Spring RTS Engine

http://www.twitch.tv/forbodingangel/b/345593025

Using my studio mic this time. Hope you guys like it

Can't stop screaming: DON'T WALK THERE, WHY ARE YOU BUILDING THAT? GET MORE UNITS, GUARD YOUR LAB WITH CONS AAARGH!

:D

Good job anyway. Just do me a favour and increase the level of your voice compared to the ingame sounds next time you record.

You have to remember how ridiculously short the nano range is for cons in TA. It's REALLY short, as in cons outside the factory walls must walk around to the front and back openings trying to get to where they can guard it which causes them to block units.

Very frustrating actually.

Still a must-do for good unit production, coupled with more reclaim (with patrol command for ease of use). If you'd do these, you'd complete these missions much faster and maybe wouldn't feel the need to up the gamespeed.

there is something I'd have liked to see... MASSIVE JETHRO SPAM because of the insane range they have!

^^ This

I've been resisting the urge to exploit the units I know are oh so easy.

@everyone, keep in mind I haven't played TA in nearly a decade, so I very much am approaching the whole thing as a newbie.

Can you not set your shipyards waypoints? You do know guardians won't auto-fire at radar unless you build a targeting facility, ctrl+z'ing your guardians and clicking on minimap dots would have been a godsend at some points

Also there are moments when a battle is happening at the edge of the screen, try to centre the screen on the battle as there are bits we're missing just off screen

The minimap is so small that it's useless. Try actually viewing the video on a 1080p screen and you'll see what I mean.

Factories in ta cannot be given waypoints (though if you pay attention you see me repeatedly try to set waypoints for them).

Pretty sure I don't have access to the targeting facility yet.

I noticed, and the minimap is painfully small coming in the direction from springs resizable minimaps, but I do remember the mouse precision clicking of my early years when I first started, and it is worth doing in those situations, and those situations show up a lot in the missions ( I cant comment on multiplayer as I dont remember doing it once in multiplayer, I do remember a lot of 56k disconnects ruining games ( I remember at some point that was fixed ) )

Forboding Angel wrote:Factories in ta cannot be given waypoints

what z's reaction face means is they can.

Welp, sadly, they can't. It might be a side effect of the 3.9xx beta community patch I'm using.

might be because I had no issues queuing stuff. it was key to my queue a bunch of shit and go to class back in college.

zwzsg wrote:

Forboding Angel wrote:Factories in ta cannot be given waypoints

Pay attention. You will see me repeatedly try to set waypoints for them out of reflex. It doesn't happen.

I just ran TA again and rechecked and PrntScrn'ed :



Maybe you forgot to click the move button before clicking the terrain? It can happen when you're too used to Spring interface.

Oh by the way, is your TA 3.1c patched? *looks at video first image. Wait what 3.9? You're more up to date than me!

ohhhhhhhh

You have to click on the move button first? Derp -_- Thanks for the tip xD

Btw, someone remind me, how do you turn on healthbars again?

Edit: Yeah I just installed TA + all goodness expansions (thanks to gog) which brought it up to 3.1c and then ran the 3.9 latest community beta patch.

I wish I could make the minimap useful at this resolution

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what smoth's character means is the healthbar key.

What exactly changed between 3.1c and 3.9 other than it's going to just be 'better'?

edit: BEHOLD http://www.tauniverse.com/forum/showthread.php?t=42656

Yeah, I still use the "move" command all these years later out of habit when I'm setting waypoints on facs.