Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

有些制作组虽然游戏体量小技术力也一般，可是人家不仅做了汉化，而且做的特别优质，那还有些制作组卖的又贵还几年了都不愿意增加中文汉化。

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.

I was lucky enough to get this game for free to test the campaigns before deciding whether to purchase the DLC. Honestly, I have to say the game is very disappointing. Even after all these years, it is still riddled with bugs. Units regularly get stuck on certain terrain, and pathfinding is a mess—stupid units move on their own without my knowledge, get killed off by the AI, and do not even defend themselves when attacked. I also don't understand why the offensive abilities are so restrictive. For example, I tried to blast an EMP against a massive cluster of enemy air units protecting the capital base, but the ability bugged out. The enemy units just sat there, completely static, while neither my ground nor my air units could touch them.

[h1]Only try if it's 80% off or more, and be wary not to go over that refund limit if you still don't like it.[/h1] A buggy, frustrating RTS that frequently crashes your computer, with buggy controls, poor unit pathfinding, ultimately boring action -- [i]"Hey! You're playing the campaign, good on you, let's play through the tutorial so you can play through the second tutorial that's the same, but longer! Catch you around buddy!"[/i] and little room for strategy. -- [i]"Also forgot! Put a tool on the wall for me, little saying we have in the Post Human Something Something, whatever, what are we anyway?" [/i] There is no unit micro as all units sort of float about, awkwardly bumping into the terrain, buildings and one another. -- [i] "Haha! You got them good! Allow me to tell you the story of my people while your base gets destroyed, and no you can't skip my dialogue and no, I'm not going to give you back controls." [/i] Too often your units won't actually attack anything, espeically your air units, they'll just hover around and then sometimes shoot if an enemy happens to move slightly to the left. Worst of all is [i]"Hey, it's me, interrupting you again because your computer crashed from that last level. Just letting you know that I'm bored." [/i]you're unable to select the unit you're clicking, leading to spamming click with your engineers, selecting the wrong target and being unable to know what you actually selected. Every single time you need to select a unit or building you'll have to click randomly and hope you get that sweet pixel, meanwhile you're under siege and you're wasting anyway having to click through a captcha. -- [i]"Also, if you haven't picked it up yet, throughout the campaign your camera is yanked to focus on an area and you can't control anything while this happens, meaning your base tends to get destroyed if playing on harder difficulties because I just won't shut up." [/i] There is potential here, but the jankiness just holds it back. I wish I could refund.

While I like the supply lines concept, overall the game is too expensive for what it offers, even on sale. Half the units are dlc, and the other half are maps. There are only 2 factions with similar styles, one trades half health for shield of same value. Also everything is much too cheap to build, and dies just as fast. Then there's the ai, while it has a lot of difficulty levels too choose from, all that does is buff/debuff ai resource collection, they respond instantly too anything that happens. For example, I teleported some units behind their base to attempt to flank. At the same exact time, they teleport a turret to the same point. I tried this a few times, same result every time. Meanwhile there is nothing to warn you of an attack, no "enemy detected" not even "Our base is under attack" just "an enemy has captured your stuff" after they so. Too late for a refund go figure...

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这些单位一个个的叫护卫舰，巡洋舰，无畏舰，说得真好听，可是一个个都是只能在地上爬的悬浮载具，只能打陆战，而且会被山脉阻挡，只能走平坦的地形。我不相信这种东西是护卫舰、巡洋舰、无畏舰。

the system is more or less the perfection of an RTS concept. i've only played the first segment so far, but there are some critical issues with the controls that i hope have been sorted out in later versions (adding units/structures to control groups, for instance). i'm also a bit worried the various factions all have too-similar units, but i've only played the first campaign so far. still, for a former competitive sc2 player, this is both a breath of fresh air and a true innovation. kudos!