NOTE: So the graphics are actually quite nice (the oceans actually look like, well, oceans), yours truly just pulled a DOH moment and forgot to raise the graphics to full.
Do you like RTS games? Do you like a good old Nuke Simulator? Do you enjoy the sounds of your opponent cursing your legion of walking destroyers? Because this game has all of that and way, way more.
Welcome to The Supreme Commander Review
As of the 11th May 2022 FAF now officaly Supports GOG :)
IT’S THE OGs!!!! God I’m a huge fan folks, Happy to hear the good news!
@@TheHappyTau Glad To hear it, The Promotions Team is now able and starting to Branch out and see who made Supcom Based Content in the past to try and re spark some of that magic that is FAF :)
Fantastic work man, this came together wonderfully.
When is your own? :D I'd love to contribute something, an interview, commissioned 2D art, gameplay machinima, you name it!
Please still review it. I know some people nowadays dont actually know about this game.
Mandalore man, please do, FAF needs a surge of new players, otherwise skillgap would push away lone newcomers.
i want to know how you two are related
@@Aviatorchik its possible to play if you are in south América? Or the ping will affect me and the other players?
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The best thing about the unit design is that they are not as 1 note as Starcraft 2 units for example. They have small details that are not gamechanging but CAN be very usefull even later on when you moved to a better Tier. For example: The UEF has: - a Tier 2 Combat engineer, which can repair and has a few guns to protect itself, but can not build any structures other than Turrets. Sounds okay, but the true hidden utility is: They have a Radar Jammer. Meaning they show up as multiple units on the enemy radar. - The Tier 1 Frigate also has a radar jammer. - The Tier 1 sub (like all of them, except aeon) has a surface canon to fight over tanks. - A Tier 2 Gunship which can transport small units. You can get Engineers to reclaim to the front easily. Or you could ... Ghetto it up. Speaking of Ghetto: The Ghetto Gunship. This is taking a quirk of the engine and using it to turn a Transporter into a god damn nightmare. If a transporter picks up a Tier 1 light assault bot (the weakest combat unit there is in terms of health), then they point their guns downwards and: Can shoot while in the air. Now consider that a Tier 2 Transport can carry 12 of these. Each with 23 dps. A Gunship has 67 DPS. Tier 3: 250. You just turned your Transport into a tier 3 gunship in terms of damage. (Incredibly squishy tho). Cybrans have: - A tier 1 assault bot, that can assist engineers. - Boats that can walk on land. - Assault walkers which explode in an EMP upon death. - EMP tier 1 mobile artillery. etc. The Aeon has: - A mobile shield generator that can hover. Incredible navi synergy. - A floating Tier 1 Tank. - A Tier 3 assault bot that can also reclaim. Not to mention all the little quirks each experimental has. - The tempest can shoot straight up, if you order it to dive. I once sniped an Ahwassa out the air with that. - The Megalith can walk backwards if you order move commands close to its hind legs, firering while retreating. It can also fire its normal guns AND torpedos at the same time if halfway submerged. You can also build a unit on a downed experimental for insane reclaim. - You can control-K (Self destruction) a Ahwassa as its bomb releases. The bomb and the wreck will both crash in the same spot. - The Fatboy has Airstaging (repairs and refuels aircraft), Torpedos and factory capabilities. It is not just a tank that does the shooty bang bang (Looking at you: FATBOY II from supreme commander 2 ...) And SO much more. Each unit has some amazing gameplay depth that offers flexible approaches to situations. Except for Percis. Percis just go pew and you die.
“Watered down Gundam suit” *How did I not make that connection*
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Absolutely fantastic video man!
Hey thanks for the vote of confidence man! Looking forward to making more :D
Broooooo you forgot the ghetto gunships xD
but i didnt forgot to sub
15:03 I got ya bruddah
@@TheHappyTau lol
This is why FAF Supreme Commander exists, and is the dominate version to play.
Anyone reading this, go out and buy Supreme Commander Forged Alliance on Steam, then download Forged Alliance Forever (free community suported multiplayer add-on for epic online play). The game is so addictive. This the is the best strategy game there is, with Age of Empires 2 coming just behind.
