Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation

Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation Pros: + You can expand very large which adds strategy. (flanks w/e) + Combat feels like traditional oldschool rts, (Starcraft) + Races feel different without being too overwhelming, + Map design is actually good. + Easy steam integration makes it quick to start games with people you know + Zoomed out strategic view Cons: - You can only create control groups, not add to them. - Can't control click to select all units of same type, only doubleclick - All units look fairly similar and are hard to find on your map unless you zoom all the way out - Mouse edge scrolling has a delay, feels laggy when it's not.

Requires third-party launcher. Note: My 6-hours playtime is from idling trading card drops.

I wanted to like this game, but unfortunately it has some major issues that made me stop playing it: 1. Units do not follow commands strictly, sometimes attacking a different unit than the one you order them to focus on. 2. The pathfinding is really bad, sometimes units do strange rotation maneuvers instead of moving to the spot right in front of them. This is particullary problematic with big slow units. 3. The action is not very satisfying, there is no debris from units, the explosions are lackluster compared to Supreme Commander or even Total Annihilation and overall I just do not get any satisfaction from destroying the enemy. 4. Selecting units is not reliable, holding down left the mouse button to draw a selection rectangle does not always select all units in the rectangle forcing me to make another one. Also clicking on a unit sometimes selects a unit under that unit or close to it instead of the one I am clicking on. I did like the setting and theme overall, but the gameplay was not good and I did not finish the campaign so I am not sure if the story is good or not.

Game is very fun and is pretty challenging on harder difficulties. Looking forward to the next game

Best RTS game since CC

amazing