Brilliant little RTS game, throws me back to earlier command and conquer's. The AI is a complete ♥♥♥♥♥ but that's what makes it fun. Great in CO-OP and single player but sadly servers are not very active.

Would recommend being nuked by AI again 8/10

Oh yea, that classic CNC goodness, without the baggage of that era. The campaign is smart and earning more stuff to play on further missions is excellent. Really want to play the Co-op, but haven't just yet. Can't wait to see more from these guys.

(Please note my review was brought to the direct attention of the fanbase in order to reduce its "helpfulness")

It is now 4 months in since this game got introduced. Here is my verdict after a couple hundred games. I've played all the cnc games for hundreds, if not thousands of hours as well.

Pros:
-low requirements
-cnc feel (except more spam and less decision making)
-smooth game play
-OK path finding for combat units
-good for beginners, low skill cap, noob friendly
-good if you like having a small circle of friends to match against. Lan supported now.

Cons:
-pricey for the amount of content, yes even at 15 bucks
-factions play and feel similar. All units have a single role.
-campaign is dull and repetitive. They use multi-player maps and just add some objectives. Very repetitive even for only 20 missions.
-empty multi-player lobby. If you are playing this game, get friends to buy it too
-extremely small font. Don't play this on a laptop because you will absolutetly hurt your precious eyes.
-quick match takes any where from a few minutes to over an hour to find a game. Yes, you'll have to wait that long.
-quick match screen is still glitched (should be hot fixed right?), no player names, factions, etc come up during load time. You have to figure it out in game.
-no replay system but is promised to come "soon"
-linear gameplay. Linear tech tree. Only one viable build order. No room for creativity.
-heavily imbalanced with lack of hot fixes. All Top 10 players currently all play the same faction.
-path finding has glitches and bad ai (specially your harvesters).
-graphical glitches, some of which are game breaking. Your opponent might come with a permanently invisible tank.
-lack of large map selection
-color blind folks are doomed. Red and orange are the same color (literally the same color for my eyes).
-heavily based on "select all"-and-attack-move.
-Map editor is not user friendly at all
-lack of clan system
-lack of official ranking system
-no voip support
-no unit sounds
-UI is static and can't be adjusted
-bad narrator to notify when your attacked. Sometimes it will tell you, other times it won't.
-units blend in with the cityscape
-lack of custom map support
-spamfest, although to be fair the game was designed for this.
-factions share graphics for a lot of structures
-lack of rotating buildings, ultimately creating a slight imbalance based on start position
-waypoints are limited to 1 node from buildings
-units that shoot well beyond line of sight, which can attack ground in unsighted territory, creating guesswork and imbalance.
-lack of support for Mac
-Various UI glitches. Various launch glitches. I still get the same error and have to launch twice for some reason.
-other glitches. I've had a a game where I searched for the last enemy building for an hour only to find it was a glitch. He eventually quit, but this kind of thing is what I consider game breaking.
-lack of game modes. Really, there's only 1 people play.
-lack of tournaments, even by the small community that exists.
-you can hear units and shots on the map where you aren't. Creates imbalance and lack of need to scout. Similarly you can see objects destroyed on the map without scouting.
-cash-grab business model for purchasing. Spend 15 bucks for half a game but you can vs against the guy who spent 30 bucks. They are planning for 3 split games as well... maybe 4. So get your wallet ready.
-other complaints that are more complaints than "cons"

Overall this game is designed to be simple and feed your thirst for a cnc game for a little while. There are too many glitches and terrible support from the development team for me to promote this game. It could've be something, but will most likely starve to death, if it hasn't already. It will only survive from getting those 15 bucks from you every few months.

Final word of advice: If you see the game for 5 bucks, buy and play it for a couple days; otherwise, hit back and save yourself the headache. I personally don't see enough support for this game to shine.

