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Reply to Suggestion - Increase interceptor size in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

I agree on Interceptor size. Recon drone is fine as is I think. Nice to be able to see some detail and easily pick it out.

Reply to My Impression of Ashes currently. in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

I gotta say I'm pretty tired of hearing about Forged Alliance and FAF when coming to the Ashes forum. There is a "PC Gaming" sub-forum here for a reason. Yet, we have this "Forged Alliance" thread that keeps getting bumped within the Ashes forum. It's bad form. Does the FAF forum have other game topics popping up in its dedicated forum? No, it doesn't. They appear in Off Topic. People who obsessively play one game get tunnel vision and aren't even aware of it. It makes it very

Reply to My Impression of Ashes currently. in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

[quote who="TAG_Utter" reply="26" id="3612244"] Im a FAF fan like Him !! But dont worry my words here or there about the gameplay are over. [/quote] So ominous sounding! Does that include no more bumps of the FAF thread in the Ashes sub-forum too?

Reply to 2 months 'til release, what needs work? in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

Tier 3 unit abilities are also slated for addition and I think are pretty key features. I expect they will be similar to Sins capital ship abilities where you can leave them on auto-cast or manually use them - maybe some will be passive as well. I think they are tied to levels on the unit as well (spend points on choosing abilities as you level up). Once Substrate joins the fray, then balance between the factions should be looked at before release as well. With 2 factions, getti

Reply to My Impression of Ashes currently. in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

I actually really like the inclusion of victory points and connected nodes from CoH. They give some structure and strategy to the game at a time (alpha) when there isn't a lot of depth yet to the game. Especially in MP, it's nice to have an alternate victory condition to just straight annihilation. There are already enough defensive structures in the game to lock down key connecting nodes (the Sentinel is quite amazing with enough line of site) on defense but it would be nice to still

Reply to Initial impressions and thoughts in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

Agreed on every point, except for victory points (turinium is the resource name in the game I think). This is a design choice lifted from more recent Relic RTS games and it does serve a purpose and offers strategic choice. They are essentially another resource to fight over. They help prevent long drawn out stalemates and boring turtle-fests and get people fighting over map territory outside of their base area. The strategy comes from balancing how much to invest in capturing and defending th

Reply to Different races in Ashes in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

As long as 2 factions look and play very differently from each other, it can be satisfying enough. The original Company of Heroes had just 2 and people loved it - many even wished they hadn't released the expansion that added 2 more and messed up balance. The original 2 factions were well-designed to create lots of great counter-play with different playstyles, teching, and abilities and still be balanced.

Reply to I am not convinced you did make here a RTS game. The game feels for me soulless, boring and misplaced designed. in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

While I think the pace of the game and speed of units could be slightly faster, doubling it or tripling it is ridiculous. This is a large scale macro RTS. Somewhere in between the pace of Sins of a Solar Empire and SupCom:FA is fine. The maxed out + speed is more than a 5% increase, I'm sure. We need a default standard for multiplayer and I'd say maybe 10% faster than what is fastest currently would be a happy medium. My main concern with the game is its optimization. I meet t

Reply to The Ashes 0.60 Benchmark thread in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

DX11 High DX 11 Med. For DX12 the results were roughly the same. Not sure if these results are normal or expected at this point. I'm hoping as the game gets optimized and as Nvidia release n

Reply to Only 3 Mechs normal? in Servo Sins Forums

[quote who="Matrix_GD" reply="2" id="3559737"]Also, is there any plans for the future of adding bonus abilities or stats or something at certain dropship levels? Like maybe a bonus to scrap or credits on mission/scenario completion? Or perhaps a bonus to dropship, building, and/or drone health the higher your dropship level is? (that would make your dropship last longer at higher levels at least, and make it so abilities never start to one shot buildings at the highest levels)[/qu

Reply to My 2 cents (Design Discussion) in Servo Sins Forums

'Stop' command is already in (hotkey 'S') but it just hasn't been added to the UI yet. I agree on the 2v2 request. I think it would help get more people pulling friends into the game and is also a fun competitive mode in itself. It would probably require some larger map sizes though. I've been really enjoying the game so far. My personal feedback lately is that the default zoom/camera is a little claustrophobic and I always play zoomed out at the max -

Reply to Any interest in orienting things towards being an eSport? in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

It doesn't seem like a game that would lend itself to e-sports - but MP could be extremely fun - not unlike SupCom and Sins. They're ideal games to get your feet wet with online MP RTS because they are slower paced and not twitch/APM skill-based and are easier for 4x or turn based players to relate to.

