Some rebellion beta 2 replays!

Because no one else is gonna do it!

from Sins Forums

Hey, so. I thought id post some replays!

 

So, these First 2 are some standard games with some pro players.  I get rofl stomped in one, where, after 50k of feed, the guy sends like 12 purge vessles to my hw. quite funny. The other, i believe is where i eco like a boss, and then get novaliths at the same time the enemy minidumps yay!

 

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36550973/4v4%20recording%20beta%202.recordreb

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36550973/5v5%20recording%20beta%202.recordreb

 

This next one is how NOT to play sins of a solar empire, is is basically me and a noob going against 3 decent players.  Eventually, as you will see, the way to win any and all games of sins of a solar empire, is to sit your titan on the enemies stronghold, eating strikecraft exp until the enemy minidumps.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36550973/stupidstupid.recordreb

 

and This, was an EPIC game, as 2 of my teammates minnied out quite early in the match, but though the power of macro, pacts, and flack frigs, it turns out that the best way to counter rebel titans is to EAT IT IN THE FACE. Prolly the best game of the lot.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/36550973/howtoecoasrebel.recordreb

 

If anyone has a favorite shoutcaster who would like to shout for 1+ hours, and upload these to youtube, well, he will hate you forever, I will love you forever, and sins will get some advertising that we know ironclad wont do.

 

though out these recordings, you can see me fiddling with the new capital ship. not really recommended, but i do believe it is borderline feasible cap now, just not for the (bugged?) boarding parties. And, to some degree, you prolly should be watching the more pro players than me play. 

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

Thank you Pbhead, for the Replays.

Devs, the Pro 5v5 replay is worth watching for balance considerations.  (And the howtoecoasrebel replay demonstrates rushing to TAR (TruceAmongstRogues) by Krath & [SnakeDoc].) 

       I'll summarize my observations, but there is much that can be learned here.
Players:  7 Pros 3? -  Auqia, Mecha, Pbhead, Dwish, [?] VS. Radioactive, Quar, Owll & Rovert, [?]
Races  :  8 TEC, 2 Advent  (Advent = Auqia/Loyalist & Quar/Rebels)  5 TEC Rebels, 3 Loyals
Cap Ships:   starting = 1 Halcyon,  7 Akkans, 1 Sova, & a Rapture!
First Techs:  Corvettes, Fleet Up1

Overall Pro Strategy: Colony Cap, spam Corvettes, rush to Titan if possible.  Note only one player brave enough to play Advent out of 10 (ie: Auqia, Quar doesn't count, coz he only knows how to play Vasari)!  Corvettes will need nerfing.

 

Ashes of the Singularity II
Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

Actually I've been playing Advent recently... it does NOT suck.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Advent have a hard time getting started, and corvettes does NOT make things easier for them.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Mecha-Lenin, reply 3
Actually I've been playing Advent recently... it does NOT suck.

 

It*, It* You say it* instead of they* How rude

So who was the rapture?  :D  So brave-nothing wrong with it when you have corvettes-and works well to take down fleets with malice and defense vessels doing circles around the enemy formations F* up there mitigation. I'm prog first then Rapture any day.

 

Sooo whose the best tec and how evil is Auqia's loyalist witch cult?

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Mecha-Lenin, reply 3
Actually I've been playing Advent recently... it does NOT suck.

This is from another Vasari only lover.  It* is not the unity. BTW, I'm not biased.

Quoting RiddleKing, reply 5
So who was the rapture?

Riddle, don't you have the Beta?  Can't watch the replay?  It was Quar, and he was just messing around IMO.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

 I'll let you test and balance the game then reap the rewards: No im not a free rider? I've pre-ordered it but can't be bothered to download it on the current machine with me..it can't run shit. 

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Yes...thank you Pb...I will use this information to destroy you! Bwhahahaha!  :cylon:

Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top

Wow, great plays... and PB, 250 credit/turn, veeeerry nice.

 

Absolutely loved the Rapture play, very awesome.  

 

As to the corvette issue, clearly they are changing the opening and early plays, which is awesome - it really needed changing.  They also did not really last till mid-game, which is also good... except for one instance where there was a standoff between heavily upgraded corvettes + LoyA Titan=Suppression aura... quite funny!

