Ashes of the Singularity II Launches With a Day-One Hotfix
Stardock and Oxide's large-scale RTS sequel reached Steam on Tuesday, November 10, at $39.99 with 20 percent off through November 17. It also shipped its first hotfix the same day, for a bug that stopped the game launching on some Windows 11 systems.
The battles are huge. The bug list started on day one.
Ashes of the Singularity II is out: the RTS sequel launched on Steam on Tuesday, November 10, and its first hotfix landed the same day. [Ashes of the Singularity II: release time and discount]
The base game costs $39.99, or $31.99 with the 20 percent launch discount that runs through November 17. The $69.99 Premium Edition bundles the base game, the first three DLC packs and the soundtrack. It's a PC-only release. [Ashes of the Singularity II: release time and discount] [Ashes of the Singularity II launches on PC]
The series has always been an engine demo you can play. The 2016 original, built by Oxide Games on its Nitrous engine, made its name on battles with thousands of units on screen at once, where the genre's standard was hundreds, and on armies that move and fight as single meta-units across oversized maps. The sequel keeps the formula: three factions, wars of scale, a front you manage rather than a lane you defend. [Ashes of the Singularity II launches on PC]
The launch also kept a newer tradition. Stardock shipped a hotfix on release day for an issue that prevented the game from launching at all on some Windows 11 systems — the worst category of bug there is, fixed within the day. This is a full $39.99 release, not an early-access project, and the day-one patch is the price of shipping to a million hardware combinations at once. [Ashes of the Singularity II: release time and discount]
The buying math is simple. The 20 percent discount ends November 17 on Steam, and the game is also sold directly through Stardock. Neither Stardock nor Oxide has announced a console version, so the keyboard is the only way in for now. [Ashes of the Singularity II: release time and discount]
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