What suddenly happened to the AI?

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The last few days I’ve been playing with AI teammates when I get quest to soak 25k exp / deal 150k siege damage / capture 8 merc camps.
And till now, when I had the mercs quest the AI weren’t attempting to take camps. They were only coming to aid me when I was taking them (although I was pinging them to retreat). They were mostly soaking through the game, which was just fine.
And all of a sudden, last game, they went camp crazy, and were going for camps 24/7, leaving the soaking to me.
What could’ve caused this sudden change? I didn’t change the difficulty or anything.

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The Hots Elite A.I are the biggest wild card in all of gaming.

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The AI got good. Sadly, the players playing in vs. AI are now almost always worse than the AI. I’ve now started playing with AI teammates – at least they help with objectives.

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Usually when you ping a merc camp or boss, the nearest AI goes there and either waits for another AI ally or you to start the capture. It’s probs the AI being wonky as always, it’ll be fine after.

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Last patch or the one before had some AI improvements in it, hard to notice as its just a short sentence passing by.

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Seems like they brought “the take camps frenzy” to the AIs back again.

I remember probaby last year the AI was so insane they went for all the merc camps and sometimes got themselves killed as they trying to get boss on level 5 ~ 7

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Oh the AI is definitely loving bosses right now, BHB, AI disappeared off the map and theyre bossing every time.

They do it quite a bit on Warhead and Cursed hollow as well, takes me by surprise because its not something i expect but its always in the early game when the AI isnt sitting in base because they dont have any keeps left.

So their bosses do nothing.

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AI usually go for Boss as soon as it is late in Xp at a certain rate, but I don’t know which one :sweat_smile:
But it’s easy to guess when AI goes for it, or for a HardCamp, because as you said, they just vanished off the minimap :joy:

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Oh, most AI players just keep tunnel visioning their lanes and such and have no clue… :sweat_smile:

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When your mates are bigger Ais than Ai itself.feelsbadman

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Most are there to learn basics of the game though

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If you haven’t learned stuff like objectives, health globes are good, and don’t tunnel one lane by player level 200+ then you aren’t ever going to ‘learn’ it.

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In my personal experience whenever I’ve played vs Ai, if I were to take a camp, the Ai would always try to assist me, even if it meant hearthing to get there faster.

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Just becauspeiole do things alot, it doesnt mean they get better at it.

I got a friend lvl 2500+ whos a Gold player for real. He likes to farm AI.

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Just an update. The AI returned to normal after that game. They were doing camps all game in just 1 other game after that, and then they stopped caring about them again :smiley:
I think it may have something to do with the heroes they are playing :stuck_out_tongue:

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At first, I thought you were talking about the AI…

Excelsior!

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lately if you can’'t find the ai and there’s a camp up you can take a good guess as to where they are.

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I have not kept track of it myself but I think that when the A.I have heroes that are good at taking mercenary camps they go nuts. It might have also something to do with the map to. I hardly if ever see A.I take camps on Dragon Shrine but seeing them take camps on Blackheart’s Bay is rather common.

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So you’ve just contradicted your original point.

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People can still be learning the basics at lvl 200+ pretty easily, i learnt not to tunnel vision after lvl 400 and to time the camps right at 600+ when i first went to ranked, i just played for fun and mostly just a couple of heroes which none of were good at taking camps.