The Comprehensive Guide to Beating Hard Mode, Singleplayer

Also, don't die too much.

More importantly, stop letting the bots on your side die too much by holding their hand.

Yeah if you play it as sedna, just go where most of yours are and keep them healed.

Now, anyone got nightmare tips? I've beaten hard with most every DG. Not even close on nightmare though. They just outlevel all my team and AI vs AI pretty much boils down to their levels.

@jochance:

Even though I haven't beaten Nightmare myself (except for maybe one stage) the best tip I can give you is to buy the citadel XP upgrade + hold on to that XP flag for dear life.

Hard Skirmishes are easy as piss. Hard Tournament and your allied AI are just complete retards and run towards large groups of enemy DGs to get gibbed instantly, thus feeding them insanely. The only way I've been able to win any match in a Hard tournament is with a shield QoT build or Sedna and just tailing an assassin AI.

I think there seems to be a way to big difference between normal and hard.

Normal is pretty easy. In the first few matches in a tournament it doesn't even matter if you do anything or not. The AIs on your side will make sure you win.

But switching the game to hard makes it way too difficult.

I can't put my finger on something specific that makes this difference, but like Trankillity I also noticed that the AI on my side are complete idiots when playing on hard. During the first seconds of the game, they run ahead... but then stop just before enemy territory. They don't even capture flags even if the flag is just close by and no enemies are around.

The enemy AI however runs into my territory and starts bashing everything to pieces... and the match is pretty much lost to begin with.

If you're playing a "hard"(lol) tournament with bots, what determines whether or not you win is if you get the demigods which have terrible AI or the demigods which have (relatively) good AI.

Also, I have noticed that when I play a hard AI tournament, it seems like the bots on my side are even more stupid than the opponents' bots, for whatever reason...

i have said this a few times but...

1) cit upgrades

2) cit upgrades

3) cit upgrades

4) ???

5) win

on all modes but slaughter you just CAN'T fail

AI is exactly the same for easy to nightmare. the only change is on hard and nightmare they get more gold and exp...