So who’s still playing this badboy? I’m Lovin’ It. The new GPGnet features are very cool too - especially for stat fans like myself. You can see your record broken down by faction and map. You can also see what units you build the most, how long you’ve played, and a few other things. Here’s my page on there:
Thought I’d bumps this thread since I’ve just got back into playing SC on my new Dual Core PC. Well, new like six months old.
I’ve found that cranking up all the graphics settings but lowering the resolution to 1440 x whatever maximizes my graphical experience. And sometimes I like to throttle back the game speed so I can watch the vehicles move at a realistic speed (-4 seems about right).
Pros:
Good robot destruction action. There’s something very satisfying in seeing one of those Czar disks careen into the ground like a track&field discus and explode
I always liked the long-range artillery action of TA
Cons:
It’s still a resource hog
Some of the experimental or Level III things take 4 EV R to build, even with the game accelerated.
The AI is pretty lame. I’m going to try going online
Most of what I mentioned before. It would be nice if there were civilian buildings and infrastructure and whatnot to destroy. It would be very satisfying watching two uncaring robot armies fighting in the middle of a city or demolishing farmland and crops.
I enjoyed Supreme Commander, but I had more fun with World in Conflict. Artillery is really fun in WIC.
I finally finished the campaigns a month or two ago, so I’m ready for the expansion. (As soon as I finish the tower defense game Protector, which has been my gaming obsession lately.) It’s a great game, but there are a lot of things that are non-obvious and might have made it even more fun, if I had found them earlier. (Manual? What’s that?)
I didn’t know that you could customize your command unit until I was nearly done with the second campaign. It’s so horribly expensive that I didn’t do it often anyway, but it would have been nice to know about.
I’ve never played it multi-player, so I never used GPGNet, so I didn’t know there were patches until I was finished. I still haven’t bothered with them–I figure they’ll be on the expansion disc.
I never got the hang of transports. If there was no way to avoid using them (such as when retrieving the Black Sun part from the island), I considered them disposable.
One game reviewer said TA gave him what he came to RTS games to find: “Large ordnance downrange.”
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