Weekly Update: "Calm Before The Storm" (and info on the Big Rock)

https://www.kickstarter.com/project...nihilation-a-next-generation-rts/posts/849255

So the Big Rock isn't a play on words. So who knows what it'll be. Maybe Galactic War? Maybe that "new tech" that will drastically change a bunch of units? Maybe a new bacon biome? Who knows.

It definitely is the bacon biome.

C'MON GALACTIC WAR!!

Hah! What'd I say, not a play on words!

I hope it's Gas Giants <3

Working metal planets all the way

While I would loooove that... I doubt it- sadly.

My vote is still on galactic war, since they were talking about it earlier...

Does anybody know what's launching into orbital in the screenshot?

Also... GALACTIC WAR!!!!!!!!

Pretty tough to tell since it's still in its curled-up form.
If I had to hazard a guess, it's either a T1 orbital radar, an avenger or a new unit entirely. Not sure though.
EDIT: Actually I think it's an Atraeus

Big rock feature is gonna be renaming the scamper back to the ant.

Fire was only a big rock feature because it meant you didn't have to do so much pain in the arse, time consuming, unintuitive, disadvantageous reclaiming of trees.

I guess the tech behind destructible scenery was the real "big rock feature" behind fire. Hopefully it gets some nice effects to do with it like all the trees getting knocked over / vapourised when a commander lands, soon.

Hotkeys? Hotbuild + a noisey mod I made + assigning a load of keys to actions like toggling continuous build has been working OK for me hotkey wise recently. Its nice to know that its being worked on, but its more of a requirement for the game rather than an exciting newsworthy feature. Half the "filthy casuals" won't even be using keyboard shortcuts anyway.

@wpmarshall

It's obviously a PA branded Samsung Galaxy phone.

Uber will be unveiling a working prototype commander which will begin conquest of earth and its moon. With the Terran economy in the red and orbital play being basically ignored, it shouldn't take long.

A Death Star?

The next big rock feature will be....

A RANDOM NAME GEN FOR ALL UNITS UPON STARTING UP PA!

Nah, I'm pretty sure it's a change in musical style.

Of course I'm kidding, Uber has just created such amazing music, very emotional, and powerful. I feel like stomping things with a giant robot whilst creating huge armies of tanks and/or bots... oh wait...

*Selfish attempt at spreading off a thread to get people to see it is selfish*

they use big rock to describe big engine features. Told you so.

it is probably either gamesaves and loads, galactic war, game setting hooks exposed, or some attribute addition that allows unit cannon or transports, or even some special addition to pathing or controls, or some addition to social features

Well there's been a rough draft of hotbuild in their builds for a while already just not activated in the UI.
Gotta work on the export hotbuild2 config to uber hotbuild button I guess, but got no time for it this week

Perhaps gas giants?