Hovers Are Actually INSANE - Beyond All Reason Gameplay 

When everything is meta... nothing is.

@@nickf950 True. I was using the term ironically.

From 30 minutes of eco to early hover raids. 😂

It's also free!

I've been thinking Hover into T2 vehicle into combat engineer (Consul or Twitcher) could be a really strong play.

yeah that fact is a game changer, straits meta continues to shift

They can build t2 shipyard and seaplanes (which is considered t1.5 by some) too.

ALWAYS. Since hover was introduced in the Core Contigency twenty years ago in TA. :D

@@KAClown A lot of us new people (including me) to BAR are totally unfamiliar with Total Annihilation. I had to use Google to even figure out what TA meant in this context.

@@JaimeWarlock Total Annihilation is one of the absolute longest lived games with an active community stretching back to its release in 1998. It distilled the RTS genre into a very simple formula based on the two resources of metal and energy and the less tangible resources of attention and time. It so perfectly captured one particular wide ranging model of RTS games that it had virtually no competition going forward. Starcraft and Warcraft were the main competitiors, but they diverged increasingly away from the formulae that TA captured. That divergence created the MOBA and the more rock-paper-scissors style of games. TA was something of a victim of its own success, and its intellectual property got lost in a corporate network of cascaded failures of the early 2000s. The community for TA however remained active during the entire time and is one of the major modding scenes that created many many industries and technologies in the contemporary game development community. BAR is a continuation of Total Annihilation through the modder's Spring Engine. The Spring Engine was a community led open source reconstruction and improvement of the TA game engine. BAR is a reconstruction of TA with new assets and IP. Mechanically, they're virtually identical in terms of build costs and times and build power and unit statistics. Supreme Straits is an evolution of the TA: Escalations mod map, Supreme Conflict. taesc.tauniverse.com/?p=maps It's a very cool game, and I'm glad to see it revived in BAR. The similarities between them by the way means that old GameFaqs and strategies that worked for TA can be adapted to BAR. The ol' hover start and rush is one of the big metas from the early 2000s. The bots, vehicles, and ships of the game are from the original Total Annihilation game which was multiplayer capable but originally balanced and released as a single player campaign experience. The multiplayer though is why the game became popular, and it was expanded and rebalanced somewhat during the era of a network of massively multiplayer action called the "Boneyards" before the parent company collapsed. An expansion was made and released called Total Annihilation: Core Contingency that added a bunch of new units including what y'all call T3 units as well as hover, amphibious vehicles and units, and seaplanes (the T1.5 units) with the focus being on rebalancing towards competitive multiplayer games. First game I ever learned to mod.

...it's a much more copy paste of the original...Total Annihilation. Supreme commander 1 was a spiritual successor of TA. For this game the names of the teams on this are even a direct reference to TA's Arm and Core. If you want to call it out, that's what it is. Just a heads up.

@rakkel6061 oh look, someone that thinks they're doing something by being semantic of it copying the original, to which point, no its not. Total Annihilation played much more as a traditional early RTS, like Command and Conquer and Dune. Supreme Commander was a spiritual successor, yes, but it changed a lot of gameplay aspects and made it much more wide scaled. This does not play like a traditional RTS like TA, but plays like SC, yet changes nothing. It is a straight up copy of SC.

The most important difference is open source. Widgets and other such things are literally game changing. But yeah I was watching a Legion fight and when the pawn cannon came out I damn near spit out my drink. Good memories there but it's a LITTLE too on the nose!

@@cyanide7270 I mean this is virtually identical in all the major ways to original TA:CC as I played it like twenty years ago. There's some value tweaks here and there; a lot shorter range on certain units and particular static defenses, but otherwise, almost everything I learned about TA:CC applies here. Even the popular maps haven't really changed all that much.