Supreme Commander Beta

[Maximilian]

Some lucky people have been able to participate in the public beta testing for this game.
Anybody can download the client from Fileplanet.
http://www.fileplanet.com/101860/sectio ... -Commander
Some lucky people have found that if you install the client (even though you may not have a key), right click on desktop shortcut and change the target box to, say, the following:

"C:\games\Gas Powered Games\Beta\Supreme Commander\bin\SupremeCommander.exe" /map SCMP_001 /players4

You can get it running....

[Maximilian]

I've found a few ways to tweak the beta further.

If you want to modify the number of AI opponents to play against, go to maps/[mapname]/[mapname]_scenario.lua and you will see a line:

{ name = 'FFA', armies = {'ARMY_1','ARMY_2','ARMY_3','ARMY_4','ARMY_5','ARMY_6','ARMY_7','ARMY_8',} },

Each Army represents an AI opponent. Simply delete the armies to the desired number. So for just two, change it to:

{ name = 'FFA', armies = {'ARMY_1','ARMY_8',} },

If you want to play a different faction, you need Winrar. Go to /gamedata and open up lua.scd. When you have that archive open, edit factions.lua. You will see the three factions. You are the first faction by default (UEF). Simply change the order to pick your faction. If you want to play Aeon, it should look like this

Faction {
DisplayName = 'Aeon',
InitialUnit = 'ual0001',
IconName = 'campaignScreens/alien.png',
}

Faction {
DisplayName = 'UEF',
InitialUnit = 'uel0001',
IconName = 'campaignScreens/earth.png',
}

Faction {
DisplayName = 'Cybran',
InitialUnit = 'url0001',
IconName = 'campaignScreens/recycler.png',