Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation v2.03 changelog (Released 1/26)

Published on January 10, 2017 By Draginol In Ashes of the Singularity

**RELEASED 1/26/17**

Balance

Eliminator Turret damage increased from 1000 to 2000
Starburst Turret damage increased from 80 to 200
Artemis logistics cost increased from 6 to 8
Thantos sight radius increased from 500m to 800m
Athena HP reduced from 2000 to 1200
Engineer build time increased from 25 to 26
Strategic Bomber cost increased from 120 metal to 480 metal
Strategic Bomber cost increased from 800 rads to 1200 rads
Drone Hive shield recharge reduced from 2 per sec to 1 per sec
Mauler max shield increased to 1200
Mauler rad cost increased from 60 to 80 rads
Destructor logistics cost increased from 4 to 8
Substrate Constructor build time increased from 24s to 26s
Punisher radioactive cost increased from 240 to 280 rads
Punisher shields increased from 800 to 1200
Dominator build time increased from 50 to 60 seconds
Barrager turret build time increased from 100 to 120 seconds
Artillery turret rad cost increased from 180 to 240
Artillery turret build time increased from 120 to 180
PHC Refinery HP reduced from 1500 to 800
PHC Quantum Relay build time reduced from 70s to 60s
Air Eliminator Turret Rad cost increased from 270 to 600 (this is an end game ultimate air defense)
Air Eliminator Turret build time increased from 120 to 240
Sky Ender Turret build time increased from 80 to 240
Sky Ender Turret rad cost increased from 60 to 600 rads (this is an end game ultimate air defense)
Increased Caregiver logistics from 3 to 30
Harbinger shields increased from 600 to 4000 (designed to be an incredibly resilient air unit)
Harbinger rad cost increased from 800 to 1200
Caregiver vision increased from 500m to 1000m

Graphics

Added unique icons for AA and Mixed Turrets
Made the attack-move order preview in strategic view red
UI now displays the proper cooldown percentages for "custom" cooldown lengths.

Bugs

Fixed a crash with when updating Constructor orders.
Athena weapon effects are now properly aligned with its weapons.
Smartie missiles now use all of its tubes.
Fix issue with "Paranoid Android" achievement that prevented it from being completed reliably
Fixed a crash related to selecting a specific unit within a formation
Units will no longer stop moving if their destination region is captured before they arrive.
Typo fixes

Missions

Europa: Give bonus logistics to cover cost of free Dreadnaughts
Betelgeuse: Added additional Artemis waves
Yorkshire: Fixed a camera related crash
Lagoan - adjusted Aviary dialogue

Comments (Page 3)

Never123

on Jan 17, 2017

Quesocito

reply 30

Quoting Never123,

reply 29

and maybe it works vs you this good, in fact your are new in this game; thus you have to practice more....

have you ever played vs a phc, which used emp against you? 50 quanta and your whole army is nearly dead...

and yes you are right, substrate has only one usable dreadnought the savager... the others are just bad...

and now we are back to the fundamental problem... stardocks dont tackle the real problems... instead of making the current units usable, they working on new units...

the same problem I worte a post some month ago, " why does stardocks work at a add on (escalation), if they are not able to fix bugs and balance of the base game..."

most companies do what stardock is doing, the real money comes from the MAJORITY OF PLAYERS, who are the SP players (remember >95%), so balance doesn't mean as much to them. new content means more and thus "why does stardocks work at a add on" because it makes sense my young Padawan.. even if u don't like it...

hahahahaha ok so ur definition of balance is git gud? hahaha

the problem then isn't with the drone swarm being too expensive for u, its with the EMP being too cheap..

later in the game the drone swarm becomes next to useless (since we now all have AA) so imagine u complain about the drone swarm being too weak, I can say git gud as well? u want the swarm cheaper? ah man git gud and build more quantra... such a lazy response saying "thus you have to practice more" u and ekko chat a lot?

u cant counter arty? git gud...

yeah because you are a newbie in this game and ekko has not been a good player ,too. As I played against him the last time.

its nothing mean or I want to be mean your just new in the game and you have very less experience.

