My complaints with this game...
I’d like to start off by saying that I absolutely LOVE the old school Command & Conquer games. This game got me through many a college night back on PC. And when we finally figured out how to play ea...
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@RxyDxy1 wrote:Titans aren't as OP as you think. Jump jet troopers and air units like banshees and orcas deal with titans well enough. Well positioned MLRS with proper blocking can also deal with titans (for blocking, yes titans can pierce, but if you micro the blocking unit by moving it back and forth and time it correctly, you can force the titan to miss the unit behind it). Multiple tanks can trade efficiently with titans, provided you position them correctly. When playing against tech, you want to 1. keep the missile charging as much as possible, making sure you win the first missile, and 2. pressure their harvesters to force cheap counters out, in that order of priority. This means not letting it remain yellow or grey for too long. The longer the game goes the more likely tech will come out, and the more likely your opponent will win. If you feel like you're consistently facing mass tech units, chances are it's because you played the early game wrongly and stalled the missile for too long, which gave your opponent time to get a large amount of tech out. Tech is also very slow, so in the event you are facing very early tech because of your own misplays or because the opponent just conserved their resources well, body blocking may very well be your best bet to defeating tech. Remember that just because tech is out doesn't always mean you have to retreat, or destroy them. There are quite a few games where I have beaten tech just by crowding the platforms to prevent them from getting in. Yeah sure, they kill lots of things and they don't die, but as long as they can't get on the platforms, I win the game still. At the higher levels of the game, you rarely see people using titans, simply because good players shut down tech very effectively.
I pretty much disagree with everything you said. For one, the Orcas and Banshees... it takes like 2-3 shots do deal with one Titan. By then, they’ve completely wrecked half your army. And most Titan players have them backed up with Zone Troopers which take out air units in seconds. And the blocking argument isn’t a good one because the Titans * damage multiple tiles. And I actually do try to both get the the launch pads and pressure Harvesters from the very beginning. So that assumption you made is incorrect. Now I’m not saying that I’m a great player or that I play perfectly, but I am disagreeing that you offered any viable solutions. Like the crowding the platform argument. The Titan is capable of killing 2/3 of the platform in one shot. Once that happens and a Zone Trooper moves in with it, it’s hell trying to get that platform back.
@Alphonse
Well, you could also say that if a player manages to properly do that, leading a Zone Trooper and a Titan onto a launchpad or even multiple pads - despite all your continous efforts in the early/mid game - then s/he may just deserve to win.
I’m not saying that. I’m saying that once the Trooper and Titan start bowling through my army, it doesn’t matter what I do. The Trooper easily defeats ever air unit I have and the Titan more than easily mows through any ground unit I have. Orcas have been suggested to stop the Titan. But it takes minimum 2 Orcas to take down a Titan in any timely manner. And the Troopers can take down an Orca faster than they can take down the Titan. Especially with the Troopers slowing down the Orca with the EMP.
@AlphonseDisciple goodness there's no convincing you people. Since telling you doesn't work, I'm more than happy to demonstrate it in a custom game. If you don't want to take advice from a tib player who was ranked slightly under the top 100 (and sometimes in the top 100 on good days), so be it. When I say dozens I speak on behalf of all the other top tib players who will tell you the exact same thing about titans or tech in general. Maybe instead of being insistent everything is broken you should focus more on improving your game.
No idea what the you people crap is all about but you can save it. Maybe instead of being a condescending * who talks down on people on a forum for a mobile video game because you’re “Top 100” (remind me to mail you some cookies for you accomplishment 👍🏾👍🏾) you should learn a better approach in giving your advice. I never insistent anything was broken. So instead of putting words in my mouth, take a second to breath and actually read what I said. There have been others who gave advice and I listened and appreciated it. So why are you so uptight about the fact that I didn’t care for your advice in particular? I apologize for offending your top 100 on a good day pride. My bad. I’m not a Tib level player. And I’m ok with that. Last season before the change, I was in Masters. For both NOD and GDI. Now I can’t even get halfway through Platinum. That is a pretty drastic drop off. Now did I magically wake up and just become trash at the game? Or did the game change a whole lot of things and a ton of people on this board have complained about it? You act like I’m the only one saying this.
I appreciate the offer for a custom game. But you are better than me. This is obvious. I won’t dispute that. I don’t care about being the best. I don’t care about being the 100th best. I care about enjoying the game. And this game has lost its enjoyability. (Yes, I just made that word up.) Now if I didn’t like the game, I would just uninstall it and move on. But I LOVE Command and Conquer. Literally Red Alert was one of favorite games in college. So instead of just saying screw this game and moving on, I’d like it to improve. So I came here to voice my concerns. In hopes that it will get improved. Not because I want a top 100 player to tell me what a scrub I am and that it’s all just me. I don’t know what my rank was last season, but it’s like 2000 something now. So you are light years better than me. I’m ok with that. But just because you’re better than me and can handle situations I can’t does not mean that the game isn’t flawed. And the Zone Troopers coupled with the Titan is one of them. I had a match earlier where the guy had that flying laser thing that shoots 2 tiles (that I don’t even have unlocked yet) behind the Cyborgs. If I sent a ground unit that could counter the Cyborgs, the flying laser obliterated it. If I sent an air unit that could counter the laser ship, the Cyborgs obliterated it. But your advice is, don’t let them get to Tech. If they get to Tech it’s becuase you were trash to begin with.
Great advice Roxy. Thanks. 👍🏾👍🏾
Welp continue struggling against tech then. You don't have to take it from me. I don't really care if you do. Like I said, there are many many other people who will tell you the same thing about tech as me. Just because you can't win against the combination doesn't mean it's a problem. If anything, there's nothing that says you can't use the combination yourself if you really think it's that impossible to deal with lol.
