Supreme Commander Closed Beta

[Aada]

Anyone get in? i got home from work and there this email open it to find a beta key and i am downloading now omfg i can't wait

 

[tris-]

how did you manage to get into the beta?

ive applyed for loads but never got a single invite. except ryzom online.

the less we say about that the better.

 

[Aada]

how did you manage to get into the beta?

ive applyed for loads but never got a single invite. except ryzom online.

the less we say about that the better.

Applied ages ago via the website.

 

[Mazling]

I applied ... no email yet :-(

 

[Aada]

Anyone got any questions? been playing 4 abit now so ask any questions and i will try and answer.

 

[Wij]

Anyone got any questions? been playing 4 abit now so ask any questions and i will try and answer.

Is it good ? What does it play like ?

 

[Aada]

Is it good ? What does it play like ?

I am playing on a AMD64 3400 (3.4 GHZ) 2GIGS DDR 400, X850PRO 256MB 400GIG.

I have settings maxed and the game runs great i have had 8 player battles and the game has still rank at a nice FPS only ever dropping to around 45.

Before we get into the game i will say that the game browser is probably one of the best i have seen it has stats/clans/chats/news everything you could want it runs constantly and that is what launches the game if you are mping.

The game itself to start is very confusing and requires alot of micro and alot of WTF does this do moments but i am getting used to it.

The maps are HUGE but thankfully the transport ships provide excellent travel for troops (and btw it looks awsome when you have 12 or so ships flying right into the battle and dropping off tanks/weapons etc).

There are alot of units to get used to and ofc each is great at one thing but crap at something else.

I haven't at this time had any experimental units but one guy did have one against me and decimated my army (which wasn't that big anyway so no ''its overpowered ''

Not sure what else to say really except i think people who don't like micro will not like the game for sure as it does require alot of it.

 

[Wij]

I don't mind micro but I HATE it when your troops can't do fuck all without you. That makes my mouse fly out of the window

 

[Aada]

I don't mind micro but I HATE it when your troops can't do fuck all without you. That makes my mouse fly out of the window

It's not like COH they actually return fire lol

You can queue you're units up to do multiple things for example you can set you're engineer to build 1 thing and then another thing and there is no limit to the amount of orders he can be given.

 

[Embattle]

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2007/01/05/Supreme_Commander_Preview/1.html

 

[tris-]

noob question - is the game online only?

 

[KevinUK]

No. I dont know if its single player will have anything unique or if it will be like every other RTS

 

[Aada]

noob question - is the game online only?

It is single player but i doubt you would play that for very long.

 

[Whipped]

Pre-ordered this as it comes out a few days before my saving pays off and I can afford my new Pc componants. The most annoying thing was that I then recieved an email inviting me to the MP beta. So now I have the client, but this old XP2600 is playing up again and I've had to drop it down to 1.6GHz to keep it stable

I don't think a 1.6 with 1GB 333 DDR and a Geforce 6600GT will like it.

Roll on my Athlon 64 X2 4200+ with 1GB of 667MHz DDR and Quadro FX4400

 

[Kami]

At the moment they have enormous performance issues with this, tried it on a fairly average rig, was 20fps or so to start with and died off to 5 after a about 10 minutes. 3ghz athlon XP/2Gb RAM/ 512Mb Radeon X1600. I'd call that about average these days, game almost melted it.

It's probably either a beta AI issue or a memory leak they need to get sorted. We did try it on a Athlon 64/ 2GB with a better graphics card, was better for a little while but again dropped off once anyone got a base built to about 5-10FPS after 15mins. That was with all settings on medium and 1024x768 on both rigs.

They'll have to sort it out, yes those dedicated gamers who throw money at their rig will manage, but the rest will simply send the game back.
We're now not took sure about our future LAN games at the moment lol might just have to fire up Total Annihilation + Core contingency packs