Act of Aggression: The Reboot Edition Revamps The Real-World RTS

There’s a brand new version of Act of Aggression, Eugen Systems’ real-world RTS called the Reboot Edition. The new title can be purchased at a 50% discount right now, and is free for everyone who owns the original version of the game.

The new release offers a number of massive gameplay overhauls, including a brand new resource system, revamped base-building, unit control improvements, and more. Players can experience these changes in skirmish against the AI as well as online against other players.

Once the Reboot Edition is installed, players can switch between the original vanilla version and this one.

According to the developers, the new game runs on a single economy for war: money. Refineries will now extract oil from deposits located across the map, and each faction has had their building location restrictions altered. Builder units are now controllable, allowing players to fully customize their bases and do much more with their defensive and offensive plans. In addition, all units now move and turn faster, and have higher reaction speeds to orders with latency cut in half.

The gameplay details are summarized below:

• Streamlined Economy: Manage only one resource as oil is automatically converted to cash, allowing you to focus on the action. Unit expenditure is up-front, meaning no more micromanaging production lines.
• New Base Building System: Like a traditional RTS, base building units are selectable. Build directly from the builder (or destroy your opponent’s builder!)
• New Airstrikes: You no longer control the planes mid-flight. They go directly to their target and strike, much faster than previously.
• Huge balancing update and unit model improvements as well as UI tweaks and changes: for example, all units now accelerate and decelerate faster, guaranteeing more streamlined and action-packed RTS gameplay.

Grab it on Steam.