 

For me it is a shame that Titan-rushing seems to be so important, and titan-feeding such an issue.  I like the play-time between getting your Titan, when high-level Cap ships are quite significant... but I guess there isn't much changing that can be done.  If you bump up the Labs required you're either going to see it too late game, which is also pointless, or just see people rushing and prioritizing even more, leading to more unstable economies...  

Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Where do I place these records? I've placed them in "C:\Users\Rob\AppData\Local\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire\Record-MultiPlayer/Singelplayer" but they don't show up ingame...

Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top

wrong place.  

 

C:\Users\<user>\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion\Record-MultiPlayer

Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top

My Documents/My Games/Ironclad Games/Sins of a Solar Empire: Rebellion

Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top

ah thanks, a much more logical place for this kind of stuff.

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top

I'm bumping these excellent replays because they will likely be unplayable after the next update/patch comes out (early next week?).

So Noobz get em before its too late.  A ton of good stuff here, that won't last.  But also keep in mind, that some of these strategies (like the current corvette spam) will likely change according to upcoming nerfs (& buffs).

Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top

That 3rd game is crazy, a loyalist TEC titan, a dunov, a marza, load of hoshikos and loads of flakk = undestroyable army

Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top

A pity that the fourth one appears to be supremely messed up whenever I try to play it, ships sit around doing nothing, Karth parks his Ragnarov at the pirate base and leaves it there, amongst other things that just don't match what's going on in ally chat.

Reply #17 from Sins Forums Top

thats odd. replay desync?

 

thats.  odd. :-/  sorry about that.

 

 

Reply #18 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting Mr, reply 16
A pity that the fourth one appears to be supremely messed up whenever I try to play it, ships sit around doing nothing, Karth parks his Ragnarov at the pirate base and leaves it there, amongst other things that just don't match what's going on in ally chat.

Quoting Pbhead, reply 17
thats odd. replay desync?

Hmmm.  It replayed fine for me!  

Mr. Haze, maybe try redownloading it?

[EDIT] I take that back. Upon a rewatch, it replayed fine up to about the half-hour mark (long enough to see the differing rushs to TAR), then it started diverging for me too.

As a side note, I have seen 'replay desyncs' of my own games before.  And I've noticed that sometimes the replay varies depending upon which player's perspective you are using!  If you don't switch around too much, and use the right player, it replays correctly for a longer period of time!

Reply #19 from Sins Forums Top

Well I redownloaded again and just left it on the default guy, when I watched it the first time I was swapping between Pbhead and Karth.

Still didn't work, it seems okay up until Karth sends his Sova into orange's homeworld, and then Pbhead just starts sending his stuff around doing nothing and only sending the stuff that gets built at the asteroid (which were rallied to orange's homeworld) in to help, the Sova gets blown up, then Pbhead's Corsev goes in with a small force much later and is blown to bits in a hilarious game of cat and mouse with orange's Kol, annnd yeah it just gets worse and worse from there.

 

Edit -

Fuck surviving, chase that Battleship!

Reply #20 from Sins Forums Top

Bumping because I cannot find the Record-MultiPlayer file im here

"C:\Users\X\Documents\My Games\Ironclad Games\Sins of a Solar Empire Rebellion"

 

Edit: nevermind, and for the record, later today I may stream these and put them on youtube:)

Reply #21 from Sins Forums Top

that would be awesome. though i wouldnt do the bottom two, because one is apperently brokered, and the other is of course, the suck.

Reply #22 from Sins Forums Top

Yeah I just watched the 5v5 one (the first half at least) and I'm pretty sure they are broken. That or Auqia just didn't feel like using his titan...

Reply #23 from Sins Forums Top

It all depends on if my equipment works xD

Reply #24 from Sins Forums Top

Hey guys :)

 

I was wondering if someone would be willing to upload some more cool replays from rebellion 0.9c? I'd be happy to see some more strategies (a.k.a. suck them in before daring to click the multiplayer button)

Reply #25 from Sins Forums Top

pb head u should post some more cool replays  if you have any