It's an unfortunate truth that the more competitive you get, the less leisure time you have to watch the cool action happen. This is true for any strategy game though, whether it's Supreme Commander, Age of Empires, Red Alert, Warno, etc. However, campaigns exist for all of these games, which are still really fun and appeal to a more casual audience! Additionally, there are some great casters for SC that do give special attention to the cinematic battles, Gyle being the biggest one for SC. It's also okay not to enjoy competitive gameplay. This doesn't just go for Supreme Commander, but any RTS (or really any game at all). Some people have played Age of Empires for 20+ years and never touched matchmaking, and that's okay! Play however you want, and how ever you enjoy playing.

@@TheGreenSquier Of course it's not true for any strategy game. It's really only true for Supreme Commander-like games. In regular RTS games, like AOE/C&C/Starcraft series you never have to make a choice between seeing the game art and managing macro level strategy. In regular RTS games there's no macro zoom level which replaces game art with 2D icons on a pre-rendered 2D texture of a map.

I loved Empire at War’s solution to this! A quick button that provided cinematic shots of the action. It would still be a hindrance in competitive play i guess.

You’re in luck! I have two more beginners guide videos, #4 being “How to Command an Army.” I’d recommend starting with the next one in the series though, #3: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9WPjctosbe-Zp8.htmlsi=JIZhq7lRSjiuR4RS

@@dhruvb38 Will do! Do you have any replays you want me to go over? I’m always looking for some good ones, so definitely send me any if you feel comfortable!

@@TheGreenSquier Will keep it in mind! I currently can only beat AI: Adaptive, and play with friends against AIX (which we lose, AIX is hilarious when you see what they do to their allies lol), so haven't done any PVP.

@@TheGreenSquier I do also have a request, if you find any games that have aeon in them, I would be most happy. I find them real hard to play (I just picked it randomly, and I usually like to get good at one faction in RTSs) especially early game with all the specialized units

Hey that's honestly a good point, my main goal with these is to give advice / tips rather than just spectate. I'll try to think of different ways I can brand it, thanks for the feedback

The title being called "FAF Coaching" is probably pretty clear. I think everyone is just used to faf videos being casting.

I'm glad the title is clear... now! I changed it from what it originally was, it was called "Low Elo Cast" originally ;)

Epic game, epic advice, epic finishing frame!

Send them where?

@@MrVladko0 you can send me an email, join my Discord, or just send the replay ID in a KZfaq comment Here's the Discord if you want to join! discord.com/invite/xAyYEZuyut

I got this test comment, I don’t see any others from you

Ha thanks, hopefully the low elo twist will help new players understand some mechanics better too!

Could i ask why you dont want to contribute to FAF anymore? Just curious. Did something bad happen? Or you just got bored of it?

