So AI difficulty on TITAN cheats... l need help

[Brotherscompany2]

Hi everyone so l used to play AoM as a child then l stopped playing. Grabed myself when it came on steam and l consider myself somewhat a medium tier player beating the Al on Hardest difficulty no problem in AoE2

But AoM is a totall different game from AeO2 and its a lot more hard to turtle up and boom, also there is no denieing this game has less micro so you cant overplay the AI with the micro. That being said lm having difficulty wining the Al in TITAN difficulty and lm gonna explain why l hope l can get some feedback

NOTE: lm at my best playing with Egyptians, l still play with other cultures but l get more "sucess" as egyptian

-The AI cheat is just totally stupid in the sense they get 2x rates on everything - l have no ideia if they also get more starting resources.

My main problem is that the AI here gets a extreme advantage on you and their economy is super effective. In the earlie game while lm still pumping villagers to be able to even set my economy the AI already advanced to Classical Age and its doing an army by the time l start advancing to the next age. Also economy damage to them means absolutelly nothing since they get 2x so if you kill their villagers they still got the resources in the bank to compensate it - As an example l was able to get a strong fortification in the enemy base and l spent more than half of the game on top of their base killing all their villagers to the point where they would be starved but they just keept on pumping units non stop, not to mention l had a group of archer on their trade for two thirds of the game but it didnt matter, they just kept pumping trade units non stop from the market the entire game. This fight was so hard that l had 20k of gold and food in the bank and l lost because l ran out of resources even tough l was spamming counters

-Their rush and army spamn is too strong

So this has to do on par with their 2x everything rate. They can pump army so fast that by the time l get my barracks up and start to make units they are already at my base. Most of the times l can defeat them but only with a couplish units standing. The BIG problems comes since they got 2x everything by the time l defeated their army they already have another even bigger with more updgrades, of course it just flats out kills me. There is no way (at least for me) to balance perfectly my timing to be able to get a strong army without hurting my economy.

-Atacking is not really feasable

Since you cant micro too well in this game and the fact that even if they sent out an army to kill you they already got another gathering so it acts like a defence there is no way you can really harass them! If l do it means l have less units and it will be over run by their army. Also 2x gather rates means unless you erradicate their villagers there is not much harm being done

-The fog of war hacks (They can see everything even trough fog of war)

Man times if they dont just straigh go for my weak army they just pass like nothing was hitting them and go directly and stop directly where l have most of my economy (man this annoys me for real) which means l get idle time and even loose some villagers. While this happens lm not gathering resources and they get even more than me! By the time l manage to wipe them or about to wipe them their second army has arrived at my base


I know this turned out to be a rant but l really am agaisnt the way the AI cheats, Hard difficulty is just a joke its too ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ easy but the next difficulty is theoritically impossible to beat them (in my case). l really think the AI gets too much cheat power. Also if they get Norse l just give up, their rush is too strong because they can start early on with their temple heroes
- l would really apreciatte some help from you guys!!!

[ConMeo]

Titan AI is cheating and cannot usually be beaten without abusing errors in the script file, like building walls into a single chokepoint and kill soldiers off there, giving you time to boom. A feasible solution would be to make sure you are always at a pop advantage, but you'd have to get classical very fast then.

If you'd want a doable challenge, I'd suggest you 1v3 or more hard AI. This should be more or less like playing vs 1 Titan but without cheating.

[ulqui_]

Titan difficulty is a joke. The only way I beat them is on island maps, since they don't go for town hall cap on isolate island, and they dont send as much troops with the boats transport system. Also, the "fight to death" mode where you start with a lot of ressources is winnable. However the standard conquest/supremacy on a map with no island and low starting ressources is unwinnable unless you exploit flaws in the AI, such as kitting or messing with walls. Too bad they use cheats