How hard is this?

[Hunter Wolf]

Uh Euros are not my thing... How hard is this going to be for an idiot?

[utilityguy]

This game has difficulty options, so as long as you play on the easiest setting, while also playing with a number of Players that equals the number of continents you set in pre-match settings (making everyone have their own continent), it should be easy.

Now, if you somehow decide to do your first game on the maximum difficulty, I don't know what to tell you.

[TheOrangeBox]

The DLCs add complexity and difficulty to the game but Vanilla is fine.

[Corrupted Slime]

AI is braindead without a mod.

[Hunter Wolf]

Originally posted by utilityguy:

This game has difficulty options, so as long as you play on the easiest setting, while also playing with a number of Players that equals the number of continents you set in pre-match settings (making everyone have their own continent), it should be easy.

Now, if you somehow decide to do your first game on the maximum difficulty, I don't know what to tell you.

this only pvp?

[utilityguy]

What do you mean?

Like, only Humans vs Humans? The answer is no.

[DestrockQc]

It's a 4X game. Go check on YouTube or Twitch. You have some options you can change before starting a game, like the amount of bot you want to add, their difficulties, their faction, etc... If you want to play with real humans, you must go online but almost nobody play online because the game is old (and because nobody play online in a 4X game in general, it's always the same in all these kind of games).

If you want the DLCs go check on Steam DB what was the biggest sale % (80% if I remember right) and it cost I think 15-20$canadian to buy them all and you want them. The base game is decent but compared to the stuff the DLCs add to the gameplay, you would miss the real gameplay. But it's free so try the base game as a "demo" and see if you like it or not.

[Fulano]

This game's claim to fame is the very different game mechanics for each race. A few of the races are pretty straightforward, most of them are complicated, so it gives players tons of replayability trying to figure out each race.

If you just start with vanilla, with an easy race, with the AI on lowest settings, it's not too bad to figure out as far as 4x games go. Lots of the mechanics can be basically ignored as you gradually learn the game and increase the AI's difficulty.

But as Destrock said, look into the 4x genre if you're not familiar with it. The Civilization series is often used as an example of a gateway game into the 4x genre for example. I don't think this would be much harder than a Civilization game, though this game does have manual combat.