​@@VexnoTheFox Of course, I'll try and break it down. 1) Not enough appreciation For the things I've done (the guides in collab with the trainer team and a shit ton of replay reviews over the last years) there was simply too much negativity. The ppl I made the reviews / guides for were thankful and I highly appreciated that, besides that there were a lot of unnecessary comments. I did have some beef with some people which definitely is also my fault, but I'm not referring to those. I'm more referring to comments from e.g. Archsimkat. After Bully switched his name to mine for memes, they apparently had a round and I just read on Discord (you can filter for the exact wording) "Oh you were Bully? I thought you were Sladow. Genuingely thought I had Sid and Sladow on my team so I was just like it's over anyways", which is just unnecessary. We never had beef (nor is he stronger than me but I never commented on that) so getting those random comments from different directions is just exhausting. 2) Man Power FAF lacks manpower. In every team. Dunno how much you followed me, but I was in the balance, matchmaker, association team and team lead of the trainers, yet in every team the activity was simply not given. My threads in the balance team got ignored for muiltiple months before I asked Jip to implement it, then suddenly ppl were like "nooo you cannot do that". Happened more than one time and Jip can probably tell you more about how frustrating it is to deal with some ppl there. I did sort out the trainer team by kicking any inactive trainer, together with advertising on other Discords some people joined. Together with the goals / to do list I've set up with them in a meeting trainer team is completely functional currently. The others are not (Shoutout to Storm for creating all the map pools on his own). 3) Moderators Some moderators really shouldn't be moderators or at least shouldn't have such a behaviour (Archsimkat - the dude I mentioned before - is a moderator btw). To understand the following part, a bit of context: The high ranks in FAF are a very small circle which only really play against each other all the time. The only lobbies you'd get were during weekends or when Farms was streaming. We meme'd around quite a bit, basically moderated ourselves (E.g. kicking people after they base ctrl+k'ed when others disapproved and even created an own rule document so the moderators leave us alone). Recently we changed names for fun, then the mods suddenly introduced a rename rule change which increases the time you can change your rename from 1 month to 1 YEAR. Worst thing is that they didn't have a single good reasoning (literally) for justifying that rule, nor did they listen to the insane critics. In short it was like ".. We cannot give you a good reason. But we'll introduce it anyway cuz fuck you, the silent majority wants it.", see the thread on the forum for details. I've counted and around 23 known high ranks left FAF / became inactive during the last year meaning even if Farms streams, the chance of getting a lobby definitely became smaller. Besides that the actions of the past months were just horrible. E.g. I had quite some friends on the FAF Discord and I mainly contributed cuz of the chill teams. Stryder and I always called each other "retard" for fun, apparently after doing that for over a year using the word "retard" is not allowed anymore. And the context doesn't matter. I can fully see giving ppl a timeout if they mean it as a serious insult, but Stryder getting one after calling me "retard" which was obviously a joke is just over the top. Those were just two examples, there are some good comments on the "Why everything sucks now"-thread made by BlackYps on the Forum. So overall, FAF's infrastructure is quite bad, the moderators got way worse and especially lately it seems their only goal is to enforce stupid rules "cuz why not" (again, for details check the Forum. I'm not exaggerating.). I cannot deal with the shit anymore of people arguing about balance like "revert old mercies!! balance team is elitist and ruins FAF!!" while not getting any support but negativity from the other sides as well. Hope that gave an insight. I *personally* do NOT recommend contributing to FAF. I've talked with other people (in and outside FAF) and projects like BAR are straight up superior in any given way when it comes to infrastructure etc. I'm still active on two FAF Discords (GreenSquier's included) where I'm still giving advice / training though.

@@sladow5975 Yeah i played BAR but its not supcom, its more of a Total Annihilation fan remake. I wished there was a better option than FAF for supreme commander. I personally hate how theres so many bugs, sometimes i need to connect with my friend for hours on end to play a single round against god damn bots. I looked for the bug, and there was no fix for it, and its known for it to be happening at least since 2015. Im speaking of the weird inability to play some maps, because they just dont download properly for some players at all, or players just cant connect to the game because the map is for some reason, bugged for them. Theres many weird bugs, pathfinding, even tho its said that its "better" than vanilla supcom, it works exactly the same. Its just weird

It will always take some brain tax to defend things, but the main ways would be to assist an engineer with a scout / LAB combo (easy), retreat with the engineer if you notice radar signatures close by (takes some periodic checking), or try to reclaim the tank before it kills your engineer (hard) For bombers, you better have some interceptors built, otherwise the engineer will probably die lol. You can try to micro the engineer to avoid the bombs, but that will only delay the inevitable unless you can kill the bomber

Templates! I don’t have a video on them (yet), but basically you go into a game with no opponents and create whatever building structures you want, then save them as a template. Then you can cycle through your templates in-game to build them in the same order they were built originally

@@TheGreenSquier oooo very interesting, thank you!

top of screen, under the options menu is "rebind keys" you can set hotkeys there.

Other comment is correct, but make sure you’re playing on FAF! I have a video about hot keys here, although it’s a bit outdated and I use other hot keys now. However setting up the FAF presets is on there around 5 mins in kzfaq.info/get/bejne/d9WPjctosbe-Zp8.htmlsi=xyBDezf4ROyh14Yj

Are you playing on Forged Alliance Forever? I haven’t heard of this bug, I think FAF should have patched it, but you could ask on the official FAF Discord to be sure

@@TheGreenSquier No, I'm playing the campaign (normal version)

Ah okay, I highly recommend checking out FAF then. You can play the campaign with 4 player coop (friends or AI), you’ll have a decade+ of balance patches, and you can play with harder AI if you want to. Plus, most of the community uses FAF nowadays, hope to see you there!