This is with regards to the overlaying, overlapping and clumping issue that was present in ashes some months back and now it's back again since the 1.41 update.
Ticktoc first mentioned it in a topic and since I've had a stomach bug for the past week I hadn't got the chance to try out the latest update out to make sure it wasn't as bad as before, the overlaying and overlapping is just as bad.
As you can see in the first screenshot there's only 3 dreadnaughts yet because of the overlap, perhaps the angle too I couldn't upgrade the middle dread. Why would this somhow be good in a game where you are encouraged to build thousands of units, more importantly one of the main selling points of the game is that it supports thousands of units and plays well.
here's the screenshot of the 3 dreadnaughts http://i.imgur.com/ZeXu25W.png
Fact is, I honestly feel it's very bad practice to fix one issue at the expense in injecting an old issue where it's not encouraging you to build the units you want to build, it's restricting you terribly to the point your moving dreadnaughts up the map and fighting against dreadnaughts that are high level. Hopefully you can see an issue with that because not being able to upgrade dreadnaughts the last time around was a showstopper and since I've invested quite a bit of money buying hardware soley for this game I'm hopeful for atleast a response from the devs.
The second screenshot which I group has more units, more dreadnaughts not as much as I usually have or a friend and 2 other friends hoping to come to this game but it clearly shows the terrible overlap. I couldn't select half the dreads within this cluster so upgrading them would be impossible.
Screenshot of a larger group I couldn't select half of them so I know I won't be able to upgrade them. http://i.imgur.com/Ay4wf4U.png
I can't see how this got bast QA. Will there be anything done to correct this? is there a patch of code I can adjust to change it back when it was fixed?
Hopefully I'll hear from you about this and please don't suggest that I use auto-upgrade. I use specific upgrades for certain dreadnaught classes.
Thanks for your time, I know your hard at work and you can't please everyone but injecting an old issue that many complained about restricts building an army, infact it kind of discriminates those that like to turtle, take things slower and not play at a pace similiar to starcraft where your just bashing out t1/t2 units and have the game over in a jiffy
Edit: Forget to mention. This overlapping if you build dreads as your primary unit will also affect the campaign. I encourage high difficulty in ashes, infact I thrive from it knowing the AI will get smarter and smarter I cannot praise you enough for that. But what happens when you build a group of dreads and you can't upgrade them? It'll only make the campaign that more frustrating. I'm personally not too fussed about campaign but I do play it and have got quite far with it so having to fight to get an old issue fixed again is both mentally draining, and I guess I just can't see how this issue could be allowed to get back into the game, again.