The Problem of Modern Game AI

[yoda221]

Adapting the difficulty level

Video games use artificial intelligence to adjust gameplay in real time. The goal is to maintain the player's interest by avoiding them being confronted with obstacles that are too easy or too difficult.

AI monitors the player's actions. It analyzes their frequency of victories or defeats, their skills and strategies. It then dynamically adjusts the difficulty of the game by modifying the intelligence of the enemies, the distribution of resources or the complexity of the puzzles. This is an essential feature that helps maintain balance and avoid frustration or boredom.

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My statistics mean that I can no longer play these crappy games that use cheat codes and algorithms to gain an advantage, if you win 10 times in a row against a superior AI, you will no longer win after that, except in certain cases where the AI ​​is unable to find a solution...

The AI ​​is therefore a big nameless piece of crap and behaves unfairly which destroys all modern strategy games, and today everyone in the video game world uses the same AI promising an evolution of the gameplay and a perpetual challenge...

The reality is that it creates a monotaunity, where only situations that will bug the AI ​​will allow you to win, in the example of AoE IV, Only cavalry and artillery are of interest, once your artillery placed and your knights in defense just behind them, the AI ​​will no longer be able to make choices, because it will automatically calculate its defeat, and will therefore go back and forth in front of you without ever trying anything, or make a rush from the start of the game, these are in reality the only solutions to win against the Extreme AI. Play with the flaws of the AI.

It's boring, unhealthy, and pitiful, unworthy of human beings and blasphemous, I like difficulty, but I don't like cheating, I regret the time when taking out your revolver to shoot the cheater was commonplace...

In short, bravo to these AI publishers who think they're smart when they don't know what they're doing... And create problems where the only solution is to cheat, or find bugs.....

The AI ​​with this behavior has in fact just killed the game because it forces you to play in a linear way, what's the point of using units that are no longer useful?

I'm talking about this in the hope that one day, idiots will learn that stupidity destroys the world... And that a linear life no longer has any meaning or interest, the world of video games has become so boring, I feel like I'm watching an American propaganda film, and it makes me want to vomit!!! (nothing in the brain, everything in the balls, in other words, nothing in the games, everything in the graphics)

It feels good to express your discontent, those who come to call me angry or useless are just little ♥♥♥♥♥ who don't understand anything about world political issues, so don't write if it's just to say that I'm useless, and learn to read what I raise, because the world of video games serves the real world, and allows the rich of this world to always better enslave you, if you don't understand that.... it's because your IQ is lower than that of a sea cucumber....

I am French and I seriously believe that Man should start trying to save a world in perdition... Which is sinking ever deeper towards an inevitable nothingness...

Alea Jacta Est

[Hellstorm]

wow, what are you talking about? The AI. is so easy, even on absurd, is that your point? Where is this going, ive got my popcorn ready

[yoda221]

Originally posted by Hellstorm:

wow, what are you talking about? The AI. is so easy, even on absurd, is that your point? Where is this going, ive got my popcorn ready

What don't you understand? Yes, I explain that the AI ​​is completely useless, but that it is also completely immoral, the cooperative game allows you to realize it... My statistics surpass my allies so in 4 against 4 AI I find myself from the first 5 minutes of games playing 1 against 4 AI because the latter even passes through the fog of war to come and rush me after 5 minutes, bypassing my allies who are on the front line...
But anyway...
I'm not particularly trying to complain, especially since I know these subtleties so I can anticipate them... but I'm just trying to explain the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ system of RTS today that have a so-called AI (Artificial Intelligence)... I'm just explaining to people what the future has in store for them... And this future is disconcerting... Because AI = Cheating, blasphemy, persecution and other...
I don't see Artificial Intelligence.... just a big masquerade that makes everything completely monotonous!!!

[jrolla411]

Originally posted by yoda221:

Because AI = Cheating, blasphemy, persecution and other...

This statement is interchangeable:

Because human = cheating, blasphemy, persecution and other...

Being a human wrote the ai, are you really that surprised?

[yoda221]

Originally posted by jrolla411:

Originally posted by yoda221:

Because AI = Cheating, blasphemy, persecution and other...

This statement is interchangeable:

Because human = cheating, blasphemy, persecution and other...

Being a human wrote the ai, are you really that surprised?

Exactly, and I don't fit into this category.
And I see that AI cheats, but also humans today..
I'm going to go back to playing pinball, at least it was healthy... ^^

This world is lost !

[Cacomistle]

Originally posted by yoda221:

Originally posted by jrolla411:

This statement is interchangeable:

Because human = cheating, blasphemy, persecution and other...

Being a human wrote the ai, are you really that surprised?

Exactly, and I don't fit into this category.
And I see that AI cheats, but also humans today..
I'm going to go back to playing pinball, at least it was healthy... ^^

This world is lost !

The ai cheats (only on the difficulties that say it cheats) because it can't provide sufficient difficulty without cheating.

I don't know why you're framing this as what the future has in store for people with ai. This is not the future... ai in rts games has functioned this way since rts games got released. All of them needs cheats to compete with the player, because they're stupid. And once they cheat hard enough, you either need to abuse something to beat them... or the ai is so dumb you can still beat it playing a standard game even when it has 200% cheats (in effect, the ai breaks itself without you even doing anything).

Aoe4 ai is a case of the latter. I'd say games like aoe2 and sc2 are a case of the former. Note how those are games that were released before aoe4, but their ai is better. Its not because aoe4 put more effort into the ai, its because they put in less.

Btw, the only reason there's cheating ai is because people asked for it. If you don't want it to cheat, then don't pick the option that says it cheats. Very easy solution.

There's no grand statement about the nature of the world to be had here. Ai is hard, they didn't put much effort into it, so its bad. You don't need an entire essay to explain that, that 1 sentence explains everything. You're not smart for realizing the ai sucks... everyone realized that. Nor are you a good person simply because whatever job you're mediocre at isn't game dev.

Oh and for reference when I say ai has worked this way forever, I mean stupid and script based. There is no dynamic difficulty or whatever else you're talking about in aoe4 ai. Its just plain stupid.

[Xaphnir]

Rather ironic to have AI generate a post whining about the game's AI