The developers pushed out another patch last night, which adds in 16 new custom commander units free for everyone. That's not a typo, they really did add in that many.
They added in a new POV camera mode, where you can follow a particular unit and see the action from it's perspective.
They also did some AI improvements. AI can now share armies and you can resume anywhere for AI games with no human players. Both of those are pretty damn useful!
There's also a new win condition, Sudden death for teams (protect your weakest player). On top of that there's a few bug fixes, balance changes and a modding adjustment.
Find the changelog here.
Anyone still playing it? Or do you have major issues with it? Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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I didn't even try it despite getting it for free as a KS backer. Well, maybe it's a good time to start. It has "mostly positive" reviews which is totally OK in my book as the original game has been bashed quite a lot, and rightly so. Top reviews are from the players with a lot of playtime, 100+ hours so it's also a good sign. This could be another undervalued game which a few players sink a lot of time in and others just don't get it.
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I loved total annihilation and supreme commander, but this game does not have 'it'.
The spherical battlefield does add nothing but makes playing akward. Never couls get myself to play it for real.
The spherical battlefield does add nothing but makes playing akward. Never couls get myself to play it for real.
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I have played Planetary Annihilation for a long time and I love it. But support for Linux is very poor. You had to start it several times and hope that the GUI started without much distortions. I stopped playing it because it just gotten worse. Never did find out how that came. They did send me a voucher to buy this game with a discount. Never did buy it because I assume the engine will have the same GUI issues...
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Yeah, GUI crashes was the main reason I stopped playing the original game. The second reason was bad pathfinding and stucking units. However, as I heard at least GUI has been fixed in TITANS so you could give it a try as well.
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The spherical maps are a huge miss-conception of a cool idea.
This, and the aweful way they handled the community with PA and PA:T make me dislike and the game, and the company.
This, and the aweful way they handled the community with PA and PA:T make me dislike and the game, and the company.
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In my opinion PA is the best RTS for Linux. Off course I'm still playing it.
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Nor Mantis 21 Jun 2017
In my opinion PA is the best RTS for Linux. Off course I'm still playing it.
I really like PA, dumped 75+ hours into it, have not tried Titans yet but I will eventually. I agree with coolbober, if I am looking for a classic RTS style game I am going for PA:T.
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I loved PA Titans. Unfortunately it suffers due to poor support and bugs (which are even worse on Optimus enabled laptop).
I can't play on updated system, because --software-ui now gives me black menu and I can't do anything.
Without --software-ui, game is too dark on Intel HD and doesn't render properly on Nvidia. :(
It's still playable on Ubuntu 16.04.
I can't play on updated system, because --software-ui now gives me black menu and I can't do anything.
Without --software-ui, game is too dark on Intel HD and doesn't render properly on Nvidia. :(
It's still playable on Ubuntu 16.04.
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Anyone still playing it? Or do you have major issues with it?Of course! This is my main go to game on any playform. Love it! <3 :D
I can often be found on the community discord and would be happy to try help those of you having issues get it working. I wish you guys would be vocal on the forums to make the devs aware of such issues.
You had to start it several times and hope that the GUI started without much distortions.I've not heard of this one before, what graphics are you using? Does toggling fullscreen help? Alt+Enter is the hotkey.
I can't play on updated system, because --software-ui now gives me black menu and I can't do anything.You shouldn't be using --software-ui with Nvidia, It's known not to work and shouldn't be required. Again does toggling fullscreen help with the black screen issue?
Without --software-ui, game is too dark on Intel HD and doesn't render properly on Nvidia.
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There's also an ingame very alive chat channel with hundrends of players and a lot of games in progress. So I can definitely tell it's alive. Played several galaxy war games, the enemy AI seems absolutely passive (maybe later it will be better?) but the game itself seems solid. Units don't stuck, instead actively kicking each other out of the way, UI doesn't crash/freeze, there are nice area tools like patroling or extractors building, there are height levels and chokepoints on the planets (I didn't see that in the vanilla PA, everything was dead flat). It looks like what I wanted PA to be from the start. Quite original and fun. Too bad the devs reputation ruined it for many.
