BAR for Beginners - Welcome to Beyond All Reason

BAR is awesome. You should play it. This is the first video in a tutorial style series that talks about BAR and gives some helpful info on how to play and the kind of things you should be doing. Think of it of a modern version of Total Annihilation and if you liked that, SupCom or RTS in general then you'll probably find it quite enjoyable. Versus Multiplayer is a great but hectic, but if you want a bit more of a relaxed game then there is a built-in Skirmish AI called BARbarian which is challenging enough, especially on the larger maps.
Get BAR here: www.beyondallreason.info/down... (Win/Linux)
Discord: / discord
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00:00 Intro
01:26 Game 1 - Basic Concepts
13:29 Game 2 - Expanding on the Basics
29:44 Summary and Outro
Unless otherwise specified, footage is either recorded by me or taken from official game trailers or demo reels. Unless otherwise specified, Images are either my own, AI generated, Free and Royalty-Free Stock, Public News or from Wikipedia. Backing Music is from the RUclips creator audio library or the games themselves. The script is my own work, and the voice over is me.

[@BeyondAllReason]

Thank you for the praise! :)

[@ermac65]

70 odd videos and just shy of 800 subscribers.... that's criminal considering how much I've enjoyed your channel just off the five videos I've seen so far.

[@cariyaputta]

Great game, looks like Zero-K, can't wait to see the game release on Steam.

[@kaluventhebritish]

You can get BAR from their website here: www.beyondallreason.info/
Sorry that some of the mid-skirmish voice is a bit spotty on occasion, I recorded that live and I'm still working out how to do that properly!

[@jaywarice7943]

could you post a store link for this game?

[@kaluventhebritish]

@@jaywarice7943 Not on the steam store as far as I know, but I've put a link to the website above.

[@CommandoDragon]

​@@jaywarice7943 on BAR's website they say that they have a roadmap for putting the game on Steam , the game still needs some polishing.

[@chilldude42001]

Yay! More yt BAR content! *subscribes*

[@Procrastinater]

Wonder if you can do in BAR what you could in TA, such as using force fire on an atillery piece on the ground next to it, it would opt to attempt a lobbing shot to have the shell impact vertically, which in practice just meant it shot further by allowing to raise it's barrel higher than it's normal max range.
When used on maps with low gravity, you could fire a plasma shell far far beyond it's usual max range at the cost of next to no control of it's impact. (well, you could track the shell on the minimap and aim that way)

[@kaluventhebritish]

I'm not sure about that exactly, but you can definitely fiddle around with aiming of shots to get projectiles to go further than strict range defines, like aiming for the top-back of a large hill to hit stuff over it, or bounding shots off of plasma deflectors. All of the plasma stuff does seem to have the physics engine applied to it. I had forgotten all about the low-gravity maps on TA!

[@MrArteez]

Hi, happy to see that the AI generated character is gone after the intro! I like your voice and commentary in other videos, but the weirdly distorted character on the bottom right just doesn't work at all for me. Hope to see more videos like this without him.

[@MrArteez]

Or like not gone, but at least easily ignorable like this since you can't see most of the weird features because it's so small.

[@_justRaven]

Agreed. It's such a shame when I find a new channel but it's got obvious AI slop plastered all over the place. Especially when the VO can hold up on it's own.

[@kaluventhebritish]

This seems to be the general consensus. It just started out to fill a gap but unfortunately I've developed a sort of Stockholm Syndrome about him and even though I agree with you, I'm finding it hard to remove poor old "General Commanderson" and have no idea what to replace him with. Current ideas are: Nothing, a better non-AI version, a pork pie with a flag, a piece of abstract art representing the concept of despair or myself in a fancy dress costume.

[@MrArteez]

​@@kaluventhebritish I like the idea of a better done one, that can be tastefully hidden (but not *hidden* hidden) in the footage - like in the second part of the video. I'd steer away from filling up a lot of the screen with him like in the RTS Health Check, even if the art would be good. Best of luck mate!!

[@teningur4266]

@@kaluventhebritish just commission the same character from an actual artist, maybe even a few frames with different expressions for later use like more engaging animation

[@ItsTubes]

Ugh, that block of power generators was paaainful

[@mistery8363]

do Zero-K next!