Space monsters OP?

[Angry Baseball]

Im on turn 151 and attacked the Ameba space monster. WHAT A JOKE! The auto battle / chance of success predictrer said I had an excellent chance to win..... NOPE.. NO WAY... NO HOW.... NOT EVEN.

Did they even try to make the estimator accureat?

I the old game the ameba was just hard enoght to make you have to build a modist fleet to kill it. I looks like you need to be way up on the tech tree ( at least 1/2 done) to even think of standing a chance.

The thing is the ameba splitts. Thats cool... but! every one of its clones is just as tough as it is and they all do AOE damage. SO killing it only makes it 3 times harder... and killing clones makes it .. Lets see 1 plits into 3 then 3 into 9.... OMG! This thing gets to do AOE x 9!!!

Is it me or is that just a litttle OP for what is suppose to be a early to mid game challange?

[Exarch_Alpha]

The other monsters are more predictable to deal with. Just put MIRVed missiles and blow them to bits. With cruisers it´s easy to do with no losses.

With amoebas there are some creative stuff people do like putting missiles in rear only (which kinda sucks because it´s a dumb design versus everything else). But whatever you do don´t let units clump together and keep your distance.

[seabo_76]

Missiles are all around fire....

Amoeba's are definitely the toughest in the game. But a couple cruisers with Dauntless Guidance System and multiple groups of MIRV Missiles will deal with it quite nicely.
Always go Tactical and split up your ships, never keep them grouped. Also try to keep your range as the Amoeba pulse attack seems to igore shields and will ♥♥♥♥ you up real fast. Dauntless and Mirv combo can deal with the spitting easily and I will not go near an Amoeba until I have both those techs researched.
It is doable before that but you will need a lot more ships and prepare to lose a bunch

[frdnwsm]

I suspect the game is ranking the ameba difficulty based on defeating the initial creature, and ignoring the fact that killing the parent form spawns more amebae. It's estimate on all the other monsters is fairly accurate, since they don't split off new living fragments when killed.

[Captain Keen]

The only truly fun fight out of all the monsters is the amoeba. It's the only one that calls for actual tactics, the only one where you can't tell in advance if you'll win or lose just by looking at the numbers.

The first time you face it, you get your ass handed to you. This is a good thing.

[Marbur]

It's really nasty in multiplayer games, because you can't take over the command.

[Exoclyps]

While I find the Amoeba fun I suppose, the problem is that the AI keeps dying on it since it thinks it's easier than it is.

[Exarch_Alpha]

Originally posted by seabo_76:

Missiles are all around fire....

I meant tactically. Instead of rushing to close combat range.