The Germans launch Operation Battleaxe against british forces in North Africa *ahem* Since we are finally getting into the historical content of the game (yay! :D ), I feel compelled to mention this is incorrect. Operation Battleaxe was a British Army operation during the Second World War in June 1...

I'm always irked by about graphics coming before gameplay, and gameplay being sacrificed for graphics in modern gaming, and I'm definitely generally pleased with what's been seen and said here. The only thing I will say is that there is no resting on any laurels. Improvements are still coming and be...

CaesarCzech wrote: ↑

Tue Jul 23, 2019 9:19 am

Did you mean Soon or Valve Soon ?

Half Life 2 Episode 3 Soon. lol

You should expect infantry to look bad in 3D because... I remain unconvinced. I'm sure they'll get there one way or another. I compare this game often to Civ V, and once infantry gets to that state, it'll be the best it can be out of the tools and camera options available. The foundation is actuall...

@PatrickWard: You're welcome. That guy is really something. He has some mannerisms which thankfully make him pretty easy to spot. It is mostly his garbled English and trashtalking. After a while, he cant help himself to post some of his off-brand work to get views. The hours he puts into this witho...

The problem with infantry isn't that they looked bad in one dev diary. It's that we expected them to look terrible even before we saw them I'm afraid I must disagree strongly. I think the game looks beautiful, spectacular even as you zoom way in and see really detailed tank models or rocket artille...

AtomicKaiser wrote: ↑

Thu Jul 04, 2019 10:32 pm

Idea: Moopeople mod for AE?

Cyber-bovine aliens. I bet that's worth some meme points to someone somewhere.

Hi. I am the dev behind this game. Master of Orion 2 is certainly an inspiration for AE, but so are other classic games like Pax Imperia 2 and Star Wars Rebellion. Astra Exodus aims to pay homage to the classics, while trying out some new stuff, like a choice driven campaign, semi-random research t...

Perhaps it's best not to bother with more Dev Diaries, especially if your heart isn't in it or you don't have time. They tend to only get around 1,000 views anyways. A better way to generate interest would be to simply not have an NDA for the beta. That way we could discuss and share screenshots wi...

It's funny, I've never had the same nostalgia for MOO2 that so many other fans of the 4x genre do. Perhaps because I didn't play it until sometime in the last decade, by which point its flaws were apparent, and had been outshined by other games in the genre. If anything, Astra Exodus reminds me of ...

Please dear god be like Master of Orion 2.

So many wanna be games have tried to be as fun as Master of Orion 2, and all of them just make me want to go back to Master of Orion 2. Even that new official Master of Orion.

Pixel wrote: ↑

Sun Jun 30, 2019 2:47 am

Sci-Fi game sounds intriguing. Curious what you have in store for us.

I second that, very curious.

I say it both ways, I don't think it makes a difference how it's pronounced.

But if you dare to say 'GIF' as 'JIF' and not 'GIF' so help me I will....

AlbertoC wrote: ↑

Tue Jun 11, 2019 1:28 pm

We'll keep working during the summer

I wasn't aware that anyone actually takes summer vacations.

This one comes from imgur. Very much a current topic.

https://i.imgur.com/vA2GPcX.jpg

Sorry. No one reacts well to being shouted at. :( Yea I meant louder by volume, not by volume. Nope that still didn't clarify it very well. :roll: I meant louder by volume (many, many people saying the same feedback, meaning it's not an isolated case or opinion) and not by volume (one person SHOUTI...

I'm pretty sure they've said infantry are just placeholders. It's why they get so little focus and are often swept under the rug still. Like zero of the screenshots on the Steam store page show any infantry anywhere. :mrgreen: So extensive feedback on the problems with infantry... got to say I don't...

This topic is a tightrope. lol The opening line spells it out pretty well. "Turning a war against fascism that occurred within living memory and resulted in the deaths of more than 70 million people into a mass-market entertainment product is inevitably going to be an undertaking fraught with risk."...

While explaining that, another thought occurred to me. And it makes me like the idea of flaring recon-ed targets even more. What happens with aircraft? I don't think a spotter aircraft adjacent to an enemy fighter should debuff the target. That doesn't make sense. But because it's happening invisibl...

Consider a hypothetical: Maybe just have recon project a "zone" of bonuses, so the player gets much the same benefit but with way less detailed management. My point is: each gameplay feature should have one thing foremost in mind - how does it gel with the purported nature of Panzer General/Corps a...