Gameplay Video of Alien Crossfire

[Nexii]

Ah yes I missed the second sentinel in Sparta Command. Somehow mathed it wrong, I think because I removed POLICE from my Sparta faction and gave it to Hive instead.

[bvanevery]

You know I actually did create a "spray can" to deal with the Locusts.  It's called Air Superiority Heavy Artillery.  It's also putting Air Superiority on a ship.  I can't remember whether you can do this in plain vanilla, but you can definitely do it in my mod.  Works real good at damaging stacks of 32 Locusts.

[lolada]

Funny how i actually never use those shortcuts Farm+Solar+Road.. i think i should its less micro.. I am used to manually building things one by one.. at least i use shortcuts.. farm is 'f',, forest 'F', mine 'm' etc.. but there are shortcuts for these combos as well.. I used to know this and basically forgot it.. you (re)learn something new every day. I also shortly tried using arrows for movement but never got used to it.

Another thing i don't build are Pressure Domes unless the base is gonna flood - due to costs. At least in this game its so low terrain they will eventually come in useful. Btw you clicked through it quickly.. Deirdre already built The Weather Paradigm ^^ crazy AI.

Works real good at damaging stacks of 32 Locusts.

Lol thats crazy.. I've never seen more then 8 or something like that worms popping up.

[bvanevery]

Lol thats crazy.. I've never seen more then 8 or something like that worms popping up.

Start making illegal chemical attacks on other factions.  Eventually you'll go off an eco-damage cliff all at once.  You'll end up with 100 to 300 eco-damage per city.  And then Planet will kill you.  Well until you've been through this scenario a number of times and figured out some measures to take against stuff.  Neural Amplifier considered extremely helpful.  Too bad I put it really late in my mod, since it's so helpful.  Early use of chemical weapons might just be suicide.  My jury's out on that.  My last AAR was my 1st success, but I did get started a bit late and I did get the NA.

[lolada]

I will try that maybe next game jeez i'll die haha

[Matzlaick]

Here is video 3!

Enjoy!


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[JimOfLeisure]

Oh cool. I just made some SMAC YouTube content, and my first gameplay goes up tomorrow morning (9am CDT / 14:00 UTC). I don't think I did *any* editing, though, and I haven't played in at least 15 years, and I was never particularly good back then, anyway.

But now there are at least two active SMAC/SMACX YouTubers, so there's that. And I think SuedeCivIII may do some SMAC on his channel sometime in the future.

My channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaaQl2BhDrMWyaVX5Y0QlSg

I just found this site searching for SMAC info.

[JimOfLeisure]

Hey Matzlaick, when recording, it looks like you are playing the game in 1360x768 but recording in 1080p. Are you running your desktop at 1360x768, or are you somehow making it switch resolution when you play?

The interface is small enough as it is, and I'm making it even smaller. But when I tried a test recording at 1360x768, YouTube downsized to 720p and it looks bad/fuzzy.

[Matzlaick]

Hi Jim!

Welcome to the site.

I took a look at your SMAX videos and I did not notice anything wrong with your graphics settings. I think what you did with DirectDraw=0 was the best move. The interface is probably locked at a certain resolution so I'm not sure there is much that can be done with it.

I play the game in native 1080p which probably explains the gui glitch. Here are some sources I use for getting patches and mods for my SMAX games.

https://forums.civfanatics.com/threads/higher-screen-resolution-or-windowed-mode-for-alpha-centauri.118326/

http://alphacentauri2.info/index.php?action=downloads;cat=2;sortby=date;orderby=desc;start=0

[JimOfLeisure]

Thanks for the info!