Allied AI really is useless

[Bitshift1125]

Honestly, they don't do anything useful. I'm currently stuck on the mission to shut down the reactor, and swarms of Tyranids come in. The AI won't even engage the warriors that show up, the refuse to shoot the ranged units (especially Zoanthropes), and they don't deal with the swarms. All they do is go off in a corner and fight 3-4 little guys.

SO somehow I'm supposed to purge the entire swarm while being focused out by three different ranged units and a group of warriors the entire time. If I take literally 5 seconds to try and fight the warriors, the reactor goes down 20%. If I try and fight the swarms, the ranged units kill me from range because I'm out of cover. If I try and shoot the ranged units, I'm constantly interrupted to the point of not even doing damage.

Meanwhile the AI have killed like 6 gaunts each and aren't even nearby.

I get that higher difficulties are supposed to be hard, so maybe they nerfed the AI for that reason, but come on! A pair of 2nd Company Space Marines should be able to at least do one of the three things involved in the mission so that I can handle the rest.

[Cryptic Draugr]

Originally posted by Bitshift1125:

Honestly, they don't do anything useful. I'm currently stuck on the mission to shut down the reactor, and swarms of Tyranids come in. The AI won't even engage the warriors that show up, the refuse to shoot the ranged units (especially Zoanthropes), and they don't deal with the swarms. All they do is go off in a corner and fight 3-4 little guys.

SO somehow I'm supposed to purge the entire swarm while being focused out by three different ranged units and a group of warriors the entire time. If I take literally 5 seconds to try and fight the warriors, the reactor goes down 20%. If I try and fight the swarms, the ranged units kill me from range because I'm out of cover. If I try and shoot the ranged units, I'm constantly interrupted to the point of not even doing damage.

Meanwhile the AI have killed like 6 gaunts each and aren't even nearby.

I get that higher difficulties are supposed to be hard, so maybe they nerfed the AI for that reason, but come on! A pair of 2nd Company Space Marines should be able to at least do one of the three things involved in the mission so that I can handle the rest.

im stuck in the same area and honestly it's pissing me off. the amount of damage you take is insane, the lack of meds is infuriating, how garbage and useless armor is is just asinine. playing on veteran really does just show the amount of issues this game really has.

Devs really should not have made the campaign so focused on co-op. I understand that it was part of the draw but at the same time don't make an entire mode focused on co-op on harder difficulties when you already have a mode that is based on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ co-op

[Bitshift1125]

Originally posted by Cryptic Draugr:

Originally posted by Bitshift1125:

Honestly, they don't do anything useful. I'm currently stuck on the mission to shut down the reactor, and swarms of Tyranids come in. The AI won't even engage the warriors that show up, the refuse to shoot the ranged units (especially Zoanthropes), and they don't deal with the swarms. All they do is go off in a corner and fight 3-4 little guys.

SO somehow I'm supposed to purge the entire swarm while being focused out by three different ranged units and a group of warriors the entire time. If I take literally 5 seconds to try and fight the warriors, the reactor goes down 20%. If I try and fight the swarms, the ranged units kill me from range because I'm out of cover. If I try and shoot the ranged units, I'm constantly interrupted to the point of not even doing damage.

Meanwhile the AI have killed like 6 gaunts each and aren't even nearby.

I get that higher difficulties are supposed to be hard, so maybe they nerfed the AI for that reason, but come on! A pair of 2nd Company Space Marines should be able to at least do one of the three things involved in the mission so that I can handle the rest.

im stuck in the same area and honestly it's pissing me off. the amount of damage you take is insane, the lack of meds is infuriating, how garbage and useless armor is is just asinine. playing on veteran really does just show the amount of issues this game really has.

Devs really should not have made the campaign so focused on co-op. I understand that it was part of the draw but at the same time don't make an entire mode focused on co-op on harder difficulties when you already have a mode that is based on ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ co-op

Correct me if I'm wrong, but if you have a co-op game and don't have enough players, and it replaces those players with AI instead of adjusting game difficulty, shouldn't the AI be roughly on par with players? Giving us AI players that are this dumb is worse than just making the game easier.

[AngelHeart19]

Originally posted by Bitshift1125:

Originally posted by AngelHeart19:

yep welcome to the bull of this game

Yeah, man. This is like Helldivers 2 all over again for me. It's an awesome game that I want to like, but there's so much wrong with it sometimes.

man I remember back in the day when the breaker shotgun was the cream of the crop that everyone would use with the rail gun and the smg sidearm best load out ever but damn do things change and sadly not always for the best to

[Bitshift1125]

Originally posted by AngelHeart19:

Originally posted by Bitshift1125:

Yeah, man. This is like Helldivers 2 all over again for me. It's an awesome game that I want to like, but there's so much wrong with it sometimes.

man I remember back in the day when the breaker shotgun was the cream of the crop that everyone would use with the rail gun and the smg sidearm best load out ever but damn do things change and sadly not always for the best to

I really hope the Space Marine devs aren't so nerf-heavy

[AngelHeart19]

Originally posted by Bitshift1125:

Originally posted by AngelHeart19:

man I remember back in the day when the breaker shotgun was the cream of the crop that everyone would use with the rail gun and the smg sidearm best load out ever but damn do things change and sadly not always for the best to

I really hope the Space Marine devs aren't so nerf-heavy

cant be worse than the aliens on Level Zero Extraction cause damn when I was playing the play tests the aliens were a blast even if you were having a hard time now... now I feel like a puppy being treated like old yeller when playing as the aliens

[Rasluka]

It's funny because once you've been downed, they suddenly burst into action and start wiping out everything.

I only managed to clear the antenna mission because i got downed and they instantly wiped out all the gargoyles, instead of just staring at them like they had been the entire mission.

[AngelHeart19]

Originally posted by Rasluka:

It's funny because once you've been downed, they suddenly burst into action and start wiping out everything.

I only managed to clear the antenna mission because i got downed and they instantly wiped out all the gargoyles, instead of just staring at them like they had been the entire mission.

omg true I'll see them maybe MAYBE kill a single warrior together while Im over here neck deep in the little ones and 5 other warriors slapping me around like Im their new chew toy

[LöptTheCold]

Fully agree, it makes soloing the harder difficulties next to impossible. The devs need to make the AI better plain and simple. I'm on the rector mission and HAD to reduce the difficulty due to the fact that they don't shoot the Zoanthropes. SMH it makes me want to turn to Korn and just rip their useless heads off and use them as cups, at least then they would do something. Devs need to pull their heads out of their ass and fix it, there's just no excuse.

[AngelHeart19]

Originally posted by Lopt:

Fully agree, it makes soloing the harder difficulties next to impossible. The devs need to make the AI better plain and simple. I'm on the rector mission and HAD to reduce the difficulty due to the fact that they don't shoot the Zoanthropes. SMH it makes me want to turn to Korn and just rip their useless heads off and use them as cups, at least then they would do something. Devs need to pull their heads out of their ass and fix it, there's just no excuse.

agreed if only the God Emperor would wake up and slap these dumbasses so they do their damn jobs

[Katana Kat]

Intentionally gibbing your AI to "not make it easy" is not a great move for having your game be fun to play. The game can be fun, but often times it's more frustrating. Make the AI competent- maybe even level them to the recommended levels of the match? Like why is a default level 1 AI squadmate with no perks or weapon upgrades the same no matter the difficulty?

[Kyle]

Just get good at clicking heads.