The AI is terrible

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Soon a patch will hopefully fix the behavior of the AI

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Sadly, this patch did not fix the AI :frowning:

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Alot of topics have ai issues listed, many have been documented and sent in now. They might be starting to work on it. @anon63664082 might decide whether these all get merged



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please don’t ask stupid questions


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Because people like to play with the AI

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AI behavior will be fixed, but no one knows when

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Winter Update v8324 is out

But unfortunately the AI has not yet been fixed :frowning:
We will wait for the next patch 


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Unfortunately this patch has not corrected the behavior of the AI :frowning:
We will wait for the next larger patch.

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I play with 3 friends every night agains AI and it is clear the improvments so far
 Weve noticed that AI has bigger armies and also that they atack sooner than the other versions. We also noticed that AI builds walls earlier in the game too. In the first versions the Ai used to attack with like 5 or 6 units, now the AI uses an small army of arround 20 to atack, so, its beter than what it used to be =)

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We are continuing to try to improve things bit by bit. Don’t wait for one big “the AI is now smarter than everyone and will create Skynet now, sorry” type patch—you’re likely going to be disappointed.

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No one is not waiting for Skynet, make at least such as was in AOE 2 DE.

By the way here is something else

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Key word there is “eventually” :laughing:. The team is definitely hard at work!

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I’m glad the process is going on.

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@SavageEmpire566
Please see this topic

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The next patch is coming out soon, maybe it will fix the errors of the AI.

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Another thing the AI could be better at is walling themselves off. They often leave gaping holes in their walls or don’t really defend their walls. Certainly nothing like a defensive minded human would do, with towers and archers and high angle siege. Seems like no matter the difficulty once you start an assault on the base its game over. It would be nice if you ran into defenses hard enough to actually repel a human player.

side note: Everybody just chill out a bit, we got a new age of empires after almost 20 years, RTS games take time to balance and once something goes full scale new bugs are always going to show up. The dev’s are clearly trying to make a great game and they are trying to make the game we wanted them to make. So far they are succeeding, give them a chance to work out the kinks before you write off the game and call for their heads on a pike. This isn’t a Battlefield 2042 situation where they took something beloved and butchered it for money, clearly they are genuinely trying to make a good game, give them a chance to do it.

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Hi all :slight_smile:
I found a mod that improves the behavior of the AI (without cheating).

Installing the mod :
Go to the tab mods (in the game) and find the mod Zycat AI Lite and subscribe to it.

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Yep. Easy/Intermedete ai seems to send their units into my base on a suicide mission no matter the circumstances. I remember playinga s dehli once and forgot to wall off a tiny part of my base and the ai kept sending single archers through the gap only to be crushed by elephants lol. Easy ai also rushes spearmen all the time early on which I guess can be trouble for newer players but really all you have to do is garrision your villagers by the time 4 or 5 of them show up and you can wipe then out without much of a challenge.

The ai is annoying sometimes because they attack from different directions even though it’s a futile attempt but it still ends up distracting you early on. Overall can’t say I’ve had much of a challenge agaisn’t any level of AI though after having over 120 games played and around 860 ELO online.

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Soon a new patch comes out (25.10.2022) in it a lot of changes to the AI. I played in the PuP version and the AI plays better But at the moment there are unpleasant bugs :frowning:
But the AI still plays much better !
I really want the developers to give the opportunity to edit the AI files fully , at the moment such an opportunity is not there :frowning:
The main thing is still ahead :slight_smile: Let’s hope for the best!

By the way, here are some of my new topics:
Bug Topics

Topics on editing AI files

P.S. If you also like to play with the AI, then I advise you when you find bugs AI be sure to write on the forum to fix the problem.

Thank you all :slight_smile:
Looking forward to the new patch!

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A new Patch is coming out soon :slight_smile:
Changelog Update 24916 :

In the AI tab a lot of nice changes .