12-22-2015, 12:24 AM
(12-22-2015, 12:10 AM)SilverOtter Wrote:#burnhek2016(12-21-2015, 11:37 PM)Surge Wrote: Isn't Hek basically just the poor man's Jita?Sure it's 0.5, sure it's in backwater Minmatar space, but it's just as safe as Jita (which isn't saying much).
Total Mayhem for Total Annihilation community patch 9.6...oh boy this thing is a doozy.
Basically some enterprising modder looked at all the shit SupCom did and said "I bet TA could do it better" so he added a third tech level, overhauled the UI, added a whole new type of units (walkers, not to be confused with Kbots) and added new structures and units to every category to fill out a few neglected niches (naval commanders rejoice! Underwater Mohos!).
Total Mayhem also assumes you have a very modern machine and that vanilla TA is a drop in your bucket of computational resources because it cranks the paltry 250 unit limit up to a concerning 1500 and removes the 3 AI limit for offline matches allowing full 5v5s.
The actual units added are indeed ambitious enough to give SupCom a run for it's money with giant fusion power complexes, nuclear bombers, hovering fortresses, and our dear friend Krogoth being given a proper rival, however they never seem to blend with the vanilla units as seamlessly as advertised, with the exception of those that recycle bits of vanilla models, in gameplay the new units seem to outshine the vanilla units or be hopelessly niche.
Of course vanilla content isn't untouched, both Commanders and several other units have new or modified sprites and the economy has been tweaked to be much harder on your metal production to encourage rapid expansion, thankfully it provides tooltips for constructors that shows their average metal consumption while working.
All in all Total Mayhem doesn't QUITE meet it's bold claim of making it feel like cavedog never stopped supporting the game but it's ambition nonetheless breathes new life into a 20 some year old game.
Holy Jesus I built the experimental capital ship and I'm just sitting here thinking that there is no way this much firepower isn't against the Geneva Convention.
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