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With Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency, expand the Total Annihilation experience with new units, new worlds, new weapons, and new strategies. Read More If you’re looking for the most recommended Mac Strategy Games, then this product is a great option. Many good reviews have already proved the quality of this product. In celebration of Total Annihilation’s 23rd birthday I do indeed have some newsbits to share! First up is that our community play-by-play man Postal has shared another of his renowned Total Annihilation Replays reviews, and this one is pretty special. Gmail app free download. Straight from the secret archives of the legendary Gnug615 comes a match between himself and Gnug725 against TAGWarlock and Aslan on that.Friday 2nd October 2020 at 3:39 AM by Muzzleflash•9 comments (last comment by Thaldren) Our friends over in the Supreme Commander: Total Annihilation project (or SCTA for short) have announced an upcoming, four round 2v2, double elimination-style tournament will be taking place with cash prizes and forum bonuses for the top 3 winning teams, that will begin in two weeks time on Saturday, October 17!
Click here to visit the Supreme Commander: Total Annihilation Discord server!
What is SCTA, you might ask? It’s a mod for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance that aims to faithfully recreate the Arm and Core factions from Total Annihilation, inside the Forged Alliance framework, and balance them against the other armies within the base game. In order to participate in this tournament, you must have a Steam copy of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and have downloaded the Forged Alliance Forever gaming client, which is available on the Forged Alliance Forever website. Then, grab yourself a copy of mods entitled SCTAFix and SCTABalance from the Mod Vault located inside the client.
Click above to see the enlarged version of this image!
For more details on the structure of the tournament, the prizes that will be available and the maps that the tournament players will do battle on, please visit this forum post, and don’t forget that your destination for status updates on SCTA, more detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting tips, and to arrange multiplayer matches is the SCTADiscord server!The generals of years past and the weapons of the futureMonday 28th September 2020 at 4:50 AM by Muzzleflash•2 comments (last comment by MadRat) In celebration of Total Annihilation’s 23rd birthday I do indeed have some newsbits to share!
First up is that our community play-by-play man Postal has shared another of his renowned Total Annihilation Replays reviews, and this one is pretty special. Straight from the secret archives of the legendary Gnug615 comes a match between himself and Gnug725 against TAG_Warlock and Aslan on that famous battleground map, Gods of War! This replay dates back over 20 years to April of 1999 - those primordial days where Cavedog still haunted the RTS gaming industry, and features tactics the likes of which you may have never seen before.
Click here to check out and subscribe to to the Total Annihilation Replays Youtube channel!
Second up is that Total AnnihilationEscalation main-man Wotan put together an incredible new piece of eyecandy to salute the valiant and venerable game that his project is built upon, and to showcase the flight and fury that Escalation contains! The preview image is below, but the ultra 8K version resides on the Escalation Discord server! You may even spot units yet to be released - and long awaited, in the expanded view!
Click here to visit the Escalation Discord server!Tuesday 22nd September 2020 at 4:38 PM by Muzzleflash•7 comments (last comment by gamma)Total Annihilation turns 23 years old this weekend! Do you have any treasured memories you’d like to share from your time playing the game or being a part of the community? Share them in the comments below!
We’re also on Discord! Click the picture to stop by!Monday 3rd August 2020 at 8:47 PM by Muzzleflash•12 comments (last comment by Design X) Thanks to a contribution by TA community member, SnakeInTheMirror, Total Annihilation has seen what may be the first attempt at using neural network AI technology to enhance and upscale some of the venerable and memorable CG video that came with the game. So, below is the introductory video from Total Annihilation for your viewing pleasure: Total Annihilation Commander Pack Download
Upon clicking above, the enhanced video will play first, and then a split-screen is is employed so that you can compare with the original footage. The improvement is noteworthy, and it’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t come across it already. Saturday 25th July 2020 at 6:26 AM by Muzzleflash•12 comments (last comment by DIRTY_Harry) Today I have an interview to share with Wotan, co-founder and leading man of the runaway train known as Total Annihilation: Escalation. Without further ado.
What was your entry into the TA community? When did you first get the game and what were your initial thoughts about how it was constructed and its playability?
