Micromanagement...

[LazyAmerican]

Can i ignore unit abilities and just make a huge army of tanks to win? lol that's all I ever wanted from modern C&C...just spam tank army with occasional custom rules for infantry battles in glorious 4k modern graphics.

[BRADL3RO]

I don't see why not.

[Eric]

Not sure if it works there are some aoe or some units specialized to counter just mass tanks

[PhamTrinli]

Originally posted by LazyAmerican:

Can i ignore unit abilities and just make a huge army of tanks to win? lol that's all I ever wanted from modern C&C...just spam tank army with occasional custom rules for infantry battles in glorious 4k modern graphics.

I would say it depends on who you are playing against. Against hardest AI opponent? Maybe. Against a good human opponent? Probably not.

[wayward]

We specifically designed unit abilities in this game to be optional. There are a few deploy abilities like with the Comms Rig or Salvage San that are more important but for the most part if you don't want to use unit abilities it's not going to hurt you. We call this philosophy opt in complexity.

[PhamTrinli]

I don't see how it's possible to add value and make it optional. Either it doesn't add any advantage (value) or it isn't optional when your opponent makes good use of it. I'll have to get in and experience to see which one it is though.

[The 13th Ghost Bunny]

So many units have manual use abilities, it's pretty crazy. Even the transport has an ability to stun infantry, which feels weird since infantry die super quickly anyway. I've just been ignoring all of them so far and it has worked out well enough so you should be fine.

[darkblade]

Originally posted by LazyAmerican:

Can i ignore unit abilities and just make a huge army of tanks to win? lol that's all I ever wanted from modern C&C...just spam tank army with occasional custom rules for infantry battles in glorious 4k modern graphics.

some of them you need, but your not forced to, but if you got the chance of a firepower boost with the press of a key then i guess even you would do it

[HISKI LP]

I wish that most of the abilitys would be an autocast, like the trebuchet

[PhamTrinli]

Originally posted by HISKI LP:

I wish that most of the abilitys would be an autocast, like the trebuchet

are they at least hot-keyed?

[Yellowjacket]

Originally posted by PhamTrinli:

Originally posted by HISKI LP:

I wish that most of the abilitys would be an autocast, like the trebuchet

are they at least hot-keyed?

almost, but this system is forcing you to use F1-F12 keys to build units and structures. the devs clearly never played a single rts before and there is no way to switch to different building presets like the QWER set up :(