Total Annihilation Inspired RTS We've been waiting for? 

PS. We are working on a Day/Night cycle, or at the very least a full "Night Mode" that will make extra use of our latest addition of the Volumetric Lighting and possibly also volumetric fog. We are still finetuning both the tech and aesthetics and how it should change gameplay like less solar income or line of sight changes..

I must say that I love the idea of building a bunch of turrets in my base then haul them over to the position they're meant to guard.

@TheXPGamers Thanks for covering our game! We're honored!! Awesome to hear you had a blast with BAR.

What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machine escalated into a war that has decimated a million worlds. Love TA and this looks like a really fun game!

God, one of my fondest memories is from a match of supreme commander forged alliances with a 22 hour fight, I remember going to bed as my buddy held out for a quick hour nap...

Loved seeing you learn/remember the game in real time, you were so much faster by the end, recognising units, finding what you were looking for, making decisions, etc. So cool to see it happening in real time!

what made supreme comander so awesome for me was the moment i "learnd" the basics and how to move a big army to the front line with dropships and all i had to do at some points was to ajust the waypoints..... that feeling when 10 dropships drop the load while 10 other ships load up to send it to the front line ... it was so fkkn beautiful ..

Omg I loved TA! It was the only RTS where you could take ordnance from The bombers and “fling” your bombs physically across your target with out having to fly over them. Not even supreme commander or StarCraft allowed such creative yet skilled gameplay, and TA had so many little fun nick nacks. Amazing game can’t wait to try this again….I feel young again! ^.^

29:06 you can see the coverage the radar provides along with the 'blind spots' just beyond the cliff edges

Can't wait to see where this goes, I'm super excited! Hopefully terraforming will be a thing, like in 0K. Building trench lines and fortifications. Even a million years in the future, the greatest weapon is the entrenching tool.

I often assign 4-5 construction vehicles to support each factory

Love this game. Been playing it a for a while. Essentially total annihilation but with supcom quality of life. Literally the tech trees in bar are very similar to TA. Those familiar to the series, might recognize some names.

Been playing this for a minute now. Best RTS game out there.

Never played this before, but it looks really similar to Zero-K, which if you haven't tried is also very fun and free on Steam. After looking into it a bit, it looks like BAR is also looking into a future Steam release. I might download and try it someday before that happens, but guaranteed I will if/when it does since it would make multiplayer so much easier.

4:30 my favorite tactic in early game TA was the "ghetto gunship". Fill a flying transport with tier 1 walkers and they could fire at enemies while in flight before anybody else got to tier 2 to get real gunships.

Starcraft had NOT in fact come out. It's from 1998, while TA is from 1997. Which is very interesting.

definitely keeping an eye on it now that you have brought it to my attention. I am curious about the story will have to check out the web page when i get a chance

been following BAR for a long time it's such a great game :D

Super interesting would love a series of this

So is a version of the Krogoth included in this game? You have no idea how much I played the original TA. I literally was the man to beat at the time.

I'd play Planetary annihilation if you haven't. Has interplanetary combat and super weapons etc to destroy planets and launch moons into planets or power up a death star planet and blow the enemy base planet up. Give it a look!

I played TA from the age of 5 to about 12 when i got into fps games. This is so awesome to watch. Im seeing direct callbacks to the old game. The two factions ARMada and COREtex seem to stick with the theme of the ARM having a much more practical design philosophy and the CORE looking a lot more complex with moving parts to achieve similar goals. I saw a lot family units starting off with the Solar Collectors, L.L.Ts, the Defender, Thunderers, the Fido, the iconic PeeWees and A.K.s moonlighting as Pawns and Grunts, you guys even brought by the Maverick! I saw what looked to be a tank based off the Luger medium art tank. Even the maps are super reminiscent of the maps from the original TA. Ill definite by looking into this more.

you should also mention the OOOOLLLDDD game "Machines", man this reminds me of it so much

Damn i have missed these games just like armored core. I feel old knowing how long ago that was😢 but also how far we have come

"The Core and the Arm have all but exhausted the resources of a galaxy in their struggle for domination. Both sides, now crippled beyond repair, the remenents of their armies continue to battle on ravaged planets, their hatred fueled by over four thousand years of total war. This is a fight to the death. For each side, the only acceptable outcome is the complete elimination of the other."

I loved Total Annihilation. Was 1 of my favourite RTS games and always wished more updates or content came out.

Some people in this comment section seem not aware that this is a fan made remake of a game called Total Annihilation, and they cant sell it as people suggesting or would be problems with IP owners. instead if you want to support the devs, they going give optional donations, by making it free their no legal issues of a fan made old IP, it similar to what was called spring. Stop asking for it to cost money or judge it as a new game it not, it a fan made remake, mainly the next level of spring.

