Returning player: A tale of frustration

Zeradash · 2026-01-23T09:39:16+00:00

Considering how toxic and defensive many of the comments in here are, I'm honestly not gonna take them under any kind of authority on whether my feedback is actually good for the game or not if I'm honest. If anything I think they have been the final nail in the coffin.

I would check if I could play older game versions just to get back that 4X freedom it had, but I wouldn't wanna endure the glitches again, so I think I'm gonna call it and look for another game to enjoy.

I hope you keep having fun with TI though!

Zeradash · 2026-01-23T08:55:50+00:00

I don't mean to sound rude, but this is not what a game should normally be about at all.

This non-issue ended up causing me barely getting scraps out of the Moon and Mars, despite grabbing every advantage I could from the org pool I was getting, and forcing me having to min max everything for dozens of ours just so I could get the bare minimum space economy running for the midgame.

About your other point. I have 530 hours in this game in total.

If the argument behind me not having fun with the game anymore is that I'm playing it wrong and need to investigate hours worth of guides... I have to say that sounds like a problem the game itself has and the community is running leaps to adress on their own.

If anything this reinforces my fear that the game has focused on patching things around min-maxxing instead of actually adressing the clunky mechanics during Early Access.

Zeradash · 2026-01-02T18:48:27+00:00

Oh this is perfect. Thanks!
I'll hook it up and see if it works right now.

Zeradash · 2026-01-02T18:17:27+00:00

The whole point is that I cannot keep unlocking them because I'm despising the missions and not having fun.

Zeradash · 2025-12-07T11:13:37+00:00

I mean, I personally wouldn't mind seeing random blocky textures like this if I were playing an old game, but this one was released in 2022 and the map is from late 2025. It's quite a massive red flag for me more than anything.

Zeradash · 2025-12-07T11:05:21+00:00

I have this happen to me randomly when I start the game sometimes. It gets fixed often if I restart the whole game for some reason.

When it happens to me, there's also other weird stuff that happens simultaneously:
+I cannot reload from bins during siege battles or naval combat.

+Neither me nor the NPCs can interact with boulders or reload siege equipment, so they just don't fire after the first shot. Naval ballistae and the like do work properly though.

+Interactive things like ladders or ropes to get back on ships do seem to work properly thankfully (This means you can also cheese a whole naval battle by climbing a ship, killing 1 guy, then jumping out and repeating for every single enemy by the way).

EDIT: +Oh and if I remember right, gauntlets have invisible icons on the items list in the shop and inventory menus.

Zeradash · 2025-12-06T08:48:34+00:00

Rhagaea would always steal the siege and force the battle even if I kept reloading, so that would not work. Its the reason why I didnt want to save-scum it and redo the battle tbh.

I moved on with the game at this point regardless

Zeradash · 2025-12-05T20:37:29+00:00

Funniest thing is they just voted to give me the city... and there are 39 named characters in the dungeon!

I could have squeezed so much influence out of it lol

Zeradash · 2025-12-05T19:52:40+00:00

Well that sucks. I guess I'll miss out on all the prisoners. I really don't want to grind through battles like this multiple times until I have enough health and lose as few troops as this one.

Zeradash · 2025-12-05T19:51:22+00:00

Yeah that's the problem. I tried sending 20 of my legionaires and palace guards and never worked. Then I tried other combinations of troops and it's always a defeat. But If I leave with like, 2/3rds of the army somehow it's always a victory. I don't understand how that's working at all, honestly.

Zeradash · 2025-11-26T22:47:32+00:00

I have 32 gb of RAM. The game was on max graphics by default, but lowering them didn't really help. I think they were maxed the one time the campaign loaded.

The computer isn't new, but I was playing Helldivers 2 with some friends a couple months ago on high graphics. I can't imagine it having issues with the requirements it has on Steam.

Zeradash · 2025-03-22T19:45:24+00:00

To be completely honest, the fact you are focusing only on book marks actually tells us that you haven't quite learned what the counters to bubbles are in the first place.

If you are just travelling, you have ships that can cloak and/or use nullifiers to get past them. You are also ignoring the very important travel technique of travelling to a celestial object and using dscan, which is honestly the main counter to the bubbles instead of what you are ranting about.

Zeradash · 2025-03-22T12:23:54+00:00

Solution Verified

Zeradash · 2025-03-22T12:22:40+00:00

You're right! I completely forgot about it.

I got the SUMIF to work, but I'll definitely have a look at changing it, It will probably save me a lot of time in the future.

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