My brothers and I opened up one of the very first LAN gaming sites in the USA back in 1996, which we trademarked as the ‘Matrix’, before shutting it all down right before a certain movie came out years later… Anyway, we got heavily into real-time strategy gaming via Command & Conquer, that first year, when we started reading about this new ‘3D’ game in PC Magazine called Total Annihilation. With games like Quake and Magic Carpet, 3D was really in vogue as the Next Big Thing back then. TA looked cool, but at first it did not really seem all the much different than Dark Reign and some of the other next gen RTS titles on the horizon. That changed in the fall of ’97 when we first started up TA though. We had these ’ginormous’ 20” CRTs (you could play games on these for an extra $2.50 an hour) running TA at 800x600. My first memory of the game is playing on ‘Rock Alley’ as Core (color red, of course) looking at the massive Goliath tanks pushing northward toward my Arm enemy (blue, naturally). The depth, both map terrain and the amount of units was jaw dropping. I’d be lying if I said that is what hooked me on TA though – the real grab came a bit later when we found we were able to make maps after the release of Total Annihilation: Core Contingency. The seemingly endless creative potential as much as the playability is what really struck me about TA and it has remained that way ever since.
How did Escalation come about and what were your initial goals for the project?
The road to Escalation was quite a long and winding one on my side. I started out making maps and was really into the TAMEC scene early on. My younger brother introduced me to 3rd party units and I was again smitten with the concept of realizing one’s own vision for the ideal game. Like anyone else, I started out patching together different units into a collection to fill out the game. It was fun, but they were not my units and many others were doing it better, especially Uberhack and Brave Sir Robin. I really started to cut my teeth into learning about modding with Uberhack along with running a community of like-minded players and would-be modders by participating there. NJ_Thug was also a huge help and taught me 3D texturing in Rhino. C_A_P taught me the conversion process for adding Total Annihilation: Kingdoms tilesets and features into TA (I did the Creon, Zhon, and Aramon conversions that many still use today). I did a lot of small collaborations with Genghis Khan X, Caer, Silencer, Chinahook, VanTheMan, Sinclaire, Immerman, and many others before meeting this guy who was working on a new race called The Talon… It was not until two years later though, and after working on my own popular mod (with help from Boogalizer and Warlord), that TheRegisteredOne, The Talon’s founder - and I realized that we could do something really special for TA. In a nutshell, merge the production quality standards of TheRegisteredOne’s brilliant work with the popular concepts and scope presented in my project into the ‘Ultimate TA Mod’ - Total Annihilation: Escalation.
For full-res pics and more previews on upcoming releases, check out the TA: Escalation Discord!
What do you envision the end-result of this momentous amount of work, the creation and execution of Total Annihilation: Escalation to be, and has that vision changed over the course of time due to the advancements in scripting and engine knowledge that have occurred over the years?
Until recently, the end result was really nowhere in sight – just churning out new ideas and concepts in line with all the new hacks and tweaks made available through the hard work of guys like Xon, Zwzsg, xpoy, and Admiral_94 and many others. Escalation certainly evolved with these new capabilities as we often forged them into unexpected and new units and concepts for the game. So many fresh ideas bore fruit early on that we soon realized that The Talon would likely have to be mothballed in favor of a more ’fleshed-out’ Arm and Core. This resulted in completing a true Level-3 tier and even larger Tier-4 units. Collaborations also continued to help round out the overall game with help from Archdragon, N72, R1ME, Keeper, Idec, Zodius, MattyWS+, Nightmare, and others. Now, years later, the answer is clear at least for me: Wrap up Tier-3 development, finish the Tier-4 ‘mini-tier’, and re-introduce The Talon in some form.
Do you hope that Escalation will outlive and outgrow Total Annihilation as a game, in the same way that a project like Zero-K arguably outgrew its origin?
