Jon Mavor's interview for Redbull.com/uk

Redbull.com/uk recently published an interview with Job Mavor about Planetary Annihilation. It's good to see some media coverage on the game. I expect to see more and more as the game goes towards december release.

Read the full interview HERE

thanks for the link

Ditto, thanks for posting

4k units in a single sc2 game? wtf...

Maybe in the Zillion Zergling map.
Anyway, the number is a bit overblown.

Well, they did say 'on a good day'...

Well the million units in PA is probably a bit overblown as well at least for now ;D

They never said when. Probably in some years when computers will be able to do a solar system with several planets of 300+ radius with 80 players. Maybe that day

Thanks for the link. I'm somewhat concerned that they've misrepresented Galactic War as something part of a normal skirmish though.

I don't think this article was proof read before being published for sure. Scores of factions?

Technically accurate. Although there will be a common unit pool, Galactic War will include several factions - some from default, others from gaming communities. There will, for example, be a Realm faction

Maybe that was for a 4v4 mass Broodlord ZZZZvZZZZ

PA for tablet... interesting... and maybe that is reason why Coherent Labs is advertising their Coherent UI for mobile devices with a screenshot of PA on a samsung tablet.

wtf, source? xD

Interesting. Just googled coherent labs. Almost certainly just a marketing shot, but i'm curious as to how possible something like this is, given that Uber have previously discussed very lightweight client viewers.

4000 units? even if you saved enough minerals, made all your workers into buildings, even with a full 200 supply, that only equals 400 zerglings.........

Jegus, I'm even just trying to imagine 4k units FITTING on a standard map........

hmm, looks like a screen of PA v.51512 to me. That has to be a pretty new image in that case.
I dont think it's a good idea to make an advertisement like that currently. I mean PA is far away from running on a tablet currently.

And far away from running smoothly with tons of units on the fastest PC hardware existing so far ...

I've worked on games that got 5x faster in a week before. I wouldn't read too much into current performance. The real question is are the underlying systems being architected in a way that *can* scale.

Anyway lots of journalism sometimes has small errors or whatever. If people want to read things into interviews it would be better to just post a direct question here about it so I can clarify.

I'm actually really looking forward to the eventual full upgrade/new computer, installing PA and it still able to kick its butt!