What is the ACTUAL problem with the unit canon?

To put it short,"meta" means the "go to" strategy aka the most efficient strategy, every patch brings new things to the game which change the current meta.

well think of it this way:... People go to tank museums and droll over how big of a caliber such tank had and what crazy kinds of ammunition it could fire and then you imagine shooting that tank.

also it's very phallic

No Seriously though, it solves a whole lot of our balance issues.

Phallic bit is the best bit?

The problem with the unit cannon is : it can't fire fish.

'Meta' in the context of playing PA is reffering to the 'accepted best stratergy' behind the game.

When people go on about the 'Meta' changing or 'learning the meta' they're basically saying- learn the new best option. It changes every time Uber adjust teh balance.

For example, a few builds ago they made t1 tanks super effective compared to everything else. So the meta in that instance was "build tanks to win" and doing anythign else would usually result in a loss. Very recently they adjusted the balance and now the dox is more effective than the t1 tank so the meta has changed to "build dox to win" instead

Essentially, whilst the game is in development things change rapidly so this concept of 'learning the meta' (i.e. figuring out whats best) is very important as that is the difference between winning and loosing at a high level.

That said, the most basic stuff about PA has been constant from the start: Keep expanding, keep producing and use all the layers (by that I mean don't just focus on ground, use ground, air and orbital to get an advantage over your opponent). What has changed is what perticular units are best. Hopefully once the game gets tweaked a little more we won't have this "build unit type x to win" and all units will be useful, at which point there won't be a single dominant stratergy and people might just have to think for a change.

"OH NO, NOT AGAIN"

I'm pretty sure Forrest has talked about this a couple of times on the forums. I'm digging a bit.

Does it have anything to do with the issues I mentioned earlier?

Basically this:

Combined with limited dev time/money.

Totally. There's design issues we need to solve (is it a factory, how does it shoot units, what kind of units should it shoot) and technical stuff we need to address (making ground units disobey physics, shooting through space, angle of shot) before we can move full-steam ahead. The game grew and evolved as we were making it, subtly redefining any role a Unit Cannon would have pre-beta.

from memory "is it a factory?" is not an issue we have to solve.

sorry if I trip you while you're trying to take a step back though.

https://forums.uberent.com/threads/the-unit-cannons-going-to-be-a-factory-no.54300/

I sill wonder if at this time there are Devs working on or if there is going to be worked on the UC after PA 1.0 is finished? What are u guys working on exactly or is everyone polishing the game? We don't hear anything about it because there is never a live stream anymore.​

They're doing a lot of polish work. As well as work on gas giants, and a apparent [REDACTED] (most likely asteroid belts.) They are also working very hard at getting that server ready for or near 1.0

Basically.. There's so much work, they don't have time for streams.

Yeah, it's been challenging to get everyone together. Plus, there's an office move coming up imminently.

As for what's next? We'll fill you in when we get there. One foot in front of the other right now, my man.

All you have to do is throw the Unit Cannon on a lazy Susan. Problem solved.

I don't even know how that answers what he said he never said anything about rotating trouble.

It's the only solution, tatsujb

ok

It's out of order, remember?

But..... the live streams..... they are so nice!

Can we has them back?


Ow that eating camera! Brad stuffing his face instead of playing the game... remembering it gives me a warm feeling inside.

Yeah, all we want is a brad face cam 24/7.