Use to LAN Total Annihilation every weekend as a high schooler. Played BAR last night for the first time, exactly the same game, probably uses the same game engine, just new look and new skins. Its AWESOME!. Wintergaming doing the LORD'S work!!! Thanks for the videos!
Zero-K is another TA successor that's also available for free on Steam, and Sanctuary is an upcoming nextgen successor that should come out later this year or next year.
A wonderful video! Incredible helpful and very nice options that will make playing bar even more fun than it already is! I hope you never stop with those bar videos.
I've gotten good enough at front line fighting to get compliments from my allies and I did this with completely unoptimized interface. I've been using cntr+C for commander because I think TA had that hotkey. This is going to increase my power level for sure.
Just downloaded the game. Love the concept of Total Anihilation/Suprem commander. And i see there are many things from Red Alert 2 :D And yes from RA2 i am used to repeat command :D After almost 10 years i'm going back to online RTS, wish me luck. In Generals and Warcraft 3 i was a monster xD
This is my first RTS game. Sure, I've watched friends play Command and Conquer, Age of Empires but never got into the genre as it looked boring and intimidating. I'm getting better, but I need to learn strategies instead of just building and spamming. I'm still trying to familiarize myself with all the Vehicles as everything is so different in terms of Speed, DPS, Range, Eco etc. Again, I don't wanna spam to defend. I want to be able to defend and attack efficiently and my brain is slowly adjusting to this genre. I also have a habit of watching one area to ensure the standoff is in my favor when I should just send off troops, have faith and work on another thing.
the reason with people crash at their first game, is because they didn't let the game cache the info. When you first log in, you will see in the button left corner the caching % wait for a 100% before launching a game.
Its absolutely insane how many USEFUL commands this game has. After playing with these you have to wonder if every single new RTS simply has to implement them, as its so bad without some of these.
So, thank you first of all for making this control guide. BUt some of this went just too fast for me. Could you do another video where you walk it through exactly what to do? I am coming from League of legends and this is a whole nother level of complexity.
@17:20 took my system 8 min on the first game load, over 6 before it even showed a load bar, def thought it had crashed now my system is old but still, it's not that bad, all games after load in under a minute, would probably be faster if the game was stored on an SSD instead of HD
Thanks very nice video but I wonder if there is a way to cycle through land, air, navy in my selection? Right now I have the problem that when I only want to select say my land or navy in an specific area the air units are included in the selection. In FAF (Forge Alliance Forever) you can assign a hotkey to cycle through the different unit types. Just select and press one time for land, press once again for air, third time for naval and then back to land in a loop. All the units are selected simultaneously in the background but only the active category (land, air or naval) reacts to your orders. Is something similar possible in BAR? If not how are you handling the problem with selecting just land, air or navla but not the other types in the same selection box? Because I'm getting crazy on the game when the units are mixing. Hope I don't sound to frustrated :) Yours truly P.S. English is not my native language.
alt+click on a factory with repeat on adds a single unit that won't repeat to the 1st position in the queue - the factory will finish building the unit it's currently working on, build that single unit, and then resume it's REPEAT queue. so Eg. a fac that's queuing 1. rocketeer (70%) 2. grunt 3. grunt 4. (rocketeer) 5. (grunt) 6. (grunt) when you alt-click a worker into the queue it will be 1. rocketeer (70%) 2. constructor 3. grunt 4. grunt 5. (rocketeer) 6. (grunt) 7. (grunt)
So does anyone know how to use the "Transport AI" option or can explain to me what it actually does and how to use this feature properly? I Interpret this as similar as how Supcom used to handle this but I'm probably dead wrong here. I set a factory waypoint and put a transport on the factory to "assist" it but it won't pick up any units coming out of that factory.
what the command where you keep unit spacing while moving units / will you do another video that just focuses on the micro if battle and how to and where to position troops please
You can also do the same when firing weapons by pressing A followed by hold right click and drag to get multiple units to target over an area. It's great for spreading out fire from multiple tactical or nuclear missile launchers
What I didn't like about the hotkeys setting is that, when applying "grid", whenever I want to choose eco buildings through "z" it just pauses my commander instead of going to the menu...
