1 Month

Well, as of eastern time it has been officially 1 month since the last patch. I am taking this as a good thing because to me it means that they have been working hard on the game and been making progress, especially according to the livestreams. It has been quite a while so I cannot wait until the next patch with all the new features and optimizations we have watched uber play with.

Thoughts?

We were going to have one this week, but it was unstable.

We should get a new build this week with all sorts of awesome new features.

The latest playtests have been awesome.

agreed

The friday build was looking great, just had an uber cannon issue along with derpy bomb bots if I recall correctly.

Time flies! I've not been playing the current patch lately, so this next one will be a refreshing jump back into the deep end. Here's to an easy Patchmas.

Tournaments done. Patch time please uber

It also had the Astreus bug

Yeah, I think that was the real killer. The other bugs I saw were more quality of life issues, but that one was a true showstopper.

Yupp. Hopefully it'll be fixed quickly.

My thoughts?
Either later today (I am CET) or in the next 2 days. Definitely before friday though. Cant wait for the T2 air madness to pass and for orbital to become more usable as well as assault tanks and naval to become awesome and performance to improve (I wonder if I'll be able to play on 9 planets again), the new effects are ok, but I'm not really looking forward to them as I'll probably have to turn the off.

In the playtest videos I've seen, T2 air seems just as good. Hornets are getting a health nerf, so they should be more vulnerable to T1 fighters and missile towers, but gunships are being buffed all around. Plus with unit formations, while ground units spread out more and should be less vulnerable to bombing runs, the bombers also spread out more and will be more effective at carpet bombing armies. Flak is also less powerful if aircraft don't bunch up as much, but that's probably a good thing.

If air is still the unit type of choice I will be very sad (((( I miss the days of tactical ground maneuvers reigning supreme.......

I gazed into the crystal ball and I think I saw lots of air transport micro..

When air transports pick up a unit there should be some kind of semi-lengthy pickup animation where they are vulnerable to discourage micro

I fully assume there will be more animations for this instead of the current instant pickup and drop (just like the astraeus).

At this point, we have one major set of bugs I'd like to get fixed before we publish a build. It has enough of an impact on gameplay that, rather than push a build out, I want us to try and get it hammered out, and then push a build. I fully expect some rapid patching no matter what - this is a big build we're working on.

Yeah definitely. Transports seem a bit too cheap as well, judging from the playtests. Air should cost more across the board, I think. The mobility air provides is really powerful alone. I am okay with air being high dps, but it has to be wayyy more expensive in that case. Going air should be a major investment, at the very least T2 air.

It all seemed like it was going well until they had that naval issue(Crash when fireing) and the Astreus bug(Once picked up com it just spun). I think the first was fixed immediately, and I have faith that other bug was fixed or is being worked on. I think this patch is going to be a major game changer(With naval not sucking anymore, and the balance changes).

Its pretty lucky that I have vacation the week that the next build will be released I can't wait for it to be released Soon

Yup. Echoing Marc's thoughts. We're working hard to make sure this update works really well for you guys. We think you'll love all the changes -- there's a crapton.

I know you guys can't tell it for sure due to big amount of work and any unexpected bugs, which can always appear, but do you expect this build to be released this week? Soonish, soon or very soon ?