Are AI really that bad?

[bigd]

I was just watching some new videos and it seems like AI are way dumber than ARMA 3 AI. They just run pass you as you're shooting at them or they will walk your direction and not even know you're standing in front of them as you're shooting at them 10 feet away. What's up with the AI?

[stburr91]

The AI are very basic, and there isn't much listed in the roadmap about development of the AI.

[Roy]

The AI is definitely very dumb as of now yes.

[Earth Spirit]

Short answer: yes
A longer answer: from my last play, if player and enemy AI has a distance between about 75m-150m, AI is like Eagle eye snipers. The problem: with iron sight only, it's not easy to aim and kill. Ofc it depends on player's monitor. Meanwhile, AI can kill player in a few shots. In close range, like CQB, AI is a joke.
I remember i saw some videos about reforger's AI before it launched the first "EA", there were some hypes about AI could enter the building and other stuff. I don't think i saw any of the features actually worked.

[Roy]

Originally posted by Earth Spirit:

Short answer: yes
A longer answer: from my last play, if player and enemy AI has a distance between about 75m-150m, AI is like Eagle eye snipers. The problem: with iron sight only, it's not easy to aim and kill. Ofc it depends on player's monitor. Meanwhile, AI can kill player in a few shots. In close range, like CQB, AI is a joke.
I remember i saw some videos about reforger's AI before it launched the first "EA", there were some hypes about AI could enter the building and other stuff. I don't think i saw any of the features actually worked.

Do you have a 1920x1080 monitor? I used to have that problem in a lot of games, half a year ago i got a 2560x1440 monitor and the difference in any tactical shooter was just day and night.
In Hell Let Loose for example, in the dark forest map i'd just be shooting at pixels that moved, when i got the 2560x440 i would actually shoot a lot of enemies who didn't seem to notice me before i saw them clearly.
I'm asking because i don't have this issue in reforger, AI seems to be pretty easy to snipe.
They do get a lot harder on modded servers though.

[Earth Spirit]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by Earth Spirit:

Short answer: yes
A longer answer: from my last play, if player and enemy AI has a distance between about 75m-150m, AI is like Eagle eye snipers. The problem: with iron sight only, it's not easy to aim and kill. Ofc it depends on player's monitor. Meanwhile, AI can kill player in a few shots. In close range, like CQB, AI is a joke.
I remember i saw some videos about reforger's AI before it launched the first "EA", there were some hypes about AI could enter the building and other stuff. I don't think i saw any of the features actually worked.

Do you have a 1920x1080 monitor? I used to have that problem in a lot of games, half a year ago i got a 2560x1440 monitor and the difference in any tactical shooter was just day and night.
In Hell Let Loose for example, in the dark forest map i'd just be shooting at pixels that moved, when i got the 2560x440 i would actually shoot a lot of enemies who didn't seem to notice me before i saw them clearly.
I'm asking because i don't have this issue in reforger, AI seems to be pretty easy to snipe.
They do get a lot harder on modded servers though.

Yeah I played on a full HD monitor, 24 inc. I have a new ultra-wide monitor but i haven't touched reforger since then. I mean it looks like sometime AI made very accurate shots in a short burst. In Arma 3, i believe AI accuracy is decreased when AI is being suppressed. I don't think that feature is available in Reforger.

[John Johnson]

I built a battery of 6 .50 cal machine gun nests facing south out of the base in Montignac as an attempt to make sort of an AA battery. Montignac has some good elevation looking south. I made enough AI to man each gun. The AI mounted each gun and as a helicopter flew up from the south, they dismounted the guns and started shooting with their rifles. After that they completely left the base and cleared out Montignac of the rest of the enemy AI soldiers. Then they gathered just behind the church. This was on an official server. I had to demolish the barracks tents to get them to actually come back to the base.

[Roy]

Originally posted by 76561199080535830:

I built a battery of 6 .50 cal machine gun nests facing south out of the base in Montignac as an attempt to make sort of an AA battery. Montignac has some good elevation looking south. I made enough AI to man each gun. The AI mounted each gun and as a helicopter flew up from the south, they dismounted the guns and started shooting with their rifles. After that they completely left the base and cleared out Montignac of the rest of the enemy AI soldiers. Then they gathered just behind the church. This was on an official server. I had to demolish the barracks tents to get them to actually come back to the base.

Lmao your dissapointment must have been huge when you saw a helicopter line up and they all decided to go on a trip.

[John Johnson]

Originally posted by Roy:

Originally posted by 76561199080535830:

I built a battery of 6 .50 cal machine gun nests facing south out of the base in Montignac as an attempt to make sort of an AA battery. Montignac has some good elevation looking south. I made enough AI to man each gun. The AI mounted each gun and as a helicopter flew up from the south, they dismounted the guns and started shooting with their rifles. After that they completely left the base and cleared out Montignac of the rest of the enemy AI soldiers. Then they gathered just behind the church. This was on an official server. I had to demolish the barracks tents to get them to actually come back to the base.

Lmao your dissapointment must have been huge when you saw a helicopter line up and they all decided to go on a trip.

yea i was. I spent hours building it up too. It was pretty funny seeing them go on their own S&D mission though. I followed them. the whole time like where are you people going?!?!? They don't stay in jeeps Humvees or the BTR either. The range and elevation doesn't matter for the chopper or where the gun is. Once an enemy is within range of agro'ing the AI they dismount and shoot with rifles. It is different if the enemy is on foot though sometimes. It sucked. I had a vision of all 6 guns opening up on an unsuspecting heli and it going down in flames riddled with.50 cal bullet holes.