Why is the campaign AI still SO PASSIVE

[kmansp]

Another patch, and most of the changes are great... but I am growing continuously frustrated that we are now up to patch 4.1, and the AI even on VH is so EASY. You can just railroad through the campaign and auto resolve everything.

I'm going to go back to my usual Mods as they update soon to make the AI more aggressive and fix auto resolve, but holy lord... I don't understand how we are this far in to the games lifespan and nothing has been done to make VH actually very hard!!

CA!! For the love of god!!! Please do something about the campaign AI!!!

[Nosferatu]

you seem to play a different game. go play kislev katrin and tell me that ♥♥♥♥ is passive.

[fdisk7716]

It's a lazy attempt at appealing to the lowest common denominator. They think people are leaving the game because it's too hard, not because of the bad user experience with bugs and crashes.

[Zé Bonitinho]

Exactly. What's the point of the main changes if AI is still broken? Stuff like homming 2.0 and respec just made the game even easier.

[Squirrely Wrath]

play something in the vicinity of grimgor, or start a kairos, skrag morathi or scrolk campaign; also double check if your settings are on games journalist difficulty

[kmansp]

Originally posted by Nosferatu:

you seem to play a different game. go play kislev katrin and tell me that ♥♥♥♥ is passive.

I literally just started a kislev campaign- that's what I'm basing my argument on. Within 50 turns, Prague and the other small Kislev faction were able to accept confederation. The Skaven just north of prague was easily taken out. I was able to hang out up there with ease because the wood elf faction at gryphon wood didn't go hostile on me but insisted on going to take out the orcs just east of Fort Jakova, which had no standing army and also didn't declare war on me. It was just a steam roll of both of those factions. The Chaos dwarves swept up the coast and had Novchozy and Yetchitch, but as soon as I took them back, they sued for peace! I couldn't believe it! I'm now comfortably holding on to all the kislev territory at turn 53 without so much as lifting a finger.

The Vampire Counts have barely expeanded outside their comfort zone and it looks like I will easily be able to take them.

VH feels like Very Easy. Nobody is declaring war on me and when I declare war on a faction, they quickly sue for peace. This is bad.

Edit: Vlad had a full stack at Castle Templehof. Instead of staying, it fled. I just put Templehof under siege, and the garrisoned army just attacked me without support and was easily outmatched. WTF???