Recent reviews by Kohnja

I have pretty high hopes for this game. Combat was fluid felt clean (albeit a bit slower?)like in sc2. I love the addition of the macro tabs, it makes it way easier to coach newer players of rts into the genre (getting them to set up control groups on buildings can be daunting). Game obviously needs a ton of polish and over time I hope the world continuously get fleshed out, however it reminds me of early sc2. I think the bones are solid in this one and the development team seems dedicated; as long as it continues development at this pace I have high hopes for the game.

As for the negatives: currently some combat abilities feel pretty niche or unimpactful. this coupled with the removal of armor/weapon upgrades (which i think in concept the removal of these can work fine) end up with technology often being overlooked or overshadowed. This can end up with a type of brute force game play, where you are not tempted to risk a large technology investment that will pay out as material throughout the game later in lieu of just expanding and pumping units.

Fun new civs, and adding variants gives a ton of options to devs for future content. Great expansion