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March 22, 2016 by Island Dog
We have a really cool update today in the Ashes of the Singularity Metaverse ! You can now see how your hardware combinations (such as CPU/GPU) will perform with Ashes using crowdsourced data from other players. In the Benchmarks, just hit ‘more filters’ and you’ll have several more drop-down menus where you can select a wide variety of hardware combinations, DirectX 11 or 12, and a specific version of Ashes of the Singularity. What sort of things can this info be helpfu...
March 22, 2016 by Island Dog
We have a really cool update today in the Ashes of the Singularity Metaverse ! You can now see how your hardware combinations (such as CPU/GPU) will perform with Ashes using crowdsourced data from other players. In the Benchmarks, just hit ‘more filters’ and you’ll have several more drop-down menus where you can select a wide variety of hardware combinations, DirectX 11 or 12, and a specific version of Ashes of the Singularity. What sort of things can this info be helpfu...
March 21, 2016 by Island Dog
The v0.94b update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:   HIGHLIGHTS : Balance Changes Stability & Bug fixes   Gameplay Balance Changes Capture time reduced from 25 to 20 seconds Engineers and Constructors build times increased to 30 seconds Medics can no longer heal Medics Medic self-heal rate reduced from 5 to 4 Increase drone swarm drone armor so that they won't die quite as quickly to Apollo Orbital fabr...
March 18, 2016 by Island Dog
Since the last edition of The Political Machine 2016 weekly stats, we’ve had a lot of developments in the primaries. It will be interesting to see the effects it has had on the game. The big primary in South Carolina for the democrats happened recently and Hillary Clinton easily took that state. Super Tuesday saw wins for Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, and Ted Cruz. Subsequent primaries had Bernie Sanders picking up Michigan from Hillary, and various other states going t...
March 17, 2016 by Island Dog
The v0.94a update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:   HIGHLIGHTS : Achievements Additional Balance Stability & Bug fixes   Gameplay Achievements enabled Ranges rings for building previews Balance Changes PHC Engineer HP increased from 80 to 90 PHC Engineer build time increased from 20 to 24 seconds Substrate Constructor HP reduced from 90 to 50 Substrate Constructor Shields decreased from 100 to 50...
March 16, 2016 by Island Dog
AMD has a promo going on where you get a free copy of Ashes of the Singularity when you purchase a  Radeon R9 380 Series graphics card. http://www.amd.com/en-us/markets/game/featured/ashes-of-the-singularity?sf22608941=1 Take the fight online with AMD and @ashesgame . Get a code with the purchase of an R9 380/X! https://t.co/JFFxbRQR3m pic.twitter.com/zU8VFElhf4 — AMDGaming (@AMDGaming) March 15, 2016
March 15, 2016 by Island Dog
The v0.94 update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:   HIGHLIGHTS : Gameplay Balance Changes Engineer group orders Stability & Bug fixes   Gameplay Engineers can be grouped together to build buildings in a queue using the Army system Balance Changes PHC Scout build time reduced from 15 to 14 PHC Scout cost increased from 50 to 72 Substrate Martyr cost reduced from 100 to 90 Substrate Martyr time to build r...
March 11, 2016 by Island Dog
AnandTech sat down with Microsoft's DirectX 12 lead, Direct3D principle lead, and co-founder of Oxide Games, Dan Baker to discuss the state of DirectX 12. "Taking place next week is the  2016 Game Developers Conference  in San Francisco. GDC has been an important show for some time, but in recent years it has taken on an even bigger role as what happens and what is announced at GDC have greater implications for not just developers, but end-users as well. GDC has been the backd...
March 10, 2016 by Island Dog
This is the second developer diary by Stardock's Founder and CEO, Brad Wardell, on Ashes of the Singularity. This developer diary talks more about the Post-humans beginning with their history. "The human race at the end of 2167 consisted of three primary groups: Natural humans  are much the same as humans have been for thousands of years except with better technology. They represent 99% of the roughly 9 billion humans that live on Earth and to a lesser degree, Mars and the v...
March 10, 2016 by Island Dog
The v0.93 update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:   HIGHLIGHTS : Tutorial Added (initial script - WIP) Stability & Bug fixes   Gameplay Tutorial Added (initial script - WIP)   Art & Graphics Proper skyboxes added to maps   UI Added option to put pan map on Middle Mouse Button Changes to turinium victory bar at top of UI Now shows progress bar for whoever has control of the most...
March 10, 2016 by Island Dog
Ashes of the Singularity: The War Officially Begins on March 31st! You started out on the side of the Post Human Coalition, conquering worlds and seizing control of all the Turinium within your reach. Then, we introduced you to the other side of the war with the sentient AI beings, the Substrate. Throughout the course of Early Access, we've added new maps, bigger explosions, new music, better sound FX, and so much more! Now it's time for the game's release, and...
March 8, 2016 by Island Dog
The v0.92 update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:   HIGHLIGHTS : Map Editor Access Stability fixes Substrate Balance improvements New Map: Bis   Gameplay New Map Bis - 4 player map, also available in ranked 1v1 matchmaking Map Editor Access: add -modding as a command line option before running the game to display the Map Editor button in the bottom left of the main menu. Attack-move behavior chan...
March 7, 2016 by Island Dog
Check out Microsoft's new video, The Power of DirectX 12 featuring Ashes of the Singularity.
March 3, 2016 by Island Dog
The v0.91 update for Ashes of the Singularity is now available. Check out the latest updates:   HIGHLIGHTS : Stability fixes Performance improvements Balance improvements New Map: Fringe   Gameplay New Map Fringe Adding Fringe, Cygnus, and Pyn to the matchmaking 1v1 playlist Removing Polis and Frozen Wastes from ranked map playlist Host migration now functions in matches with AI opponents AI improvements (new tactics & build optio...
March 3, 2016 by Island Dog
Microsoft had a showcase of Spring games for the Xbox and PC platforms, and highlighted some DirectX 12 games including Ashes of the Singularity. " Ashes of the Singularity is taking advantage the DirectX 12 multi-adapter technology, allowing PCs to use multiple GPUs, even from different manufacturers." Read more.... http://news.xbox.com/2016/03/01/xbox-spring-showcase-recap/