by Escher0
Jhyarelle wrote:
Escher0 wrote:
Jhyarelle wrote:
I get swarmed with enemy bots really fast. I would appreciate any advice for what tactics for early game. Low HP and avg trace of most location tiles are 3+. What do I focus on the first couple of rounds. On avg you could launch 1 or 2 program a rounds early game. Should I focus on getting more Data tokens or should I try asap to get an advanced body?
Are you rolling for trace properly? As in, only taking enemies for the small diamond result? And are you resetting trace to zero after spawning any enemies from trace?
It's very rare I've seen players get swarmed in the first couple of rounds. Three trace is probably about average on the tiles for entry trace. Three trace puts you into one trace die, which gives you a 50% chance of spawning an enemy on round 2. Even up to trace 6, you still have a 50% chance of spawning only 1 enemy (and a 25% chance of 2). But then your trace resets to zero and starts over. If you're getting very unlucky in hitting 4+ trace locations from face-down locations (or are purposely doing it, in which case...don't) and then supremely unlucky on trace rolls, you can have, at most, four enemies going into round 3. Even if you're unlucky on the amount of trace and then only mildly unlucky on trace rolls, you likely have at most 2 enemies. And all of these should be level 1 enemies and not terribly difficult to hack/kill and will give you early XP.
I believe so. At start of round of new game at 0 Trace I move and turn over a location, Trace goes up about an average of 3.
Lv 1 & 2 enemies are tolerable but since there are so few of them on average in solo (2 xLv1s and 3x Lv2)s and the rest are Lv 3s it does get over bearing when those are the only ones left. To speed up Asset acquisition on solo games I tend to use the Green Player Board that on Launch Steps I only use 2 of the same color Data tokens vs 3 and I still get a bit overwhelmed around round 3-4+.
FYI, the green player ability only applies to the green (shield) resource.
In terms of number of enemies, how many are you getting "swarmed" with, and by what round? Again, I'd expect 2 enemies going into round 3 if you're below average lucky. Also, are you aware you can reroll the trace roll?
