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I was really disappointed by Supreme Commander and especially Supreme Commander 2 and I think it was primarily the lack of a zillion different types of units like TA had. In TA you would decide, "I know, I will build a giant wave of submersible tanks followed up by a massive airstrike" and you could do that if you wanted. Or you could decide to build an army made up of a huge selection of just mechs or just vehicles or whatever. In the Supcom games it never felt like there was much variety in what you could build in comparison so it felt really bland to me. Here's hoping they add tons of different units right off the bat in this one. I've put my $15 down.
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Drone_Fragger posted:Problem is TA had terrain differences and Supcom didn't. In TA K-Bots existed because some terrain was too steep for the more heavily armed and armoured tanks to traverse. Supreme commander didn't have this and as such there was basically only tanks. My guess would be it'll be robots and tanks in PA for similar reasons to why it was in TA. Yeah SupCom2 was defintely way way worse but I was never as drawn into SupCom1 as I was with TA way back then either. With TA I would get together with my friends and play massive 4 player 12 hour long games that only ended because of a game desync or someone's computer would crash or whatever. Supcom just never had that same draw for me.
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Aug 16, 2012 22:25
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64bit support is pretty sweet. It'll be nice not having a game that crashes when it tries to use over 2gb of memory.
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Aug 17, 2012 01:08
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Lprsti99 posted:Okay, perhaps I'm getting the term mixed up, but isn't this similar to play-by-email and the like? The only real-time games I can remember seeing with asynchronous multiplayer were DEFCON (at 1:1 time scale) and Neptune's pride. The former was fairly simplistic, and as I recall you still had to stay in the game client at all times, and the latter's games literally took weeks to months, and it was also simple. Not sure how that would work with this game, unless they mean a really large, really slow game mode. (That would rock, by the way). I'm pretty sure they said TA was Asynchronous, most other RTS's are Synchronous and that Planetary Annihilation was going to be Client-Server. e.g. You run a dedicated server and clients join to play. I'm not sure how A/Synchronous lines up with Client/Server but that's the way they presented it in the text I read. Kickstarter page posted:Other than Total Annihilation, which was asynchronous, most Real-Time Strategy games use a synchronous networking model, which means that all the computers in a given game are held back by the slowest machine. The Planetary Annihilation engine uses a client-server model so that the “heavy lifting” can be done on a game server, freeing up gamers’ machines to engage in bigger battles with more players!
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Aug 22, 2012 22:48
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They just announced the stretch goals and unit differentiation/factions doesn't seem to be among them unfortunately. Edit: Oops they only announced 2 of the 5.
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Aug 23, 2012 00:27
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The greatest part of TA that I won't be able to replicate in Planetary Annihilation sadly is that I had a Pentium 200 and my friend only had a P120. When my fleet of Brawlers or Advanced Stealth planes would lift off it turned his computer into a slideshow so he was completely unable to do anything but hope and pray his automated defences were good enough to fend off my attacks. I fear we'll never see such glorious times ever again 
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Aug 23, 2012 00:55
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Thewittyname posted:Discounting the initial three day surge of orders, PA is bringing in about 45k a day. Even assuming it drops to 40K and stays there, given the remaining number of days it should clear the first two stretch goals easily, ending up with about $1.5 million. FWIW, Kicktraq is projecting an end total between $1.6 and $3.0 million. If I had to guess I'd say that they probably made the decision to only have one side in order to save money in terms of time being invested to balance multiple factions against each other. Also saves time in designing more units and leaves a door open to future expansions/dlc with new factions I suppose.
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