spring VS downlords-faf-client

Recoil (previously called Spring) - https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring

If you want to develop the engine https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring, checkout GitHub wiki of that repository which contains compile instructions with docker, without and for MSVC setup.

Many current BAR developers are old BA devs. Many old BA players are current BAR players. Then also the engine fork happened (Recoil) (https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring) for similar reason as above, and Recoil+BAR currently receive the most active development, with other Spring RTS games like Zero-K also migrating to Recoil.

All is about providing a correct start script for each player: https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring/blob/BAR105/doc/StartScriptFormat.txt

Yes, it's using continuously developed fork (https://github.com/beyond-all-reason/spring) of the Spring RTS engine.

Well, my personal preference is for Zero-K/Spring, because I actually like micro :

http://zero-k.info/

But BAR/Spring seems like it would fit you better (it's also the closest of them to TA, which is otherwise a bit old these days) :

https://www.beyondallreason.info/

(BAR used to stand for Balanced Annihilation Reloaded, while Zero-K used to be called Complete Annihilation.)

Still a number of active projects where the game (or variations of it) are being played. Check out Beyond All Reason

supreme commander forged alliance and install forged alliance forever

supreme commander -> https://faforever.com/ is all you need

The real deal happens at http://faforever.com/

no worries. if you do end up trying supcom FA again, do yourself a favor and add this: https://faforever.com/ 15 years of community upgrades and progress and mods and ease of life features (even performance inproovements and graphics updates) for Forged Alliance condensed into one app.

Head to faforever.com (community run update project) and install/register that too.

I second this. still playing it to this day. it has a very active community of some 30 000 to 40 000 players over on the FAF client

Check out https://faforever.com/ if you haven't already

and yeah there are tons of people playing it actively these days (about 30 000 on the community-made FAF multiplayer client alone)

it's kept really active by a huge community of between 30,000 - 40,000 people on a platform called https://faforever.com/ (they've updated the graphics a bit)