Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation - Strategic Zoom

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In this video we reveal the added larger maps, more players in a match, more gameplay options and the new "Strategic Zoom."

Players of “Sins of a Solar Empire” will feel right at home viewing the map at this long distance. Being able to set waypoints and queue up orders from farther out makes commanding much easier!

New game options will allow customization of exactly what type of rushes or limits you want on the game. Do you want to take regions with overwhelming force or have massive defenses? Try the new Entrenchment options! Don't want to worry about those sneaky Quanta abilities? Turn off Orbital Coverage altogether!

A few of the new map setup options:

  • Atmosphere: Turn off to disable air units.

  • Orbital Coverage: To disable Orbital Abilities

  • Nanobot Productivity: How fast buildings and units build.

  • Neutral Defenders: Random, light to heavy or completely off.

Stay tuned, we look forward to showing you many other improvements and new additions!

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Reply #1 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top


Atmosphere: Turn off to disable air units.

In your twitch stream you had this turned off but the AI were still building air units. A bug it would seem.

Reply #2 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

A few of the new map setup options:

 

 


    • Atmosphere: Turn off to disable air units.

 


    • Orbital Coverage: To disable Orbital Abilities

 


    • Nanobot Productivity: How fast buildings and units build.

 


    • Neutral Defenders: Random, light to heavy or completely off.

 


Stay tuned, we look forward to showing you many other improvements and new additions!

Order Ashes: Escalation today!

AWESOME! This was my main wish (Well, this and more units), so I can't wait to play with Orbitals off!

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Reply #3 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

This will be the first time I've experienced global zoom since I wasn't a player of SOASE so it'll be interesting to see how this fairs out. Nice amount of options which I thought Ashes badly needed and I'm glad that we have a nice bunch of game options to choose from. 

 

@Ticktoc - I never noticed that he had atmosphere disabled. Was.t that for the first game? The second game didn't he have atmosphere enabled? I honestly can't remember to be honest. 

Reply #4 from AshesoftheSingularity Forums Top

Quoting SteveMoza, reply 3

@Ticktoc - I never noticed that he had atmosphere disabled. Was.t that for the first game? The second game didn't he have atmosphere enabled? I honestly can't remember to be honest. 

In the first big game they were disabled and he kept saying he couldn't build air...but the AI didn't seem to have problems building air.

Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top

Orbital Coverage: To disable Orbital Abilities

So it actually happened.  That's good news.

At some point, it would be nice to be able to disable 'specific' orbitals since there are really only two or three that hamper my enjoyment of the game but still... a very positive step.