Conquest is fantastic, but difficulty is all over the place

[Miathan]

See title. Both the missions and the AI clans are extremely inconsistent difficulty wise. Some AI clans are a complete joke, others are a huge pain to play against. Some conquest missions are impossible to lose, others are (near) impossible to win.

Overall conquest is a very well designed mode that adds a ton of replayability to the game, but with the current difficulty balance (or rather, the lack of any) I can't see myself playing more.

[Palicai]

Gonna agree on this, the AI has been wonky for months now, this is not news.

In terms of the missions, yes i also agree, me and my wife has been going through Conquest alot, and some missions are just full stops unless you cheese them ina way the game isnt meant to be played. The dwarf one comes to mind, you have to literally kite enemies around a tower because there is no way you will have enough troops if you have bad RNG tiles.

If there is a "build wonder" mission, you have a 50/50 chance it doesnt break, otherwise its a full restart of the entire conquest. We had this happen 3 times,same mission.

The AI also completely breaks and lets the wildlife demolish them while they jjst watch. Then theres games where the AI,on normal, is just ruthless and keeps coming with troops there is NO WAY they should be able to afford that early. I know they cheat, but come on...

I have faith in them fixing these as they keep posting about it, good, just waiting for the game to be 99% playable, a few bugs here and there are fine. Right now tho...NO reason to play, its all over the place. We dont touch PVP so i dont care about that,at all.

[Miathan]

Yeah I noticed the AI randomly getting defeated by environment. Makes the "defend from frozen hordes" mission a complete joke. The very first wave already kicks out an AI half the time.

The dwarf mission definitely needs a nerf. I succesfully completed it for the first time a few days ago, with about 1 month leftover till the time limit. I was stacked with conquest buffs, playing on normal difficulty, and I knew how to play it because of past attempts, and even then I almost lost. It felt like I was playing extreme rather than normal.