I am abandoning Aeon

@waffelznoob said in I am abandoning Aeon:

but sera has t3 mobile shields

Question, for their cost are the Sera t3 mobile shields really any better than asylums for how much they cost? Iirc it's like 2x the shield hp for 4x the cost or something like that. Especially for the use case of protecting snipers I feel like well managed asylums might actually be better with how cheap they are, but there are a lot of factors like splash damage over multiple weaker shields vs fewer stronger shields that I'm not sure about.

But yeah Aeon t2/t3 land is pretty inarguably either the best or second best among all the factions.

less shields = less overspill, you need vastly more e storage to instakill the sera shield compared to asylum

asylum is stupid and should have -75 e just as parashield but phim shield is also insanely fat for only costing -150 e

@waffelznoob said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Its mml might be the worst though so that's one point for you

Aeon MML has 2 hp on the missile, so it's the second best.
Cybran (super rapid fire splitting missiles) > Aeon (2 HP + high alpha dmg) > UEF (2 shot burst of 1 HP missiles) > Seraphim (rapid fire 1 HP missiles)
Arguably, aeon has the best MML if the cybran split missiles hit a shield before being shot at by TMD.

but that means aeon mml is worse against aeon tmd. 3rd place definitely!

@angelofd347h said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Lets look more realisitcally at our win rates since the last balance patch:

Time to buff cybran and sera, nerf the UEF

I keep seeing these charts being screenshot, where does this come from?

@redx said in I am abandoning Aeon:

@angelofd347h said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Lets look more realisitcally at our win rates since the last balance patch:

Time to buff cybran and sera, nerf the UEF

I keep seeing these charts being screenshot, where does this come from?

https://kazbek.github.io/

@ftxcommando It's perhaps telling that the first part of that tier list that mad me scratching my head was aeon's '4' in late tier:1!
(To explain: MY head says 'late T1' is T1 when armies have gotten really large. When armies are big enough, the range of aurora, and how it allows the front 7 ranks of aurora to shoot while the front 3 ranks of striker/mantis/thaam, makes aurora win mass for mass, despite their hitpoint deficit, against other tanks when the unit counts get high enough! I'm assuming it's to do with bad combat artillery or movespeed something else past my understanding.)

Thanks for that list btw. I think lists like this from experienced players are really valuable for discussion, despite being guaranteed to face a ton more criticism than agreement!

(My other feelings are that the 'advantages' of the numbers aren't always equal - I know that's not the point, but people easily go thinking that the advantage of seraphim T1 air over UEF is equal to the advantage of UEF T2 land over seraphim, or similar 'granularity problems' - I'm not sure anyone is adding the numbers up for a total, though!)

Aeon was top 2 in late t1 stage when they had a free 35 gun acu, now they have a rambo acu that isn't that remarkable comparable to other factions while aurora are eaten by enemy gun acus. You just lose long term, especially with t1 bombers existing to suicide drop on your clumps.

Also in large t1 clumps, arty becomes just as important as tanks and aeon arty is strictly the shittiest at dealing with armies.

@ftxcommando said in I am abandoning Aeon:

now they have a rambo acu that isn't that remarkable comparable to other factions while aurora are eaten by enemy gun acus.

Ah, thanks! That makes a lot of sense!
When I roll aeon I tend to prioritise the fire-rate increase, in order to protect my aurora from those pushes that force the aurora HP to feature spectacularly in my loss!

Those charts are cool but meaningless, look at mine, you can make some crazy statements about Cybran being completely broken

90% win rate and I barely play the faction, clearly Cybran needs a load of nerfs. (games since 2022-01-01)

@freedom_ said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Those charts are cool but meaningless, look at mine, you can make some crazy statements about Cybran being completely broken

90% win rate and I barely play the faction, clearly Cybran needs a load of nerfs. (games since 2022-01-01)

It's more meaningful when you have more than 12 games on the faction

The only things about Aeon that currently bothers me is that the Chrono Dampener is highly dependent on gun range to consider using, so no more T2-Chrono support, and the Mercy doesn't know what it wants to be when it grows up.

@tankenabard The mercy knew what it was, was forced to change because society didn't appreciate its uniqueness, and has since been suffering from terminal depression.

It's persecution, really.

@sladow-noob said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Aeon:
Autowin t1 on some land maps

I have no clue on why u consider this fact as "balance".

@sladow-noob said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Aeon:
strongest t2 phase, strong(est) t3 phase, decent exps, best t2 air, best midgame ACU, best frig, second best or best navy.

This all listed is very personal, not general. I mean I have no idea why u call aeon strongest t2 and t3 phase. If we consider blazes, they are very strong yes, but I do not think sera or UEF t2 worse. Sera has also 2 strong units, yenzyne and il shavokhs, which have also 2 same use cases as aeon (1 has big alpha and 1 can easily kill t1 spam). UEF has mobile shields, riptides (which have the highest hp among all hover units), and pilars are also not bad. I do not say they are the best, but having those facts, I can not accept t2 aeon as best, one of the best yes, but not the best.

T3 land for me is in perfect balance, I can not say that aeon also are strongest here, also good, but not best.

About exps, they are also quite good balanced, GC is very good against t3 army or other exps, like chicken or ML, but it is worse than chicken and MEGA when it comes to fighting against bunkers, cause it has no splash damage and very low dps, compared to other exps.

Frig is no way the best, it was very strong before the patch, but now it is way too expensive to call it the best. Of course it will beat every other frig 1v1, cause it is more expensive. But when fighting against cybran, you will have 14 v 13 frigs (both spending 3640 mass). Considering HP, cybran gets 25200HP and aeon gets 24050HP. Cybran gets 900 DPS and 764.66 DPS. Considering all this, I can not say aeon frig is the best. It has become way better cause of range buff, but it is still too expensive. Also add to that the fact that they do not have any AA.

