Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
BurntWits@sh.itjust.works 1 week agoFor a second I thought it was a game where you fight against LLMs and thought that was a really cool premise.
I get what you mean now. Still looks like an interesting game though.
supersquirrel@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Nah, BAR is WAYYYY better than that, BAR represents the idea of Total Annihilation passed around, tweaked and refined for the better part of two decades. Total Annihilation itself is a high water mark of RTS games and Beyond All Reason is the latest in a series of Spring Engine/Recoil Engine projects that elevate the idea to a veryyyy niche e-sport, this family of games just hit on all cylinders consistently in a way that makes most other RTS games except Supcom FAF look flat and boring in my opinion.
The ease of queing up unit actions and such makes it almost impossible to tolerate how barebones the controls are on other RTS games… which isn’t even getting into the depth and variety of units in the game. Tanks drive like tanks, airplanes fly like airplanes, ships move like ships should, this isn’t another game with fiddly units that are meant to be micro’d back and forth identically no matter what kind of unit they are.
When a unit fires at another unit, there is a projectile that launches with some degree of accuracy and it may or may not hit, the battle is actually being simulated in the game in a way that is joyously chaotic and most other RTS games don’t even come close to the pure fun of it.