This game is timeless. Even with it's poor pathfinding, it's a BANGER. GO PEEWEES!!! FORWARD FOR THE ARM!!!

I still love and play this game. But after almost 30 years the unit pathfinding is still the absolute worst I have ever seen in an RTS.

@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon

4 ай бұрын

It is, but it's partially fixed in the most modern unofficial TU mod site's made patch. Also if you're interested in playing Total Annihilation Escalation, it has it fixed too.

@starburst98

4 ай бұрын

It is one of the big reasons to go air instead.

@AKU666

4 ай бұрын

In Beyond All Reason (remake of TA) we are trying pretty hard to solve pathfinding problems and seems like we are succeeding (I'm a tester there).

@theKbott

2 ай бұрын

As someone else said, try the mod Total Annihilation Escalation! Among other tons of other stuff, it also fixes most of the pathfinding issues

@JamesFaction

Ай бұрын

@@AKU666 ugh BAR gets mentioned on EVERY TA video, it's not a replacement or "modern version" of TA. It's so far from that. BAR is a community project that is an homage to TA, it's poorly executed in so many ways, partly because it is a community project made by various people in their spare time, partly also because the people making it are modders not serious players of TA and don't really understand how TA plays. And yeah, TA pathfinding is vastly improved with the community patch.

Fantastic video! I can attest to the testosterone boosting effect of this game. It was only after I broke into the top ten on the ladder for this game that I met my wife. I didn't need to tell her my ranking to receive her affection, the pheromone boost from playing TA was all it took. This game is still kicking and has it's own multiplayer client called Total Annihilation Forever. You can still play the OG version (with the expansions) or you can pick up one or both of the two most popular mods - Escalation for those who want a T3 and T4 experience, and ProTA for those who want a more balanced and modern version of the original. Both mods include community pathfinding fixes. For those who want to play the campaign, ProTA has a fully functional campaign with some additional challenge. Some quality of life features common to modern RTS are also present (hotkeys and UI improvements.) Happy gaming!

Dude, I waited so long for someone to post a good TA review on here, I was almost ready to teach myself video editing to try and make my own. Fuckin stoked to find a new reviewer to cycle through my list between Mandalore and Grimbeard

I've been playing the game since it came out in 1996 and later got the expansion. Tried my hand in designing my own maps even and eventually found out about mods, modern patches and downloadable maps and units. I've played the campaign probably over 80 times by now, blasted the glorious Jeremy Soule soundtrack multiple times on max volume and gave myself several eargasms at the explosion sfx's and overlapping peewee machineguns became the perfect symphony in my ears, and im a die-hard Core fanatic. All I can say is this video made me once again realize that (g)oldies like this gem never die and the abrupt realization that we'll never quite get something like this ever again. I mean yes, Supreme Commander was great and BAR is good, but it ain't TA or has any of it's magic. I had a blast watching this video and in honor of it I'll quickly play a few matches again. PvP. Good hunting and glorious explosions to you, fellow commander. May your D-gun hits be legendary.

My grandpa got a disc of Total Annihilation for free with his Windows 98' pc. After playing it at my grandparent's home he gave it to me when we got a pc that could run the game. And what a game. I played this game so much into the early 2000's and after that with all the available mods. Insane. Thank you for covering this game🙏

@uncommonsensor

Ай бұрын

I got the TA demo for free with Windows 98 as well, favorite game ever since.

It is insane o me think that Total Annhilation was actually released a year BEFORE Starcraft 1, I mean look at this game, its fuckign visionary. TO me this game was for RTS was Elite was for 3D games:a glimpse into the future. I would sell my family into slavery to have a chance to get my hands into its source code so I could find out what sort of witchcraft and black magic they did to make this game in 1997 work, what sort of forbidden knowledge is hidden within its codemay never be known to the general public. IN an alternate timeline, TA becomes what Starcraft is to us today and RTS would't have died, and we would be watching koreans fight the most batshit insane games ever in several tournaments. 11/10 probably the greatest RTS ever made, willteahc my own kids to play this so they cna grow chest hair at 10 years old (yes, including the girls).

