#TOTAL ANNIHILATION MOD MOD#
Note: this mod requires its own pristine installation of TA and is NOT TA:Mutation compatible. TA:ESC offers significant enhancements to the venerable TA gaming engine, including Cavedog. Absolute Annihilation incorporates some of the TA Evolva mod's texture "upgrade" for a lot of the original TA units, comes with its own special AA Maps Pack, and includes within the one (big) file a number of mapping and AI resources, all designed with its own custom units in mind. Modifications Total Annihilation Mod - TA: Escalation v6.8 Beta.
The Readme sums up its philosophy in one sentence: " For every form of attack or defense, there must be a countermeasure there are no defenses too strong, and no attack too potent to route entirely."Ĭurrent version 6.0. Producing a Krogoth level unit is a bit of an event in the game, and requires a considerable amount of time and effort trying to build up an economy to mass produce them. While there are a fair few advanced units, and even a nice selection of Krogoth level super units, there aren't any super-sized resourcing facilities or units that instantly render all others obsolete. The mod attempts to keep every unit usable and useful throughout the game. For some time during its lengthy development phase, it suffered from inherent instability and crashing, but the latest versions seem to shrugged off most issues and this modification is eminently playable. Most units have been extensively modified to fit in. As a modification, TA:ESC introduces a considerable amount of changes to OTA. At first glance, this looks and feels like ÜberHack with extra units, but there has been a lot of fine tuning and adjustments made. TA:ESC, (Total Annihilation: Escalation) is a complete modification (mod) of the original Total Annihilation (OTA) game released originally in 1997. The basic philosophy behind AA is imagining what Total Annihilation might have looked like if Cavedog hadn't died and had kept producing a downloadable unit once every week.
All its units are selected from a selection found from high quality unit sites or those that have been tested to destruction in Unit Review Central.
AA is a mega-mod, but not quite the unit mash of UTASP or TAUCP. In a nutshell, it basically picks up where the famous ÜberHack mod left off. Absolute Annihilation (AA) is a custom unit pack that is based on the ÜberHack mod.