Two things I love dearly about SC is 1/ air craft need fuel, and 2/ transport ferry/assist. 1/ When using aircraft (beside Experimentals), you must always be conscious of their fuels as these directly decide how far they can fly away from your factories/assembly areas. Careless management may result in your aircraft reaching an enemy base with zero fuel left, leaving them painfully vulnerable to even T1 AA. There are 2 ways they can refuel: landing on dedicated refuel/repair structures or units (carriers, UEF Fatboys, etc.), or just land on the ground (transports cannot dock on any structure or unit, but can land on the ground OR on water to refuel themselve at rapid paces). Now this is just half of what I wanted to talk about. Because, guess what? When you're about to launch an air attack, you're gonna want to check their fuels. If they landed on an assembly area after leaving the factory, waiting for the moment, then good, they're all fueled up. But what if they were patrolling around your base and now need to attack somewhere faraway? Then some of them, or A LOT of them are gonna running low on fuel halfway to the target. This means you need to tell them to refuel right away. And guess what? Those refueling structures and units can only accommodate limited number of aircraft at one time (which is decided by their physical sizes, which are relatively correlated to their Tech levels). Normally when you're fielding 20+ planes on patrol, just 2 or 3 air staging structures are already enough. But now, unless you want to manually refuel some some of them, even 8 air-staging structures will take a while to refuel all 20+ planes. This is why I LOVE carrier units, and LOVE UEF for having Fatboys and ATLANTIS (which can refuel/repair 150 aircraft at once, or even double that with a bit of micro). And I'm not even talking about the distances yet, which become painfully a big factor on large maps, and what make carriers extremely valuable as mobile air-staging facilities. 2/ oh god that 1/ got so long. But yeah, notice how your land units move awfully slow comparing to air units, and you have AIR UNITS for transportation? You're gonna want that. And guess what? You're not gonna need to manually uploading then unloading 150+ tanks into the battlefield. The transports themselves can automatically pick up units built from the factories (on Assist mode), units moving to or waiting at a Ferry Beacon (on Ferry mode). Or if the transports and tanks are selected, and you place the Transport order on a spot, the transports will automatically pick up the tanks and move them toward that location; any tanks aren't picked up will move toward said location, and the transports will come back to pick them up after dropping the others. Awesome, I know!
"Diplomatic solutions" in this game sounds like the "Diplomatic solutions" in Warhammer 40k
Eyyyyyyyyyyy I found one!
OMG I just realized his name is fucking tau... Immediately subbed
@@guardianofthetoasters2323 lol "peaceful negotiations"
@@aboodbyxapn8332 it is peaceful if there is no conflict. And a dead civilization can sure as hell don't do conflicts
This video is so underrated!
OSHA compliant. Bro, your metaphors are 👌👍Samsung XD
There is also a random map generator made by the FAF community that works really well, infinite maps to play on !
Capturing every factions engineers then mixing them all together and d daying other people's islands on gentlemen's reef or whatever is actually the spice of life. UEF continentals rule.
The final mission in Forged Alliance is deliberately set up so you can build a Paragon-powered Mavor barrage. :D With optional Cybran support if you pick them as your faction to do the campaign with.
This is hands down the best RTS that's ever been made and probably ever will be made. The only one that even has a chance is Sanctuary, since it's made by FAF members. We'll see.
Zero-k and beyond all reason exist.
@@jacksheldon8566 LOL, imagine thinking SPRING Engine trash can ever be possibly good. Also, addendum to my old comment: I have absolutely no faith in Sanctuary either anymore.
@@beetheimmortal what happened with sanctuary? speaking of srping engine, if you never played zero-k before it will blow your mind how it blow all other RTS in unit control, unit AI, tactical freedom and terrain manipulation. as for BAR it is as good looking as spring engine can get and is basically TA 2.0. i think you should give those 2 games a chance. if the the engine is trash, the games made with it are not.