I’d say yes being a bit selfish in that regard, and in a way that has already happened. Over the years we worked with so many talented, but different folks (both players and creators), such that the net effect has become greater than the sum of its parts. If you go online where TA is still played most (GameRanger), far more people play Escalation than OTA and that has been the case for quite a while now. Many of the former professional TA player ranks have gravitated toward the mod and have contributed also. However, Escalation is still ’locked’ within the TA ecosystem given that its assets are derived conceptually somewhat from TA itself. Personally, I’d love to see Escalation go beyond the TA engine, but unless that engine supports the core essence of TA (Robot War Engine being the best possibility!), it likely won’t happen anytime soon. The best possibility for any TA mod to outgrow the venerable TA engine though really lies with Total Annihilation: Zero in my opinion – it is truly a remarkable and fantastic achievement by Vohvelieläin!
Do you feel that a project like Escalation could be considered a more faithful ’spiritual successor’ to original Total Annihilation than the new real-time strategy titles that have been labeled as such, outside of the fact that Escalation is built on TA’s engine? What, if any and in your opinion, were the key ingredients of Total Annihilation that the ’spiritual successor’ games missed out on?
As for all the so called ’spiritual successors’, the problem in my mind is that they fail to follow the very basics of what made TA so great! That starts with the left mouse click functions (why do all ‘modern’ games shy away from this!?). To all Devs out there: If it is not left-mouse click, it is not TA no matter how it looks, so start here with your next ’spiritual successor’. Next, is the infamous ‘strategic zoom’ (aka Icon Wars). While, in principle, this is a really cool feature in new games, the creators of Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation forgot something very important: the more you zoom out, the less detail you should have on your own and your opponent’s forces. Namely not having icons that tell you exactly what type and level the unit is, along with full control of said icons such that zooming back in is unnecessary or even detrimental to winning a completive. Keep the action where it is – the tactical layer. Finally, I’d add the immersive-ness of that close up action as an important factor along with a rich variety of units. I found SupCom’s units to be ‘holographic’ often lacking mass and feel, made worse by the very soft weapon and explosion sounds. Planetary Annihilation was hamstrung by round planets (kudos for trying something different, but…), a single race, and the strangely unnatural, natural ’flow field’ pathing mechanics. Ashes Of The Singularity suffered from a lack of essential unit basics like mechs and tanks and also stealing our color schema and name in their sequel!
For full-res pics and more previews on upcoming releases, check out the TA: Escalation Discord!
What work remains in order for you to consider Escalation to be a finished product, and do you imagine that there will be new territory to explore once main production has ceased?
Aside from the goals mentioned earlier (wrap up T3 development, finish the T4 ‘mini-tier’, and re-introduce The Talon in some form), it will be great to finally have a polished installer (KmKickle and Draken have started), a finished AI (TaFan97 & Fortitude are on this), and cleaned up Windows 10 support (Thaldren’s Project Valkyrie). As for the Escalation community and our future, FN202 has our growing player base in great hands with the Total Annihilation Demo Archive and the new competitive gameplay ladder - with a ’locked’ in Total Annihilation: Escalation, we’re poised for an even richer asset of games and hopefully some big tournaments again! I would really like to sit back and enjoy the game as a player for once while taking on less demanding projects like revisiting the possibility of Escalation based missions (hopefully with Warlord) and sunset things with getting back to where it all began – map making. I think there is still untapped potential with maps and tilesets in TA - both making larger maps playable online and in creating some awe-inspiring masterpieces. I am actually surprised that this has not happened already on a larger scale given the tools out there. MattyWS+ has started some incredible work here, but there are still many new worlds yet be explored.Tuesday 21st July 2020 at 4:30 AM by Muzzleflash•6 comments (last comment by BlueWolf)
Click the above image to visit the Forged Alliance Forever Youtube channel!
Our distant cousins over in the Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever community also have an interview series going with real-time strategy notables, with the most-recent entry being the sci-fi strategy kingpin himself, Chris Taylor. This in-depth and very conversational interview covers many topics including the storied history of Gas Powered Games, the process of building new RTS titles from scratch, navigating the stormy waters of the gaming industry and Chris Taylor’s legacy in it, where the Supreme Commander franchise stands today and what its future may look like, along with discussion on Chris Taylor’s future projects. It’s well-worth your time to check out and is shared below.
