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Re: SupCom dream

2015-01-03T19:05:56+02:00

Flynn wrote:
Also Nihkaeda07, the most significant TA dream I can remember was TA being in 3d and being able to pilot the units in first person mode. Little did I know, a few years down the line that TA would be recreated in the Spring RTS game engine and that it would be 3d, I don't think you could pilot units though. Although I am sure there was a strategy game where you can, I think it might have been Planet Side 2? But there is definitely a strategy game where you can pilot individual units I think.

I thought the Spring engine still had the ability to play through first person view of your units. It was there in earlier versions.

Also the game you are thinking of is Machines: Wired for War. Here are some vids on YouTube. I loved playing this game especially 2 years after TA was released. I really thought players would flock to it, especially to Warzone 2100, but I was wrong.

Statistics: Posted by The Mak — 03 Jan 2015, 19:05

Re: SupCom dream

2015-01-02T23:48:30+02:00

BRNK once said he had a dream nightmare where a 900 firebeetled him.

Statistics: Posted by belatedcube — 02 Jan 2015, 23:48

Re: SupCom dream

2015-01-02T21:03:22+02:00

Well I ended up revisiting this thread because of this Zock lesson cast where he is giving some advice on Mad-Mozart's replays:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyzGLPJCjc0

In it Mad-Mozart describes a dream where he is playing Zock on White Fire, at first a 1v1, then becomes a team game, then he loses when he goes to take a shower after reaching tech 2 navy That definitely qualifies as a suitably zany SupCom dream to me. Said description starts at about 1 hour 50 minutes.

I also re read Type91's post which is very imaginative although does seem too elaborate and detailed to be a dream, it is very interesting though, especially the thing about everything in the game being simulated down to the molecule and the structures graphing themselves into the terrain.

Also Nihkaeda07, the most significant TA dream I can remember was TA being in 3d and being able to pilot the units in first person mode. Little did I know, a few years down the line that TA would be recreated in the Spring RTS game engine and that it would be 3d, I don't think you could pilot units though. Although I am sure there was a strategy game where you can, I think it might have been Planet Side 2? But there is definitely a strategy game where you can pilot individual units I think.

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 02 Jan 2015, 21:03

Re: SupCom dream

2013-12-12T19:57:44+02:00

Why not start this up again?

There are two I can remember more clearly, but there are also a handful of TA dreams that I can't quite remember : /

The first one, I'm playing top rear guard ( seemingly the only position I can play at least 'okay' ) on a Setons-like map, and the opposing team is attacking all at once. Since I'm not anywhere near pro, It's more difficult to keep a 'calm', and I calm myself by throwing out single syllable expletives at the situation. I scramble ALL of my air forces, moving gunships forward, ASF's to deal with the StratBomber-ASF swarm, Torpedo Bombers to assist my teammates' dying navy, send off my StealthStrats to try and snipe a Bastard (Generic name for one of my opponents : P), Topping it off with two nukes aimed at the other navy neither my teammate or I had units to send to deal with.
it was a short dream, but memorable : D

Second, This one is focused around the bottom rear-guard of a Setons-like map. I was sent where I was for reconnaissance; There was no briefing on what I might find. I start out, make a base with several proxy and fire-bases around a central base, and I move at least five very large ground/air, navy/air, and ground/navy/air forces forward into the unknown. The whole time I was building up and watching, I didn't run into anything, but it felt like something much more powerful than I was was watching my every move since I gated in, making me very wary to even move-out.

And that's a peak into my dream-life!
Supcom = Happy Place : D

-Nihk

Statistics: Posted by Nihkaeda07 — 12 Dec 2013, 19:57

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-20T10:33:03+02:00

last two days i played too much, and i have got small dream:
at 1rst i was observing teamgame and Maverick was paying aeon, everyone had t2 gunships ints and small armies with flack, but mav also had two harbies, and some one in skype was talking about sniping flack, also just after this moment game start looking like youtube cast and TA4Life was commenting. Mav had 2 harbs, and one of them used kind of "static booster": bolds of electricity strikes around harb, it looses his personal shileds, but can sprint 3-4 times faster, and it dashes to enemy army and grabs flack with his "mouth" and taking it far away from the army, no idea what happened next on that flank of battle, cause i was already playing on other side against zock, and we also were talking, and constatntly countering each other tactics, eventually he grabbed the mid, and managed to get 2-3 t3 mobile arty (we both cybran), he had no other t3 units while i had like 7 loyalists already, then adrenaline raise, and when i push all loylists die to t1 pd's with walls and i woke up in that moment
also map was like winter version of map "throne" but all chokepoints were smaller and mid was higher, and instead of montains were lakes...

Statistics: Posted by ZLO_RD — 20 Oct 2013, 10:33

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-15T10:11:37+02:00

Hmmm, have you ever read a book called "Brainjack"?

Its very similar to what you described here, where computers and games are controlled with thoughts.

