Funny they didn't show a clip of an ACU trying to walk through a building over and over instead of going around. I don't know why they called this Supreme Commander 2 instead of just naming it something different, since that's what it is.

I'm not going to buy this for more than $5.

well this song pretty much sums up how I feel about Supreme commander 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1Et1siZhTk&feature=PlayList&p=EDEDA5F0D508CE58&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=2

...kinda surprising they left the ferry feature in, given how it does not work properly at all.

Ferrying worked wonderfully in SC/Forged Alliance. You could tell an army to go to the ferry point, and if the units were far away enough from the point and the transports weren't busy, the transports would *go to them* to grab them. And they would keep going back and forth until all of the units were moved. It was amazing!

Now, you have to click on it about five times before the units will even get into the transports. Then it requires the luck of the gods for the transport to actually take them to their destination. And god forbid they go back for anyone they missed.

Very cool. It's things like this that make me hope someone does a mod for supcom2 that uses a proper economy / tech tree.

Totally agree. Give the community mod tools Chris Taylor! We need the uber experimentals and wonderfully complex mechanics from the original back!

One (very cool) step forward, two steps back.

Single unit and transport pickup pathfinding is as retarded as ever yeah... kinda surprising they left the ferry feature in, given how it does not work properly at all.

Moreover, try to set up a ferry with a bunch of transports and ground units and watch the new pathfinding system blow a complete gasket.

It's cool that they fixed that from SupCom1. However, seeing as how you can no longer PUT your units into formations (that I could see anyways), what does it matter? You'll never have two such neatly stacked groups of units opposite one another. (And yes, I realize that was done just to illustrate the new system.)

Creston

Anyone know where I could find papers on this "crown continuum" research?

This is pretty damn interesting.

UW ftw.

Darks wrote on Feb 27, 2010, 19:31:
I’ve been trying to tell you guy how impressive the new game is, but all I’ve been getting is flack. I know there are shortcomings that the game has and there are some things that you all would like to have. but overall the game does kick butt. This video perfectly displays what I’ve been saying about the new FlowTech engine and how awesomely smooth games are now. Yes even in MP.

excuse me?? The proper implementation of a more serious pathfinding algorithm alone does NOT make a game impressive, it takes a lot more IMO.

I've played the demo several times, yes I've noticed the vastly improved pathfinding and I still am all but impressed: You can poop out battleships and experimentals in minute intervals and a couple of standard units will destroy them equally fast.

Basic formations (present in SupCom 1, hold button when setting a waypoint) are completely gone.

Assisted production is basically gone. (Thanks for taking away some flexibility)

Compared to SupCom 1 Fatboys and battleships look like toys - WTF these are supposed to be huge and pack a lot of punch.

If a resource gets limited factory production automatically pauses and must be resumed manually - what a pain.

List goes on and on.

I’ve been trying to tell you guy how impressive the new game is, but all I’ve been getting is flack. I know there are shortcomings that the game has and there are some things that you all would like to have. but overall the game does kick butt. This video perfectly displays what I’ve been saying about the new FlowTech engine and how awesomely smooth games are now. Yes even in MP.

While it looks a bit naff when you have ships move other ships out of the way when they're moving past (as I had happen in the demo), this is still a very impressive showing.

Very cool. It's things like this that make me hope someone does a mod for supcom2 that uses a proper economy / tech tree.

Hell, I'd help.

That looks pretty neat. And since they did it based on a university's research, other game developers should be able to follow suit.

Empire: Total War needed this soooooo frickin' bad.

It's sad that about 90% of CPU power is still used for pushing polygons while things like AI have only seen marginal improvement, both in terms of processing power and in actual results. I'd like to know how a game like this or Total War would be like if polygon pushing was only 90% of the GPU - in other words, use OpenCL/CUDA/Stream's parallel computing power to do comprehensive pathfinding for each individual entity in a unit. Maybe that's what Supreme Commander 2 does. Maybe using a GPGPU in this way would be a terrible idea. I'd quite like to know either way.

Nice. I think I'll be purchasing this one. The demo had some shortcomings, but I still found myself enjoying it overall. I can't wait to see the full game and what the community can do for it.

Wow, that really is cool! Looks like a great improvement over good ol' A*.

Absolutely Brilliant!