I truly love this game. It does have something great about it. So I am going to bash the **** out of it now.

This game could be so great, but sadly it just falls short.
If this was truly a hard working little indy dev struggling to make it in this world then I would not be writing the wall of text before you!

I also understand the amount of hard work that has been put into the game of which a sizable chuck goes in credit to the actual fans and modders, since they are likely to make the game better than the people that actually earned money from it.

Planets? Flat, lifeless with a few cracks and if you are really lucky, you might get a raised platau a toddler could step down off of, and yet your giant commander cannot! Shoddy half arsed textures. Metal planets not looking metal at all. Strange knobbly mountains and bits that really, just get in the way of the already terrible pathing.
Controls? Buggy, not clear and needing work.
Boats? Whats the point, seriously? Maybe to defend a base with but unless your world has half water, you wont be using them to attack... Seriously! Because you CANT!!!! You cat get anywhere near the enemy with your super slow, super useless ships.
Again, the aircraft are insanely overpowered. Yet they talk about balance issues with a unit cannon?!?
No shields. When you crowdfund a game, give the people the game they crowdfunded! Or was it "backed" or "supported", noone seems to make their mind up and as with every game nowadays there is an army of drones that make excuses for these sorry game designers making money off your backs.
People have a right to be annoyed and to say it and to express ANGER at this kind of thing.

And now, to rip Galactic war, the Single Player element of Planetary Annihilation.

Terrible UI and genrally GW is devoid of feeling, story or substance.
Limited things to do, getting the "cards" to upgrade generally needs work, more cards, variation, a real reason to play GW.
You cant move around at all on the game map. If you want to travel backwards past previously conquered planets on the galaxy grid you have to click each individual planet and click travel, agian and again and again and again and again. You think Im kidding? Ha!
I know there is a "mod" to fix this map movement issue,!! made by the community !!. Lazy work letting the community fix your game. Lost respect for you guys after this. I shouldnt need a mod for a game to make it playable.
Buttons clunky, interface clunky, doesnt feel nice at all and sucks to be you if you get stuck on a 1v3 in the Galactic War when the enemy computer commanders can throw nukes at you from other planets but you cant even land on their planet which is heavily fortified with orbital units and air units and maybe some mostly useless land units. The reason you cannot land on a fortified planet is because all you can build is one unit type you use to travel between planets called the Atreus. This Atreus can only hold ONE unit at a time so if the computer has locked the planet down good luck getting onto it!!!
I did actually get 200 Atreus loaded with T2 builders and tanks and land and get a portal up that had hundreds of T2 units that all swarmed thru as soon as it was built. I did this THREE TIMES to THREE PLANETS in ONE GAME. Yeah, it was satisfying but blow me down if it isnt a serious game flaw. Its not hard, its stupid and badly balanced and badly done.

Is this game still in Beta? NO! but it should be.

Let me start by saying that I have been following this game from the beginning as a backer. To put this simply, I would not recommend this game in it's current state (release build 71544). To call this a final game is absurd and borderline insulting. Features are missing or not flushed out at all and I don’t just mean I don't like them. For example:

There is no way to play this game in offline mode. This was promised from the beginning to be included "When the game is released". They lied. Also You cannot save a game so either be prepared to spend at very least 30 minutes of uninterrupted time on here or waste it when you have something unexpected happen.

Single player is useless, boring, and flavorless. Many of the games only redeeming features are not even included with galactic campaign, no super weapons here folks. And maybe I am in the minority here but I like singleplayer usually, there just isn't anything worth playing.

The games are hard to follow after you leave your first planet. Most of the time will be spent navigating the UI trying to make sense of the battle while you literally leave your other forces idle.

OPTOMIZATION is nonexistent. I have a high end rig for windows and a top line IMac and neither of them can run this game without major lag, graphical tears, or in many cases crashes/screen blackouts. This is acceptable for a beta but not a final release. And honestly the graphics are pretty boring to look at and I'm a fan of the cell shaded/cartoon look but somehow they managed to make that dull and not vibrant.

There are some small gripes I have with the game as well. First is the lack of "flavor". I feel like all the units are so bland and basic, and to make it worse everyone is using the same ones. I wish there was some way of differentiating the units per leader, or even take some cues from the terrible single player and limit the techs for each player to 3 or 4 cards to make games more exciting. That brings me to my last little gripe, bots vs land vehicles. There is almost no difference between the two gameplay wise, honestly what’s the point, maybe I am missing something here?

