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Coq_Pwner Apr 23, 2017 @ 6:26am
Allies AI...
Alright is it me or does the AI suddenly beomes completely braindead whenever it's allied to you?

Been trying to play team games in skirmishes for the past few days and EVERY SINGLE GAME ALL of my teammates do a lot worse than every single enemy.

Even if I hold my own and even send reinforcments to help out, somehow they always lose even battles, always without fail.

Eventually I need to send so many troops their way I lose the fight on my end and we get creamed.

Have I just been terribly unlucky for the past 5-6 games or is there some sort of bias or something against AIs teamed with you?
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Jambie Lionheart Apr 23, 2017 @ 8:03am 
I've always kinda wondered that too. The AI seem to get castrated when they are teamed with you from the start. Though I'vee noticed thatif you ally to them mid game, they're a little more capable (But not by much). I think it's because they AI is built to rely on you for direction, when allied. They do somewhat well, IF you can communicate efficiently with 'em.
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Iceman Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:48am 
I always had that feeling as well. I mean, they play so good against me and so terrible bad with me, that makes me wonder that is something in the code.
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Novi Apr 23, 2017 @ 11:49am 
It's not just you and from my understanding the devs are going to look at the issue in one of the upcoming patches.
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YuenHsiaoTieng Apr 23, 2017 @ 5:00pm 
It's true. It's all true. They're secretly disgusted by the idea of teaming up with a human. They want to see us lose.
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King Jon Apr 23, 2017 @ 9:20pm 
Originally posted by Novi:
It's not just you and from my understanding the devs are going to look at the issue in one of the upcoming patches.


Any link to this information?
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King Jon Apr 23, 2017 @ 9:21pm 
I certainly notice this. An AI player is really really bad as a pocket (especially if they are on my team). In my most recent game 2 humans and 2 AI vs. 4 AI, one of my ally AI just stopped doing anything militarily for a huge chunk of the game.
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Novi Apr 24, 2017 @ 1:43am 
Originally posted by King Jon:
Originally posted by Novi:
It's not just you and from my understanding the devs are going to look at the issue in one of the upcoming patches.


Any link to this information?
The sticky thread.
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neilkaz Apr 24, 2017 @ 11:28am 
Originally posted by YuenHsiaoTieng:
It's true. It's all true. They're secretly disgusted by the idea of teaming up with a human. They want to see us lose.

As we experienced in our marathon come back win the other night (us and 2 AI's vs 4 Hardest AI's) our green pocket AI ally wasn't doing much quite often and just had his army in his base scattered around his TC. Once in a while he'd wake up and use it. Whereas our yellow ally fought very well, but he was always under pressure to do so.

It would be nice if the HD devs would tell us which of these basic taunts the AI responds too.

http://ageofempires.wikia.com/wiki/Taunts and scroll down to AOE2
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Novi Apr 24, 2017 @ 11:30am 
Originally posted by neilkaz:
It would be nice if the HD devs would tell us which of these basic taunts the AI responds too.
Click on the "commands" tab in chat.

Though there are some more, hidden commands (for example 100 forces to AI to fight to the end and not surrender).
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neilkaz Apr 24, 2017 @ 12:02pm 
Thx and does anyone know any more hidden commands for the HD AI?
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Novi Apr 24, 2017 @ 12:07pm 
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498290618
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neilkaz Apr 24, 2017 @ 12:55pm 
Thx again. I hope I can put some of this to use.
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Ruinae Retroque Rursus Apr 25, 2017 @ 1:16am 
Originally posted by Novi:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=498290618

I've found they're not the most reliable....

... nothing quite like your human ally sharing the bench with you on separate computers so you can yell in his ear and point in his minimap :P
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King Jon Apr 29, 2017 @ 1:58pm 
Originally posted by Novi:
Originally posted by King Jon:


Any link to this information?
The sticky thread.


Which of the 25 stickied threads? And what quote?

Just because they say they are going to look into the AI in the future, this doesn't mean that has anything to do with the ally AI issues we are talking about.
Last edited by King Jon; Apr 29, 2017 @ 1:59pm
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sweater boy Aug 19, 2017 @ 6:44am 
To breath air into this discussion again, I have been noticing this as well. When I e.g. play 3v3 with 2 AI (hard) allies, they always fast castle even when I am playing pocket, and they get destroyed by the two enemy AI flushing them with archers and skirms while their pocket does fast castle like they should. It's annoying to say the least, I can actually only get good games with 1v1s or FFAs.

I also noticed that they can't play maps where they start on an island (e.g. Islands), because when they run out of resources on their main island they don't try to colonize the smaller islands which are rich with minerals and/or trees. Instead they all drop their (pick)axes and stop moving.
Last edited by sweater boy; Aug 19, 2017 @ 11:20am
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