A really cool interview that slipped under our radar!Tuesday 7th July 2020 at 5:31 AM by Muzzleflash•1 comment (last comment by adam850) While researching the previous newspost I stumbled across a cool piece of news that we missed!
Last fall, an interview was conducted with the lead artist of Total Annihilation and lead designer of Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, Clayton Kauzlaric. Conducted by longtime TA: Kingdoms fan Blechy, the interview is fascinating and tells the story of Cavedog’s transition from working on a universe of mindless and neverending robotic warfare, with Total Annihilation, to a largely story-driven tapestry of living beings locked in mystical combat on a single planet, with Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Further, the interview takes a deep dive into the creation, the lore, the art, and the mechanics of TA: Kingdoms itself. Then, the interview transitions to the path Kauzlaric’s career has taken since the turn of the century, his favorite game to play in recent years and even his favorite Tarantino movies.
It’s a really cool interview with someone that was heavily involved in the creation of some of the real-time strategy genre’s most noteworthy titles, and can be checked out below.
Monday 6th July 2020 at 8:53 PM by Muzzleflash•0 comments
We have received word that the long-running New Era Expansion for TA: Kingdoms has reached a new milestone with its Version 5.8 release. This project aims to expand and enliven and embolden the experience of the gamer and includes a multitude of new features and fixes, including:
*New resources, and new units and structures that are unique to all four opposing races in the game
*Improved AI and pathfinding fixes
*Balancing and gameplay tweaks
*New music and maps
Click here to visit The New Era Youtube channel!
It is also worth noting that TA: Kingdoms stalwart KM-Sage has set up a Youtube channel in order to open the window on all the new gameplay features this expansion provides, TA: Kingdoms also has its very own Discord server, for community discussion, troubleshooting help and online matchmaking, and the New Era Expansion also has a portal with additional eyecandy on ModDB. Friday 26th June 2020 at 3:33 AM by Muzzleflash•4 comments (last comment by Muzzleflash)In a galaxy far, far away.
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With Total Annihilation: The Core Contingency, expand the Total Annihilation experience with new units, new worlds, new weapons, and new strategies. Read More If you’re looking for the most recommended Mac Strategy Games, then this product is a great option. Many good reviews have already proved the quality of this product. In celebration of Total Annihilation’s 23rd birthday I do indeed have some newsbits to share! First up is that our community play-by-play man Postal has shared another of his renowned Total Annihilation Replays reviews, and this one is pretty special. Gmail app free download. Straight from the secret archives of the legendary Gnug615 comes a match between himself and Gnug725 against TAGWarlock and Aslan on that.Friday 2nd October 2020 at 3:39 AM by Muzzleflash•9 comments (last comment by Thaldren) Our friends over in the Supreme Commander: Total Annihilation project (or SCTA for short) have announced an upcoming, four round 2v2, double elimination-style tournament will be taking place with cash prizes and forum bonuses for the top 3 winning teams, that will begin in two weeks time on Saturday, October 17!
Click here to visit the Supreme Commander: Total Annihilation Discord server!
What is SCTA, you might ask? It’s a mod for Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance that aims to faithfully recreate the Arm and Core factions from Total Annihilation, inside the Forged Alliance framework, and balance them against the other armies within the base game. In order to participate in this tournament, you must have a Steam copy of Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance and have downloaded the Forged Alliance Forever gaming client, which is available on the Forged Alliance Forever website. Then, grab yourself a copy of mods entitled SCTAFix and SCTABalance from the Mod Vault located inside the client.
Click above to see the enlarged version of this image!
For more details on the structure of the tournament, the prizes that will be available and the maps that the tournament players will do battle on, please visit this forum post, and don’t forget that your destination for status updates on SCTA, more detailed installation instructions and troubleshooting tips, and to arrange multiplayer matches is the SCTADiscord server!The generals of years past and the weapons of the futureMonday 28th September 2020 at 4:50 AM by Muzzleflash•2 comments (last comment by MadRat) In celebration of Total Annihilation’s 23rd birthday I do indeed have some newsbits to share!