Damn, even the structures and units look like Total Annihilation structures.

Planetary Annihilation. nuff said. BAR may get to that point in 2 more years, but PA is an absolutely amazing RTS.

I loved the total annihilation series for the RTS Genre. I was never very good. Would love to see a mutiplayer match!!

"ARMada" and "COR(E)tex" I have a feeling that was intentional

Armada and Cortex. Arm and Core. See what you did there. Leaning hard on that nostalgia factor, are we ? ... Well if it works, it works. Damn it even looks like TA even more than supreme commender did. Oh and they kept the good bits from supreme commander like the transport being bale to automatically take units from fctories and ferry them to set points.

This gives me huge Zero-K vibes.

My nostalgia is kicking off hard.

Damn, I loved Total Annihilation. Amazing to see this passionate homage.

Damn, intrepid this game a few months ago and it looks way better already. Going to have to download the updated and give it another go.

Finally a spiritual successor to TA.

“arm”ada and “cor”tex well done everyone

Planetary Annihilation is still very much alive and kicking MANY fun games to be had, strapping rockets to your planet and crashing it into the reds =)

As a SupCom FAF fan I am thrilled to see this.

this just looks exactly like planetary annihilation

I just want Starcraft 3. The curse of the RTS genre is, no AAA company will care enough to make a modern classic and no indie company has enough funding to do the same.

this looks interesting

It's just Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander/Zero-K all over again.

It’s to similar to “Supreme Commander”, it has potential to become something more, but no real difference… yet.

this reminds me of the game supreme commander two but more modern

Try ZeroK and excuse the graphics join us in teams uses the same engine and is amazingly fast in multiplayer

looks a lot like supreme commander and total annihilation mixed together

I prefer TA to the Supreme Commander series because the battles weren't so massive that you spent the whole match zoomed way far out looking at icons. BAR is much closer to TA in that it is on a more intimate scale.

*STRATEGIC LAUNCH DETECTED*

looks like supreme commander btw why there's still no dual gap for this?

This is more akin to "Zero K" than TA. Zero K has been a thing for years now on steam, for free even. Though BAR looks great as well. Supcom is still the best that I've seen of this genre though.

BAR is pretty, but Zero-K does everything it does better except for graphics. No diss on bar, just that Zero-K is kinda hard to beat in the RTS space.

Wher can I pick this up?

This looks eerily similar to zero-k

im literally only subbing because of the jurassic park reference.

Does this have the option for classic TA left click primary interface? (Left click orders, right click deselect)

Hmm armada, coretex? Arm, Core. I'm pretty sure they were called in total annihilation.

Supreme commander vibes here

Am I the only one that caught the Tony Stark Quote?

looks exactly like Zero-K but cleaner

i can see the area where you struggle with resurcess and why you would likely get roffle stomped by players. but you did help your team some what by killing that commander. but it felt like you never got to tear 3 only got to 2. but keep go what you enjoy and i guess giving you about 234 games would help you familiares with the orders eventiualy with building and how to q aouto building units.

Looking cool. But this kind of game would be a cool base for a 40k game...

Heh i remember buying Dark Reign in the -97 and being rather disappointed with it, then returning it to the local store with the old "this game doesnt work on my pc" teenager excuse of the day and swapping it randomly for Total Annihilation, because the game box looked cool and nothing else catched my eye in the store. ...then couple hours later i build my first Guardian (plasma battery) and just made it shoot all over the place so i could watch it turning itself around and the shots flying way farther than in any other rts of the era and was totally hypnotized. ..ofcourse guardian was pretty tame compared to T3 and experimentals which were really memorable. late 80's and 90's were The Time to be gamer imho. Just nerdy fun without all the propaganda, politics and over the top monetization thats the bread and butter of todays gaming industry. Oh i still have the original TA box somewhere around, really should put that + Deus Ex and few others for display ;)

Supcom lives again!

Looks like supreme commander

getting alot of SupCom vibes here which is great!!

This is so cool! Love Total Annihilation! Supreme Commander was awesome too. Planetary Annihilation was good, but a bit much of a departure from the original. The focus seemed too much on fast paced building and combat with a rush to build the planet killer weapons.

Supreme commander vibes

Can confirm, it's as good as TA ever was! Allot harder too as the AI is in a different league to TA's. Great content as always Captain.

