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richasr

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I started playing Dark Crusade again with some friends today and while I enjoy playing it i've noticed the AI is much more difficult to battle against than in Dawn of War.

We played on Standard difficulty and witnessed in awe how the computer players almost immediately had big armies of Space Marines knocking on the door to our bases within 2 minutes of the game being started. The sheer speed with which they build is nothing compared to the power they seem to have.

We tried being all Necron, 3 Necron armies against 3 Space Marine armies, Monoliths galore and yet we still got beaten for whatever reason. We're used to playing DoW on Harder difficulties than this and winning, it's crazy and unexplained!

Does anyone have any freakish AI stories or just plain hate AI that developers have come up with?
 
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richasr

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I do like how they made the AI more intelligent, it just seems as they it's also able to do a lot more than you actually can, such as build extremely quickly, it's quite odd and infuriating at times.
 
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Wasn't there that instance in HoMM IV (or whatever UbiSoft's revival is) where the computer players would harness zero-point resources and hax themselves extra resources per round?

Although, if you want purely insane AI, you arguably can't beat Earthbound...
 
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I'm confused. You mean like the game doing something really clever in response to an attack I was making or just a game kicking my ass because it's super efficient?

RTS AI's can certainly whip me because they're fast but I've never seen one not be highly predictable. You could make an argument for Halo campaigns but I kinda write that off to months of game testing. Those guys have mile high design documents about placing Stealth Brutes in just the right spot after 78% of all testers ducked in the same spot for cover.

I dunno man, can't really think of a time an AI outsmarted me and I thought "Well played Robot!" Maybe that's just the nature of the beast though. Go ask Deep Blue what he thinks.
 
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Soul Calibur 3 had some crazy AI, anybody who's had to fight that girl with the sword in the umbrella at later levels knows what I mean.
 
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Follow these steps to see lackluster programming at its finest:

1. Become a werewolf on Morrowind
2. Stand near the weak civilians
The big problem, I guess, is that they weren't programmed to be horror movie victims, but I'd have to say that the fearful AI is some of the worse I've seen.
 
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Rainbow Six Vegas on realistic has the most unbalanced AI possible. These terrorists have near perfect accuracy and can detect you from miles away.
 
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F.E.A.R. hs some of the best AI ive ever seen. they are smart and use tactics like angles and flanking and hole loads of human type things. they even knock down things to get cover. its redicullous. I often feel like im playing against humans in that game. some of that game gets boring, however the fighting is purely brilliant. Im always nervous when i go into a fight, and the only reason i win a lot of them is because the computer flinches when it gets shot and i dont. heh talk about unbalanced. And if i cant see them im never quite sure, cause they might be behind cover, or they might be running up the stairs behind me, and god help me covering fire is scary shit.
 
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