@@jacksheldon8566 I HAVE in fact played both Zero-K (which I regret because it's really, really bad in every possible way in my opinion) and BAR, which is not very good either. If you want to play TA, just play TA or Escalation, it's a much better experience despite the pixels. The Spring engine has absolutely atrocious physics and visuals compared to SupCom and even TA, which, although old, at least looks and feels grounded. In BAR, all the models, materials and textures look like plastic, the bullets/projectiles lack real speed and physics, and the sound effects are weak. Zero-K doesn't even have a basic tech upgrade system. Even SupCom 2 did that better, because at the very least it had tech upgrades, and SupCom 2 is fucking awful. Both BAR and Zero-K therefore feel like a teeny-tiny sandbox, unlike TA or SupCom, which Chris Taylor himself said he purposefully wanted to avoid when making SupCom. The only good feature in BAR I'd like to see in other RTS games is how you can basically draw your formation by holding RMB, but it's hardly worth playing a game just for that, especially if a game from fucking 1997 runs circles around it in game feel, and let's not even mention SupCom because at that point it just gets embarassing. Congrats to the BAR team for pulling off what they have, I'm sure they tried their best, but that doesn't mean their game is any good to actually play, and I won't pretend it is just because a small team made it. Also, the last time I tried playing Zero-K, I got a virus alert. Yes, this was a real thing and I think it has been fixed since, but it's still unintentionally hilarious for a game with an official Steam version. As for Sanctuary, not only does it run on Unity (I'm sure you're aware of all the recent controversy around it, it's also very unoptimised for large 3D environments and always has been), the Sanctuary dev team doesn't really seem to know what they are doing. I'm very much getting a "Star Citizen feel" from Sanctuary, in that they promise all these epic features, like nukes breaking through the ground and the seasons dynamically changing, features that could very well be good if they had the budget and know-how, but they do not really seem to have the budget OR the know-how. There also seems to be a severe lack of direction and insane feature creep, which means this game will either never come out, or if it does come out, it will be nothing like they promised and will be a barebones RTS not comparable to TA or SupCom. They want all this stuff in the game, yet they cut the navy and naval combat of all things, something TA had in 1997 for crying out loud. They seem to have their priorities completely backwards. Maybe I'll be proven wrong, we'll see, but I'm in no way optimistic about it.
This was absolutely amazing. Subscribing in hopes for more of this kind of stuff, really like your style!
That means a whole lot actually, thank you for the compliment! I’m swamped right now with college stuff but as a heads up to you and anyone else who sees this comment, the next review is in the works and will be focused on a Star Wars game 😄
@@TheHappyTau can't wait!
This was too good tbh liked the editing and recognised the style of comedy on it. I just moved to pc and bought the game and expansion on steam so I cannot wait to do the age old tactic of let's see how many nukes I need to launch all at once to crash my game
Ahahahaha right? Comment what number you get to; my record I think is 13 💎
@@TheHappyTau you can bet I will haha on sup com 2 multiplayer somehow it took 100 nukes at once to crash it while playing with friends 😂 I guess it does make sense though being a more traditional rts I expect foraged alliance will take much less 😂
great video, this is my all time favorite rts
Holy S*** this video has ten thousand views now!!! I love all of you wonderful people ❤️ The next review is almost done!!! I need to garner the willpower to finish it out, and then on to more stuff!
Dude I am dumbfounded by the combination of humor and editing skills. I found myself rewatching parts of the video just to see the editing and all the hidden text jokes. I have no idea how you managed to create such a high quality review as your 2nd attempt at the entire concept. The cross section of Planetside/40k/Star Wars/Supreme nerd jokes had me rolling. Keep up the good work man excited to see whatever comes next!
Hilarious review of a classic game. From now on if I want to get someone to play this game with me, I'll show them this video.
Great and funny review, only criticism is that you refer the addon as SC2 but SCFA is much different from SC2. SCFA was more balanced than SC1 and more stable, talking about the CD version without updates. And if you wait for a sale on steam, which happens very often, you can get the gold edition (SC1 and SCFA) for under five bugs. Would like to see a video were you compare SC1/SCFA to SC2. It is not that hard to explain why SCFA has still these player numbers were SC2 has sometimes up to four games. Hope your channel gets bigger, I like your style! Greatings!
I just saw where you're referring to, looks like I certainly misspoke :D It's funny though, whenever I think of supreme commander 2 I do think of SCFA (but I REALLY don't like SC2 so maybe that's the reason for that Freudian slip xD ). I do eventually want to put out a video on SC2 though (someone on reddit convinced me to do a look on it) so one day :D
@@TheHappyTau
@Digthepig Being 100 with you, I went back and replayed SC2 after this review came out and I will say my feelings on it have softened a bit
Fantastic Video! Funny and informative, everything a good review needs! Keep up the good work.
another thing I like about this game is the lack of rock-paper-scissors mechanics. A valuable unit is a valuable unit, there's no easy way to kill it.
OMG. I did LITERALLY fall rolling down on the floor laughing. :D I didn't play much the game (but I did when it came out because I played/knew Total Annihilation). But this very recent (13 years later) review was a blast :D
Make more videos like this one and your channel will shine in no time, good work man
Lovely review! Good pacing and good amount of humour.