You can blame me for that... but it don´t compensate you lack of experience

Quesocito

on Jan 19, 2017

firstly ur showing me a match from vanilla?

we are discussing ESCALATION. next i NEVER said im NOT a newbie... but since u seem to think thats what i was arguing about, let me fill u in on where i stand prestige rank 19, 57 dread kills in 30 hrs of ranked play... and 140 hrs game time across both games.. meaning i have the highest ranked dread kills to game time.. so while there are players in the ladder that have more wins than me, they are all generally due to rushing.. so maybe i know something about the long game since i havent lost a single long match.. which means i might actually understand something about the mechanics of the game.. add to this that every balance issue i have mentioned has eventually been altered.. (and because im sick of people using "u MUST be wrong since u are new"... i have over 5600 hrs of strategy games(check steam) in the last 6 years, and ive been playing strategy games for the last 25 years, so do the math) now that we are done comparing sizes..

back to the actual issue at hand... its lazy to say "u are wrong since u are a newb" i said drones are inconsistent, giving a blanket balance change like cost reduction just pushes the balance issue too far in the one direction. whereas the drone swarm needs more work to make it balanced. read what i said, dont just brush it off because u are the "master" ashes player..

Quesocito

reply 28

when I first started playing the drone swarm killed me almost every time. if u don't have AA as PHC u are dead. which means an Apollo. an Apollo is overly expensive just to counter a POSSIBLE drone swarm, and then where will the drone swarm lay? also the drone swarm lasts for >1 min, so If u DO NOT kill it with AA, it can easily destroy a lot of ur base. so no AA, and the enemy uses drone swarm = crippled. compared to the plasma storm? that lasts 15 sec, is dodgeable (with good micro that I could even do when I started playing) if anything I think the drone swarm should become a more consistent power, currently it dies too easily to AA, and does too much damage if u don't have AA.

i actually watched more of the video now, if anything u prove the over effectiveness of the drone swarm when there is no AA...

Quesocito

on Jan 19, 2017

double post

Never123

on Jan 19, 2017

I tested the opt in patch the athena is still too strong... it wins with about 240 hp vs the mauler, however the cost are much less.

particularly there is a probelm with the medic, due to the more hp hera and athena benefit form medic much more than before...

Island Dog

on Jan 26, 2017

Update released today.

dosadinz

on Jan 26, 2017

will you ever take away substrate infinite resource hack?

bipolartuna

on Jan 26, 2017

bbc6rgf57ytty5yxyw5gt

reply 21

It's been possible to play the DLC maps the whole time. Go to Steam\steamapps\common\Ashes of the Singularity\Assets\Maps and copy and paste the maps from there to the Escalation maps folder.

Was about to ask on this, will try what you say.

Edit - didn't work for me.

Never123

on Jan 27, 2017

really nice!!! you released it without

Harbinger shields increased from 600 to 4000 (designed to be an incredibly resilient air unit)

Quesocito

on Jan 27, 2017

Never123

reply 38

really nice!!! you released it without

Harbinger shields increased from 600 to 4000 (designed to be an incredibly resilient air unit)

at least it was released! im sure more balance will follow.. so no worries

Ticktoc

on Jan 27, 2017

bipolartuna

reply 37

Quoting bbc6rgf57ytty5yxyw5gt,

reply 21

It's been possible to play the DLC maps the whole time. Go to Steam\steamapps\common\Ashes of the Singularity\Assets\Maps and copy and paste the maps from there to the Escalation maps folder.

Was about to ask on this, will try what you say.

Edit - didn't work for me.

It is a bit more than just copying the maps:

http://steamcommunity.com/app/507490/discussions/0/152392786911696919/

(worked for me)

bbc6rgf57ytty5yxyw5gt

on Jan 27, 2017

I said DLC maps not scenarios, Tag Utter's solution does work for scenarios though.

Ticktoc

on Jan 27, 2017

bbc6rgf57ytty5yxyw5gt

reply 41

I said DLC maps not scenarios, Tag Utter's solution does work for scenarios though.

Ah true, my bad.

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