First up is that our community play-by-play man Postal has shared another of his renowned Total Annihilation Replays reviews, and this one is pretty special. Straight from the secret archives of the legendary Gnug615 comes a match between himself and Gnug725 against TAG_Warlock and Aslan on that famous battleground map, Gods of War! This replay dates back over 20 years to April of 1999 - those primordial days where Cavedog still haunted the RTS gaming industry, and features tactics the likes of which you may have never seen before.
Click here to check out and subscribe to to the Total Annihilation Replays Youtube channel!
Second up is that Total AnnihilationEscalation main-man Wotan put together an incredible new piece of eyecandy to salute the valiant and venerable game that his project is built upon, and to showcase the flight and fury that Escalation contains! The preview image is below, but the ultra 8K version resides on the Escalation Discord server! You may even spot units yet to be released - and long awaited, in the expanded view!
Click here to visit the Escalation Discord server!Tuesday 22nd September 2020 at 4:38 PM by Muzzleflash•7 comments (last comment by gamma)Total Annihilation turns 23 years old this weekend! Do you have any treasured memories you’d like to share from your time playing the game or being a part of the community? Share them in the comments below!
We’re also on Discord! Click the picture to stop by!Monday 3rd August 2020 at 8:47 PM by Muzzleflash•12 comments (last comment by Design X) Thanks to a contribution by TA community member, SnakeInTheMirror, Total Annihilation has seen what may be the first attempt at using neural network AI technology to enhance and upscale some of the venerable and memorable CG video that came with the game. So, below is the introductory video from Total Annihilation for your viewing pleasure: Total Annihilation Commander Pack Download
Upon clicking above, the enhanced video will play first, and then a split-screen is is employed so that you can compare with the original footage. The improvement is noteworthy, and it’s definitely worth checking out if you haven’t come across it already. Saturday 25th July 2020 at 6:26 AM by Muzzleflash•12 comments (last comment by DIRTY_Harry) Today I have an interview to share with Wotan, co-founder and leading man of the runaway train known as Total Annihilation: Escalation. Without further ado.
What was your entry into the TA community? When did you first get the game and what were your initial thoughts about how it was constructed and its playability?
My brothers and I opened up one of the very first LAN gaming sites in the USA back in 1996, which we trademarked as the ‘Matrix’, before shutting it all down right before a certain movie came out years later… Anyway, we got heavily into real-time strategy gaming via Command & Conquer, that first year, when we started reading about this new ‘3D’ game in PC Magazine called Total Annihilation. With games like Quake and Magic Carpet, 3D was really in vogue as the Next Big Thing back then. TA looked cool, but at first it did not really seem all the much different than Dark Reign and some of the other next gen RTS titles on the horizon. That changed in the fall of ’97 when we first started up TA though. We had these ’ginormous’ 20” CRTs (you could play games on these for an extra $2.50 an hour) running TA at 800x600. My first memory of the game is playing on ‘Rock Alley’ as Core (color red, of course) looking at the massive Goliath tanks pushing northward toward my Arm enemy (blue, naturally). The depth, both map terrain and the amount of units was jaw dropping. I’d be lying if I said that is what hooked me on TA though – the real grab came a bit later when we found we were able to make maps after the release of Total Annihilation: Core Contingency. The seemingly endless creative potential as much as the playability is what really struck me about TA and it has remained that way ever since.
How did Escalation come about and what were your initial goals for the project?
The road to Escalation was quite a long and winding one on my side. I started out making maps and was really into the TAMEC scene early on. My younger brother introduced me to 3rd party units and I was again smitten with the concept of realizing one’s own vision for the ideal game. Like anyone else, I started out patching together different units into a collection to fill out the game. It was fun, but they were not my units and many others were doing it better, especially Uberhack and Brave Sir Robin. I really started to cut my teeth into learning about modding with Uberhack along with running a community of like-minded players and would-be modders by participating there. NJ_Thug was also a huge help and taught me 3D texturing in Rhino. C_A_P taught me the conversion process for adding Total Annihilation: Kingdoms tilesets and features into TA (I did the Creon, Zhon, and Aramon conversions that many still use today). I did a lot of small collaborations with Genghis Khan X, Caer, Silencer, Chinahook, VanTheMan, Sinclaire, Immerman, and many others before meeting this guy who was working on a new race called The Talon… It was not until two years later though, and after working on my own popular mod (with help from Boogalizer and Warlord), that TheRegisteredOne, The Talon’s founder - and I realized that we could do something really special for TA. In a nutshell, merge the production quality standards of TheRegisteredOne’s brilliant work with the popular concepts and scope presented in my project into the ‘Ultimate TA Mod’ - Total Annihilation: Escalation.
