Is it just me or the multiplayer/skirmish is far too fast phased?

[Red00vengsent]

By fast phased I mean every single match against AI even on EASY setting there will be no strategy at all just pure harvesting and production mess.

I don't care about multiplayer against players or balancing the skirmish seems very boring and requires lots of micro, it can't be played relax and watch spaceship beam each other.

For what I am experiencing the EASY setting AI is cheating and overly aggressive. just like 20 + years ago when original HW came out. Cmon it's 2024 and simple scripted AI opponent who throw everything at you is BORING.

Have not tried wargames tho, maybe it will be better?

[garytc78]

to me skirmish looks good but there is NO slow time option... and we cannot SAVE the game in skirmish! why?? there are only 6 maps and not 8 as said by developers

[LtsForest]

yeah there are for my feelings to fast pasted the matches. maybe because the new generations has adhs?

[Red00vengsent]

Originally posted by LtsForest:

yeah there are for my feelings to fast pasted the matches. maybe because the new generations has adhs?

New generation is SUPER generation!

Originally posted by garytc78:

to me skirmish looks good but there is NO slow time option... and we cannot SAVE the game in skirmish! why?? there are only 6 maps and not 8 as said by developers

Yeah, talking about maps, the camera control sucks sajuuk's ass. Every map seems to have very restricted border that camera cannot enter.

[Frag]

Same with Wargames, seems you have to take objectives as soon as they appear or you get overwhelmed. Makes the salvage objective really annoying when you're trying to clear the objective and deal with the incursion waves.

[Red00vengsent]

Originally posted by Frag:

Same with Wargames, seems you have to take objectives as soon as they appear or you get overwhelmed. Makes the salvage objective really annoying when you're trying to clear the objective and deal with the incursion waves.

thx for the info. So it's a reskined HW1 with tunnel and some tricks which outdated in 2024

[Frag]

Originally posted by Red00vengsent:

thx for the info. So it's a reskined HW1 with tunnel and some tricks which outdated in 2024

Seems that way. It's quite frustrating to play I think, I'm nowhere near as good at RTS games as I used to be but we're talking level one here. Failed the salvage objective because the incursion decided to spawn a wave much bigger than previous ones while I was trying to deal with the enemies at the salvage point, didn't have enough ships to take on both fleets. On the second attempt I got the escort civilians objective instead, started it immediately and did fairly well.

Mission 2 I got the salvage objective again. Tried to build up forces to be able to handle the salvage objective and guard my resource operation to avoid what happened last time. Ended up being rushed by three fleets, each headed by a destroyer that I had no counter for. I had railgun frigates and an ion frigate and a bunch of bombers, barely scratched it and I got wrecked. Maybe there's something else I'm doing wrong but as far as I can tell, the game mode seems to want to get you to rush objectives really fast or lose.

[SeverdNerv]

100% 1v1 skirmish maps feel like shoeboxes

[Red00vengsent]

Originally posted by SeverdNerv:

100% 1v1 skirmish maps feel like shoeboxes

true, and camera cannot go out map border

[impr0vise]

Originally posted by Frag:

Originally posted by Red00vengsent:

thx for the info. So it's a reskined HW1 with tunnel and some tricks which outdated in 2024

Seems that way. It's quite frustrating to play I think, I'm nowhere near as good at RTS games as I used to be but we're talking level one here. Failed the salvage objective because the incursion decided to spawn a wave much bigger than previous ones while I was trying to deal with the enemies at the salvage point, didn't have enough ships to take on both fleets. On the second attempt I got the escort civilians objective instead, started it immediately and did fairly well.

Mission 2 I got the salvage objective again. Tried to build up forces to be able to handle the salvage objective and guard my resource operation to avoid what happened last time. Ended up being rushed by three fleets, each headed by a destroyer that I had no counter for. I had railgun frigates and an ion frigate and a bunch of bombers, barely scratched it and I got wrecked. Maybe there's something else I'm doing wrong but as far as I can tell, the game mode seems to want to get you to rush objectives really fast or lose.

Its not you, game seems rushed and unballanced at times, AI cheats, and like in previous H2 game, the better you are the harder it gets, to the point when AI throwing at us ridiculus amounts of reserves and zerg rush with far superior units. This relate to every game mode :(

[Red00vengsent]

Originally posted by impr0vise:

Originally posted by Frag:

Seems that way. It's quite frustrating to play I think, I'm nowhere near as good at RTS games as I used to be but we're talking level one here. Failed the salvage objective because the incursion decided to spawn a wave much bigger than previous ones while I was trying to deal with the enemies at the salvage point, didn't have enough ships to take on both fleets. On the second attempt I got the escort civilians objective instead, started it immediately and did fairly well.

Mission 2 I got the salvage objective again. Tried to build up forces to be able to handle the salvage objective and guard my resource operation to avoid what happened last time. Ended up being rushed by three fleets, each headed by a destroyer that I had no counter for. I had railgun frigates and an ion frigate and a bunch of bombers, barely scratched it and I got wrecked. Maybe there's something else I'm doing wrong but as far as I can tell, the game mode seems to want to get you to rush objectives really fast or lose.

Its not you, game seems rushed and unballanced at times, AI cheats, and like in previous H2 game, the better you are the harder it gets to the point when AI throwing at us ridiculus amounts of reserves and zerg rush

even more stupid is that gets probe rushed in the first 30 sec. Since probe can be redirected in HW3 and it's fast as hell your scout craft can do nothing about it

[Rook]

It's kind of a mess currently, i'm very disappointed so far. There's no down time, no time to think, no time to appreciate the cinematic battles, just constant frantic clicking. In the wargames there doesn't seem to be a point to even open the strategic layer. The enemies don't so much vector in on you as either spawn on top of you or 2 feet away. Half the time there's so much hitting at once it's hard to tell how large the force is, what type they are, etc.

The good news is between patches and especially mods, i'm counting on mods, to sort the nonsense out.

[garytc78]

Currently there are lots of problems with skirmish battles VS computer:
-Only 6 maps (all small)
-very high speed gameplay
-no save/load option (only campaign)
-no time slowdown option (only campaign)

They need to fix this and add bigger maps!!!

[Midwayz]

seems to me like they dropped the ball on Skirmish mode like what were they thinking not putting hyperspace jump in MP its of my favourite tactics to use

[garytc78]

Why they made Ion Cannon frigate beams so ugly?? In the demo they were much better

[Goranz]

Maps are to small , i Hope the Comunity build Larger maps, this is nothing like Homeworld 1/2 .