So I finally got around to finishing Galactic War. Of course, I ended up in that ludicrous stalemate where the AI buggered off to (in this case I think they actually spawned there) a moon. Since the only orbital I had was Astraeusii (I'm calling it that and you can't stop me), I decided to just spam Vanguards and lob them ~100 at a time at the planet hoping one of the commanders was nearby (it was my first "boss"). So for a while, this only managed to punch small holes in the enemy's production lines. Since the Astraeusii like to take their time, my landing force was reduced to about 75 by all the god damn Anchors and Avengers, and then down to 25 because of all the aircraft and AA. What's worse is that half of those got stuck in rocks right underneath Anchors for most of their bloody lifespan. Anyway, while constructing my second or third wave, the AI did a silly thing. A really silly thing. It decided to visit my planet, personally. The AI sent one lone commander to my planet. This was my planet: *pretend there's zoomed-out version, may or may not display below* Considering the number of orbital radars it kept throwing at me the AI must have had SOME idea of what was on the surface of Planet Holycrapdon'teverlandhereifGeershatesyou. As soon as I saw the little "commander detected" popup, I rushed to select some units to murder it, but before I could I realized it had vanished. The puzzled me and I even built a second deep space radar because I thought my first one was destroyed since I couldn't see the AI's orbital fleet anymore. Then I realized one of my patrolling fighters must've popped a cap in his azz and his orbital defences went kaboom. After that I dumped another few waves of Vanguards and problem solved, they all died. After that fight I stumbled upon orbital tech at which point I praised the sun. That REALLY needs to be default stuff. At least the Avenger. Pwetty pwease? This isn't anything major but I find it really odd: Can it not just go straight there if it's THAT close? Question time! What the hell is this (antinuke is selected)? Why is everything blue? This is awesome: Oh, and once I got 4 sub-commander I literally put my feet up and did nothing for most of the match. I'd build four extractors, a power generator, an air factory that spammed out bombers and then set my commander to build some line of power generators and then did nothing. As soon as the enemy was detected I got my bombers to blow up his stuff (are the little cluster missile things supposed to bounce off/swerve away from the ground?) so he'd run away while my bombers bombed and my sub-commanders sent tanks to murder him. non-boss matches became 5-minute trifles. It wouldn't be so bad if you weren't able to keep sub-commander after they had exploded. And even in another "boss" battle where there was me and one sub-commander on one planet, three on another with one enemy and one planet with the rest of the AI, I hadn't even gotten around to getting anything besides radar to another planet before "I" won.
Fun fact: You may notice there are no sub-commanders on Planet Holycrapdon'teverlandhereifGeershatesyou. I had two, but they both decided it would be a splendid idea to travel to the heavily defended enemy planet.
The AI trolled me in a Galaxy War game. It was losing, so the thing took an Astreus and kept on flying it's commander between one planet (which my subcom owned, and the main planet (which me and my subcom pwned.) Eventually I got him with Avengers ( I built hundreds and put about half on each planet), but that SOB trolled me for about half an hour. I don't know whether to aplaud or cry for this type of behavior, as it's certainly survival based, and surprisingly human in some sense, but it wasn't terribly fun behavior. Maybe Troll behavior can be a selectable?
Yeah, I was in some sense afraid, because if they start putting this stuff on drones, then Terminator is gonna happen. But the Terminators are gonna troll ya before they punch through your stomach. Probably by making you take off your cloths while you're in a bar with your buddies.
Geers, you try Absurd GW? They do single silly actions, but they also do very powerful things. They could be braindead like other game's AI, but it's not, its pretty threatening for a game NPC. I had one instance, while I was flooding their planet with units, they actually teleporter flooded my planet too. They can teleporter trample too, it is highly ridiculous to defend against and makes you question the morality of your actions ingame. It made me wonder what kind of monster uses such a tactic, and apologetic for my use of it prior.
They'll also panic transit offplanet after they get nuked and survive, and if it's not safe, they'll just leave to another planet within seconds...
I SXX sniped a commander. As soon as the "commander on the planet" flag flipped, it activated the halleys. Game was over, but it was a nice parting jest.