Great video. You deserve a lot more views.
Great review!!!
Enjoyed to a great extend, thank you!
Supcom video? More like subbed lol
That made me audibly chuckle, touché good sir xD
" Hehe ... Turn the tide .. " Nailed one beautiful pun there man !! :)))))
Strategic SUBBED excellent video, brother
one of the best reviews I have ever seen
Loved it great writing! Subbed and liked
3:16 lmao
best video of the month because l understood all your references including PS2 terran = Cybran etc.. good shit
UEF has the Land battleship/submarine which doubles as a factory and landing pad. Anti air cruisers which double as long range missile cruisers. Also got a submersible aircraft carrier, capable of building most air units in the game under water. Only faction with 2 direct assault units at T2 one tanky the other nimble with lots of range. Dont sell the UEF short ;)
They also have very reliable artillery
yeah, it felt like the UEF was being downplayed too much, their defensive capabilites weren't mentioned either with how they have T3 shields and point defenses
@@fazercordy4470 yeah the ravager T3 PD. But only the cybrans don't have T3 shields. Seraphim the only ones with mobile T3 shields and UEF only one with T2 shield boat.
Excellent review my dude, glad you used the discord peanut gallery
good video.great man.
Saw you snuck empire earth III in there. The original with the expansion is a certified classic
Everybody keeps hitting on ME3 ending. While I on my 1st run: "They gonna go full Black Sun Cannon, they gonna go full Black Sun Cannon! [30 hours later]... fuckin' called it!"
nice review
How did you make a video this well put together. 10/10 very cool
Time and enough coffee to cause heart attacks in three different humans
Good Job !
Amazing video gamer... Make more on strategy games please
17:00 ah yes the glorious halo reference, great video btw
underrated vid my man. remember me.
Cool vid. Wish it had more views
13:04 No way! A meme from Fensler GI Joe. You total champ!
I like the diplomacy angle!
My best friend and I played the shit out of Supreme Commander 1 back in the day, but now that we are older, we got PC and played FAF.
I feel like playing it now I'm overwhelmed by things like the unit cap, whereas when I was younger it was all "ehehehehe more boom"
Now time for Supreme commander 2 xD
This is my first time watching your vid and I just wanna say I might find a hidden gem
Props on the G.I. Joe Fensler Film reference, too. :D
Damn you've put more thought and effort into reviewing games for 413 subs than i ever did for the numbers I hit. Consider me 414 and keep it up! Supremely entertaining!
Setoooooon!!!
Dude this was super funny.
this review was entertaining i hope you will do more reviews, i would recommend warlords 3 battlecry (if you are fan of warcraft) if not there is this paraworld which is just dino rts (it is as badass as it sounds)
Great video. Anyone wanting this but unwilling to pay full price, goto steam, add it to wish list, and buy it for £5 when it's on sale. It comes on sale every time steam has a major sale
Visible happiness!
Holy crap I just realized your name is tau... U might be a blue berry but here's my sub
Displays sound quality by firing off a battery of mavors, my man! You got yourself a subscriber Edit: "UEF is basic" *laughs in ravager*
I thought this series was somehow related to the Command and Conquer series before I got here.
Only in that its one of the first RTS series around.
I wish i could find that Orbital Wars mod on FAF.
I know SupCom2 isnt liked but I played it first and I still really really like it. I'd argue its a fantastic RTS but a poor SupCom successor, if it was marketed as a spinoff instead of a direct continuation I'm sure it would've received universal praise (as long as we still got an actual SupCom 2)
make america cry is one hell of a boast to which can only say for now still great vid man
I'm here to point out that the Supreme Commander on GOG which costs $20 is actually a package of both Supreme Commander and Forged Alliance. And in case you guys didn't know, FA is a stand-alone DLC, meaning it can be played without installing the original SC. On Steam, FA only costs around $7. So unless you really want to get a taste of the original SC, I recommend get FA for a lower cost but better gameplay experience + new units and faction. AND then get FAF too to enjoy a *wild* arrange of upgraded features, fixes and mods.
while vanila SC2 can be fun, Revamp expansion mod takes it it to a new level essentaily, its SC2, but added mechanics and stuff from 1/FA, recources are also customisable, wich means you can have a similar experience like in 1/FA while i havent played/experienced a lot of SC1/FA myself so i cant tell how similar it is to it but have SC2 lying around, i would recommend giving the mod a try
much of the FAF community pretends sc2 never happened. sc2 is still one of the better RTSs out there ofc, but imo it's a poor excuse for a sequel to the best RTS of all time. that said, as i have it already i'll try that mod ^^ cheers for the tip.
