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Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance by bjbrains on Fri Aug 03, 2007 11:44 pm |
Just when you thought that we were dead...
The "stand-alone expansion" for Supreme Commander has been announced, called "Forged Alliance", it adds many new elements to the game. This includes...
A new faction, the Seraphim
10 new units for each old faction, including a 4th experimental unit.
Many speed enhancements
Balance fixes, including cheaper, faster, but less powerful Experimental units.
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Supreme Commander Patch 3254 |
A new Supreme Commander patch has been released and is available at Strategy Informer. The patch includes the following fixes:
| Quote: | Shields now protect against UEF and Cybran strategic bombers.
Disconnection dialog now updates properly, and quiet times will not get stuck
at five seconds.
Aircraft carriers that are building aircraft can no longer be attacked by
Interceptors or Air Superiority Fighters.
Fixed issues relating to how T3 artillery fires.
Children of children will now die correctly when Czar/Atlantis dies.
Cybran T2 Sonar hit points increased.
Engineers will no longer assist a shield generator if the shield has been
destroyed. They will now wait until the shield comes back up before assisting
Strategic Missile Launchers will no longer play the 'Strategic Launch Detected'
voice if you simply select a spot to nuke.
UEF T3 Sonar Platform's rate of fire decreased and damage increased.
Corona damage radius changed from 0 to 1. This effectively reduces the DPS of
the unit.
New Ferry Beacon Icon.
Fixed issue that prevented players from moving the cursor to lower third of
screen.
Fixed exploit that let players permanently move the CDR off map.
dbg_ballistics is no longer usable with cheats off.
Fixed crash that occurred when players pressed and held middle mouse wheel down
and then pressed the End or Home key in game.
Transport-related tweaks.
Introduced 500 structure build queue limit.
Sacrifice retuned
Replays downloaded from the GPGnet Replay Vault will no longer cause the replay
dialog to fail.
Sacrifice Exploit on paused SCU/SCU corrected. |
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Newest Patch Out - Version 3251 by Panther on Tue May 22, 2007 4:19 pm |
The much awaited new patch for Supreme Commander is finally here! Patch 3251 has a full list of changes and tweaks that will serve to make online gaming better for the SupCom community. For a full list of changes, please click here.
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Vista Gadget for SupCom |
Dan over at SupCom.net has created a Vista gadget for Supreme Commander. It's a Windows Vista sidebar gadget to show your online ranking info.
Instructions are as follows:
Right-click here, save target as... When it's downloaded just double click and install it. After you added it to the sidebar you need to enter your player-id in the options for the gadget. Check the comments for this news post for info on how to find out your player id.
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Supreme Commander Patch 3223 |
StrategyInformer has made the latest Patch 3223 available for download here.
It's fairly small, weighing in at 1.93mb.
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Gamespot Tournament Finals |
Gamespot will be broadcasting the finals of their 64 player "Last Commander Standing" tournament tommorow. The match will start at 4 P.M PST (7 P.M EST) and will be a 3-way FFA with the 3 finalists.
I'll probably be tuning in, as it seems like an interesting match.
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Server Downtime |
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SCHQ's 1st Faction War by Panther on Sun Mar 11, 2007 4:29 pm |
SCHQ now readies itself for members here to play in SCHQ's very own Faction Wars!
The Faction Wars are designed to allow players and members of SCHQ to join their favorite faction against the other factions in a series of battles over time to determine which faction is the strongest in each faction war. However, in order to get the ball rolling, we need you, the player! If you would like to join up in the Faction Wars, do go to our forum now, register, and join in your favorite faction's forum!
With enough members, you can then vote for a leader for each faction, and once that is done, we may begin our very first Faction Wars! Member listings have already been made in each of the faction forums, so you can officially join up as a member of that faction! Look into the relevant threads in each section for more details.
An announcement will be made when the time comes to vote for leaders. So, do stay tuned! And hope to see you in the forums!
Edited update: Just so we are clear on the issue, the Faction Wars will be fought in teams of 2 or 3 (or even both) online, in games. As to how these teams will be created, the leader of each faction will determine the method used for his or her particular faction.
Also, you need not worry about actually having to play. You can just join the Faction as a member for fun, for chatting with other players, and the like, for your own favorite faction. When the time comes to play, the leader need only ask for people who are interested in playing, so no worries if you do not want to play, but still want to have fun in the faction forums. So join us today!
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IGN Talks to Chris Taylor |
IGN met up with Chris Taylor at this year's Game Developers Conference, and they've written up an article about it. Here's a snippet:
| Quote: | "RTS games, as it were, weren't really coming along at the pace you'd expect them to," Taylor said. "They were really flat. The graphics were getting better, there were minor improvements here and there." He saw a major opportunity to create a better RTS by using the mouse wheel to not only zoom in, but to zoom out and view the entire map. On top of that, he saw barely any games or programs with the ability to zoom in where the cursor was on the screen for quick, precise battle map management. It also allowed his team to create a much more diversified range of units, since the zoom opened up the possibilities for much larger maps. Instead of having to make ships roughly as powerful as tanks, Taylor said he could now create massive ships capable of wiping out entire squads with one hit. Experimental units came next. "We started off having a lot of them, but the production costs on these things are very, very expensive. So we had to trim it down to three [per faction]," said Taylor.
