As innovative as OTA was when it was released, it looks a bit dated compared with recent RTS titles. Modernize the TA experience with enhanced models, FX, GUIs, maps, and animations. Massive war machines, teleportation, shields, upgrades, and a host of other innovations are now viable in TA and this has in turn opened up traditionally smaller games into grand strategy conflicts, adding entirely new possibilities for the TA gaming experience. Units and features that previously were next to impossible or simply too complex to run in TA can now be made available thanks to advances in computing power over the last 10 years.

Implement greater strategic game play elements into TA. Rather than cater to a limited audience of elite level gamers, TA:ESC seeks to broaden the gaming experience to more players who want to get the most out of TA’s strategic elements as well as game play. A particularly significant issue with OTA for many players was that only a handful of units proved useful in competitive, multi-player scenarios, creating in essence a narrower spectrum of strategy and a very high degree of reflexes required to compete. Ensure the relative usefulness of every unit via unit rebalancing and additional new units where necessary. Some may question the need to modify a classic game like Total Annihilation, but our goals in this regard are far reaching and can be summed up as follows: As a modification, TA:ESC introduces a considerable amount of changes to OTA. TA:ESC, (Total Annihilation: Escalation) is a complete modification (mod) of the original Total Annihilation (OTA) game released originally in 1997.

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