Is Contingency an end game crisis?

[Zen3001]

new to this game, I just defeated the contingency, it was fun but not really that challenging, is it supposed to be the ending of the game? I am able to continue but I know you can continue game way past the expected ending in all paradox games and it's not much fun to do so.

[Bored Peon]

Yes, it was.

Some are harder than others and it also depends if the Crisis gains any ground. Some games they grow just because you cannot get to them due to restricted space of another empire. So by the time you vote for the Crisis declaration they already gained quite a bit.

I think I hate the Machine World one is the most @#$%ing annoying thing has eaten so many of shipyards when they spawn. Last time time it spawned when I had Crisis setting to All it spawned on my Shipyard station and ate it then proceeded to capture my capital in the next system. This was all in the span of like a few minutes, before my fleets could even return, well because it ate my gateway to shipyards and capital, lol.

Crisis difficulty is like all over the place if you use all. Like the scourge came in with 50-100k fleet, and a decade or so after the machine worlds came in with 150k fleets.

[Ziraxer]

in future runs enable all crisis (you will get all 3 back to back and harder ) make it x5 str , if you have all DLC and wanna give your self a challenge go mid game year 50 end game year 100 . this game is all about pushing your self 1200 h into this game am still luring new things.

[HappySack]

Yes, and the default settings are intentionally set to lower standards so increase the crisis strength next time but if you've allowed all the crisis to spawn then you can opt to keep going to fight all of them.

Otherwise your game is done since there's nothing left to do other than wait for the victory year if you want the game to officially end.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by HappySack:

Yes, and the default settings are intentionally set to lower standards

I think it's more like the crises just haven't been updated in a really long time.

The player has gotten more tools to improve their economy and the AI has gotten *significantly* better at managing their own economy, so the overall strength of the galaxy has just outpaced them.

[Flashand]

first time i played the crisis was pretty damn tough to play, 4 yrs ago. now it was a joke if that was the end crisis it needs un nerfed. hell the faction off the gates is tougher

[flame from Halo]

Remember that this is base game difficulty, meant to be reasonably achievable so long as you understand the core mechanics of the game. As Ziraxer said you can simply turn up the difficulty if it is too easy, x25 is a challenge even for people with thousands of hours under their belt.

[VoiD]

Originally posted by flame from Halo:

Remember that this is base game difficulty, meant to be reasonably achievable so long as you understand the core mechanics of the game. As Ziraxer said you can simply turn up the difficulty if it is too easy, x25 is a challenge even for people with thousands of hours under their belt.

It really depends.

I've played against a x25 crisis on GA starting after 2325, that was a hell of a challenge, 100 years of war until I got rid of all the planets, same settings starting after 2350 and another game after 2400 and I just trampled over them with zero losses and finished their invasion instantly in a single move.

Even a x1 crisis can be challenging, if you set the late game to start before 2300.

But yeah, even the AI is trashing the crisis on 100% standard settings, I was playing a GA game last week, around 2350 when a x1 crisis spawned and one small vassal I had was right next to their spawning point, before I could even get there the vassal killed them all.

This same vassal had destroyed 2 fallen empires before I managed to vassalize him too, so these "late game challenges" are quite lacking when vassal AIs can parade around with half a dozen 150k power fleets.

[Zen3001]

I am playing without any DLCs so it's a little closer to vanilla aswell, I also had the whole galaxy united at this point in a federation and a bunch of vassals, it was the whole galaxy fighting against them I was also no stronger than the one fallen empire in the galaxy. that fallen empire was a bigger struggle than the crisis. I had fun with it anyway for the first time I just wanted to make sure that I'm really done with the campaign and don't miss out on anything.

[Xaphnir]

Originally posted by Flashand:

first time i played the crisis was pretty damn tough to play, 4 yrs ago. now it was a joke if that was the end crisis it needs un nerfed. hell the faction off the gates is tougher

Sounds like you just need to up the crisis difficulty.

The crisis at 1x was never a challenge with even a half-decent idea of what you're doing.