Big fan, very similar to the original Stracraft, Would love to see an expansion or more DLC for game

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Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour
3 tablespoons sugar
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon freshly ground nutmeg
2 large eggs, at room temperature
1 1/4 cups milk, at room temperature
1/2 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
3 tablespoons unsalted butter, plus more as needed

Now to make it:
1. In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, sugar, baking powder, salt, and nutmeg.
2. In another bowl, beat the eggs and then whisk in the milk and vanilla.
3. Melt the butter in a large cast iron skillet or griddle over medium heat.
4. Whisk the butter into the milk mixture. Add the wet ingredients to the flour mixture, and whisk until a thick batter is just formed
5. Keeping the skillet at medium heat, ladle about 1/4 cup of the batter onto the skillet, to make a pancake. Make 1 or 2 more pancakes, taking care to keep them evenly spaced apart. Cook, until bubbles break the surface of the pancakes, and the undersides are golden brown, about 2 minutes. Flip with a spatula and cook about 1 minute more on the second side. Serve immediately or transfer to a platter and cover loosely with foil to keep warm. Repeat with the remaining batter, adding more butter to the skillet as needed.
6. Procedure for adding fruit to pancakes: Once the bubbles break the surface of the pancakes, scatter the surface with sliced or diced fruit, or chocolate chips, nuts, etc. Flip with a spatula and cook for 1 minute more, being careful not to burn toppings.

This Game Is so ♥♥♥♥ing Amazing! Its Super Fun. And Its A Complete BLAST with freinds!!!!!!!!!

HEY YOU my friend plays this i played with him and he had like a dragon is it from lucky blocks ??? oh and the games SO FUN even tho its not that fun without more troops :P

This is one of the lesser known steam games, I had originally gotten then this game from watching KYRsp33dy play it with the crew. However Shortly after i realized that the pricey tag and simple gameplay wasnt exactly for me. Even for someone who is newer to the RTS genera this game is quite a bit lackluster. Also i cant refund it... i want my money

Pros:
-Easy to get into and start playing with 3-4 friends? im not sure I dont have enough friends willing to buy this and im pretty sure you dont have 4 friends willing to buy this game.
-Good multiplayer if your team isnt stupid, however fights are always one sided
-Broken unit cap system which allows you to spawn 3 units per second which is great in a game crashing type of way.
You can make 30 minute games aand hour long by having 500 units fight another army of 500 units. allowing the frame rate and server to litterally kill themselves and destroy everything. This is kinda a con
-Good graphics, If you like pixel art and pixely designs the art style will definitly hook you.

Cons: (theres gonna be alot so strap up)
-Terrible multiplayer to say in the least, im convinced that all of the people hosting these servers are located in russia
-Poor unit cap design, This allows for you to create an insane amount of troops in a short time which is broken to say in the least.
-Self hosted servers, This allows you to not get a server with 0 down time! spend your days wondering if someone more dedicated than you will host one. Eventually leaving the game to go play Civ 5 or something that is easier to play. But seriously having player hosted servers on this game is a terrible thing. The already small fanbase is killing itself even more with having basicalyly no multiplayer options for a game because of lack of people.
-More multiplayer (oh boy) The quickmatch option was put into the game for you to be able to duke it out mono y mono. However activity is above as active as Depth and you could easily spend 15 minutes without having a match found for you. If your looking to get this game to play with people online and have great and epic battles, Don't.
-Campain, The campain is kinda stale to say in the least. Basically the Division with the premise of "Do the same thing with a different description!". ♥♥♥♥ sucks and is bland
-Units, Nothing makes sense all weaknesses are ignored ALL HAIL THE BEAR the most overpowered troop in the game. Even if you have 3 million helicopters you will still get vehicle rushed by the ♥♥♥♥bois and hate yourself
-15 dollars is cheap but not cheap enough for this game
-Poor unit AI causing you harvester to have the mental capacity of a 1 month old marmot and your troops to act weird in everyway possible
-Community from what ive seen is trash, meaning maxed out oil and resources with no superweapons because the owner must protect his bears like a ♥♥♥♥. People acting like this is cs:go casual and their moms arnt home to see them be cancerous.
-Poorly made rts game despite its good intentions and great Dev's.
-Very Little features to make it user friendly or easy to use. No ability to select all of one troop on the ENTIRE map. Causing you to have a squad of 100 helicopters and 20 helicopters you dont know about. Poor minimap control or features. No ability to rotate your viewpoint so if you get a ♥♥♥♥♥♥ one, GG.
-Graphics are pleasing and nice but it all masses together to look bland overall and is confusing to try and sort out (note: im talking about troops not maps).
-Units, Any AOF unit has the armor made out of wet paper unless its the bear *cough cough* if you cant tell spamming the bear has no down sided. Unless you have the laser superweapon which is turned off 90% of the time.
- Your teammates either rush and get themselves and their armies killed or sit back with 300 troops and watch as you get decimated by someone they could easily kill. 10 minute rule benifits renegades massively (you guessed it, its the bear)
-Buildings are OP, Allowing you to have infinite of them doesnt stop at x9 production but allows x20 if you want making even the strongest troop take .1 seconds to produce.


