PS. We are working on a Day/Night cycle, or at the very least a full "Night Mode" that will make extra use of our latest addition of the Volumetric Lighting and possibly also volumetric fog. We are still finetuning both the tech and aesthetics and how it should change gameplay like less solar income or line of sight changes..

@TheXPGamers Thanks for covering our game! We're honored!! Awesome to hear you had a blast with BAR.

I must say that I love the idea of building a bunch of turrets in my base then haul them over to the position they're meant to guard.

What began as a conflict over the transfer of consciousness from flesh to machine escalated into a war that has decimated a million worlds. Love TA and this looks like a really fun game!

This brings back Memories with the Spring Project engine, Zero-K, team battles and the countless reimagined games using a total annihilation style engine

One of the more interesting mechanics in BAR is the flanking system. The first time a unit takes damage, it activates directional armor that reduces further damage by 10% in a narrow cone facing its attacker. But if enemies attack from the sides or behind, they inflict up to 190% extra damage as the angle of attack approaches 180 degrees from that point. You can activate a widget in the advanced game options that lets you see these directional armor points as they appear and fade again. This means that zerg-swarming with many infantry bots/light tanks, just as an example, can rapidly chew apart even heavier units; the basic "Pawn" infantry bot has 100 DPS and that can nearly double PER UNIT if they get a flank on their target. This works for ANYTHING, units AND structures. You can even game this to one-shot things you wouldn't normally one-shot, such as stabbing a higher-health unit from one side and then blasting it with a Sniper Bot from the other side.

LOVE BAR. Thank you for continuing to support the modding community in all the ways that you do. TA is one of my favorite RTS games and the fans that have created BAR are true heroes. It's an absolute joy to see you spotlight this!

God, one of my fondest memories is from a match of supreme commander forged alliances with a 22 hour fight, I remember going to bed as my buddy held out for a quick hour nap...

Loved seeing you learn/remember the game in real time, you were so much faster by the end, recognising units, finding what you were looking for, making decisions, etc. So cool to see it happening in real time!

The factions mirror Total Annihilation as well - though in that game, they were named for where in the galaxy they came from: the Galactic arm, or the core worlds.

Can confirm, it's as good as TA ever was! Allot harder too as the AI is in a different league to TA's. Great content as always Captain.

This is such an amazing project. Really happy when people cover it so it gets more attention, cause I feel like even among RTS fans its still a bit of a hidden gem

Amazing work. Total Annihilation was such an incredible game. Great gameplay vid too ;) Loved your reaction when the T3 tank fired haha. Here's to 1997 game design and the legends at Cavedog. EDIT: This also made me want to go back and listen to the TA music, which I recall being beautiful. TA sound design was also incredible. Bring that grinding metal walk of the Can and terrifying cacophonous thunder of Big Bertha ;)

I’d love to see more of this game on the channel !!

I do like that you can have low health units retreat. The last game I know that had this feature was warzone 2100, that game was one of a kind.

what made supreme comander so awesome for me was the moment i "learnd" the basics and how to move a big army to the front line with dropships and all i had to do at some points was to ajust the waypoints..... that feeling when 10 dropships drop the load while 10 other ships load up to send it to the front line ... it was so fkkn beautiful ..

Yes.... YEEESSSSS.... Let the BAR infection spread to even MORE gaming communities!

I really love the look of this game. I was craving for another supreme like game with good graphics for years. Great job.

This game gives me nostalgic memories of spirited debates in Cavedog's old forums. If any members of the old Total Annihilation Evaluation Crew are out there and you see this, please DM me. We need to have a reunion in this game.

Wow it seems like the first TA like game that actually captures the feel of units. I could never really get into supcom because units felt I don't know how to call it but just swarmy. Aside of experimental units early gamę units had barely any staying power and didn't roam that much so it was micro intensive while in TA you could throw them at each other out of production line and it felt like Neverending battle, wrecks becoming real obstacles. It's really hard to explain what I mean but the pacing here is what I was looking for.

The AI in this game are actually super smart for what modern ai look like for tripple A games and giant studios, cudos to the creators for making such a loving genre even better with the gameplay!

We're going back to old school game play, rock on!

As someone who still plays planetary anhilation, im soo glad to see something similar but new EDIT: it also brings me physical pain to watch this haha but having fun is having fun!

FAF shows how much there is love for TA family of games. Don't let the candle die out!

What a year for rts games

TA one pf my favorite games of all time. The models in BAR look almost identical to TA (those solar and metal extractors, missile turrets and laser light turrets). I’ll definitely try this.

