Supreme Commander Talk

Hey there peeps!

I have been waiting for this game looong time and now i finally got my hands on it. The thing that made me most curious after playing the beta was how the new maps would look. I have played like 12 games of FA now and the new maps i like the most so far are these:

“Eye Of The Storm”

Excellent map in my opinion. You have to use combined forces with air, naval and land on this map. Drops and firebases are very effective but can still be countered. Also the map just look fantastic… like a bigger Finns revenge in the graphic style.

“Daroza´s Sanctuary”

This map has a lot of mexes all over and multiple chokepoints and valleys perfect for ambushes. It also has many rocks to reclaim which makes you get a hell lot of units out fast and quick. It tends to favour epic fights with many units and higher tech even thou its a pretty small map.

“Haven Reef”

A very different map! It has one chokepoint in the middle which is a highway to the other players base. But it also have mexes to claim on the sides of the base, but then you have to cross the water. You can try make a huge force and go directly threw middle and take your opponents base or you can try to take the sides and control the enemy. The maps plays a lot different than other maps which in my opinion makes exciting gameplay.

Okay, that was only three of the new maps but i surely like almost all of them. Many of them are bigger with more mexes to fight over so that you get a big economy even without massfabs. Yeah thats the point i think. Many people have complained because they think its to hard to get a good economy going without massfabs. But all things have been made faster and cheaper, also there is more mexes to fight over and use. I think the gameplay is fantastic so far. It feels like aeon, uef and cybran are completely balanced or almost depending a little bit on the map. Seraphim seem to have a little bit to many weaknesses after their t1 arty got 50% more mass expensive and their tmd is still crappy. But well i think we need to wait a bit and see if someone can use their advantages fully before we demand a “BUFF SERAPHIM NOW!!!” patch.

Ive only played 7 ranked so far but i have made many t3 units and some experimentals already. I dont feel that the game is to much about spamming. It feels more like it plays like the epic game that we were promised with hundreds of units on the screen and a lot of different tech. Because you really need to tech up in Forged Alliance but not on the second factory as in Supcom vanilla. Tech up quick on bigger more “closed” maps like Liberiam Battles and make more t1 factorys on open maps like Open Palms. Still you need to tech up on Palms too. Making 20 t1 factorys and not teching up is just made of fail. I can promise you that its more effective to start teching up at like 8-10 factorys and after 20 minutes have 4-5 t2 factorys than having 20 t1 factorys spamming free mass to the opponent. The t2 is needed and powerful as hell. At the moment i play with Aeon and one thing i love with their t2 is the mobile shields. They need a bit of micro but DAMN! they are awesome and fast!

Also there has been people complaining about how hard it is to turtle in FA, and that if you have less mexes than the opponent you are lost. That´s not true and i can tell you why. If the opponent plays more aggressive and take more mexes you can still play smart and defend chokepoints of the map. Take your commander and units and defend with point defences and later on shields. The key to do this is reclaiming the wrecks of the units and tech up the mexes. Make one factory that only builds engineers and set the the factory on patrol around the wreckage area that you defend and the opponent constantly attacks. If you do this right you should soon have a much bigger economy than him and be able to strike back with a much bigger force.

Okay i that was all i had to say for today about FA gameplay. But as a last word i want to advertise i33 and the clan league that www.supcom-live.com made. The clan league is made by GuTs who been working a lot to get this working. Supcom-live has paid professionals for doing a virtual betting system that all people will be able to bet on the clan games with. I can just say AWESOMENESS! and get your clan in the league because you do NOT want to miss this.

i33 is a Lan tournament in UK, Newbury, close to London. The biggest Lan tournament in UK and most likely with a sponsored Forged Alliance tournament. Its in the Easter 21-24 march 2008. It will 99% sure be a 2v2 tournament so get a partner and be ready to travel to i33 and meet me and Djinn in the finals ;)

This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 20th, 2007 at 4:37 am by Sir_Loui and is filed under Maps, Multiplayer, Strategy. Keywords: . You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.