I’m not sure you quite understand the mentality of people who primarily play vs AI. Fun in vs AI most often revolves around blowing stuff up. Not in having a complex and devious opponent who manages to always outguess you.
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and still, there are people who lose to it.
Then you havent noticed how popular borderlands 2’s UVHM is. Its basicly the mode that does the opposite by making enemies 10x more tankier and more likely to take you out in an instant.
Some people like difficulties when playing against AI. And those people are also the most likely to set the difficulty higher for that.
If you realy want to blow up stuff you wouldnt take elite enemies anyway. You would probably stick to beginner mode or adept.
Thats the nice thing about difficulty settings: you can adjust it to your own preference. It becomes a problem when the max setting is underperforming to a state it feels like it became irrelevant.
Previously i could easily tell the diffirence between elite and veteran AI’s. Just because of the way they handle fights and macro. Currently i can barely tell it because both are making the same stupid mistakes. The Elite AI is only more accurate in its abilities, but fails at deciding when to fight so he still dies as if it was a beginner AI.
I don’t disagree with either of these statements. I’m just saying that the huge amount of the playerbase that enjoys playing vs AI is not the same group as those who like the hardest difficulty settings, though there’s some overlap between the two.
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i have noticed some odd behaviour recently, against beginner Ai (doing dailies) on certain maps like hanamura, the very moment i start taking a merc camp i get zerged by all of the bots, all of them, and they ninja the camp.
the rest of the game they act like mindless zombies, but if you try taking a merc camp then every single one of them comes bearing down on you.
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Fantastic kill by the Siege camp completely out microed.
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Sure. The wife and I played vs A.I. exclusively in Heroes of the Storm when we played, mainly on the higher two difficulty settings. We own a lot of heroes, so spent on the game, but we really only fired it up when we wanted a break from Overwatch PvP, which is our main Blizzard game.
We haven’t been around since before the A.I. changes and were thinking of coming back, but now I’m not so sure.
It depends on the players on how fun its going to be. As long as you arent going to backdoor the AI to get a quick win, or abuse its major flaws (stukov/junkrat lockdowns), its still fun. And from my experience, plenty of players will still avoid doing this.
After all, the AI did improve regarding combat. And its most likely the reason they keep it this way since those AI are better for PvP (for macro you just ping him and he follows you, its not optimal, but it will do the job).
And sometimes those backdoor finishes just happens because when you are pushing with the objective, and the AI does stupid things, holding back might already be too late anyway. Just dont deliberately try to force these things to happen.
Sure, its artificialy making it more difficult. And some players will hate you for that. But as long as you arent holding back and start pushing an other lane, or realy disrupting the team, it wont matter. As in the end, the only people who will care about quick finishes are those who want to farm gold, or people who are clueless about the leveling system (for XP longer rounds are better as the late game grants more XP).
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Thanks. We’re going to give it a shot. We never went for the quick wins, we just enjoyed the matches and maps and used it as a relaxing break from Overwatch PvP.
Seems like we’ll still have fun, so we’ll give it a go.
We always went for the 5 vs A.I. matches (three random players), so never had A.I. teammates unless someone dropped out.
Elder Scrolls is worse. You can make it Fallout too.
The AI does that in front of a symbioted Monstrosity as well. This makes Abathur one of the most OP heroes in Versus AI mode at the moment.
How can anyone defend the new AI is beyond my comprehension.
Before the changes, you actually had to play the game to win and it was mildly (and I mean it in the mildest, most insignificant way) challenging and team fights could be fun and you could train combos in them.
Nowadays you are up by three levels before you reach 10, the AI constantly feeds and does the exact opposite thing it should be doing.