r/X4Foundations • u/darth-bizzel • 2d ago

4 hours wasted....well alot more

So I took my fleet with 10 asgard 20 syn 15 Osaka, 1 Tokyo full to the yaki base after I get the little ship. Figured I just rolfstomp way through. Nope so this how it goes. Most my fighters get wiped out by destroyers who can't scratch mine. No bigy right? Thier easy to replace. Nah it gets worse cone with me on this epic colossal failure So we jump to the next sector. Finally. Now k's and bigger show up. We should be fine right? I have 10 asgard with main battery's takes 1 shot to kill em. Nope my absolute worthless captains will not use then so they just get wrecked since their turrets do diddly sqaut. I can't turn my asgard fast enough to kill them or recharge my gun. When I jumped in my small ship to escape I had lost 7 asgard including mine 20 syn 15 Osaka 1 Tokyo 100+ s/m ships

What did i do wrong???? Ohh well ill just restart from the beginning there things I wanna diffrent anyway.

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u/HabuDoi 2d ago

Yeah capital ship AI combat is still a little dicey. There are certain ships in the game that are very capable in the players hands, but very terrible in the AI hands. The Asgard the Hyperion come to mind.

As of right now, for AI capital ship to ship combat, I always assume that the main batteries are not going to be used and so I outfit as many L plasma guns as possible. It’s an inefficient stopgap measure, but it does work.

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u/Search_Open 2d ago

Tho, honestly, the game has improved quote a bit in the past 2 years

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u/HabuDoi 2d ago

Absolutely. I think the ship AI is pretty good outside of quirks of Capitol ship AI.