Rating:
Campain 4/10 - repetative unless you like 10 tanks every minute being thrown at you with the Ai having a base with 2 turrets and no defending troops
Multiplayer 3/10 - Now hear me out on this, Fun when it was a new release but is now basically none existant except for private lobbies. At the begining when multiplayer games were easy to find I had some fun but now that theres no lobbies. If it was an active community it would be a 8/10 however... yeahhhhh

Overall this game had good intentions and a good design to its troops and base however it wasn't given what it needed.
If this game had fixed the unit cap and balanced the troops it has already then it might have been a great game or atleast a decent one. However with no multiplayer or people buying this to boost the players and multiplayer, ♥♥♥♥ sucks i mean it REALLY sucks. The sale on the game dragged a few people in causing it spike in popularity but that was short lived. They tried to add more troops and factions then improve the problems they already had with the it. It did switch it up a little bit but overal the gaurdians only reallys useful troop is the anti air which is overpowered to say in the least. 15 of those cheap buggers can wipe out atleast 75 helicopters and made air defenses unsless. 10/10 Decision my dude bros the dev really hit it off there but it was a valent effort to say in the least. Swapped up the gameplay quite a bit and made fighting people a little harder than the helicopter on helicopter action that was everywhere. This is another game to sit in my steam library for the rest of eternity because ive run out of things to do 20 hours into the game (afk for 4 of those hours).

8-Bit Armies is an RTS developed by Petroglyph Games, the same developers that made Grey Goo. The art style that the game is based around is very nice looking and will help due to the game having no unit cap, which can lead to large scale battles. At the time of writing, two factions have been introduced, the Renegades and the Guardians. They play as the NOD and GDI quite closely with similar super-weapons, a nuke and an orbital laser.

- Great artstyle
- factions are completely free
- workshop support
- no unit cap
- frequent updates

- Dying/dead multiplayer
- Usually, mass producing will win you the game, not much strategy
- DLC campaign for the Guardians faction
- Not amazing A.I.


Full Price:
- Yes

On Sale:
- Yes

Verdict: A fun game with a well done price range at £10, some shallow gameplay may not be a great idea for some players, but it is still fun wiping out the enemy with hundreds of tanks.

hola no soy muy bueno en esto de los análisis pero queria dar mi punto de vista sobre lo que es y me gustaria que fuese el juego.

English version below

PROS
+gran idea muy original
+interfaz sencilla y facil de entender
+es sencillo de jugar pero dificil de perfeccionar
+unidades y edificios muy detallados
+muchos colores para los equipos (sobretodo el Negro y el blanco)
+entornos llenos de referencias mixtas (easter eggs), los cuales son muy graciosos en algunos casos
+es divertido joder a la IA
+mapas muy detallados y trabajados (no tiene nada que ver con los easter eggs)
+las cajas con bombas nucleares que destruyen tu ejercito en un segundo xD

pero no todo es bueno...