@chloesmith4065

13 күн бұрын

Consider Supreme Commander

I hope your channel grows and you make it big. The in depth commentary coupled with witty jokes and dry humour was very enjoyable to watch, keep it up man

I'm enjoying your content. Your presentation and energy is very enjoyable! This is not a game I'd ever typically be interested in but I greatly enjoyed hearing about it and your childhood. Thank you for sharing!

Unironically a banger of a Christmas Gift ❤

On the soundtrack, it was composed by Jeremy Seoul who went on to compose the sound tracks for such games as Civilization and Skyrim

This video was such a pleasure to watch. I was born in 96 and as soon as I was old enough to I played the shit out of this game with my brother too. Thank you SO much. Loved being able to revisit that.

Absolutely beautiful final message Might have to visit this game now

You want me to believe a game called "Total Annihilation" is completely ran on renewable energy to launch nukes?

@Xtoxinlolinecronomicon

4 ай бұрын

Yes, it's possible!

In terms of RTS, this game is on an entirely different level compared to other major RTS titles. It offers so much more and is much more flexible. The capture feature for when you want to build both ARM Maverick's AND CORE Krogoth's, The sort of 3rd person shooter style when you go on a Commander D-gun rampage, or a stealth aproach with the cloaking mechanizm. Or flat out flood the fuild with units on mass scale. Every feasable method is possible in this game. I've tried other RTS's and had fun doing so, but none came close to TA. This game has it all and is still stading strong.

Such a good video about this game, great memories! Well done!

Great content as always Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

It's funny, because a little while later in the 2010s me and MY brother would dance the same dance in Planetary Annihilation. One of the sequels of this game. Siblings must war.

The way the first third of this video is "me and my three-years-older brother used to play this game wrong in the exact same, identical way that you and your three-years-older brother used to play this game wrong" to me, directly, as an individual, is pretty wild

Great video about a great game. It a relief to see someone reviewing this old masterpiece. Now I would recommend you trying Total Annihilation: Escalation. A mod that make the game twice or thrice as big and hard. A stuff for true crazy fans. But a few slight correction that I'd like to make: 1. Missile turret spam won't work against gunship spam. Those flying tanks (especially the Arm one, which is the most broken unit in whole game alongside Flash) do not take nearly enough damage and melt missile turrets in seconds. Flak turrets are there for a reason. 2. There isn't "a chance a wreck will appear". It always appears with exceptions based on 2 damage threshold. If damage is high enough (like hitting a scout vehicle with a Guardian), the field of debris will appear instead. Less metal, but could be walked over. If damage is even higher (like hitting a scout with Big Bertha or anything hit with a nuke), the wreck will not appear at all. You can build your offense and defense based on this knowledge to make it harder for enemy to reach you or make it easier for you to reach your enemy. Also, wrecks can be destroyed - and sometimes the best use of Big Bertha is a glorified demolition tool. 3. Missile won't work and artillery will struggle against heavy units such as Core Goliath. Sometimes you will need heavy laser turrets and late-game beam guns if you play defensively. Of offensively, since at least the Arm has a mobile version of beam gun turret. 4. There is "select Commander" button so you won't lose it on huge maps. Its shift+c, I think. 5. You have committed a horrible terrible no good crime of not mentioning the Vulcan and Buzzsaw in all their glory. Those are the most epic artillery pieces ever put in any game. Because nothing screams: "DIE!" louder than an rapid-fire super-heavy super-longrange piece of doom disguised as an artillery.

Glad to see this getting some coverage

I had totally forgot about this game. One could say, the memory of this game had been Totally Annihilated. But after seeing a vid and learning of the great community around this game (and the fantastic work to keep this gem alive), I got really hyped. So I picked it up along with the Escalation mod. And maaaaan was I in for a treat! I haven't had this fun with a game in many years!

For those unaware, BAR- Beyond all reason IS this very game (including the expack) and is free and available to all, with a still very active playerbase. It has proper skirmish and a lot of singleplayer options too, in case you just wish to try it out a bit. See ya'll there!

