Mistakes to Avoid - Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance 2024

New players tend to make some mistakes that are easy to fix. Learn what some of those are and how to avoid them, and I guarantee you'll notice improvement in your games.
Chapters:
0:00 Using point defense
3:10 Ignoring the commander
5:02 Turtling too much
6:31 Overflowing on mass
7:40 Forgetting to reclaim
9:41 Playing alone forever
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[@Trenair]

IMHO _by far_ the most compelling argument to have your ACU at the front at the t1 stage: An ACU can deal up to 100 DPS (before OC). that means it can kill one ~50 mass tank every 3 seconds. That's almost 17 mass/second it can kill if it were to be used most optimally. An equivalent of denying your opponent more than eight t1 mexes! If you can keep it at the front and keep it shooting enemy tanks as much as possible, you'll be crushing a ton of enemy mass. So never let a small army run into enemy ACU and keep your ACU shooting enemy tanks as much as possible. You could also see it this way, it has 10-12K HP. If it takes 5000 damage, that means it has saved 15-20 t1 tanks' lives. Those tanks will live on to raid mexes and kill engineers and destabilize your opponent :D

[@sussinhardrn1048]

The early veterancy gains are huge as well. I've won a considerable number of mid-game pushes with my ACU and a small escort, with TMLs sniping, just because my ACU was so much more combat effective than my opponent's own ACU.

[@GamerM1235]

I would add one other key bit. INTEL. It doesn't matter if it's land scouts, mech marines, or just a tank. Park it on a flank, and give yourself an early warning system set up. Radar's are good, but if you are truly new to the game. You will often power-stall and get blindsided by a force you never saw. Land scouts early on and scattered around are invaluable. If you make it into late game. Don't ignore the usefulness of just quickly building a T1 air factory to just constantly build T1 spy planes to throw into your enemies base. They will still give quite a bit of information even upon their death. And in the late game. Real-time visual data is equally invaluable against lots of stealth.

[@JD867]

If you're feeling overwhelmed practicing against AI, tick down the game speed. It's very helpful to give yourself time to react and plan, especially against M27/M28 AI that are actually decent opponents, and full pausing has a lot of annoying little traits that make it hard to build.

[@TheGreenSquier]

Agreed, I used to do this too!

[@arthurgolubev]

Oh you can't even imagine how much of a problem overturtling is! I still do it, my friends done/did it, I think it's just our brain not used to the game - means facing inknown with way too many variables, and due to that it becomes extremely defensive. Playing more RTS really helps me even in normal everyday life to grow more confident so you can say games help in life as well :D

[@dollie2216]

As someone who is just starting, this was very helpful!

[@CaptainBango]

Great stuff man, thank you!

[@frederiksantens4114]

Verry helpfull ty for the effort you putt into it ;)

[@gamingxperience7208]

smart and soothing thx

[@qdogggaming9741]

so ik eveyone haate supcom2 but it was my jam when i waas younger, i haave recently started on supcom faf aaand i have been losiing hard to my buddy whom is very good aaat rts. These videos are hellping me so much. The tip about not placing to maany point defences is gonna help me an insane aamount. Thank you sir.

[@krawnless2796]

very good advices! I think these things are, what seperates the players below and above the 1000 mark, although the longer the game goes on the more players will make these mistakes. Could you make a video for advanced move orders? I feel like most players don't get how many move orders there actually are and how useful they are for specific units i.E.: the attack move on the asylum

[@kiljupullo]

Tactics. You need to use t1 and t3 scouts all time and counter enemies with recon data. Like if enemy doesnt have any air, use bombers and harass with units. If enemy has just air, push very hard on land. etc. Destoying all radar, destreoying enemy e-storage and pgens.,

[@jaredkay6970]

Thanks

[@Merrillon21]

Hey man, looking to get back to FAF recently and your videos really helped. Just wondering what mods do you use or you think are essential when playing? Thanks a lot!

[@contentconsumer3743]

Guilty!

[@contentconsumer3743]

Also, First!

[@TyphusVonElder]

Hardest thing for me is Sorian AIX, tier 3 battleships by 12 mins while also spamming everything under the sun is annoying. if its just land I can hold and beat it thinking not enough free t1 Engineer on auto mass reclaim to help push economy to beat AIX Income

[@unclvinny]

Helpful, ty! What does the giant ACU range circle mean?

[@williamfoley1353]

The UEF commander can get a tactical missile launcher upgrade, the yellow circle is the range of that.

[@himme5156]

Playing campaign and vs ai can help battlefield performance dramatically, as long as you dont play it all the time. The new campaigns on faf are quite challenging.

[@TheGreenSquier]

Definitely! Although, there's potential to learn some bad habits in the campaign, like turtling super hard before meeting the objective. In multiplayer, you'll give up a lot of the map control if you take the same approach. Still really helpful for learning the basics though!

[@chocolateelf4867]

Wow thank you TheGreenSquier

[@paddykickinitubint1692]

Playing against others depends on who ur playing i found this game a few months ago ive played a few games and got destroyed id prefer to try and get better then play and get smashed after 2 minutes and its hard for me to remember everything i need to do its the multitasking that i need to practice , i wonder will i be the first FAF player to get to negative 2000 points .What is it Pro and joe and for me MONGO

[@olivierlaborde7887]

The quickest way to not get destroyed immediqtely is build order. Theres some great videos on build order that helped me out of your exact situation. I lost every match I played, until I learned build order and was able to harrass the enemy into a win (like they were doing to me previously)

[@TheGreenSquier]

Yeah that's a good point, it never feels great to get wrecked. If you want to keep playing solo for a while, look up the M27 AI on the Mods menu in FAF. It's extremely competent, roughly 800-1000 elo, so once you're able to beat that you can definitely hold your own in multiplayer

[@paddykickinitubint1692]

Yeah ill look up the M27 AI in the Mods ,thanks i love this game and there are lots of great people to chill out and have battles its just finding a play style thats suits you and is competative enough to hold ur own in Multi player battles and i love ur Vid's ive checked them out they are great for tips when your first getting into FAF@@TheGreenSquier

[@paddykickinitubint1692]

Thanks i have to say you are spot on its the build order i find myself always behind in getting my builds and getting units out , getting to were you can hold ur own long enough while still going on the attack i always seem to play catch up ill check out more Vids on build orders Thanks@@olivierlaborde7887

[@Kuba_K]

If you have FAF try checking out "non standard games" tab, idk how its called in english. There is bunch of large 5v5 maps being hosted and some are specifically for noobs. Playing with team is always better you will get tips and observe how others play. There may be some salt but ignore that.