Yes refineries stack. Best to put them on nodes which have more resource points, including HQ. I think the 20% is already sufficient. It is amasing how just a few of them start to change your eco. In base game Radioactive balance is OK, can't speak for the expansion.
[quote who="Orachin" reply="10" id="3653374"] Well, isnt there a way to actually unite GoG and steam players? [/quote] Steam and GOG would have to come to an agreement as it is done on their servers. It has happened with some games across the networks though so perhaps it will happen one day.
[quote]I've not come across any defences that can't simply be destroyed with a cronus from a far as long as you follow it with radar buildings, kill the orbital nullify and drop a nuke, all there base defence investment gone in 10 secs. if you opt early to build that many static defences you'll ultimately be sacrificing resources and in ashes who ever has the most resources can out build a turtle. Once you get a stack of Cronus you can walk through most defences
[quote who="Richy_Young" reply="49" id="3653322"] Not sure what game you have been playing where base defences are op haha base defences in ashes where weak and needed buffing big Time. [/quote] I play a lot of 2v2 or 3v3 custom games. When you get people of a similar level (and who are decent players too) it often comes down to people setting up choke points fairly early. Then the other side has to do the same. These choke point defences get ever bigger and tougher until p
Some of the things you list are not in the remit of this expansion (Naval,3rd faction). But: [quote]Dreadnoughts seem weak now the new defensive turrets exist. TOO easy to turtle. Totally spoils the point of them IMO [/quote] This has been a big worry of mine. Defences are already pretty strong and the expansion seems to add a lot more. Unless units or upgrades are changed up then defences could easily become OP. [quote]Too many re
[quote who="zaftgun" reply="27" id="3653263"] A guide is a good idea but people have to be bothered reading them. Most people would just jump straight into a game and learn for themselves and if they cant figure they just quit. I wish someone could make a list of all the dreadnought upgrades tree, The wiki doesnt list it. [/quote] Check out the " Dreadnoughts Are Us" guide in the game's Guides section of Community Hub. It has all the Dread upgrades listed in there.<
[quote who="zaftgun" reply="2" id="3653258"] yes particularly fighters. but the AI fighters seem to do their job really well which makes me wonder. I wonder if it has to do with my computer been slow. Maybe commands don't get through or the AI behavior for each unit don't get processed fast enough? [/quote] It won't be your computer. But I know what you mean. I swear when I am playing other humans that their fighters hit what they wan
Are you putting aircraft into an Army meta unit? Because yeah apparently they won't do much then. I don't know first hand as I don't put air with ground forces into an Army. They get too easily shot down for potentially no gain if you do that. I put them into their own Ctrl groups and call them in when I want to, seems to work well. Though sometimes they don't really focus fire on the unit you want, especially fighters anyway.
I think you will be able to pick the episode you play. The original episode is now the 2nd of 3 so you can just skip it.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="39" id="3653020"] If you guys have a list of active players you would like to nominate to be upgraded to lifetime edition, post here: I nominate TicToc. [/quote] Sounds like a good idea...no bias here ;) Other have also put forward Never, and I would add DasUnding. Never for top level Substrate and DasUnding for top level PHC. They also sometimes play non-ranked 1v1 with each other, testing things, so it seems a good
If you have the option ticked the game does have 3 autosaves, for the last 3 minutes of gameplay. If you've not played any other sp games since then you should be able to jump back to the end of that mission again, if you want to. I think it has happened to others too.
[quote who="TAG_Utter" reply="35" id="3652993"] You guys showld let Ticktoc start try escalation, hes the most active player here, and the nr1 who is always ready to help and answer community . He deserve this early gift. [/quote] That is very kind of you to say Utter. But it is okay :) If I was Stardock though I would open it up to all founders who are interested and even contact a few of the top 1v1 players who may not be founders to test it out. The top pl
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="17" id="3652788"] HI all! YOu should now be able to get it IF You're a lifetime founder: [/quote] Is this going to be expanded to non Lifetime Founders? I would have thought the more play testers the better for everyone. Is there anything the play testers should know? Like something not yet being in the game yet, or expect cut scenes to come between mission x and y, etc. So you don't get feedback about som
Being able to handle something and liking something are two completely different things.
