Had a LAN together with 10 friends last weekend. We played BAR. What an absolute amazing game!! 1000s of units, AI and large scale battles - No lagging, No crashing.. just ran smooth all the time, even on old crappy gfx cards with 4gb memory. Wow!
Highly recommend trying. We disabled tech level 2 and 3 the first rounds, then just 3 and finally ran everything. A nice way to start without being overwhelmed:)
If you loved Starcraft and RA2, try this game ๐ฅฐ
Community built, actually free, AND is an incredibly good game all round. It excells beyond all reason!
I played Total Annihilation many years ago w/friends at a LAN party... good times (I always sucked at it, the name described my fate well :P)
Looks fun!
Seen the large scale wars on youtube. I am scared of trying it because i dont have time
We used to hide copies of Snipes on the school network and play it on their LAN during programming class. No GPU required.
Where can I get 8 5 1 friend for LAN play? :(
Is it similar to games in Spring engine?
+1 bump for bar
I should really re-install that...
How the hell did you get ten friends to play the same game?
I wish someone made a mod for this game that restored the names of the units and buildings to all their Total Annihilation equivalents.
Love BAR! I usually play with my son's against AI or watch pro streams. Such a great game.
I gave this a go today. Honestly, the game felt annoying and I didn't last more than 2 skirmishes. The troops don't defend themselves like in any other RTS (unless you give hold command), they just stand there with zero fucks to give while enemies kill them, so the game becomes a micromanaging hell. This also means that baiting tactic does not work, like in any other RTS. As soon as slightly larger battles begin, my troops constantly get stuck or hit wreckage. What's also annoying is that whenever you get units under attack alert, the radar/map does not highlight where it's happening
At this point, even 9-bit armies feel superior
EDIT: Tried out scenarios and second scenario got bugged. I explored the entire map and could not find a single enemy unit (destroyed them all), but the game didn't end. The supposed task was to kill the commander, which I did.
I have a few friends who keep inviting me to play BAR, and I really want to like it, but I just don't think I'm built for rts at this scale. There's just too much stuff and too much going on at once and I get stuck reading tooltips instead of building or manouvering and get run over. I guess I have more of a 4x brain, I need time to think.
Love beyond all reason and have put many hours into that game but physically can't play it due to RSI. I want to play it so bad Ive switching to doing all my computer work left handed to fix it and it seems to be working.
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