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I am curious on how these changes are done? I mean, do you guys have a simulator, or is this all by eye?

[quote quoting="post"] So here is my list of the best rts games. 1. Starcraft broodwar and Starcraft 2 (best rts games ever in terms of Balance and PVP) 2. Warcraft 3 (Really microintensive rts with a hero mechanic quite unique game and it was really fun to play) 3. Supreme Commander (Really great rts which focuses more on macro games and with epic battles like the earlier total annihalation) 4. Z steel soldiers (The only RTS with only one r

[quote who="dch128" reply="3" id="3659525"] I went from a 6 core phenomII to an 8 core PhenomII gained about 6fps. I went 8 for video ripping where it made a 50% gain. All other components were the same. [/quote] Bad example. You went from a true 6 core (1090?) Phenom II to a quasi 8 core FX (4 cores, and 4 cores that 'share'). I know there was someone who had a monster 8 true cores, 16 threads xeon and they didn't see a bump at all. <

Yeah, you won't really get a big performance boost with more cores, you are already maxing out what the engine can do.

They gave the original 7.7 though, so, going to a 8.1 doesn't seem to show that much of an improvement. "The campaign was definitely the weakest portion of the original Ashes, and that remains true with Escalation." :(

AMD is streaming this, and doing giveaways as well! https://www.twitch.tv/amd 8:30PM CT to when done. Note, the interface text is still way too small! Very hard to see on the stream. :(

[quote who="xyphonic" reply="30" id="3653298"] Those are suggestions. But non-stop complaining is useless. That poster literally dumped on every suggestion without a positive thing to say. There are valid criticisms, but if they're not constructive they're not useful. [/quote] When they said "Here are things the community can do that makes a difference to developers (not just RTS games but any game):", I wasn't complaining, I was merely p

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="14" id="3652498"] What can you do? Here are things the community can do that makes a difference to developers (not just RTS games but any game): Review the game on Steam Support multiplayer Support modding, work together on that (the mod scene for SupCom was due to fans making tools that let people manage mods) Participate on game wikis related to the game you like Participat

Why would you? AFAIK, it is a continuation of the story from a different perspective, and they wouldn't start a new expansion with extreme difficulty. I imagine it will be just like the current campaign, start out minimal, and it gets harder the more you progress.

[quote quoting="post"] ## Vulkan ## This is now working in our internal builds! This might show up in 1.5. AMD is providing a lot of assistance to us in getting Vulkan support so please be sure to give some kudos and credit to AMD for Vulkan in PC gaming. It'll run great on any GPU that supports Vulkan. [/quote] Wouldn't this also open up the game to Linux people as well?

What about all the people that spent countless hours with the game (who know the game the best), just because they bought it from some place other that steam, that makes them irrelevant to the score, when it is the exact opposite that should happen! Remember all those times that Stardock was telling people to do reviews to up the score? Well, now, they can't do squat, unless those people actually bought it on steam.

This is the most idiotic thing I have heard. http://store.steampowered.com/news/24155/ [quote] Changes To The Review Score As a result of this, we are making some changes to how review scores are calculated.[u] As of today, the recent and overall review scores we show at the top of a product page will no longer include reviews written by customers that activated the game through a Steam product key.[/u] [b]Customers that received the game from a source out

I would say a 480 is the way to go for DX12/Vulkan titles, it is more future proof in that regard. Whatever you do, do NOT get the 3GB version of the 1060, they gimped it too much!

I am still fuzzy on the details on how this will end up. I assume that there is no cross-play between versions, correct? Is the lobby going to show all versions of the game available, so people can tell where the most population of players are in?

Hmm, so, the Expansion pack is basically stand alone, which means that the people who play that, can't play with the original AoTS people fairly, correct? (Since all the new additions.) Does that mean, the original AoTS is basically finished, or are the improvements (game engine) from the Expansion coming to the original as well?

[quote who="Ticktoc" reply="12" id="3645558"] Quoting sdRohan, reply 10 <div class="info" style="background-image: url('data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAAcCAYAAACgXdXMAAAAZUlEQVQIWy3ESQKDIAAEQZvNKBoQRdzy/2dOD

From AMD's driver release notes: [quote]Ashes of the Singularity™ may experience an application crash with “crazy” in game settings and Multi-GPU enabled.[/quote] So, driver issue.

[quote who="Frogboy" reply="4" id="3644625"] A Vulkan version won't affect player counts. Lowering the hardware requirements and increasing skirmish replayability is the key. [/quote] If a Vulkan port was made, then you open the door to Linux, Apple, and other platforms, which would bring in more people. Using Vulkan also does make the game more playable on older hardware, since it is faster, then it can work with lower spec machines. A random

[quote who="ASADDF" reply="2" id="3644597"] I usually play the game in Single Player, I just don't like the ranked games, (reasons: small maps) I think I played all the scenarios available in the game, but they are ok... Stardock need to do something better with scenarios. (More interesting story per scenario) What about a Multi-map scenario? will that be possible? I am also Waiting for an automatic matchmaking for medium, large, and epic maps. [/quote]

Hmm, lost all momentum from the steam sale and more. http://steamcharts.com/app/228880#3m I think a big problem is the DLC, it just isn't bringing people back, and they don't want to pay, so, seem a better idea is to have a expansion pack that contains everything released so far for $5 or so and call it a player reward. BTW, any news on the Vulkan front? Getting this game out to linux will increase player count as well... and all those that can&#39

[quote who="Ticktoc" reply="1" id="3643921"] It is the map DLC which came out today. Even if someone does not own it they get it on their system so as not to divide the community; anyone can still join anyone's game, regardless of whether they own the DLC or not. Just hosted a couple of games with the new maps, I don't think the others had bought the DLC, so lucky for them [e digicons]:)[/e] [/quote] Oh, so that is how they are doing it... I guess it makes sense, in

DX 12 is faster than DX11...as for visual differences, more stuff is being shown in DX12 as well.

Looks like either lack of VRAM, or driver bugs.

[quote who="ASADDF" reply="5" id="3643148"] Good Review but with very little info, keep the good work Stardock. [/quote] That "review" wasn't a review at all. There was no meat in it, it was just a fluff piece. I seriously doubt they spent more than 30 mins with the game. I guess that is why nobody every buys a game from the recommendations of that magazine. AotS needs to have a real, full review of the latest versi