If you're really keen on turtling, though, the UEF is by far the best at it their units are slow but hard-hitting, their T2 shield generators can be upgraded to the T3 models (other factions have to tear them down and build new ones), and they are the only faction with access to a T3 point-defense gun. Making static defenses a little easier to punch through encourages players to be more agressive.
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In addition, the introduction of specialized seige bots designed to crack shields and destroy base defenses (which we'll get to in detail later) is a one-two combonerf to turtling - fine by me, since I was never thrilled with games where opposing players throw waves and waves of units against each others' shields and point-defense guns until either one of them cracks or simply gives up and leaves the game. Thus, farming is still a viable strategy, but it's more profitable to venture out and battle your opponent over mass deposits. Two little changes have been made: fabricators now produce slightly less mass than they did before, and Extractors produce slightly more. This often occured because a player was attempting to turtle, and having a large mass farm meant that one did not have to venture too far out of one's base to claim "mass deposits", marked locations finite in number upon which one can construct the vastly more energy efficient "mass extractors". In the original Supreme Commander, skilled players would use the Adjacency system to build large "farms" of mass fabricators and power generators, taking maximum advantage of Adjacency bonuses from generators to reduce the large power drain from mass fabrication. FA throws in a fourth playable faction and a host of new units for the other three, and while all the core mechanics remain intact there are a few minor but signifigant gameplay tweaks. But hey, that's alright, because Supreme Commander was great to begin with. On with the review.įorged Alliance is more or less what you'd expect from an expansion pack: more of the same.
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Moreover, why the whole ****ing 8-gigabyte install? Why not just a valid CD-key? I can think of much better ways to use those eight gigabytes.īut no matter, if GPG has any sense they'll soon change this in a patch so that it doesn't suck up harddisk space AND they get to keep raking it in. Let me spend a few sentences to express my discontent at this design decision what purpose does it serve except to gouge a little more money from people who may not already have Supreme Commander? Sure Dawn of War did it, but that doesn't mean it's a good idea. While it's true you needn't have the original Supreme Commander installed to use the game, online multiplayer is limited to the new faction unless you do.
SupCom's sense of scale meshed well with the much-praised Strategic Zoom, a feature that lets you zoom from ground level all the way to a sub-orbital view of the entire theatre of war - see for yourself here.įorged Alliance is a 'stand-alone' expansion pack for Supreme Commander - I use quotes because I question the term 'stand-alone'. Even the starter unit, a mobile factory/battlemech called the Armored Command Unit (and the only manned construct in the game), easily stands above the tallest tree. SupCom shook up the RTS sandbox by drastically scaling up the battlefield, creating sprawling maps to populate with all manner of warmachines, everything from robotic tanks that wouldn't look out of place in a modern-day arsenal, to colossal mechanical walkers that tower dozens of stories over the terrain. If you weren't paying attention when Supreme Commander was released earlier this year and recieved rave reviews, let me fill you in: Supreme Commander, or SupCom as it is affectionately referred to, is the spiritual sequel to Chris Taylor's 1997 RTS Total Annihilation.
So when I get an email from the Honest Gamer himself saying there's a copy of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance up for grabskis, that probably means it's time to visit my shrine to the Gaming Gods and ritually sacrifice a copy of Empire Earth. If I seem to have earned the label of HG's RTS Guy, it's no coincidence I've been an advocate of the RTS genre almost as long as I've been a gamer, ever since I first played the original Warcraft on my 486.
But hey, that's alright, because Supreme Commander was great to begin with." "Forged Alliance is more or less what you'd expect from an expansion pack: more of the same. Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance (PC) review
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