CONS
-musica repetitiva
-la campaña de los guardianes es un DLC...
-los edificios y coches del entorno no sirven de nada
-los edificios no re pueden rotarse(se que puede sonar como una idiotez pero rotar un edicio puede llegar a ser muy util en casos diversos)
-no hay edificios capturables en las escaramuzas
-los desarrolladores estan haciendo un juego nuevo sin terminar casi nada de este!! (eso es algo que me molesto muchisimo)
-las unidades no tienen voces propias
-el juego esta en Aleman y Ingles pero no en Español...

eso seria todo lo malo desde mi punto de vista (si se me escapo algo pueden decirmelo, se agradeceria muchisimo)

Recomendaciones

-Quitar a los guardianes y su campaña como DLCs y meterlos dentro del juego base como una actualizacion o simplemente hacer que no sean DLCs ya que eso debe ir dentro del juego no como un DLC..
-Ponerle mas empeño al juego, si puede sonar raro pero me gustaria que primero terminen el 8 bits Armies y luego hacen el 8 bits Hordes pero me parece un insulto y a otras personas tambien que se pongan a hacer otro juego (pago encima) sin haber hecho casi nada de este
-Hacer mas utiles los edificios del entorno (por lo menos que las tropas de infanteria puedan entrar en ellos y atrincherarse y que los ingenieros en su interior puedan raparar el edificio
-que los ingenieros puedan capturar edificios enemigos y si son de otra faccion puedas construir sus vehiculos (seria genial)
-que las unidades tengan voz (no me parece ralmente necesario pero se apreciaria mucho)
-no mas facciones ni sus campañas en DLCs
-mas soundtracks (se que esta el DLC pero el juego deberia tener un soundtrack un poco mas amplio)
-Agregar el Idioma español (por favor esto atraeria a mas jugadores Hispanoablantes al juego, y tambien deberian ponerlo, porque me parece injusto que no tenga español pero si aleman)
-Dejar el Soundtrack que es un DLC como DLC

pues eso seria todo me gustaria que los desarrolladores y el staff vieran este analisis y que sepan que yo apoyo al juego por eso critique esos puntos porque quiero que sea un buen juego y que no se quede como un early access

English Version

i am not very good at this analysis but I wanted to give my view about what is and I would like it to be the game.

PROS
+ Great original idea
+ Simple and easy to understand interface
+ It is simple to play but difficult to perfect
+ Highly detailed units and buildings
+ Many colors for teams (especially the Black and white)
+ Environments filled with mixed references (easter eggs), which are very funny in some cases
+ Is fun ♥♥♥♥ AI
+ Very detailed and elaborate maps (nothing to do with easter eggs)
+ Boxes with nuclear bombs that destroy your army in a second xD

but all is not good ...

CONS
-Music repetitive
-the guardians campaign is a DLC ...
-the environment buildings and cars are useless
-the buildings can not be rotated (it may sound like an idiot but rotate a edicio can be very useful in many cases)
-no catchable buildings in skirmishes
-the developers are making a new game unfinished almost nothing about this !! (That's something that upset me a lot)
-the units do not have their own voices
-the game is in German and English but not in Spanish ...

that would be all bad from my point of view (if I missed something can tell me, you appreciate a lot)

recommendations

-Remove The guards and his campaign as DLCs and put them in the base game as an upgrade or just make them not DLCs as this should go into the game not as a DLC ..
-Sweeping harder to game development, if it may sound weird but I would like to first finish the 8 bits Armies and then make the 8 bits Hordes but it seems an insult and others also are advised to make another game (payment above) without He has done almost nothing of this
-Make More useful the surrounding buildings (at least infantry troops can enter them and retrench and engineers inside the building can raparar
which engineers can capture enemy buildings and if they are of another faction can build their vehicles (would be great)
units which have a voice (I do not think erally necessary but would be greatly appreciated)
No more factions or their campaigns DLCs
-more soundtracks (is this the DLC but the game should have a slightly wider soundtrack)
-Add The Spanish Language (please this will attract more Spanish speakers players to the game, and also should put it, because it seems unfair that does not have Spanish but German)
-Let The Soundtrack which is a DLC as DLC

because that would be all I would like developers and the staff saw this analysis and to know that I support the game so criticize those points because I want to be a good game and you do not run as an early access