Supreme Commander Demo Released

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  if you have to ask your PC probably isn't fast enough.. :P : Shadowdane
  • this is the correct answer : hobosapien
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    Minimum: # Microsoft Windows XP Service Pack 2, Windows Vista # 1.8 GHz processor # 512 MB RAM # 8GB ... : Shadowdane
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      Geez, what about a intel core 2 duo cpu =\ : not work safe
      • the game was meant for dual core, so you'll see a huge difference with the c2d : hobosapien
    • Ran fine here with about 800 units yesterday in the Beta on a 7900GT and AMD643400+ (No dual core for me)... : j33uk
    • If anybody has any problems installing in Windows 2000, please post with the 411. : Ride-My-Rocket
    • well those are exactly my specs, i guess ill pass. : mindshot
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      I will check it out tonight when I get off work, I expect it to run like ass until I get another gig of r... : Jayx77
      • umm yeah, I need some more ram I think <15fps in big battles, I cant even imagine what a 4v4 multiplayer... : Jayx77
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  AMD 64x 4400+ 2G of ram and a Nvidia 7950 and it runs great. : classicfork
  • AMD 64 3000+ 2GB RAM ATI 850Pro and it runs like crap! : MatzL.E.
• I have an Intel 3.4 Ghz with 2 gb of RAM and an ATI x800 and it runs like crap even in "LOW". I'm not... : gnoleb

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  Patrols: Hit the "Patrol" button and shift-click to create waypoints. (You don't have to shift-click, b... : Arcanum
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    Ah, thanks. I never tried shift-clicking as pressing shift shows the eta and I didn't think it would put... : TroZ
    • Give a group of units an attack order with at least one move order before it. Then do the same with the ... : Arcanum

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  From what I've played, it seems a little different. The battles seem to be on a more massive scale. I'm... : silverback1138
  • 1. The demo doesnt even approach the level of polish that the relic rts games have had. (Damn you Relic! ... : noomsy

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  yep, there's somebody talking about it in GPGnet right now, actually : Foxhawk
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    The fun part is that it apparently happens to the ground factories, too. It's not even worth trying to un... : Dslyecxi
    • ah that sucks :( I ref'd the channel mod to your post, and he's following up on it now. : Foxhawk
• this happens to me as well. : bakanoodle
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  it didnt happen to me... I dunno : Jayx77
  • It didn't happen to me the first game I played, but it did the second. It's just an annoyance if the fac... : Arcanum
• This happened to me as well, no fix but if you drag a box out and off the map in the area the unit disapp... : classicfork
• Yeah it's a bitch. Use ctrl+double-click to select all units of that type and move them back. Happens t... : chazums
• lol yeah, I ran into the same thing. I was concerned I had done something wrong :( : Clay

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• Well, at least they didn't RAR it...twice... : quanta88

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  Some of the units are too small - find a tech1 engineer is nigh impossible. : chazums
  • Turning on the "Always Display Strategic Icons" option helps a lot. : Arcanum

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  Might be the tacticle missile launcher - tech2 or 3 : chazums
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    Yeah, tech 3. Be prepared to hunker down and commit a bunch of engineers to it. It think it takes about 4... : Dynotaku
    • Goddamn, that's a long build time. But then again, I wouldn't want my enemy having nukes ready 10 minutes... : code-e255

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  dont worry im contacting CTU now!!! : Arcipello1
  • lawl... : code-e255
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  Fileshack needs to start up a tracker and offer all their downloads with hot torrent action with 1 guaran... : Psychic Potato
  • That would be great though, it would probably take some bandwith cost off too... : maxmc

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  It scales with resolution. Can barely see it at 1900x1200. : Commee
  • I fucking hate you. : punchdog
  • Tried 1200x920 ... better but still big and hurts my computer even more. : yourname00
  • It's a nice size at 1680*1050. Big enough to see all the details and being able to easily click all the b... : code-e255

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• Highly doubt it runs on OSX. Bootcamp for you. : famine101