He went on to give a rather detailed account of trying to find a publisher for the game. He'd shopped it around to a few big name companies who rejected his proposals, and one who'd even struck a deal only to cancel it shortly afterward. "They looked at it, and they didn't get it. They were like, oh this just doesn't make any sense, they trotted out some line like PC gaming is dead. And here's ATI and Nvidia selling video cards like crazy. People are not doing Word on these cards." Taylor went on to say, "When it was cancelled by some rather large company with two initials, I was like oh game on [expletive]." Taylor was more than pleased when he eventually found THQ to publish the game. |
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Supreme Commander Outsells WoW |
Shocked? It's good to know that people still know quality when they see it.
| Quote: | The top 10 best selling PC games for the week February 18 through 24 are:
World Of Warcraft: Burning Crusade Expansion Pack - Vivendi US$ 36
Supreme Commander - THQ - US$ 48
World Of Warcraft - Vivendi - US$ 20
The Sims 2 - Electronic Arts - US$ 37
The Sims: Life Stories - Electronic Arts - US$ 35
The Sims 2 Pets Expansion Pack - Electronic Arts - US$ 30
Battlefield 2142 - Electronic Arts - US$ 39
Deal or No Deal - Global Star Software (Take 2) - US$ 20
MS Age Of Empires III - Microsoft US$ 48
MS Flight Simulator X Deluxe - Microsoft US$ 67 |
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GamePro Review Score Bribery Scandal |
Here's something new. Apparently, the gaming magazine GamePro allegedly accepted a bribe to give Supreme Commander a 50% score. GWN reports:
| Quote: | There is a huge buzz circulating on the Internet now about the controversial review of the popular real-time strategy game Supreme Commander written by GamePro's Australia division. Most reviews (as seen on ranking sites like GameRankings.com and MetaCritic.com) have been very positive about Supreme Commander, with reviews averaging around 80% - 90%.
GamePro Australia, however, gave Supreme Commander a score of 5 / 10 (50%), stating that the game was, "virtually unplayable" and that Supreme Commander represented the "saddest moment in the history of the [RTS] genre." The review was so controversial that GameRankings.com and MetaCritic.com have pulled the score from their respective sites. Now, while the review is accurate in that SC does have very high system requirements, we had no real issues with the shift key or the frame rate in general when playing on a relatively new system (Dual Core Intel, 1GB RAM, 7800GTX).
Gas Powered Games, developers of Supreme Commander, were understandably upset about the review, as it was one of the first Supreme Commander reviews to appear, and may have swayed some fans from purchasing the game.
Apparently, although this has not been confirmed as of yet, the controversy only became worse when rumors of a bribe began to surface. Electronic Arts, in competition with Gas Powered Games (EA's own RTS, Command & Conquer 3, ships near the end of March), supposedly offered a large sum of money to Game Pro Australia in exchange for the low review score of Supreme Commander.
There are now more rumors that GamePro Australia is being shut down, although this also is not yet confirmed.
If rumors of a bribe are indeed true, this represents an all-time low, not just for Electronic Arts and GamePro, but perhaps for the video game industry as a whole. Who knows if this has happened before.
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That's pretty damn sad.
On the plus side, GWN has written their own honest to goodness review of Supreme Commander, which you can check out here.
They have posted an update/retraction to their story.
| Quote: | | Update: We're happy to report that the person who started the bribe rumor on the Gamespot forums has admitted it was a lie, so we've removed mention of the rumor from this story. Their rumor post has also now been removed at Gamespot, and mention of it on the Gas Powered Games forum has also gone. |
Let's hope so.
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GameSpot "Last Commander Standing" Tournament |
GameSpot has announced Last Commander Standing, an online Supreme Commander tournament, which will be held next week.
Registration opens Wednesday, March 7, and closes on Monday, March 12. The actual tournament begins on Monday – March 12, and will last until Friday – March 16.
And of course, we'll broadcast the finals live on GameSpot Tournament TV. The top three players will battle in Assassination mode on the Sentry Point map, and you'll get to watch your favorite GameSpot editors cover the entire match with sharp commentary, gameplay analysis, and interviews with the team leaders.
Interested parties can check out these links:
Tournament webpage
Tournament TV
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StrategyInformer Hosts SupCom Tournament |
StrategyInformer is hosting a tournament for Supreme Commander. Here are the details:
| Quote: | Delivering one of the most advanced and innovative features of any RTS game, Supreme Commander establishes a breathtaking new standard for sheer scope and scale of gameplay. We are calling in for the best of talents behind Supreme Commander to participate in this tournament for their chance to win great prizes and vanquish the opposing teams.
Tournament Details:
8 teams will be accepted and will participate in this tournament. Each round will feature a different map. First qualifications round will be played on Drake's Ravine, second Semi Finals will be played on High Noon, while the finals will be played on Fields of Isis. The winner gets the glory and prizes!
Tournament Prizes:
Tournament prizes kindly provided by Paradox Interactive.
1st Team
2x Rush for Berlin, 2x Perimeter: Emperor’s Testament
2nd Team
2x Europa Universalis III T-shirts, 2x Mouse pads |
If you're interested in participating, follow this link.
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Review Bonanza! |
Time to make a list of many of the reviews for Supreme Commander to come out so far.
Gamespy gave the game 4.5 stars out of 5.
Game Revolution gave the game a A-.
Gamespot gave the game 8.7 out of 10. They also have a fairly useful guide posted on their website.
Strategy Informer gave the game 9.3 out of 10, and had many positive things to say about the game.
Both Total Video Games and PC Games World Gave the game a 9.
The vast majority of the reviews of the game have been good ones, and the game has a average rating of 87% over at Game Rankings.
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