I find this game entertaining, but perhaps in a slightly different way.
There's less focus on the economic side of things besides the quick calculations I make in regards to what I can afford (A land factory takes about 2 mass per second to run, for instance). You don't have to manage swarms of engineers anymore, which is a good and bad thing.
What I like is that you can take a strategy and commit to it, and they usually work out pretty well (Slight balance problems as usual). What I don't like is people reacting to it simply because it's different. I am disappointed by the smaller maps (Setons is a terrible terrible map if theres nothing in the middle to fight over) and lack of moddability, but i think those things will be coming.
Also, I felt the demo picked the easiest missions out of all the campaign.
Ranked matches should be out soon, which I find the most interesting.
I don't know, the economy is so annoying in this new game, mass is the restriction for most anything until you get mass converters, which you now need to babysit. I really really hate the pay for everything up front model now more than ever, I have to babysit my engineers a lot more now then I did. I also miss building templates, I wish that was still around.
After playing online a few days the balance is really off. If the game is assassination, gunship spam is the way to go, they have no good counter that can stop gunships before they kill the commander. If the game is supremacy, go for Cybran battleships if the map has water, otherwise go for UEF unit cannon. Their is nothing that can stop cybran battleships on land, and if the cybrans don't have battleships the Unit cannon is a super factory with half cost units produced at ridiculous speed that eliminates travel time.
I also get annoyed with playing online because people are stupid. I played a few games recently with only land units, assassination victory. Those games were not decided by build order, strategy, or economy, they were decided by which team had players who took their ACU to the front line where they were vulnerable.
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