For most of these attacks, you'll have plenty of warning in the form of a timer and description of exactly what is coming. Before long though, the AI will begin sending attacks at your systems. Even taking a system or two won't prompt much response.
At the start of the game the AI is, frankly, uninterested in your actions. As you accumulate these points, the AI will unlock new behaviors and ship types. Taking out key AI structures, such as the command posts that you must destroy to conquer a system, add a certain number of points to a number, the "AI Progress," that tracks how angry the AI is at you. So what's the big deal about that, we're here to defeat the AI, right? Now comes the big twist: every system you conquer from the AI doesn't weaken your foe, rather it becomes more dangerous. To do that though, you'll have to conquer a system from the AI. What you'll really want to do is seek out additional capital ships and add them to your armada, as each one comes with several lines of ships already attached. You begin the game with just one simple transport capital ship, and four or so lines of ships that assigned to it. Every line of ships you have is tied to a capital ship, of which there are several varieties. This could be a few dozen small fighters, a handful of larger ships, or even a single unique vessel. Another way is to venture to an AI world where a certain type of building exists, and hack into it, allowing your starting fleet to support an entirely new "line" of spacecraft. You only have so many science points to start, and getting more requires going on the offensive.
#AI WAR 2 GAME UPGRADE#
Each time you upgrade the tech level of a weapon type (and there are many), all ships that use it will get stronger, and you'll be able to build more of them. An easy way is to spend some of your science points to upgrade one of the many technology categories. Now, there are many options for expanding your forces, and this is where fun begins. Within a minute or two, you will hit the max number of ships your fleet can support, and that's it, no more ships for you until you get to work. Initially, resources are not a problem, and in fact your home base will crank out a few dozen ships before you know it. Unfortunately for you, sitting still won't get you anywhere. If you do nothing, the AI won't even bother to attack you with any significant forces. It's actually busy dealing with some threat in a distant galaxy, and humanity is hardly worth its time. Sounds simple, right? Not so fast! At the beginning of the game, the AI doesn't even care about your presence. Your goal is to find the system containing the AI overlord, and destroy it. You are the leader of the last human stronghold, and a force led by a malignant AI controls every other system in the galaxy. So, those unfamiliar with the original game may be asking, what the heck is so unique about this game? At a brief glance, you may just see what appears to be an RTS game along the lines of Sins of a Solar Empire, but that doesn't even scratch the surface of AI War 2.
Now, all of these mechanics have been tweaked and changed (for the better in my opinion), but they are fully represented. Here, all the goodies are in the game from the start, and I can only imagine what they have in the pipeline. That's right, unlike some other developers out there, Arcen Games doesn't expect you to buy all of the same DLC again just because they moved their flagship title to a new engine. That's even with most of the concepts and features from the expansions baked right into the base game of AI War 2. Right off the bat, I can say that AI War 2 keeps much of the complexity of the original game, while being easier to learn and wrap your head around.
A half dozen expansions released over the years turned up that complexity by more than a few extra notches. While I found the original AI War to be fascinating, and enjoyed fiddling with it from time to time, I was mostly overwhelmed by the massive number of options and potential strategies the game offered. With the release of AI War 2, Arcen Games has created a title which takes all of the best elements of the original and attempts to streamline the experience into something far more accessible to the less hardcore players among us. It combined elements of many strategy genres to create an experience unlike anything that has come before or since. AI War: Fleet Command came out just over one decade ago.
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