any other game similar to FA?

[Kinder Bueno]

Hi,

I like the economic system of FA and all the support system between factory/units etc. But I cannot enjoy the game with the "slowdown" bug during endgame. Is there any other similar game like FA out there ? SC2 isn't really what I'm looking for.

[Sheppy]

not a bug, if game is slowing down it's because your CPU cant handle it

[Fox]

actually it is a bug, its a AI pile up issue which you dont get in multi player i noly really get it wheni got against 4 or more ai with high limit. tru limiting units. anyway other rts games like this, none htat i know of, this is pretty unigue in that regards.

RTS games you may want to check out if you have not already played them are
Men of War: Allied Assualt (there is also a 2 but i havent played that 1 yet)
Total War: shogun 2 fall of samurai (turn based strategy with real time battles)
Company of Heroes
Command and conqure (i tend to prefer red alert 2)
Age of Empires 2

i got more but i cant think of them right now lol. on a side not, if you use Sorian Ai mod of FA it helpt with the AI lag

[Sheppy]

Originally posted by Fox Logan:

actually it is a bug, its a AI pile up issue which you dont get in multi player i noly really get it wheni got against 4 or more ai with high limit. tru limiting units. anyway other rts games like this, none htat i know of, this is pretty unigue in that regards.

RTS games you may want to check out if you have not already played them are
Men of War: Allied Assualt (there is also a 2 but i havent played that 1 yet)
Total War: shogun 2 fall of samurai (turn based strategy with real time battles)
Company of Heroes
Command and conqure (i tend to prefer red alert 2)
Age of Empires 2

i got more but i cant think of them right now lol. on a side not, if you use Sorian Ai mod of FA it helpt with the AI lag

it's fixed

[˗ˏˋKAIDONˎˊ˗]

Planetary Annihilation, it's still in Early Access, but it's inspired by Supreme Commander and Total Annihilation, the result is a damn good game

[T-Bone Biggins]

I honestly do not get any slowdown by the time I end a game. You must be thinking of games where a guy deliberately 'turtles' or as we called them in TA days 'Porcs' ala porcupine and just watch the bots run into your defenses. Which that is fun once in a while, kinda like a cool TV show. But look for the original Total Annihilation on GOG.

Your best bet is to look up TA Spring, an open source and free game and engine. Balanced Annihilation and XTA are two 'mods' for Spring that are very similar to the original TA, but with modern interface and graphics. Lots of players online still, and there are adaptive bots you can play with though some have issues like no navy and whatnot.

[Stabilo ᐰ]

Try first 'perimeter'. Planetary annihilation is on its way. Well, sins of a solar empire is not in the same league, but you can change scale there like in supcom, from single unit to whole galaxy. Its closer to classic rts tho.

[Sheppy]

Sins Of Solar is cool, i would be carefull with PA, not saying it's bad... just be carefull dont get blinded by the words from the gaming press

[Stabilo ᐰ]

"Sins of a solar.. ♥♥♥♥ this is taking too long."

[T-Bone Biggins]

Sins blah blah aka SOASE is not too bad considering you can get it cheap from most places. Every time they make an expansion, the rest of the stuff goes into the bargain bin and the latest expansion stays overpriced. It's not too bad, but I get mad at games with an emphasis of hero units, drives me nuts when my army gets wiped by one unit that takes just too much damage to be right.

Yes, while SupCom and TA styled games has a 'hero' in the Commander it's not an almighty one at all in comparison. In SupCom by tech 2 the Com can be pulverized in a few seconds easy by a small block of T2 units if he gets caught in the open. This little complaint about 'hero units' in RTS's aside, SOASE is enjoyable. It's an RTS but not like SupCom. Kinda like how Starcraft 1+2 play nothing like TA/SupCom, they feel totally different yet are in the same genre.

[MIK]

Try games made on Spring Engine (http://springrts.com/ for engine, http://springfiles.com/ for games, maps). This engine was planned as descendant of Total Annihilation.

Here promotion video (parts of gameplay without gui):
http://youtu.be/vuP63IobLps

and actual gameplay:
http://youtu.be/QgDhid5hpI0

Engine and most of the games OpenSourced.

Also, one of spring games are now on Steam (free):
http://store.steampowered.com/app/291150/

[Zoey]

Company of Heroes, Total war (i'd recommend shogun 2), dawn of war dark crusade (dawn of war 2 is a completely different game, still good but not the same feel). Age of empires and Age of Mythology

If you like Lord of the rings, then you will love Battle for Middle Earth 2. Only problem is EA lost the license, so it isn't for sale on steam, or anywhere else that i know of. Will have to buy second hand. Brilliant game though



Like others have said, the game slowing down isn't necessaryily a bug. Huge armies really slow down the game, even with a good computer. If this really is a problem for you, then play on smaller maps or limit the units (Something that really helped on Shogun 2 to help the loading times was reducing the unit size. Wouldn't make any difference to gameplay really, you just dont look at your army and think "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ hell that is huge". Can't remember whether there is an option for this on FA)

[Qwerty Drive]

Originally posted by Kinder Bueno:

Hi,

I like the economic system of FA and all the support system between factory/units etc. But I cannot enjoy the game with the "slowdown" bug during endgame. Is there any other similar game like FA out there ? SC2 isn't really what I'm looking for.

Apparently, you boot up Supcom, start playing, THEN, go to Task manager, set affinity to just core 0, then reset it to core 0 and 1, AND BOOM, you get better CPU utilization over the dual cores...same process for quad core.

Dont bother with Sins of a solar lag unless u have i5 or better CPU the game is single core only.. while Planetary Annihilation supports quad cores.

[Dr. Dronken]

a game similar to FA? what about Supreme Commander's prequel, Total Ahnilation?