Murrica cries while looking at the megaliths
All the Supreme commander games are $2 to $3 dollars right now on steam from now until August 11. Check it out.
You can get all the games for $6. (This is on steam btw)
One thing that's missing is that even modern PCs can't really run it sometimes. 8k units on setons makes your i9 cry
Honestly a good point, supreme commander doesn’t give a damn about your processor speed 😳
@@TheHappyTau this is mostly due to it being an old game that isn't optimized for modern multi core processors much like crysis. At the time, they were still thinking cpus were going to pass the 5ghz barrier and beyond.
@@TheHappyTau i literally built my pc to run 4v4 setons (*ten* years after SC released) i skimped on everything to get the best cpu i could, overclocked it. it can't. it holds up pretty well, but god. damn. this game's cpu requirements are ridiculous. still the best RTS ever made ofc & totally worth suffering a little lag. hell, after the hour mark on setons (or similar maps) you might even be glad of the extra thinking space the simulation lag gives you.
bro. this had me laughing. I like your style. Wanna make a colab? Do you still game on FA?
I just saw this after taking the day to read comments :D I appreciate knowing it brought some laughs, and I'd love to discuss that kind of thing! I The intro video on my channel has a discord link in the description, you can reach me via that :D
I prefer Forged alliance out of the short lived trilogy campaign wise, but I love the "one planet at a time" track(main track in any match, campaign or anything match)
I just don't understand how they went from supcom 1 and FA, to supcom 2....
You and me both man 😳
Consoles
I had to pause, in appreciation. "Radioactive cautionary tale." While I was making my morning coffee. Lol. Lol.
Im so happy faf exists, im 120 games in its amazing rts, chris taylor deserves a shrine alright
Unfortunately, I had the xbox version of this game (which was buggy) but I remember specifically spending time to fill one half of the land bridge level with nukes. Also, if I recall, I think Nukes in the game additive with their explosion, so more nukes on one location creates a bigger explosion radius, but I might be wrong.
I like the plot of the game!
Yeaaaaah, planetside rts
Ohh I like the PS2 references :)
Supcom got a own community since ages now, called FAF Forever. New units and shit there. Community live and well!
good show old sport
Video was very good, but with regard to water, you can see you are using low resolution graphics. Certainly at high the water is beautiful. :)
I like the story :( (1 and FA)
The uef has fatboys. It's like battleships on land, shielded and mobile factory
Interesting... What's the difference in *forged alliance?*
Planetary annihilation and ashes of the singularity?
Did you have the game in low graphics? I don't remember the water looking like that, even the nuclear explosions you used in this video look weird
U said that game look's bad but haven't u set settings to low?
The ocean is beautiful if you have the graphics settings on high. I think you had them on medium hence why you see bland oceans.
The most well spent 20$. Belive me!
I reall want to Chirs can back in action and bring us the Supreme Commander 3！
If SC 1 was better than SC 2, why not make SC 1/2?
@@TheEVEInspiration I fully support this
Checkout Sanctuary for a new RTS inspired in Supreme Commander coming next year. It's developed by some FAF guys
You forgot to mention one important part about this game Soundtrack (the SC1, not FA, it sucks) Sometimes i feel like gods of RTS looking at me playing and they play the perfect song for my final attack Also, how freaking HUUUGEEE everything in this game is. Galactic colossus is almost 300m tall For not metric friends, its almost as tall as Eiffel tower is And the reason why the oceans looked bad is probably because you played at medium graphic settings
Great video. But forged alliance wasn’t an expansion pack. It was a standalone game.
Shoeloop mega nuke.
11:37, LMFAO.🤣🤣🤣
If you want to play on FAF you will need to own supreme commander forged alliance on Steam, they can't support the gog version do to legal reasons (their unable to confirm you own the game).
Oh man I totally missed that, I'll add a blurb at the end regarding that. Thanks for the heads up!
9:46 that sounds an awful like iom in 40k.....wait
Pretty sure Seraphim are yellow-enjoyers, nott green
Wtf the graphics look pretty good, 7:36 the sea looks no where near as shitty as on this video, try putting the graphics settings on high lol