Looking great!  I love what DX12 is giving us!

Yes.  They'll attack multiple targets simultaneously.

Am I understanding that your issue is that the end of the barrel isn't colored black?

I am talking about the trees and rocks on the Ground.

If you look at them they look very pixelated, or have very low pixels or quality, sorry i am not sure how to call it.... i compare it to TA! lol, the units interact with trees and i think that nice to have something.

And Frogboy the Hyperion looks really amazing never mind tatsujb. i don't see anything get out of focus. or let him explain what does he mean with that.

I asked that because the game still in Alpha, and its looking amazing so far about the units, I was just asking if you guys are still working on them to make them look even more awesome!

The detail on the ground vs. the units is an interesting and controversial topic.

There's a reason why this is done: You want the units to pop. You'll see this in a lot of games where the background is muted or even has a desaturated color palette.  If the ground were the same level of detail as the units, you'd have more trouble distinguishing what matters and what's background.

Even if it was desirable to have more such detail, DirectX 12 doesn't change the laws of video memory. You want big maps or do you want tiny detailed maps?

Tat, you would do so much better if you quit trying to act like you are speaking for some unknown majority.

As for temporal anti-aliasing, you can turn it off in options.  For me, I like it.  It makes the game look better and it helps, at glance, to tell what's near and what's far because that's how the real world works.

im abit concerned about the whole direct X 12 thing. Will the game still use direck X 11 for those who dont want to be forced to upgrade to windows 10?

good to know i just wish the douchebags at microsoft would stop trying to force people to upgrade to windows (spy on you forever) 10

Sorry, I don't mean to sound like I want the ground and units to have equal detail. It's more that the mixing of any two different aesthetics come with its own set of rules to help them mesh. Both aesthetics look fine independently, it's just when I look at them together something seems to be missing to smooth the transition.

An example for me is League of Legends with its incredibly low graphic detail budget. The (new) map is this somewhat blurry, painted style while the characters themselves have a relatively crisp cartoon style. It didn't look quite right when they initially showed it but after a few revisions they got the character shadow, outline and map saturation right that made the two styles click together.

Sadly I know nothing about graphic theory so I can't offer proper constructive criticism, all I can say is "something looks wrong" and point vaguely in the area.

To be frank, I'd rather the devs focus on gameplay than graphics, if they have limited time and have to choose where to allocate man-hours. Graphics will catch peoples eyes for a few seconds, but gameplay will keep people playing for years (or not).

I didn't initially notice the barrels weren't black. Now that I know they aren't...I still don't care. How long do I admire the look of a unit while playing a game? 0 seconds. How long do I admire the look of the terrain while playing a game? 0 seconds.

Gameplay IS more important but graphics do help and dismissing them would be a mistake. Besides, art and gfx guys are going to do art and gfx; design and sound guys are gonna do design and sound, etc. So gotta suggest things for the art guys something to do with some feedback right? That is what forums like this are for.

Gameplay, UI, & graphics should be very important in a RTS game. why not have the 3 of them? its 100% possible to do, yes it may need some more work, but it can be done.

Aren't we here to help build the best RTS game of 2016? at least by giving some feedback, ideas, opinions.

I did read somewhere a while ago about the difference between DX11 and DX12, and they said that with DX11 they had to build smaller tactical RTS games with awesome graphics because DX11 could not handle more, and that why DX12 was created to do so much more using the latest tech, having awesome graphics with big maps and hundreds of units at the same time, if anyone can help me find that info again, and i think Stardock said that.

Again I fell in love with this game and DX12, what it can do with old hardware and new ones, and I really want to see that happening with AOTS, for me having nice looking units, nice looking maps, and awesome gameplay is very important, and a must for a next gen RTS game using DX12.

Oxide and Stardock are doing awesome job so far with AOTS, but of course still need much more work and they know that and still working on it and they will be working on it to make it better for many and many years to come.

Zoomed out you will not notice anything bad with the ground, the problem that i see is when you zoom in , that where you start seeing the lower quality of the ground, rocks, trees, etc.

Your wrong here, many old cards support DX12 already, and you do see a lot more FPS and better graphics compared to DX11, maybe not a full DX12 support but its there.