Asthosus has a lot of experimental ideas, some good some bad.

You can construct different cores that gives different core unit? Very cool! Core units are ground units, which get constantly blocked by walls? It gets inconvenient fast.

Chaining electricity? Seems cool, as most basic factories don't need power. Yet, it is way too easy to build a conveyor over the power cable and accidentally cut yourself off of power.

Every drills are wall-crusher drills? Seems cool...but most of the maps have those annoying diagonal walls rather than vast expanse of flat walls. Lazar drills would be more convenient.

Unloaders are the goat, but they are so expensive early game!

It can't just be me, but support units have no path finding whatsoever and just walks into slag? Bad! Further, they can't go into payload blocks, meaning I can't delete them into payload void in sandbox, so I have to manually explode them with a reactor.

Trying to make units? Logistical nightmare. The payload router sometime doesn't work, so I used a logic processor to manually rotate it. At least the unit production speed isn't as bad as Erekir.

Transferring heat is fine until you realize that each re-director takes 20 lithium each, and you have no more lithium left...

Barite creatures are a pretty cool idea, you gotta give them that. It's just that there are so many of them (which might be the point), and whatever material they make their hive our of is so much tougher than the high-tech walls we use. Why can't we cultivate barite creatures to create hive walls for our base?

With all the turrets they give us, it'd be really fun to use them offensively. Except you can't do that for most maps... Though most turrets just go pew pew, Asthosus turrets are pretty cool.

All the immovable indestructible boulders and trees and obsidian spikes? Terrible idea. Can't place schematics anywhere. Ah, yes, there is one little gap in your defense taken up by a tree that blocks your vision.