- SUPREME COMMANDER 2 UNITS FOR FORGED ALLANCE SERIES
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Gone are the long building times, unit tiers, the Aeon navy (all "Illuminate" tanks hover so they don't get a navy), resource drain, massive maps (the biggest map left is a roughly 20km by 20km map where as Forged Alliance maps can be 4 times that size), and the serephim (they were removed as part of the story but couldn't we get a new alien race instead of some half assed rogue from one of the existing factions?). It seems in their quest to make Supreme Commander 2 more accessible to more players they have succeeded in removing everything their original fanbase enjoyed. I found the original Supreme Commander at Target for $10. This can make battles far too easy to the point it's just boring.Ĭonsider this final bit of information. It just sends waves of units at you while making sure to replace any you destroy. That's it, it's the simplest AI I've ever dealt with. *if destroyers and gunships present send small squadron of fighter/bombers at enemy* *if no destroyers or gunships present send replacements* *checks locations for destroyers and gunships* It was mainly a naval mission and I think the AI can be summed up as follows.
Take for example the first mission of the demo. Now you can run an infinite number with no drain whatsoever making the structure really overpowered. In Forged Alliance it could take up to 500 energy to keep a shield running. This system is also reflected by the shield generator. In SC 2 you pay it up front so there's no longer a constant drain.
In Forged Alliance a unit had a cost and you paid that over time while that unit was being built. To the left of that you also see that resources are now spent differently. A mere 300 units compared to the 500 (or 1000 in skirmish) of Forged Alliance. I want you to notice something in that screenshot, look at the unit cap. Shouldn't the Atlantis 2, suppossedly an improvement, be better then the original instead of the other way around? The Atlantis from Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance can carry 150 aircraft. For example, the Atlantis 2 submarine/aircraft carrier hybrid can carry 25 aircraft. The results of this new take on experimentals can be summed up by the following screenshot.Īlso the new experimentals are worse then the old ones. While this means battles can get more epic more quickly it also removes a lot of the satisfaction at having just broken your economy so you can break an enemy's balls. For Supreme Commander 2 the experimentalsĪre now a lot cheaper and quicker to produce. The experimentals tend to be the highlight of this series, big units that can take 15 minutes to build and can stomp all over the enemy's base.
Additionally the games coding was streamlined to make it run better on even lower end PCs. With Supreme Commander 2 we instead have a tech tree which upgrades your basic units and unlocks experimentals. The first Supreme Commander featured 3 tiers of units with a special 4th tier consisting of expiramental units, massively time and resource consuming units that can sometimes win the battle by themselves. If you manage to make it to the end though, you learn of some shocking bits that bring closure to each of the three campaigns.īut surely the gameplay can make up for cliched story, right? Well it seems Square Enix (Yes, the maker's of Final Fantasy do make RTS') has dumbed down the gameplay since the first game in an attempt to make it more accessible for everyone. The characters are very dull, I couldn't identify with any of them partly because they have so little dialog and partly because they are so predictable you can easily guess what they're going to say. The story is nothing great, and you have to play the campaigns in order where as Forged Alliance let you pick which of 3 factions (the 4th was reserved to play the role of the bad guys) you wanted to play and put you through the same missions whichever faction you picked. Supreme Commander 2 features 3 factions, each with their own 6 mission campaign.
SUPREME COMMANDER 2 UNITS FOR FORGED ALLANCE SERIES
Having decided I liked the series I picked up Supreme Commander 2 and the results are less then good.
SUPREME COMMANDER 2 UNITS FOR FORGED ALLANCE FREE
((Feel free to tell me how I could make my reviews better))įirst let me start out by saying that the only knowledge I had of Supreme Commander came from playing Supreme Commander Forged Alliance, a superb RTS with a massive scale and 4 unique factions.