Forum Overview :: Supreme Commander

Played the demo for Supreme Commander 2, it isn't bad by Fortinbras 02/27/2010, 4:12pm PST It's safe to say that the majority of their development time went into making the engine run as smoothly as possible. It shows, but I don't know if I like the new look or not. All the units look like Supreme Commander: LEGO Edition. The maps play a lot smaller, with more choke points. The second campaign mission I played reminded me a lot of a Demigod map, so it looks like Chris Taylor's taking some of his inspiration from what he learned in it. The 3-tier tech tree is gone, instead there's a third resource: research points that can boost the damage/health of your units and unlock new units for going further up the branched tree. As far as I know there's no cap to research points so it's conceivable to steamroll your opponent with fully tricked out units. It looks like they consolidated and simplified the unit tree so you're not buried in 20 different types of units. The campaign voice-acting and writing are really abysmal, like as in I wondered if I was playing an alpha, not a polished demo with two weeks before release. Still, the pace seems reasonable and I wasn't getting buried in swarms of enemies every time I triggered a script for completing a task.

Played the demo for Supreme Commander 2, it isn't bad by Fortinbras 02/27/2010, 4:12pm PST     Supreme Commander Goons are mad about the changes, good sign! NT by Fortinbras 03/01/2010, 7:07pm PST         Somewhere Cainen is hanging himself with his mouse cord over this game. by Fortinbras 03/02/2010, 10:02pm PST             Starcraft 2 has sand worms that swallow up units and regurgitates them elsewhere NT by NDA-breaker 03/02/2010, 10:24pm PST                 But it has to be a place that has zerg creep? NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/02/2010, 10:56pm PST                     Nope! by NDA-breaker 03/03/2010, 10:51am PST                 Unbeknownst to him, NDA-breaker is part of a control group playing Dune 2000 NT by Jerry Whorebach 03/03/2010, 5:11am PST                 Yeah they're called Nydus Canals you fucking moron NT by Fortinbras 03/03/2010, 6:27am PST                     Is this guy always this angry and dumb? NT by NDA-breaker 03/03/2010, 10:54am PST                         No, he's not always angry. NT by Caltrops 03/03/2010, 11:33am PST                             he used to be calm cool and collected until he made one critical mistake by irony 03/03/2010, 12:58pm PST                         Swing and a miss. by Fortinbras 03/03/2010, 12:27pm PST                             Yeah, everyone ELSE looks like the dumb angry shit here NT by Projectinbras 03/03/2010, 2:15pm PST                                 He's actually been trolling US (we're easily wound up you see). O_O NT by Jhoh Creexul (custom software) 03/03/2010, 2:17pm PST                 tangentially related to some of the aforementioned by Bananadine 03/03/2010, 9:59am PST             Hrm! Sounds like it's time to download that shit and try it out. NT by Eurotrash 03/03/2010, 9:32am PST                 Well it's pretty okay I guess, but besides being boring, the units feel sluggish by Eurotrash 03/04/2010, 12:07am PST     I thought SC1 was supposed to last 10 years NT by Mischief Shai-hulud 03/03/2010, 12:34pm PST         remember that sc2 will require 3 seperate games NT by irony 03/03/2010, 12:58pm PST             That's only if you want all three bonus characters (Heihachi, Link, and Spawn). NT by Jerry Whorebach 03/03/2010, 2:51pm PST                 I swear I'll get into the game after that by Moog 03/03/2010, 4:06pm PST