Supreme Commander Talk

Since our thread announcing the upcoming release of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance, a number of details about the new standalone title have emerged. Gamespot has a Q&A on the new title, and several users have also contributed speculation in comments. Interestingly, there is also a thread in the official forums created by jables, [...]

Those of you who’ve played on GPGnet recently have seen the teaser countdown in the GPGnet header banner rotation. It has a full countdown (including days, hours, minutes, and seconds) to August 1. So what happens on August 1? The only clue we have is the text “You asked for it; they’re [...]

Eurogamer has the scoop on a new standalone game in the Supreme Commander series, titled Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance. The release date is scheduled for November, and it will include over 100 new units, including “fully realised navies, orbital weaponry and advanced counter-intelligence technologies.” Hopefully all of these features will make it into [...]

This probably flew under most people’s radar, but there was a huge stealth Cybran nerf in the v3255 patch whose ramifications are just now being felt. This nerf was the complete removal of the Cerebus, the Cybran’s T2 point defense! Now you probably didn’t realize because it was replaced by a seemingly identical, [...]

Son of Shagrat previously announced that the 2v2 ladder would be reset. Well, it’s now happened, with all teams starting over at 0-0-0. The top ten teams before the reset did get special awards, however. I just feel bad for #11. I hope this is the last time we see a [...]

The latest version of GPGnet, 1.5 was just released (as it was previously announced it would be). The patch notes, as announced by Son of Shagrat on the official forum, are as follows:
GPGnet Award System
A new award and avatar system has been put in place. In your Profile, you will note many new recognitions [...]

GPG has just released a new version of SupCom, v3255. This hotfix apparently fixes a possible desync exploit, although I am unsure of any details. There are no official release notes that I can find, just a one line message on GPGnet. Unfortunately, this means that yet again old replays are incompatible [...]

A new GPGnet patch is coming next week. I’ve spoken with Son of Shagrat, the Producer of GPGnet, and he has confirmed the following new features:

An awards system, which will reward players for performing certain feats in ranked play (like, say, 5 wins in a row?). Awards will also be given to winners [...]

Son of Shagrat has announced that GPG is seriously considering resetting the 2v2 ladder:
We have been giving 2v2 a lot of love since the release of the latest patch. This love will be out with the next patch in the coming week or so. We’ve tightened down all aspects of 2v2, including game launch and [...]

If you didn’t think that there would be a player with over 1,000 1v1 ranked games under his belt by now, you were wrong. Gabriel-E78 currently stands at 657 wins, 470 losses, and 39 draws, for a total of 1,166 ranked games played. That makes for an average of thirteen ranked games a [...]