I’ve played the Beta a fair bit now, and while I enjoy it for the most part, I absolutely cannot tell what’s going on during large scale battles. With all the dust effects, other particle effects and whatnot a battle just looks like a ‘mess’ with me pretty much just waiting for the outcome as oppossed to helping impact the outcome.
It doesn’t seem like a glitch or ‘error’ just too much at once on screen- now I understand how those watching Transformers movies feel when they say they can’t see what’s going on in battle!
Would you guys want to see a tone down of effects and whatnot for clearer battles or feel it’s A OK? I never had this issue in HW1, so it is seemingly an issue for me 
No, I have no problem keeping track of what’s going on. If anything microing a battle in Halo wars is much easier than a game like Starcraft.
My only problem is that all the explosions sounds the same and the units dont shout their attacks and the weapons sounds are not loud enough or distinct enough
I like the new effects. My problem is that they don’t appear at all sometimes.
Yeah I’ve noticed a lot of the leader power effects don’t show up.
After playing more today, I feel that my issue is more that the battles are not as colour co-ordinated as they were in HW1. Everything Covenant burnt, exploded or shot clearly obvious plasma elements, which is not as much the case anymore. I think that is impacting on me a fair bit, but if it isn’t affecting others, it’s obviously a minute problem for me exclusively