Submitted 9 hours ago by oyzmo@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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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 🥰
Seen the large scale wars on youtube. I am scared of trying it because i dont have time
Community built, actually free, AND is an incredibly good game all round. It excells beyond all reason!
Is it similar to games in Spring engine?
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!
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.
Bottle neck for RTS would neither be memory or GPU but parallelization, cpu performance and memory speed.
This is a huge issue for Command and Conquer: Generals. I can’t play it even with 13700k with high difficulty bots because sooner or later I get few FPS. I don’t remember the game actually lagging this bad on older hardware
I remember sup com lagging, badly. Never did CNC.
+1 bump for bar
I wish someone made a mod for this game that restored the names of the units and buildings to all their Total Annihilation equivalents.
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.
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.
ObscureOtter@piefed.ca 2 hours ago
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