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hornet6
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While playing through the Delta Rising content, I have noticed several things and was wondering, 'Is it just me?' It seems the AI has started to wise up a bit.
In space, many enemy ships often hit your ship with tractor beams then drop a load of rather nasty mines on you. If you don't have a movement buff on or available and don't break away from the tractor beam, those mines go off causing some nastier than usual damage. The enemy ships also seem to be prone to attempt running out of range when significantly damaged, many will regenerate some damage and be somewhat, albeit most often, and so far managably, repaired by the time you re-aquire them as targets.
On the ground, certain enemy soldiers almost immediately start trying to maneuver and outflank you.
This has happened too often to me (I always do storyline content solo) for me to believe it's random. Has anyone else experienced this? I haven't seen enemy NPC improvement like this since the Borg started running and tracking. It's quite enjoyable and welcome.
In space, many enemy ships often hit your ship with tractor beams then drop a load of rather nasty mines on you. If you don't have a movement buff on or available and don't break away from the tractor beam, those mines go off causing some nastier than usual damage. The enemy ships also seem to be prone to attempt running out of range when significantly damaged, many will regenerate some damage and be somewhat, albeit most often, and so far managably, repaired by the time you re-aquire them as targets.
On the ground, certain enemy soldiers almost immediately start trying to maneuver and outflank you.
This has happened too often to me (I always do storyline content solo) for me to believe it's random. Has anyone else experienced this? I haven't seen enemy NPC improvement like this since the Borg started running and tracking. It's quite enjoyable and welcome.
ANOTHER NERF !?!
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The Vaadwaur Cruiser operates using the same A.I. as the smaller Vaadwaur frigates, it will either try to perform attack runs or it will park and just shell an area as long as you allow it to. When I get too close to it the A.I. forces it to run away and try to perform an attack run.
Here's where the problem is, if I maintain my distance close enough to the cruiser, the A.I. will permanently try to run away, rather than turning around to attack. You can achieve this by keeping pace with the cruiser or slowing it. I've consistently been able to 100 to 0 Vaadwaur Cruisers by firing entirely into its rear arc using this tactic.
It feels like I'm exploiting the A.I. when fighting the Vaadwaur Cruisers.
The frigates don't really suffer from this issue since they're so fast, and the battleships seem to favour broadsiding rather than performing attack runs.
Um....because you are? You described exactly how you're exploiting the AI.
But I think the extra hit points are also part of the equation here - they actually last long enough for their fancy trickwork to be visible.
If I fight a Borg Cube in my Escort, it often goes down in 10 seconds or less. Even if it has a brilliant, interesting AI, it just can't survive long enough to show me.
In a way, it's a good thing for the Cube. If you actually have to fight it for long, the shield neutralizer would probably wreck any fun out of it. But... It's just wrong. These are the frigging Borg! If they don't feel dangerous and tough, then you're doing it wrong.
You say exploit.
Others say tactics.
*shrug*
All of them have this behavior. They all have a counter to try and prevent you from doing so (assault ship speed, cruiser mines, artillery ship placate), but if you counter their counters you can just hang out in the rear arc and chew them to pieces. Fast ships with CRF (bops especially of all things, due to flanking) simply demolish the Vaadwaur.
Personally I'm amused by this, because when was the last time when spikey bops were king?
Alternatively, they could revert one of the 2 Vaadwaur cruisers types to the old A.I.. This way, the 2 different cruisers will look like they're working together, with one staying close to attract your attention while the other shells you from the side.
Case in point, a lot of glass-cannons are complaining about being 1-shotted by the Crystaline Entity on CC Advanced now, and assumed that the Entity's attacks were buffed. Except it wasn't.
What was actually happening was the Crystalline Entity was getting enough time to build its damage buff charges. It always had this ability, but people were bursting down the Entity before they ever saw the damage buff come into effect.
I'd say keep the increased HP/res. It ensures the mobs stay alive long enough to pull off their moves. Story missions on Elite are actually fun now.
You cheater!
doing deferi "emancipation" breen would often duck behind objects and avoid being shot at more often
Time will only tell!
Which is totally fine. Programming mobs that have emergent A.I. is insanely difficult for any game. In an MMO its essentially impossible.
All they need to do is give the A.I. enough attack patterns and triggered responses to keep things fun. The new A.I. introduced in DR for the Vaadwaur was most definitely a step in the right direction.
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Its pretty obvious you have no idea how hard it is to code mob A.I.. Let's just leave it at that.
There is a difference between tackling a challenge and attempting the impossible. Doing emergent A.I. in an MMO falls in the latter, and expecting developers to even attempt such things only sets you up for disappointment.
End of discussion. Any more out of you will simply be considered to be an excuse to rage.