Recent reviews by Latedi

TL;DR
The game has a very stable foundation. There is some new functionality which is great for competitive play and also features to help new players. I think the game has a lot of potential and will be excited to see the release of it.

I've had a lot of fun in this game already. All the makings of a good RTS is already in place: good netcode, unit pathing, ladder, etc. Now I only really play competitive 1v1s but there's plenty of strategies and tactics, granted the early access has some overpowered builds but I think they're likely to be patched. Once all the units, tech and more refinements etc are in place I think this has potential to become a truly great competitive RTS.

The team obviously play the genre themselves and there are some small but important details for competitive players which I have not seen much in other games. Mainly the quick macro panel. It helps with building, training units and upgrading. For example in the early game you might want to send a worker to start a building at exactly 100 resources, but later on you can simply hit quick macro, throw down the building blueprints, and workers will automatically move to build them. Similarly the unit training and upgrade tabs are basically hotkeys for all production/upgrade buildings and they're added automatically. This also frees up hotkeys for your army.

Then there's the auto hotkey feature which is pretty neat. You can have units automatically added to hotkey groups so there's no need to find them and add them to existing hotkey groups. You can also take any units and steal them to other groups should you want to harass or scout with them separately as in other games. In other words you can use this functionality instead of any select-all-army buttons which would mess up your multi tasking commands.

Lastly there's the Buddy Bot to help beginners macro. It cannot be used in 1v1s but it's great that the game is made more accessible to players new to the genre. Casual players are the lifeblood of any game.

The Gamer To Game Developer series is one of the most informative and thorough Unity3D tutorials around in my experience. If you want to learn about how to make multiplayer games I would highly recommend this product. The first season is also very good and teaches basics about the Unity engine as well as some more advanced topics, so pick that up too if you haven't already. Being this cheap anyone can afford it and even if the price was higher it would still be worth every last cent.