How does the difficulty alter the game?

[tsavo]

Originally Posted by Nanaki

AI is pretty much the same though and though, although its pretty smart as is, they will work as teams if in the same squad. Becides, Star Wolves is an RPG, so in reality the AI does not have to do much, everythings handled by the pilot stats and the ship stats.

No, disagree.
I use Astarte(600 shield, +5 repair) + 1 G4(decent equipments, but not the best) + 1 G3
cleared XB-19 without lost anything.
And I never group fighters together, and my pilot(greyhair) is just able to fly the G4

and now, I just finished Alex convoy mission, but got 1.5m cash + loads of junks worth another 1.5m(excluding the 4 G5 fighters from hidden locations)

during encounters, my mothership even does not need to change course.

[tsavo]

and one of my play mates even found a way to make money and gain exp automatically, without touch the keyboard, without change any game setting.

[ViralHatred]

Yeah, he used a mouse to turn on a trainer! Haha!

[tsavo]

Originally Posted by ViralHatred

Yeah, he used a mouse to turn on a trainer! Haha!

tell u what, it is a build-in trainer

[Nanaki]

cleared XB-19 without lost anything.

Pirates are generally not very well-equipped or very well trained, mind you. Even the game states that their strategy and tactics pretty much boils down to 'Zerg rush the enemy' and that they do not have much in the way of teamwork or strategy.

[tsavo]

Originally Posted by Nanaki

Pirates are generally not very well-equipped or very well trained, mind you. Even the game states that their strategy and tactics pretty much boils down to 'Zerg rush the enemy' and that they do not have much in the way of teamwork or strategy.

just got stuck with sam bug in Inoco mission, noticed I need to upgrade my fighter, will see what happens later

[Nanaki]

Originally Posted by tsavo

just got stuck with sam bug in Inoco mission, noticed I need to upgrade my fighter, will see what happens later

Although I am suprised, if you are playing on the hardest difficulty, XB-19 has the occasional squad of Hrimthurs that are armed with some pretty nasty MIRVs, nasty enough to rip even Wyverns equipped with the best Flares a new one.

[tsavo]

Originally Posted by Nanaki

Although I am suprised, if you are playing on the hardest difficulty, XB-19 has the occasional squad of Hrimthurs that are armed with some pretty nasty MIRVs, nasty enough to rip even Wyverns equipped with the best Flares a new one.

I play hard, do we have hardest difficulty?
never use flare, laser defence only(it is a green one picked-up from other fights), and keep good distance always.
just noticed Greyhair is 25% better in anit-missile, lucky me

[Killer]

I have just started my fourth playthrough and chosed hard. So far the biggest difference is XP. It seems really hard to get XP from killing NPC. I just spent all my points to antimissile defense for me and Ternie, ten killed about 40 pirates and I am at 3.8 XP points... Bye, bye 5th generation fighters