But SupCom vanilla is enough to have fun so i still play it a lot !

;-)

On copy protection, I’m rather a fan of Stardock’s gamers bill of rights, and find that their approach to Sins of a Solar Empire and Galactic Civilisations 2. Sure, people can pirate games, but they’ll be missing out on online multiplayer play AND critical bugfixes if they do this. By securing the game patching system, they’ve given a great incentive to buy their game. If you’ve tried it, and you like it, and you want it to run properly, you buy it! How much more simple can it get?

Supcom was indeed a pay beta for Forged Alliance and I feel assraped by Gaspowered Games.

I will NOT EVER buy any of their games no matter how awesome they are.

And Chris Taylor’s smoking crack if he thinks “secure computing” is the future of gaming. Devs want more and more control over their customers’ computers. That’s ridiculous and only encourages people to pirate software. I don’t, but I share the feelings that drive a lot to do so – namely backlash at devs that want to control what you paid to own a copy of. It’s a really obnoxious stance the devs take. They should be serving the customer, not the other way around. They don’t understand their place in the market economy and such arrogance it only hurts them in the end. So I just don’t buy their goods, and unlike pirates, I just have to do without. Guess it works out well that I don’t have so much time for gaming anymore.

World In Conflict was the only RTS I’ve purchased in the interim and wow that was done VERY well and the dev support for the community is top notch. If I had time to play an RTS game, it would be WiC over SupCom any day.

Switech really should have acknoweleged he needed to do a rebalance mod, not just a bug fix. The bug fix didn’t play better than OTA so why would anybody feel compelled to play it.

The other mods definately didn’t play as well as OTA. That’s why the standard stayed. They all had major issues. Personally I think I have a good concept for a mod but at this point nobodys going to play it.

But i was very disappointed that even with the 30 patches…
the games still runs poorly on my good system (in other word: runs every other game on the planet)
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Multiplayer games on large maps (with the scale the game was intended for). Still de-sync 50% of the time.
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I just doesn’t work good enough.
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I played some skirmishes against some AI’s to satisfy my SupCom needs … it’s such a good game…
but the way the multiplayer backoffice works… we’re confined to playing C&C3 sized maps.
Because the large maps are unplayable because the system can’t handle it and because the games desync.
And what’s the point of playing a game designed for large scale battles on a small 10×10 or 20×20 map.
We want those fucking 80×80 or even larger maps. That’s war… that takes true strategic planning.
Not this bullshit tactical spam war Supcom players are fighting now.
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Now I know when they released the game… they said it was a game for future hardware.
But they have to face that was a huge mistake… by the time the hardware meets this requirements.
SupCom will be catching a lot of dust on all our shelves. The fact that this supcom-enthousiastics blog is not updated
speaks for itself. The poll speaks parts of books. They gambled and lost.
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I was and am so in love with the idea behind this game. But it just doesn’t work.
Don’t get me wrong… I fucking love this game. More’s the pitty !

Hell 95% of GPGnet community is on FA.

Cyde, you should really check how FA plays dude, your gonna get hooked again.