Ashes of the Singularity: New RTS from Stardock and Oxide Games

The April dev journal for Escalation is posted!

http://www.stardock.com/games/article/482576/SINGULARITY-DIARY-April-2017

Ashes: Escalation v2.25 update with balance tweaks, fixes, map updates, and more.

Full changelog: https://forums.ashesofthesingularity.com/482836/225-Update

Show me your jugs, Stardock! Where are they?

Interesting balance changes, though. As soon as you roll out an expansion / juggernauts, I’m diving back in.

PHC juggernauts got delayed. I didn’t like how they looked.

These are going to be the defining units that represent the entire game. So it’s good you’re taking the time to make sure they’re not just ok, but spectacular and gorgeous.

May dev journal for Ashes is out and talks about the new campaign juggernauts, modding and more.

http://www.stardock.com/games/article/483199/ASHES-DEV-JOURNAL-May-2017

Ohhhhhhhhhh awesome! Love the “blades”. That gives it some real character. Is there going to be a tiny brain-like thing in it somewhere? I think it needs that, maybe under the orange carapace on its back end.

Shadows off it look great too.

Woohoo! Been waiting for Juggernauts before jumping back in. Of course, it would have to drop the day before I go out of town for the weekend. :)

It’s out now! :)

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love to see how Genesis eventually got released. But I can’t seem to break out of this launcher loop, lol.

I think restarting Steam as administrator resolves that.

June dev journal!

http://www.stardock.com/games/article/483613/Ashes-Dev-Journal-June-2017

I got this game in the Humble Bundle, tried it for about 20 minutes, but the fonts and screen size are terrible!

Then I find out the game will only run in 1080p anything lower and the UI is nearly unusable. SIGH, uninstalled.

Was your complaint about the font size being too small?

yea the entire UI and Fonts are small and fuzzy. I did some forum reading and found that you can’t set the UI scale more than 80% without running in 1080p. The game is nearly unplayable in current form for me…so sadly I had to let it go.

What resolution do you use?

Yeah, 1920x1080 is the minimum supported resolution. I’d be curious to hear what you were using.

I’m 1600x900 which is max for my monitors. I’ve never had any other game tell me I needed 1080p, so for now I just can’t play it I guess.

I remember some talk about this being made to feel somewhat like kohan 2 in the high level/big picture way, with less micro than the typical RTS. How has that played out now that the game has been out a while?