So unless something drastic changes don't waste your time or money on this game, I know I wish I hadn't.

My internet connection at time of review was roughly 7mb down 2-3 up, actual. Best I can afford and I would say better than avarage. Note: This is my actual number not the "estimate" that providers give you. (Welp, I'm an idiot. Actual numbers are 31 down, 12 up.)

I will Update the review if anything changes.

(UPDATE Oct. 7th)

They have announced a patch coming Oct. 9th that will bring offline play. I will be testing it out and update the review accordingly.

(UPDATE Oct. 10th RELEASE BUILD 73737)

So far with the update they made adding offline support everything has been going smoothly (at least as much as before). There are still plenty of major bugs that can be really frustrating and even make the game unplayable at times. I am glad that so far they have stuck with PA and turned out this update. As of right now I still cannot reccommend the game, however.

Some people have complained that my review doesn't take multiplayer into account much and honestly they are right. I dont like multiplayer in games like this, it all comes down to who can click faster. I thought it was pretty clear from my statments that this review is more for singleplayer or casual multiplayer people. Also once you are entreanched in seperate planets there is really no way to invade eachother so it ends up being who can make the most nukes first (or activate the deathstar-esc metal planet).

I really hope this game grows on me, I love the concept, I also really want to back their new project Human Resources but I think I will hold off since this game left such a bad taste in my mouth, not only for Uber but Kickstarter in general (Kickstarters really dont have to provide the product to you at all, and that breaks no kickstarter rules).

October 2014 - Very Important Update:
WARNING, AVOID
Corruption, Money Scam

Im a big player of Total Anihilation and especially Supreme Commander-Forged Alliance, im a huge fan and loyal long time player, this is my view of the game so far.

Is this game worth buying right now? No
What about later? No

Why? It's unfinished, claiming to be a completed work when we all know this is still a beta. There's missing effects, units, customization and more. Saying that the game is ready to be sold, is rubbish, its not, they just needed another bulk of cash to carry on developing. Read on for more info. Remember all this is just my opinion but it is based on facts that even recently have come to light.


In-depth information.
Graphics: 3/10
To allow for many amounts of units on the screen at once, polygon-count has been shredded, where most units and structures appear extremely square-ish, textures also greatly simplified to a huge extent. It looks really bad. I think i appreciated Supreme Commanders dramatic wars a lot more because of the quality of the image and units. Advantage is, you dont need a mega-computer to run this game smoothly, but i still feel like the quality has been destroyed too far. Many negative points for many effects being completely missing from the game. Remember a planet colliding and blowing up in the trailor? theres no effect for that in the actual game...it's unfinished. Too much, is missing from the game.

Sound: 3/10
The repeated low quality sounds become very overly repetetive, with all units in the game having nothing to say but a mechinical noise, where only the Fabricators (engineer tank/plane) make any unique noises, and the weapon firing for all units sound effects feel completely impactless, there's no OOMPH! or quality.. The orchestral music isnt so bad, but it is short lived as there is no variation or multiple tracks. EVERY game features the same, SINGLE interchanging track based on wether youre incombat or drinking a beer etc.

Gameplay: 2/10
After all the wait and all the multipl intakes of cash Uber Entertainment conned out of us, we got scraps. Where in short, the person who acts the fastest AND wins a Decision based Dice-roll, rather than the smartest and most strategic player is going to be the winner of the game. You cannot speed up and slowdown gameplay (like in Supreme Commander) to allow for real strategy, instead, the winning formulae is to build as much as you can, as fast as you can (mash that mouse button! yeeaah!) of something to Zerg rush your opponent in all games. The entire match is a Rock-Paper-Scissors game, with no strategy whatsoever than 'Send units directly to enemy'. The ability to smash moons and planets together is currently very flawed, where even some games end with EVERYONE losing, because early in the game, your planet 'naturally' (not caused by players) smashes with another one before ANYBODY including hard AI has a chance to leave the planet...meaning the entire game was a pointless waste of time right from the beginning.
With Land > Sea > Air > Orbital >Artillery > Nukes > Forced Planetary destruction giving too many things to possibly build to defend against all of them, the whole games boils down to who plays the fastest from the beginning, and what choice or units you build at the beginning, in a Rock-Paper-Scissors-Stapler-Pencil-Rubber-Glue-EverybodyLoses style gameplay.
In short, it feels pointless to play a game where you know who's won in the first 5 minutes. THERES NO STRATEGY HERE WHATSOEVER, it's all about mashing the mouse button.
Terrible.

