FA is the one of the best turtling RTS games out there.
Shields [I]everywhere.[/I][/QUOTE]
That's how all my comp stomps end up being.
I got this game for free when my father bought a fancy graphics card. Maybe ill buy it again to have on steam...
Its good. Get it.
Do note that the online on the steam version doesn't connect to the same servers as the original game does and as a result you might not encounter as many players as you could've otherwise. A way to fix this is to get the FAForever client and there's a patch somewhere on the steam forums to add the missing files from the steam version if the client complains. This could've changed since the last time I played it though and I might be horribly horribly wrong, but there you have it. And on the note on whether or not you should get it. Definitely do, it's an awesome game.
[QUOTE=legolover122;37302303]I got this game for free when my father bought a fancy graphics card. Maybe ill buy it again to have on steam...
Its good. Get it.[/QUOTE]
fyi I'm pretty sure you can use the key on Steam.
get 75% off the supreme commander.
[QUOTE=Pridit;37302810]fyi I'm pretty sure you can use the key on Steam.[/QUOTE]
Yup, I used my key for vanilla SupCom on Steam and it gave me both Supcom and FA.
[QUOTE=Pridit;37302810]fyi I'm pretty sure you can use the key on Steam.[/QUOTE]
It was several years ago and we moved to a different house since then.
So I don't have the code anymore.
Sadly.
Great timing. Everyone gets hyped about Planetary Annihilation and wants to play something similar.
I found myself playing FA an hour after watching the trailer.
I was thinking about playing this with a friend just hours ago and BAM there's this offer.
Damn Steam, you scary. Now take my money.
Don't get *just* supreme commander if you want this, you must get Forged Alliance as well. Drastic improvement.
Also despite what everyone says, SupCom2 is a very good game still, and unlike SupCom1, doesn't require a monster rig to run, AND it improved all the downsides that SupCom1 had for the most part. It also by far has some of the best RTS AI in any game ever made (post patch, at least). Considering the AI designer for the game created a system that actually trains the AI to react to thousands of situations by running strategic/tactical simulations against it at a rate of thousands-of-games per minute.
The downside to SupCom2 though of course, is that it simply doesn't feel like a good sequel to the first game. It's considerably smaller scale (but still much larger than something like Star Craft), a lot of streamlining they did ended up simplifying things in a negative way, the expiermental units are now more like "big and bad" regular units instead of truely take-30-minutes-to-build super units, etc. However I honestly like how high-level gameplay of SupCom2 plays out more than high level SupCom1 play. The gameplay formula for SupCom2 is better, especially with SupCom2's DLC, but it is marred by doing worse in a lot of other departments that defined the series (such as sense of scale).
The sad thing is though we'll probably never see another SupCom game made. I'd love to see SupCom3, where they take all the really good points and gameplay improvements from the 2nd game, merged with what made the 1st game shine so much and be fun to play (even despite some obvious balance issues), and then throwing some new awesome stuff in the mix. But the company is doing bad financially - they had to drop work on all their original IP's and the new Kings and Castles game they were making (read: fantasy SupCom) so they could focus on Age of Empires Online in order to stay afloat, when they got the rights to finish development for that game.
Sad :(
[QUOTE=pebkac;37302937]Yup, I used my key for vanilla SupCom on Steam and it gave me both Supcom and FA.[/QUOTE]
Fuck my balls. I wish I knew that 2 minutes ago.
[QUOTE=Trit19;37305572]Fuck my balls. I wish I knew that 2 minutes ago.[/QUOTE]
Tore through my room looking for my copy, and found a receipt telling me I sold it. Damned fool I am.
[QUOTE=MrEndangered;37305653]Tore through my room looking for my copy, and found a receipt telling me I sold it. Damned fool I am.[/QUOTE]
I'm impressed that you managed to actually find a receipt of something. I can never do this.
[editline]19th August 2012[/editline]
Also what does Forged Alliance change? I'm installing that, but I have no idea what I'm doing.
[QUOTE=BlkDucky;37305668]I'm impressed that you managed to actually find a receipt of something. I can never do this.
[editline]19th August 2012[/editline]
Also what does Forged Alliance change? I'm installing that, but I have no idea what I'm doing.[/QUOTE]
I haven't played in a long time but I think the main thing was mass fabricators and the economy.
In supcom it was easy to turtle and build a big economy using mass fabricators.
In FA it's more about getting map control and securing the mass extractors and fighting out on the map.
I played FA during last week with friends, damn good and complex RTS game. It's hard a shit for me though, playing through the campaign right now and by the second damn mission the enemies already deploy MULTIPLE experimentals simultaneously. And I had been turtling nicely building several of those mobile factories and a decent army, but the moment I walk near the enemy base I get obliterated because I can't counter those flying Seraphim experimentals. What the shit, game.
[QUOTE=Im Crimson;37306013]I played FA during last week with friends, damn good and complex RTS game. It's hard a shit for me though, playing through the campaign right now and by the second damn mission the enemies already deploy MULTIPLE experimentals simultaneously. And I had been turtling nicely building several of those mobile factories and a decent army, but the moment I walk near the enemy base I get obliterated because I can't counter those flying Seraphim experimentals. What the shit, game.[/QUOTE]
Best tactic is too build 5-6 factories, upgrade them to tech 3 and select them to support one factory.
Now you put this supported factory on repeat and queue a bunch of tech 2 units. Around a 2.5 to 1, Tank to Anti-Air ratio should do great, even better when you add one of those mobile shield units.
It'll continue to shit out an army of decent proportions.
[QUOTE=Arietta;37305756]I haven't played in a long time but I think the main thing was mass fabricators and the economy.
In supcom it was easy to turtle and build a big economy using mass fabricators.
In FA it's more about getting map control and securing the mass extractors and fighting out on the map.[/QUOTE]
Also it adds a whole bunch of faction specific units and things that really fill in certain missing roles in just normal supcom, as well as improving the standard units in some way or another to. It just basically takes the SupCom1 formula, and completes it by adding a bunch of new stuff that fills-in-the-gaps.
Thread music. Obvious, but epic.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDDQShIqjgk[/media]
[QUOTE=pebkac;37302937]Yup, I used my key for vanilla SupCom on Steam and it gave me both Supcom and FA.[/QUOTE]
You are a saint.
[img]http://puu.sh/WNqP[/img]
Bought this baby right on release, but never bought the expansion because by the time I got around to it, there was only the game+FA boxes in-store. My hero.
I'm gonna go through all my retail games and try to activate them now. I'll say how I go. Followup: Wow, ain't nothing around here but super-old, keyless, or steam-required games.
Everytime I want to launch this game, it just stopped working and than it showed me this fatal error.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.
