Ashes of the Singularity

subquoting kills baby teddy bears. remove me from the quotes. you really don't nee to quote each other at this point. you're going to check the thread anyways.

Yes it has more/better features and better balance but it is more than an improvement of original TA. It is not comparable with FaF. It is a total conversion mod. Totally changing metagame/gameplay and adding a new faction (+all new graphics). Gameplay is changed to make unit choice, use of terrain and micro management in general more important. Therefore you are not qualified to talk about Zero if you did not try it.

FTFY

They finally added the Nomads to the base FAF?

TA Zero doesn't just change the vanilla TA factions; it replaces them outright. It is a TC. FAF Nomads is an expansion mod.

fair enough.

I mean, all spring games are harder to play then most games because of the shitty UI that doesn't mean anything to a new player no matter how helpful.

At least FA hid most of the buttons on a little pop-out menu when you didn't need them.

So I don't get the problem here.

And again... TA:Zero is NOT a spring game. I guess we should stop talking about TA:Zero here though. This is the aots thread.

So I bought Ashes, and have now played it a bit.

I must say I do like it a lot. The interface is clunky at times, but it just oozes with atmosphere and mood.

The substrate have been released to founders.
I can see the threads but not read them. @tatsujb are you allowed to say anything about it? I'd love to hear about the new faction

I'm working under the assumption I don't have the right to.

Yeah I'm assuming that if its only in founders then that's the case.

Going to write up another post on ashes later again. Some good some crappy stuff. A bit more of me being salty at certain decisions and justifications.

EDIT:
So I ended up being lazy and not getting around to writing up what I was going to say. Am going to wait for the official release of the next update for ashes before commenting, as it may involve some stuff only known to founders at the moment (Likely under NDA).

So I uh....I really like the substrate. They remind me more of the seraphim in both gameplay and look.

And LAZORS. MY GOD. The glorious Reaper master race

I'm gonna wait it out.

It wasn't particularly rough when I last played (apart from that stupid factory queue clearance on build thing), but it's looking like they're making a game which isn't for me. The opening is just so slow.

I need to watch some top level players and see how different it is.

i see @milkdragon plays Ashes and is in top 40 with me

oh neat!

You mean @Sorian has been let loose?

I personally believe Sorian would have done an even better job with the AI but at this stage it's impossible to tell which is better AI PA's or Ashes'. Doubtless Ashes' is really good but the top ones do cheat.

i have played a good half of the top 10 and all of them were real people

Any good replays worth sharing?