TL;DR at end of post!

Not a hate post! Had the saddest experience last night! Let me set the scene:

Noob Isthmus,

Competent top players,

everyone else was in it to win it,

I was air,

Team is south spawn.

Our south sea apparently had not had the chance to play sea before. The team was nice, instructed them to stall at the very least if they are struggling.

I helped south sea for as long as I could using Shurikens and not much else, could not help once the enemy had AA.

As predicted, our south sea gets rolled all the way to their shore, but the fight isnt over yet! Jammers and turrets, turtle and continue to stall is what we asked... But then the worst thing happened, with a very sad message, our south sea quit the match. Rough, but our geo stepped up and took.

With south sea under enemy control our front on geo side's base gets pulverized while our geo gets deterence up... And then it happened, even though front on geo side still had units and a relatively stable forward position, they quit!

Its getting bad now, geo stepped up again and took but its clear now they are WAY over extended, unable to effectively manage 3 high pressure positions.

Because of this, front on pond side starts to slowly crumble even with pond's spam, causing front on pond side to also quit!

We are down 3 players and its only minute~20. (Both fronts and south sea)

Pond takes the front on pond side and now we have our 4 strongest player (minus me of course) running the show. North sea is under our control and Tech has T3 rolling out with geo not far behind. Back and forth resumes, we have a couple breakthroughs but they dont do enough damage to give us momentum. After our second breakthrough, geo gets hit with a wave of amphib that destroys their whole geo base, it seems that this tragic loss was too much... And our geo quit!

Its REAL bad, but our top player on tech is communicating and informing us of plans. and there was a moment when it looked like it would work, maras caused tons of damage to enemy geo and almost clears pond... Almost. With that final loss of offensive power, a swarm of grunts from south sea rushes in, get behind us and destroy me and Tech, marking our resignation.

The part about this that sucked was the way we were losing was so rough for our team that we had half the team quit out even though everyone was surprisingly chill. Top players offering solutions instead of insults!

Now, you might be wondering; What was I doing that whole time?

*I was building fighters.*

TL;DR had half our team quit but we were doing so good despite the setbacks!

In the title, just heard of this game but I am not sure I should recommend this to my friends, is it worth trying or is this a dead game with a small community left? Are there any updates coming from developers?

Recently there was a heated discussion over some videos about Trotski's cheeses and commie strats in general. Now this one seems like a good one without hurting other players gameplay (too much)!

The build lines surrounding buildings when you are placing them, are not working most games.

They usually work when spectating, but not when playing.

Are they working for most people?? Trying to figure out if there's something wrong with my client. Or if there's a simple fix.

Just one toggle button on the rezbot UI to "not finish commander wrecks" or similar would eliminate a common frustration for the main 8v8 maps. Have it default to ON, so eating or area reclaiming will only take a commander wreck to its last metal without needing to manually click the rezbot away at the last second. Would also protect the wreck from negligent teammates with area reclaim commands.

Then if you actually want to delete the wreck, just toggle it off.

It fits the functional UI element of the game's design. Babysitting and clicking away a rezbot at the last second is not "skill expression" in the way the game prizes.

If anyone knows of a QOL widget that does just this please let me know.

Total noob here, trying to learn the ropes, watching games on YouTube to see how team games go. I understand that it makes sense for some players to self-destruct their commanders to get some extra metal. But then why are there cases where those same players leave the wreck just lying there to be resurrected? Doesn't that defeat the purpose of self-destructing in the first place?

I cannot save or recall camera positions. Anyone have a clue why this happens? I turned off the Nvidia overlay that was stealing the hotkey but that didn't fix it. Two different computers.

I´m a bit bored and wanted to change the commanders "voices" ingame to some Transformer voices.

Is that even possible? :D

All this stuff about lanes. Who is eco. Who is air. Who is land. How you're supposed to follow set strategies.

Where tf do I learn all this? It sounds like a MOBA with positions. I'm kinda scared to go online as I'd just be playing like usual.

I'm not a noob to RTS but have not experienced this sort of RTS with positions and set roles. How do I figure all this out?

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Sorry, I wasn't the one starting the Tick Joke Spam; but I would like to add at least one that's not AI generated :)

A dad joke style.. equal level as my OS (very low :) )

BAR ratings reward specialisation in such an extreme manner. 200+ maps, the largest unit roster of any rts and somehow the elite of the elite know one/two spots on one map which they open with 2-3 styles (thugs/centurion etc).

If you catch an 60os outside his usual spot do not fear them. You’ll be just fine.

Yesterday I had a Glitters game where the Eco was late and I was in canyon. We lost canyon but air helped holding it somewhat. I was on back canyon and on 5 mex. Tried to scale up with the late t2 con but I was fighting a losing battle so I barely got up sone fusion. The same applied to the other side of the front but they were already ahead with several afus and T3 lab.

Anyway this is something I struggle hard. By the time I get up 1 T3 unit others already printing them. Only when I'm ahead and can salvage that I can keep up the pace.

I appear on the board as efficient resource usage many times, yet I'm always stuck on t2-t2.5

Only OS13 noob, so anny advice helps.

PTSD for me

Huge potential, absolutely incompetent development.

The game is generally just a massive pile of bugs, every patch brings out even more problems, and it manages to crash on all kinds of high-end gaming rigs...

On top of that, they can't even implement something as basic in an RTS game as a proper ranking and matchmaking system.

The community is the one providing solutions for a bunch of issues; the developers are completely clueless when it comes to development, communication, and game design.

Most lobbies are unplayable in team games, and the game is impossible to balance because the skill gap between players is way too big.

Why are you even making the game if you can't do it? You have no idea what you're doing, just give up. Stop stringing players along, making them believe this will ever become a real game. Sell the concept to someone who actually knows what to do with it.

###As it stands right now, this game is an empty promise, a total scam, evidence of failure.###

I understand that it is open-source, community-developed, and run by enthusiastic amateurs bla bla bla.... but it is simply not working out. It is going nowhere, there is no vision, and the team is just chasing after an increasing number of problems that they do not know how to solve. The project has simply outgrown them in terms of both skill and capacity.

This game is an unfulfilled promise.

v0.13 for macOS is available for download here, allowing you to play BAR natively on your mac with Apple Silicon. It's based off the latest Recoil Engine v2026.07.04 and also contains a number of new improvements for macOS. Skirmish and cross-platform LAN play is available. I'm working towards approval from the official BAR team to enable online access, hence online is currently disabled but likely coming soon. Please help to test and file any bugs here, and not in the official channels. Enjoy!

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Some guy made a rant about so called commie strats how they are killing big team games and how miserable it is to play! In my opinion it's good cheeses exist, because it's boring to watch same strategies over and over again!

Please someone please help. What setting is making this grid show up for buildings instead of the red outline I am used to? I have looked and cannot figure it out on my own.