Survival AI difficulty calculator
Every bar is one wave. Its height is the metal the Survival AI may spend on it. Change the lobby options on the right and watch the next hour of the match reshape.
- Tech 1 wave
- Tech 2
- Tech 3
- Tech 4
- Smallest a wave can be
- Most metal alive at once
- A bar is the most a wave can be. Units still alive from earlier waves count against it, so a field you have not cleared makes the next wave smaller, down to the pale band at the bottom of each bar.
- The dashed line is the most metal the Survival AI keeps alive at once. Clear the field and the next wave is a full one.
- Every tenth wave is a surge: double budget, launched from every beacon.
- Destroying beacons lowers every bar, to half with one beacon left. The last beacon then rages: bigger waves, twice as often.
- Tech 4 units are rationed. Never more than one alive for every two players, rounded up.
Lobby settings for this curve
Only the options that differ from the defaults. Set these under Survival AI Options when hosting.