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Posted By: Leisandir <joecooperstein@hotmail.com>Date: 2/21/12 5:52 p.m.

In Response To: Re: . . . . (FyreWulff)


: 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.

The keyboard isn't a free pass to a good RTS, true, but it is still a superior control device for this genre.

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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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