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Damage Discrimination: Your units are generally immune to fire from friendly units, in the sense that it will pass over them, though splash damage will still take effect if the shots land close enough.

Fighters will strafe ground units as effectively as they destroy bombers. Light AA missiles will pepper ground units. Heavy tanks will fire their cannons at airplanes and while ineffective against fast fighters will happily shred slow moving gunships. they will genrally still at least attempt to defend themselves against most targets.

Crippling Overspecialisation: while almost all units have a specialization of some sort: anti-air, Glass Cannon, Mighty Glacier, etc.

In some of these cases, merely moving a heavy unit will drain energy, though this is usually offset by the fact that the unit in question also produces enough energy to balance out the drain. The more powerful units and structures require seriously high amounts of energy to fire their weapons.

Bottomless Magazines: Justified, as transmutation and mass-replicating is commonplace.

The game notably managed to avoid a number of tropes and Acceptable Breaks from Reality standard to the Real-Time Strategy genre. Total Annihilation avoids the following tropes This game is now available digitally on Steam, being bundled with all the bonus "extra" units officially created by Cavedog, as well as more multiplayer maps that were not available on the original disc release and the Core Contingency mission pack. The possibility of a new, official Total Annihilation seems fairly likely.

However, Kingdoms enjoyed the same modding community as Total Annihilation, indeed to ludicrous levels at times.Īnother Spiritual Successor titled Planetary Annihilation has arisen on Kickstarter, this time upping the ante by taking the RTS genre to a galactic scale.Īdditionally, Chris Taylor has been reunited with Total Annihilation courtesy.

Never as popular as the original, and the producer Cavedog went belly-up not long after the release of its Expansion Pack, The Iron Plague.

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Total Annihilation fandom and player-made mods still cling to life more than a decade after the game's release, though most have migrated to its Spiritual Successor, Supreme Commander and the unofficial freeware game Spring (which can use Total Annihilation content - though the engine has since progressed so far that you need a lot of tweaking to get it working perfectly, and it'll be graphically sub-par compared to all the other games/mods on the engine - some of whom rival retail games in quality).īefore Supreme Commander, there was the ill-fated follow-up Total Annihilation: Kingdoms, which used the same game engine in a magic-fantasy setting with four (then five) sides rather than two.

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It was designed from the beginning to have additional units available for download after release, so adding new units or altering existing ones is relatively easy.

It is also one of the most moddable games of all time. TA is often considered one of the most underrated games of all time. Its limited success is largely blamed on the game lacking the background material, storyline and character of its competitors. TA, despite advanced graphics (for the time), massive critical acclaim, unique gameplay and ground-breaking technical brilliance, was never hugely popular (it had the misfortune of being released around the same time as StarCraft I) and is largely forgotten today. Around this time, the central pattern repository of the Core formed itself into a single vast intelligence, known as Central Consciousness, which took control of the benevolent Core government and instituted mandatory patterning for all. They founded the Arm, a significant minority of militaristic hardliners utterly opposed to patterning. The Core government, acting according to the will of the majority of its citizens, moved towards universal patterning, and backed up copies of all patterned minds into a central database on the world of Paradise.Ī small group of soldiers rebelled against patterning and the rejection of humanity they associated with it. The war between Arm and Core began over the process known as "patterning", a technology that allowed the transfer of the human mind into machines untouched by disease or pain. Pioneering game elements such as 3d models for units, terrain with a 3d heightmap, and strategic warfare on a scale simply not seen before, TA won dozens of awards at its release and is still considered by many critics to be one of the finest examples of the RTS genre. Released in 1997, Total Annihilation is a science fiction Real-Time Strategy game created by Chris Taylor and Cavedog Entertainment.