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General Discussion / Re: What's AI good and bad at?
« on: October 02, 2019, 01:35:25 PM »
The AI is insanely good at micromanaging shields. When receiving fire from a single enemy ship it will sometimes cherry pick HE projectiles in middle of the salvo while letting kinetic projectiles hit the armour. A ship with omni-shield can POP several missiles in a fraction of second by turning the shield on just for an instant to receive the impact.
Of course there are also moment where the AI will systematically fail to use its shields effectively and when facing fire from multiple opponents its much more likely to make mistakes (although missiles still rarely get through shields if the AI has flux left). I think it would be nice if the AI was a bit more unpredictable and prone to "human error" when it comes to stuff like this.
The biggest weakness of the AI in my opinion is the inability to recognize good opportunities for damaging and finishing opponents. The AI will often reverse away from an enemy that is venting flux or near flux cap even when they have good flux situation or missiles and finishing the opponent would have been a trivial matter.
Overall I think the AI is very good and fairly natural as it is. Predictability aka lack of random errors and some systematic errors are its biggest weakness.
Of course there are also moment where the AI will systematically fail to use its shields effectively and when facing fire from multiple opponents its much more likely to make mistakes (although missiles still rarely get through shields if the AI has flux left). I think it would be nice if the AI was a bit more unpredictable and prone to "human error" when it comes to stuff like this.
The biggest weakness of the AI in my opinion is the inability to recognize good opportunities for damaging and finishing opponents. The AI will often reverse away from an enemy that is venting flux or near flux cap even when they have good flux situation or missiles and finishing the opponent would have been a trivial matter.
Overall I think the AI is very good and fairly natural as it is. Predictability aka lack of random errors and some systematic errors are its biggest weakness.