AI Cheats on normal in Skirmish ?

[ceeldee]

Seem to always lose skirmish on normal. Last game me + 2 AI. I have a dreadnought cornered
by my Hyperion and 2 Cronus and various other smalls . Hyperion and Cronus are levelled up. Max Quanta upgrades to weapons, No damage to enemy Dreadnought which is apparently bulletproof. Battle took so long other enemy dreadnoughts come and goodnight. I actually was best score by far for awhile . Any thoughts ?

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As far as I know AI doesn't cheat in normal difficulty, even on difficulties it does I think it's just resource and build time buffs.

You'll need a Prometheus for taking down other dreadnoughts.

[Ticktoc]

Aye, apart from the Prometheus the Carving Turret orbital is good for taking out dreadnoughts too.

[Creature of Existense]

its more accurate to say you didnt build the dreadnaught counter, if you face an enemy dread you need to build the dreanaught counter to deal any proper damage also there is no max lvl for weapon damage or health uppgrades. (its basicly limitless as long you can pay the quanta cost for it.)

[ceeldee]

Thanks guys seems weird no damage 3 against 1. Trouble with carving turrets is it diesnt last long.

[110]

引用自 ceeldee：

Thanks guys seems weird no damage 3 against 1. Trouble with carving turrets is it diesnt last long.

carving doesnt last long but it lasts long enough to kill an umber of dreads, nevermind 1 dread... also as people pointed out u get no such thing as "max quanta invested"

build heras / promethius for taking out other dreads. and deploy orbital turrets.

hyperion has low dps vs armoured units, and same goes for cronus. (unless u take the right level up)

the main thing u are missing here is that dreads have 90% damage reduction from their armour. so if u are doing 100 dps with ur unit, it is reduced to 10dps.. u understand what a difference that makes? so u need weapons that ignore armour.. or u need huge dps.. thus promethius and hera. or massively out number the units.

personally i think the armour mechanic is the dumbest ive seen in an RTS, but we have to deal with it... that the armour does the same % reduction regardless of the weapon attacking it is completely illogical.. whether its a tiny pea shooter or a super cannon it still has 90% reduction..but thats what we have.

[Karath]

As others have noted with good suggestions. I tend to play PHC quite a bit against painful ai and I prefer Nemesis over most other cruisers. The Nemesis are a cruiser level dreadnought counter and has armor peircing cannon but slow fire rate.

[SnugSnug]

It can a times feel very unbalanced when fighting ai.

In my last game i had 3 falcon aa turrets, 6 wings of furies? (air superiority) and 2 appollo? (anti-air/drone cruiser) in amongst a swarm of other units. I watched as 3 Sub. bombers? flew into the base killed the turrets, 2 radioactive resources, the frigate factory, armoury and dreadnought factory, radar and anti-orbital before finally going down.

I'm not sure if fighters are worth it but i assume they're the hard counter given their unit sdescription. Having 18 planes buzzing around the node/base gives a false sense of security having seen how ineffective they are. The bombers had already flown through a screen of 3 more fighter wings that were further out and taken little to no damage before the other fighters broke off persuit.

There may have a beeen a a tech level differnce but at around the 10-5min mark it shouldn't have been huge.

[110]

the AI does not cheat in this manner in any difficulties.. it has bonuses to res, quantra, build and capture rates. but not to any physical stats

so if ur seeing something that seems like cheating it is usually due to something else..