Beta Build: 58197 -First Impressions

Yes.

But I have lost track of the times that my fabbers or commander get stuck in power fields.

I'm hoping that the ability to build clumps of buildings returns later. It's kind of fun to play 'SimCity' amd create varied coty blocks and streets. As opposed to the anally uniform approach currently. For example, creating 2x2 blocks, 3x2 blocks etc., or long lines of buildings as close together as possible with avenues and alleys that are pathable

I agree. the 2x2 en 2x3 bloks are a good idea. As it currently you "power fields" become extremely large, which is quite annoying.

I want to give the command build power, area command style, and that my fabbers start building blocks of 2x2. Or some kind of shift drag command but in the form of a rectangle or square.

Im very disappointed in this update to be honest.. not only is there hardly any performance improvements on my end but also the ui is very buggy now as i can't see metal spots even with the option turned on and the camera and i can't see the unit highlights at all so i got no idea what i have selected and i got loads of special effects missing such as planet smashing with rocks flying away.. all i see is units vanishing and then winning the game while other people seem to see this special effects so i'm generally pretty annoyed because this can be the best game in the world but if the performance is rubbish then whats the point in playing? i got up to date drivers ect for my gtx 760 so i got no idea what it is. this update has been a massive downgrade from what i was seeing before because right now im hardly playing PA right because of performance alone and i'm a massive TA/ sup com fan so i just want to know why in the patch notes it says loads of bug fixes when it is in fact the opposite.. sorry for this nonconstructive post but im not sure what else i can say : \

You have uninstalled all your mods and stuff?

Who knows. Sounds like an issue to do with connection somehow.

Ooh thank you, me likey.
Should make me build 6 bots factories when I wanted vehicle (slightly) less often

i got no mods installed at all and the connection is not a issue its the game my friend

Noticed 2 bugs i will try to reproduce by this evening (I'm not using any mod) :
1) I could build the new bot factory in places where actually it should not possible to do so because of relief : a few bot factories could be built but were nearly surrounded by the ground and were not working in the end. I had to reclaim them
2) I joined a 1v1v1v1 using a moon template : metal spots were not displayed before i select a position and land.

Honestly I don't see where less confusion is created with the New camera...... zoom is super slow now, maybe a bug but the wheel quit rotating the planet as well and would only zoom. Now when I zoom out to celestial view I have to rotate the entire system to see it properly, thus losing focus on where I was on said planet....... so I don't see what's different you still lose your position, just everything is a 3d camera now instead of the nice 2d which I had no qualms with.I mean New camera looks nice but I don't see the less confusion part ...

Also seems a bug, that strategic icons in space were appearing way off of where they were ...

Everything else tho.......NIIIIIICE

on a weekday? I have classes? I must get up at 6h30 in the morning.

That sucks

Played a 9 player game last night and found the everything in the update to be working nicely!!!! I really really like the new camera..... very smooth. Also the pathing for things moving around the solar system is really cool....

Had about 9 nukes launched at me from the moon orbiting the planet...... Works great and was really cool to watch them fly into the atmosphere......

Love the new bot factory!!!!!

Just managed to play a game, and I have to say that seamless orbital camera makes a world of difference (pun intended?) Love it

Didn't have a chance to try out the orbital nukes or any naval, but I played on a mountainous planet and the metal spot placement seems much better, so well done on that.

The new bot factory really does look like a giant bot... In a good way. I'm a fan.

All round good update, new units next time (pleeeeaaase)

Here's a screenshot:

I was up to similar Times getting a few games in with the New build...... gotta have my fix!!

Much better nuke defense range and build rate.

You might have cinematic mode on. If that isn't hte issue for at least the metal spots and unit highlights, then post your Dxdiag in the bug forms.
Check the link below. I hope you can play soon man, just upload the problems when you can.
. Current In-game UI option descriptions

Bug report, the update list is broken.

It's not the update list itself, but the news data from the servers is being sent in the wrong format.
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/beta-build-58197.54619/page-2#post-836085

Well, at least its not broken then