Yo guys, i just discovered this game a week ago and love it so much.
Im a try hard so as soon as i figured out the game i dived right into the 2.1 challenge on insane.
It´s a huge challenge and really demands one to pursue perfection on the harvesting sequence.
I was strugling a lot and even thinking it was impossible so i did some research and stumbled upon the youtube video (
) that showed me that its actually possible.
All right so i got back to my trys and got better and better at conscripting a huge army of ants on the map.
The problem was even though i manage to get a huge army i just lose on phase 3 of the last night when the 3rd wave of spiders overlaps with the crabs.
I have a bad PC. Even playing on the lowest video settings, there might be something happening that prevent my ants to deal damage properly.
I say that in the video we can see that the author beated the last night with 54 workers and 56 spiters. He used tunneling to create a bottleneck so that the crabs can´t all attack at the same time.
Right so i managed to create a hive with 75 lvl 1 workers, 16 lvl 3 tankers and 94 lvl 1 spiters. I correctly managed the pherormone pathing so that the tankers were always tanking damage and the spitters never acctually died (until i wipped). I also had 1.000 stored food when the crabs fight started and had somethin like 20/30 workers handling eggs. When the fight against the crabs start, it all seems to be working (my pc starts lagging, but everything moves according to the plan), but the crabs just take such a long time to die. When the spiders storm my pc gets even more laggy and even though i still keep killing the spiders, for some reason the spiders start killing my queen *right next* to my ants and the queen dies while my ants are still fighting the last crabs (last try the were like 5-7 20% hp left).
I see that Daniel posted another video here with a guide. I quickly looked at his numbers by the start of the crab fight and he had 100 lvl 1 workers and 75 lvl 1 spitters around 300-400 food. He used his workers as the meatwall and actually had a lot of spitters killed before he stabilised the fight. Still, he managed to kill almost all the crabs before the spiders stormed in.
My point is, i feel like my numbers and fight handling is very adequate, in some ways better then i saw in the videos. But my damage per second seems lacklust due to the heavy framerate drop. Im definatly not trying to take anything away from the dudes that completed the challange, not by any means. They are beasts for doing it!
My answer is: do you guys think it is possible that the framerate actually messes with the fight when it gets so crowded?