Friday Afternoon Playtest

Going on..

http://www.twitch.tv/uber_garat

The YouTube Cap:

• The rapid “click to start annihilation” bug appears to have been fixed.
• New animation for the map pings – but the planet smashing audio still sounds, which is annoying. (missed a screen cap of the new map pings animation)
• Bomb bots added! – didn’t see how much they cost
• “Bombs (bomb bots) are really fragile” – but pretty fast. However, they didn’t seem to be very good. But hey, first pass! They need to be balanced.
  
  
• Missile defense towers will only shoot at air units – personally, I’m glad for that change
• Naval unit’s speed has increased. They seem slower than they used to be before the big patch, but faster than they are now. The sunfish seems pretty quick.
• Power generators have this new really cool electric spark like animation
• There was a bug with no commander explosion on death
• Formations: The formations are pretty cool and nice, however they don’t yet put the proper units in the right order – like Vanguards up front. The formations seem to be very fluid. They stick together in good groups, but move around terrain real well.
  
• The AI seems to have a lot of improvements – very good news for solo players. Did a great job expanding to multiple planets
• Walls everywhere!!! they cost so little and tank so much damage. Good for redirecting units though
• New unit model and fire animation for the Inferno
  
• Creating paths wit walls to force enemy units to follow a certain path seemed to work well. I guess Uber’s new tower defense game is showing in Planetary Annihilation!
• Players will be able to just click on the infinite build button rather than click, pop out comes out, and then click on the infinite build button – if you follow me. One click instead of two.

Looks like I got home just in time

So far the changes I've seen are: 2 new T1 bots, lights on power gens, and naval speed increase.

So new build Monday?

Hope so!

That ai is pretty brutal.

and......BOOM!

hmmm....formations!!!
and I like the patrolling circle command order! nice!
too bad the endless build order button doesnt work...?!

Both of those (patrol area command and endless build) are already in the current build.

Lol, I connected just in time for a dual annihilation

Nice improvements! Looking forward to play this new build.

By the way, are the units bigger?

Damn, i missed watchin it live

Is there an option to upload a stream from twitch to youtube?

Or do you download the stream to your pc and re-upload it to youtube.

It'll be available soon.

I'm posting the recap right now!

http://pamatches.com/news/internal-playtest-naval-balance-crawling-bombs-formations-map-pings/

That's actually in the current build. You can bring up the little menu, but just clicking on it will toggle between the modes too.

You can but Twitch is horrifically unreliable for it.

That's nifty. Meta said that was a new feature. *shrugs*

Did naval fabricators get a buff? Because naval economy is DARNED weak.

Didn't see that much detail. Looking forward to when we have working subs and working sub fabbers.

Maybe Uber can provide insight?