Just had a quick 1v1 against normal AI. I didn't see the "Victory points option in skirmish and lobby setup screens" so won before crushing the AI (normal difficulty) but it was fun. I hadn't really had fun in other quick games i tried so things are getting better. Just jumped back in the game and it looks like you can't turn them off? Just put them to 10000? I'll put it on that and see what that number actually means in reality. I assume an off is coming?

I loaded it up on my laptop and desktop which have 765m and 970 respectively but the default graphic options appeared to be the same (minimum) so the default settings mentioned above needs a bit of work. After changing them it would be nice to get a "restart game now" when it says the game has to be restarted to change to the new settings.

I noticed some buildings just disappeared when they were destroyed instead of exploding. (dx11)

When zoomed out and moving across the map the view can dip and rise very rapidly as the camera height follows the contours of the map. It can be quite jarring. It might be better to just let the camera sit at a fixed high point regardless of the terrain beneath so it is nice and smooth.

Games is getting better though so that is great. Look forward to more updates.

I see you've also re-enabled the ability for T2 and T3 units and battle groups to request reinforcements. Thanks! I found that if you build a new factory while there are still reinforcements yet to be built, the new factory will help complete the request. Nice touch.

Also, "Repeat Queue"!

These two alone help reduce much micro and allow me to spam units faster than I could before.

Units in groups also appear to be behaving better, moving around more speedily and fluidly. Still have units in back being too lazy to fight though.

Nice work guys and gals!

Sometimes in the Seed the option to build an engineer is not there. All you see is the global ability. It comes and goes and seems to be swapping between displaying either the global ability or the build engineer option in the same spot. Hopefully it is not me missing something 

An army marching in column will stop when in contact with the ennemy keeping it's column formation the rear units won't participate at the battle.

I guess there will be performance improvement for the future?

As the graphics (not the art but the quality) is not really fantastic and it bring my 970 to a crawl.

I hope there is  still quite a few optimization here and there that can be made.

remove Engineer from Factory build list (can only be built at seed now)

 So explain how we will have engeniers in long maps if only build in  seed !!!!!!

 Wy remove Engineer from Factory build list ,i dont get !!!!

If we loose the most important unit ,the only that can build and its slow to arrive any where if gets kill game over?

There will be an orbital call down that will bring Engineers up to the front lines.

I hope so! That terrain texturing looks pretty old school sometimes 

Is there another RTS with procedurally generated terrain? I'm not sure what RTS you are looking for Ashes to be more like. The engine supports any level of detail (again: procedurally generate terrain).  Which game do you want it to look more like?

@Frogboy, you're right, I don't know any, and I didn't even know that the terrain was procedurally generated! That's awesome.

I made it sound worse than it is, but I'll try it on the highest settings and probably eat my own words.

eventually it also means we will likely get randomly generated maps.

Another updated build went live today and is just focused on stability fixes.

Nice Thanks

I've actually given this issue a bit of thought with all the various posts on the subject- the sharpness of the models for units certainly makes them 'pop' when seen against the terrain, which is good, but it does sometimes make the terrain look a bit...dowdy?

Is it possible instead to add in slightly more variation on size/typing of things like trees and streams, and possibly make the coloration stand up/out a bit more?  I don't want to see it become something hand drawn, of course, and I obviously don't want to either fail to instantly see units (like I do now) or devote too much CPU/GPU cycles to this, but it seems like a little more brighter colors and/or slightly sharper lines (emphasis on slightly) might be nice.  It's not really a problem with the terrain itself, I love the slopes and hills, it's with the details, making them a little more visually interesting (emphasis on little) might make them not just 'noise' but pretty in their own right- it's really the hefty contrast between the crisp units and the sort of fuzzy dull trees that brings it to attention at all.  Obviously don't go overboard with this, I just think there's slightly more middle ground where it might bring the background world and the units slightly more in sync with each other.

Just my thoughts.

I have to agree with @Wagnard, I also hope we can see some performance boosts soon, since the game itself is hitting early access very soon now. Now I know its EA but everyone knows by now how the steam community is.