Supreme Commander OPEN BETA!

spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
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<div class="IPBDescription">On Fileplanet</div>The Supreme Commander Beta is now open to ALL users (i.e. you can download it for free). <a href="http://www.fileplanet.com/promotions/supremecommander/open/landing.aspx" target="_blank">Download it here!</a>

NeonSpyder and I are downloading it now, we'll probably give our views on it after a couple of games.
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  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    edited November 2006
    Never midn figured it out
    Can't wait waiting now..
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  • NeonSpyderNeonSpyder &quot;Das est NTLDR?&quot; Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17913Members
    I'm about to boot it up. I'm so excited.
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  • spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1579967:date=Nov 23 2006, 06:34 PM:name=NeonSpyder)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(NeonSpyder @ Nov 23 2006, 06:34 PM) [snapback]1579967[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'm about to boot it up. I'm so excited.
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    Did you download the patch as well? I'm done with the client, just waiting for the 3.0- 3.8 patch to finish downloading.. can't wait either.
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  • Private_ColemanPrivate_Coleman PhD in Video Games Join Date: 2002-11-07 Member: 7510Members
    I wish I could use an ingame tutorial before launching into random online games without a clue.
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  • spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1579989:date=Nov 23 2006, 08:16 PM:name=Private_Coleman)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Private_Coleman @ Nov 23 2006, 08:16 PM) [snapback]1579989[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I wish I could use an ingame tutorial before launching into random online games without a clue.
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    Lad, host a game and select "Sandbox" as the victory condition. Tick ready, and start the game. You can play around it now, without fear of being annihilated. Enjoy.
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  • AlignAlign Remain Calm Join Date: 2002-11-02 Member: 5216Forum Moderators, Constellation
    Tried earlier, system specs not high enough. Not surprised.
    Maybe in a year I'll have a new computer.
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  • JoshehJosheh Join Date: 2005-01-10 Member: 34564Members, Constellation
    Played it, didnt seem that amazing.

    It wont live up to the hype.
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  • raz0rraz0r Join Date: 2003-07-24 Member: 18395Members
    ARe there any other mirrors hosting the file?
    Lines + Slow download speeds = not cool.

    ARe there any other mirrors hosting the file?
    Lines + Slow download speeds = not cool.
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  • lolfighterlolfighter Snark, Dire Join Date: 2003-04-20 Member: 15693Members
    edited November 2006
    *curses his bandwidth limit to the deepest pits of hell*

    Edit: Oh, nevermind. All PAYING users. "lol pay us to play beta plx!" No thanks.
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  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    ###### can't make a gps account must be uni net DAMN IT
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  • surprisesurprise Join Date: 2003-01-16 Member: 12382Members, Constellation
    need winxp >_>
    got win2k >_>

    wanna play the game...
    graggghs <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/asrifle.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid="::asrifle::" border="0" alt="asrifle.gif" />
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Yeah, I'm holding off for now. I don't think my Radeon 9600 will really let me play the game. Until then, all my RTS goodness is concentrated in Warcraft III.
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  • Nil_IQNil_IQ Join Date: 2003-04-15 Member: 15520Members
    Well i've been at 4 minutes in the fileplanet download queue for the last 2 hours, so I think it might be a bit broken. This makes me a sad panda.
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  • SpetsnazSpetsnaz Join Date: 2003-12-26 Member: 24761Members, Constellation
    downloading it now! AND HELLO EVERYONE! its nice to be back, after about a year of no NS forums. <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/biggrin-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":D" border="0" alt="biggrin-fix.gif" />
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  • spinviperspinviper Join Date: 2003-05-08 Member: 16151Members
    edited November 2006
    <!--quoteo(post=1580042:date=Nov 24 2006, 12:02 AM:name=lolfighter)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(lolfighter @ Nov 24 2006, 12:02 AM) [snapback]1580042[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    *curses his bandwidth limit to the deepest pits of hell*

    Edit: Oh, nevermind. All PAYING users. "lol pay us to play beta plx!" No thanks.
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    It isn't limited to paying users, laddie. You just have to register for a free account. Thats how I downloaded mine. Good luck.

    <!--quoteo(post=1580042:date=Nov 23 2006, 11:11 PM:name=Josheh)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Josheh @ Nov 23 2006, 11:11 PM) [snapback]1580042[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Played it, didn't seem that amazing.

    It wont live up to the hype.
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    Well, it seemed exactly like Total Annihilation to me. I loved TA, so I love Supreme Commander.
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  • ScytheScythe Join Date: 2002-01-25 Member: 46NS1 Playtester, Forum Moderators, Constellation, Reinforced - Silver
    I was in the private beta. Add "Scythe" to your buddy list and I'll pwn you up sometime.

    --Scythe--
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  • NeonSpyderNeonSpyder &quot;Das est NTLDR?&quot; Join Date: 2003-07-03 Member: 17913Members
    Yeah what spinviper said. It's TA, but new and shiny. And who's to complain about that?
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  • ScribblesScribbles Join Date: 2003-11-05 Member: 22323Members
    I'm so playing this. I loved TA. The only thing I thought sucked was the resource system.

