Titan Difficulty

[Hatbaron]

I was pretty excited to play the bright and shiny new version of these campaigns of my youth but alas the familiar challenge of titan difficulty has been stolen from me. Even three missions in to fall of the trident I was able to pretty casually forget to do things and not really spend my resources.

Also the map changes with difficulty seem to have disappeared, you aren't struck with locusts or a lightning storm in the first mission (in fact they give you the lightning storm and the army of atlantis is bigger) and on the second mission they removed the tower overlooking your base on titan difficulty.

The previous expectations of the developer was that people playing on titan difficulty had already played the campaigns before and therefore it mixed things up in the missions more so than just making harder waves of enemies.

I shall return to the campaign later today to see if the same is true for other missions but my enthusiasm really dropped when I saw how easy the campaign felt. So far my biggest difficulty has come from not being used to the grid keys so I keep building storehouses when I want a house.

[Foxhunt012]

they get harder
I am at light sleeper right now

[sib]

yes campaing is not easy some missions is really hard i play med-hard.

[Soul]

It gets harder after the first couple missions

[Uugly]

The first 3 mission are pretty easy now. The fourth mission is a lots harder. Ai seem to attack you far more.

[SWISH]

Definitely harder, some of the mission either you need to be either super good or cheese them. Heck i don't think some of them is even beatable if you screw up some early game mistake

[Uugly]

Hydra spam make the Greek campaign very easy

[SWISH]

Originally posted by Uugly:

Hydra cheese make the Greek campaign very easy

Yeah hydra regen + 5 head is super OP, with 5 head they surprisingly can out damage colossus crush damage on building because how painful the buff is

[Hatbaron]

Originally posted by Uugly:

The first 3 mission are pretty easy now. The fourth mission is a lots harder. Ai seem to attack you far more.

I realised this not long ago as I went back to it earlier. My point still stands that I don't need the first 3 missions to be a tutorial on the hardest difficulty.

[Finno-Korean Hyperwar Vet]

My experience with Titan mode is not that it's hard -- AI unit composition is cheesable. Titan mode is just not fun because it's tedious. A mission can drag on for 40+ minutes.

[Unrealtairo]

Titan difficulty here does not = Titan in OG or EE.

Titan in the old versions was 100% handicap.
In this version even the hardest (Legendary) only gets 50%.

->> You need to enable "Bonus" and give them an "additional" 50% to have legendary = the old Titan difficulty

Problem solved

[viktorhallo]

fall of the trident egyptian and norse part on titan is harder than in original.
expansion on titan difficulty seems heavily nerfed compared to original.
expansion titan difficulty was almost as hard as AOE 2 campaigns on hard, but no they are no longer hard :(

[sib]

how to enable bonus =?

[Unrealtairo]

On random maps its just a toggle

On campaign not sure if you can, haven't done any story for AOM since 2003 lol