AI cheats hardcore in Ardennes Assault.

[Droz1937]

The objective of the match is to reduce tickets to 0 by vehicle kills only. I own all the fuel points (and even build fuel caches on the open points;) whereas the enemy does not own any fuel points or build fuel caches whatsoever. I am heavily beating them down and hardly suffering any losses, but yet (myself at 3 points) the AI rushes out a Jagdtiger or Tiger Ace. This is WAY WAY too early in the match and there is absolutely nothing I can do to counter these vehicles coming on the field without losing most of my company in the process.

This seems to be just like the AI that would spam the KV-1s on the co-op battle when the Germans had no effective response to the weapon. Thus, the match is broken; my goal was to try and get the gold medal for unlocks, but if the AI is going to do this there is nothing that I can do to keep enough points in the end.

It does not really surprise me that the devs have given the AI severe exploits. Heck they made the Rangers OP, so they had to do something for the AI right?

At this point, I am done with Ardennes Assault. It was a nice attempt, but for the price; it was Sega tripping over its own feet trying to move forward when, instead, it was taking steps backwards.

It is very upsetting to see where devs are taking games now. EA has garnered a reputation of not giving a flip. Ubisoft has recently had such a bad release of Unity that it is giving away free DLC or games; not that I hear Farcry 4 fared much better. Then there is SEGA, which from my perspective is known for taking great games and running them into the ground.

EDIT: I just checked and that means that when I was at 3 points the AI had magically gotten to 13 already. This tells me that the AI starts with all the ♥♥♥♥ unlocked already, and will save up just to send that unit out ASAP. I have a feeling that if I destroyed it, 2 min or less it would be back out again too.

THIS CAN BE REMOVED BY ANY MODERATOR!

[SpiralShiroe]

I had trouble with this mission also, though it was with regular tanks. I use my mechanized company and took heavy loses. After building up AT and M10s i gained superiority. They had the fuel all the time and it seemed hopeless. But I kept fighting and eventually won with 40% losses

[Droz1937]

Originally posted by SpiralKamina:

I had trouble with this mission also, though it was with regular tanks. I use my mechanized company and took heavy loses. After building up AT and M10s i gained superiority. They had the fuel all the time and it seemed hopeless. But I kept fighting and eventually won with 40% losses

Yeah, entirely unacceptable. I find it understandable if I am at fault due to bad choices, but when the AI obviously cheats to that degree the game is just plain broken.

[28 Beers Later]

dont bother with gold medals unless you realy want the challenge, things gated by gold are just the heavy skins (yeah right, they will see a lot of use) and the gold faceplates, im fine with that being tough to obtain

[Droz1937]

Originally posted by 28 Beers Later:

dont bother with gold medals unless you realy want the challenge, things gated by gold are just the heavy skins (yeah right, they will see a lot of use) and the gold faceplates, im fine with that being tough to obtain

There is tough and then there is just plain stupid.

[TradeGy]

I agree it's too early that they field the Jagdtiger, Tiger Ace or King Tiger but that there is nothing to do is not correct. I've completed AA twice on hard and it is quite easy to avoid the heavy hitters or it was for me if you just get a Pz.II you can skirt around killing all the infantry they send out to bleed em to the ground.

[Droz1937]

It changes the vehicles it puts out every time, the JgT was sitting in the middle of the map, shooting through the groups of trees; it effectively held 2/3rds of the map.

I have completed it on hard once as well, and got silver. Now that I know what I am doing I wanted to get the gold that I know I could get. I just do not remember running into this on the other play through.

[Brummbær]

Sometimes it's just about how you handle the tactical map. If you have problems with heavy units you reinforced that part of the map by attacking sectors next to it. try avoiding this and this particular mission becomes much easier.

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

AI cheats a lot on maps its not big suprize and annoys me too , check this out

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407893832973/27CFF9EA14E50DD0952BA5C6700ADC07108113E9/

[Droz1937]

Originally posted by Varenvel the toothless dragon:

AI cheats a lot on maps its not big suprize and annoys me too , check this out

http://cloud-4.steampowered.com/ugc/884118407893832973/27CFF9EA14E50DD0952BA5C6700ADC07108113E9/

That is hilarious.

[Droz1937]

Originally posted by Brummbær:

Sometimes it's just about how you handle the tactical map. If you have problems with heavy units you reinforced that part of the map by attacking sectors next to it. try avoiding this and this particular mission becomes much easier.

They have standard forces, mortar half tracks, and light mechanized support; of which a Jagdtiger, Tiger Ace, and/or King Tiger would not fall under.

[JamesK]

Rush the fuel and then rush to pick up the good vehicles scattered around the map.
Fall back to your camp and then move out for kills and then retreat/repair.
Piece of cake with minimal casualties.

Sadly the scripted fights in AA was truly aweful with little to 0 challange even on expert.

[Droz1937]

I ended up finishing all the other territories, then brining Fox Company over. The Tiger Ace they brought out couldn't pick a target to shoot between the 4 ranger squads and 6 vehicles I had shooting it. I then said screw it and sent all my vehicles in the enemy base before they could bring another one out (it was late and i was tired.)

That being said I finished with a score of 25082, not sure what is needed for gold, but I did get it!

I just wish instead of having the AI cheat like that they could find a way to balance it in another fashion (and they should state that the AI will field one of those tanks.)