I tried to make a complete new account but after a while I get a message if I enter under the new account, informing me that I can't have a second account and I suppose to join with the first account instead!
Thank you. Could you show a game with a split screen with larger keyboard on one side. This way see your fingers dancing while explaining everything you can what you are doing? Not a good stream on twitch. Including what you are doing as your attacking, or what and why you are building. What your concerned about ETC..... I am a visual learner, words go better with the pretty pictures. Thanks 👍
i hate the keys graph XD i hit alt + F4 for fun XD also is there a way to skip an order and continue with the build such as you que up a bonch of orders but shift+rmb a factory then your unit just sits there helping the factory .... FOREVER and never continues is there a way to skip that order
The !notify command doesn't work for me. I get nothing and am just kicked from the lobby. I wish there was a way to configure it to automatically save and stop my chill AI game
I don't get it control +b doesn't work for me, it's control +d and alot and alot of the things you say here don't apply to my game, what's up with my game? are there different options for different controls? i don't get it, TAB doesn't select my commander, ETC...
he has grid controls enabled which you can enable in ingames settings. (enable grid and enable grid hotkeys) you are probably playing with default controls
This dude has the exact same tone and pacing in his voice as Chris Chan. To think Chris could have been making BAR how to’s instead of raping his dementia-addled mother. 😢
Useful but lots of unnecessary jumping, scrolling and lack of detailed explanation of exactly what is being pressed & when incl. right vs left mouse button use. Will come back and re-watch once I gain more experience.
With this, the BAR community will grow even stronger. Good luck out there everyone!
For anyone confused at 1:20, Grid optimized has been moved to simply Grid. You are welcome!
Editor just murdering this man for the first minute 😂
"Difficult for you"
Jimmy gets a lot of flak from Winter, so it's about time he smacked back.
Use to LAN Total Annihilation every weekend as a high schooler. Played BAR last night for the first time, exactly the same game, probably uses the same game engine, just new look and new skins. Its AWESOME!. Wintergaming doing the LORD'S work!!! Thanks for the videos!
Zero-K is another TA successor that's also available for free on Steam, and Sanctuary is an upcoming nextgen successor that should come out later this year or next year.
@@ArawnOfAnnwn what's Zero-K like in comparison? I still play TA and love BAR improved spring engine but think some units are way overpowered.
A wonderful video! Incredible helpful and very nice options that will make playing bar even more fun than it already is! I hope you never stop with those bar videos.
I've gotten good enough at front line fighting to get compliments from my allies and I did this with completely unoptimized interface. I've been using cntr+C for commander because I think TA had that hotkey. This is going to increase my power level for sure.
Its well known the key is abbreviated CTRL .... Lol, welcome to PC world.
It did.
@@mesaber86Maybe CNTR will catch on 😛
Jimmy did a great job with the text :) Also I appreciate the guide, I'll be trying BAR out soon I think.
This video's value cannot be quantified. Thank you for making this.
THIS IS PURE GOLD THANK YOU SO MUCH
I love Total Annhilation.
Thanks for this video Winter! I have been looking for guides and tips. The RTS can be daunting at the beginning.
Just went through your vids to like them all and boost your BAR content :) Love you supporting noobs with the steep learning curve
Thanks so much for including the text bits
Just downloaded the game. Love the concept of Total Anihilation/Suprem commander. And i see there are many things from Red Alert 2 :D And yes from RA2 i am used to repeat command :D After almost 10 years i'm going back to online RTS, wish me luck. In Generals and Warcraft 3 i was a monster xD
Thanks for the hotkey notes on screen Jimmy!
Amazing game. Love that it's open source hope you keep making content for it. Best.
This is my first RTS game. Sure, I've watched friends play Command and Conquer, Age of Empires but never got into the genre as it looked boring and intimidating.
I'm getting better, but I need to learn strategies instead of just building and spamming.
I'm still trying to familiarize myself with all the Vehicles as everything is so different in terms of Speed, DPS, Range, Eco etc.
Again, I don't wanna spam to defend. I want to be able to defend and attack efficiently and my brain is slowly adjusting to this genre.
