Had a LAN together with 10 friends last weekend. We played BAR. What an absolute amazing game!! 1000s of units, AI and large scale battles - No lagging, No crashing… just ran smooth all the time, even on old crappy gfx cards with 4gb memory. Wow!

Highly recommend trying. We disabled tech level 2 and 3 the first rounds, then just 3 and finally ran everything. A nice way to start without being overwhelmed:)

If you loved Starcraft and RA2, try this game 🥰

  • Arghblarg@lemmy.caEnglish
    20·
    3 个月前

    I played Total Annihilation many years ago w/friends at a LAN party… good times (I always sucked at it, the name described my fate well :P)

    Looks fun!

    • kalpol@lemmy.caEnglish
      6·
      3 个月前

      Gog has TA and you can still play it, and stil multiplayer with some fiddling. Supreme Commander is good too. I think you can swap out AI engines on TA but never tried it.

      BAR looks fun.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        3 个月前

        IMO Supreme Commander failed to capture the original game’s soul. You had a sense of an epic battle going on when playing. I think it was because it always devolved into playing all zoomed out, watching tiny strategic icons moving across the map, blinking and disappearing. I can’t even tell you what any of the units looked like because we almost never see them. The fact that they gave generic names to units and structures such as “level one point defence turret” didn’t help either.

        BAR does a much better job of keeping the player zoomed in and into the action, seeing and feeling so the cool details of the battle going on. Heavy plasma batteries blowing up chunks of advancing armies and terrain, lasers blowing up individual targets in rapid succession, sending debris flying everywhere, this was all what TA was about.

    • DrSteveBrule@mander.xyzEnglish
      7·
      3 个月前

      The customization in this game is great so games can be as small or large as you’d like. I’ve set up games that take as little as 15 minutes. The campaign also starts off with small games that take about half an hour. It was my first RTS so I’m sure it took me much longer as I wasn’t familiar with the general strategy of those kind of games.

  • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    3 个月前

    I wish someone made a mod for this game that restored the names of the units and buildings to all their Total Annihilation equivalents.

    • MyFriendGodzilla@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      3 个月前

      The naming was something that had to change due to copyright issues, though the original TA creators have given their blessings to the project iirc.

      • DaddleDew@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 个月前

        I understand that, but if a third-party was to make a mod that restores the old names, I don’t see how they could possibly be held legally liable for it.

  • s3rvant@lemmy.mlEnglish
    3·
    3 个月前

    Love BAR! I usually play with my son’s against AI or watch pro streams. Such a great game.

  • rautapekoni@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1·
    3 个月前

    I have a few friends who keep inviting me to play BAR, and I really want to like it, but I just don’t think I’m built for rts at this scale. There’s just too much stuff and too much going on at once and I get stuck reading tooltips instead of building or manouvering and get run over. I guess I have more of a 4x brain, I need time to think.

    • massacre@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      3 个月前

      Shout out to Brightworks and Drongo on Youtube for their BAR coverage. It’s a great game. I just wish RTS wasn’t so toxic.