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  when I tried the demo I thought it was extremely overly complicated.. the first match I did lasted like... : Shadowdane
  • demo beta : Shadowdane
  • I also found the game very complicated in beta. Normally a good user interface can make the learning curv... : code-e255
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  The game is really good and is pretty easy to pick up at first. You have your little dude, you'll build ... : Dessicator82
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    Damnit I'm amazing at CoH but suck at this. : sasoi
    • Very, very different games. SupCom is more about getting the right combinations of units in your groups,... : Arcanum
    • And I'm super-crappy at CoH but I hold my own in SC quite well. : famine101
• easy to learn hard to master. : painangel
• Most of the basics are fairly standard RTS conventions. You build buildings that harvest resources, then... : Arcanum
• It is pretty complex. The resource system alone is much more complex that just amounts and costs. It is l... : gnoleb

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  dont alt+tab? seriously alt+tabbing has been a big no-no in windows when playing games since, well window... : donlo
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    iawtp : lord_omega
    • youre both wrong, most games handle it fine : bradsh
  • I'm pretty sure it's actually a checklist point in the Games for Windows specification, which this is par... : Chris Remo
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    Not true at all. I'm a huge alt-tabber and do it in every game I play. Warcraft III, Half-Life 2, and C... : sasoi
    • Yep me too. I'm really impressed with how fast CoH tabs in and out. How can they get it so tight while ga... : aeg1x

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  There are basic formations. Right-drag as part of a movement order. The unit types even get arranged in... : Arcanum
  • yup, formation is a must for many attack situations : Foxhawk
  • right, I just find with the player building a base and economy, hordes of enemy rushing the base early is... : byorn

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  try using the home key, you can split one screen : Foxhawk
  • yeah, I found that out by accident when I was trying to figure out how to rotate the screen. : Jayx77

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  No tutorial, it goes to a website that's not ready yet. : aperture
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    jesus fucking christ. GPG has completely botched the supcom launch just that easily. : bradsh
    • Does anyone know if the tutorial-goes-to-a-website is just a Demo thing or will the final game work that... : Schnapple
    • yep that pissed me the fuck off. "Hey I want to try this game! Oh! Tutorials! <click>" <game minimizes> <... : Madwacker

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• Get another gig of RAM and a faster CPU and things will be ok. : pebui
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  I have almost that exact setup, amd64 3200, 1 gig ram, but instead I have a 7600GT, and it runs great, n... : datim
  • did you play the same demo I did? C2D 6300/gig of ram/7600GT and I got <15fps in a big battle with sev... : Jayx77

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• Yea, that Monkeylord Spiderbot is pretty k3w1... First time I was playing skirmish, I got owned by AI - s... : ghjkghjk

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  Yeah, this isn't doing anything for me. Company of Heroes was a blast - this is just too large-scale to h... : Dslyecxi
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    yah I didn't care for the beta or the demo.. I gave it a far try. But it just takes far too long to ha... : Shadowdane
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      im down to about 14 minutes to tech3 in a MP game : bradsh
      • thats cool.. but just seems like a very steep learning curve to figure everything out. I played the be... : Shadowdane
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    you guys should give multi a shot if they ever release a multiplayer demo. It's not about swarming, it's... : Foxhawk
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      Yea, most games between good players stay around the 15-20 minute mark, adn those usually all go to tech ... : d0gbert
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        yea there are fleets smashing but it's not just mindless. You can get down to individual unit micro in pr... : Foxhawk
        • I believe SupComm is not a game where you do much if any microing, it's a game designed to be all about t... : dkrulz
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      I'm really not a fan of MP RTS. CoH was fun for me as a singleplayer experience. This, on the other hand,... : Dslyecxi
      • understood, sp doesn't interest me at all in RTS, or in many games for that matter, but teho. : Foxhawk

