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...shoot cryopods while either or both had never been seen before. Now only bots that have been seen can attack cryopods, and only cryopods that have been s ...re the pods are and the disadvantage of having less leeway in alerting any bots near the pods.

...ters will still take 5), causing twice as much progression for everything (enemy stats, loot quality, etc). Since you'll have less time to get around the c ...ed, then the equipment will be converted to perform a trojan attack on the enemy's manufacturing network (slowing the expansion of the bot army).

...rs within it's 50 attack range. btw: awesome weapon to sniper away support bots. ...hrouded in fog of war, you'll still be able to determine map layout, enemy bots, traps, terminals, etc. Sensors range is capped by doors and false walls. s

*Tripwire - these alarm nearby bots to your presence when triggered. ...hese are only seen in assassination missions or if you encounter Avalanche bots. Deals damage equal to its level * 5.

** The enemy bombs remain at 1.5 seconds before blowing, and the player "Energy Bomb Bur * The time to live on the spell mines and bombs (both player and enemy) have been reduced from 3 seconds to 1.5.

* You will only get a "Planet Under Attack" notifier if Mobile enemy units are on that planet. If there are stationary enemies then you knew abo * On the galaxy map tooltips for planets, instead of just showing "enemy strength," it now shows the same information that the normal text to the le

...ier to see and select when zoomed very far out (including locating them on enemy planets). ...performance improvement has been introduced for when players are attacking enemy planets with lots of guarding ships.

===Enemy bots in stealth mode=== * Utilize mines and sentry turrets - then, whistle to lure the bots into your trap.

...ns from any source at all (none of them have such inherently, and being an enemy-to-all precludes getting them from anyone else). ...y at a planet to defend itself against enemy threats (most notably cloaked enemy threats, but in general). The specific rules are difficult to really expla

* Attack: Simply fights every enemy on the current planet, and when done, will move to another planet with enem |Purchase a group of War Harvester bots from a fellow resistance group. These bots harvest metal from their targets and grant it to you using their scrap cann

...are also bristling with 100 tractor beams that lets them pick up and drag enemy ships with them. They are the fastest of the golems (which tend to be rath ...strong main attack shot, which is enough just to keep the occasional stray enemy ship away from them, but that's not the point. They possess 100 million he

...y at a planet to defend itself against enemy threats (most notably cloaked enemy threats, but in general). The specific rules are difficult to really expla ...em alive, making the actual mobile builders now simply a matter for use in enemy/neutral territory.

* Significantly rebalanced how the ally and enemy large-starbase "how fast do these build units?" rates are computed in the n ...arios are now more consistent in how losses of small starbases impact ally/enemy production concentration into the large bases.

<big>'''What Are Spider Bots (And Other Weaker Ships) Good For?'''</big> '''A:''' Spider Bots may seem weak, and to a degree they are -- ships are intentionally unbalanc

...ose range to hit it at all (radar dampening does not affect the ability of enemy ships to hit other ships, just this one). ** Large teleporting ship fires lightning shots. Reclaims enemy ships it kills (reclaimed ships have health = half damage inflicted by recl

...ose range to hit it at all (radar dampening does not affect the ability of enemy ships to hit other ships, just this one). ** Large teleporting ship fires lightning shots. Reclaims enemy ships it kills (reclaimed ships have health = half damage inflicted by recl

...der Bot]] || valign="top" | Extremely effective at damaging the engines of enemy ships. ...s engine health does not rise with mark-level, a full complement of Spider Bots will just as easily stop that core [[AI_War:Raid Engine Guard Post|Raid-Eng

** Crucial for scouting enemy planets and gathering intel data. Be sure to bring at least one scout with ** Tiny fighters best in swarms. Reveals any cloaked enemy ships they come near.

** Crucial for scouting enemy planets and gathering intel data. Be sure to bring at least one scout with ** Tiny fighters best in swarms. Reveals any cloaked enemy ships they come near.

...Dreadnaught) was too effective as "park at extreme range and pick off the enemy" ship so it was nerfed into the Antimatter Starship. That couldn't really ** Now keep the special-forces flag even when they have encountered the enemy, so that rallying to a planet does not just dump all the special forces the

...ler Guardian|Disassembler Guardian]]<br/>Huge alien guardian that swallows enemy starships and gradually attritions them. If the guardian is destroyed, they ...y Guardian|Gravity Guardian]]<br/>Enormous gravity distortion effect slows enemy ships over a wide area. Middling firepower specially geared towards starsh

...attack enemy ships mercilessly until they die. Zombie bots will travel to enemy planets if no enemies present, and cannot be reclaimed. This golem cannot Once repaired, this golem can truly "inhale" enemy fleets. However, it cannot even target units immune to reclamation damage (

...attack enemy ships mercilessly until they die. Zombie bots will travel to enemy planets if no enemies present, and are immune to reclamation. This guardia

difficult enemy types appear '''slightly''' more often difficult enemy types & traps appear '''somewhat''' more often

*** Hacking enemy targets at a planet. ** Same deal with DLC2 and the drone automated construction bots, and again another outguard group.

}}The basic energy weapon for making individual enemy units go away. ...istance. It lacks the punch to be truly effective against heavily-shielded bots.

...selling parts (bonus unknown), since credit income is limited by number of bots killed and items sold, this can be an useful advantage. # Occasionally, enemy bots will take advantage of Tuck's knowledge of mission targets. This can be es

...ugh_enemy_shields on systems, which lets specific ship weapons just ignore enemy forcefields for purposes of their attacks. * If there is more than twice the "enemy" strength on an AI planet ("enemy" here meaning you-the-player, your friends, or mutual enemies of you and th

* Fixed a longstanding issue where if an enemy had their weapon right up against an obstacle, they could shoot through tha ...een is a lot clearer about what is going on now; why you must destroy some bots and not others, etc.

...erjet]] || valign="top" | Blazing fast cloaked fighter that can grapple an enemy ship and drag it. ...ng etherjets give players a new tactical option in the ability to maneuver enemy fleetships. Effective tactics include deliberately dragging stand-off artil

}}Short Story: free action, disables enemy movement, 3-turn cooldown. ...it hits. Further, firing the weapon is a "free action" because the other bots are too surprised to respond. The weapon itself is so astonished that it E

...age while your parasite/leach/nanoswarm units need only one hit to tag the enemy for reclamation. ...that it reclaims units at full health and its' reclaimed units are zombie bots. See [[AI War:Golems|Botnet Golem]] for more info.

...gn="top" | Large, high-health, slow ship temporarily halts the movement of enemy ships with every hit of its short-range, rapid-fire energy bursts. Best us

...effective at putting out fires around the galaxy, or at least distracting enemy forces until the real cavalry comes.

}}Sprays bullets directly at a single enemy. ...t the Light Machine Gun is most commonly used for killing lightly-shielded bots and destroying cover or other things that can't shoot back, conserving ammo

...ou. If the target survives, you will be hurt; on higher difficulties enemy bots can deal so much damage that letting them shoot you in order to provoke the