What is the difference between Insane Practice and Hard Practice?

[The Sprinkler]

I'm not confident in my PvP skills, and PvP stresses my out and gives me anxiety, so I am trying to hone and practice against Insane AI.. however, I almost always lose.
I don't know what the difference is between Hard and Insane difficulty, though! It is like playing against Deity AI in Civilization?

[Gorael]

Playing against AI will not help you much to fight human opponents, because the AI placement and overall plays are dubious.
It’s fine to play solo, just don’t expect to be any good in multi once you regularly win your « practices » against AI.
As per your question, I can’t answer it sorry.

[Doomsdave]

Its hard to tell the exact difference, but if you compare lowest with highest, you see that the Bot does not counter well and dont build as much. Also the techs are not used as much.

I played a lot against insane and still do and it will definitly help against humans. Insane punishes hard for mistakes. Especially with wrong choice of unit drop. Because it chooses pretty well. And there you learn to counter, because the Bot counters good.

The Bot definitly isnt more dubious then the average 1000mmr player, change my mind.

Edit: when you play solid against insane ai, go for some 4 Player Brawls. Its pretty entertaining without stress. Also, when you ♥♥♥♥ it up, you can just leave. The Bot takes your units and finishes the game. People wont be mad, because for example Bots dont put a damn lvl8 sandworm in your flank to rush your tower, so you get crushed from both sides, because you crushed your right opponent before. Yeah im talking to you Ben! ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! Well played though.

[Kyuss]

Originally posted by Doomsdave:

The Bot definitly isnt more dubious then the average 1000mmr player, change my mind.

Does the mmr player cheat coz the AI def does with the experimentals? The whole "insane mode" is mainly based on RNG. (This becomes very obvious in survival prtty quick)

[Eden Monroe RWR]

Originally posted by Kyuss:

Originally posted by Doomsdave:

The Bot definitly isnt more dubious then the average 1000mmr player, change my mind.

Does the mmr player cheat coz the AI def does with the experimentals? The whole "insane mode" is mainly based on RNG. (This becomes very obvious in survival prtty quick)

agreed, im still have to get the survival run where i can beat the AI, but how far i go its exactly based on wave RNG

[Eden Monroe RWR]

Originally posted by The Sprinkler:

I'm not confident in my PvP skills, and PvP stresses my out and gives me anxiety, so I am trying to hone and practice against Insane AI.. however, I almost always lose.
I don't know what the difference is between Hard and Insane difficulty, though! It is like playing against Deity AI in Civilization?

my advice as much as im newbie, is play survival or mp brawl instead

[Doomsdave]

Survival is random wave after random wave with own units decaying and experimental units from the bot. Or did that changed? I dont play survival. But thats the mode for madman who know what they are doing. Except easy, thats just fun.

Brawls are a fiesta with four humans fighting random botwaves and eachother. There you build up strong unitcombo dependend on your fetish and after that, the stuff from your left and right opponent. There is no linear buildup from your opponent which you counter, cause you dont know who need to fight the bot in lafet rounds.

Practice has the rules from a normal match. No extra rng or cheating. You play a normal 1v1 match against a Bot. Thats the best way to learn the game. Starting with easy and pushing to insane. When you win 9 of 10 games, you know the game. I highly recommend the practice mode for beginner.

[Brave Sir Robin]

Eh, bots are fine for understand basic controls and learning about unit counters, but they're useless beyond that. They don't respond to your army and buy random units and techs. They don't flank, and they often just completely ignore flanks against them. Once you have any amount of experience with the game you should be able to round 5 win the Insane AI constantly.

[The Sprinkler]

Originally posted by Brave Sir Robin:

Eh, bots are fine for understand basic controls and learning about unit counters, but they're useless beyond that. They don't respond to your army and buy random units and techs. They don't flank, and they often just completely ignore flanks against them. Once you have any amount of experience with the game you should be able to round 5 win the Insane AI constantly.

I've had the AI counter my flanks before. Just now, the AI deployed 3 meltingpoints and a sandworm to attack my UFO and Fortress flank.
In matches where I change the HP to 8000+, the AI will occasionally deploy several factory tanks along the flanks (That time, I had deployed 9+ spider tanks to test their spamability)

I don't normally win against the Insane Bot AI, and I had actually learned about the armor plating upgrade. I wasn't sure how it worked, exactly, but figured out that it will block x damage per hit, but the target MUST take at least 1hp in damage.
I practiced that with a level 2 Rhino against 400 fangs.. give or take.