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  PLEASE dont pan. ive been playing the beta for months, your fastest mode of screen movement is to zoomout... : bradsh
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    Are you kidding me? People should be able to use the interface as intuitively as they'd like. Zooming o... : wytefang
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      Yeah, I prefer panning. The other thing is being able to center on a spot dragging on the mini-map. It su... : Nitrium
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        youre using the minimap too??? seriously, turn off the minimap and give zooming a chance. i was once like... : bradsh
        • Throw off the shackles of one-click navigation! : Mugsy
    • I also noticed panning being moving the camera square-by-square, making it seem jerky when you're zoomed ... : code-e255
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    So you're saying that if I want to look one screen to the right, I should have to zoom out to a higher vi... : Mugsy
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      I think it just works better that way because its such a huge map : Jayx77
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        Yeah I'm not saying zooming isn't useful in some situations. Moving from equally zoomed, adjacent screens... : Mugsy
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          i think you can ask almost any beta tester, the preferred method of getting around the map is zoomout/zoo... : bradsh
          • Aye, I haven't used the panning in the past 200+ games I've played, which is about the last few weeks of ... : d0gbert
          • this is how i do it too : sexninja!!!!
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  iirc you can hold down the middle mouse button and drag the screen around : sexninja!!!!
  • but who would do that? seriously : bradsh
• just zoom in out. I was pissed when I first started playing the beta, because i'm normally a minimap/arro... : Foxhawk

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• - CTRL+N to rename a unit - 'HOME' key splits your screen in twain - You can upgrade your commander... : Foxhawk
• some more I though of - don't underestimate the value of air transports. Use these buggers to positio... : Foxhawk
• few more - T1 Cybran Mantis and T2 Aeon Habringer (both land units) are fucking awesome. They're both... : Foxhawk
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  Thanks for all this! I'm getting chewed by the defenses in the first easy mission, I suspect I just need ... : node
  • dunno what faction you are, but almost certainly use the artillery. Get a scout in range so the def. show... : Foxhawk
  • yep, defenses are definitely worth it : Foxhawk

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  oh and it reset all of my windows settings : Anti_dentite
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    and all of my bookmarks are gone too. Awesome. : Anti_dentite
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      and you think supcom did this? : painangel
      • It did because the bookmarks and settings were all there before running the demo, then it crashed and reb... : Anti_dentite
• Note: the "Tutorial" link in the game just launches your browser and takes you to http://www.supremec... : Schnapple

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• This happened to me a bunch of times when I was using Free Download Manager but when I used plain Firefox... : pebui
• Yeah, you're not the only one. I have to use a download manager. Only happens on Fileshack, and I am a ... : Freon

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• press b for build mode. : painangel
• All the hotkeys are in the readme. : yourname00
• uh, it has them, but not really. queue ahead of time. : Foxhawk

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• The last beta ran very smooth on my system enough for me to bump effects up to mostly High and still at 1... : pebui
• Okay, this demo runs very nicely on my system. Yay! :) I did, however, upgrade my graphics card (6800G... : code-e255
• it runs like absolute shit on my system. strange because i run the beta like butter. : bradsh

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• i would also like to know.. : bradsh

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  yeah everyone who has wait time estimates has the same problem. huge shifts by huge files messes with stu... : Steve Gibson
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    http://thenicetech.com/fight!.jpg : jodiuh
    • http://thenicetech.com/winner!.jpg : jodiuh
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  I wish fileshack would max out my connection, does at work but only 400/1000k here. : node
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    im getting about 850k. thats 20 minutes for 1 gig. oh my. : ease_one
    • I guess I shouldn't say that I'm getting 2.25MB/sec at work. :P : supertech68

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  The problem is, by the time I get to play, I'll be completely overmatched by the huge number of beta test... : TheArtMan
  • you can still play against me since i haven't gotten to play it yet. : kbnerd

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• I only played the beta twice, and I found it difficult. The interface was very complicated, and there wer... : code-e255

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• Woot! Me too, and I'm taking the rest of the day off cuz I'm not feeling well. Awesome! : SatansFist