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="29" id="3652734"] I really like the idea of a research tree. It's something we have, extensively, considered. We have been worried that the pacing of Ashes is too fast for people to be comfortable with a tedch tree. [/quote] The tech tree approach in SupCom2 was almost universally disliked. I think you can flesh out he current upgrades and add a fair amount of depth that way.
[quote who="Orachin" reply="18" id="3652653"] Just a simple question that ive been asking not long time ago, are there plans for ashes to come up with some kind of "pve" game mode, like starcrafts allied commanders? I actually think that RTS genre need to change quality vise. I do think that there are a lot of casual players that actually like to play some sort of allied commander game mode, then actually going for pvp game. [/quote] 2 player or more scenarios is certainly s
[quote who="Orachin" reply="6" id="3652655"] A question from a tech newbie here, will i be able to play dx12 version of the game without win 10? As far as i recall dx12 was availible only in win 10. [/quote] No, as you correctly recall DX12 is Win10 only. Vulcan should offer the advantages of DX12 but work on Win 10, 8 and 7. [quote who="Orachin" reply="6" id="3652655"] So will ashes and escalation get separate updates etc? [/quote] Th
[quote]We are talking to Valve as to whether it'll be possible to turn Escalation into DLC so that it eliminates any confusion and we develop a game launcher that lets you pick the base game or Escalation. We prefer being able to use the Steam client as the launcher but given the backlast against expandalones, we're willing to spend the time and budget on writing our own launcher if that makes people happy. [/quote] Looking at reviews of you recently released Sorcer
Steam "Mixed" review is given to games below 70%...all the way down to less than 50%?! Mixed is already very harsh if you have over 60% but less than 70%. I'll always have 70% in my head as if you got that in a masters it was considered excellent, 60%-70% good, and 50%-60% pass. So Mixed for 68% or whatever Ashes has seems pretty harsh, especially if a game with 50% gets the same label. Addendum: Found this chart, not sure if it is still accurate but no reason to doubt it from gam
[quote who="ASADDF" reply="22" id="3652215"] In the end I am against giving part of the game for free, it may destroy what you are trying to build and expand in AOTS. [/quote] I think this is probably my final thought. I may be wrong but it is quite the risk, and if it went bad: people annoyed they spent money when all they do are ranked and custom games, people dismissing the whole game as MP centric, people seeing Ashes as a failure as its gone part free to play so don'
[quote who="Frogboy" reply="6" id="3651586"] Great! I am hoping as soon as the end of next week. [/quote] Don't suppose it is dropping today?
[quote who="Orachin" reply="7" id="3652105"] Then DLCs start spawning like zerglings with some fixes and missing content/functionality added (you pay some more money for it). Then another DLC.... another DLC.... so 3-6 dlcs later an expansion is announced, and guess what you either have to buy expac for the same price as core game is (with much less content then in core game), or expandalone which raises the question - what did i payed for while i backed this studio in EA, core game rele
Yeah, as I want to see the game do well for continued support I worry about the whole standalone thing. Potentially too many people with thoughtless knee jerk reaction...sadly hardly a rare thing on the internet. And I do remember the gaming scene in the 90s and 00s. Having such a vast choice of games now, from so many new ones every year, to the ever growing back catalogue...such a tough industry to stand out in. Don't forget the iffy main stream media and the foibles of the neti
[quote who="Freyja_Bjorn" reply="17" id="3651715"] I know didi was cheating, that isn't something up for discussion. He was, we talked about it together. But after being in the top 10, some players coming here and just accusing people because they got their asses kicked. I've smashed people and been called a cheater.. like fuck do I cheat. Some guy was like how do you have 500 power to my 80, i'm like.. dude it's a surveillanc
This idea is really playing with fire. I'll say how I'd do it if I had to, then critique OP idea. Alternate method: -Free to everyone -Limited to one faction* -MP limited to Ranked only Here is where you could diverge: (I'd go for both) - Provide 3 SP missions from the campaign, they don't have to be in the