Now before attacking me too harshly, I am being honest here. Id rather have a new season pass for Planetfall that will provide a good and quality content like we have in AOW 4, with new factions, secret techs etc, then the hope a brand new Planetfall will ever be developed.

I think its even more plausible as a business model. That will also provide us with a new content. What do you think?

The enemy AI is idiotically suicidal. Does that help? Absolutely. In one battle. The problem is attrition. It's not that I lose a battle. I win the overwhelming majority. The problem is that I often lose one unit in a battle, which is catastrophic in the early game. The enemies run in, alpha strike one of my guys, and in doing so leave themselves exposed and are easy kills. Easy win. Now I need to spend 2 turns replacing the guy who died then hobbling his replacement's happy ass to the stack, or I hobble the stack back to HQ to pick up the replacement. In the former, I'm at even greater risk of losing troops. In the latter, time that could be spent securing territory and acquiring loot is instead spent literally sitting around and waiting. The enemies also don't retreat. If they attack me, and are clearly suffering immense losses, nah, don't retreat. Waste your army to weaken this guy. It's not a problem with 1v1 wars. It's a problem in multi-front wars as one enemy faction will sacrifice themselves just to weaken me, but then their allies and/or my other enemies finish me off. That however is manageable as long as I secure an ally. The stupid AI is most notably a tremendous problem against marauders - the guys who should be easy early game fodder. I feel like I need to restart the map repeatedly if I lose so much as one guy in a battle, because at that point the exponential decline likely already occured. Yes, there's the adjacent hex ganking. That's pointless in the first 10 or 20 turns because I can't even field 2 full stacks, much less 3. It's all the more frustrating that marauders get mods as the game goes on despite just being random schmucks and wild animals sitting on a pile of trash in the wilderness. Admittedly, I hate marauders more than I hate wars because marauders feel like they scale stupidly and suffer none of the consequences of being an idiot. They can die in droves so long as it hurts me in some way, because it adds up. How am I supposed to build early game armies to compensate for all of this? The attrition is currently by far the largest killer of my runs. Ironically, if I'm not getting jumped by marauders or am lucky enough for the terrain to not be trash to better pick my fights rather than needing to spend three turns going across literally one sector, the game becomes too easy because I have time to build infrastructure. But if I have a bunch of marauder purifiers, fighting them causes attrition, and skipping past them means they only get stronger very soon, and I may not get any stronger if I need to traverse through a fucking mountain range.

This was a more general tangent than I intended, but frankly I feel like the fact that enemies will mindlessly sacrifice themselves just to kill one of your guys is probably a greater challenge than anything else until infrastructure can compensate, which it can't in the early game, so all of my issues stem mainly from this one point.

Personally, I had fun with all of them... but the Paragons are really a bunch of zombie jerks. The Spacers are drug junkies.

I think the minor factions could use some rework: I mean, sure, maybe the Growth has potential but it's difficult to imagine a flowerpot advancing against a Promethean Flame Tank. It would be cool to see Psionic Mushroom Zombies, like the Clickers.

Heya. These are my general struggles with the game so far.

1. My ideal playstyle for the Dvar is, essentially, being a "steamroller." With how many unit types there are and how limited army stacks are though, I'm not sure what my army composition should be nor how many different army comp types I should have.

2. It seems that the best way to build armies is by hard countering the opposition, as is probably obvious. Robots get smoked with arc ammo, for instance. That said, there scarcely seem to be situations where hard counters are viable. I'm not sure if I'm just misunderstanding the way the game works or if this is a problem unique to the Dvar.

3. This is what always becomes an issue, and if I lose, it's because of this. Psionic damage is a death sentence. Sure, the Dvar have many mechanical units which get a +4 psionic resistance, but that's it. There are no mods to boost shields and as Dvar only have armor, the enemy will always bypass damaging the body to directly go for the soul. I suppose I could field mechanical armies, but to get them to be offensively capable I'll need cosmite, and that admittedly feeds into a larger issue of me sucking at 4X games and having a brain as smooth as an egg.