Great video, good B roll and comments with a good pacing! I hope to see you in other favourit games

TA was a HUGE step ahead, with the 3D terrain heightmap, 3D units, and 3D projectile trajectories. Coming from C&C's all-2D versions of those was just incredible. Then The Core Contingency came out...🤯 And then, of course, the TAUCP. 🤤

I haven't played TA since I was a kid, I got totally steamrolled by the enemy during the campaign... I play SupCom since years and I'm afraid I'll never stop. Seeing this I now understand SupCom wasn't just a spiritual successor but pretty much all mechanics mimic TA with many many more active units. I'm still super bad and turtling instead of controlling anything, but just love these games :-)

Idk how I came across this video but it was a good one. TA was one of my childhood games. I think it came out the same year I was born? But my cousin introduced it to me when I was like 5-6. In essence, this video was very relateable lmao. On a different note, I had no clue that Barathrum would give metal anywhere. I love these old games that had no real guides on them and we had to figure stuff out on our own. I would have never known without this video.

Recently got interested into Total annihilation just by watching its badass opening. found this video at a great timing.

This is one of the rare vids were i would to hit the like button all 5 min. I loved this game to play and spend hundreds of houres on the map editor and the unit download website too.

That's a review this game deserves. Thank you!

This is my all time favorite RTS. And I just learned about Beyond All Reason and my dream of a updated looking TA has come true 😃

I love TA Kingdoms that was my jam

Great video, Ruby!

A absolute gem of a game, easily my first favorite.

This is just OG supreme commander, I love it

@ChristopherMaier.

3 ай бұрын

Supreme Commander is Total Annihilation for transvestites.

Jeremy soul best scores.

This maybe the best Total Annihilation video on the internet

I used to main core on this at lan parties back in the day, and the only thing that ever scared me was brawler swarms, luckily I managed to get revenge once we started playing with core contingency.

what an awesome this game was. my 2nd favourite RTS. Starcraft, TA, then AOE 2

Great review! Totally agree. And the most important thing to type early is: +shootall. I did not know about this despite the tutorial. Combine that with the energy-hungry targeting facility and good radar, takes a load off your wrist stress.

Great video, this game looked great on stream and this is a good vidya, might buy and try the game for myself.

@Ruby_Rooz

4 ай бұрын

I'll buy it for you

@ButterflyofTruth

4 ай бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/aqJ6x7uQgMXPirQ.html if you need any help downloading the game and playing it online

Love this channel

Did you write this yourself? On god brother you write this review like it's fucking poetry. Some of the best writing I've heard for something like this. Just write random bullshit and make it a video, I'd love it.

@Ruby_Rooz

4 ай бұрын

I appreciate your comment :) - I do write my own stuff. Mostly it's basically coffee fueled purple prose with minor direction. But after watching this like 6 times - for proofing / editing / ect. - there are some parts that are like nails on a chalkboard to me. Things I cannot understand how I missed lol. Always room for improvement. Again - Thank you!

Total Annihilation is my most favorite game forever! I was loved in it , since I have play it at first time in 1999 year! It's awesome , most pleasant RTS which I ever seen !

this game's soundtrack is just EPIC

Warzone 2100 might be that RTS car game you mentioned at the start

My first ever RTS game on PC ever, got a disc copy for my 11th birthday from my uncle Eddie, he said "this is the real stuff" up until that point I was just a lil halo gamer. Safe to say this game became my favourite game so fast. Core tattoo on my arm. ARM SCUM!!!

@werdna5258

Ай бұрын

That’s awesome! I hope you are still playing TA now. If not take this as your calling to come back :)

One of the first rts games I played and closer to total annihilation is supreme commander,which I believe to be an amazing spiritual successor to this game.(please do a review on that game and its follow ups)

Spring RTS. Open sourced rts heavily, HEAVILY TA inspired, though a bit buggy(for me, at least) now. You get higher resplution and get to play with camera angles, as well as different mods(unti packs, basically) where you can have mega units, or play a ww2 rts, instead (Spring 1944). Check it out, it costs nothing!

