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I was an original Kickstarter backer from about 3-years ago. I was very disappointed in the development of new content prior to steam and for the past year I hadn't paid much attention to Castle Story until I happen to notice that 0.5 was released and appears to incorporate some new content. I figured it had probably been a year or more since I last checked in so I'd give it another go.

Upon booting up the game, I noticed there were some new maps which made me think perhaps maybe they had finally gotten their act together and started producing content.

I started off chopping down some trees so I had a place to stockpile resources. I had remembered from a year ago when I last played that they came up with a horrible horrible user interface. News flash, it's still there and it's my opinion that they somehow managed to make it even more complicated. I simply, without a doubt, absolutely hate the interface they've come up with.

After creating a few dozen zones to allow my minions to place resources, I decided to start doing some mining to collect rock/stone as well. I sent off four of the five minion to work on the side of a hill while my remaining unit cleaned up the rest of the trees and made some barrels for later.

About 10 minutes later, all my miners went stupid and were just standing there. I moved them away from the hill, then assigned them to mining the hill again, which they happily did until 5 minutes later when they went stupid and forgot what they were supposed to be doing again.

I instructed the minion away from the hill again, lets them regroup and sent them back to mining the hill again. After 5 minutes, brain dead again. Apparently the game still has some very serious pathing issues that have yet to be resolved.

Right click, delete local content.

I guess I’ll check back in a few years when 0.6 comes out.

I was really really hoping for a Supreme Commmander on this one. In my opinion, Supreme Commander II missed the mark and Planetary Annihilation missed it even further.