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Total Annihilation Remake Released
Pxtl writes "The long-awaited remake of Total Annihilation (considered "#1 RTS of All Time" by Gamepsy), "Spring" has hit its first official public beta release. The game reimplements the original Cavedog game in a full 3d environment, replacing TA's fixed-angle view. It also brings other new features to the table, such as revised physics and a 1st-person-shooter mode. Spring reuses the original TA content and is backwards compatible with the old unit packs.
While the game is currently win32 only, its source has been released under the GPL, so fixing that is only a matter of time. Get to the download page now and help out with the torrents."
I'm not a big fan of RTS for the most part, except for maybe homeworld and dungeon keeper 2 (was this the first to introduce 1st person shooting?), however, that being said, Total Anihilation is one of the best games I've ever played period. I don't even think starcraft can compare from the little that I've played of it. The technology is awesome (create minerals from energy for instance) and the weapons get more and more powerful to the point where you have tactical nuclear weapons. Then the fun really starts. A game that truly lives up to its name in form and function!
Definately worth checking out. I don't know if you'll need the CDs to play the open source engine, but either way, you should definately check out what TA was like because very rarely does a game of such greatness ever come around.
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4.14 - Will TA Spring support campaigns?
No. TA Spring will only support multiplayer.
4.18 - Will there be an AI or a "skirmish" mode?
No. There is no AI or skirmish support planned.
I lost all interest after reading that.
Oh yes. :-) TA is, anyway, up to ten (10) people in a given level. With all the units running around in that game, things can get messy rather quickly.
Now... I wanna see a Linux port!
Mainframe/UNIX Bit Twiddler and long time Windows/Linux Hobbyist.
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1st person shooting came around way before TA, Wolfenstein 3D was the first mainstream one.
If you don't feel like dealing with BitTorrent, you can download the full version or the source from Open Source Gaming.
It started back in Team Fortress Classic
While the game is currently win32 only,
:)
It also works under WINE, it seems
Yeah, with a range of 4 and 2 kilometres, respectively. Seriously, sometimes that's less than the size of your base (and nowhere near the enemy base on 32MB and up maps), I'd rather build 3-4 Intimidators with their 8k range and actually have a chance of hitting anything. No need for that rapid firerate anyway. They are excellent base defenses but for offense you'd often need an outpost to get close enough to the target. And try building such a fragile and expensive thing this close to the enemy base...
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
If you don't own TA, you can't "legally" download this clone. :-P
It's online multiplayer only. Which sucks since my network doesn't permit any connections that don't use the proxy or run on anything but port 80 (and 53 I assume). Neither of which this thing can be set to use.
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
I am a dev on the team, JouninKomiko. There IS a skirmish AI planned, in fact I am working on it now. There is no TA code in this, just a use of the original TA content until the community remakes the units and scripts to make this standalone. Our FAQ guy stopped updating long ago for some reason.
The game sent along the Spring engine is NOT original TA. It's a mod called XTA, also created by the Swedish Yankspankers. The mod's purpose is to drastically change the balancing and gameplay. If you want to play with Original TA, you better fetch yourself the OTA patch. This is, btw, Storm.
It says right on the download page: "This category contains the latest releases from the TA Spring project. Some of the downloads includes the TA mod XTA which, like all TA mods, contains content from the game Total Annihilation. Therefore you will have to own a copy of TA to legally use this content."
these days I play the Absolute Annihilation mod
http://www.planetannihilation.com/aa/
lots of extra units, patches and balancing makes it the best mod
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I have to say TA:Spring looks very impressive in its own right, but I can't help but bring up this:
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http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_zd1up/i
Gas Powered Games is making a new RTS. Of course not a sequel to TA, but could be very interesting.
For a little background, Chris Taylor is the man credited with creating Total Annihilation. However he left Cavedog to start up Gas Powered Games some time before Cavedog produced TA:Kingdoms and subsequently went under.