I've been playing for a few days now and I am having a lot of fun! Still only playing against AI though, and I've been getting very frustrated with anchors, the ai player deploys them very densely and they are pretty much indestructible if you let their clustering get out of hand. I read that orbital units are still being balanced/worked on in a comment somewhere, so maybe my concerns shouln't last. I haven't tried going to another planet yet and I find the idea exciting, but in my opinion, as a fresh new player of PA, I find orbital units very annoying. The main reason being that they get in the way if you haven't organised all your ground/earth units in groups. The second reason is that its very easy to get into a helpless situation where someone has orbital dominance, again maybe this is just because of balance still being worked on. I think anchors are too powerful against ground and orbital units when clustered, I would suggest making them weaker against ground units. And as I haven't played online multiplayer yet I don't know how much people use orbital units. I am all for adding new units to the game but this is adding another layer of battlefield which I find difficult to keep track of. Anyone else think so? I guess if there was a way to visually distinguish orbital unit icons, enable a view mode which blurs out the earth with clouds/atmos or just grey out the ground to make things easier to focus on.. I don't think its a big deal, I was just curious to see what you guys think.
The strategic filter mod can toggle layers https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-strategic-filters-2-0-0.67954/ Install it using the mod manager: https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-pa-mod-manager-cross-platform.59992/ The t2 bot called "bluehawk" has the ability to deal with anchor very efficiently, put some into your army to take down the anchors. Umbrellas are also quite good at taking out anchor, as their range(300) is larger than the anchor's (180) range.
@jables see how common of a problem relating to orbital is? https://forums.uberent.com/threads/increase-orbit-height.68203/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/toggle-the-orbital-layer.67626/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...eeds-improvement-my-humble-suggestions.65844/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/suggestion-to-improve-orbital-view.64534/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/suggestion-visual-separation-of-orbit.61361/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/idea-maybe-orbital-units-need-be-bigger.58618/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/suggestion-orbital-focus-mode.57838/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/ui-discussion-improving-the-feel-of-orbital.54611/ Those are the threads I could find, although the search may have missed some WE NEED THIS
amazing thanks!! Yeah, so far I had realised I could chip away at the anchors with umbrellas and nukes take them out too. Now that I know about the t2 bot, its going to make my life so much easier! thanks for letting me know about the mod, will install it now.
I figured it might pop up quite a lot. It would be good if you could also filter your selection, last match I played I lost a lot of time unchecking units from my army until it was just the orbital units left then accidentally unchecked one of the unit types from them and had to do it all over again D: maybe there's a feature for this already.. I am diving into forum before doing proper research
You can select the different unit groups on the selection box, select the orbital icon and only the orbital will be selected.
You can select the different unit groups on the selection box, select the orbital icon and only the orbital will be selected.[/QUOTE] I meant select unit groups from the current selection, afaik those buttons select all unit groups visible on screen, but now that I think about it, I should have just done that in the first place! thanks
I meant select unit groups from the current selection, afaik those buttons select all unit groups visible on screen, but now that I think about it, I should have just done that in the first place! thanks[/QUOTE] The top part of the selection panel allows you to limit the units you have selected