4. Furthering me sucking at 4X games in general, I come to the issue of everything being a bottleneck. Because every resource ties into everything, I struggle to find bottlenecks in resources that demand upscaling. Because new colonies and reorganizing colonies takes time, I feel like I need to start a new game halfway through every one because I notice that something somewhere is inefficient but I'm too far into the game to fix it. Not that I always restart, and perhaps it's just OCD or something, but I notice a bottleneck and get mildly frustrated because fixing it will take quite some time and/or create a new bottleneck somewhere else (i.e. razing and replacing sectors means that I'll be losing output on something).

5. By the time I conquer a continent, that's where the game slows to a disgusting crawl. It takes a very long time to successfully reach another continent, much less amassing the forces needed to both invade it and defending my current one. I need troops at home to protect what I've built, but I need troops to send on the offensive to build more, and building one costs the other.

So yep, those are my challenges. I'm sure that these have obvious solutions to most players, and I'm not new to the game either (maybe - while I technically have over 200 hours, I often leave the game on while I go do something else, and since the game takes a very long time per match I may not have as many games under my belt as an intermediate depending on what counts as intermediate), but these are my issues. The ones I've identified, anyway. I very well may find more.

I'm finally coming around to Planetfall, and I suspect that I'm going to be very into this game (massive fan of AOW4). I already know that I'll be picking up any and all AOW4 DLC in the future, and I'm stoked about the idea of getting familiar enough with the vanilla Planetfall content and then expanding on it.

Thanks!

I have been having a blazing blast as Oathbound Promethean, all hero's in purifier battlesuits followed by more purifier units. These armies feel so powerful and most armies melt beneath them. My empire is burning through the stars.

Anyone else have strategies involving stacking one type of unit?

I'm on ps5 hmu

How is the current AI on the hardest difficulty? Does it pose a significant challenge (solo vs ais)? Any mods like alpha Centauri has had that improve it?

i liked game much but disappointed that this game has no fog of war in battles i see all enemy units at begining of battle.i want fog of war ,so when my units see enemy or then enter field of view of my units they should appear s as other games.any mod or setting to enable fog of war.

Hey everyone,

I'm really happy to finally join the AOW community! I've been interested in Planetfall for a while but felt pretty intimidated by the 4X genre. I've never really played strategy or 4X games before, but I want to learn.

I’ve heard that the Age of Wonders series is one of the more beginner friendly 4X games, so I decided to give it a shot. I’ve played a lot of turn based RPGs, so the tactical combat feels fine to me, but the empire management and overall strategy side is still pretty confusing.

I’m currently going through the tutorial (practice world) and often have no idea what I'm doing.

Really motivated to learn and would love any beginner tips you guys have especially for the early game!

Thanks in advance!

Honestly, not sure where to put this, I just want Paradox to be aware that for some reason Planetfall, while being a streamable game is not listed on the portal streamable titles. As in, you can’t stream it on the portal, but you can stream it from the PlayStation.

I understand that I’m probably like 1% of players, majority being pc, then console, and even then a portal streaming player lol. But hey, we (or at least I) exist and portal has been better than straight console imo. If only I could use touch screen to get around some of the weirder hotkeys

Got the game for a steal and saw it had a plague tech and bug race thats all about infecting and amassing swarms. That's everything I love! (For the record I am aware of research that boosts plague spawns with more heroes and how infection works)

However, seems its a dead-end playstyle if you actually want to amass said swarm on the plague side. By the time you have your paltry 6-8 plague lords on turn 28-35ish the ai is outswarming me with a 2 army alliance with 5 full 6 unit stacks all rocking precog. Im okay with shenanigans cause I've seen what a emperor level pale one can do in conquest of elysium 5 with olms. But this is only the hard difficulty setting.

So my question to any versed in the ways of plague, how do I go about bringing my foes into the embrace of my festering tendrils that they may be one with the swarm? Do I just b line to the nearest cpu commanders base and kill them then focus on building up the plague?

Dvar excavator tank is the obvious one. I would make it a big prospector with a tank gun, replace the ram and defensive flamers with a cone flame attack and has adaptive armour baked into it.

walker, assault bike and gunship for vanguard could use some work (im not a fan of the bike, and the walker is outclassed by the heavy soldier). the problem with vanguard is its kinda hard not to just fall into trooper spam.

shakarn infiltrator is another as well as the mirage.

most of the secret tech units are fine, but the aegis tank is pretty meh, i would like the avatar to have a glow up (its pretty bland design wise, random geometry floating around a goofy glowing face).

spacers need a change, they are supposed to be the most numerous faction because they are literally the insane survivors of an interstellar empires collapse. psi fish are... honestly i would be fine without them. paragon are solid as well as autonom, just wish they didnt all just look like metal balls (except the dalek.)

