The TEC have their share of pointless and mediocre techs too. Haven't played enough to decide which factions are the best though.

I'm actually playing very differently as Rebels than I did as Vanilla Advent, though that's in no small part thanks to the additions of their Corvettes and the immensely sexy Discord.

I also look forward to seeing Resurrection and Reanimation in action, still not sure if they're bugged or not.

I tried sacrificing my own planet to fry buildings on the neighboring asteroids, was quite fun actually and with a starbase that has bombing protection you can keep the planet, too. Play with a TEC friend and use their envoy for a pop boost for best effect (Best used in combination with a deliverance to mop up faster after the strike). I also use the Corvettes a lot (i.e. cause they are good food for the Rebel titan).

From what I know now the playstyle of the Advent hasn't change that drastically, however my playstyle with the TEC loyalists isn't that different, either.

Yep, and you need an actual high population world (terran/desert) right next to one or more enemy worlds to be fully efective, makes it a bit too situational.

Advent titans need better base stats(mostly eradica needs better weapons damage and Coronata needs more hull/shields) and some abilities need to be looked at(eradica level 6 ability, radius on Strength oft he Fallen, Subjugating Assault needs to do SOMETHING against titans/capital ships, and Unity mass is rather underwhelming by comparison to snipe).

The one other issue with the titans is that both ships rely on the advent's fleet of frigates actually being around, which is far from dependable being that for example the TLT can disable every defense the advent has against AoE damage(interupts guardian shield projection and Progenitor shield regen) with Disruption Matrix, while deals wid-area AoE damage.  It gets worse with the fact that during that period the advent's defenses are down they can drop other aoes(most notably Marza ult, which is uninteruptable for 11-14 seconds of it's duration with higher rank disruption matrix).  The point is fleets of frigates get shredded by AoE now and the advent has no counters when there's a TLT in play.  Meaning against TEC loyals the Advent titans won't have the attendent fleets they depend upon for long(coronata is a support titan and depends on it's fleet for damage, the eradica has 2 of it's 3 abilities dependant on having allies to die/kill).  Vasari Rebels will also have an aoe diable on their titan likely giving rise to the same issues.

   Honestly short of nerfing disruption matrix the only thing I could think of changing this is making the iconus guardian's shield projection not a channel anymore(thoug hif this were done while using shield projection the guardian's engines should still be disabled- moving shield projectors would be too strong)

The Discord  is perfect.

Advent rebels need to get some of their tech tiers reduced(they get pretty much nothing before T5 or so).  Some of the loyalist ones seema  bit high, but at least the loyals have 3 pretty solid low tier techs that definitely affect their playstyle.

In particular the upgrade that adds shield-restore to temples of renewel should be mvoe to a low tier and continue adding the ability to repair platforms as well- it would give the advent rebels something to turtle behind while they get to their high tier techs.

I haven't really looked into the Advent yet (just the Discordia's abilities).  I normally only play advent when I want to carrier spam (very fun with the Advent, by the way), so I don't know any good playstyles yet, but the Advent titans are supposed to be support.  I think the bay of renewal is supposed to make up for the titan.  If your capitalships (and Titans) can last longer because of the ToR + Antimatter draining = enemy (most likely) screwed, then does it matter if your titan has more hull points, especially if you can get the lost hull and shields back faster?

Basically, I think you're seeing the Advent titans the wrong way.

Disruption Matrix probably should be nerfed, or put on a weaker ship (capital?)

Yeah, I've been playing a very long Advent Rebels game and have not seen anything that indicates these techs actually work.

Bringing this thread back again from the depths of the page 3...

today, as i tried Vasari, shortly after the beginning of the game, my first cap - Skirantra Carrier lvl4 + cca 5 Assailants - ran into 2 Advent Halcyons - lvl 2 and 3 - and i WON!

Now i did not mind that, as Vasari are my race of choice, but perhaps its true, that Advent are somewhat weak...

Looking at the abilities that are on the sins wiki today, I must say that the TEC titans on paper look a lot more powerful.

It strikes me as odd that for the race that relies most on capital ships, it's titans aren't even more powerful.  The Advent titans have significantly less health, shields, and DPS than the TEC while not seeming to have significantly better abilities. I can see some synergies happening between the Discord and the Eradica, but it just seems like it's a fleet ship, not an Advent fleet ship.  I was expecting insane synergies and it seemed to be a bit of a let down.  Maybe I'm wrong, but I didn't see anything that looked spectacular like the Ankylon or Ragnarov.

I do agree with the disruption matrix posing a threat to the advent other than that though well the coronata atleast as I believe the rebel techs are not working properly at this juncture I think the advent loyalist are epic! I just finished a long game where I had a large fleet with the coronata in the lead of course =] I was going up against an upgraded enemy advent starbase and when I had my cap ships supporting the coronata with many defense vessels and illum spam lol unity mass IS INSANELY DEADLY! Suppression Aura is epic for slowing down fleets trying to escape whilst you bomb them to oblivion I am in love with the coronata atm but I do agree that the AI needs some work as it does only insist on building cap ships which renders subjugating assault useless I agree that it should do atleast SOMETHING to cap ships