Interest Check: AA Classic

[Fanger]

AA was more fun with all the units caydr removed even if they were useless some of them werent.. like the mobile berthas, the ship berthas, the multiple different tech 3 units.. etc.. they were all cool and nifty and added to the games variety and honestly gave you some interesting options to tech to.. I think instead of being removed they should have been altered, or other units should have been altered till they had a useful place in the tech tree..

[BigSteve]

Yup. it was a sad day when the bertha ships, mobile bertha and the krogtarr were removed.

EDIT - And the core helios... god damn I loved that Bomba.

[Ishach]

The way i see it BA is more like a fistfight and AA was a gun duel

[Zoombie]

And EE is more like an insane kife fight mixed with gym-fu, where the skill of gymnastics meets the kill of kung-fu.

[Ishach]

I'm not even expecting a XTA level of niche following for this, but im gonna start going through the 2.2* changelogs and trimming out the self destructive changes and keeping the good parts that dont drastically alter 2.11 gameplay.

[MR.D]

If KrogTaar is still somewhere in the files, plz bring that sucker back.

A little tear fell when it went bye bye.

KrogTaar aka SuperMav ftw!

[BoredJoe]

1.46/2.11 were pretty good, i remember the changelog between 2.11 to 2.23 being so unbelievably long, how you could change about 300 stats and still know how the game will play i'll never know

[Neddie]

I did have a lot of fun in 1.46

[MR.D]

IMO, only problem with 2.23 was the weasel and jeffy being overpowered.

Other than those 2 units, it was one of the better releases in terms of thing being balanced and fun.

Sad that 1 unit killed the entire game, and that nobody even noticed that Caydr did 2 releases after it (2.3beta1, 2.3 beta2)

By then everyone had started to play BA, and since it was exactly what AA 2.2 was minus the weasel problem, people forgot about Caydr for whatever reason and totally dumped support.

[Ishach]

2.2* Was a rollercoaster ride of strange things.

-No impulse
-Super Hawks followed by fighters nerfed to hell
-Super Commandos followed by useless commandos
-Shitty radar followed by less shitty radar



But however the idea has changed to 2.23 without the bad bits, instead of AA2.11 with the good bits (from 2.2*)

[Nixa]

Alrighty guys ive just finished work on the first beta of this AA classic, if you are interested in helping me on testing, pm me in the lobby and i will give you a link.

[Neddie]

Just drop me a PM. I'll be able to test at some point, Nixa.

[el_matarife]

I'm not even expecting a XTA level of niche following for this, but im gonna start going through the 2.2* changelogs and trimming out the self destructive changes and keeping the good parts that dont drastically alter 2.11 gameplay.

I think there's probably undocumented changes too. I'd suggest getting the FBI files for both releases and running them through a comparison tool in your text editor of choice and looking over the differences.

[Pxtl]

WinMerge FTW.

[Sheekel]

1.44 and 1.46.....ahhh, some of my fondest memories of spring.

[Ishach]

4000hp commanders that dont take special dmg from LLTs


Rushing your commander to the enemies base and spamming LLTs in a circle around it ruled

[Pxtl]

Actually, I think the comm-nerfs where one of the things I liked about Caydr's development of AA.

[Nixa]

BA vs AA - Balance vs Fun (and of course balance ^.^)

Yes, T2 might actually be useful







^.^

[Ishach]

nixa cant micro flashes

[Neddie]

You saw that? I bet he uses groups.