This was great!

just the early christmas gift i wanted

i hope you do a vid covering some of the mods for TA, such as Escalation

Amazing video

I love this game so much

Your voice reminded me of the English translation voice actor I heard in the Animes Expelled from Paradise and Cowboy Bebop: The Movie. Anyways, this fan spiritual sequel protect of Total Annihilation (TA) called "Beyond all Reason" (BAR) I discovered last year, caused me to dust off my old laptop, and play TA again after quite a few years. From what I have seem, the modernization from the old game is quite good. I was able to slide right into BAR and enjoy watching other people playing it, unlike the Supreme Commander games and Planetary Annihilation replays. I've been a CORE Commander since day one. Overall, they are slower, but heavier. But I have only played against another person 2 times. Later, fans started to make their own units. And eventually, they made some that are quite good. Now, I have all manner of units and weaponry that one can think off. But since I have those unit editing tools fans also made, I can change them, to make them fit in better in the overall picture. The pathfinding issues caused me not to like the Naval Combat much. And focus on playing on maps with a more simple layout. Whenever I download a user created map for instance, those are the ones I look for. The way BAR choose to handle the pathfinding means, I do like how the Naval Combay works there. When units get clumped up, they push each other out of the way. A little finiky, but it works. Otherwise, there are commands there that causes unit groups to assemble in formations. The best mod for Total Annihilation I've seen is Total Annihilation: Escalation. The focus of that particular mod is super units. So much so, it features a complete Tech Level 4, bash of units. It gets too crazy on large scale battles involving teams. But a 1v1 on a reasonable sized map, it's manageable. The first RTS game I played, was *Herzog Zwei* in the Sega Genesis. One of the first of it's kind. Many didn't know what it was. But once me and my dad figured things out... The rest is history.

@JamesFaction

Ай бұрын

BAR isn't TA tho. It feels like a cobbled together bunch of units by different makers (because it is). Its an homage to TA... But it doesnt really feel like TA. The physics arent great, the unit interaction as you said is funky. The explosions look very nice tho.

lol, ive been looking for this game for more than 20 years.

Sounds like master chief playing TA

I wish I saw your videos sooner, the smexy voice and humor is peak

holy SHIT this is an awesome video

You could kidnap an enemy Commander with a transport plane, and then capture him with your commander while hovering with the llane

@JamesFaction

Ай бұрын

You can kidnap enemy commanders, but the game won't let you capture them (turn them to your side). Can only capture units that cant themselves capture other units. But yes... Picking up the enemy commander in your transport is a valid tactic. And hilarious if you pull it off. easily avoided by the other player by just setting a very short patrol route, in which case the commander will shoot down the transport. But if that player isn't paying attention... You now have a flying nuke. Use it wisely 😂

@mrboom1133

Ай бұрын

@@JamesFaction haha those where the times! How do I think I could capture an enemy commander, with my commander, while he (? 😛) was on my transport. In any case I was attacking with planes and a bunch of L1 Transports with hopes one would catch the commander 😛😛

Oh the days when RTS gaming ruled the pc world. KKND, Dune 2000, Dark Reign, C&C series...

used to play this on dialup. would have 20 hour nuclear bombardment marathons with most of our bases set to queue up hours of builds.

played it on my old pentium II 233Mhz and used to love it

God damn Yamato Gun. Happy Holidays everyone.

I'm from Poland, baby! And .. my story with this game is mostly the same 😂 Even the fido. I had this game on every computer😅 But.. after I discovered and get used to Beyond all reason(fan remake) , i left the game in to the sweet memories

I'm so glad I got this one on release instead of Starcraft and Tibsun. Don't get me wrong, those aren't bad games either, and rightfully are fondly remembered. But playing (especially with 5000 unit cap mod) TA on metal maps is just something else entirely, even against AI. In other game, there is early game, mid game and late game. In TA, it's nuclear race on crack while you try to churn as much units as possible. Like, literal blocks of factories pumping robots and tanks, one battalion at the time? I think main issue with TA was that it basically had no story, at least until expansion (I loved CORE ending). Speaking of story, play SupCom and FA. Hell, even SC2 is guilty pleasure. And FAF is your go-to online robot genocide simulator. [edit] Few things: GOG version works well on modern PCs, even music plays. ARM are at least partially organic (may even be fully living human), everything started because they DIDN'T want to be computer people. Not sure what's up with pain receptors, maybe it's like Pacific Rim? I think unofficial patch added you one of functionalities of SupCom, ie superzoom. Fun fact, same people that made TA made SC. Go play those too.

