Beyond All Reason Beginners Overview Tutorial+ build orders and unit comp discussion

this is a guide that hopefully should help some new plays think about the proper decisions to make when getting started in Beyond All Reason.

[kgeo]

Yayyyy the second guide on all of YT for BAR in past year!!! There is a criminal lack of content for this epic game. Thank you!

[hamsandwich]

I know this is a beginner's guide but some helpful tips I can think of off the top of my head are

Anti-nuke is very important, after 12 minutes you can be nuked essentially. You won't get a warning unless it's been fired or you, or a teammate has seen the nuke silo.

Air is very dangerous if you are not prepared. Players can switch very quick to producing air units and wipe out multiple bases before a counter can be established. Have a defensive line of AA ready.

Protect early game metal extractors and your main base with at least 1 turret. People will try and sneak as he did ticks or pawns behind your line early on.

Push up with your commander as early as possible and control the map/your column of ground. You don't want to give up resources or make a hole to be exploited against you or your allies.

Push the enemy, if you have a competent force at your front line use it. Stalemating early will only make it about who has the better eco and is an easy way to lose opportunities to damage your opponents ability to recover and be a difference.

Surrounding enemy troops and firing on multiple sides increases damage. Is good for lower tier units ie: pawns against buildings. Lasers units also only get 50% damage at fartherest attack range, 100% at point blank.

Fiends can be devastating in tight areas against buildings and units. A group of fiends used properly can take out an opponent very quick.

Can't think of anything else atm lol very good video and hit all the early Game points. It gets very expansive at t2 and beyond. Game is so fun and feels different every match. Thanks for helping the community grow!

[jiffyd]

Just recently discovered this game a couple weeks ago and I’ve been watching all of your casts to see how the pros do it. Would love to see updated (if needed) or new guides from you too. Thanks for doing what you do, love your content!

[yerbudspud]

Friend turned me onto this game been a blast. Vids like this help me get back in the rts groove so I can learn enough to stop just playing bot games.

[mikek]

I’m 5 games into BAR. Thanks for this video. I’m a Total Annihilation original player currently playing SCFA LOUD. If anything this video has taught me BAR is an amazing, complex, fun, high learning curve game. Can’t wait to play more. 👍

[SamHasPlans]

Very nice guide! Thank you for your tips!

[Anubis]

Biggest tip of BAR is "Best defence is a good offence". The fewer the players the more this applies. Only in High Qty vs High Qty does defence have any effect at all. 1v1 offence is everything.

Also, Engaging in combat only to lose your force to a wreck field that your opponent now controls, is an overall loss. Only engage if you can also win the wreck field.

[theknightowl]

Excellent video, definitely the kind of stuff new players need- informative and well explained. Thanks a lot!

[jwdeepsky]

This is very helpful, I would like to see another video with different scenarios and/or with active AI enemies, maybe some team strategies

[Andy-wdlv]

really helpful, accidentally got in line up for ur weekend stream and panic shutdown the game. bit of a jump from spectator to participant

[robertkilgariff]

great stuff, very helpful intro to building efficiently for pvp! One suggestion- you sound quite quiet, I think recording volume could be a bit higher. I don't want to miss any tips and tricks!

[GoldHaartGaming]

A solid build order. Could you do the same for Cortex and Legion? I would be interested in seeing if there are many differences in build order. 🤔

[michaelh]

Great guide, but I'd almost would like to see a remake with better audio.

[A-do]

thanks this is very helpful. what's the key for putting units in formation?

[theotherdave]

can we ally separate teams? Every time i set up a game with AI teamates, they usually spawn like SUPER close to me. Im trying to figure out how to reduce that, so they dont push into my area. Its not bad but sometimes they will plop things right in the middle of my area and i dont want them there. I can capture n reclaim the items but, it gets tedious.

[mikegamerguy]

You should know: Your voice is low volume. I have to turn my volume knob on my headphone hardware up way past where I'm comfortable being to hear you clearly. I checked my system volume settings and they are all max. Thought you should know. Thanks for the vid.

[grassytiger]

Is their anyway you can turn your recording volume up, the audio was pretty quiet inmy headphones

[shrn]

here i am watching 1am taking notes on a notepad XD

[RedalertnoobieVOD]

Most of the time I build a radar and guard tower as defence after the bot lab, prevents early aggression

[ZLO_FAF]

hehehe you have to make more pawns cause your opponent has grunts, ah and also your pawns are almost twice as costly by metal xDDDD
see how that sounds xD. I guess best players just try to avoid making pawns vs grunts but i guess it is more of an advanced knowlage