Difference between AI Difficulties?

[batumoto]

When I play a skirmish Hard AI Pact vs Medium AI NATO both with B rated decks NATO always wins. The medium AI NATO Player will dominate the whole battlefield, capture every zone and put units in the defense at the Pact spawns. I tested it in some games on different maps where both AIs fought against each other 1 vs 1, with me just watching. This didn't seem to happen some weeks ago. No idea if updates changed this, but is this a case of higher difficulty = Not Playing Fair With Resources or are both factions unbalanced now?

[Graybullet]

Hard AI = AI does not have any bonus.
Medium AI = AI has negative bonus.
AI levels higher than Hard have positive bonus.

[Shriker]

If you watched it as a 1v1, how did you do that?

Because if you always teamed up with the Hard AI - but didn't actually place any of your units on the map, simply spectating instead - then the Medium AI would get a buff in unit numbers (and starting points, iirc... possibly income too ), so it would out number and out perform the Hard AI in points.

Hard AI, afaik, is supposed to have been made more aggressive (similar to Very Hard and Hardest) but not sure if that's been implemented yet.

[Randall Flagg]

Here are the differences between AI difficulties :
- Memory (More memory time when difficulty increase)
- Taking more risks
- Easy and VeryEasy have negative bonuses, medium and hard no bonuses, very hard and hardest income and unit availability bonuses
- Medium is balanced between defense and offense, hard and upper are mostly offensive

Like Shriker said, there is an automatic balance of gameplay, if you play 2v1 the solo team gets a +100% bonus for a fair game. So yeah if you always play with Pacts, and don't buy any units, NATO will always be the winner.

[Vyllis]

Maybe it was fixed but medium AI is the best AI because it is balanced, hard AI is too aggressive, almost suicidal and have no defence. Very hard is clearly cheating AI in numbers.

Medium was the most immersive and fun.

[batumoto]

Thanks, I didn't know about the buff/automatic balance. Yes, I just joined the Pact-side and didn't spawn anything.