1- New units are part of the Premium DLC? that will be bad for the community.

2- Are the new big maps part of the Premium DLC? it will be bad again.

3- New Scenarios and Side/Main stories will be awesome to see as Premium DLC.

I don't think Brad is saying that. He is only saying that the DLC is going to fund work on new units. The DLC is large maps and scenarios.

Didn't Brad mention that for multiplayer only one side has to own the DLC?

I'm perfectly happy to pay $3.99 for DLC. That's a reasonable price for a map pack and I want to support future development of the game.

In the Steam forums Frogboy has said ranked could use them as the server can hold the content even if the players don't have it. Though he has said the DLC is more focused on larger maps.

 Any one can make maps ,but how many can make good maps with good quality ,good gameplay and good tatic field positions?

 And how many can make a map that make you enjoy and understand the game by the map.

 Be a MapMaker isnt to all, you go to faf and there is + 300 maps but there are only 6/8 maps that players keep play everydays !

There are 3 basic rules:

 1-You must know the game .

 2-You must understant what a good % players like .

 3-you must be a active team player.

I dont see how units look the same , personality maybe needs a bit work but they are very well done.

No no, the units design are really fine, I was talking about maybe making some new skins for PHC and Substrate.

Substrate Eradicator.  This is a relatively slow moving but long ranged direct fire unit designed to deal with Artemis's and to a lesser degree, massed Archers.

So basically you are giving substrate a better and longer range version of nemesis that can even killl mass archers? It will be the same issue like with the bombers, on the side of phc we will have slow animations of indirect damage while substrate receives direct damage aoe sniper? 

What is the point? To make everyonr play sub in ladder?

Btw one mauler can kill a phc cruiser in two seconds, isnt that retarded?

Hey Guys, been a while.

Was just passing by to say thank you. The game is shaping great.

With the last patches and balance tweaks, plenty of things are really improved.

First, the group management, the formations and the default behaviour of units when grouped in a Meta Unit or not : Could still use some tweaks, notably the general form of the big groups when they move across the map on long distances, or the way they stop and attack at max range or create a concave when an A-move order is given. To emphasize on the clarity of the frontlines. Pretty sure that some more improvements are coming our way, and you already achieved some really nice improvements on this point. 

Then, the general pace of the gameplay. you certainly reached one of your objectives on that. Now we can clearly feel that we have two different and very complementary layers of gameplay : 

- A general macro part with the economy and map occupation with the frigates. The pace is good, units have enough HP and the groups behaviour are satisfying to render this "Macro battlefield". We can feel when the engagements are balanced, or when the combat is turning at the advantage of someone in particular. Really nice.

- The secondary layer of gameplay which is more related to the micro part, with the plethora of choices we have to reinforce some points with strong units, fight with some air units, improve punctually our economy with specific buildings or orbital abilities, micro some techniques or counter moves on the field. Neat.

New regular balance patches or content such as new maps having a good variety, new features or units, the roadmap is clear and serious...

Just a little thing about ergonomy : Not a big deal, but queuing some orders with the shift button also "unlocks" the camera height and the max zoom-in or zoom out levels. so the camera goes very far or at the contrary fall literally in the ground, maybe because the Shift shortcut has several usages that are overlapping. hitting again the shift button once or twice locks the camera again. It happens regularly. Maybe i missed something, and as said this is not a big deal, but could you fix that please?

Also the sound samples are somewhat acting strangely. Don't know if it is related to stereo effects, the number of simultaneous samples playable at a time or something else, but the source of the sounds, in particular explosions, canon sounds and more generally combat effects and their localization are approximative. sound balance going from left to right or the opposite in an abrupt manner, sound localization kinda "desynched" from the action. Here again, pretty sure that some tweaks are in the tubes.

The game had some really nice improvements so far. Ashes turns out surprisingly singular. So thank you, keep up the good work and the efforts