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I can't play on updated system, because --software-ui now gives me black menu and I can't do anything.You shouldn't be using --software-ui with Nvidia, It's known not to work and shouldn't be required. Again does toggling fullscreen help with the black screen issue?
Without --software-ui, game is too dark on Intel HD and doesn't render properly on Nvidia.
Well, thing is that on Optimus enabled systems it's different. When I run PA using primusrun (on Nvidia), gui is messed up and has a lots of artifacts. Maybe it's because coherent runs as separate process and it's probably using Intel graphics. When using optirun, it's exactly same as with --software-ui. And no, the window resize trick doesn't work. It's just black screen in menu with social bar.
And as far as I know --software-ui was recommended and it ran perfectly for be before update.
CoherentUI is the biggest mistake that PA suffers from. Software like that shouldn't exist.
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Well, thing is that on Optimus enabled systems it's different.Luckily I've the hardware to test such a setup. When I find the time I'll try replicate and see if I can find a fix.
CoherentUI is the biggest mistake that PA suffers from. Software like that shouldn't exist.That's a bit harsh. It's actually a great interface library, particularly for mod-ability. Linux support hasn't been perfect though, that's for sure. :(
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Well, thing is that on Optimus enabled systems it's different.Luckily I've the hardware to test such a setup. When I find the time I'll try replicate and see if I can find a fix.
That would be awesome if you could come up with something. I didn't have a chance to try a different hardware. But issue has been already reported here Linux/Fedora25 black menu screen.
CoherentUI is the biggest mistake that PA suffers from. Software like that shouldn't exist.That's a bit harsh. It's actually a great interface library, particularly for mod-ability. Linux support hasn't been perfect though, that's for sure. :(
Yeah, it would have been OK, if it actually worked! Good idea, terrible implementation. And I'm not the only one having troubles with it.
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Well, thing is that on Optimus enabled systems it's different.Luckily I've the hardware to test such a setup. When I find the time I'll try replicate and see if I can find a fix.
That would be awesome if you could come up with something. I didn't have a chance to try a different hardware. But issue has been already reported here Linux/Fedora25 black menu screen.
That post is rather hidden away, so I've started a fresh thread with my test results. ;)
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I actually was a kick starter backer from when they initially added Linux support to the alpha version of the game. The game was OK, but I never really had the enjoyment I had from Supreme Commander. The developers did some shady things, and it seemed their interest in Linux was never in creating a smooth experience. I spent all that money to play it on Linux but the Windows client was always a lot more polished.
I stopped playing when they announced you had to pay for Titans to get the full game experience that was promised initially....
I stopped playing when they announced you had to pay for Titans to get the full game experience that was promised initially....
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I stopped playing when they announced you had to pay for Titans to get the full game experience that was promised initially....There's nothing shady about trying to fund additional development/support with an expansion (that's very reasonably priced too). Nothing in the expansion was advertised to be included in the original game. As a Kickstarter backer you got a copy of the Titans expansion (I got a free copy too just for being a competitive player).
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I'm playing galactic war every day now and I really like it! The game felt overwhelming on hard at first but then I read some beginner tips and started getting grip on it. Always expand, always scout, harass the enemy from all sides, don't let resources to be in the blue zone (that means you waste them) and you'll be ok. At least against the AI. BTW, it uses neural networks internally which is interesting by itself.
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I'm playing galactic war every day now and I really like it! The game felt overwhelming on hard at first but then I read some beginner tips and started getting grip on it. Always expand, always scout, harass the enemy from all sides, don't let resources to be in the blue zone (that means you waste them) and you'll be ok. At least against the AI. BTW, it uses neural networks internally which is interesting by itself.Sounds like you found the exodus guides. ^_^
When you want more of a challenge there's the Queller AI mod. But IMO the real fun is over in multiplayer. ;)
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Yeah, that's what pops up in google on the top. Quite useful and motivational guides! We're playing 3 vs 2 AI bots (on hard) and it's a tough challenge. Only a couple of times we were able to beat them. The game requires quite a big attention span and some patience and teamwork. Overall, I love it! Pathfinding could be better though, large crowds still get stuck from time to time, especially on metal planets with lots of obstacles.
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