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icexuick

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    Comment #48622283

    Guessing this would be: Good Transport mechanics? BAR is working on this.

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    Comment #48621912

    BAR offers some 'hold the fort' maps, where there is a strong/fortifiable area and then the 'outskirts'. These are catered to offer great gameplay for battles against Raptors (prev…

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    Comment #48621415

    The voice on the website is a full real person. He's a professional voice actor that goes by the name of "Razkharn". Awesome guy.

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    Comment #28209047

    Correct. We recently even saw that a tactical nuke dropped from a bomber, created a blast-wave that pushed 19 flash-tanks so much their got a temporary 300% movement speed (if they…

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    Comment #28209029

    I love the fact that Zero-K has such a large group of people really enjoying it. It's both proof that a spring-engine game nowadays still can work/be played very well, and also tha…

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    Comment #28209001

    All this is in BAR. We've seen some mid-air collisions of aircraft with artillery or tactical nukes :).

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    Comment #28208995

    We're working on new GL rendering for units, which is a huge part of slowdowns in FPS mid-late game. In testing environments we can see over 3-10x better performance on rendering. …

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    Comment #28208977

    also nice piece of history + some explaination why someone playing FAF likes BAR so much. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WdYAV-11Fs

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    Comment #28208962

    This is already a default option in the game. And also, this is what we'd like to expand upon, f.e. in the coop-campaign. Each player working together as one is quite the experienc…

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    Comment #28208949

    Yes, i agree. But besides that, also the planetary maps where an awesome idea, but for me is just very bad in practice. Also performance was problematic from the first launch. Thou…

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    Comment #28208934

    Awesome to hear and something you will see improve, practically every day. Enjoy!

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    Comment #28208904

    Roughly 8.000 commits from 39 contributors since the end of 2018 when development of BAR really (re)started.