For full-res pics and more previews on upcoming releases, check out the TA: Escalation Discord!
What do you envision the end-result of this momentous amount of work, the creation and execution of Total Annihilation: Escalation to be, and has that vision changed over the course of time due to the advancements in scripting and engine knowledge that have occurred over the years?
Until recently, the end result was really nowhere in sight – just churning out new ideas and concepts in line with all the new hacks and tweaks made available through the hard work of guys like Xon, Zwzsg, xpoy, and Admiral_94 and many others. Escalation certainly evolved with these new capabilities as we often forged them into unexpected and new units and concepts for the game. So many fresh ideas bore fruit early on that we soon realized that The Talon would likely have to be mothballed in favor of a more ’fleshed-out’ Arm and Core. This resulted in completing a true Level-3 tier and even larger Tier-4 units. Collaborations also continued to help round out the overall game with help from Archdragon, N72, R1ME, Keeper, Idec, Zodius, MattyWS+, Nightmare, and others. Now, years later, the answer is clear at least for me: Wrap up Tier-3 development, finish the Tier-4 ‘mini-tier’, and re-introduce The Talon in some form.
Do you hope that Escalation will outlive and outgrow Total Annihilation as a game, in the same way that a project like Zero-K arguably outgrew its origin?
I’d say yes being a bit selfish in that regard, and in a way that has already happened. Over the years we worked with so many talented, but different folks (both players and creators), such that the net effect has become greater than the sum of its parts. If you go online where TA is still played most (GameRanger), far more people play Escalation than OTA and that has been the case for quite a while now. Many of the former professional TA player ranks have gravitated toward the mod and have contributed also. However, Escalation is still ’locked’ within the TA ecosystem given that its assets are derived conceptually somewhat from TA itself. Personally, I’d love to see Escalation go beyond the TA engine, but unless that engine supports the core essence of TA (Robot War Engine being the best possibility!), it likely won’t happen anytime soon. The best possibility for any TA mod to outgrow the venerable TA engine though really lies with Total Annihilation: Zero in my opinion – it is truly a remarkable and fantastic achievement by Vohvelieläin!
Do you feel that a project like Escalation could be considered a more faithful ’spiritual successor’ to original Total Annihilation than the new real-time strategy titles that have been labeled as such, outside of the fact that Escalation is built on TA’s engine? What, if any and in your opinion, were the key ingredients of Total Annihilation that the ’spiritual successor’ games missed out on?
As for all the so called ’spiritual successors’, the problem in my mind is that they fail to follow the very basics of what made TA so great! That starts with the left mouse click functions (why do all ‘modern’ games shy away from this!?). To all Devs out there: If it is not left-mouse click, it is not TA no matter how it looks, so start here with your next ’spiritual successor’. Next, is the infamous ‘strategic zoom’ (aka Icon Wars). While, in principle, this is a really cool feature in new games, the creators of Supreme Commander and Planetary Annihilation forgot something very important: the more you zoom out, the less detail you should have on your own and your opponent’s forces. Namely not having icons that tell you exactly what type and level the unit is, along with full control of said icons such that zooming back in is unnecessary or even detrimental to winning a completive. Keep the action where it is – the tactical layer. Finally, I’d add the immersive-ness of that close up action as an important factor along with a rich variety of units. I found SupCom’s units to be ‘holographic’ often lacking mass and feel, made worse by the very soft weapon and explosion sounds. Planetary Annihilation was hamstrung by round planets (kudos for trying something different, but…), a single race, and the strangely unnatural, natural ’flow field’ pathing mechanics. Ashes Of The Singularity suffered from a lack of essential unit basics like mechs and tanks and also stealing our color schema and name in their sequel!
