Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Interesting concepts but not executed well. Semi Rock/Paper/Scissor sytem but more like Rock>Paper>Scissor, where stronger units are just so Strong they make smaller units obsolete. Army system is nice where you can just produce in the army and it automatically produces in an idle facility and adds later on to the army. Big problem is that every unit icon looks the same. It's just a blue blob in slightly different forms. Strategy in this game is too shallow imo.

Game is hardly playable, keeps crashing the entire time.

Lots of RTS fun. The main story campaigns are a little all over the place from exceptionally easy to demonic brutality, sometimes ramping up suddenly with much warning. But in a way that's what makes this title fun. The AI isn't a moron, but to help you get better you can play skirmish matches that allow you set the AI's intelligence / aggressiveness level which can help you practice and learn. For me the skirmish feature is the best part since I can play matches with different conditions whenever I want. If you enjoy traditional RTS build and destroy games, this one is a winner!

I've had quite some fun with this. The only thing is this game is a time bog. To gain resources you need to capture map points and build extraction stuff on it and also defend it, or you lose it. There is as far as I could see no rush tactic possible for you'd have to cross the map over those mappoints, which are hostile if not taken over, even if you opponent(s) didn't take it yet. It makes for a slow game, and if you don't keep an eye on the main cap points (middle-top of screen marked your color or opponent's) and you have less than half of it, a timer starts running, once that is full you lose. The map is more of an opponent than your other players are early on in the game. It's too much of a grind before you get to clash with your other players imo.

This game fundamentally is good, however with the single player being a relatively heavy focus in this game its severally lacking in this department. The story and dialogue are pretty bad only being held up by gameplay but this only lasts so long. From what I can gather there was an update that rebalanced the game which completely 180'd the difficulty in the campaign missions. I made it as far as the first Escalation story mission and gave up there and everything that came before it wasn't very satisfying to complete either. They clearly just messed with the games balance with mp in mind and then just abandoned the game or at the very least the story balance. I hope the 2nd game doesn't fall victim to this same issue as I do plan on buying as it has a good foundation here.

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at the moment this game feels like supreme commander but without all the little quirks and things that made supreme commander awesome to play, like letting a factory produce directly into a group binding, or setting the spawnpoint to a patrolroute then saving that factory to a keybind to quickly reinforce the patrol, and i am always finding more things missing i was used to. i also miss having my commander and *being present at the battlefield* plus i prefer *open maps* to the checkpointlayout here. while the graphics are newer and more detailed than before, i dont like that all vehicles are floating. (which somehow gives the game a *cheaper* feeling) i give them credit that they are still patching the game and it is a good game, but if a friend would ask me wether to spend money on this i would say nay buy another game.

Great game, even after 864 hours. To the developers: Bro, you better fix the saving game issues and the game crashes, or i wont be buying the next edition AS 2. Only one Ai and me on the map and the game still crashes. At least you can fix the in game save. i'm not the only one, go look online and read, look and learn. I can run all AAA games on my PC, why does the game crash almost every other game paly????

While I've been enjoying this game in single player the balance is way off. Some of the missions feel impossible and thats just on Normal. Not sure if they just changed units and the balance for PVP which messed up the single player missions after release. Just tried to play the Genesis missions and by the time I've taken 3 points the game just majorly lags and only seems to run when on the zoomed out map screen but lags when you zoom in to do anything. I do only have the base game and none of the DLC.

Its not a bad game. in fact I like it......BUT its 30Gb...yes 30? for a basic game.