My friends and I have noticed a change in the AI difficulty. We think it was the 7/11/24 or 7/18/2024 update that dorked up the difficulty settings. The first level is too easy and the 2nd level - which is what we always played - is much, much harder than what it used to be.
We played a few games with the difficulty set to Hard to compare the difference and Intermediate and Hard seem to be the same now. You shouldn’t have to play with mods to win a game. We were hoping this issue would have been fixed by now, but it hasn’t so I created an account and am replying on a few threads and creating this new one in hopes of getting some attention from the developers.
Very frustrating. We used to have a lot of fun playing this game together. Now, not so much because Easy AI is too easy and Intermediate AI is too hard. Again, we don’t use mods and we don’t want to use mods.