Posted on: June 12, 2022

wilkan
Verified ownerGames: 508 Reviews: 155
Sounds Not Working, Crippling Bugs
NOT RECOMMENDED and CAVEAT EMPTOR. The vanilla game is a badly broken POS that not even die-hards like and Forged Alliance is a partial re-design fix that makes the game vastly less negative experience. In Windows 10, the game has serious issues and does not work properly. The vanilla version randomly hangs and is not stable. Because of the sheer amount of various technical issues with it, here is a list of them. 1. Hangs (vanilla game) 2. Some sounds not working (both, bg music and sfx work, VOs never) 3. Videos not working (FA, black screen instead) 4. Unit cap not visible (vanilla, a standard RTS feature for a reason, the "unit cap reached" sound does not play because of #2, buildings count towards unit cap) 5. Crucial commands not documented (C-K to destroy units, see #4) 6. Accurate unit movements not possible because e.g. a command to move forward / backward sometimes causes the unit to take a strange double-90-degree turn or a half circle to move two steps. The units lose firepower when they turn and trying mobile tactics in this game gets your army mangled in record time. 7. Builders assisting other builders will never show up as idle even if the assisted one is and is doing nothing. The so-so assist mechanic (guard / help build) is central in the game and makes the game significantly worse. Overall, units are made of paper and offer no satisfaction. I was told Supreme Commander was the particularly good RTS (well, the mission scripting is above average). Basically something on par with the RTS gold standard that is C & C Red Alert. Instead I am given something worse than Star Craft 1 (the path-finding is terrible and units get stuck). It was weird watching the units (mostly in vanilla) touch an obstacle and start bouncing against it like crazy. In FA, the unit formations stay boxed up better instead of the suicidal column ones. In vanilla, if you send your main army somewhere without baby-sitting, it is most likely dead by the next time you check on it.
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