So, I was playing through the new factions, first as the TEC Loyalists, then as Vasari Loyalists. I've caught the very subtle changes each faction brings to gameplay, as well as the not so subtle Titan changes to gameplay. Titans are the subject of this thread.
I've played with the TEC Loyalist Titan, whose level 6 ability is a planet-wide buff on friendlies and debuff on hostiles. That seems reasonable. I've played with Vasari Loyalist Titan, whose most game breaking ability is the ability to lay down Phase Stabilizers(PS) at level 1, making the minimum number of labs to have PSs in the game 4 instead of 6 and allowing them to be planted in neutral wells. I don't think its too silly. The level 6 ability instantly destroys nearby frigates and corvettes, leaving cruisers and capital ships alone. Also powerful, but not stupid powerful.
Now to the point. I was Vasari, camping a star with a full supply fleet of capital ships, cruisers and frigates with four starbases behind them. One NPC after another squished his fleet into that wall until a lone Eradica Titan, level 6, jumped in. It went down to the last bit of hull in thirty seconds, and then you know exactly what it turned on. 60 seconds of invincible, massive boost to antimatter, my fleet was shredded by the weapons and abilities of that thing in another thirty seconds. I lost 5 of 13 capital ships and all my frigates and support ships before I paused the game and looked up on the Wiki exactly wtf that ship was doing.
Long story short, my maxed fleet ran away from a single ship with crippling losses. No single ship, whatever the cost or EXP requirement, should be able to stand up to an entire fleet with four starbases and give them a Phyric victory. Worse still, that monster is now level 10, and the NPC's next titan will be level 10 too.
I think that that one ability of the Eradica needs to be nerfed, because the deployment of a level 6 Eradica to any battle effectively wins at least that one battle. Further, none of the other factions have that sort of "I Win" button level 6 ability on their Titan.
