How to balance a game so your going to have 100+ unit mangement I couldn't exactly say. Long of the days when you had 20 dragoons ( I feel this is alot of one unit type ) and a combination of other units and at least make some progress against your enemy.

When defense structures are so unbalanced you must make 100's of units and basicly have 20 buildings of each unit production type, it shows something is wrong with balance of the units and buildings.

I just hope SC 2 is better otherwise I won't get it, of course hard to try it before you buy it, which is why a good demo is needed.

TheDarkerPhantom

Anyway, this doesn't sound like Supreme Commander 2, this sounds like an expansion :P s'gotta be good if they plan on competing with the Company of Heroes expansion, Mideval 2 Kingdoms and the yet to be announced final expansion for Dawn of War.

cadekun

Also, tons of people play SupCom. With C&C3's multiplayer being the crap that it is, and SupCom's single player campaign being the crap that it is, the two are pretty well separated.

Atheist Jew

/[Massive Irony] but EA will fix that...

Morgoth

things are going to get mighty comfusing...

Spindaden

href="#c1756745">Coherent:

Hell, war simulator? Sounds just perfect. All the strategy with none of the real life killing. And winning is just that much more satisfactory when it's accompanied by a gigantic blast.

It really mimics full out war, creating the ultimate setting for a battle of wits.

Ethereus

allabouttrust

Archangel

Also, this NOVEMBER? And we're only hearing about it now?

Impressive.

Atheist Jew

Supreme Commander is like chess in that sense - the challenge can take a lot out of you, but it doesn't make it any less fun. Just expect to be able to turn your brain off.

jettokisora

cortot20

brent_w

Gouki4u

Coherent

LORDofDANCE

That said, I will probably buy the sequel.

Coherent

I'm guessing that the people who hate on Supreme Commander are the noobs who approach it as if it were Warcraft 3. "Oh nos! Too much thinking!" Heaven forbid an RTS contain some elements of actual strategy. Granted, Supreme Commander is more of a war simulator than a game... as it should be. :)

jettokisora

On the other hand I dislike CoH. It requires a lot of strategy and is still much better than SC but I just don't like trying to guard 20 points on the map at the same time. By expanding normally in a 1 v 1 you pretty much have to have a line of defences that stretches across the map. Also the only build in your home area rule is garbage.

C&C3 has been the only RTS worth playing in the last year. Even then it still has a ton of balance issues to be fixed.

Iron_Dragon_2.0

The game was at first a real system breaker, that can't be denied; however, they recently released a patch a few weeks ago that gave substantial gains in performance. I used to not be able to play the game on low settings in Windows Vista because of crappy NVIDIA drivers. Now, I can play the game with medium settings on Vista! Really, if you shelved the game for performance problems before, now is a good time to try it again.

Nalin

Irenicus

crazyspoonhead

Add to the fact that all of my friends who I play RTS games with couldn't handle the game made it even worse. I was the only one with a good rig at the time. Now all my friends are holding off on upgrading until Crysis comes out, so that means I won't have anyone else really to play the game with until then.

Phlycheez

Sup Com is developed by Gas Powered Games.
Dawn of War/Company of Heroes is developed by Relic.

So, they can actually work on both. Dark Crusade gives the impression Relic/THQ is already making DoW2.

Scynix

SliceWarriorX

ichiban1081

I would love to see how synapse control is handled, and the digestion pool could be there to generate energy whenever something is killed by your Gaunts and Genes. The narrative for the Nids could all be in the second person, like, from the Imperials and Space Marines so that you can understand what's going on. Hell, I'd like to see a sequel to DoW before Stalker. Instead of that we have to wait through the development of SC 2 and I just don't care for that game.

StealthNachos

Altima NEO

Draconis

@StealthNachos:
Yeah Stalker is a great and underappreciated game that needs a sequel. So does CoH.

mustang

@StealthNachos: See, I didn't really care for CoH. I love DoW, and CoH brought a bunch of nice mechanics/changes to the field, but at the same time it felt very repetitive to me for some reason. Hard counters do that.

The biggest failing SupCom has is it's system requirements. It was essentially an upgrade-to-play game for everyone I know. The game was somewhat overwhelming for a lot of people, too, in the same way Total Annihilation was.

It's one of those love it or hate it games.

Scynix

Spiritual sucessor to total ahnillation FTW!

muscrat_01

What we need is a sequel to Stalker. That game was so awesome. But, I guess Fallout 3 is coming out right? That's probably all we can hope for with Stalker's terrible sells.

StealthNachos

Someguy925

Darwyn