I reached level 20 yesterday, and since then, playing in Campaign against AI opponents, even on easy level, seems much much harder. The AI suddenly seems far more aggressive and accurate, the downed AI’s often have downed fire, which I never saw before…
Am I imagining it, or does the AI suddenly get a lot harder when you reach level 20?
[QUOTE=soyabean;336741]I reached level 20 yesterday, and since then, playing in Campaign against AI opponents, even on easy level, seems much much harder. The AI suddenly seems far more aggressive and accurate, the downed AI’s often have downed fire, which I never saw before…
Am I imagining it, or does the AI suddenly get a lot harder when you reach level 20?[/QUOTE]
I think they get access to the same rank abilities that you do so now that you’re rank 5 they’ve got all new abilities. They definitely increase in ability / skill according to your level.
You are not imagining it,
The AI is most definitely more challenging regardless of difficulty lvl. Probably making up for the rank 5 abilities.
The hard AI is an awesome experience isn’t it? I really mean it. At first I was pissed about how hard they were. I played a lot of rounds just me against the AI at level 20, and wanted to quit the game after the first couple of games. After a while you will get use to having to change up your game style to beat the AI. When you start playing games made up of real people you will appreciate how easy humans are after all your level 20 AI training. I still die a lot to humans, but I am a much better player due to the level 20 AI. Also the AI will force you to play with other people the way the game is intended.
Please SD, do not adjust the AI. It serves it purpose the way it is.
If this of any use, here are some videos with lv 20 chars on the be more objective challenge
http://www.splashdamage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28410
The issue with the AI is not its difficulty. The problem is that your teammates are designed to fail unless you do all of the work or not push with you until the last few minutes of the current objective. Add to that the fact that playing on Easy affects almost nothing in the difficulty, mostly due to the previous issue, so why have an Easy setting at all?
On Hard the AI works as advertised since your teammates’ AI does next to nothing and the enemy AI is full of auto-aim headshot bots. On Normal and Easy the (friendly?) AI is greatly lacking.
The bots rank up with you and gain access to all of the same ablilties you do, so yes once you reach lvl. 20 so do they and it does become signifigantly more difficult. but that’s a good thing, it’s a trade off for the let down of no more XP you now get to be a more aggressive tactical player.
Otherwise people would be whining why are there no easy - medium - hard settings?
Circle of life
The only people who play Hard at Rank 5 are just masochists… I certainly don’t enjoy getting insta-headshot-killed by bots sniping with Carb-9s.
Playing Versus rather than Solo or Co-Op balances the AI for both teams evenly, and you can still play privately.
i’ve been having the issue more of not their abilities being level 20, but they seem to be fully upgraded right off the spawn and manage to do a lot or 1-2 shot kills even with my armored Heavy. It almost seems at times that they are cheating. But i’m glad to notice that it wasn’t just me having issues with the AI.
