[SPOILER] Massive EsoCorp Rovers Unstoppable Attack

[Larrynautik]

EsoCorps Rovers started to attack all my colonies. After hardly getting rid of 8 of them, another wave arrives. There's no way to face, they just destroy my defenses at an amazing rate + random buidings.

I'm really disgusted. It's not supposed to be some stupid wargame. You can't even give orders, there's no strategy ! No option to disable those Missile Rovers. My game is completely f****ed up and I precise I play in EASY (35%) difficulty....

How could they think it would be a good idea to implement such a ridiculous feature ? It's like playing Cities Skylines and seeing tanks attacking your city. It just completely ruins the game. It was a very cool game until this crap happened.

Just don't buy it, you'll be as disgusted as I am about your money. I should never have bought this game.

[Wantoomany]

You must of had mysteries set for random. And it randomly gave your easy geme a hard mystery.

I kinda thought marsgate was fun.

[Larrynautik]

I confirm this Mystery was horribly hard and frustrating, But I built a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of defense towers and captured their Rovers. To be effective, Attack Rovers and Towers must be at least 2, because in 1vs1 the enemy wins and attacks.

Finally killed all EsoCorp Rovers all got rid of all this. No more invaders, there are only two waves.

Should never have helped them OR built a ton of grouped Towers. Now trying to improve my Colonies after a huge repair campaign. Now at 300 colonists in 6 domes and trying to understand the whole game mechanics.

Other problems also ruin the game like Colonist going to random jobs instead of their specialization, or trying to move to another dome.... on feet. And dying miserably outside, of suffocation.

[Aieonae]

You played marsgate I presume...

For me they(aso😂 corp) are good money for me bases...

I thought they meant stargate.

but it is more related to watergate.

And if you respond appropriately(including swallowing your own moral), they reward you handsomely

[Kai Heilos]

Just did the Marsgate mystery. Was the most simple attack I've ever encountered.

Literally just dropped a single rocket launcher at each outpost and ignored it after that. Now I own a bunch of rocket rovers and have meteorite defense everywhere, easy win.

The rockets are like, 5 electronics each? And you get more than that from the rovers after you break them, the game is just giving you free meteor defense.

[Larrynautik]

I precise that, at the end of the war, EsoCorphad left no less than 45 (!!!) buildings destroyed, especially energy generators, and drone centers, and ALL my vehicles.

As they destroyed Towers several times, it means they destroyed something like 60 buildings....

[Wantoomany]

To be fair, in order for the attack to happen. You had to have examined one of the broken rovers. Then upon discoving that the rovers were armed military weapons. Decided to stand up to and tattle on an armed bully with more guns then you.

Honestly, it could of ended far worse then it did. Sometimes the best way to defend mars is to not be the hero.

[xenofex]

i had excess science and resources. I spammed those turrets the first chance i got. EsoCorp never stood a chance.

A couple of their missiles hit a dome though. That was... challenging. Luckily it was the dome where i stored my senior citizens. If it had hit one of my main domes, the mission would have been over.

[Aieonae]

Originally posted by Wantoomany:

To be fair, in order for the attack to happen. You had to have examined one of the broken rovers. Then upon discoving that the rovers were armed military weapons. Decided to stand up to and tattle on an armed bully with more guns then you.

Honestly, it could of ended far worse then it did. Sometimes the best way to defend mars is to not be the hero.

Yup! the wuss(me) here gets a pay check(500m each repair) for repairing aso drones..

[VA gamer]

recommend spoiler tag in your title

[Larrynautik]

Added spoiler tag on title.
Still running my colony with now 450 colonists. Still have some incredible logicstics and social surprises.
The worst was a massive logistics nightmare.
- Hadn't noticed there was not enough fuel generated because of polymer factories openings.
- This fuel also fuels the resources / colonists shuttles
- I unlock a success and obtain 3 full Space Shuttles full of qualified colonists. Immediately make them come.
- 3 Space Shuttles land and drones start to refuel them.
- No more fuel for the resources / colonists shuttles
- Massive resources breakdown on electronics, metal and polymer : everything collapses.
- Electronics factories close, can't repair droner centers or factories themselves.
- Energy generators failures leads to massive electrical shutdown.

- Full situation analysis in "what happens really" mode.
- Lowered Space Shuttles refuels to Very Slow.
- Manually fixed and refilled drone and shuttle centers using land transports / rovers.
- Fixed energy generators and factories
- Everything comes back to normal...

But added a LOT of fuel factories and changed some Resources Deposits locations.

Need more Land Transports and Drones Rovers, because without them, you're done !

Still get a lot of things to do during this 37 hours game. Not met bugs but colonists behaviour is still a big mystery !

[Aieonae]

Manage to complete the mohole just before the last of my surface metals ran out on sol 299.

Btw, you will need to fight esocorp regardlessly...

but the fight is not as hard as imagine...

[Warlords Welt]

But where do you get the defense from? I have absolutely no way to defend myself.

[Larrynautik]

@Aieonae In fact the Mohole has been built, but only gives 50 Metal, and I need more Metal to just maintain basements.

But I found a way to overpass these resource finitenesses using another thing. My colony is now 2000 people and still growing, trying to make it eternal but it's rather hard.

@Annothek The defense is given by researches. They allow you to build turrets. But you'll have to build a LOT of turrets, because I only did 3 or 4, and it was way too few. Prepare for the worst !

[Aieonae]

Originally posted by Larrynautik:

@Aieonae In fact the Mohole has been built, but only gives 50 Metal, and I need more Metal to just maintain basements.

But I found a way to overpass these resource finitenesses using another thing. My colony is now 2000 people and still growing, trying to make it eternal but it's rather hard.

found another way but it literally become ideally pointless when you had eventually reach that that point... yes a conjunction use of both research martian copyrights and space elevator. should be able to up the metal import to 80 metals per lift(but I strongly doubt that is enough).

Oddly, I actually think they preferred overcrowded domes...not that I have a problem with that.

[Old-gamer]

You could see an attack coming from the "Marsgate" mystery by the whole setup of what they did. It was a "play on our terms or else" kind of story. I loved it and if there had been a 3rd quickly executed wave, they "might" have gotten the best of me. I began building my inventory reserve of resources the moment that their "rovers" appeared in my area. You can survive both attacks if you recognize that it will be coming and start preparing for the defense.

They did destroy every vehicle in my inventory and a bunch of my infrastructure. I had to cannibalize a lot of my base's builds to get going again and it was painfully slow coming back. But that is part of the challenge of playing the game. It is the give and take that some things are gonna want to ruin your day.