X-Men CoTA AI is cancer

[Renaissance Eric]

In case someone brings it up, yes, I'm aware that the AI for one of the
editions of Street Fighter 2 is blatantly unfair.

However, Children of the Atom? Jesus Christ. The level of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ is
real. They definitely needed to reel in this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥.

[Cinder]

pick iceman do jump down fp, down fk and repeat. its a really easy infinite that stuns in 5 hits and then you can do it until time runs out. easy way to beat the AI

[Renaissance Eric]

Then clearly I made a horrible mistake picking Wolverine because I've been fighting Juggernaut for well over 40 minutes and making little to no progress on this cheap
and poorly designed sub-boss.

[jeveritt261]

Magneto and Juggernaut are the absolute worst for move spam in COTA definitely from the era of bad difficulty balancing for arcade games

[Renaissance Eric]

Publicado originalmente por jeveritt261:

Magneto and Juggernaut are the absolute worst for move spam in COTA definitely from the era of bad difficulty balancing for arcade games

You're not kidding.

I had a MUCH harder time with Juggernaut than I did Magneto.

At least with Magneto I found that he seldom blocked Air roundhouse + air or
standing fierce (although he had a VERY bullsh-- habit of insta-counter attacking
after the string). Juggernaut on the other hand? Almost never stopped blocking
any attacks, often forcing me to risk attacking him when he can just super armor
of just eat the hit and steamroll me.

The Juggernaut fight is just filled with bullsh--

1. Insta counter attacks
2. Has way faster recovery than you
3. Insane damage
4. Can take out a piece of debris for even longer reach than he already has
5. Can power himself up for more damage
6. Blocks nearly everything you throw at him

Like ♥♥♥♥ man, you'd think this was an SNK boss or some bullsh--.

In contrast, the AI for Marvel Super Heroes was nowhere near as cheap
as Children of the Atom's was. And Dr. Doom and Thanos were NOWHERE
near as cheap or broken. Doom I beat in one shot and Thanos puts up a
fight, but he has none of Magneto or Juggernaut's cheapness.

[AlecKoKuTan]

Yo, the AI in this game is BRUTAL. But I ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ love it, it's rare when fighting game AI is actually difficult. At least for most modern games, especial in the MVC franchise, full of easy AI (UMVC3 & MVCI)

[Buffster]

This game tough as nail. AI blocking everywhere.

Publicado originalmente por Cinder:

pick iceman do jump down fp, down fk and repeat. its a really easy infinite that stuns in 5 hits and then you can do it until time runs out. easy way to beat the AI

Will try this when I get back to it.

[Axelhander]

Nah it's fine. Just gotta abuse the AI.

Example: just walk up to Juggernaut and throw him around.

[Renaissance Eric]

It's definitely NOT fine.

Even putting on a 1-star difficulty still makes the AI for the most part, still
difficult as hell, and Jesus Christ, it seems like Magneto is somehow HARDER
then in the standard 4-star.

[parabolee]

Seriously, I swear the Saturn versions were not this hard!

[KEKSIMUS MAXIMUS]

Wait till you get to the next game. Marvel Super Heroes, then you'll feel what's unfair is like.

[WeirdoGeek]

I did a playthrough as Juggernaut the other night. There wasn't a mirror match, but MY GOD was Magneto a cheating S.O.B.

Good to see I'm not alone in this opinion.

Publicado originalmente por KEKSIMUS MAXIMUS:

Wait till you get to the next game. Marvel Super Heroes, then you'll feel what's unfair is like.

*Gulp*

[Renaissance Eric]

Publicado originalmente por KEKSIMUS MAXIMUS:

Wait till you get to the next game. Marvel Super Heroes, then you'll feel what's unfair is like.

Huh?

Marvel Super Heroes is nowhere NEAR as unfair as the AI was in this game. Hell, Doom
has nowhere near the same amounts of bullsh-- Juggernaut did, and Thanos? I was able
to one-shot him with most of the roster.

Compared to CoTA, where everyone but Juggernaut needed close to or over a dozen
tries to beat Magneto, let alone Juggernaut because those two are blatantly cheap.

[smbhax]

I had to set it down to difficulty 0 to get through as Wolverine. ; D Not that I'm particularly great at fighting games! ^+ ^ (I play Dreamcast SSFIIX as Ryu on the hardest difficulty setting but that's more so I can struggle masochistically through maybe five or so stages over a few hours before calling it a night. ; D)

For some reason I have huge problems vs Psylocke; she seems to have an answer for everything I try as Wolverine, and I can't even punish her fireballs when I get a clean jump-over of them. Same trouble vs Juggernaut and his low, ranged earthquake thingies; got to him on difficulty 1 but couldn't figure out a way to get consistent clean hits so he pretty much wiped the floor with me repeatedly. ; )

[Renaissance Eric]

After an hour and a half of no progress except for one character, I went
back to 0-star, damage lvl 8, and fast countdown.

Only way to do go about this. Jesus what bad AI design.

[smbhax]

I would say I still prefer it to MvC2's AI, which is just too easy to put up a challenge against my noob spam, even on the hardest setting. ^ +^

But yeah the difficulty curve or right angle or whatever you'd call it is a bit rough in this one. ; D