Reply to Ashes goodies for founders coming in Ashes of the Singularity Sins Forums

5v5 Sins games in MP could be anywhere from 45min to 2 hours, which for me is a nice duration for these larger scale RTS games. Don't recall how long SupCom:FA matches were - probably somewhat shorter than Sins. I like the resource sector control and victory point countdown ideas from CoH here. It helps make for more to fight over on the map and reduces the chance of every game turning into a turtle-fest that drags on for hours and hours. Generally in other games you can turn off vi

Reply to Sins of a Dark age in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

There's a Steam group called Sins of a Dark Age Gold that helps organize games and sends out announcements when games are organizing. It's open for any interested to join. The beta community has been small, with various population ups and downs, but the devs are planning on ramping things up soon and a large update is on the way - more details on Steam forums for the game. http://steamcommunity.com/groups/SOADAGOLD

Reply to What happened to Global Warming? in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Everyone knows that real climate science is done in the basement with a good internet connection by analyzing spreadsheets and reading articles on blogs, just like Galileo would've done.

Reply to The game industry’s problem with misogyny in Life, the Universe and Everything Sins Forums

Brad, reading your posts here, I understand where you're coming from and the nuance you bring to the topic, but your Twitter response was fairly thoughtless. One of the, if not the #1, criticism/annoyance with discussions on sexism, racism, etc. is that privileged groups often blunder into those discussions with the attempt to frequently de-rail the topic and steer it back to them. For example, on racism "Yeah, but reverse-racism is a thing too!!" for example. Your first reaction/response

Reply to Can Anyone Stop Seleuceia's Reign of Terror? in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

You guys are the biggest nerds ever...

Reply to Absolute proof flak is overpowered (Updated with Replay) in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=_mKVJeA-wTw#t=20

Reply to Absolute proof flak is overpowered (Updated with Replay) in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Next thing you know we'll have a thread about illuminators countering corvettes... On a more serious note, I think this thread essentially demonstrates the difference between in vitro and in vivo experiments... [quote who="Seleuceia" reply="55" id="3442648"]Except that they actually do[/quote] Well, somewhat - definitely moreso than the other LRMs - and definitely seen in the wild more than these flak cool stories - more of a joke reference o

Reply to Absolute proof flak is overpowered (Updated with Replay) in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

Yes, the active or passive sense isn't very clear there but you can see his conclusion later on: [quote who="Uncrustable" reply="41" id="3442563"]if 2 equally skilled players spawn next to each other, are both tec. one spams flak asap and one spams LF asap....LF guy should rape face...[/quote]

Reply to Absolute proof flak is overpowered (Updated with Replay) in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

1. What did Mulch's fleet consist of in the battle with your flak fleet? 2. Did he also make any effort to micro his fleet? 3. Post a replay of you winning a game (or front line battle to be precise) with a fleet of flak like this. Screenshots vs. the AI is not evidence of much. [quote who="Sinkillr" reply="2" id="3441378"]Increasing flak speed will reduce the amount of time the ship spends shooting before it banks, thereby reducing dps. [/quote] This is no

Reply to Absolute proof flak is overpowered (Updated with Replay) in Sins Rebellion Sins Forums

[quote]The majority of the sins community doesn't know this – which is why the secret I'm about to divulge will make the "pros" very angry[/quote] ROFL

Reply to Indie Games You Should Be Playing in PC Gaming Sins Forums

I highly recommend Dungeon of the Endless by Amplitude, Endless Space devs. It's early access at this point but under $10 and plays very stable with new content added every 2 weeks or so. It's pretty challenging but as you learn more about the game, there's enough strategy you can leverage to outweight most random bad luck stuff.

Reply to Couple of questions about multiplayer in Sins Multiplayer Sins Forums

Hi Scragins1, It sounds like you've played enough vs. the AI to understand and experiment with the basics. I'd recommend reading the guides available on Steam Community by GoaFan77 (poster above) and Grimm (more advanced MP tactics). If you are used to playing RTS MP in general, know the ship counters, how to efficiently expand, which the best capital ships are and when to use their abilities, know the tech trees well, etc. then you're pretty much ready to j

Reply to Strange and suprising things in Everything Else Sins Forums

[quote who="GeomanNL" reply="37" id="3437636"] For example, if some evil genetic scientist wants to get rid of all people that share a gene that causes noses to be long and hooked, then such a thing is actually possible nowadays![/quote] No, it really isn't. The article you linked is about an antibiotic that targets specific species of bacteria and leaves the beneficial ones in your gut alive. It has only been tested in a petri dish so far as well. This has little t