AI War II is a grand strategy/RTS hybrid against an overwhelming, inhuman enemy who has conquered the galaxy. The enemy has made only a single error: underestimating you. You must steal as much technology as you can, and take enough territory to fortify your bases and launch your attacks.
What Makes the AI Awesome? The AI has a distinct advantage over you in a grand strategic sense, but when it comes to combat and tactics it plays by the same rules as you... and it's very devious. The core conceit of the AI is that most of the time it's not aware of you. But pieces of its empire become aware of you at various times, and you have to then deal with those pieces in battles ranging from tiny skirmishes to thousands-strong epic encounters.
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Epic. Your starting fleet, is bigger than an end game Stellaris fleet. By end game, there are hundreds of thousands of ships duking it out on your monitor. Aside from fleet scale, this game, like its predecessor, is unique. The AI has conquered the known galaxy via extermination. To keep the Stellaris references going, imagine a game where an AI/Synthetic faction has won the game via annihilation. They have destroyed every other faction, solved the end game crisis, wiped out the space monsters and colonised every. Single. Planet. Maxed out the tech tree and built everything to the maximum. Now imagine someone starts a brand new game, and for some reason their planet pops into existence into that game world. 1V1, brand new player vs that AI. Now you understand AI War 2. You aren't even a bug underneath the boot of the AI. You are nothing, spacedust floating around the most backwater
AI War II has evolved massively during it's last months of Early Access. It has become a worthy descendant to my all-time favorite strategy game. The gameplay feels quite similar but everything has become more comfortable, more modern. Things are different, but the same. In a good way! A lot has evolved, there are loads of new features and it's really quite excellent. If you enjoyed the first game, this is a no-brainer purchase for you. If you bounced off of it, the refinements in the sequel might give you a second chance to enjoy one of the PC's secret gems. BUT WAIT! There's more. Arcen Games has a long history of releasing games that are highly creative. I own their entire library and have enjoyed most of it immensely. I have not liked every game that Arcen has released, but every one is out-of-the-box and worth checking out (except perhaps Shattered Haven. Yuck!). Arcen Games pat
TLDR: AI War 2 developer Christopher Park is a bona fide treasure to the gaming community, and he deserves every cent he's going to make from this robust update to his earlier game. As fans of the original AI War already know, Chris Park the game developer continually designs, refines, and delivers challenging AI combat scenarios in response to player input and comment, and as gamers, we need to support people like this as much as we are able. The original AI War was a delightful RTS/tower defense space combat simulator with an asymmetric twist, and AI War 2 builds on that foundation. You are completely outmatched by a vicious computer AI with infinite resources. You are only alive at the start of the game because the AI simply doesn't care about you. Paradoxically, your very insignificance is the only thing that gives you a fighting chance. You must embark on a cat-and-mouse game again
If you enjoy strategy games that force you to think tactically and plan your expansion carefully then this game is for you. I suppose the game is mostly an RTS game, with some "tower defense" like options. You basically are fighting a guerilla war against 1 or more AI factions that operate more or less independently. The stronger you get, the more you expand, and the more you piss of the AI the more resources it diverts to kill you. You see, the AI doesn't really care about your remnant of human civilization. Your not certain why, but it seems preoccupied with an exo-galactic threat that is unknown to you. However it IS keeping tabs on your movements. Fly your ships near its "core" systems and it will not hesitate to turn around and crush you like a fly-swatter crushes a mosquito. Reclaim a giant super-golem you managed to scavenge? The AI will suddenly take your little fleet much more s
RTS Masochism at it’s finest. 10/10 would get ROFLStomped again. Oh, you doubt me? Well, if you win on max settings you’re asked to file a bug report as you’re not supposed to win.
It is hard to recommend to the people who might just read the tags for this game, if you do you won't have the right mind set of what to expect. It's closer to a stealth mission with limited units in an RTS. If you go in blowing up everything and increase your threat level too much you will die spectacularly. You must plan and have a good reason for taking out certain bases, falling back to defend occasionally until you are ready to take apart the enemy at their core. Fail to get it in one or two attempts and they will be knocking at your door with units you can't possibly stop. It is no exageriation to say if you set the difficulty too high or set more than 1 AI it might be impossible to win. I'd highly recommend no higher than a single AI at 2-3 until you have a few games under your belt and know what to expect. Remember that you are always the underdog and the odds are stacked a
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