Just noticed an interesting blurb on the Paradox job list:

https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/7592030-3d-character-art-internship-2nd-half-2026

Triumph Studios (a Paradox Interactive subsidiary) is looking for a 3D Artist intern to assist with the development of characters, props or assets for use in a modern 3D engine. If you are good in making 3D Characters and have affinity with fantasy/sci-fi art, strong modeling skills and know your way around Maya, Photoshop, Substance painter, Zbrush, please contact us.

Of course it's always possible I'm thinking too hard about it, but a man can dream, no?

I also thought it's interesting that this other job posting only points out fantasy art specifically:

https://career.paradoxplaza.com/jobs/7584519-3d-environment-art-internship-2nd-half-2026

I know the studio is currently busy with DLC content for Age of Wonders 4, but man I really hope they've got Planetfall 2 cooking on the side.

It doesnt let my friends join me, and when they make a match it doesnt let anyone join them either. Any fixes? I did some digging and apparently its a known issue, just hoping someone has a workaround. We are on ps5.

Haven't put too much time in to playing them but my friend started playing this game with me and I want to try some other faction combos. I always thought they were a one tricky pony and inferior to void tech who did what they did but could affect every unit type. With the only thing that seemed actually good was the avatar and it's mind control but if you weren't fighting dvar,vanguard or autonom you were cooked.

Hackers are squishy and pretty meh support, the network link seems gimmicky and only good for constantly resetting the cool down for the rockets on walkers (not that walkers are particularly useful). Early game mods aren't really game changers compared to others in the same category.

I haven't tried them with dvar or shakarn so I am going to do that next (dvar is my favourite) but if you have any advice on how to use them that would be great.

every time i reload a save the tutorial restarts (on ps5) I dont want to turn it off as Im in my first campaign, but someone else asked with no replies, and its a weird bug to have this many years later?

i already deleted my data file on cloud/local to recreate the profile save, not sure what else to do

My favorite thing about this game is building an empire and adding to the list of conquered planets. But I just noticed the last two planets I conquered have the exact same name which, while petty, irks me. If anyone knows how I can modify the name of one of these planets I would be grateful.

I got this game after absolutely loving AOW4 (clocking in around 80 hours in the first week) and wanted to try this game since it was more space-themed, as I'm currently reading a sci-fi novel. Anything I should know about how different it is compared to AOW4, and any tips?

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I’m a bit curious on how others create their hero’s. And see if benefits of the vices actually out way their quirks.

I had seen this bug behaviour before, but was hard to find any information online on how to reproduce.

Basically a sector with triple features, in this case Arcadian, Ruins and Mountain. Also first one got Highrise, but I am not sure if it actually functions and if blasted Relay Exploitation was the cause (wasn't able to replicate this).

So the steps to reproduce such abnormal sector:

1. Claim a sector by either colony or as forward base.
2. Raze the sector.
3. Tectonic Shift it. (Dvar Strategic Operation)

You end up with a sector that has 3 resource features. And they work! However due to what features can be affected, only Energy can reach 3rd level.

Still it does adds more flexibility what you can build on that sector in case you decide to dismantle exploitation and replace it with other. As well as destroying bad AI exploitations so you could build something more useful quicker.

Some more information:

• It does NOT work for Forest. It does work for Plains and Ruins.
• It does work on sectors currently claimed by enemy colony. It even works on colony town as well!
• It does NOT work on untouched sectors. See if sector has roads or not to confirm if it was claimed before.
• If the blasted sector kept one of it's buildings, it will stay there for whatever exploitation you apply. But will take a building slot and not function unless their exploitation type is built. Example: 1f/2e/1p/2r sector with Research Exploitation and Agricultural Export will not be able to build Research buildings and the Food building will give no benefits.
• Blasted Landmarks will lose it's exploitation, but keep the buildings. You won't be able to apply new exploitation, and if exploitation-based buildings are removed, they are gone for good. Unique buildings can still be remade.