Planetary Annihilation kickstarter

degrassinoel

officially it wont be this year at all. Just read on polygon that they've announced the release date will be "when it's done" in early 2014.

If you ask me, it's a sham to keep the pricing the way it is on steam at its still ridiculous 54.99, but hey at least it's not 89.99 anymore

I still wont buy it, even though i'd like to (when it's done) at it's current price.

Sephiroth_dude

****ing joke *rages*

mojojojoprime

Really looking forward to this game it might be exactly what the RTS scene needs right now.

KillerShamrock

This is now down to 45€ on steam and 50$ from ubernet so around 37€ which is reasonable territory for this even though its a beta but you get the full game for that price too so not bad.

I'm enjoying it, the AI is evil though ha ha

Skerries

on sale for €24.60

Skerries

I'm still in two minds whether to get this, so has anyone played and what do you think?

grizzly

I'd not jump in (yet). I've played about 5 games at various stages of the beta and never felt like going back for a 2nd game in the hours/days after playing.

Xios

grizzly wrote: »

I'd not jump in (yet). I've played about 5 games at various stages of the beta and never felt like going back for a 2nd game in the hours/days after playing.

How come? It looks pretty fun.

Sephiroth_dude

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00I9W9UMK/ref=oh_details_o00_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Hopefully that release date is correct.

iggyigauna89

Just picked this up in the steam sales for 15 quid. Have to say I'm really enjoying it. They've added a new single player mode called Galactic War that is quite addictive. Definitely recommend picking it up if it goes as low again.

Skerries

had a few games and got my arse handed to me and too lazy to watch the tutorial, how do you start building aircraft and making missile launchers?

iggyigauna89

Skerries wrote: »

had a few games and got my arse handed to me and too lazy to watch the tutorial, how do you start building aircraft and making missile launchers?

In the Galactic War mode is it? That's all I've played so far!

Overheal

Skerries wrote: »

had a few games and got my arse handed to me and too lazy to watch the tutorial, how do you start building aircraft and making missile launchers?

iggyigauna89 wrote: »

In the Galactic War mode is it? That's all I've played so far!

In regular Multiplayer the whole tech tree is unlocked: Aircraft, Bots, Tanks, Nukes, Orbital Lasers, and Halley V Engines the wonderful tools of destruction that knock large objects into other large objects.

In Galactic War though you start off with only the basics: 3 open Tech Slots, and the Vehicle Factory basic loadout. Other starting loadouts appear to be unlockable. But within the Galactic War itself you can unlock tech and powerups (Exploring a Planet you will get tech like "Complete Orbital Tech" or "Basic Air Tech" and so on, and these each take up 1 slot, so obviously Complete is rarer than Basic or Advanced (Advanced requiring you to have Basic; in the case of Basic Vehicles you have this by default) Other tech slot powerups include things like increase efficiency of Metal and Power generation by 40%, Sub Commanders (AI-controlled Allies) etc.

It's a lot of fun in the current state its in. On a laptop I find the lag between laptop and server though causes a lot of server side crashes, havent played it on my main PC yet. And the AI of course builds out quite fast - if you haven't taken a serious dent into them within the first 20-30 minutes, in some cases you might be screwed unless you can retreat to an uninhabited moon or something.

The shortest game I've played was 8 minutes and the longest was 2 and a half hours: the AI pushed me off world, and had some nasty tech: I did not have air, he did, and he had orbital fighters, artillery cannons that shoot over the horizon, and made use of anti-orbit defenses. All I had were basic vehicles and orbital tech. I tried twice to return to the planet by rushing a stargate and dumping my vehicles in, but he had literally hundreds of planes, and splash damage from the few bombs that made it past all my AA did it all in. Twice.
I had to build orbital-fabricators on the moon, and send them to a barren spot back on the main planet and quickly build as many orbital defences as possible. He sent his orbital fighters after me which I managed to repel because he had them in small enough numbers and I eventually covered an entire hemisphere in orbital defences until it was safe enough to build another stargate to let my ground forces warp in. After they died, again, I just kept inched orbital cannons forward taking advantage of the fact that an Umbrella (ground anti-orbit) is outranged very slightly by the orbital defence cannon. Finally!

In a normal muliplayer game it would have been much simpler: secure a spot in orbit above the planet, locate the oppossite side of the planet where the commander was, and hurl the moon at him (making sure your own comm is safely sitting in orbit on a carrier). Or nukes. Bitches love nukes.

Sephiroth_dude

How low did it go in the steam sale?

iggyigauna89

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

How low did it go in the steam sale?

