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Beyond All Reason (The modern Total Annihilation you've always wanted.) (europe.pub)

submitted 3 weeks ago by CodeBlooded@programming.dev to c/strategy@lemmy.world

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https://www.beyondallreason.info/

Beyond All Reason is a free and open source RTS that looks exactly how a modern Total Annihilation should.

I grew up playing Total Annihilation as a kid, so it’s great to be able to enjoy it like this as an adult, decades later. Supreme Commander also gave me a lot of fun gameplay, but this feels exactly like classic Total Annihilation. I haven’t been able to put it down.

10/10, I had to spread the word. These developers have created something beautiful (and that’s a compliment to the original developers also!). Enjoy!

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[–] CaptDust@sh.itjust.works 16 points 3 weeks ago

It blows my mind they're giving this away, seriously high quality game

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 14 points 3 weeks ago

Fantastic game, definitely recommend

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago

I love it. I only wish someone made a mod to change the names of the units to their original equivalents.

[–] Chee_Koala@lemmy.world 7 points 3 weeks ago

The whole lighting engine was JUST updated, and it looks great and performs better than before.

[–] Artisian@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago

Hooray for open source gaming! Definitely writing this one down.

[–] Dubman@lemmy.world 3 points 3 weeks ago

I played this for maybe 10-20 hours before I stopped. My experience was mostly positive but ended up being frustrating. It felt at times the AI was "cheating" and getting units in impossible amounts of time. Maybe it was just a skill issue but I felt like I wasn't playing a fair game so why would I keep playing.

Multiplayer.... I played 2 games of multiplayer and both games I was abused by other players for not know how to play.

I did enjoy the game for awhile and it plays well and looks good. But as above I had my issues, so rate it a 6/10.

[–] atro_city@fedia.io 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Have you tried this in multi-player?

[–] CodeBlooded@programming.dev 2 points 3 weeks ago

I have. It works great. I’m excited to say it even handled a moment of network loss on my end gracefully.