The points needed for such a research are collected automatically although the rate at which they are earned can be increased by building a research-facility. In addition five tech-trees are available to unlock upgrades for the three types of units as well as buildings and the ACU which are also visible on the battlefield with a shimmering aura around units which have received the shield upgrade for example.
putting a shield around them in order to increase their defensive-abilities. The resources themselves on the other hand haven’t changed with mass and energy being needed to support the war-effort.Įach structure the player builds can now be upgraded with add-ons e.g. This time around the player has to have the resources needed to build a unit or structure available upon giving the order instead of losing them over time while the building is in progress. But once the ACU has been destroyed, the mission or the multiplayer-match is lost.Īlso different from the first game is the completely overhauled resource-management. The ACU can construct buildings faster than the normal engineer and has access to powerful weapons in order to fight his enemies. To keep track of everything, the player can seamlessly zoom out to a strategic map or zoom in until he’s up close with his avatar, the mighty ACU. But the game still is a real-time-strategy game in the vein of Total Annihilation, featuring an insane amount of units on the huge battlefields at the same time. The three opposing sides – the Cybran Nation, the Illuminates and the United Earth Federation – are still fighting in the Infinite War all across the galaxy, spreading chaos and unrest with the player right in the middle as the Supreme Commander.Īs opposed to the first game, there’s only one single player campaign during which the player will take over the control over the armies of each of the factions starting with the UEF-campaign as Commander Dominic “Migraine” Maddox followed by Commander Thalia Kael in the Illuminates-campaign and finally as Commander Ivan Brackman in the Cybran-campaign. Supreme Commander 2 takes place 25 years after the events of Supreme Commander.
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