Latest Weekly Update from Uber – 40 Person Battles, Ladders, and Q&A

Beta was cool and all but is it a bit is rose tinted glasses?

What did you like that we are missing now?

I miss massive armies and the lack of OP T2 and T2 rushing. Raiding doxes.

That being said, there were some balances during beta that were pretty terrible, like the gunship patch. But I enjoyed several patches in the beta build a lot more than I enjoy the current and recent balances.

I'm sure you have spoken about it but do think it's just a case of:

Buff Dox DPS
Nerf Vangard DPS

??

That would be a huge step forward in fixing the current balance.

However, I think there's a fundamental flaw in Upgraded T2. Primarily:

1. T1 units are obliterated by T2 units, and T1 units cannot stop T2 units.
2. No possibility of recovery
3. T2 economy provides such a crazy exponential growth that the first person to get to T2 first has runaway growth and the other players can't catch up

I wrote about those flaws in detail over here.

Cloak and danger tournament: part 2.

40 players. 10 bodies, with the 2 main planets scale 6. All of the other 8 planets are scale 3 smashable.

We could place bets on how long it would take zaphod to start crying and banging his head against the keyboard


I played some of those 20+ player games in beta, probably the most fun PA I've ever played. Can't wait to get them back.

great....lets just take a clan 20v20, throw em on 1 super planet (size 3000 or 4? 5?) then grab the popcorn...the players wont of course, its heart attack after heart attack with nuke after nuke after army after army =)

We'd need to find 2 PA clans with 20 active members each first.....

Promethean probably has 4 or 5 active players (loads registered that we *never see* sadly). Similar problem for the Realm- lots of good people, not many people actually on-line playing though (at least when I've been about)...

Oh wow! Nova has the same problem, so many people join once, then oh so rarely return.

very well then, time to create specific 20v20 clans (RLM and Promethean are WAY 1v1 orientated) think of it like an MMO raiding clan xD show up on thursday nights at 7:00 and smash those dastardly enemy clans

Actually Promethean like to play team games- I hosted the 3 v 3 tourney recently Not sure about RLM...

I'd honestly like to get more regular team games going tho- and people don't need to be in a clan to form an epic team, just play together regularly and work on some cool strats

The main thing needed for good team play is TeamSpeak or similar. Thankfully there are quite a few PA related TS servers where teams can meet up- people are welcome onto the Promethean server for example (although we only have 20 slots I believe)...

I believe we didn't have toomuch issues, but everyone else in all the other games had because of us.

Where do you get this information from?

Not entirely accurate. We have lots of team games internally, but there are only so many times you can do, say, a 3v3 versus 'pubbies' before it gets a bit dull.

Good point though. Clan Cup soon, methinks. Let me get this charity tournament out of the way and then I'll start planning one of those

You might want to message Archcommander (Promethean head honcho) as he's proposing a new teams tournament....

Teams != clan rivalry

I'll obviously organise anything like this in co-ordination with other clanpeople, don't worry.

I'm sure I could round up a couple of people from eXodus to get stomped with me.

Well, that update was better than the last one.

Obviously the most invested forum members knew most of this already but it still contains quite a lot of information about the future plans for certain features which is a good thing.

The titbits of info we've been getting about 1.0 are really starting to add up- if Uber pull this off (and if anyone can I'd say it's them)...

Tidbits.

Not in England... Titbits is actually correct Trust me I'm not being rude!

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/titbit

tidbits is the US version