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A subreddit to discuss the RTS games Planetary Annihilation: TITANS & Classic PA

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Planetary Annihilation: TITANS & Classic PA


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Industrial Annihilation Early Access Happening or???

16 Comments
2024/11/21
19:45 UTC

7

I couldn't live with myself after annihilating my enemy, so I followed it.

0 Comments
2024/11/19
00:12 UTC

2

Can't play unless it's in local

I want to play with a friend but we can't use local.

And I seems to be unable to make a online game. Sooo does anyone have an idea as why ? I am getting "Unable to create game, Updating community mod"

4 Comments
2024/11/10
17:40 UTC

24

Which mod adds this faction (or this is no faction mod)?

So the red icon is from Legion faction mod, green - Bugs faction mod, Blue - standard commander icon in the game, but from which mod is the purple icon?

8 Comments
2024/11/08
00:10 UTC

8

How do I beat grenadier rush?

Title.

I've been playing a lot of ranked lately and I frequently lose to this one dumb strategy - the enemy commander builds a couple T1 bot factories and sets them all to grenadiers; then walks his commander toward my base with an entourage of grenadiers.

I can lose games at the 2 minute mark due to this strategy and it feels cheap every time.

  • bombers don't work - the commander provides enough AA to stop bombers from hitting the grenadiers.
  • trying to fight back commander-to-commander doesn't work - the enemy commander just kites me and the grenadiers kill me by a thousand cuts.
  • building walls and turrets doesn't work, the grenadiers outrange them too.
  • running away doesn't work; if I do that I lose my base and my enemy has a head start on me. I've won a game my running away once by building proxy bases while the enemy's attention was drawn elsewhere; but this is a lot of effort to spend on beating a dumb rush strategy.
  • scouting helps but often it's too late. My hummingbirds typically only get eyes on the enemy in the first minute of the game and by that time the enemy commander is a third of the way toward me with his first 10 grenadiers; and it's too late to start switching up my strategy to a counter.

How do I punish this strategy?

3 Comments
2024/11/05
11:58 UTC

4

Mods for Galactic War

There is a shockingly low number of mods for planetary annihilation galactic war, is there any way for me to find mods that specifically only work for galactic warm? , but to me, other than that doesn't seem like any of the cool faction mods are able to work, or have been updated for galactic war, is there any way for me to do that?

1 Comment
2024/11/04
19:55 UTC

38

I am terrified of this game

So I have just hit 400 hours of playtime, but at least a third of that time was spent viewing other people playing and simulating ai battles for testing so I could study. I have a problem.

I know this might sound very stupid, but I'm terrified to start a ranked match or join an FFA, and sometimes it's even hard to not procrastinate in trying a match for myself. I spend at least 20 minutes trying to gather the courage, and while I play, my hands grow shaky and adrenaline takes over my rational thinking.

Does ANYONE ELSE have this issue?

12 Comments
2024/10/31
04:56 UTC

37

Just made the single worst play I've ever made in a video game ever

So I got this game a few days ago and I suck at it. My cousin and his friends showed me the ropes but beat me at every turn 24/7. Tonight I was actually doing really well. I'd gotten off world early game and established myself on an annihilator as well as my planet's moon. I built up a stable economy and mass produced a strong orbital army of avengers and omegas. So many units that it began to lag my computer just looking at my planet's orbit. We're over an hour into the match and my cousin is trying his luck at taking the annihilator. In response I send some omegas to slow him down and dig in on my moon and make Halley engines to destroy either the annihilator or his home planet. Then, as I'm in the Halley target selecter screen, I get too excited and click on my own planet forgetting it was mine. 2 seconds later I'm dead and that was the single worst throw of a match I've ever done in any video game ever. Genuinely never going to forget this

5 Comments
2024/10/16
08:12 UTC

2

Where the heck is the mass edit?

I was playing around with the map editor for the first time and was looking up how to make and adjust planet orbits. At some point I was able to accidently open the mass edit window and now I can't find it. How you do edit the mass of a planet? Is it a button? I could really use some help.

4 Comments
2024/10/14
02:14 UTC

2

Planetary Annihilations Switch to Titans add on

Hello fellow players.

I hosted a LAN Party this weekend and we figured, that we can play PA in offline mode. I have PA & PA:Titans on steam and shared the files localy. Regarding the official PA site, this will only work in offline mode(LAN). So far so good. I can play the shared game, but it only shows PA:classic. With my PC (where i have PA:Titans) it starts in Titan mode, but not on the other PCs. I have to change my game to classic mode in the gameplay menu to play with the others.

