I forgot how bad your partner's a.i. is

[Karl Pilkington]

just a rant i suppose.

sheva won't shoot whats attacking her , or she will only use her handgun (which i have since promptly taken away from her) When it comes to those dogs early in the game, she flat out refused to attack them. Instead, getting chewed on and dying on my hands about 5 times in a row. I finally just gave her the shotgun and of course, she doesn't even use it.

she grabs herbs before i can, and instead of letting me combine with the red, she wastes it.

she can't (or won't) move away from danger. some dynamite thrown near her vicinity, and she just stands there and dies.

This last one made me laugh though.

Some ammo was on the ground, but it was in the water (that water that's only ankle high)
and when i tell her to pick it up, "You can't be serious". So i pick it up, and wipe off the slime for her, and just give it to her. Girl won't touch ammo if its slightly gross.

[OnePoint (BBC)]

Yeah she's pretty bad, but you can tell her to attack more by holding B and up on your controller (I don't know the keyboards bind).

[Karl Pilkington]

Truth, i forgot i can do that. I'll have to try that more.

I'm on veteran and i plan to play with my friends after my first playthrough but i can't do it right now because veteran is so frustrating at times, I have to quit after a half an hour just to cool off.

on the keyboard its the up and down arrow keys on the right side of the keyboard.

[BeefJerkyHunter]

I don't think the AI partner is that bad... and it would appear that you don't understand much about the game if you don't know how to make the bot use a weapon other than the pistol. Here's how: set the AI partner to "Attack". Bam.

The AI partner never picks up items when in combat, if you are failing to pick up items out of combat, that's completely on you. You can also always order the bot to give the item to you. If you set the bot on "Cover", you will have priority to pick up items. If you set the bot to "Attack", when out of combat, the bot will go find items.

As for dodging, that also is greatly dependent on you. If you have the bot set to "Cover" the bot will almost always stand near you assuming that you, yourself, are being safe. If you set the bot to attack, it will avoid most attacks and it will most certainly avoid grenades/dynamite. The bot will also never fail quick-time-events.

You can also order the bot to combo melee attacks with you. Unfortunately you usually have to initiate it yourself and then order the bot to follow-up.

The one thing that I can agree on with most people is that the bot burns through too much ammo. This is in relation to that the bot does not initiate a melee attack chain. However, once you get some upgrades for the weapons, the bot makes up for the inefficient use of ammo with deadly accuracy.

All-in-all, the AI partner is greatly dependent on your own ability.

[Karl Pilkington]

well the jerk part of your name is accurate

how is it my fault she wastes herbs and won't pick up wet ammo when there's no music, no enemies?

[BeefJerkyHunter]

Originally posted by Karl Pilkington:

well the jerk part of your name is accurate

how is it my fault she wastes herbs and won't pick up wet ammo when there's no music, no enemies?

While my writing isn't kind, I have no reason to apologize for it. It is clear that you haven't even tried to understand the bot logic in the game and then you go criticize it as if you know it all.

To answer the two incredibly minor gripes you have listed again, here's my response:
The bot doesn't "waste" herbs. If your health is in danger the bot will heal you if the option is available. That part about you getting low on health is mostly your fault. Also, if you don't want the bot to pick up the herbs before you, just simply set the bot to cover (as I've already explained) and you'll get priority to pick it up.
Why the hell do you care if the bot won't pick up the one ammo? Just pick up the ammo and give it to the bot. There are times when the bot displays odd behavior when it comes to retrieving items, but you can either just do it yourself or order them to do it again (just pick it up).

[D-Fens]

You're right, I was getting infuriated by my AI partner when playing recently. Actually I am playing as Sheva and Chris is the AI but I assume the AI is identical either way. Yep, refusing to shoot enemies, or using the assault rifle and shooting 1-2 rounds every few seconds which is useless.

The worst thing is when the AI gets in your way and stops you shooting at enemies - absolutely rage inducingly annoying when you have played a few mins since a checkpoint, then get to a difficult to kill enemy which can kill YOU if it gets hold of you, and you can't shake it off. So I throw an incendiary grenade at it... oh, no, Chris has walked in front of me, the grenade has bounced off him, and he is now taking fire damage... and of course he doesn't shoot at the enemy, he just looks at me and gets in my way...... Jesus

The AI is often literally worse than useless. Useless would be if he got out of the way and just let me get on with it. No, it's worse than useless because it gets killed or gets me killed.

[Karl Pilkington]

if the bot ai was so good, they would have kept it for resident evil 6 and revelations.

there's a reason it was scrapped and completely reworked.

[Karl Pilkington]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥:

You're right, I was getting infuriated by my AI partner when playing recently. Actually I am playing as Sheva and Chris is the AI but I assume the AI is identical either way. Yep, refusing to shoot enemies, or using the assault rifle and shooting 1-2 rounds every few seconds which is useless.

The worst thing is when the AI gets in your way and stops you shooting at enemies - absolutely rage inducingly annoying when you have played a few mins since a checkpoint, then get to a difficult to kill enemy which can kill YOU if it gets hold of you, and you can't shake it off. So I throw an incendiary grenade at it... oh, no, Chris has walked in front of me, the grenade has bounced off him, and he is now taking fire damage... and of course he doesn't shoot at the enemy, he just looks at me and gets in my way...... Jesus

The AI is often literally worse than useless. Useless would be if he got out of the way and just let me get on with it. No, it's worse than useless because it gets killed or gets me killed.

remember, its all our fault. capcom's development was almost perfect.

[D-Fens]

Trying to do the section with the flamethrower with the AI is terrible - I just end up buying a rocket launcher to retain my sanity

[Karl Pilkington]

Originally posted by ♥♥♥♥♥♥:

Trying to do the section with the flamethrower with the AI is terrible - I just end up buying a rocket launcher to retain my sanity

yep, your partner is worse than braindead.

hell, ashley from RE4 was less annoying.

[Raiden_chino]

The only difference between attack and cover in my game, is that when set to attack, Sheeva will only use the secondary weapon I gave her (usually a machine gun) until she completly run out of bullets. It doesn't matter if it's only one zombie, she will kill it using the heavier weapon she has. I'm pretty sure she has even wasted a rocket launcher. Also, she will run towards enemies and shoot them in close.

The AI is crap. I consider the second character a extra bag. Just don't give it curatives items or ammo you want to use later.

[Karl Pilkington]

yep the ammo waste wouldn't be so bad if she actually would kill something once in a while

i wouldn't even DARE to play this with attack reaction turned on. half my shots would get blocked.

[Chloe (Sean)]

http://steamcommunity.com/groups/re5co-oppartners/

[Karl Pilkington]

hahahaha nice group, i love it.

[iGeMiNix]

Yeah the AI partner isn't great, the best combo I have found is to give them a machine gun and sniper rifle as they will actually burst the machine gun and save ammo compared to a handgun where they just keep wasting it. As the player I would use the handgun with shotgun combo and pretty much beat the campaign in relatively easy fashion.