Overall: 3/10
The idea of what this game can become, is fantastic, but it is greatly undermined by being unfinished, unbalanced, and not anywhere near ready for consumption, and currently not worth that asking price. My advice is to play Supreme Commander - Forged Alliance against AiX (super hard cheating AI) if you want 'actual' large scale war that involves STRATEGY in order to overcome a tough challenge. It breaks my heart as a massive fan and lover of the other 2 games to say it :( I do not see how this game deserves to be called a strategy game in it's current state, its more like a RealTimeButtonMashZerg game than a RealTimeStrategy. AVOID.

Feedback?
1. Give people the option like in Supreme Commander to SpeedUp and SlowDown gametime. We all have different physical playing speeds and bodily/mental fingerclickin limitations. It's not skill or strategy (i cannot state that enough), Planetary Annihilation is just speedclicking in it's current state. Its like giving a button-masher the championship-title in a Street Fighter tournament, it just aint how it goes.

2. Scale. Planets, are so small that it takes away the ability to create strategies on the ground level, aswell as cause Camera annoyance spinning it all over the place more times than should be needed.

3. Defenses. Most turrets are pointless, they cannot stop much, and are too squishy. The most concerning defensive structure you gave us...is the wall...It is too easy to shoot around and many air units, orbital units and launchers and artillery and (long list of other things) simply ignore Walls. Remove these pointless walls that dont do anything, and replace them with Shield technologies. Bring back limited shields.

---UPDATE - 2014 9th OCTOBER---
It has been announced that Uber are teaming up with the creators of Super Monday Night Combat (another piece of unfinished junk) to create another strategy game, when this game isnt finished by a huge mile.

At this point i can sadly say that this is all just a money scam at this point, to rush out a crappy game, using kickstarter even though they already have the money because they will use all methods to get more undeserved money from the people. This is just greed, and full corruption even below EA standards. THIS COMPANY IS SCAMMING YOU , AVOID ALL GAMES.

Uber Entertainment have gone very low into corruption.This game is nowhere near finished, and we the people are now being stabbed in the back after supporting their game with an unfinished product, and being shaked for more money on a new kickstarter for another game when they already have the money they robbed from you the fans.

There has been a great deal of drama over the internet on this, and i (once a hugely loyal fan) am saddened to have to agree...All trust has been lost, take my advice and do not do any further business with these swindlers. DO NOT FEED THEM MONEY ON KICKSTARTER. Its a scam, they already have taken tonnes of YOUR cash to be able to afford development of the next game. They want cash, for nothing.

Discluding the crappy campaign mode which only consisted of copy/paste skirmishes, this is what Uber Entertainment have done:

-Stolen over $1.1 Million in Kickstarter Fraud.
-Stolen (by leaked rumours) around $12 million from Steam/Game fans in sales of a broken & unfinished game that does not meet the Kickstarter declarations.
-Abandoned the game to a small team to do patchwork, breaking their Kickstarter contracts.
-Instead of using the stolen cash to develop the new game 'Human Resources' , setup another Kickstarter so YOU have to pay for it.

Expect further fraud and broken contracts. This is large scale fraud that deserves headlines in every game magazine (where the hell are you guys...you call yourselves journalists?)

Uber Entertainment should be Boycotted.

---UPDATE 22nd OCTOBER---
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/659943965/human-resources-an-apocalyptic-rts-game/posts
'Human Resources' canceled, the fans responded with great power behind their lack of donations. Human Resources was boycotted & the fans have been given a slight piece of Justice.

May Planetary Annihilation now be properly developed on...probably not.

The game just isn't there.

It looks amazing, the concept sounds amazing, but it just wasn't done "right".

Ultimately the game is not horrible and I am sure that I could still enjoy some matches, but for the most part I just find the game lacking in many (needed and simple) ways. To give an example, this game is said to be RTS. While by definition I suppose it is, the strategy element is the weakest simply because every game mostly consists of unit spamming. It basically just comes down to who can get the biggest army the fastest, and there are very few opportunities for tactical flanking, unit countering, etc.

