tl;dr I agree, whoever was doing the AI before has been transferred/laid off
I play a lot of vs. AI because I have an old, diabetic dog that needs to go out every hour or so, at least. (and yes, I’m also bad at the game, yes “real gamers” play pvp, that’s not the point)
The last patch for AI before this one, it was still generally functional, but they REALLY loved taking camps. It was their highest priority. For the first time, they actually invaded your camps on every map. This caused some awkward situations, but at least it was something you had to react to. They could still play the game.
Then blizz apparently didn’t know how to fix this, so it seems that the AI has simply been rolled back to before they were coded to take camps at all. Now they are completely broken. It’s almost impossible to die even to elite bots. As other people have reported, they hearth at insane times, can’t even listen to pings anymore, generally play very passively, just laning, not even trying to fight unless there’s a numbers advantage on the objective.
AI WILL NOT EVEN TAKE COIN CAMPS ON BLACKHEART’S ANYMORE Yes it’s that bad. It’s not just bad, it is exactly as the thread says, completely unplayable.
The borked AI started right after it was announced that HotS would be run on a skeleton crew. I don’t doubt that’s a coincidence. Whoever built these bots has been replaced with an intern. An entire other balance patch went through after the AI was broken, no changes. Actiblizz doesn’t care about anything besides profits. After 3+ years, I’m very sad to uninstall this game.