AI Levels

[Warrior]

Hey

I wanted to ask, each of the AI levels like Med and brutal, what more do they give to the AI exactly? What level is fair to the player such as both them start with the same amount of money, fog etc?

[Rhosalth]

Hard is the optimal ai to play againts it, is easy to win if u know what to do,but the ai will punish you if you make to many mistakes. Also ai personalities affects them a lot of how they play. About other ai levels, medium is just easy 2.0 and brutal is just mental and requires a good knowledge of tactics in order to beat it. Also i find rushing rly effective.

[Warrior]

Τhank you very much!

[Rob DiGiorno]

it seems like the AI level varies when you make one your teammate. I feel like if I give myself a hard AI teammate, they are absolutely incompetent and I have to help them more than they are worth.

A hard teammate never seems up to par with a hard AI opponent

[Rhosalth]

Originally posted by Rob DiGiorno:

it seems like the AI level varies when you make one your teammate. I feel like if I give myself a hard AI teammate, they are absolutely incompetent and I have to help them more than they are worth.

A hard teammate never seems up to par with a hard AI opponent

Depends on the personality you give them, if they are turtle,ofc they wont do much until way later in the game, while a rusher will act as soon as possible.

[Rob DiGiorno]

Originally posted by Rhosalth:

Originally posted by Rob DiGiorno:

it seems like the AI level varies when you make one your teammate. I feel like if I give myself a hard AI teammate, they are absolutely incompetent and I have to help them more than they are worth.

A hard teammate never seems up to par with a hard AI opponent

Depends on the personality you give them, if they are turtle,ofc they wont do much until way later in the game, while a rusher will act as soon as possible.

I tried that. I gave my ally the turtle personality, and he literally did not build one turret. I had to do it for him...

[Odraco6]

Afaik all AIs start with same resources than the player. Brutal gets 2x income from harvesters and probably from tiberium spikes as well, but it shouldn't affect starting money.

[Rhosalth]

Originally posted by Rob DiGiorno:

Originally posted by Rhosalth:

Depends on the personality you give them, if they are turtle,ofc they wont do much until way later in the game, while a rusher will act as soon as possible.

I tried that. I gave my ally the turtle personality, and he literally did not build one turret. I had to do it for him...

Hmm strange,usually for me a turtle ai likes to spam defensive structures near his important bits like the main base and expansions.

[Pigeons555]

It is confirmed that Brutal AI gets 2x the resources from Tiberium. Apart from that, I have no idea. The AI generally doesn't do a good job countering your forces, even if it did know what you were building.


The main strategy of Brutal AI is just drowning you in superior numbers, especially in the early game, with low tech units. I've never seen them intelligently send units, just units that completely coincidentally have some advantage over mine.

If you want to play against Brutal, a good way to do so is to play with 40,000 starting credits. Having such a large starting amount more than evens out against the cheats the Brutal AI has, because at the end of the day, it is still a stupid AI given cheats.

You should have no problem beating Brutal AI with 40,000 starting credits, and I find Hard AI is just too boring because it is shackled by stupid decisions and a fair playing field.