Current state of the game and balance

Hi,

I picked up this game right after crusade launched and played a bit ~1 year ago. However, the bugginess (corrupt saves), balance issues, and bad math turned me off of it.

I'm considering playing a bit again but wanted to check into the state of the game.

Are stability issues mostly addressed?

Has fast missile exploit been patched?

What about other bad math scaling balance issues?

Has AI been improved at all?

Thanks!

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Horemvore

Join Date 08/2009

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Yes

Yes and No.

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thanks, how improved is AI? on a scale of: challenging, fun to play, mostly playable, laughable, totally buggy

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Some of the DLC doesn't work properly with the new mechanics (e.g. precursor "pop limit" modifications).

Some gameplay related to race-type mechanics is.. questionable at best, broken at worst (e.g. synthetics taking over an organic planet insta-convert all those organics to synthetic -- a HUGE boost considering how expensive it is for synthetics to make pop. Even more amusing, when organics take over a synthetic world the robots start having babies...)

I can't load a saved MP game over GOG (pretty sure this works on steam though, or there would be much more chatter about it).

Still an excellent game by any account, but I'm hoping it gets a bit more TLC after the Star Control launch settles down.

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Horemvore

Join Date 08/2009

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Quoting gyan42,

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thanks, how improved is AI? on a scale of: challenging, fun to play, mostly playable, laughable, totally buggy

Its playable for sure. Does have alot of quirks though.

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