The final nail in the coffin for this game (to me) was the Galactic Conquest mode. It sounded amazing and I was expecting something akin to Star Wars Empire at War. Instead it is quite literally nothing more than "exploring" a pre-generated map, and whenever you encounter an enemy force, you then have to fight it. There are no turns, so the enemy does nothing, and the only "strategy" involved is you having to choose which units you can build via which "techs" you hang on to (you can only hold three at the beginning). Oh and you don't research the techs, you find them on planets...

At any rate, I just can't give this game a positive review. It had the potential to be awesome, but I feel that it failed.

This is a review of single player so called Galactic war.

-Gameplay is boring and repetitive!
-Sterategy element is not present! spam more unit than A.I and step over it.
-all the factions are the same! just different basic colors.
-all factions units are same! there are still balance issues! some of them frustrating and gamebreaking.
-commanders are only skins! no different abilities here. ludicrously those little ugly skins cost 10-20€ on the DRM store!
-nasty bugs are present. Gamebreaking ones like not allowing you to select or command your units.
-performance issues with the latest gaming machines!

Honestly... i cannot recommand this game to my friends and family.
don't waste your time here and don't let the hype take over your logic.

Having been a big fan of Total Annihalation, I was very excited when I saw this kickstarter, but as development grinded on, it became somewhat forgettable. When we got to start playing, I was very excited to see what the lore had developed like- but this is really just an RTS smash-em-up, with no soul. TA had more unique units and combat method, and was trapped with a 2d platform. On the whole, great if you want to play multiplayer, bad if you want to play a grand RTS story.

Not even close to a finished product. I support this game, but it shouldn't be out of early access.

Not a review, but a warning. The game has just entered the "official launch" phase. This implies the game is complete and fully released. However it is not finished, and there's still many missing features. The devs admitted to the game being incomplete, but went ahead and released it anyway.

Don't support these kinds of people.

After Uber released an update and have declared another on the way, I decided to change my review because, quite frankly, I don't want to lie to people that don't know the game at all.

This game is still unfinished, but what game is anymore. They are apparently still releasing updates, so at least there's that.

The game still requires some pretty high specs to run efficiently. Quad-core processor with 8 gigs of RAM is pretty steep for the common user. You don't actually need those specs to run the game, you just need them to run it efficiently.

I still call bogus on the offline mode. If you can't start a game and play it without internet connection, then there's no offline mode.

The balance, or rather lack of balance, in this game is just atrocious. If you're looking for a balanced game this is not it...yet. It's likely to be patched soon and I'll update when that happens. Also, this
game is stale and repetitve as crap.

The whole part about Uber stealing money with Human Resources is bogus.
Although, it was still pretty cheap of them to try to abandon PA like that. And all that crap about
them leaving a team to work on this game? I didn't buy it due to their previous unfinished games.

In a nutshell, this game is....meh. Not a great game, not yet. It's got potential to be better, and it looks like Uber is taking steps to reach that potential.Until then, I'd still say skip this game until this game gets a little better, or wait for a sale. It's just not worth 40$ to me.

This game is a big SCAM. They sold us an unfinished pile of garbage and called it a Release Version.

The game have no Save Option, no Offline Mode, use a Always Online DRM, the servers can't deal with so many players, you have lag even in single player campaing.

I regret very much the day i bought this game.

I don`t want to write a negative review about this game because it has a REALLY HUGE potential but it is out of early access and its STILL NOT READY ! - so i think Supreme Commander 1+2 are 100ways better ^^ !!!!!!! if my english is false i´m german ...

Needs 6 more months of development. At least. The UI and information presentation is quite bad, the balance is somewhat questionable, but the most glaring error is in the core design of the server-side everything. And the single player might as well not even be there; one could say it was tacked on, but tacks are often of higher quality than this.

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+ coherent, right optics
+ clearly distinguishable units
- technical problems
- minimum requirements understatement
- annoying bugs

+ huge material battles
+ impressive gigantic weapon systems
- dismembered game world
- voice output pure feedback element brings no atmosphere

+ clear units sound
+ good feedback sounds when significant events
+ successful music
- overall a bit thin on the chest

+ powerful editor for stellar systems
- single player only sequence of skirmish battles
- no different mission objectives

+ wise spotter win games
+ well balanced
- rarely more than a counter-strategy possible

+ each unit class has strengths and weaknesses
+ moon as weapons
+ death star cannon
- robotic units at the beginning too strong
- no experimental units

+ five-on-five battles
+ players can share control over an army
- paint simple command on the map not possible

+ single player with skirmish campaign
+ many multiplayer map constellations
- only a few units and buildings per category (still) missing content

Planetary Annihilation shows in the test a lot of potential, but it quickly becomes clear: The Kickstarter-funded and highly ambitious strategy has left the game early access phase too early.