€15.60 or there abouts. Was 66% off

Sephiroth_dude

iggyigauna89 wrote: »

€15.60 or there abouts. Was 66% off

Feck

WhiskeyGoblin

I bought it, haven't a clue what I'm doing but it's pretty enjoyable

Overheal

Current steam sale vote will bring PA back to 66% off. Vote now!

Sephiroth_dude

Oh please god make it win.....can't get to a computer atm >_<

Kiith

Thanks Overheal...your description above just made me want to buy another bloody game

Sephiroth_dude

Did it win ?

Kiith

No, didn't win, but i'm sure it'll pop up again before the end.

Cravez

I was hoping it would win, I was half tempted when it was on the daily's but now kind of want it so hopefully it appears again before end of sale.

WhiskeyGoblin

Everyone get it and we organise a large scale boards battle :P

Overheal

we will crash a mother****ing server

WhiskeyGoblin

Overheal wrote: »

we will crash a mother****ing server

It will be glorious.

iggyigauna89

I've found this guys channel very useful for getting to grips with the game. The in-game tutorial (if you can even call it that, it's only a video!) isn't great.

Skerries

It's cheaper here slightly if it doesn't come down today

Sephiroth_dude

Its back down to 15 \0/

Varik

Bought it there on phone, loved the supcom and TA games.

Will be next weekend before I can play.

VinLieger

Been watching a lot of Zaphods videos since I bought this, would love to get a big crazy game going with some boardsies as im kinda scared to go into general matchmaking

WhiskeyGoblin

VinLieger wrote: »

Been watching a lot of Zaphods videos since I bought this, would love to get a big crazy game going with some boardsies as im kinda scared to go into general matchmaking

Sure I'll give ye a game!

Sephiroth_dude

I'm up for a match, any time, any where

iggyigauna89

I'll be on later on tonight, would be up for a game!

Steam id: http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198021371660/

WhiskeyGoblin

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

I'm up for a match, any time, any where

If you promise you wont laugh, then I'll play :P


Sure only the other day my friend told me I had been building walls, after I spend some time complaining how "broke" the energy system in the game is :P

Sephiroth_dude

marko93 wrote: »

If you promise you wont laugh, then I'll play :P


Sure only the other day my friend told me I had been building walls, after I spend some time complaining how "broke" the energy system in the game is :P

Sure I haven't a clue what I'm doing so were in the same boat

WhiskeyGoblin

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Sure I haven't a clue what I'm doing so were in the same boat

Excellent, what's your steam name

Sephiroth_dude

marko93 wrote: »

Excellent, what's your steam name

captain_panzer you?

Varik

God damn it,I want to play this now.

Have it bought but not going to be near PC until end of week.



Am I facing a large download on Friday evening?

WhiskeyGoblin

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

captain_panzer you?

marko93101

Overheal

Varik wrote: »

Am I facing a large download on Friday evening?

No the games download size is only a bit over a gigabyte

Varik

Overheal wrote: »

No the games download size is only a bit over a gigabyte

No time at all then.

Varik

So 2 games in and while I deserved to win the first game and did, the second was a bit cheap. I just got into space first and ganked the enemy commander.

iggyigauna89

Varik wrote: »

So 2 games in and while I deserved to win the first game and did, the second was a bit cheap. I just got into space first and ganked the enemy commander.

Were you playing online or Galactic War? I've only played GW so far, might dip my toes into online soon

Varik

iggyigauna89 wrote: »

Were you playing online or Galactic War? I've only played GW so far, might dip my toes into online soon

Gw, I know a human wouldn't lose like that but it did felt cheap.

Also went to watch the replay and couldn't figure out how to get back to the game.

Baked.noodle

Apparently this is now available in stores, and the Collector's Edition will be available soon and includes a Logitech mouse and a hardcover book as well as DLC. Just had a look on Steam and it's a very reasonable €28. Tempted.

Just noticed you can get it cheaper.

Outkast_IRE

I am holding tough on this till some critic reviews start coming through, the user reviews look mixed at best. I would love if this was a great game as i enjoyed supreme commander etc.

cherryghost

Remember when it was 80 quid and there was a boycott on the game? Seems everyone has forgotten it already

Skerries

I bought it on sale for something like €15 during the summer sales

Genghiz Cohen

cherryghost wrote: »

Remember when it was 80 quid and there was a boycott on the game? Seems everyone has forgotten it already

I haven't.
And with the high price tag, missing features, always online and DLC it'll be another long while before I consider picking it up.