I also have a habit of watching one area to ensure the standoff is in my favor when I should just send off troops, have faith and work on another thing.
Learned a lot, thanks. Also, you're overflowing metal.
the reason with people crash at their first game, is because they didn't let the game cache the info. When you first log in, you will see in the button left corner the caching % wait for a 100% before launching a game.
Wait really? My games crash a lot and I didn’t realize this was a feature
Dude , i loved you as Eddie Munson in Stranger Things!!
Finally, I was waiting for this
i like the new editing style lol @ #9
Love you Winter
Its absolutely insane how many USEFUL commands this game has.
After playing with these you have to wonder if every single new RTS simply has to implement them, as its so bad without some of these.
dont forget the icons that are used to build units also show you what that unit does,
Wow so much to remember. Il learn one thing at a time. No way I'm going multiplayer yet
Thank you I learned I think the basis with this video
Thank you for the help!
Thanks for making this
Good tips. Thanks.
So, thank you first of all for making this control guide. BUt some of this went just too fast for me. Could you do another video where you walk it through exactly what to do? I am coming from League of legends and this is a whole nother level of complexity.
Thanks for vid. Does BAR support dual monitors like Supreme Commander did? One screen is your main view, the other screen is a dedicated overview map?
@17:20 took my system 8 min on the first game load, over 6 before it even showed a load bar, def thought it had crashed
now my system is old but still, it's not that bad, all games after load in under a minute, would probably be faster if the game was stored on an SSD instead of HD
0:33 - 111111111😂 editor on point
Is there any way to make the AI not build so close to you in a team, or some way to make a 2nd team but be your ally?
Thanks !
thanks it helps a lot
Thanks very nice video but I wonder if there is a way to cycle through land, air, navy in my selection? Right now I have the problem that when I only want to select say my land or navy in an specific area the air units are included in the selection. In FAF (Forge Alliance Forever) you can assign a hotkey to cycle through the different unit types. Just select and press one time for land, press once again for air, third time for naval and then back to land in a loop. All the units are selected simultaneously in the background but only the active category (land, air or naval) reacts to your orders.
Is something similar possible in BAR? If not how are you handling the problem with selecting just land, air or navla but not the other types in the same selection box? Because I'm getting crazy on the game when the units are mixing. Hope I don't sound to frustrated :)
Yours truly
P.S. English is not my native language.
Sounds like a useful widget to make!
How do you track a unit in grid? In default it's the T key, but I don't see a key assigned for unit tracking when using grid.
Track has been removed from the Grid keys layout - disaster! What were they thinking?
7:57 Scarlet would be proud of me... I ended up with like 30 workers while y queue them up with a repeat unit...
alt+click on a factory with repeat on adds a single unit that won't repeat to the 1st position in the queue - the factory will finish building the unit it's currently working on, build that single unit, and then resume it's REPEAT queue.
so Eg. a fac that's queuing
1. rocketeer (70%)
2. grunt
3. grunt
4. (rocketeer)
5. (grunt)
6. (grunt)
when you alt-click a worker into the queue it will be
1. rocketeer (70%)
2. constructor
3. grunt
4. grunt
5. (rocketeer)
6. (grunt)
7. (grunt)
I want to know how he was getting his units to move in those click drag formations
So does anyone know how to use the "Transport AI" option or can explain to me what it actually does and how to use this feature properly? I Interpret this as similar as how Supcom used to handle this but I'm probably dead wrong here. I set a factory waypoint and put a transport on the factory to "assist" it but it won't pick up any units coming out of that factory.
Is there a select all ground, all air, or all naval?
Don't even fall for the telegram scam guys... just report and move on.
what the command where you keep unit spacing while moving units / will you do another video that just focuses on the micro if battle and how to and where to position troops please
I believe it's F for fight
@@Advo42069 maybe I’ll try that he said it in one of his videos before I just can’t remember.
hold right click and draw for line formations. press f and then hold right click and draw for fight version
You can also do the same when firing weapons by pressing A followed by hold right click and drag to get multiple units to target over an area. It's great for spreading out fire from multiple tactical or nuclear missile launchers
i think what you are looking for is. ctrl + move command to maintain current formation. alt + move command to make a grid formation.