Two years after the launch on Kickstarter Planetary Annihilation has finally appeared a year later than originally planned. Who Supreme Commander knows that feels right at home in Planetary Annihilation:
The Commander, we have constructed the first factories, spit out the other units and combat troops. For the construction we need two resources: metal and energy. Here, the construction of buildings and units required a great deal of metal, energy is, however, required primarily for the use of radars, teleporters, and the like.

The game is played Planetary Annihilation either in single player mode »Galactic Warfare" or in multiplayer. Galactic Warfare is it touted as "epic single player" with prozedual generated content, in which each game start to offer new challenges. In reality, hiding behind the single player but only a loveless series of skirmish games without appreciable story and cutscenes. We click on a star map around, from solar system to solar system, we encounter an enemy commander, it comes to real-time battle.

Well then, a few hundred thousand dollars were Kickstarter just squandered for the unsatisfactory Single Player - what counts is the multiplayer battles!

These are indeed exciting and clearly the centerpiece, a Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance still has here but in the lead. For particularly at the strategic level provides Planetary Annihilation but clearly too few options: Instead of three fractions there is only one, and their tech tree is more limited than that of any of the great role models. Thus, there are only two instead of three performance levels, experimental units are completely missing.

The RAM problem is not the only technical flaw of Planetary Annihilation. In this case, the title looks graphically very appealing: Instead of excessive details, the units offer a simple look. And so corny it sounds slow - the look is simple voices, everything fits together perfectly. If it comes to fighting, provide great lighting effects for an eerie mood - we back up just above the planet's atmosphere, while providing hundreds of tanks and robots among us a ground battle, that may well provide the creeps. Especially in combination with the fantastic orchestral soundtrack.

But as already mentioned: the technology running anything but smoothly. The official minimum requirements can be good and like to forget, crashes are inevitable so. Who wants to see more than just two planets per system, it is imperative more than four gigabytes of RAM in the computer have, and planets with very many trees are absolute hardware eaters.

I'm disappointed in Planetary Annihilation. Seven years after the Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance I would have expected much more. The gameplay is shallower than in the prototype and even offers compared to Total Annihilation less strategic opportunities and scope, despite the new orbital plane. The single player is unloving and not recommended, tutorial and game experience are a bad joke and let beginners hopelessly alone.

Combined with many small and major bugs, an unstable technology in terms of RAM addressing and multiplayer stability, and the lack of promised features like 40-player multiplayer and dedicated servers, Planetary Annihilation is a game full of wasted opportunities. The publication was hasty, as there is no doubt. That must clarify a retest in a few months - until then you have better chances to Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance.

Planetary Annihilation is a good, challenging RTS designed along very familiar lines. Should have been a great, massive RTS in the tradition of Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander, but crippled by technical issues. I would recommend it for genre fans.

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Its time for closure of PA review after the many updates released of the game. Despite of many balances, changes and fix. I still can't feel the fun of the game itself. The Galactic War gameplay remain disappointed and hopefully someone in the MOD community can fix the problem what Uber fail to do. Be advises the latest build doesn't contain any save in game until today so once your commander kill, you have to restart all over again.

Only the multiplayers are fun to play so far but there are majority prefer playing single player mode. Sadly this is not the right game for you.

Could have been so much more than it is. Did not live up to the hype. The game is unfinished, there's no tutorial, which it needs because it's quite a complex game, and the units aren't very well balanced. Bringing in the original narrator from the old Total Annihilation game to narrate the intro was a nice touch, but the game otherwise lacks a clear storyline, compared to the rich storyline TA had.

I want to like this game, I really do, and it's not a bad game per se. But to understand the game and play it well you need to have played the original TA.

It's a buggy mess and Uber is not taking the responsability to fix it atm. I don't trust them and I won't buy another one of their products. I can't believe their audacity to propose Human Resources after they served us this. Still fun, when it works. The strategy lacks depth and variety atm but is still very fun. One faction and a very limited library of units and buildings. Honestly, Total Annihilation is on GOG for $6 is worth your time.

