Game Version:
- Build: 46777
- Platform: Steam
- Operating System: Windows 10
- Gamertag: Johnny Marco
Issue:
The AI on Multiplayer is extremely passive. Myself and one other human person like to play online against the AI. However, even on Hard or Hardest difficulties, the AI often fails to make virtually any military units, villagers, etc., and acts as if it’s on Easy difficulty. We have run numerous tests with different civs, maps, etc., and we can’t find a pattern except that water maps seem to rly confuse the AI. Contrast this with Singleplayer where the AI is brutal on Hard and Hardest settings; it creates military, multiple Town Centers, dozens of villagers, etc. It’s like a night and day experience and frustrating for us who want to play online but against the AI. I couldn’t find any other ppl reporting this as a bug, or any fixes.
Reproduction Steps:
Here’s how to reproduce the problem:
- Two human players against any number of AI, teams or no teams. We have, however, noticed that it happens most on 2v2 games.
- Set AI to Hard or Hardest.
- Every other setting can be set to default or not, it hasn’t mattered to us.
- Play game, advance through the ages, etc. The AI will sometimes raid a little and mass a few troops, but most of the time it’s passive. On the rare occasion, it actually puts up a bit of a fight.
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