Different How?

[evil.sausage]

Okay I just found this game on Steam so I don't have it yet. I do intend to get it, but in the meanwhile, how is it different from the first version of UEBS?

I mean there were a lot of things I loved about the 1.0 version - the variety of units, and the graphics, and the cinematic mode, which made every game like a show I could just sit back and watch. But it had some real problems that I hope were fixed in this version.

Like some bugs - for instance, the melee and/or laser robots would levitate and just walk around in the sky, above the battlefield. And units often fell into a lake or river and then just walked around underwater, no longer involved in the fighting (which was especially annoying, because then a game wouldn't end on its own, as their enemies couldn't kill them). And I frequently saw solid object pass through other solid objects like Kitty Pryde.

But the most irritating thing was the endless search through modded units, because they weren't organized alphabetically, and there was no autofill function that would enable you to type the first few letters of a unit's name and have it search for anything that began with those letters.

So anyway, it probably sounds like I disliked the original, but I really did enjoy it. But I am hoping for fixes on these and other issues. Can anyone tell me whether that's happened?

[(Clever Name Here)]

The engine is better and now you can have millions, upon millions, upon millions of units on screen. Assuming your PC doesn't burst into flames. There are also things such as water that realistically goes down slopes and can even drown people. Heck, one of your powers is pouring water. I made a pond where some people were and drowned about 20k people.

There is also an experimental blood thing that lets units bleed. More so blood can now obey the laws of physics. So lets say your on a mountain and hundreds started getting killed, the blood will start to run down the mountain side. Over time blood will start to form lakes of blood because there is so much.

I'm actually surprised how much content there is for 0.1. I have a 2070 Super and can get about 4 million units on screen and get about 10fps. You can still take over units if you want. There is even a RTS mode so you play the game as if it were an RTS, like click and drag a box over some units and command them what to do.

For now the game isn't super optimized of course as with any 0.1 game. But I'm having a blast with what there is. Oh.... and you can have armies of mantis shrimp. Who doesn't want that? lol