I have have been playing Planetary Annihilation since it was first available on steam.

With over 200 hours in steam and probably another 100 in the 'Uber launcher' it's clear I would be lying if I said Planetary Annihilation wasn't fun.

Things to note: I am playing on a powerful Intel I7, Radeon 290X, 36gb ram and SSD rig. I also have a good internet connection, +30mbps.

There area good few positives to talk about - even some things that I haven't even seen in an RTS before:

- planet smashing is great fun
- lasering other planets with the mental planet is great fun
- using the 'area attack' command across an entire planet with hundreds of nuclear missiles launchers is also fun.
- building massive army's is reasonable fun (when the server lag doesn't grind your game to a halt).
- some parts of the UI are amazing (read area-commands).
- PA also has a ridiculously HUGE amount of potential.

Unfortunately, there is a downside to this review.

- There are bugs. Bugs which will make you crash.
- There is SEVERE server lag. Even on medium sized games. Finishing a 'big' game is way more time consuming than it should be (due to server slowdown).
- There are missing textures.
- There are wonky unit animations.
- The UI feels desperatly under-baked in some aspects.
- Invading other plants - a KEY aspect of PA in my opinion - is moronically limited. The current mechanism for invasion makes me weep. This could be the definition of cool and a lovley selling point for PA - at the moment its awful.
- Naval is just plain broken. Honestly, try winning a match with Naval.

It's these negatives combined with the current situation which makes me NOT recommend this game. Read on to hear my thinking:

I feel like Uber have rushed PA out the door with a 'official release' sticker hastily slapped on it's half baked ♥♥♥. The wasted potential makes my heart sink because I have loved PA all through the Alpha, Beta and Gamma phase - but sticking a release sticker on says one thing to me. Uber thinks PA is ready for review - and well, just look at those reviews.

Even if Uber didn't intend to make good on their 'promises' of a DRM free server, unit cannon, asteroid belts, navy being a viable army choice (naval worlds) and 40 player games - PA still needed months more love and care to fix the BASICS. Basics like a relatively bug free experience, a server system which wasn't broken, an experience which had at least a fair amount of polish and wasn't missing some seriously obvious textures.

It is also my opinion that the unit choices available in game are limited and the unit tree is not well fleshed out at all. There are no really memorable units; there is no charisma to be found here. Uber said that although there would only be one faction, fans shouldn't be concerned because they would fully flesh out the one faction's unit tree to its fullest extent. It hasn't happened yet.

Finally some people are saying: DONT WORRY, UBER HAVE SAID THEY WILL KEEP WORKING ON THE GAME. (I've put that in caps because whenever anyone criticises PA the Uber fanboys seem to come screaming out of the woodwork -just look at those 10's on Metacritic. 10?! 10? Are they mad?)
It is my opinion and pure conjecture that Uber will continue working on PA - but not in the role we expect. I know a lot of people want more content like units and I don't believe we will ever get them. I think Uber will clean up the bugs, polish up what they have, and implement a store so modders can sell their mods to people. That way Uber can essentially fire-and-forget PA, while other people do the hard work of making more content.

That said I sincearly hope I'm wrong. Hell if Uber delivers on at least the basic promises they made during development/kickstrarter I would defintly back another kickstarter for more units.

I purchased PA way back in Alpha because I believed in the potential the game has. This potential has not been remotely fulfilled at release.

PA may still be fun, but is not worth the current asking price. Buy it on sale.

5/10 <-- subject to change.

I backed this on Kickstarter, always looked forward to it. But my university's firewall prevents the game connecting to servers. Uber said that fully off-line play would be included (100% DRM-free etc). However, even though the game is now "released", there is no sign of any offline mode and I am still completely unable to play the game. Be warned: if you are behind a firewall or network you don't 100% control, do not buy this game. In fact, don't but it at all: Uber have lied to their backers. Don't give them your money.

Buyers remorse. No offline mode. Bought the beta then the price dropped. Day-1 dlc and not free for those who own the game. Legal but perfectly "good" business practice and ethics.

Very dissapointing addition to the Total Annihilation series. Bad graphics, lots of bugs, horrendous lag, stupid orbital system. I would have rather played Total Annihilation 2, you know the one that was rated one of Gamespy's Top Ten Real-Time Strategy Games of ALL TIME?? oh that was in 1997. This one is not even close to as good. Don't bother downloading it's a complete cashgrab ripoff.