Since i have all the game files for PA:Titans. Is there a way to force the PA.exe to start in Titan mode? Some config or via a start option?

I haven't been online with my pc since the LAN Party. But as i switched from Classics to Titans mode, after the next start it alway startet in classic mode, without the option of switching back. That kinda sucks.

Is there an offline solution for this problem?

1 Comment
2024/10/13
12:52 UTC

32

Patrol path showing

Is there a way to turn off patrol path. I did something now all my units patrol paths are showing and can’t turn it off.

6 Comments
2024/10/12
22:05 UTC

2

OpenGL error with latest AMD driver

https://preview.redd.it/adk0h7uzgbsd1.png?width=1041&format=png&auto=webp&s=7d84c259b57fc61b4d597744db22624554afd3b4

I get this error with the 24.9.1 AMD drivers, not the first time that this game has problems with AMD drivers though. Any ideas why this happens? It is a bit frustating, always a bit scared to update the drivers because of this...

2 Comments
2024/10/02
10:04 UTC

6

Wuy does this game change my color settings and how do i stop it?

Whenever i start the game my monitor boosts color and brightness to crazy levels and it stays like that intil i restart my computer.

1 Comment
2024/10/01
09:48 UTC

2

help with orbital units (planetary annihilation titans)

Hey, so i'm very new to the game and was wondering if it was possible to actually move orbital units to other planets in the system? I tried to move my 10 omega ships to another planet but apparently they don't seem able, which makes me wonder what the point of having a spaceship even is.

Is there any units that can directly move to another planet?

5 Comments
2024/09/17
14:11 UTC

0

nukes

bro i swear to god i disable nukes everytime

and then god forsaken nuke gets launch

1 Comment
2024/09/16
03:52 UTC

19

Little edit I made of me and my friends’ game

body

1 Comment
2024/09/12
01:55 UTC

8

How to defend against Com-walkers?

I'm losing pretty consistently to early game comwalkers, you know the ones that push com with a large contingent of Grenadiners behind them. Does anyone have tips to counter this more effectively?
If I bring my com in to defend, his grenadiers usually target me and I lose health faster. If I send vehicles they're losing to his com. Towers/artys aren't really effective for obvious reasons. Any help is appreciated!

7 Comments
2024/09/09
17:18 UTC

6

Community + Team players search

Hello!

I wanted to have a post where we can share communities, or have players announce their names which are teamwork centred. I can edit the post to add the links to discord. I'm sure we all want to play the game in squads with voice communication! Specially me!

I will be posting in other games, I'm really looking forward to game more in multiplayer. You can DM me your steam/discord if you don't want it public.

0 Comments
2024/09/07
18:42 UTC

2

Construction Progress Bars Missing

All progress bars for things like making factories (or any other building) and factories making units are hidden. I've checked if this is an accidentally turned on setting, but I couldn't find anything. Is this just some hotkey that I've randomly press? Health bars are still visible and seemily every other UI, just buildling bars. I know it's minor, but it's a bit annoying having to guess a contruction's progress, so if there is a quick fix I would appreciate it.

1 Comment
2024/09/06
22:37 UTC

3

Missing units and Factories

This morning when i was gonna play my daily match against the pc i noticed that my commander have all factories from all faction, and i could build every one of them, clearly as this is an error i started to uninstall mods until i found the solution, but it come with another error

This time when i started another match, all factories are missing, and i could only build defenses, extractors, energy and the naval factory, i then noticed that if i uninstall the legion expansion mod the vanilla units will all appear in the unit tab in the community modification, But if a start a match i still have the same problem, i read in another post what it seemed to be a solution, but right now i have no mods, and just yesterday i did'nt have this problem, so i dont think is an update having conflicts with the mods,

If anyone have any idea or may know what is causing the problem, Pls tell me

thanks in advantage and sorry for my english, not an english speaker here

2 Comments
2024/09/02
15:20 UTC

3

Faction Wars Tournament Starting in around 2 hours!

