Or alternatively, play A.I. Recruit, Beginmer, and Adept since those 3 are the most competent ones. Hard and Elite tend to do whacky stuff and die.
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Despite their flaws, vs AI is still a fast way to finish quests. But who really plays Vs AI anyways unless they want to finish quests or learn the game?
Sometimes it’s nice to be able to pause the game. Only reason to play w/ AI allies imo (and it’s a legit reason). The AI allies are still infuriatingly stupid though. Makes me wonder if the “biology major” working on the AI got fired. He certainly doesn’t seem to have done a damn thing since the dev update about him…
I’m not one of them, but some people just prefer that and simply don’t like playing against people, some people like to use it as a warm-up, some people play it when their ping is being weird.and unreliable.
Some people play it to practice. (Some people here will claim that you’re a jerk if you don’t play till like, level 5, with a hero in vsAI before you play with and against human players.)
Personally I’ve only ever played vsAI for Gazlowe as he was the only hero whose trait I was pretty vague on before I tried him out.
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People who hates playing with/against other people. People who think they’re not good enough to play with real human teams. Practice. Warm-up. Bad connection. Quite a number of reasons actually.
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I kind of understand why they have necro the thread, the AI really hasn’t improved. I feel quite bad for those Vs AI mains, it must be terrible. Over two years with dreadful AI.
They should post about it here though:
At least they can talk directly to the developer who seems nice and open to ideas.
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I don’t really care that much about necro, it’s just something I picked up from Catherina. Little tradition I guess?🤷
But yeah the AI needs improvement, to say the least. Definitely understand the frustration from AI players.
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I used to throw on AI games while listening to a podcast so I could do dailies on days when I didn’t really want to play HotS. Key word being used to, since the AI is so borked it’s just stressful and annoying now.
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The vast majority of the playerbase considering it’s the only queue with constant consistency?
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Yeah. it’s annoying.
Oh. Didn’t know.
I’m modestly sure it’s always been one of the highest population queues. I play at least one match anytime I log on to check my ping, and I almost always see levels in excess of 500 playing.
I get where everyone is at but we can’t discount or exclude casual players just because. That said, AI being broken is undeniably a bigger concern in terms of AI player replacements in non vs AI modes.
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It had almost no matchmaking rules^ outside of your AI level you select.
It is like brawl in that aspect.
^it might have no matchmaking rules. I’m pretty sure it blocks some compositions that aren’t in parties. I.E. no 4-5 healers. But I could be wrong.
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Wow, this is VS AI and you’re playing the void of meaning “forced diversity” card? I guess when you have no vailid arguments you say the usual buzz phrases like “forced diversity”, “Blizz is for SJW” and “Blizz is for AI rights!”
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I didn’t know here I just convinced to some heroes that I did expect about these good times.
AI improvements are like Skiing. It’s always downhill.
You realize our AI is being developed by biology major who has no experience in making AI? At least he knew how to do a lobotomy to the AI! 
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Ouch! Good one!
Yeah, I knew about the biology. Should’ve hired Janitor Leoric.
This isn’t really fair, even if it was a funny joke. Most of the problems with the AI proceed the dev working on it currently. I would never defend the state of the current AI, but he seems to be working with limited time and resources and was left with a massive mess to try to fix
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Understandable. So when do you think they will throw in the towel, increase the amount of micro transactions to get a team to fix AI?
I mean we can make due with a mode that doesn’t have any AI, right?
I’m sorry but can you give me concrete example on how AI has been better since the announcement they made about the biology major working on it sometime after Xmas?
AI no longer has any independence. It’s now a brick that stands at hall of storms doing nothing when player leaves/disconnects. If you ping it to follow you it now has leash range of something like 4. When enemy is outside it, it doesn’t function properly. That left ranged heroes and half range heroes basically not functioning at all.
Only thing I can think of being technically positive is it made AFK farming in AI harder for smurfs. On the other hand now they will need to be leveled in PvP stomping noobs which I would count as bigger negative.
I know people complained about AI invading camps in coordinated manner prior Xmas(which I would consider good thing). Dunno if that was something that got changed/fixed in AI games?