On t2 stage, I have no clue on why u still consider aeon destros as best, cause they are in fact shit. Since the debuff, it is very painful to play with them against other destros, cause they miss way too much and 2 second worst torpedo attack to ON-WATER targets (after the UEF). We have tested a lot with spikey, they have almost no chance against sera destros, as they barely hit them, and super fun fact: if you submerge sera destros and come out in range of their cannons, they even start firing eariler, cause aeon needs more time for charging.

On t3 navy, I agree, aeon is strong. Having the highest DPS bship and also tempest.

Check the megathread-statistic post and see how often Aeon got veto'd in 1v1 pro tourney and how often they got picked if there were no vetos. Notice something?

There have been only few tournaments after those debuffs, and statistics is also more relevant if you consider the win rate AFTER the balance patch

Sera t2 stage will never be better than UEF or Aeon for the sheer reality it has no mobile shield. Aeon beats UEF t2 due to the sheer flexibility of being able to dominate regardless of terrain while having a slight disadvantage in a specific timing period where a pillar push can happen between a blaze/obsidian swap or due to sparkies. UEF hover is strictly worse than Sera and Aeon due to 1) no mobile hover flak 2) no mobile hover shield

T3 harb has the best utility across maps in combining bot speed with general combat strength. There are some incredibly open maps (painted desert, huge wonder open) where titans and loyalists are simply a win condition, but these maps are an outlier and also not as common as condensed maps where snipers simply defeat anything in UEF or Cybran roster besides a ravager/t2 arty base 10% into your own map control.

Percies and bricks are in a bad place since they require massive infrastructure investment while being slower than the direct fire t4s they are supposed to deal with, well percy is supposed to deal with. You either have the percies to kill a GC or chicken when it’s made or you lose because it is impossible to outmaneuver it.

Aeon frig range makes it win early navy fights, it doesn’t matter much for larger frig engagements but the torp defense it holds also makes torping both their destros and cruisers a massive pain in the ass. And no, salems still suck, uef destro has insanely huge weaknesses that do not make it reliable to spam, phim destro is solid but loses in large numbers to aeon destro.

@xejinord11

1. See what FTX said
2. Yes my list was without explanation since I matched the level of the original post. If the author doesn't care explaining why certain tech stages are bad except for sending his win rates, then I don't put in in the effort either and only respond with "your opinion? Cool, here's mine. Have fun with it"

Doesn't matter whether someone is on certain FAF teams or not, people shouldn't expect a long explanation/reply to something which doesn't offer the same.

@ftxcommando said in I am abandoning Aeon:
From your logic, aeon frig is the best, cause of early navy fights:

Aeon frig range makes it win early navy fights, it doesn’t matter much for larger frig engagements

But now u say that aeon destro is the best in late t2 fights:

phim destro is solid but loses in large numbers to aeon destro.

But hey, if you say aeon frig is the best cause of early t1 fight, then aeon t2 destro is the worst, cause it loses early fights.

In my opinion, aeon frig is solid, but early t1 is relevant on smaller maps, cause when playing against solid players, you will probably have a 10 v 9 frig fight vs cybran. But when 1 destros comes into the battlefield, and I have aeon against sera, no way I can bit him if my opp just micros properly, thus it leads to the less destros amount in a late t2 stage, so aeon will not probably win this fight, cause it simply will have less destros. And if the game is full afk untill everybody has 3 destros, than someone can just make more eco and go t3 navy. I mean, in all the cases aeon is bad. The only case t2 destro is good is when u and ur opp are just afk untill everyone has 15 destros and then start fighting, which is not the real game scenario.

I consider Aeon frig the best early on, not in large numbers. Look at the chart above for my opinions.

Early t1 is relevant on all maps. Frigates are fast and cross a 20x20 like tanks cross a 10x10. Functionally double the speed. If your frigate forces a chase, it means the enemy frigate is defensive which means your engies are free to expand and it also means you are likely to win the fight because you do free damage while the enemy frigate has no opportunity to catch you. If you force 2 frigates to go to respond to your singular frigate, it gets even better and you can retreat to where your reinforcements are and snowball a win there.

The game isn't a bunch of sandboxes of mass equivalent situations. Variables of units which enable proactive play enable them to play around statistical inefficiency. This is why titan spam can be relevant all the way up to GCs existing. Doesn't matter if I lose to mass equivalent harbs if I get to choose when and where I want to fight and it isn't in mass equivalent numbers.

It's the same story with people sandboxing ints vs swift winds and discovering that swift winds can't beat a lower tier unit mass for mass. "Well why even tech up then" while ignoring the proactive benefits swift wind enables you to take advantage of during the game whether directly in terms of speed or indirectly in terms of needing less mass invested in bp to pump equivalent values of air.

You can pick and choose whether you prefer phim destro or aeon destro, I still prefer aeon destro for the flexibility of having nothing else to worry about because it is still a one-unit-does-all package against subs, destros, and frigs. Phim destro has the hole against subs while being better against frigs and slightly better off early on in aggressive play. Salem is a defensive destro in a predominantly aggressive navy faction and has a horrible time breaking anything and UEF has such a massive achilles heel against subs in their roster.

Didn't we already determine sera destros are fine against subs? I swear I just saw a post about that.

@redx said in I am abandoning Aeon:

Didn't we already determine sera destros are fine against subs? I swear I just saw a post about that.

yeah, I do not really know why ppl keep saying that sera is bad against subs. For me, sera has the best t2 sub in the entire game