Game is way too hard

[minsidajedi]

This game needs some serious rebalancing on the difficulty settings. I can't even come close to winning campaign 5 and I'm on easy. I'm not a newbie to gaming or RTS games but I just can make any progress on this game even on easy mode. Everything seems to be just a huge rush and no strategy. HELP!

[Selphea]

For campaign 5, you have a numbers disadvantage but a terrain advantage. There's one ramp entrance to the right of your start point and the other entrance is from the top.

That means you can quite safely expand south for economy without worrying about attack, and you should expand one outpost to the north to create a defensive buffer zone/staging area.

Anti material infantry are very nice for this map because it's a long, narrow path so they can easily support fire. Missile tanks are very nice because they can move while firing so they can easily move out of Carter's rockets. Incidentally these two happen to be OP but no foul when the AI is also cheating right? :)

Starting off it's going to be a real slog but try to harass and cripple the leftmost guy early on. For the other two, once their main base's resources run out you can go harvester hunting and slowly wear their economy down with air, stealth or just fast light units. That should be about 15 minutes in or so.

And you can look forward to Mission 15 where you fight two Carter tanks

[Blitzwing]

Originally posted by minsidajedi:

This game needs some serious rebalancing on the difficulty settings. I can't even come close to winning campaign 5 and I'm on easy. I'm not a newbie to gaming or RTS games but I just can make any progress on this game even on easy mode. Everything seems to be just a huge rush and no strategy. HELP!

its really easy


-step 1 focus on your economy in early game, refineries and harvesters
-get for HQ that Update that doubles the energy, you can save this way money on power plants


-use right weapons, put just rockets and max armor on every unit
best combo is trooper healer and that anti tank gun trooper

as for light vehicles its armor+ tank tracks + rocket launcher
heavy not really needed
air is waste of money


with that combo I did beat the entire story.

[minsidajedi]

Its not just mission 5 its been all of them that are too hard but mission 5 seems impossible. Tried about 10 times on medium and 5 times on easy.

[Selphea]

Are you harassing them enough? First thing to do is build 6 missile buggies and run them behind the purple AI's resource line to kill harvesters/refineries. They'll attract attention so just run away and hit another ore field. Go repair when that group is down to yellow/red. Meanwhile build up a bigger force to go for purple's HQ or orange or red's resource line.

This distracts the AI from attacking you and slows down their economy to make their attacks more manageable.

[minsidajedi]

I don't have time to build 6 rocket buggies before they start killing me. Three more tries on easy and three more loses :(. Sorry but this game could have been great but the lack of zoom, control, completly stupid friendly AI, lack of save system, and game difficultly compeltly ruin this game.

[MilfordTheBunny (DarkZenith)]

The thing is that this game is purely a rushing game... negligible strategy involved... and the whole rock paper scissors thing is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥... a joke of a game... if you are into rushes then this game will be fine, but if you are a turtler/strategic player than this game will be crap for you...

[Blitzwing]

Originally posted by minsidajedi:

I don't have time to build 6 rocket buggies before they start killing me. Three more tries on easy and three more loses :(. Sorry but this game could have been great but the lack of zoom, control, completly stupid friendly AI, lack of save system, and game difficultly compeltly ruin this game.

Write your build order.


My is this refinery, power plant, refinery, refinery, power plant, barracks, (spam units) light vehicles.(spam units) Power plant, refinery "the upgrade building", and now you are unstoppable.
try maybe to add some healing towers.

[Selphea]

I went power refinery refinery factory comms 6x light vehicles (armor takes em to T2 but it's worth for staying power)

FoBa isn't very turtle friendly at all i have to agree, turrets are too weak and short ranged. It's kind of silly missile turrets do 30 damage, but tanks do 42

[NobleSub]

I just replayed Mission 5 on Hard difficulty with minimal problems. I never even built the superweapon or the air factory.

I also only used 3 units. I used rocket infantry, rocket buggy and rocket tank with improved armor and tracks. They were all tier 2 and quite cheap to build. I also built rocket turrets.

The tactic is to basically kite with your rocket squads all the while pumping them out with 3 barracks, light factory and heavy factory. It is great that rockets can fire while moving. Also keep an eye out on your harvesters. If you keep them alive and have a steady income then you should be good on Hard difficulty.

[Red Knight]

"Use the right weapon, but put rockets and heavy armor on every vehicle." What?