Have they made the game harder?

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I havent played Sins in a long time.I recently re-installed it and was given all the recent updates.

The game seems much harder now,before my computer crashed i was playing the next level up from easy and had no problem winning.Now i can not even win a game on easy.What am i missing?????

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

There were significant AI improvements, and if your playing with pirates on, the pirates are much harder... but the resource multipliers for the AI have not changed.

you could also just be rusty.

What version are you playing?

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

The newest one 1.191 i believe it is....It just seems like the AI is going on the offenseive much sooner.

Maybe your right and i'm just rusty lol.

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

hmm... your playing vanilla.  intresting.  Alot of the AI updates and certainly the pirate difficulity was upped in the expansion packs only.

 

Just... make sure you know your counters, build lots of repair bays, expand FASTER, stop building hangers and turrets, stop researching useless tech... build an akkan, sova, or marza instead of a kol... standard stuff, you really should be able get your skill back up to beat hard AI no problems.

 Or, just watch a multiplayer replay.  you'll get that "Actually I CAN do that, hal" achievment in no time.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Thanks alot for your help.Glad to know its just me sucking at this point lol.

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

Its pretty much accepted that the AI is more aggressive (or rather expands quicker, which makes it a much better opponent) in Diplomacy, I don't think anyone bothered to check in Vanilla. Either way, you probably just aren't expanding fast enough if easy is giving you a problem. You could get away with turtling before because the AI sucked, but its really a suicidal strategy in Sins without at least half the map, and even worse with Vanilla because you don't get Starbases.

So fight fire and fire and be more aggressive yourself.