Patch 11, Siege AI even more broken

[Sky Sweeper]

Before this patch, the AI was at least compitant enough to know to bring the ladders to the wall (if it didn't drop them for whatever reason). However, as of this patch, the AI can not take a settlement in the battlemap to save it's life. I got attacked by a huge veteran slave army, and I only had a small garrison army. I won. You know why? Because the AI didn't know how to move it's units to attack me. All it did was move it's units into the city towards the point, and stand there. After I killed the units that were capturing the point, I thought at least the AI would send in more troops then. Nope. Just sat there letting me throw rocks at them, and I put it at x4 and just waited for the clock to time down.

Now normally I wouldn't care too much about this, but It's happening in every siege battle. If it's a town, the AI moves it's troops to certain locations, and just stands there. If it's a fortified town, it will try to go burn down the gates if it doesn't have ladders. and if it does have ladders, it no longer sends them to the wall. Instead, what it does and sits there running it's ladder units around in circles. Here are some screens just so you can see. They are basically playing musical ladders.

http://cloud-3.steampowered.com/ugc/486694218644207986/32F9BFE63E027FE1F08C6A27E17423176C4938AE/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/486694218644178387/FB651B349D06550BEC2083FEF298C28D00B3537B/

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/486694218644219387/E3FE0CA651FB4997E261C83F34AD72C9DEC0FF4E/

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/486694218644182731/BA4EE25954802AA184ACAD5D55F186D2FECD5ABE/

[Sky Sweeper]

... did they really disable images now. Great.

[Alinsar]

Same problems since last patch =(

[Powellinho.72]

in my game earlier , a large army attacked me , they used the ladders correctly but only the units pushing them actually used them , the rest of the army ended up ignoring them docked at the walls and just stood near the walls torching the gates instead , by the time the gates were down my slingers already took nearly most of them out lol

[Sky Sweeper]

Escrito originalmente por celtic warrior:

in my game earlier , a large army attacked me , they used the ladders correctly but only the units pushing them actually used them , the rest of the army ended up ignoring them docked at the walls and just stood near the walls torching the gates instead , by the time the gates were down my slingers already took nearly most of them out lol

yup seems about right.

[Varmint]

by jove but aren't those gorgeous pics!

[Sky Sweeper]

Escrito originalmente por appanugu:

by jove but aren't those gorgeous pics!

It is pretty, isn't it? If only the framerate didn't tank whenever there's more than 40 units on the map. XD

[Mardak]

My army rather dies through arrows instead of climbing the walls. It is seriously broken!
They even TURN AROUND on the walls and climb BACK DOWN instead of attacking!!! WTF?!?!!?

[[AiR] FinalRecon]

i have to wait 40min caue of the AI to win my game
i am waiting on the walls and the ladders of the ai are just turning around
this sucks.... hope Assamply fix this fast

[Sky Sweeper]

Escrito originalmente por EFcFinal Recon®:

i have to wait 40min caue of the AI to win my game
i am waiting on the walls and the ladders of the ai are just turning around
this sucks.... hope Assamply fix this fast

welcome to my limbo.

[Knox]

From looking at the official forums many others appear to be experiencing these problems also. Honestly from what I am reading it is not entirely worse than what we had though. I mean can one actually go below rock bottom? ;)

[Mithrandir]

Escrito originalmente por Knox:

From looking at the official forums many others appear to be experiencing these problems also. Honestly from what I am reading it is not entirely worse than what we had though. I mean can one actually go below rock bottom? ;)

Hm and here I was hoping that the patch notes about allowing the AI artillery to come into range and attack walls was a good sign, as much as the note about reducing the number of flags needed to win.

I still have to test an AI siege since the update, but I really hope not to see any AI circling ladders...

[Sky Sweeper]

Escrito originalmente por Mithrandir:

Escrito originalmente por Knox:

From looking at the official forums many others appear to be experiencing these problems also. Honestly from what I am reading it is not entirely worse than what we had though. I mean can one actually go below rock bottom? ;)

Hm and here I was hoping that the patch notes about allowing the AI artillery to come into range and attack walls was a good sign, as much as the note about reducing the number of flags needed to win.

I still have to test an AI siege since the update, but I really hope not to see any AI circling ladders...

I half-way want to wish you luck, and also not. Because if you do have issues, it means the issue is more prominant and they will be more pressured to fix it lol.

[Mile pro Libertate]

I think if you truly want to make sieges fair to the AI, you need to use autoresolve.

That way, no matter how stupid it is, if they have a good amount of troops and balanced units, they will take the town.

[Sky Sweeper]

Escrito originalmente por Mile pro Libertate:

I think if you truly want to make sieges fair to the AI, you need to use autoresolve.

That way, no matter how stupid it is, if they have a good amount of troops and balanced units, they will take the town.

hahaha and there goes half the game...

[Xarsus]

Damn you Hannibal still trying to bring the gate down with a torch ...