Ashes of the Singularity, by Oxide Games and Stardock, the RTS that spawned from the Star Swarm demo, will be released on March 31st. Unless something sneaks in before then, this will pretty much be our first look at DirectX 12 in a full, released game, and pretty much the only one to take advantage of its ability to draw many simple objects.
Again, I'm excluding released games based on engines Unreal Engine 4, because you don't have full DirectX 12 support if your engine provider doesn't claim full DirectX 12 support. I'm pretty sure they just enabled Epic's experimental feature, rather than beat them to overhauling their hardware interfaces. I'm also ignoring Gears of War Ultimate Edition because of the state it launched in.
It seems like the only source for this news is PC Gamer. Stardock hasn't officially said what will change in this launch from the previous beta release (Beta 2). The game currently supports mixed multi-GPU on DirectX 12, and a variety of other features, which will be interesting to see in official software. Unless we get a surprise in the official announcement, it looks like Vulkan might be a “patch after launch” thing, though.
I really like the developers
I really like the developers at Oxide, it’s so hard for me to fork over more than $25 for a game unless it really just blows me away.
The game does look very good visually though, just don’t think it’s for me.
IIRC, the devs said that
IIRC, the devs said that there would be a Linux port once Vulkan is released. I’ll probably buy it once that happens.
Might we finally get a worthy
Might we finally get a worthy successor to Supreme Commander?
Game is just amazing!
Release
Game is just amazing!
Release will have a Single player Campaign added in, plus other extras I would imagine. Great AI, Plays like a dream in DX12, amazing the amounts of units the engine can handle without missing a beat.
Played a lot of SC, and AoTS is the next evolution of the RTS genre IMHO.
Lets hope as a game to be
Lets hope as a game to be much more interesting than as a DX12 benchmark.
Cool, definitely getting it
Cool, definitely getting it for single player campaign.
I’ll definitely wait for the
I’ll definitely wait for the game to get its second post-launch patch before buying it. LOL
Definitely if you are running
Definitely if you are running a nvidia card and trying to use DX12! nvidia is really dragging their feet on DX12, but runs fine in DX11.
Overall performance on DX12 performance is leagues better on DX11 though. Radeon cards run this game & DX12 amazingly well.