What I didn't like about the hotkeys setting is that, when applying "grid", whenever I want to choose eco buildings through "z" it just pauses my commander instead of going to the menu...
I don't have any advanced settings to choose on my BAR. How do you get those?
Winter did you piss off your editor. ;) love it
the editor of this video showed no mercy with dose comments🤣
I know its a bit late but i also use grid but the ctrl q split command dosnt seem to work for me
After losing many games in BAR, I finally won in a 1 vs. AI. Great game...it even improved upon the original
I tried to make a complete new account but after a while I get a message if I enter under the new account, informing me that I can't have a second account and I suppose to join with the first account instead!
Need the same for zero-k ^^.
Winter... How about Sanctuary: Shattered Sun? I like both BAR and S:SS. ) Retro Commando is not bad. Retro Commando for low-end PCs and laptops. )
I’ve seen a cool rts called D.O.R.F. that’s in the works, the soundtrack is amazing and the look of the game is dark and gritty. Very C&C like
@@kanseidorifto2430 "Very C&C like" And KKnD too. )
Thank you.
Could you show a game with a split screen with larger keyboard on one side. This way see your fingers dancing while explaining everything you can what you are doing?
Not a good stream on twitch.
Including what you are doing as your attacking, or what and why you are building. What your concerned about ETC.....
I am a visual learner, words go better with the pretty pictures.
Thanks 👍
How do you see the unit type in the top left of the their build icon like you have? Instead of the specific Grid key
double mouse click on a unit is also select al of the same type :)
is Q still select all units of the same type?
hi, im a new sub on this channel. do you also play AoE II?
How do you show that efficiency bar at the top of the screen where the commander counter usually is?
somewhere under settings during a game. there is an "advanced" settings button to reveal more setting options, potentiall there.
@@MoonManPictures I found it, thank you!
subtitles at 12:01 :D
That editor is now one of the voices in my head 😭
omg do they have an azerty option
is there a hotkey for BASE Camera?! I know Commander is either TAB or CTRL + TAB
could use your own custom camera positions for that (ctrl F1 etc)?
My guy coming in clutch 6 months later when I don't play the game no more :(
Though! I still have it downloaded collecting dust@@jelleludolf
What map is that?
faf?
i hate the keys graph XD i hit alt + F4 for fun XD
also is there a way to skip an order and continue with the build such as you que up a bonch of orders but shift+rmb a factory then your unit just sits there helping the factory .... FOREVER and never continues is there a way to skip that order
ctrl+q doesn't seem to split units for me, is this a mod?
Has to do with grid key layout yes / no
nice
The !notify command doesn't work for me. I get nothing and am just kicked from the lobby. I wish there was a way to configure it to automatically save and stop my chill AI game
The sheer number of options makes "Setting" a game of its own....you might not even play the main game and be satisfied 🙂
I'm here cause the editor is 😂
Editor made the vid
I don't have a grid option in the Interface menu :DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
I don't get it control +b doesn't work for me, it's control +d and alot and alot of the things you say here don't apply to my game, what's up with my game? are there different options for different controls? i don't get it, TAB doesn't select my commander, ETC...
he has grid controls enabled which you can enable in ingames settings. (enable grid and enable grid hotkeys) you are probably playing with default controls
> a lot of these tips came from you, the people
really on a dark knight kick huh XD
"From you, The People..." thanks Barack Obama
one for the algo
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This dude has the exact same tone and pacing in his voice as Chris Chan. To think Chris could have been making BAR how to’s instead of raping his dementia-addled mother. 😢
Useful but lots of unnecessary jumping, scrolling and lack of detailed explanation of exactly what is being pressed & when incl. right vs left mouse button use. Will come back and re-watch once I gain more experience.
Why does it look so bad in the video ?
I am on lowest graphics and it looks so much better.
I hate editing.
dat accent
i thought backseat gamers arent allowed to give tips
Bro talks like Obama
i dont have the same settings menu
maybe click 'basic/advanced' in top right of settings window?
It's not there in the lobby, you have to be in a game to get access to all the settings