Please give us an Endgame Challenge

Endgame vs AI is boring

I play often coop with my friends against the AI. The start can be hard, if you start right next to a strong AI you may lose, before any of your friends can come to the rescue.

But if you survive the start and early midgame you've almost always won. Then winning is only a formality, and not actually a challenge anymore. If you make the AI stronger you almost always die in the early game.

Nevertheless it's still balanced enough to be fun till the late midgame before it becomes boring.

As a solution, please add a feature that has been proven to be working in other games:
Add a super strong enemy in the endgame, as an optional feature of course. Which is so insanely strong, that you must beat it with special tactics, using all your special abilities and that of your allies.

Yes, I mean: Add an End-Boss! Like an Alien-Race, coming from outside the galaxy with insane powers, for a really challenging boss-fight. Oh: And of course it should be possible to configure the time when it comes in, everybody has their own playing speed, and a different time when it's his or her endgame.

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While I agree that the endgame needs improvement, I don't know that a new enemy appearing out of nowhere is the solution.

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Quoting Frank Bryant,

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I don't know that a new enemy appearing out of nowhere is the solution.

We had this in Stellaris, and it was always great fun, and really exciting at the end. Stellaris is in that way really similar to Sins of a Solar Empire 2. I want this game to be its own thing, but that, I would really love it in this game.

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Hello! This is definitely an interesting proposal, but is unlikely to come about anytime soon due to just how involved something like that may be, it might be something we explore more actively after the scenario park or closer to 4th faction dlc release. I would be open to hearing other suggestions as well

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I totally agree, that once you've passed the mid game and survived its very easy to beat the AI.

Now it's not easy to provide suggestions, because this definitely is caused by some mechanics AI uses and I can't say I perfectly understand them in Sins 2.

For example in Sins 1 the problem was the upkeep. AI was going fast to 2000 and their income was dropping drastically once you captured some fat planets, so once you kill the main fleet they had a hard time to rebuild it.

I see something similar here, at least I suppose it's something like this. I also see that after the main fleet is destroyed and you are taking ground - AI still wouldn't pump defences, bases can be barely developed on the from planets.

I also guess the AI should become smarter, and use the special abilities for scouting/scouts for identifying the weak spots (actually now the new AI is already much better in this department) and attacking key planets instead of trying to recapture. Also AI should become more evil, and instead of always taking the hard fight on the heavily defended planet - maybe jump to the next one (this way we maybe will finally use the jump inhibitors )

Also AI should be using the special abilities all the time they can and in a smart way (at least smarter way).

I also think that difficulty scaling should be done with more smart features activated for AI instead of giving them unlimited resources (is it still like this in Sins 2?)

I totally understand this involves some heavy work on the AI, but I think it's worth it.

Hope this helps!

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