Omg I loved TA! It was the only RTS where you could take ordnance from The bombers and “fling” your bombs physically across your target with out having to fly over them. Not even supreme commander or StarCraft allowed such creative yet skilled gameplay, and TA had so many little fun nick nacks. Amazing game can’t wait to try this again….I feel young again! ^.^

This is amazing, TA is what introduced me to RTS. However watching you play is making my brain writhe in agony.

I now want to rewatch the 12 hour TA stream again.

Could be a great vid for you to do a 3v3 with some friends as you slug it out on one of the bigger maps.

OMG I was on about a rmk of TA with a friend a couple of weeks ago! man if I was not out of work atm I would donate to them I will when I am back on my feet what absolute legends! Great video as well shaking the rust off I see like I will be doing. Subbed & liked as well so happy with finding this.

This takes me back!! I'm going to pick this up as soon as I can!

Really awesome game! Only been playing for a couple months but love it already. It's so cool the level of detail and physics they've done for each of the 100+ units!

TA is my all time favourite RTS.. Nothing will ever take its place.. I was at the public library every Friday to download the extra free units. This game looks SO amazing. Also, as mentioned, I remember the action queuing as one of the most awesome things. Just SHIFT-CLICK on that and that and this and build here.. It was super good. Will be on my "must check out" list.

After the first few seconds of gameplay in this video, I was taken 20 years back in time. Oh my goodness this is fantastic. Great video, amazing game, and definitely something to check out.

Looks amazing. I never played sup comm but i'm getting massive Total Annihilation vibes from my childhood

Can't wait to see where this goes, I'm super excited! Hopefully terraforming will be a thing, like in 0K. Building trench lines and fortifications. Even a million years in the future, the greatest weapon is the entrenching tool.

Super interesting would love a series of this

You actually played it! Hype. I knew BAR would be right up your alley. ^ ^ Glad you've been enjoying it.

Still love playing SC (FAF) and am very excited to see this one advance. Looking forward to trying some BAR matches with friends in the next week or so.

definitely more Total antihalation than supreme commander (tracking a unit while its on attack used to be done by pressing T by the way) :)

literally downloaded immediately because i love RTSes but have never played C+C or TA so im hyped for this.

Hey came back to this vid and wanted to thank you for bringing this game to my attention! Been playing with friends recently and while I'm still not great it's super fun. Still not that much content covering this game surprisingly, only a handful of good tutorials. But the community is growing rapidly and the servers certainly are earning their cost I'd imagine. Hopefully they release some merch soon, would love to support the team.

total annihilation was my childhood. played the skirmish disc to dust. and beyond all reason really reminded me of that game. love the game

definitely keeping an eye on it now that you have brought it to my attention. I am curious about the story will have to check out the web page when i get a chance

Love this game. Been playing it a for a while. Essentially total annihilation but with supcom quality of life. Literally the tech trees in bar are very similar to TA. Those familiar to the series, might recognize some names.

dude i use to watch my dad play Total Annihilation when i was a toddler seeing this video title gave me glee

I still remember how great the Total Annihilation soundtrack. There was a "CD playable" copy on the installation disk.

Never played this before, but it looks really similar to Zero-K, which if you haven't tried is also very fun and free on Steam. After looking into it a bit, it looks like BAR is also looking into a future Steam release. I might download and try it someday before that happens, but guaranteed I will if/when it does since it would make multiplayer so much easier.

I feel this is what Supreme Commander should of been.

This game looks AWESOME!!!! Total annihilation has been my favorite since childhood

Been playing this for a minute now. Best RTS game out there.

The AI looks really neat in this. I am now full curious about BAR.

it not inspired... it totally total annihilation... AND I LOVE IT!

TA was the first RTS I ever played and I still love it to this day. I've played others since then but nothing ever came close to being as fun for me. I will absolutely try this.

Looooved TA! Appreciate you bringing this game to my attention!

Looks Promising 😮

Same issue with this game that I have with Planetary Annihilation: scale. When my units are supposed to be multiple buildings tall but can only shoot a few yards away, it makes everything feel tiny even when you've got truly massive battles going on.

29:06 you can see the coverage the radar provides along with the 'blind spots' just beyond the cliff edges

Holy shit I’m picking it up for sure

When you mentioned the running on multiple monitors, it made me think of my biggest complaint about some of these massive scale games. They put so much work into the detail of units and terrain that gets lost because you spend all of your time zoomed out to manage the overall combat. Games in the Warhammer universe and Wargame come to mind.

So is a version of the Krogoth included in this game? You have no idea how much I played the original TA. I literally was the man to beat at the time.

