COD AI: An infuriating 4 year trend.

[Woodsboro Street Freaker]

So I recently began playing MW3 and (despite the insane briefness of the campaign) I had a fairly good time on veteran besides one major thing. The AI has sadly not changed since MW19's Spec Ops AI. I didn't really notice this my first time in MW19 to the fullest extent but it became really apparent in MW2 on veteran.

The AI doesn't seem to "adapt" to what you're doing or function properly like it did in previous games. The new AI suffers from "Rainbow Six Terrorist Hunt AI Syndrome" e.g. They already know WHERE you are and where you're going to be so "stealth" doesn't really exist as much as "hide behind rubble and hope the AI doesn't track me behind a wall". They're somehow both really pathetic at anything lower than Veteran (read: Brain-dead), then suddenly can track you from a mile off. MW19's AI mostly worked because being that hyper-aware works when you're in tiny little areas, but the flaws became really noticeable when >male/2/al-qatala/model-2.obx< detects you from a kilometre away and puts your ass in the dirt with a stock M4. That's not even mentioning how takedowns barely work now.

I get Activision is a very small indie team with a lot on their plate, but it's baffling that in 2023 game devs look at AI that can kill you with a shotgun from across the map after spotting you through a glitched wall and say "Yeah, ship it." I wouldn't even mind the subpar stealth mechanics if you were able to snipe enemies from far away and use that with stealth to pick off certain enemies. But you fire ONE single .300 round and every ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on the "Open Warfare Zone" knows your exact location and can two-hit you. Not the worst veteran cod campaign tbh, but this ♥♥♥♥ is beyond annoying to deal with.

Hopefully they improve the ai, but god knows they're just gonna slap armor on it and call it a day.

TLDR: The AI in MW3 is unfairly aware of your presence and I think everyone can agree that someone seeing you through a wall cross the map is bad game design. Hopefully they fix it.