A community 1v1 tournament pitting the 3 factions(mla,legion, and bugs) against each other

can watch and see backets in links below

https://www.twitch.tv/sinooccence new stream link for tourney

https://challonge.com/buglegion1

and support the tourney if you want via https://matcherino.com/tournaments/118299

0 Comments
2024/08/24
13:07 UTC

7

Mounting Client Mods

Game stops when loading Mounting Client Mods. Does anybody know a fix for it?

https://preview.redd.it/8xoqv1gkvtjd1.png?width=1210&format=png&auto=webp&s=86692d69996658af5ea5a9ac0d5934aae7d0b62f

SOLVED: Added --devmode to launch options on steam and it works :)

1 Comment
2024/08/20
14:20 UTC

16

I don't get criticism of PA lacking playable factions.

Tl;dr, I Don't get criticism of PA for lack of factions, because all games in the subgenre that feature different races, they all just basically reskins with slightly tweaked stats.

Case and point: supreme commander forged alliance. I played it with friends cuz they were like "it has 4 factions therefore it has more content and better" but as i said they all feel the same for me.

Experimental units are different, but not every fight even lasts long enough for you to use them.

It's not like warcraft or starcraft where races differ in how they collect resources, how they build stuff, and some have unique mechanics, and on top of that unique heroes. In case of "annihilation" subgenre, commanders could have been your heroes, so having them all also be just reskinks in supreme commander is also pretty bad look for the "more playable factions is better" argument.

I can only hope some game in the future will truly have DIFFERENT factions, but for now it's all always the same, so at least not needing to remember 4 reskin types to understand what building does at a glance is a plus for me rather than a minus.

Maybe switching different experimental units for different commanders might do the trick. Yeah, it's cool that i theoretically have an ability to build a big ass saucer if we play long enough, but if my command unit was already flying saucer, that would give that faction some personality!

11 Comments
2024/08/15
05:31 UTC

4

Help with mods

Heya, a mate an myself got this game recently and all was going well until we got some mods, nothing crazy mostly ui things, legion and bugs. It worked for our first game however something went wrong, we could only build a few things off the bat and were restricted on what we could build the whole game. We went out of lobby, disabled a few mods, and now whenever we try to join eachothers lobbies it comes up with attempting to join, multiple times. It eventually times out and kicks us. We thought we had some mods that didnt work together so we went and disabled everything, still doesn't let us join lobbies. We slowly worked our way through most of the mods enabling them again and no luck, we cant join eachothers lobbies no matter what we do. We can join other peoples games however. Any suggestions on how to fix this? I cant see a way out of this.

1 Comment
2024/08/11
13:06 UTC

90

There's always a bigger fish

6 Comments
2024/08/08
22:54 UTC

17 Comments
2024/08/06
20:11 UTC

10

Is a Torus shaped map mod possible?

One of the main things that put PA over other RTS games in my opinion is the spherical map allowing for funky troop movements and flanking maneuvers. I imagine a torus would allow for even funkier movements.

3 Comments
2024/08/03
15:27 UTC

6

[Mod] Chandra 25 Skybox

Your system is placed in a universe celebrating the 25th anniversary of NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

After installing via Community Mods tab, set as your default skybox in game Settings > Graphics > Skybox

About Chandra X-ray Observatory - https://www.chandra.si.edu/about/

Chandra 25 source images - https://www.chandra.si.edu/photo/2024/25th/more.html

Images used in Mod:

https://preview.redd.it/bw4klfi24nfd1.jpg?width=3072&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a6075f943d86bdf7edc458db6d579dd360cd12d5

1 Comment
2024/07/30
11:19 UTC

17

How do other players (seemingly) raid constantly on big planets? And how do I defend against it?

When I'm playing ranked it's almost as though the enemy is constantly sending orders to dox and other bot-raiders to target my Mex. They seem to have a cloud of single doxes, skittering around my side of the map, targeting any metal they see.

It feels like the enemy commander has put an area patrol order on to all these dox, who just keep roaming around my half of the map and lock on to any building they see. I can't respond to it because there's 20 of them doing it all over the map.

How do other players do this? Are they using the area patrol command? (I thought this made units prioritize patrolling around the area, as opposed to locking onto and killing things they see). Are they using the area attack command? Are they actually microing 20-40 single dox-es?

4 Comments
2024/07/28
01:41 UTC

8

is getting into P.A. Titans worth it?

I've recently started playing the game and i really like it as it's somewhat similar to stronghold crusader (really old game), and i immediately realized how complex and difficult the game is. I'm the type of person that can only enjoy games that he's best at so i'm asking you guys if it's worth it to drop several hundreds of hours into the game without it becoming a TF2 situation. also is the ranked ladder working?

9 Comments
2024/07/26
19:13 UTC

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