Sweet mother of god the AI is horrible :(

[NeroAngelo]

Anyone else having issues with the braindead Partners ?
no matter how much i try to fine tune the strategies, they're always playing like ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ :S
must be the worst partner AI in any Tales game ever

and it doesn't help that most if not all bosses single target a character and spam them until they're dead <_< is there ANY way to force draw aggro ?

[Dorodango]

♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ ?

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You can set them all 'not to attack'. This way they will run from enemy. The AI is decent, its the camera that is frustrating.

[Aju]

Same here, i'm having more trouble with camera. Actually i find AI quite decent :o

[PandaFrog]

I'd have to agree AI is pretty damn bad. What I do is set them to not attack and literally switch characters right after I run out of energy to chain and switch back and fourth lol. They even have a battle action for that.

[verarticus]

Not really having an problems here, other than maybe the more mage esc partners trying the charge arts to close to enemies sometimes.

Also there is a battle action you can get that lets your guard act sort of like a taunt. Or at least it implies it does, I haven't used it myself.

[NeroAngelo]

it's usually not during normal enemy fights i have issues, since everyone is just running around ding their thing, but in Boss fights? sometimes i feel like throwing my controller at the screen lol especially when the other human *shakes fist at Rose* just speed kills all my seraphs reviving herself LOL

[chris100185]

Weak AI is a fairly common issue in the series. If you ever play Vesperia you'll spend half your battles yelling at Estelle to ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ heal you. Another common one, though I haven't seen it as much in this one, Casters LOVE to start long cast time spells, right in the face of enemies, and they'll actually move from range to do it.

As far as this one goes, the enemies in this entry,at least to me, seem to hit a lot harder than in the previous games, making dodging and guarding much more important, and the AI really makes no effort to do so. Also Rose will at times randomly un-armatize for no apparent reaon.

[NisseDood]

Welcome to the world of pretty much any game with ai controlled partners.
Never played a 3d one that the ai isnt on a sucide streak.
2d ones are easier since its easier to block enemies from butchering them.

[Fedorya]

Yep i already said this in another post, AI is dumb, dumb as a rock.
Boss tip : Put your partner in defense mode, and attack the boss by yourselve, time your attacks to counter the boss when he try (and he will) to attack your allies.
Or grind stuff and do some nice fuse to overpower the boss and roll on him with Rambo AI.

[NeroAngelo]

Originally posted by Fedorya:

Yep i already said this in another post, AI is dumb, dumb as a rock.
Boss tip : Put your partner in defense mode, and attack the boss by yourselve, time your attacks to counter the boss when he try (and he will) to attack your allies.
Or grind stuff and do some nice fuse to overpower the boss and roll on him with Rambo AI.

that's what i try to do most of the time, and usually end up running in circles after the boss because rose is running away lol oh and dont get me started on happily killing the boss only to notice you're grade sucks because rose managed to kill the other seraphs lol

[NeroAngelo]

Originally posted by NisseDood:

Welcome to the world of pretty much any game with ai controlled partners.
Never played a 3d one that the ai isnt on a sucide streak.
2d ones are easier since its easier to block enemies from butchering them.

but that's the thing though, i clearly remember Graces F characters being much more competent, Xillia too just to name the recent ones, in this one though? *flips table at times*

[Fedorya]

Well i made a reason during my gameplay :
-I don't care about boss grades, grades are only mades on random encouters that's all, AI not good enough to do good grades on boss, so just go through them and continue ^^

[NeroAngelo]

Originally posted by Fedorya:

Well i made a reason during my gameplay :
-I don't care about boss grades, grades are only mades on random encouters that's all, AI not good enough to do good grades on boss, so just go through them and continue ^^

Sadly that's the realization i came to as well, I was like ♥♥♥♥ it ... :(
the only way to get good grades on bosses it seems is to over level over fuse and steam role them <_<

[Asterozoa]

Originally posted by NeroAngelo:

Originally posted by NisseDood:

Welcome to the world of pretty much any game with ai controlled partners.
Never played a 3d one that the ai isnt on a sucide streak.
2d ones are easier since its easier to block enemies from butchering them.

but that's the thing though, i clearly remember Graces F characters being much more competent, Xillia too just to name the recent ones, in this one though? *flips table at times*

Yeah the recent Xillia/2 had way better AI than this... it's weird and disappointing that being a Tales game they're not taking algorithms from past games and improving on it; Zestiria's AI is just downright horrendous.

I tried putting Sorey on auto and assigned him to attack the nearest enemy, it came off like a mixed bag; occasionally he'll target enemies far away, and sometimes he'll just prance up and down the battlefield between targets and not do anything, :3

[unboundlopez]

the branded ai's are bad but they are good once you set them up correctly under strategy or tactics