Real Time Strategy fans best warm up their lasers as Stardock has just released a major v3.0 update for Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation.
Ashes of the Singularity fans better warm up their gaming rigs because they are about to get a workout. Stardock, the team behind the benchmarking stalwart and massively successful RTS title, Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation, has just dropped update 3.0. The massive free update to the iconic real time strategy title brings a ton of changes, overhauls the game balance and even tweaks optimization for those of us that didn’t manage to snag a new RTX 3080.
The New Stuff
Beyond just moving the hit point sliders, the third major iteration of Escalation is designed to make every unit on the battlefield a unique role to play in the oncoming action. Stardock has taken an inordinate amount of time to ensure that every building block belonging to the PHC and the Substrate is carefully balanced against each other, so we’re hoping for a totally different feel to things when battle commences. There’s also a promise that the in game AI has a few more IQ points, making gameplay more exciting across two new maps. Desolation, a 4 player map perfect for 2v2 team matches, and Aetheon, an 8-player map that can play host to some wild free for all fights come bundled in version 3.0
It’s likely some of you spend most of your time with Ashes of the Singularity during benchmarking videos. You are probably going to be seeing more of these now Stardock has added a bunch of new and improved graphics, as well an updated benchmark tool to make use of current hardware improvements.
Ashes of the Singularity: Escalation’s Verison 3.0 update looks like it’s going to breathe new life into this warfront. If you’ve not picked up this stellar RTS game in some time, it’s on heavy discount via the Steam Store and you can find out more about it over on the official Ashes of the Singularity changelog.