    The physics were amazing for that time though.
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  • RevenReven Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8202Members
    the nukes and commander explosion look sweeeeeeet. shame the nukes take 40 mins to build <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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  • AldarisAldaris Join Date: 2002-03-25 Member: 351Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1580319:date=Nov 24 2006, 12:32 PM:name=Reven)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Reven @ Nov 24 2006, 12:32 PM) [snapback]1580319[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    the nukes and commander explosion look sweeeeeeet. shame the nukes take 40 mins to build <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/sad-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":(" border="0" alt="sad-fix.gif" />
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    Or, you get several tech 3 engineers to assist the launcher, and it's done in way less then 5 minutes.
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  • PetcoPetco Join Date: 2003-07-27 Member: 18478Members, Constellation
    This will be the ultimate lan party RTS. Too bad I don't have lan parties often enough.
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  • RoverRover blargh Join Date: 2003-09-23 Member: 21139Members
    *prefers the brainlessness of the c&c games*

    Fun game though, love the zoom thing, need to get another cable so I can hook up my laptop's screen to my desktop.
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  • Cereal_KillRCereal_KillR Join Date: 2002-10-31 Member: 1837Members
    <!--quoteo(post=1580312:date=Nov 24 2006, 01:16 PM:name=Scribbles)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Scribbles @ Nov 24 2006, 01:16 PM) [snapback]1580312[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    I'm so playing this. I loved TA. The only thing I thought sucked was the resource system.

    The physics were amazing for that time though.
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    I found out the res system amazing. You have more than one option to get to build something: rely on a big stockpile of energy and metal: building will slowly decrease but that's OK seeing as how you've got huge reserves, or rely on huge quantities of metal and energy sources: building will not even take resources out of your pool. you can mix and match to your liking, hell you can even change during construction. It's quite lovely to start building something before you have enough resources to build it, and tweak your resource intakes accordingly. For example, you start off a construction with a construction aircraft, ask the commander to help in for a bit to go faster, then when your resource pool goes down, take the aircraft off and tour around a bit to gather some metal off of nodes.

    It's much more interesting than "pay X amount of Y, and we'll start doing this", then again it's maybe because I love this game.
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  • RobRob Unknown Enemy Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 25Members, NS1 Playtester
    The coolest thing about TA's resources (and Supreme Commander by extension) is it's "build and forget" quality. You find the resources, build the extractors, and then focus on combat until something attacks it, if it ever does. They're aren't any stupid harvesters that decide of their own volition to move on to the next batch of resources CLEAR ACROSS THE DAMNED MAP, through several enemy bases on each run, when there's more resources right behind your base. Hate.
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  • Sub_zer0Sub_zer0 Join Date: 2004-05-09 Member: 28569Members
    Is there any way/work around having to log in to play because my uni doesn't elt me log in:9 I jsut wanna see what its like?
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  • XythXyth Avatar Join Date: 2003-11-04 Member: 22312Members
    This game takes the cake for haveing the best nuclear explosion ever. C&C generals did it pretty good, original TA had the idea as well. but this is just insane, BOOOOOOOOM.
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  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    Damn.

    Just rebuilt my PC, but I never got the RAM from the shop because they'd underpriced it and so withdrew it from my order (by £14, Savastore.com FT<u>L</u>). Because I'd budgeted the parts right down to the wire I couldn't really afford anything comparable so I did some early Christmas shopping figuring I could survive until payday on 512MB RAM.

    Wrong.

    I found out one of my paired 256MB sticks has mysteriously died, so I'm left with a measly 256MB bottlenecking what's otherwise a very respectable rig (A8N32-SLi Deluxe {with heatpipe}, X1900GT, Athlon 64 3800+ with an ultra-quiet Zalman, WD Caviar 250GB SATA, Enermax Liberty 500W PSU).

    Is there any hope of me being able to run <i>S'upComm?</i> with only 256MB RAM? If not I'm gonna have to wait until this Thursday before I can really lay into anything even slightly resembling a PC game. I played through 3 hours of Eternal Silence on the GC today already! Gah!

    P.S. I tried running the Dark Messiah demo and it wasn't pretty (I mean that both literally AND metaphorically).
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  • TychoCelchuuuTychoCelchuuu Anememone Join Date: 2002-03-23 Member: 345Members
    Oooh ouch. 256 really isn't going to cut it. The games are going to be sad, as if a million voices suddenly cried out in pain, and were suddenly silenced. Your best bet? Uh, HL1 based games. I mean, 256 sucks.
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  • StakhanovStakhanov Join Date: 2003-03-12 Member: 14448Members
    Supreme Commander runs on my PC , with 512 MB. I don't know if it could run on 256 MB , but don't even think about it. My config is somewhat weak , so I ran it with graphics at lowest - but still performance is measured in seconds between frames , rather than frames per second... a pity , couldn't enjoy the cool units animations. Also got an ugly render bug messing up their polygons whenever they moved , so they looked more like porcupines than metal beasts.

    Nevertheless , it's obvious that Supreme Commander will rule strategy games.
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  • CrispyCrispy Jaded GD Join Date: 2004-08-22 Member: 30793Members, Constellation
    <!--quoteo(post=1580677:date=Nov 25 2006, 08:44 PM:name=TychoCelchuuu)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TychoCelchuuu @ Nov 25 2006, 08:44 PM) [snapback]1580677[/snapback]</div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->
    Oooh ouch. 256 really isn't going to cut it. The games are going to be sad, as if a million voices suddenly cried out in pain, and were suddenly silenced. Your best bet? Uh, HL1 based games. I mean, 256 sucks.
    <!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Well, then, looks like it's RRootage and Eternal Silence for the next 5 days. Still, I can't wait to try SupComm. Screenies, anyone? <img src="style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile-fix.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":)" border="0" alt="smile-fix.gif" />
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