Supreme Commander

[Lucid]

Alright, I just bought this over Direct 2 Drive for $30.

I replayed the demo before hand and it ran fantastically, anyone here play the game online?

Anyone willing to give me some tips if I decide to venture into that area?

Any good fan sites?

 

[Ennui]

Holy SHIT.

I just realized that I own this game but completely forgot about it. I've played it ONCE. I almost bought it at the store yesterday too, rofl.

There was a good fan-site (SupremeCommand.org) that Munro was running but he shut it down but talk to Hazar, he likes SupCom a lot.

 

[Pesmerga]

Me and Pitz have it; let's play!

 

[Raziaar]

I haven't played it in forever myself. I finally have the capability to probably play it with better performance because of my videocard. Even more if I can get that other 2 gigs of ram.

The only problem is... I completely suck.

 

[Lucid]

I've got 7 hours to go before it's done downloading.
I mainly got it because I'm sick of CoD4's buggy ass and I've been meaning to give it this a second chance so I spent some of my Christmas money on SupComm... I was tempted to buy the expansion, but it would've used up all of my xmas cash.

But I'll hit you guys up on either Steam or xfire.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I might play later too.

 

[Raziaar]

I don't own the expansion though. ;(

 

[Acepilotf14]

I do, but 'apparently' the retarded direct2drive version isn't compatible with the retail expansion.

 

[Hazar]

both the original and the expansion are great

I'm up for owning anyone if they want it.

 

[Lucid]

Yeah, so um anyways.

Tips for the different races? What units to build first? What structures? etc.
Good unit combinations? etc. etc. etc.

 

[Pesmerga]

Basically just be allies with Hazar. That's pretty much how you win.

 

[Hazar]

here's a good compilation of strategy tips.

 

[Lucid]

here's a good compilation of strategy tips.

Thank you very much good sir.

 

[Cheomesh]

It's pretty ho-hum IMO.

It's fairly well balanced and all, but it gets dull, and having your resource nodes everywhere is a pain.

It's good if you want a build-em-up and rush game, but no so if you're into tactical gameplay.

 

[Ennui]

Hazar, teach me to play. Now that I've been re-enlightened to the fact that I bought the game like six months ago, I want to learn it. But I'm too lazy to figure it out myself :arms:

 

[Hazar]

we'd have to get on vent sometime and have a game so I could tell you a lot of the stuff.

if anyone else wants to join in the tutorial session I wouldn't mind.

 

[Raziaar]

I'd love to, personally. It'd be pretty cool.

But I'm bummed by the fact I don't have the expansion. Heh. Oh well.

 

[Seagull]

Love supcom. Dont have the expansion though. D:

 

[Pesmerga]

Teach me teach me!

 

[Acepilotf14]

we'd have to get on vent sometime and have a game so I could tell you a lot of the stuff.

if anyone else wants to join in the tutorial session I wouldn't mind.

I'll come. Steam me.
acepilotF14, of course!

 

[Lucid]

Can people who just have SupComm play against people with Forged Alliance?

 

[Acepilotf14]

I think so, but only if you play on an original supcom map. I'll look for a faq.

 

[Hazar]

you have to share a common game... if you both only have FA then both can only use the seriphem race and the maps that came with FA. If one person has only FA and the other only has SC then they can't play mp together. I think most people who have FA also have SC though so there's no problem.

What time would you guys like to have the tutorial game? Sometime tomorrow ok?

 

[Acepilotf14]

Okay.

 

[Lucid]

Damn, guess I can't play with my friend that only has FA then. :|

 

[Hazar]

tell him to get supcom... it's pretty cheap now anyways.

 

[Acepilotf14]

I have SupCom too!

 

[Nabobalis]

I wouldn't mind playing, even though I'm awful at the game. It is a fantastic game tho.

 

[_-_-SELAS-_-_]

Got it + expansion. Is very nice, finished all in singleplayer.

Graphics not the best but u probably wouldnt be able to have such a massive amount of units if u want it to look like say C&C3.

 

[Acepilotf14]

They meant for the graphics too be average. The only way they could do the huge battles and the camera angles. THey even said it, 'The reason other RTS' restrict camera pullout is because they want you to adore their little units.' They foregoed that for the great gameplay we have today!

 

[Hazar]

yeah, I don't even think the graphics look bad at all. They actually have some intense texturing on things you wouldn't think would have any at all.

For example:

That was taken from a missile shot by one of the new t3 uef mobile missile launchers in FA. There can be literally hundreds and hundreds of these in flight simultaneously.

Tutorial game will be later today if that's alright with everyone who wants to join. I'll post vent details later.

 

[Lucid]

When it comes to RTSes graphics are the last thing I care about.
Considering most RTSes involve large scale battles, I'd want it to run as smooth as possible.

Also, I've never used Vent before so if you could just be as detailed as possible with your... vent details, that'd be appreciated.

 

[theotherguy]

I rediscovered this, and it took me hours of updating.

I lost my first few games because I wasn't prepared for the new units, but now I'm getting about as good as I was when I first bought the game.

 

[Hazar]

yeah, everyone should make sure they're fully patched for it.

and to xlucid: get your ventrilo installed and waiting for a server

 

[Acepilotf14]

Hazar, GPGnet is being gay and won't let me use any of my CDkeys. GPGnet sucks so much. >: (

 

[Hazar]

yeah, gpgnet is probably the weakest part of the mp experience.

You sure that you don't already have the keys associated with the account?

And try restarting gpgnet a little while later, sometimes it fixes itself.

 

[Acepilotf14]

well I already have an account, but it says it needs a CDkey. So I might go out and buy SupCom again so it's compatible with my forged alliance anyway.. D2D and retail don't mix.

 

[Lucid]

yeah, everyone should make sure they're fully patched for it.

and to xlucid: get your ventrilo installed and waiting for a server

Done, I've got the connection editor opened and ready to input the details.
By the way, I'm still updating the game so I might not be ready to play for another hour or so.

Jesus Christ, it just finished updating and now I have another ****ing patch to wait through!

 

[Hazar]

well I already have an account, but it says it needs a CDkey. So I might go out and buy SupCom again so it's compatible with my forged alliance anyway.. D2D and retail don't mix.

oh right, direct 2 drive.... forgot about that.


And to xlucid, they usually have one large patch and then a small incremental.

 

[Lucid]

It just finished now.

8 hours of patching ftw.

edit : WOW! I just now clicked on the SupCom icon and it now needs more god damn patching.

Are you seriously going to ****ing tell me that the 8 hours of patching was for GPGNet?!?!?
****ing hell.