Single player content?

[VaiTaPro]

Hi everyone, sorry to bother but i need to know how much single player content there will be on day 1 release.
I already know there is no campaign but if i buy it i'm not going to play multi-player so i really need to know what i can do alone.

[Maitah]

Hello first, there are 6 challanges (campaigns) for every civilization (6 civs in total and they will add more later), and there is survival mode where the AI attacks you in waves every period of time and u have to defend as much as you can, also there is skirmish wheere you can play normal game vs AIs up to another 7 AIs where u can team up with them or go vs them or free for all with 4 levels of difficulty.

[VaiTaPro]

Originally posted by Maitah:

Hello first, there are 6 challanges (campaigns) for every civilization (6 civs in total and they will add more later), and there is survival mode where the AI attacks you in waves every period of time and u have to defend as much as you can, also there is skirmish wheere you can play normal game vs AIs up to another 7 AIs where u can team up with them or go vs them or free for all with 4 levels of difficulty.

Sounds good to me thanks for the quick answer.

[Maitah]

No problem. :)

[Geck [J-Server]]

From the reviews I've seen the SP content seems rather lacking due to AI. Do you know if the devs have mentioned anything about this in the past?

[Slitherine_Iain]

The AI is the main focus at the moment. We hope to have a pre release update that improves it a lot and continue to push it as we go forwards. So watch out for some sneaky new AI players in the next few days.

[Ashar]

yeah the survival mode sounds nice, i always like to turtle strategy games, so building nice defenses will be cool though no campaign is a shame, i dont play strat games multiplayer cause im an unsociable b*stard, so im only gonna play singleplayer content.

One thing all strat games should have is some sort of conquest mode, where you just have random maps strug together on a large map, and you need to conquer them all, with each faction either stationary where you battle them, or maybe have them battle each other. The RTS games i keep going back to have some sort of conquest mode

[stetor.1]

I'm looking forward to the Single Player content in Empires Apart. I don't play Multi-Player so I'm glad to hear there is some kind of Single Player Campaigns in the game. I am really happy that the game developer is working on improving the AI for the game. I need to find out just much this game is like Rise of Nations, Empire Earth, and Age of Empires Single Player game play. All three of those games had great Single Player content for great strategy play. I remember I used to stay up all night playing all three games because I got so involved with the Single Player content in the games. I hope the same happens with this game.

Cheers

[Penguin]

+1 for more single player content.

I'm worried to see on the store page that this game is focused on MP. Hoping to see more SP.
And...since I'm not a MP guy, I hope there's only a few MP achievements as well.
If there's none, it's even better.

Keep up the good work, guys!

[Wiid]

If they can add more AI presets, and more factions later down the line, I think that would do more then enough keep the game fresh. As much as I know that some people really care about campaigns in games like this, for me they live and die by the custom games. It's not really MP because you can just vs. AI (as long as that's interesting). I'd rather have the Dev team spend the time they would need for scripting, cut scenes, and voice acting for a campaign on game balance, server reliability, faction content and quality of life features like choosing your faction color. While campaigns are fun warm ups and distractions. I'm not gonna sick over 200 hours into a game like this for its campaign unless its like Total War and there's a giant huge persistent overworld to interact with. This game is an instanced based RTS, and we haven't had a good one in YEARS that wasnt in the fast paced style of Starcraft. I want them to focus on nailing the core gameplay loop, so we can stay with this game for a while. I want this game to have staying power.

[Slitherine_Iain]

We just played an updated AI build where a number of improvements in the way the AI handles its units were visible. We think this is looking good for the 1.0. The only remaining AI issue we'd like to get rid of for tomorrow is one where the AI sometimes gets stuck and runs out of resources and cant work out how to kick start things. We have a plan and hope we'll have that done for tomorrow too but if not very soon after.

[Brats Pitseli]

Does the game has a campaign or not? Well I buy it anyway but the RTS community is gasping for a good campaign. Like, I would like this game to have success and a good nice campaign will get sales...

[VaiTaPro]

Originally posted by Brats Pitseli:

Does the game has a campaign or not? Well I buy it anyway but the RTS community is gasping for a good campaign. Like, I would like this game to have success and a good nice campaign will get sales...

No campaign on day 1 release maybe later, for me no campaign it's a auto no buy but in that case the game have some single player content, i guess everything depends on the price.

[Shards]

Hi, as the OP noted, there's no campaign for Day 1, we have plans for later though

[Brats Pitseli]

Yeah lets see the price. No campaign in RTS is a dealbreaker. Is it gonna be early access so?

[ocnuybear]

Originally posted by Slitherine_Iain:

The AI is the main focus at the moment. We hope to have a pre release update that improves it a lot and continue to push it as we go forwards. So watch out for some sneaky new AI players in the next few days.

Agreed, it does not help if you have great single player content and the AI sucks