One of the more interesting mechanics in BAR is the flanking system. The first time a unit takes damage, it activates directional armor that reduces further damage by 10% in a narrow cone facing its attacker. But if enemies attack from the sides or behind, they inflict up to 190% extra damage as the angle of attack approaches 180 degrees from that point. You can activate a widget in the advanced game options that lets you see these directional armor points as they appear and fade again. This means that zerg-swarming with many infantry bots/light tanks, just as an example, can rapidly chew apart even heavier units; the basic "Pawn" infantry bot has 100 DPS and that can nearly double PER UNIT if they get a flank on their target. This works for ANYTHING, units AND structures. You can even game this to one-shot things you wouldn't normally one-shot, such as stabbing a higher-health unit from one side and then blasting it with a Sniper Bot from the other side.

This brings back Memories with the Spring Project engine, Zero-K, team battles and the countless reimagined games using a total annihilation style engine

Amazing work. Total Annihilation was such an incredible game. Great gameplay vid too ;) Loved your reaction when the T3 tank fired haha. Here's to 1997 game design and the legends at Cavedog. EDIT: This also made me want to go back and listen to the TA music, which I recall being beautiful. TA sound design was also incredible. Bring that grinding metal walk of the Can and terrifying cacophonous thunder of Big Bertha ;)

LOVE BAR. Thank you for continuing to support the modding community in all the ways that you do. TA is one of my favorite RTS games and the fans that have created BAR are true heroes. It's an absolute joy to see you spotlight this!

As someone who still plays planetary anhilation, im soo glad to see something similar but new EDIT: it also brings me physical pain to watch this haha but having fun is having fun!

Yes.... YEEESSSSS.... Let the BAR infection spread to even MORE gaming communities!

I’d love to see more of this game on the channel !!

Wow it seems like the first TA like game that actually captures the feel of units. I could never really get into supcom because units felt I don't know how to call it but just swarmy. Aside of experimental units early gamę units had barely any staying power and didn't roam that much so it was micro intensive while in TA you could throw them at each other out of production line and it felt like Neverending battle, wrecks becoming real obstacles. It's really hard to explain what I mean but the pacing here is what I was looking for.

I do like that you can have low health units retreat. The last game I know that had this feature was warzone 2100, that game was one of a kind.

The factions mirror Total Annihilation as well - though in that game, they were named for where in the galaxy they came from: the Galactic arm, or the core worlds.

Could be a great vid for you to do a 3v3 with some friends as you slug it out on one of the bigger maps.

definitely more Total antihalation than supreme commander (tracking a unit while its on attack used to be done by pressing T by the way) :)

The AI in this game are actually super smart for what modern ai look like for tripple A games and giant studios, cudos to the creators for making such a loving genre even better with the gameplay!

I tried to psych myself into buying SupCom, but I decided against it. The original SupCom maps looked boring and bland, and the French Garden-esque layouts of Forged Alliance's own maps made things worse. What you've shown though looks intriguing.

This is such an amazing project. Really happy when people cover it so it gets more attention, cause I feel like even among RTS fans its still a bit of a hidden gem

I really love the look of this game. I was craving for another supreme like game with good graphics for years. Great job.

This game gives me nostalgic memories of spirited debates in Cavedog's old forums. If any members of the old Total Annihilation Evaluation Crew are out there and you see this, please DM me. We need to have a reunion in this game.

TA one pf my favorite games of all time. The models in BAR look almost identical to TA (those solar and metal extractors, missile turrets and laser light turrets). I’ll definitely try this.

I feel this is what Supreme Commander should of been.

What a year for rts games

We're going back to old school game play, rock on!

TA is my all time favourite RTS.. Nothing will ever take its place.. I was at the public library every Friday to download the extra free units. This game looks SO amazing. Also, as mentioned, I remember the action queuing as one of the most awesome things. Just SHIFT-CLICK on that and that and this and build here.. It was super good. Will be on my "must check out" list.

FAF shows how much there is love for TA family of games. Don't let the candle die out!

I now want to rewatch the 12 hour TA stream again.

Holy shit I’m picking it up for sure

The AI looks really neat in this. I am now full curious about BAR.

This is literally Total Annihilation but with a modern engine. A lot of the unit designs even look the same.That's not a bad thing mind you, but it is clear that you cannot play it like Supreme Commander and expect the same results.

Looks Promising 😮

Really awesome game! Only been playing for a couple months but love it already. It's so cool the level of detail and physics they've done for each of the 100+ units!

Same issue with this game that I have with Planetary Annihilation: scale. When my units are supposed to be multiple buildings tall but can only shoot a few yards away, it makes everything feel tiny even when you've got truly massive battles going on.