Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers

55•jttnr•58m ago

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arikrahman•27m ago

Love it, hope something for Supcom comes out soon.

maqp•25m ago

Definitely! Supcoms downfall was the poor threading support and IIRC the in-game AI path finding continuing for destroyed AI units which bogged the game down over time. At least one of them was never fixed properly.

theandrewbailey•6m ago

I've played the LOUD mod for years, seems to solve a bunch of performance problems.

https://www.moddb.com/mods/loud-ai-supreme-commander-forged-...

rs_rs_rs_rs_rs•23m ago

The game still looks great, what's stopping you from playing it?

ls612•18m ago

It has some major technical flaws which hold it back even on modern hardware. Something I’m sure a model can fix.

lysecret•22m ago

man i played so much supcom every time we played at like 2fps in the end haha

pdntspa•22m ago

Eat your heart out, Spring Engine

Jabrov•21m ago

So sick and tired of AI websites

rvz•20m ago

> Same scene. Same instant.

closes tab.

haunter•19m ago

At this point with the speed AI assisted decomps, remakes, reverse engineered ports, and homebrews come out I think GTA VI will be "released" (not by Rockstar ofc) on PC days after the PS 5 release. Especially that an early leaked dev build, compiled on PC, is already out there which helps a lot with the case.

modeless•19m ago

I recently discovered Beyond All Reason, a spiritual successor to Total Annihilation. There have been several of these, but I think BAR is by far the best. It's open source, but looks nice and is polished. It has amazing quality-of-life features I haven't seen in any other RTS. And it supports insanely huge battles with hundreds of players and tens of thousands of units.

150-player match: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQJujiZ-oz0

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

Lucasoato•15m ago

Yeah, let me add that it’s a wonderful community. They won’t flame you for failing the frontline because your opponent has been playing the game since day 1.

If you just started, just stay in the backlines and do “eco”, people will be ok with that.

techjamie•7m ago

That's pretty good to hear. I've taken interest in it from time to time, and downloaded it at one point to spectate matches. It seemed really intimidating to my extremely casual RTS playing self with how much is happening.

Maybe I'll give it another look.

modeless•5m ago

There are some single-player skirmishes that you can play to get the hang of it. And I heard there's going to be a commercial release with a single-player campaign coming out eventually.

someotherperson•19m ago

Cool! I wonder if Total Annihilation: Kingdoms would be supported!

DaveChurchill•19m ago

Do people understand how bad these AIslop websites look?

ygra•16m ago

I found it very tiring to read, actually.

joefourier•7m ago

I can get past the AI slop design myself, but the writing style is absolutely grating, especially the short repetitive phrases.

"Punchy phrase. No X." "An open engine. Room to make it your own. "Same scene. Same instant. The same explosion. A different atmosphere." "A few things to know. The short answers."

Why is it always the same? What awful post-training, or synthetic data training pipeline, or RLHF gone wrong, produced this homogenised, low variety slop style? And it's totally possible for LLMs to write actually decent or at least varied prose and I would think Anthropic (or OpenAI) has the resources to fix the issue, they just choose not to.

Marketing copy wasn't this homogenous prior to LLMs, unless my memory fails me.

jasondigitized•14m ago

What exactly looks bad about it? These models have been trained on high converting UX patterns. They are definitely homogenous but I am not sure they look bad.

wobblywobbegong•18m ago

Spiritual successor already exists: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/Beyond-All-Reason

dgently7•17m ago

i never played ta, but "beyond all reason" is worth mentioning as it seems to be also a more modern (relatively) take on ta. mostly similar units but a 3d engine etc. Also open source and free to play wo any of the dark patterns that pervert most modern multiplayer online games. "battle passes" , "pay to win", gambling "crates"

markus_zhang•17m ago

Guess this is going to be the norm and we will soon run out of games to decompile.

foolfoolz•10m ago

TA is an amazing game. Forged Alliance is a better game because it was made 10 years later. The open source FAF project to mod it and keep it alive can only go so far without engine replacement. I’m hoping we can see something like this for Forged Alliance. BAR is a TA clone, missing out on the structural improvements from Forged Alliance

philipov•8m ago

This game, Planetary Annihilation, was made by some of the people who worked on Total Annihilation:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/386070/Planetary_Annihila...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Annihilation

Waterluvian•7m ago

I love this so much. Something I’m a bit obsessed with lately is watching AIs (the classic kind) battling endlessly in games like this. Total Annihilation is a great fit for it because the maps are often wide open and grand scale.

I think Beyond all Reason has had some 50v50s or close that are a bit ridiculous to watch.

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