Spring RTS Engine

Supreme Annihilation V1.0 http://img27.picoodle.com/img/img27/4/3 ... 0e03ef.jpg

Latest SA by Gota: http://spring.jobjol.nl/show_file.php?id=1225

What it is:

Supreme Annihilation is the latest in a series of modifications to the RTS classic Total Annihilation as modified to fit the Spring engine. This mod is based on an Absolute Annihilation / Balanced Annihilation / Tired Annihilation for unit options and basic gameplay, and has many elements of lua and special effects found in Complete Annihilation and XTA.


List of significant changes from its predecessors:

Supreme Annihilation├óÔé¼Ôäós unit balance is based on a refined costing formula established for a proof-of-concept in Tired Annihilation. Many unit options / bugfixes have been integrated back in from Balanced Annihilation. SA features advanced effect options (LUPS from Complete Annihilation and BA, Dinamic Shadows) and integrates autoloading support for AF├óÔé¼Ôäós Music AI to facilitate dynamic background music, along with several other sound tweaks (BLURBBLURBBLURB when units can├óÔé¼Ôäót move, for example, has been removed).

Several notable gameplay factors include functional artillery, effective ground-based anti-air, standardized Build Times, functional mobile anti-nukes, radar units that don├óÔé¼Ôäót attack, and a variety of functional, effective starting options that don├óÔé¼Ôäót force competitive players down narrow build paths. SA features CA lua effectively integrated into BA core gameplay, such as unit morphing, cloaking fields, and Unit Transport. SA features TA innovations such as Commando bomb planting, false radar signatures, and additional floating units in the form of floating nano towers, floating shields, and AA LRPC ships.


A Note on Graphics:

At this time, SA is not using certain new models, in particular new Commanders and Mr.D├óÔé¼Ôäós Core+1 series. This is because, while many new units are very nice, and in some cases improvements on the old, they do not fit into a consistent visual theme. Core+1, lacking Arm+1, for example, serves only to make the old models look worse by comparison. Certain weapon effects, most especially those that XTA and CA are becoming known for, fall into this category as well.


Where to get it:

http://www.tasdownloads.com/download.php?m=SA.sd7


Credits:

OTA

Project Leader Chris Taylor

Design Chris Taylor

Art Lead Clayton Kauzlaric

Assistant Producer Jacob McMahon

Game Programming Chris Taylor

Programming Jonathan Mavor, Jeff Petkau, Brian W. Brown

Additional Design Ron Gilbert, Jacob McMahon, Richard W. Smith

Musical Composition Jeremy Soule

Sound Design Frank Bry

A.I. Programming Bartosz Kijanka, Jeff Petkau

Producer Ron Gilbert

Lead Mission Design Nathan Doster

3D Units & Buildings J. Clayton Corbisier, Mike Fisher, Kevin Pun

Movie Supervisior Kevin Pun

Movie Team Rebecca Coffman, J. Clayton Corbisier, Mike Fisher, Scott Robinson, Steve Thompson

Network Programming Rick Lambright, Kurt Pfiefer

Background Art John Baron, C.H. Burpee, Clayton Kauzlaric, Steve Thompson, Mark D. West

Interface Art Adrian Bourne, Rebecca Coffman, Mark Collen, Cory Hamilton

Mission Paintings Jarrett Holderby

Frontend Programming Kurt Pfiefer, Kevin Smith

Editors and Tools Jason King, Brad P. Taylor, Brian W. Brown

Mission Assistants Bradley Keith Lyons, Matthew D. Schroeder, Jason Stiney

Production Assistants Shane Hendrix

Production Lawton Watkins

Writer David Grossman

Quality Assurance Manager David Nixon

Test Lead Ruth A. Lopez

Quality Assurance Hardware Technician Cullen Hadersburger

Playtesting Ruth A. Lopez, Kyle Casperson, Todd Clausen, Casey D. Stein, Eric Helbig, Dirk Hunter, Justin Isaac Copeland, Matt Julich, Aaron Kempf, Marcus King, James Krieger, Steven Kuo, Miene Lee, John R. Lewis, Garrett Link, Bradley Keith Lyons, Bryan Macdonald, Joe Mullenix, Randy Ochs, Wade Racine, Charles Roberts, Tariq Sahal, Matthew D. Schroeder, Eric Snyder, Jason Stiney, James Willich, Tim Wright

Narrator John Patrick Lowrie

Conductor Cullen Thomas

Music Coordinator Audrey deRoche

Orchestra Recorded and Mixed by Rick Winquest

Orchestration Larry Kenton

Computer Score Transcription Benoit Grey

Orchestra Contractor Simon James

Studio Manager Reed Ruddy

2nd Engineers John Burton, Sam Hofstedt

Special Thanks To Ralph Giuffre, William Kidd, Sam Linse, Patricia Longeran, Marsh Macy, Mark Maling, Dave Timoney, John Uppendahl


Absolute Annihilation for Spring

Caydr

Balanced Annihilation

[WarC]NOiZE
[WarC]DayWalkeR
[WarC]Sleksa

LUA support

jK
The CA design team
Noruas
[TN]Ray

Modelling / Texturing/Art

Mr.D
Machio


Unit Balance and Testing

The Spring online community
Some fbi n00b


If you feel you should be on this list but don├óÔé¼Ôäót see your name, post here or PM Tired.

sounds nice i'll try it later

yay! BA replacement time!

good stuff, play it people

i want to try that sounds interesting

Great balance, snappy gameplay, no limits.

Almost no unnessecary micro is needed, the mod works for you, not against you.

Whorey, porcy, spammy.

Play SA, it eez deeelishus.

Sounds awesome. Hosting right now....

Hm, 'take best features out of each mod and combine them into a consistent game' sounds really promising.

hueg list of credits

You forgot the maker of uberhack

It´s nice that you learned to add credits maybe you should add the name of The Registered One, for the talon Ufo, it´s still in your modfile.

So i say good work when you really havent stolen and quested everyone ! :)

Maybe now i like to play it too.

lol @ the credits

just another *A sure it will have solid "balanced" gameplay but no innovation and near identical factions again wats the fun in that

- 1 boring

Is this actually good? I enjoyed TiA quite a bit.

Otherside wrote:lol @ the credits

just another *A sure it will have solid "balanced" gameplay but no innovation and near identical factions again wats the fun in that

- 1 boring

Go away pls nub. You didnt even try it.

Why didn't you fix the floating shield textures? It's a 1 minute job...

Because no one complained about them. Feel free to fix them yourself and mail in the edit. =P

Edit: Thanks. =)

Tired wrote:Because no one complained about them. Feel free to fix them yourself and mail in the edit. =P

Piece of cake (attached files to this posting). Don't forget to fix the buildpics too...

Pwnage 2b.

I shall rule once more!

My only objection thus far to SA is in the generic feel it reintroduces to the same old content. It's not any worse balanced than BA or TiA, but it seems much less fun. Perhaps this will change as I play more.

Another soup mod for the hall of shame?

Theres a reason that a ton of veterans and GOOD players play this mod. It really is good. No strange or foreign changes to the gameplay that made TA-AA-BA good, but a nice balance and it really is fun to play.

Go play a game now.