Automaton missions feel really crappy

[Ragosta tin Dei]

When I see the captain start one I silently groan. There's one where you just wait for 50 people to cross a street while gunfire is raining down from all sides. What should I bring (outside of shields) to at least mitigate the crappiness?

[Kashra Fall]

Uh, ever tried utilizing cover? Walls? Buildings? Rocks? Smoke strikes? EMS strikes? I love fighting the bots.

[Verios44]

Automotons are fun to fight against. Just have to be mindful of your surroundings.

[Everlasting Light]

Yeah, it's bad. Just did 3 of this mission and it's all failure. Those bots just keep on coming.

[Bone Pile]

Just git gud lol

But seriously the automaton escort missions are completely unplayable. They just put a bunch of heavies outside the shuttle bay and kill everything that comes close. Regular weapons are basically useless and special weapons don't have the ammo capacity to deal with the sheer amount of armored units waiting to eat civvies.

Probably best to just leave games where the host insists on wasting everybody's fifteen minutes trying to kick water uphill

[TheAceOfSpodes]

For the civi extract missions with bots, bring recoilless rifle. Preferably several.

All you do is pop a drop ship in one of the rear engines and its an insta-kill and everything inside also dies. Even if they've already dropped, the ship will land on them and kill them.

If you get 2 people with those in a match, it makes it trivial.

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Bone Pile:

Just git gud lol

But seriously the automaton escort missions are completely unplayable. They just put a bunch of heavies outside the shuttle bay and kill everything that comes close. Regular weapons are basically useless and special weapons don't have the ammo capacity to deal with the sheer amount of armored units waiting to eat civvies.

Probably best to just leave games where the host insists on wasting everybody's fifteen minutes trying to kick water uphill

If you have tesla towers in the right spots, they can counteract the bots building up. Adversely, if you have them in the wrong spots. They will kill you and your civis too =P.

[White Chocolate]

skill issue tbh

[Ragosta tin Dei]

I got guys who just spam these really stupid automaton missions, just do 3 objectives then go home. That's if you do these objectives. People think oh just use cover. they got rockets artillery and there's an infinite amount of them.

The worst I get for bugs are 4 bile titans, totally managable. They drop one tank and that's it you're going camping.

The bigger ones can 1 shot you unless you're not running heavy armor, and the biggest ones self destruct which yeah thats fine, but the effects are also extremely blinding. I dont know why quickplay's spamming these trash missions its absolutely anti fun.

Anyway is there a way to blacklist the missions so I don't get matched up to them in quickplay?

[Kashra Fall]

Originally posted by Ragosta tin Dei:

I got guys who just spam these really stupid automaton missions, just do 3 objectives then go home. That's if you do these objectives. People think oh just use cover. they got rockets artillery and there's an infinite amount of them.

The worst I get for bugs are 4 bile titans, totally managable. They drop one tank and that's it you're going camping.

The bigger ones can 1 shot you unless you're not running heavy armor, and the biggest ones self destruct which yeah thats fine, but the effects are also extremely blinding. I dont know why quickplay's spamming these trash missions its absolutely anti fun.

Anyway is there a way to blacklist the missions so I don't get matched up to them in quickplay?

The game gives you armor that gives you explosive resistance, use it. The bots also can't shoot through shield relays (You can.) etc.

[Ragosta tin Dei]

tbh, id rather keep the 15 -40 minutes. What's a shield relay.

[Lieutenant Dan]

nice try Automaton
we won't stop fighting

[Bone Pile]

Originally posted by Kashra Fall:

If you have tesla towers in the right spots, they can counteract the bots building up. Adversely, if you have them in the wrong spots. They will kill you and your civis too =P.

If there's only one way to play, the game is badly designed.

[Bananaman of Azkaban]

EMS! If youre fighting bots bring EMS and smoke and you will see a world of difference. Spear, autocannon or railgun are good AT weapons as well

[Rager]

Automation mission are easier than bugs and faster. Laser orbit bases and bam dead. Easy game.

[flowkrad]

depends on difficulty, 110 eagles work well on tanks, auto cannon does pretty well against automatons as well, you really cant stay still though more than with bugs in my opinion or you get swarmed easier, might just be because more can attack you at once though since they can almost all shoot so it feels like more are after you than with bugs. personally i find soloing automatons at diff 6 to be easier than bugs but i hanvt tried soloing higher than that yet so maybe it changes a bit.