Supreme Commander HelpLine

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

I've got it working on Linux but I'll have to check to see what I did.

[fizz@lemmy.nz]

Love the art style of sup com.

[anyhow2503@lemmy.world]

I remember reading a thread about this on the FaF forums and I think one of the FaF clients does run on Linux. I think this is the current method of choice, but there are multiple ways to get it working and I probably used something else years ago, so its definitely doable.

[pregnenolone@lemmy.world]

I bought this game for $100 (Aud) when it came out, and my computer wouldn’t run it.

I never got to play it

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

I would like some advice for SC1 here in this thread (I'm talking tactics, etc....)

[anyhow2503@lemmy.world]

If your mass storage is full, any excess is wasted, so you should always try to make sure that it is being spent on something useful. SC1/FA incentivizes a constant balancing of your economy.

You can reclaim mass from dead units (even civilians), buildings, rocks, trees etc. Trees also give a bunch of energy which can be useful very early on. A failed attack will quite often turn out to be a mass donation that gets recycled into an army for realiation. All of this might be balanced differently between the different versions of the game, so I can't be sure that it applies all that well to base SC1 vs. FA or even FAF.

Don't build all your energy reactors in a big cluster if you can help it. One well placed attack will blow the whole thing up in a chain reaction. On the other hand, sabotaging your opponents power grid is often a solid strategy.

If anyone is interested in FAF and wants to take a look at some different levels of gameplay, check out GyleCast on YouTube.

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Any good let's plays/Walkthroughs on SC1 ?

[psaldorn@lemmy.world]

I got to play FaF with a top ranked player Vs 8 of us low-mid tiers (and one total novice)

We were still pottering about setting up defences and he had filled his half of the map with factories and quickly killed 2 or 3 of us. We won but only because one of us had a gunship squadron going around the map edge and found his commander.

It's quite astonishing what he did in such a short time.

It did kind of kill my enthusiasm for it though, an excession event where you realise you are just a pathetic minnow. Humbling

[mitm0@lemmy.world]

Next up, strengths & weaknesses of the factions

[anyhow2503@lemmy.world]

Sorry, no idea. I think I've only ever watched other people play multiplayer supcom and the few tutorials I watched were for Forged Alliance Forever. This is the kind of stuff I was watching a decade ago. Check it out if you're into old gameplay videos with a crusty mic track.

[passiveaggressivesonar@lemmy.world]

That is, indeed, a super meme

[digestive_biscuit@feddit.uk]

I was so excited when this game was released as I was a massive fan of Total Annihilation.

[ace0fblades@lemmy.world]

How does everyone like planetary annihilation as a spiritual successor? I always think it needed another tech level, but I adore the interplanetary combat so much. The escalation of chucking a planet at your opponent's base planet is unmatched