Who has won Galactic War on Absurd difficulty?

If you have, tell us your story...

Challenge Accepted. I am off tomorrow, I will work on doing that. I will slightly cheat, trade my turrets for 4 t1 tech factories at start, allow myself more tech useable from start, technically it is a part of vanilla PA so it is allowed no?

I bought this game to have fun, not for my nose to bleed alright?

Started a largest size, hardest difficulty galactic war today.

First time I'd played in a while and sorian's AI and the new balance took me slightly by surprise the first match I played, by which I mean the AI T1 bomber rushed me into paste.
Restarted, I've now won a couple of games without much difficulty having got some good tech early (efficiency tech, commander build arm and the vehicular combat one). I've yet to have any boss fights though so I'll keep you posted.

So far it seems to be not that hard for an experienced player, but we'll see if that changes as I progress.

An even harder difficulty level?!?

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Would love to try it, but even on hard I sometimes get planet locked. As in I have huge armies but the sim gets too low for me for it to be playable and then I don't have the patience to break through their defences. Guess I need to be quicker...

I'm afraid it's too hard. Impossible to finish.

Someone prove me wrong.... please?

I won on Nightmare - and from a brief look at Insane, it doesn't appear to have gotten that much harder.

I was using the BACON commander - for some of the battles, I had to use the speed hotfix mod so the commander actually got the +200% movement it's supposed to have, but in other battles I didn't need it.

Get good

It got harder when renamed to "Absurd"

I'm slowly streaming myself making it through every one of the difficulties.

Right now I'm on Uber.

I think a lot of the more skilled players haven't really been taking GW that seriously. I'm not a top player, but challenge accepted.

Not a chance. Didn't ever win more than a single match in succession, but found several issues with the AI.

Changing sides, filing bug reports for Sorian now. If I don't win, nobody else shall.

I tried it; destroyed within 13 minutes.

This was on the PTE a week ago. Didn't do the Uber sized galaxy because at the time the deck was bugged.



I've started two Uber sized nightmare wars, using these:
Stored army in particular is difficult, you start with 25,000 metal and can't build mex. I don't expect to finish either (won 3 with the ashes loadout so far, 5 with the stored army loadout).

Sorry, moded games don't count. Who knows if you inadvertently made something easier.

I'm playing my first ever galactic war, with the basic commander, with the biggest galaxy size, on 'absurd' difficulty.

After my initial loss I've won a couple of games, but I'll let you know how the bosses treat me, I'm not one to give up so I should get there eventually. I'm hoping that by release the highest difficulty level really will be nigh on impossible, even for top PVP players.

I must say, having not played for a while the AI really has taken a turn for the formidable. Even though I'm currently winning without TOO much trouble it just feels a lot 'cleverer' to play against.

EDIT: and my mods are still broken, so I'm playing totally vanilla PA. I'm rather looking forward to this now, I think it might get quite interesting...

Nice try

The one I've completed was unmodded. You're right that the two modded loadouts aren't as hard as they appear (you can build all tech), although in some ways they are harder than intended (not being able to build mex breaks sub-commanders). More than once I've had to reclaim a world of forest to laser snipe a commander, that was fun.

I'll make some loadouts which provide no benefits, only drawbacks. It is much more fun when you are struggling to win. I wouldn't mind a difficulty level that is assumed nearly unbeatable, there has to be an everest

Just something I'm wondering - does Absurd difficulty make it impossible to unlock new slots? So far, I haven't got a single extra slot from any of the galaxies I've started in. If this is the case, I'd recommend against it - it's one thing to make the AI harder, but another to start removing major game mechanics.