Good job at assuming! 80% of my time is spent on campaign/vs CPU and occasionally going online. I’m not a pro by any means, but I don’t throw a fit because the AI is too hard for me. I simply try to get better or go outside when I start getting angry at it.
Are you seriously surprised the AI cheats? It’s not a good design by any means, but the fact this surprises you tells me AoE4 is your first RTS, maybe first videogame (This is me assuming, for illustration purposes). Part of the achievement of hardest difficulties is that you can win even with the odds stacked against you.
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So i only do 4v4AI with people I know IRL and having 4 hardest AI now is such a boring slog. They just man units with such ease that trying to play against them is just a sweaty ordeal now.
There is no human opponent that will play like the AI.
I have no idea where the majority of sympathizers are going on and on about “just get better”. A person and a machine are not equals!
A strategy that works vs a person won’t work against an AI. Player Vs Player strategies are based around a SET timer. This SET timer has now been disrupted by the Cheating AI.
How are you going to tell me to get better vs the AI by using PVP strategies?
So idiotic.
If 2 human players had perfect reaction times then they would have military and eco at a 1 to 1 ratio.
I know critical thinking is too difficult for some of you to grasp now a days so let me literally explain it to you like some uneducated ant.
If 2 people play as English and they have perfect timing then they could theoretically build at EXACTLY the same time as each other.
The cheater AI isn’t playing with this timer anymore. Anytime the human player could build 1 house, the AI has resources for 2 houses. Every 1 archer and the AI has resources for 2 archers.
So if I practice non-stop against a cheater AI then played against a person the strategies would not work!
Sympathizers make no damn sense and simply refuse to accept that it upsets the balance.
1v1 its just 2x resources
4v4 its now 8x resources. The AI hive mind has a total of 8x more resources available for them.
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It’s much worse than that, because you have resource overheads for villager production, house building, techs, ageing up etc, the total cost of all these is the same for both players. What this means is the amount the AI has left over to make military units is much greater than 2x.
All I ask is that the original hardest AI be restored for us that like that AI.
Please rename the new cheater AI as something above it. Like expert AI.
You don’t even have to call it cheater AI. If people really like that “Expert AI”, then they will queue up for it in quick match on co op. Problem solved. That data will tell the devs exactly how “popular” this new AI is.
Devs need to understand that AI exists primarily for those of us that play co op and skirmish. Not for PvP players.
If the intention behind this change is to convert co op players and skirmish players into PvP players, then iam sorry, that is not happening. I don’t think the devs realise this, but we are a different breed to PvP players. You will lose us non-PvP players. We are not going to start playing vs humans just because you screwed up the hardest AI. We do not enjoy that try hard play style. We like chill relaxing gameplay against honest AI. We want long games with walls and siege, as the game was advertised to us. Personally I would rather quit AOE and move onto other games like Anno 1800 instead of playing a weak hard AI or unenjoyable cheater AI. I love AoE, but not so much that I would play an AI that I don’t enjoy playing.
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