Spring has the ambitious aim of creating the best ever real-time strategy, a strategic game that is distinctly not turn-based. It sets out to bring the gameplay experience of Total Annihilation (TA) into three dimensions.
Games are played using one of a number of mods. The standard installation comes with a range of prepackaged mods, some which requires that one own a copy of TA to legally play them, and other Free Content mods which may be used free of charge without owning a copy of TA. Most are based upon and use content from the original TA, including the most widely played mods: Balanced Annihilation, Complete Annihilation, and XTA.
Spring is designed to be used for online multiplayer matches. It uses a deterministic game simulation which is executed on all game clients.
Features include:
- Play online, on a LAN or offline Single Player.
- Large battles limited only by the power of your computer; support for up to 5,000 units.
- Large, highly detailed maps in which to wage those battles, fully 3D with deformable terrain, forest fires, dynamic and reflective water, and custom skyboxes.
- Several camera modes, allowing for anything to be viewed from almost any angle.
- Fully 3D combat in land, sea, and air, with realistic weapon trajectories.
- Many different mods, some of them originally from Total Annihilation, and some made just for Spring.
- Compatible with unit files from Total Annihilation, allowing 3rd party units to easily be moved into Spring.
- Complex 3rd party AIs, some of which are quite good.
- An extremely powerful GUI, designed to minimize unnecessary micromanagement.
- Frequent development.
Website: springrts.com
Support: FAQ
Developer: Swedish Yankspankers
License: GNU General Public License
Minimum system requirements:
- 1 GB of RAM
- 128 MB graphics card (As of 104.0 OpenGL 3.0 is required meaning older integrated GPUs such as Intel G45 are not supported)
- Roughly 500 MB of hard drive space, depending on how many maps and games you download.
Recommended system requirements:
- 3 GHz dual core CPU or better.
- 2 GB of RAM or more.
- 512 MB graphics card or better.
- 5 GB of hard drive space to accommodate more maps and games.
Spring is written in C++ and Lua. Learn C++ with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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