Comments - Impstar

So when I play a game, it's very slow and laggy. Even outside of pitched battles (like when I just start the game even) lag is very bad. My computer should be more than qualified in both RAM and graphics card to run at full speed. Do you have any suggestions for improving performance? I could lower graphics but again, that really shouldn't be a problem.

I also have a question about "assault" maps. So there are some game settings that are exclusive to assault maps, whatever those are. I don't see any maps labeled assault (unlike, say, survival) on the map list. What is it talking about? Is assault just normal skirmish?

I have a question about survival mode difficulty. What is the difference between normal difficult heroic defense, and hard difficulty but not heroic defense? Does the AI perform differently on heroic defense? The tooltip mentioned boss battles but that's not very clear.

So one thing I've noticed in Survival Mode that I feel should be recorded somewhere if it isn't already.

The difficulty can vary drastically depending on the map. We're talking a difficulty jump equivalent to adding heroic defense or raising the difficulty from Standard to Hard. Specifically, the biggest difficulty difference is in map size.

On a large map, early waves of enemies come at you gradually and not in large numbers, giving you time to secure resources and make a small army. But that same wave on a small map has several units show up to give you an unfriendly welcome just as you've finished capturing your second strategic point, probably outgunning you while you're at it.

Just wanted to put that out there, since I was playing with friends and upon switching to a smaller map the difficulty spiked so much I had to make sure I hadn't accidently raised it.

I've been having a lot of fun with survival mode. However I do have a question. So I just tried a standard with heroic defense fight because just standard is too easy (fighting the World Eaters) and the jump in difficulty is insane.

Like, during Wave 9, I was attacked by 9 Relic units at once. An overwhelmingly difficult fight for me. Now I can visualize an army that could maybe defeat them (if I had built more anti-tank maybe I could have taken them out with heavy casualties) but Wave 10 would logically be even worse.

Is this normal? Are the World Eaters particularly difficult to fight or something (I know there was a warning about the Emperor's Children)? I will not pretend to be the best player or even particularly good at the game honestly but it seems insane to me that survival actually can get harder than this (if I put things on Hard difficulty with heroic defense).

So Survival mode question. What's harder, Standard with Heroic Defense condition, or Hard difficulty without it? I know that Heroic defense also does some stuff like deepstriking units into your backline that Hard doesn't appear to do, but other than that?

Also, when you enable base destruction optional condition that spawns bases on the map that you can destroy, do those actually spawn units?

Sorry, wasn't logged in for a moment. Is he mutually exclusive with the normal Necron Lord? Because I kept getting a "limit 1" message as to why I couldn't recruit him. Is it actually worth it to recruit an Uber lord if you lose out on the normal one?

I'm playing as Necrons, but I don't have access to the Void Dragon nor any of the named Lords like Trazyn as far as I can tell. What am I missing?

Update. Okay, Daemons work just fine when I play them... in a 1v1 match. Back to the drawing table.

Okay, that leads me to a question for you. Is the Daemons mod for your game working? If so, can you play Daemons just fine without it auto-glitching and crashing to desktop? Is that's also true, can you check your mod-manager and see if it thinks you have FreeUI mod (under Daemons). If that is ALSO true... then do you know where that came from?

If that is not true, then my theory is caput and I'm even more lost. I can play the Daemons for a little bit (I think, I'll have to test that) but it crashes after I've been in the game for a few minutes.

An update. Ultimate Apocalypse works just fine... when I'm running it in THB proper, not the extra races expansion. Which means that the problem is somewhere there. The only thing I can think of is that while my list of required mods for THB DIDHT contains everything, if I click on Ultimate_Apocalypse Daemons I am missing the sole required mod, Daemons. Clicking on that mod, I am missing a mod called FreeUI. I have read in other places that it's not actually required, but my game will crash even if I'm not playing with or against Daemons. Getting the mod was my next idea, but the relic downloads didn't work.

The primary download wouldn't unzip properly, and the secondary hit me with like 300 viruses when I clicked on it, and I even tried again after purging my computer just to be sure (and yeah, 300 more viruses).

Please, does anyone have an idea of what I should do next? I could play without the new races and I probably will, but I'm really looking forward to trying them out.

No, it just automatically quits me out of the game. Like I had used ctrl-alt-del, but I didn't actually do that.

Anyways, in the meantime I believe I've figured out the problem, which ends up leading me to another question...

The problem is, the Daemon mod requires a separate FreeUI mod to run properly. Otherwise, it isn't all there and throws the entire thing off a bit. When I ran Apocalypse without the new races (as in THB proper, not the added races expansion) it worked just fine.

My current problem is, I can't even test my theory precisely because I can't get my hands on that mod. The primary link just gives me corrupted zip files (ones that won't unfold properly, and I don't think it's my computer because it does other zip files just fine), and the other dumped about 300 viruses on my computer when I clicked it, and I even did it a second time just to be sure.

Does anyone have a suggestion about how I could get that FreeUI mod?

Does anyone else have this problem? My game keeps crashing (in a force quit kind of way, not a freeze kind of way) at two points:

A. When it's loading a game. This doesn't happen every time, but it happens enough to be immensely aggravating.

B. Even worse, it happens shortly after starting a game, usually within a few minutes. Ideas? I tried uninstalling and reinstalling, and that didn't work.

I have been having some issues. My game keeps crashing, seemingly at random. It just automatically quits the game like I had force quit the application, but I hadn't done anything. It does this at two different points:

1. When I'm loading a skirmish game. Haven't tried multiplayer. Note: This doesn't happen every time and hasn't happened two times in a row, but happens enough to be very aggravating.

2. At some point during the gameplay, usually not more than a few minutes into it.

I tried playing just Soulstorm for reference and it worked fine. Any ideas?