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Are video cards expensive where you live? And I heard SoT is getting a remake.

      Probably not. I just haven't bothered to buy one. I'd need to get a power supply too because my 400 watts doesn't seem to handle the better cards or at the very least the decent cards. And dealing with all of those power cords doesnt seem like a fun time. Though I would like to play my copy of Painkiller, looks fun. I almost picked up portal for 10 bucks from future shop because yahtzee's always raving about it until I looked at the back and couldn't see any bad guys. Puzzles, that, combined with my general dislike for steam makes me not want to play Half Life 2 even though it was super cheap at london drugs. I mean, like there's that big rave about the gravity gun and how you can fun throwing people's bodies around or whatever. But I don't care about puzzles, or using some fancy gun to do stuff, I just want to kill things. Like I played the Half Life 2 demo, and before it crapped out to unplayable speed with my crap video card I had like no ammo and this gravity gun and LOTS and LOTS of convenient saw blades lying around to kill zombies. And I'm thinking "wow, it's a good thing this town is full of sharp objects, because with this gravity gun they sure come in handy". Pft.
     That's why Farcry was good. Made you think, and all you do is kill things without the "gee, how do I move this here and this here to pass this inconvenient room for of radioactive goo"

     Anyway rant over.

 

Offline General Battuta

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Dude, you should really play Portal. Really.

Also, after the first couple levels Half-Life 2 really is primarily killing things.

 

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Portal's a great game, but it's too recent to be discussed about here. :p
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Do you guys play Total Annihilation: Kingdoms? :)
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Never heard of it. Sorry. :blah:
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Have you at least heard of Total Annihilation?

 

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If I did, I can't remember. :blah:
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TA is supreme commanders grandad.
 
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Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

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TA is supreme commanders grandad.
 
Long live ARM!

Ah, TA...Krogoth always made me wish I had my teeth punched out BEFORE I went up against it.

Boystrous 19 year old temp at work slapped me in the face with an envelope and laughed it off as playful. So I shoved him over a desk and laughed it off as playful. It's on camera so I can plead reasonable force.  Temp is now passive.

 

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Do you guys play Total Annihilation: Kingdoms? :)
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Big Berthas win my wars. 190 pee-wees = a patrol :nod:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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Big Berthas own. I liked how every unit that has a gun tries to shoot fly boys though. Even the artillery.
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Offline CP5670

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I have played a lot of TA co-op games in the last few months with my brother, using various TCs and AI mods. There is still one map on which the AI consistently owns us, even though we can win easily on most of the others. :p

The most impressive thing in the original game was probably the Vulcan, although it takes forever to get it set up and fully powered.

 

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No, it's the annihilator energy weapon :p
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
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TA is awesome, still one of my favorite RTS of all time.  I love my Brawler swarms, build enough of them and they start to sound like the energy version of a mini gun when they all fly up and start bobbing and weaving in front of targets.  Nothing but a consistent BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA sound punctuated by exploding targets ;)  There are a lot of community built units available for download nowadays.  One of my favorites is the Able bombardment ship, it has two 4 barrel super long range hyper firing turrets.  They are very inaccurate area effect weapons when they come out the yards but will rack up insane kills once they gain the veterancy bonuses
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Check out the UTASP and Final Frontier mods. UTASP adds tons of new units and actually maxes out the overall 500 unit limit, while FF is set in space and based around spacecraft combat. There are also a couple of custom AIs available that are a lot tougher than the original one.

No, it's the annihilator energy weapon :p

The annihilator is nice for what it is, but is not in the same league at all. :p The Vulcan and Buzzsaw were basically added into Core Contingency as "game ending" items for long-lasting games that were petering out into stalemates.

 

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Now the Buzz-saw i remember well :lol: Hovercraft though, not that much of a Fan. The extra tactics / commander strategy disc was nice. The one where each unit had a mission which focused on it. The Killer Cans one is awesome. I love swarms of em, also using transport planes with roaches and CTRL+D'ing them over enemy commanders was one of my favourite custom strategies ;7 :lol:
Campaigns I've added my distinctiveness to-
- Blue Planet: Battle Captains
-Battle of Neptune
-Between the Ashes 2
-Blue planet: Age of Aquarius
-FOTG?
-Inferno R1
-Ribos: The aftermath / -Retreat from Deneb
-Sol: A History
-TBP EACW teaser
-Earth Brakiri war
-TBP Fortune Hunters (I think?)
-TBP Relic
-Trancsend (Possibly?)
-Uncharted Territory
-Vassagos Dirge
-War Machine
(Others lost to the mists of time and no discernible audit trail)

Your friendly Orestes tactical controller.

Secret bomb God.
That one time I got permabanned and got to read who was being bitxhy about me :p....
GO GO DEKKER RANGERSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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I remember Vulcans. I remember that when my energy level starts dropping like mad, it means the Vulcan is firing.
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You need something like 18 fusion power plants to keep one of them running continuously.