Thanks Capt!!! Just caught this,…my son and I will be downloading this tonight!!!!!

I don't play rts but this looks sick. I'm gonna look up and see if there's tournaments to watch after this. Appreciate the gameplay, learned about something cool I didn't know existed.

This gives me huge Zero-K vibes.

Oh shit no way TA

I often assign 4-5 construction vehicles to support each factory

Thanks for making this video I almost immediately downloaded this when I heard it was free. It seems really fun I’ve always wanted to play a supreme commander style game, but never got into it. I am excited.

Anyone remember TA: kingdoms?

Sup Com 2023?

After that showing, I definitely want to see more!

ive had tons of fun with it, and they keep getting more and more updates.

One of the better RTS games I ever played was TA, and now we have a definitive contender.

As a years-long spring engine fan, it feels great to see BAR getting the attention it deserves

been following BAR for a long time it's such a great game :D

I would totally watch more of this!

This is crazy cool, funny because I just loaded up the original TA with the escalations mod this past weekend and it still plays beautiful.

I dont know why but this reminds me of "Machines" RTS game way way back when, what amazing games this genre can push out at times, even classic C&C generals is still often a great joy to just play and enjoy the chaos.

"We're going straight for experimental units!!!" 😆 😆 😆

YO! I didn't know there is a fan game like Total Annihilation, Supreme Commander series. Thank you for covering this! Hope this project goes well, listed on steam, etc.

I had no idea BAR existed til this! TA was SO good... Ahead of it's time. Its use of automated commands, repair patrols & escort abilities, stuff I still haven't seen done as well to this day.

It feels like animations could be more smooth but I LOVE TA and this is amazing :D

Messing around with the RTS mod in space engineers and now I'm in the mood to play one, lol

I played Total Annihilation back when it came out and I loved that game. Definitely checking this out. I miss nanolithing

Oh that’s good! Can’t wait to play “TA” again! Very cool!

I LOVE THIS! I am an original TA player. Played it for YEARS! ALL of the privately built bots. This is SOOO COOOL!!!!

oh my god i didn't know total anialation was even known these days, TA was my first RTS just watchign shak i see shak start adn i'm like oh my god it's the arm shak is playing ARM

I would LOVE to see more of this!

I've been following Beyond All Reason for a while now. It's wonderful that you're putting a spotlight on it because seemingly nobody knows about it.

I’ve played a lot of zero-K, and a lot of the gameplay aspects and controls/abilities, and it makes it look so familiar yet different.

Oh my god, this makes me want to play TA.. not played that in many many years.. TA and Homeworld!! Loved it!!

4:30 my favorite tactic in early game TA was the "ghetto gunship". Fill a flying transport with tier 1 walkers and they could fire at enemies while in flight before anybody else got to tier 2 to get real gunships.

Within the first twenty seconds you had me intrigued. THEN, after watching the game play, you bad my attention. This takes me back to the TA days of defeating the dreaded Krogoth. A slog to do. So satisfying when you survive long enough to see it mushroom cloud. 😀 Definitely going to check this out.

This looks so fun, would definitely try it out with some people :)

total annihilation was and still is one of my favorite rts. Forged Alliance forever.

Never played TA, but I saw BAR about 9 months ago, started playing it and it's just so good. Fun, fast paced, Lots of depth without being mechanically overwhelming, so much room for skill growth. Love it, highly recommend. Best RTS I've played in years.

Oh very nice! Loved TA and SC so much, just loved the ARM Bulldog tank in TA, that brings back memories. This game looks a lot of fun. I love that these "retro" style games are coming back, Retro FPS's and RTS's. Good times! have you checked out Sanctuary: Shattered Sun at all. Its very similar to this. Or falling Frontier?

The commander tombstone is a nice touch 😄

I played TA from the age of 5 to about 12 when i got into fps games. This is so awesome to watch. Im seeing direct callbacks to the old game. The two factions ARMada and COREtex seem to stick with the theme of the ARM having a much more practical design philosophy and the CORE looking a lot more complex with moving parts to achieve similar goals. I saw a lot family units starting off with the Solar Collectors, L.L.Ts, the Defender, Thunderers, the Fido, the iconic PeeWees and A.K.s moonlighting as Pawns and Grunts, you guys even brought by the Maverick! I saw what looked to be a tank based off the Luger medium art tank. Even the maps are super reminiscent of the maps from the original TA. Ill definite by looking into this more.

Just seeing the commander build reminds me of TA. I still got the original CD. Such a classic. Also the fact you didn't need to keep the cd in and you could listen to custom music.