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Re: . . . .
Posted By: FyreWulff <mkidder@gmail.com>Date: 2/21/12 4:57 p.m.

In Response To: . . . . (Leisandir)


: Your defence for this game is that it handicaps your adversaries so that you
: can still beat it with limited control?

No, my defense is the game is awesome because it's the ONLY RTS that makes the AI have to play like a human. In all other RTSes, AIs can issue build/move/attack commands -anywhere- on the map within a frame of each other, which is impossible for you to do. So versus AI games feel more like you're fighting the engine's sheer ability to bury you in commands rather than an actual strategy.

Wars AI simply just plays like a human. If you let it see vehicles on one side, it will go back to it's base and build a counter to that. So you can do stuff you can fool a human with like send a scout unit of one type and then rush with another. If you move a different army to the other side to flank, it does not magically know those units are coming and therefore cannot immediately build a counter to them or see them coming, because it also obeys the Fog of War settings (which many other RTSes also have the AI ignore). In a PC game the equivalent would be that it can only scroll as fast as you can around the map. It should be noted that the more you beat an AI in multiplayer on "AUTOMATIC", the smarter and faster it will get with it's decisions and it becomes ballbustingly hard.

I'm just tired of the idea that a game automatically becomes more deep or changed when you attach a keyboard to it. If I can find Robot and Robot's offshoots writeups on the Wars AI, I'll share them here.

Repeal the TU


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Replies:

Why can't Halo Wars be on the PC too?Seraph XXVII 2/19/12 2:58 p.m.
     Re: Why can't Halo Wars be on the PC too?Quirel 2/19/12 3:23 p.m.
           Re: Why can't Halo Wars be on the PC too?FyreWulff 2/19/12 6:34 p.m.
                 Re: Why can't Halo Wars be on the PC too?Quirel 2/20/12 12:17 a.m.
                       Re: Why can't Halo Wars be on the PC too?FyreWulff 2/20/12 7:59 a.m.
                             Re: Why can't Halo Wars be on the PC too?FyreWulff 2/20/12 8:02 a.m.
                                   . . . .Leisandir 2/21/12 7:12 a.m.
                                         Re: . . . .Bry 2/21/12 8:46 a.m.
                                               Re: . . . .Leisandir 2/21/12 9:14 a.m.
                                                     Re: . . . .Bry 2/21/12 10:51 a.m.
                                         Re: . . . .FyreWulff 2/21/12 4:57 p.m.
                                               Re: . . . .Leisandir 2/21/12 5:52 p.m.
     And Halo 3... And ODST.... And Reach! *NM*Leviathan 2/19/12 4:13 p.m.
           Re: And Halo 3... And ODST.... And Reach!Seraph XXVII 2/19/12 8:15 p.m.
                 I support this *NM*Nikko B201 2/20/12 4:41 a.m.
           Only if they have mod support. *NM*Quirel 2/19/12 11:35 p.m.
     Better questionrolandk73 2/20/12 1:46 p.m.
           Re: Better questionRevenant1988 2/21/12 9:45 a.m.



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