Defenses mean nothing anymore with the unbalanced titans and all the money bonuses the computer gets. I build maxed out defenses on a planet and the comp just rolls over it like nothing. And I've never experienced the bot players not being able to build a lot of ships. On the contrary, it usually has a titan and superweapons built in about 20 or 30 minutes. 

I'm playing medium large random maps usually. Same thing just happened, though. Bot player somehow has a huge army with star bases in just a few minutes. 

This is the worst game I own now on steam. It's absolutely unplayable. 

I must agree with Darvin, your timelines are off my friend. Do you actually have a clock nearby, or are you guesstimating? I play on unfair or above, and they're not as fast as you seem to think they are. Even Vicious level seldom kicks out a titan in under 30-40 minutes.

There are many guides out there to help you improve. I would suggest improving your game play, or reducing the ai difficulty.

Each titan has its own strengths and weaknesses, and you sometimes need very particular strategies to take them out. High level Advent Rebel and Vasari Rebel titans are two of the hardest for new players because they require tactics you wouldn't normally use in other circumstances to defeat efficiently.

For level 6+ Eradica titans, its ultimate ability grants it the ability to survive after death for a few minutes and it rapidly reduces the cooldowns on its abilities as it gets damaged. If you know you destroyed the titan (it will start glowing blue), RUN. It's already dead and will wreck havoc on your fleet in those few minutes.

The Eradica can also heal by consuming other frigates on its own team and absorbing their hitpoints, shield points and antimatter. For this reason using powerful AoE attacks on the Advent Rebel support fleet is ideal, as it will stop its source of healing. It then makes the run away strategy easier to do since the titan will be the only thing left attacking you.

Also a good tip for handling any titan - Every race has a capitalship that can drain antimatter from enemy titans. Titans cannot use most special abilities without antimatter, and they are much easier to shut down as just weapon platforms. These are the Dunov battlecruiser, Radiance battleship and Kortul Battleship. Learning to make good use of your race's ship is very helpful in getting better at defeating titans.

Also this is a somewhat old video, but I cover a lot of tips you can use to kill titans here.

Ah, a classic I was almost beginning to miss. 

Well I see they made an update for the game but there's still no button to toggle off annoying superweapons and the pirate nonsense is still the same where they attack you every 5 minutes and putting money on another bot player doesn't work to get pirates off your back because the bid is instantly outbid by the bot players and it just goes back on you. It's garbage. It shouldn't even exist. 

There's also several things I noticed about how the mechanics don't really work in this game like advertised.

One has to do with culture not working correctly in conjunction with bonuses you're supposed to get. I was using a tactic the other day with TEC Loyalists where I thought I would be smart and load up a planet that I controlled with broadcast stations. Then I would attack the next planet over and wipe out their broadcast towers first, at which point I thought my culture would easily start affecting the planet I was attacking and since I was TEC Loyalists, my ships would get the massive in culture bonus that you are supposed to get when fighting in your own culture. But noooooo that doesn't work unless you actually control the planet itself, which makes the entire tactic worthless.

There was also something else sorta like that I noticed wrong with the mechanics of the game but I cant remember it right now. Maybe it will come back to me later.

I'm pretty dissatisfied with the whole thing and won't be buying the new DLC or anything else unless this stuff is addressed. 

I dont think so but I'll go back and look at it again. 

OK well what about the phasic barrier mechanic? It doesn't work like advertised either because what you can do is take manual control of your ships and tell them to keep bombing a structure even though PB has supposedly 'phased it out' and it just keeps on taking damage. What the mechanic does is simply invalidate the structure as a target for a split second which annoyingly makes your ships stop targeting it. They should just replace it with something else. 

I went and watch Goas video of him and another guy fighting and it was kind of helpful. Im actually winning a game right now on hard if I dont screw up. I started making lots of fighter/bombers early and got lucky with finding relics, but I was still way behind in producing a Titan and superweapons as the computer does that way too fast. But, it is hard difficulty so...

Honestly im shocked no one here has said it directly. Though indirectly they have.

youre exhibiting major lack of knowledge and understanding of the game, you don't know or Titan abilities and label something unknown as too strong or broken. Hard ai is so simple to beat it's unplayable in my opinion.

now I don't expect you to be an expert but when you start bashing a game for whatever reason I do expect a little time put in to learning said game and trying diff things. For instance you losing to advent rebels, how about playing them. Learning their tech tree and Titan, cap ships ect?

An example is a block of illuminates, repulsors, eradica, defence ships, some destr and a bunch of their t5 healers(don't remember the name now) it's insAnd. You outrange almost anything and can chain push everything back out of their range. And if you're good you can warp or move some repulsors around to blob the enemy cluster more so your eradica can burst them to death.

you mentioned a fleet of yours with 30 something ships and bombers with a Titan. Think a lot bigger Man. In multiplayer of you don't have 100+ ships in 15-20 mins on Wing or star bases up in 10-12 as suicide you really don't have a chance.

so aggressive rapid expansion against ais until you get a nice choke point, fill it with a star base and repair platforms and whatever sparkly defences you want. Have a balanced and synergised fleet. the advent one is just an example of good synergy. There are others. Once you feed your caps and Titan a bunch you can role over the cpu quite easily.

Idgaf what cheaters in multiplayer do. I seen people spawning in ships using developer code. And I been playing since Trinity came out and I paid for all my sins stuff legit, so I can say and do what I want and play how I want. My tactics used to work just fine, read what I wrote OK. 

I did, you can't beat hard. 

Therefore you aren't doing ok or just fine.

You don't attempt to learn anything other than what you have been doing. You have little knowledge of the other races and you've been playing since trinity? Really?



Those figures from multiplayer are examples of how you should be playing, we don't cheat. We just know how to play the game. Instead of bitching and moaning, how about you ask for help? Ask for openings. I gave you many examples how to synergies and beat an ai.

Hard isn't hard at all. 



I'm not going to argue how you want to play, sure we all paid for sins, get over yourself.

However if you want to play badly or "your" way, you can't complain that the game beats you when you play your way.

I like to play fifa like a shooter, but my players don't carry guns.. I lose every game so the game is too hard... FML