This game is still my favorite RTS.

Jermey Soule....the guy who scored Elder Scrolls Skyrim

Loved me some TA. If you want to play an updated version, check out Beyond All Reason.

I love total annihilation. But today I am playing alot C&C generals shockwave mod. The voices are so cool

Are there any similar current games? Real time strategy games with so many units independently moving and so on?

@commieswine

Ай бұрын

Supreme commander is from the 2000s. There is another one that came put a few years ago but I can't remember the name of it, which sucks because it was scaled up to maps being a whole planet and it's moons.

My favorite thing was to make BOATLOADS of brawlers that would inevitably slow my poor PC down to a crawl LOL PS Also love TA: Kingdoms. Has it's own feel to it, and also music by Jeremy Soule.

besides lethal company. what is the game showed at the end of the video?

@Ruby_Rooz

4 ай бұрын

Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum - Should be one of my first videos in 2024

btw a fan project exists of this game now, its currently not on steam but is in development, its called Beyond all Reason (BAR). Although some stuff is different, it attempts to be a fan-made remake of this game and I think it does it very well.

@ShapeyFiend

4 ай бұрын

BAR players have low T.

@ChristopherMaier.

3 ай бұрын

It fucking sucks.

@cruelolol

3 ай бұрын

I played one game of skirmish with med difficulty AI. I got massacred so bad that I never played the game again.

@MartijnHoppenbrouwer

2 ай бұрын

@@cruelolol You can set AI smartness to medium or easy - default setting is hard (though non-cheating)

wonder if I can get it to work on mac

Objectively the best RTS of all time and personally probably the best game of all time.

If you want more Total Annihilation; look up Spring, Balanced Annihilation, and Zero-K

This reminds me of Supreme commander imma bit younger then you are but I bought russian version of 1 and forged allience in Tajikistan did play it with friends and siblings was great time

my testosterone has increased by 13% while watching this video and doing push ups, will watch more

The beach levels were a nightmare

I still play this game When will you make a videos of the expansion core contingency

@Ruby_Rooz

4 ай бұрын

When I gain the strength to

A total annihilation 2 would be awesome. Maybe a bit simpler than SC and with as quality music as TA.

Love this😂

Virei noites em campanhas.

Oh yes, tip of the spear my boy. Tip of the spear. Oh yes.

Yes.

There was also bit forgoten total anihilation kingdoms

People still playing this classic 😮 I used to play this all day when I was a kid

Very good video, always wondered what total annihilation looked like! If you know what BAR is then BAR copied the entire game basically.

Yo, why does he sound like steve blum?

God I wish this got an HD remake

@MhoNoLoG1

2 ай бұрын

try Beyond All Reason - BAR

@JohnDoe-vm5rb

2 ай бұрын

@@MhoNoLoG1Oh, sure that's fun but I miss the custom units and original TA sounds. The sounds of the big bertha firing, the heavy laser, ect. It also fell into the trap of giving not-arm a not-wannabe-krogoth which so many custom units did in TA.

0:01 OMFGLMFAO!!!!!

Now just spam (enter)+ATM for infinite energy and metal. Sorry...

Poor mans rose. Nice hxh reference.

Engagement for the algorithm.

A real testosterone booster is if I get an unban from the Community.

Arm had the Brawler. That shit was so OP. I don’t think Core had an equivalent. Am I wrong?

@Ruby_Rooz

3 ай бұрын

I think the Hurricane - Not as good tho.

@TotalAnnihilationReplays

Ай бұрын

Core has the Rapier. As the last Core Commander, I can assure you, I made good use of them. Hurricane is their advanced bomber.@@Ruby_Rooz

@JamesFaction

Ай бұрын

The Core Rapier. it's half broken (one of the two rockets tends to hit the ground short of the target) but you can make it work, and it's much quicker than the Brawler. In fixed form in various mods it's every bit the equal of the Brawler

You should play beyond all reason it’s based off of Total annihilation

My name is total analization

+shootall