Monday, July 12, 2010

Battlefield Stories: AI Level - Very Hard

In my last post I wrote about how Starcraft 2 AI is stupid and predictable. I figured that HARD level have the same pattern and build order. Iz can be pretty painful if you don't push right away. However, if you push you win, if you don't AI will be persistent. So, done deal with HARD level.

Then I tried VERY HARD, the last known level that is not cheating. I was a bit surprised. If you a pro gamer, you can easily skip this article. I know nothing is VERY HARD for you, as your skills are even more then insane. But hey, we noobs can enjoy AI for a while...

I played three games. First game AI standard terran rush, few marines and marauders. He didn't succeed first push, but rather run away with two marauders left. Next push was significantly larger, and I lost. I noticed on replay that it goes tree rax build.

Weeell, nice, lets see what to do next.

Second game I tried AI's build, three rax, early upgrades, and it looks that it will do good. But this way his second attack was with siege tanks included. Wow! I wasn't prepared for that.

As I learned that, in a third game I go for this, preparing some high ground tanks in combination to keep AI away. But this time another surprise. Banshees! And I lost again.

Maybe I should give it a chance. I like VERY HARD level. It suits me and I can improve my weaknesses.

In placement matches I normally landed in bronze, and I was placed last :)) Complete noob! Ok, I improved now to place 14 which sounds a bit better. My estimate is that if i learn how to beat AI on VERY HARD, I could win almost everyone in bronze. We will see, time will show.

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