How good is the AI?

[VexTary]

As the title says. Is it good? As a side question, how good is this game to be played using hotseat?

[Gonk]

Currently the AI is pretty decent, if you ignore a very bad bug making them unable to trade in trophies, severely limiting their power. I don't think hotseating will be too bad outside of not being able to hide cards like spells and the like very well, but I haven't tried myself so I don't know if it's possible.

[WingedKagouti]

The AI is functional, but if you understand the game it shouldn't provide much of a challenge.

When playing Hotseat, all secret cards like spells will be hidden by default and you have to use a Reveal button in the interface to see them when it's your turn. Spells will have to be queued up on your turn if you want to affect someone else, making for some awkward situations if you want to cast something on start of the turn of a player who isn't the next one after you. I haven't tested Dark Fate (Woodlands), but I expect it suffers from a similar issue.

[LoneSylvan]

Before the not trading in trophies bug (which will be fixed at some point) I played 1 player against AI quite regularly.
While they do make silly mistakes, and are not as challenging as real people, you are often fighting against the board as much as anything... and the fact that the AI might take things that you would want etc etc
I leave respawns on when playing AI and I have fun... even lose occasionally.
Never tried hotseat - on PC I would imagine issues as mentioned. There is a PS4 version - it's not up to date, but is going to be updated in line with the other versions at some point.

[VexTary]

Oh, I see! Thanks for all the answers, guys! It's good to know the game has a decent challenge with the AI, even though it's not as good as a player.

What was keeping me from getting all the expansions is because I was afraid of being forced to play with other players in order to have fun. And since I have no friends interested in this game, it's a big deal for me.

But from the looks of it, the game board is a challenge itself, and the AI will be like more challenge added to that. This is good.

[DirectOrder]

I only play vs AI and I have a blast. And if you ever feel like they are just too easy, you can give them an advantage with the Rune Deck such as starting them with more gold, life, fate, etc, or making it easier for them to trade in trophies.

[VexTary]

Originally posted by Denigrate:

I only play vs AI and I have a blast. And if you ever feel like they are just too easy, you can give them an advantage with the Rune Deck such as starting them with more gold, life, fate, etc, or making it easier for them to trade in trophies.

Ooh, good to know you can give them some advantages! I'll probably get the season pass, then.

Thanks for the answer, friend!

[biguglyzimmerzam]

I can agree with Denigrate, I play vs AI and really enjoy it, I also use runes to make it easier/harder etc, the AI is not perfect but you can definitly have a good game, i play against 4 AI players , you can do more , then its harder to get the objects and items you want, but then can have a blast chasing them down to steal them haha.

Good luck and enjoy

[jonnin]

So far the AI is ok. It lacks a grand strategy, but the best plans go awry with random stuff anyway. The biggest problems it has are pushing too hard, jumping into harder areas before ready and getting killed off. It also spends too much energy chasing other AI down and exchanging that same bag of gold 250 times per game. Finally, like a human, there is only so much the AI can do with the low quality characters. If you want to really study the AI a little, try having everyone play the same character. Discounting luck factor, you can get a sense of its ability that way measuring it against your own character. Its also really fun for specific classes... all gipsi can be a mess, all trolls trying to run from all the craft enemy squares....

[Jarosław Tusk]

AI have one order- be the biggest idiot in every moment. Makes such stupid things that you thinking, it is intentional or lack of AI:(

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Yaroslaw Tyck:

AI have one order- be the biggest idiot in every moment. Makes such stupid things that you thinking, it is intentional or lack of AI:(

Its not that bad. The biggest 2 things they do wrong is hit each other to steal pointless stuff (gold, normal sword, that kind of crap) and jump into the dungeon early and get to far in to leave if it goes wrong.

EDIT: I take it back. The more DLC / expansions you have, the more dumb things it finds to do. The forest and dungeon will hand a victory to the human as often as not from them killing themselves. Anything with good loot and touch monsters is like a baited trap for the AI. When it gets lucky, it can mess you up, but this game isn't very kind when you trust to luck. I left the forest off to relearn the game (havent played it since the 90s, maybe once or twice) and turning it on was just a madhouse.. the AI does not understand that map at all.