AI difficulty?

[Genki]

So, I was just playing an early morning round of 2 vs 2, me with an AI partner against two allied AIs. Difficulty for every single ai: Normal.
While our opponents did a solid job in keeping "us" on our toes, my AI partner behaved weird.
At first everything started out fine, he got ressource points, build a few squads, but here is the problem: We reached a point in game where I, playing Eldar, started massing Fire Prisms, highly upgraded. We were quite a bit in the game too. But my AI partner had NOTHING build. Not even production buildings. He wasnt doing anything worthwhile.

Now my question: Has anyone of you witnessed that behaviour on normal difficulty? I have seen it when playing against a casual AI, but that a normal AI just doesnt build basic production buildings seems very weird to me.

[Bicio]

Same partner behavior even at hard difficulty.

[Gabe]

The AI in dawn of war 3 is very lacking. Relic has never been good at offering us a good AI opponent but DOW3 is by far the worst. In their defense and speaking from own experience It is a difficult thing to make and requires alot of twaking and testing. Hopefully as more data will come in they will try to do something about it.

[Genki]

Originally posted by Potato Meister:

The AI in dawn of war 3 is very lacking. Relic has never been good at offering us a good AI opponent but DOW3 is by far the worst. In their defense and speaking from own experience It is a difficult thing to make and requires alot of twaking and testing. Hopefully as more data will come in they will try to do something about it.

The most confusing thing is that my opponents do a solid job in fighting me. Its just my AI partner who has decided that the perfect counter for a wraith knight is a single squad of tactical marines. Dont think I can agree with that assumption.

[Rum]

The AI is useless. I commonly find that if you push hard and kill the first few enemy squads you've basically won the match.

[goka9696]

One of the problems (and it's a problem in many games) is that maybe AI can't cooperate with the player well. When AI cooperates with itself, it can work well, but with the player, it's more difficult.

[Rum]

It doesn't seem to try to capture CPs either.

[Steeb]

AI works "fine" when it's against you, but as partner it doesn't work and it's lacking. Better play with a friend against ai, and it gets good. It's also a good way to train and learn. But again, only 8 maps... ugh. Too few. My favourite is the 2vs2 in the ork swamp

[Franstastic]

The ai seems to go idle if there are too many listening posts in their way even if they're friendly listening posts

[Gabe]

Originally posted by goka9696:

One of the problems (and it's a problem in many games) is that maybe AI can't cooperate with the player well. When AI cooperates with itself, it can work well, but with the player, it's more difficult.

AI never cooperates, not even with itself. It has counter data, priorities data, aggression radius, ability data, tactical alerts and a randomness factor to make the computer more unpredictable. The hard thing is balancing these things out and of course to allow the computer to cheat without making it too noticeable.

[CursedPanther]

People have been reporting similar AI behavior for CoH before. Never noticed that myself.

[MeGa]

This game has quite a few bugs, like every one released. I think AI also has some kind of bugs, not just that it needs to be improved.

I've even seen it not move some units while being attacked, not producing anything at all even with plenty of resources, etc.

So I think they both need to improve it, and to find and fix any bugs it may have.