I mean, I do know the AI cheats on the strongest difficulty, but in a daily challenge? No fun at all, why should I play this again?
Ai only advances un til you do. Theres lots of whats to beat it, specially givebn the current difficulty its set on and the blessings you have.
Why do you think the AI is cheating?
The AI is not bound by the same rules as the player. This changes the gameplay to be different from a normal multiplayer game against a real player. I’m just not sure, why this is a good idea. You start to use different strategies and get used to wrong timings. The timing of aging up in an “Age Game” used be very dependent on your used strategy. Until now such core changes would be only used in campaign or scenario missions, where the AI is also more scripted to do specific things for the benefit of storytelling.
So I change my question, why do you, or anybody else, plays these daily challenges?
@SK1 you can not train villagers when you are aging up. The AI clearly did just get the age up for free, without blocking the town center queue.
You are using blessings, which you wont be able to use in any player vs player setting. At least not currently, so the comparison is point less.
You are gonna use different strategies that are never worth it in pvp play or are simply weaker.
The score system also makes you play different if you care for a high score.
I dont. They are far too easy for my level. Moderate AI is a joke to me and can beat several of them with no blessings. Already completed arena of the gods and you cant use the blessings in any other game Mode so its useless for me.
That said i am certain im not the target audience for this. Prob good for colectors or people thats do struggle with it (loose from time to time).
Blessings are strange too, because they also alter the gameplay. My comparison is not pointless. I really wonder for who this gamemod is. It is not wrong to add or change mechanics, but it has a cost. What makes this worth while, because you don’t play it, I will not play it again, so who plays it? The skills you learn can not just simple be transferred to normal multiplayer. The really strange point is, that the AoE2DE AI works like a real player and you can train with her. So why is the AoM Retold AI so different? I’m more focused on the AI part here, because Blessings work more like extra civ bonuses and are not that extreme like ignoring a core rule of the game. If one civ would get the bonus to train villagers while aging up, it would be the most broken bonus ever. As a comparison in AoE2DE the Malay can age up 66% faster, and boy is it a strong bonus.
Also nice for you, that you are so good in AoM. I’m between 1200-1300 ELO in AoEDE2 and can beat the extreme AI without a sweet, so whats the point of that?
If what you are saying is the AI behaviour is different to players makes it play different than pvp. You are not taking i not acount the several other things that also make it no work.
Dunno, i myself dont see Arena of the gods or daili challenge as good implementation. As far as i know most people wanted a form of co op campaign. Blessings would have been great if you could play with them on lobbies. Would give casual players lots of ways to try them and limit them, yet there are not available.
Dunno really, the Ai isnt good, thats why it gets handicap on titan onwards and just gets more resources. Because its pathing and decision making isnt that of a good player. Dunno if its resource cost to develop one or what other reason.
Not really, sily AI difficulty isnt a metric of skill tbh. Most games AI you can beat fairly easy at any level with the right strategy going into it. IM simply not the target audience because moderate is not a “daily challenge” for me, but for you it is it seems. And thats fine, theres skill levels for everything.
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I guess, I was the target audience for daily challenges, because I play AoM mostly like I played as a child, just for fun and the cool mythology setting. So it hurts, that this gamemod is that bad and I wanted to know why it is that bad. AoE2DE is the prove, you can do this right and it is somewhat the same team. I just don’t get it, it is not like AoE4, which was long in the hand of Relic. The AoM campaigns are so special to me, it just sucks that the rest of the game is stuck to be forgotten.
New stuff was anounced with the japan DLC for Arena of the gods. Hope it brings something better for what you like from the game.
Havent meddled much with the new AI perosnalities also. Have you?