Statistics: Posted by Nombringer — 15 Oct 2013, 10:11

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-15T09:27:37+02:00

Nice dream dude, anyone could have made that up though. Tell us more about life in a shipping container, write a thread about it in off topic if you want. Sounds like you have some interesting stories to tell

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 15 Oct 2013, 09:27

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-14T16:40:59+02:00

This is not for the faint of heart. As someone who has played this since the TA days, lived ate and breathed strats in TA on Kali, Obsessed over Supcom since the first pictures appeared in PCgamer years before its release in 2004. Lived in a shipping container without internet for over a year (thanks uncle sam) with nothing but a supreme commander poster to keep my hopes of a brighter future.

I often have dreams of the game, usually in a war of fruition where I am one step behind where I need to be, fighting a stressful battle losing more and more each minute, only to awake before I can pull it back out of my ass, just as I might have.

I must warn you, I have extremely detailed dreams, and just trying to outline it here will be long. (i've been to other worlds/cultures seen things I can't even believe could be made up, or fiction of my mind, things that are later found to be scientifically correct)

However read on if you your imagination can handle what I am about to lay on you. You just might not be able to play after you read about this one dream.

It was the distant future, in real life, and I was playing a version of supreme commander that I will make you sorry you where born in this century.

The game didn't even use a keyboard or mouse, oh no, in this time you played games by jacking right into your brain using a halo like piece of headgear, once in the game it was like you where sitting in the ACU itself, it used your motor controls in your brain to move the ACU and your commands to control the army.

Every unit in the game adapted itself to its placement. Nano-tech was being simulated in the game in real time, you could for example place a sam site at a 90 degree angle right in the side of a mountain, over time it would improve and grow into the mountain, growing stronger in its placement and increasing its firepower yield as the nanobots copied them selves and consumed the mountain rock at its base, strengthening its foundation and supporting more weight for missile racks.

Any thing could be built anywhere, (underwater for example) and the game would formulate the adaptations to the unit needed on the fly and balance the cost accordingly.

The world was procedurally generated, and could be as large in surface area as any planet.

All maner of units could be built, however higher tech levels needed lots of infrastructure of all sorts.

One of the most amazing parts of the game was that I remember it was not as much a game as it was a simulation with the game as an assumption. (like telling a computer to let you simulate the titanic sinking if it was made of a differnce type of metal, it would have to figure out all the stresses and breaking points and stuff based on real physics.)

So the game literally (some how) simulated every molecule in the water, earth and air.

Also you could make spaceships, remote yourself into any of the units.

Also units had amazing AI each one practically moved like a human was microing it based on the behavior patterns you define at the factory for it.

In the dream I remember I ran off to the deep ocean, my base was nuked, and I built my whole new base underwater.

The game looked as real as you can imagine, kind of like Pacific Rim almost. Which reminds me there was melee also, which any unit could engage in.

TLDR: minecraft 100 years from now, meets starcitizen, meets FAF, meets the Matrix, meets pacific rim, meets robot jox.

yes I had that in a dream and it was awesome.

Statistics: Posted by Typo91 — 14 Oct 2013, 16:40

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-11T10:41:18+02:00

I have aurora nightmares

Statistics: Posted by Navras — 11 Oct 2013, 10:41

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-11T09:40:48+02:00

Oh right. Thanks Gyle but I don't "do" StarCraft vids. But I have heard that guy before, he's pretty crazy to deliberately talk in that voice all the time, but unfortunately it means I can't stand to watch his videos but that's okay because I don't like StarCraft, it's like the reality TV in comparison to TA and SupCom.

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 11 Oct 2013, 09:40

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-11T09:21:55+02:00

Flynn wrote:
Not sure what that video has to do with my dream Gyle?

SCU's at 4 mins Just reminded me of the vid because its an impossible level of tech for that time in the game which is much like the situation in the video after the guy gets Mothershippwned while attempting a six pool.

Statistics: Posted by Gyle — 11 Oct 2013, 09:21

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-06T20:25:30+02:00

I read this thread yesterday thinking "wow anybody that has supcom dreams spends too much time infront of the computer", then like a total hypocrite, i spent the rest of the day playing Terraria (great game btw, highly recommended)

Then last night, lo and behold, I had a dream that I was fighting some sort of foe in a supcom setting. Just as I was starting to control the game, a door opened on the side of the map and a bunch of Breaking-Bad style gangsters came in and took control of my units. So, naturally(lol), I got into my Atlantis and dove to hide from the baddies, built strat bombers to snipe everyone and woke up.

So, thanks for that little bit of inception Flynn, I think your post gave my brain some ideas... and serious psychological issues.

Statistics: Posted by jkleli — 06 Oct 2013, 20:25

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-06T14:41:55+02:00

Not sure what that video has to do with my dream Gyle?

Statistics: Posted by Flynn — 06 Oct 2013, 14:41

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-05T21:45:36+02:00

Gyle wrote:
BTW here's what i immediately thought of when i read your OP Flynn; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CatSUg0KyAM (Get to the end if you can bear the stupid voice...)

That voice causes nightmares....

Statistics: Posted by da_monstr — 05 Oct 2013, 21:45

Re: SupCom dream

2013-10-05T20:28:07+02:00

I have this recurring dream where I'm eternally in a game of supcom but never able to control any units....

Oh wait... that's just my life...

BTW here's what i immediately thought of when i read your OP Flynn; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CatSUg0KyAM (Get to the end if you can bear the stupid voice...)

Statistics: Posted by Gyle — 05 Oct 2013, 20:28