[quote who="bealzibub" reply="7" id="3632846"] Ok fair point, I suck at this game, however I have to say there are satill some faults in it [/quote] That's fair enough. You just let us know what you'd like to see and we'll see what we can do. You're the customer. :)
Sweet!
Thanks!
It's already fixed internally. Thanks for the report!
Sins is a good example of where Steam charts and Steam Spy are very off given that it has sold millions of copies over the years. Civilization V is another example where it's way off. Civ V is nearing 10 million sales from what I've heard. I have a feeling that those charts only use the Steam sales data (as in, the customer is a Steam customer) as opposed to what Steam classifies as a retail activation. It's still a useful tool.
[quote who="DasUnding" reply="9" id="3632490"] I am really concerned about the balance. The winrate difference by me playing phc vs phc and phc vs sub is impressively high. [/quote] Which do you think is OP? PHC or Substrate?
[quote who="butlerrichard42" reply="32" id="3632507"] i was wondering if there well be more campanings for this game?? and i want to say i love so for what i have seen and is there going to be a add part to it or a another chapter to this game?? [/quote] Absolutely. While the demand for campaigns is a mixed blessing in the sense that I wish in hindsight we had realized there was so much demand, they are something that we can definitely create and provide. On Ju
[quote who="bealzibub" reply="3" id="3632508"] No not good enough to play against real people, simply cannot get beyond mission Falnass, no matter what I do the AI seems to be one step ahead, I build 1 BS it sends 3 defeat 1 AI the other sends 50 or 60 high end units and your toast, i'm just about to remove it from my PC to be honest, but this happened before with one of the levels I stopped playing for a few days there were some updates when I went back the difficulty seemed to have
You lost in MP I presume.
[quote who="vyshka" reply="8" id="3632444"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 1 It's all relative: http://steamcharts.com/cmp/228880,281610,290790 Broadly speaking, Ashes will need to probably lower its price to attract more players. That sa
[quote who="malkeri" reply="6" id="3632436"] Is it true the community has been split between Good Old Games and Steam? Kind Regards Malkeri [/quote] Not really. Most people are using the Steam version. OEM versions (the game comes bundled with most AMD cards) and Direct versions use Steam but don't count on SteamSpy/SteamCharts. I'm just not sure what the purpose of your post is. If y
Ok. Then why don't you go play that instead?
It's all relative: http://steamcharts.com/cmp/228880,281610,290790 Broadly speaking, Ashes will need to probably lower its price to attract more players. That said, Steam Charts only counts Steam units. It doesn't count the OEM or direct sales which represent the majority of our players who are out there too playing. You could get more mates to get the game. ;)
[quote who="MartialDoc" reply="6" id="3632403"] Overall, looking good. You all are really putting good effort into the updates here. However, you guys are going to reduce frigate HP and shields again? Or is that the same that was done in the V1.02? Haven't they already been reduced enough? [/quote] No. As long as a mob of T1s can remotely match up against a similarly priced group of T2s we need to keep the nerf hammer handy.
[quote who="psychoak" reply="31" id="3632398"] No worse than Spring. Late fall is the only "good" time for game sales, just like any other entertainment, you get a massive Christmas boost. [/quote] Unless you've run a game company, you really should refrain from making comments like this. June and July are utterly dead months. Dead. If I had a time machine and saw that people wanted more campaign content with VO, I would have moved the date to
[quote who="eviator" reply="28" id="3632390"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 25 The reason is the genre, budget, and price. First, price is a huge factor. If you're $20 most people will let it slide. Have you played Factorio? While I personally like it, if it had been priced at $49.99 it would ha
[quote] To get an "overwhelmingly positive" rating (and you do want that right?) you can't just be the best RTS, you have to try to be one of the best games ever. Ashes has the bones to be top notch amongst all games, and I fear you are aiming low hoping just to be the best RTS game, which in today's field is like saying you hope to be the best Dodge (zing). If I have $50 to spend on a single game of any genre, I'm going to try to find the one that offers the highest de
[quote] When you live and die by your metacritic/steam review aggregate, spending twice as much money to get a 90 average instead of the mid 70's isn't a bad investment. You guys barely hit the top ten with Ashes, it's so not cool when it deserves to sell way better than it is.[/quote] No one lives and dies by metacritic anymore. Also, forgive me for being a little snarky but until you actually run a game company, please understand how arm cha
[quote] Most of the things listed are not unique to AotS though,[/quote] I take the time to list 10 unique things about Ashes and your response is to hand wave those things away? I'm done talking to you.
[quote] Let me ask you this though, if you cap the huge unit counts (let's say cap them to 100 per player), in AotS, what are you left with? The AI is much better than most other RTS games, and ... um... what else does it offer that is unique to AotS? (I took the campaign out of this, since it is being redone.) [/quote] Fair enough. Here's 10 off the top of my head and I won't even count the AI or the fact that the game can hand
[quote] The problem with trying to compare this game to the "current" crop of RTS games is, most of them fall into the same category of what I call unfinished, they each have different reasons on why though.[/quote] If all the current RTS games are unfinished by your criteria then I think it is you, and not the game that has the issue. [quote] Supreme Commander, since you keep using it for a comparison, had a fully voiced, three branch story
[quote who="eviator" reply="13" id="3632321"] It will be nice 1-2 years from now when Ashes will be in a state typical gamers will find comparable to the best games available and be nearly unanimously reviewed positively so you end up with a 95+% rating. I did my part. Hopefully the current average ratings don't stop that progress. In the mean time I look forward to your iterations. ASADDF, one may argue that the OP's criticism is an attempt to support the game, not ju
Don't worry Eviator. I realize that many people reading this thread may not understand what my own motivations in this. Our industry has changed a lot in the last 20 years. I'm the last one. I don't know how many of you even realize that most of the class of 89, so to speak, are gone. My contemporaries all, well they all "retired" so to speak. I don't think the average PC gamer even realizes that we're the oldest indie left.
[quote who="Moomo" reply="28" id="3632185"] Quoting Frogboy, reply 27 If that were the case there'd be no SupCom. SupCom's specs were far far higher than Ashes for its time. With the added encumbrance that the engine was unable to u
@Eviator Is there an RTS released in the last couple of years that you feel is "finished" and was successful? If not Ashes, what recent RTS would you recommend? Games don't exist in a vacuum. Is HW:DOK "finished"? It has 5 skirmish maps and fewer units than Ashes. How about Planetary Annihilation? It didn't include a campaign and only has one faction. Acts of Aggression? Grey Goo? What is the goal post you're trying to set here? There is