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Offline SOVNARKOM

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British AI and Command Trucks
« on: May 01, 2011, 01:37:33 AM »
I've noticed that this mod has overall a much improved skirmish AI over the vanilla game, and while it is still no match for a human player, it gives a decent challenge when one can't find an EF match.

Or at least, every faction but the British does.

It seems that no matter how high I set the AI difficulty, the British AI is absolutely insane and stupid regarding its own care for its Command Trucks. It usually seems to play decently early in the game, but it fails completely to defend them, and when any of them gets destroyed the AI will call them back and place them at the most reckless point of the map possible, sometimes driving them right through your massive army, unaware of how stupid this move is.

Is there a way this can be fixed? I remember vCoH having the same problem with regard to Brits, and I'm left wondering if the AI imbecility regarding its most important units is a hardcoded and impossible to solve problem or if someone has figured out a way to stop them Brits from behaving like morons and actually taking care of their trucks.

If such is the case, is there any possibility of this being included in the next EF patch? I know the mod is balanced for online play, but with how difficult it is to find a match sometimes, and the fact the vanilla factions have new content in the mod, its a bit of a shame that if I want to take my Jagdpanzer IVs against British cromwells my only options are either dealing with the dumbest AI in the mod or spending hours looking for a match.

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2011, 03:05:24 AM »
As i often state, robotnik is working on the A.I.. Just be patient.

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2011, 07:04:38 PM »
It's good to know someone is working on the EF AI, albeit as I said, my problem isn't with the mod AI for anybody except Brits, and I don't think I've seen any AI mod that fixes the British AI randomass truck placing, or maybe I'm wrong.

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2011, 07:08:55 PM »
Well, i think the Brits have more problems than just their A.I.. ;)

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2011, 07:26:46 PM »
Play vs American or Russians since Brits are ready!  :P

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2011, 07:29:17 PM »
Yeah, Robotnik is doing an excellent job on the AI department ;D!!!
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Offline Max 'DonXavi' von B.

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2011, 07:39:47 PM »
Can't wait to see the results of it.
Another question: What's the job of our new developer Crasius? It isn't listed on the team page and he doesn't seem to be very active in the public forums.

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2011, 07:50:10 PM »
He setup EF stuff in OE, besides helping us to fix a lot of issues for the next patch(remember the conscript weapon fix in the last patch? was his work), along with Robotnik (yeah he's helping too and doing the AI XD).

You can be sure Crasius is active on the dev section ;).
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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2011, 07:55:33 PM »
Ok thank you for the info, but I didn't worry about him being inactive, I just had a lack of information about his designation in the mod. ;)

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Re: British AI and Command Trucks
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2011, 08:16:48 PM »
Yeah, i thought the same two weeks ago, by the time we posted the new patch, we forgot to add that info. But will be posted in the next patch ;D!!!
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