For full-res pics and more previews on upcoming releases, check out the TA: Escalation Discord!
What work remains in order for you to consider Escalation to be a finished product, and do you imagine that there will be new territory to explore once main production has ceased?
Aside from the goals mentioned earlier (wrap up T3 development, finish the T4 ‘mini-tier’, and re-introduce The Talon in some form), it will be great to finally have a polished installer (KmKickle and Draken have started), a finished AI (TaFan97 & Fortitude are on this), and cleaned up Windows 10 support (Thaldren’s Project Valkyrie). As for the Escalation community and our future, FN202 has our growing player base in great hands with the Total Annihilation Demo Archive and the new competitive gameplay ladder - with a ’locked’ in Total Annihilation: Escalation, we’re poised for an even richer asset of games and hopefully some big tournaments again! I would really like to sit back and enjoy the game as a player for once while taking on less demanding projects like revisiting the possibility of Escalation based missions (hopefully with Warlord) and sunset things with getting back to where it all began – map making. I think there is still untapped potential with maps and tilesets in TA - both making larger maps playable online and in creating some awe-inspiring masterpieces. I am actually surprised that this has not happened already on a larger scale given the tools out there. MattyWS+ has started some incredible work here, but there are still many new worlds yet be explored.Tuesday 21st July 2020 at 4:30 AM by Muzzleflash•6 comments (last comment by BlueWolf)
Click the above image to visit the Forged Alliance Forever Youtube channel!
Our distant cousins over in the Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance Forever community also have an interview series going with real-time strategy notables, with the most-recent entry being the sci-fi strategy kingpin himself, Chris Taylor. This in-depth and very conversational interview covers many topics including the storied history of Gas Powered Games, the process of building new RTS titles from scratch, navigating the stormy waters of the gaming industry and Chris Taylor’s legacy in it, where the Supreme Commander franchise stands today and what its future may look like, along with discussion on Chris Taylor’s future projects. It’s well-worth your time to check out and is shared below.
A really cool interview that slipped under our radar!Tuesday 7th July 2020 at 5:31 AM by Muzzleflash•1 comment (last comment by adam850) While researching the previous newspost I stumbled across a cool piece of news that we missed!
Last fall, an interview was conducted with the lead artist of Total Annihilation and lead designer of Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, Clayton Kauzlaric. Conducted by longtime TA: Kingdoms fan Blechy, the interview is fascinating and tells the story of Cavedog’s transition from working on a universe of mindless and neverending robotic warfare, with Total Annihilation, to a largely story-driven tapestry of living beings locked in mystical combat on a single planet, with Total Annihilation: Kingdoms. Further, the interview takes a deep dive into the creation, the lore, the art, and the mechanics of TA: Kingdoms itself. Then, the interview transitions to the path Kauzlaric’s career has taken since the turn of the century, his favorite game to play in recent years and even his favorite Tarantino movies.
It’s a really cool interview with someone that was heavily involved in the creation of some of the real-time strategy genre’s most noteworthy titles, and can be checked out below.
Monday 6th July 2020 at 8:53 PM by Muzzleflash•0 comments
We have received word that the long-running New Era Expansion for TA: Kingdoms has reached a new milestone with its Version 5.8 release. This project aims to expand and enliven and embolden the experience of the gamer and includes a multitude of new features and fixes, including:
*New resources, and new units and structures that are unique to all four opposing races in the game
*Improved AI and pathfinding fixes
*Balancing and gameplay tweaks
*New music and maps
Click here to visit The New Era Youtube channel!
It is also worth noting that TA: Kingdoms stalwart KM-Sage has set up a Youtube channel in order to open the window on all the new gameplay features this expansion provides, TA: Kingdoms also has its very own Discord server, for community discussion, troubleshooting help and online matchmaking, and the New Era Expansion also has a portal with additional eyecandy on ModDB. Friday 26th June 2020 at 3:33 AM by Muzzleflash•4 comments (last comment by Muzzleflash)In a galaxy far, far away.
Click the pic to go to the Total Annihilation storefront on Steam!
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