what's wrong with my gameplay - please analyze me

[Bliss]

Lately I'm frustrated as F*** with the game.... at the point that I really lost will to play , went from >10 matches a day to 1 or 2 , cause I get really angry with myself keeping losing.

I see no improvements in my play style , I tried to switch race , to make some training matches and so on , but it's really hard for me to keep the pace of my opponents and do what seems like they are doing so easily.

That's a typical match i lose vs a t3 opponent, but I can lose to unexperienced players too.


See how i can't expand , my engies get killed and I don't know what to do. I tried to harrass , to move my tanks in offense and find a weak spot ... but the only weakness is mine.

I suffer flank attacks move my tanks up & down left & right like a desperate and just run after mantis.
I don't understand why it's so hard for me to defend especially vs cybran , but anyway why my match is always in defensive after ther first minutes of the match. I don't get what's the biggest error .

[Ze_PilOt]

I'm probably not the best to help you as I'm in the same spot, but from what I can see, your main problem is that you are too passive.

ie. you make a lab first, but you don't even try to use it to kill an engy.
Except a little skirmish, all the fights are deep in your side of the map.

Also, you don't make enough engy to rebuild your mass and reclaim the stuff when you win.

[GallantDragon]

I'm getting a replay between Bliss and some other guy who's name I haven't noted down. which one's you? Are you sure you've posted the right replay?

[Bliss]

Here i try to take map control but fail hard .... I'm not behind but my acu dies because I'm busy with units who have flanked me as usual , once again I was not able to prevail

[Bliss]

I'm getting a replay between Bliss and some other guy who's name I haven't noted down. which one's you? Are you sure you've posted the right replay?

my nickname in FAF is Bliss , sorry for not having specified that ;(

[GallantDragon]

In the first one, what I can see is that you don't have enough (any, really) build power. Red takes out your mexes and you don't have any engies around to rebuild them or even to reclaim. When he makes gunships you're unable to get AA out fast enough, and in the end he just swarms right over you.

He was also able to grab the wrecks in the middle.

[GallantDragon]

Seven minutes in you have two engies building a landfac, even though you're out of mass and have got a pile of wrecks right next to you.

[Bliss]

yeah should've stopped building and just try to reclaim...but at that point you are already done I suppose... I mean how is it possibile that the match is screwed up after the first minutes....


for what concerning the reclaim in the middle .... isnt'it really poor ? Does it make a big difference ?

[GallantDragon]

Well, I find you generally can't go wrong with more engies in general. with more engies you can grab more mexes at once, especially in the beginning. Later on, more engies mean more buildpower to spam more land and reclaim resources to maintain your landspam.

EDIT: of course, I should probably be deferring to someone with a bit more experience than myself.

[Ze_PilOt]

Here i try to take map control but fail hard .... I'm not behind but my acu dies because I'm busy with units who have flanked me as usual , once again I was not able to prevail

Unlike some people think, FA factions plays differently. Cybran mantises are fast, allowing them to raid all the time.

One way to avoid to be flanked like that : make more scouts.

Put these scouts where your enemy is able to run-by, and you will see it coming long enough to be able to intercept and win these skirmishes. Once it can't run-by anymore, you basically have the map as striker are better.

You really need more engies to rebuild & reclaim if you suffer a run-by too.