Have you seen the A.I. miss when playing middle pocket shots?

[Fluid Druid]

I cannot recall them ever missing into the middle bags, the shots they do miss always appear to be the same type of shot and always one of the corner pockets, think we need more variation here.

[Jud]

The AI in this game is just weird. Sometimes they'll play a very realistic shot, like a soft screw off a red to land on the black, and even though you're on the receiving end of it it feels really good because the AI got something right. It's the same when they play a good safety shot.

But more often than not you're just left scratching your head, or even laughing out loud at some of the shots they play.

[moosc]

Especially if they miss. It's usually the type of shot a complete novice would play, with balls going everywhere at pace!

[jinx20001]

the most irritating aspect of the AI is if they miss they almost always get the white safe, always fluking it that way. when the AI misses that should result in a loose white that nobody knows where will end up but it seems so scripted to always land safe 99 percent of the time.

[moosc]

Or they snooker you instead.
I'm also amazed at how often after having played a SAFE shot I find that the AI easily pots the ball you thought safe.
Recently I played a safety shot where I put the cue ball along side the black with the Red ball the other side. Not only did I believe that the AI was snookered but the ball was safe. Imagine my surprise when the screen redrew for the AI's shot it showed that it could easily and clearly pot the ball without hinderence from the black ball. Surely I couldn't be that wrong with my impression of being safe?

[Alice]

Originally posted by moosc:

Especially if they miss. It's usually the type of shot a complete novice would play, with balls going everywhere at pace!

It'd be realistic if it was just Trump that did that. :p
Would be good if each player played their own way. Eg some players can play shots that most others just can't (Trump is one such player)

[moosc]

Agreed! Its called style and each player has their own. Robinson has massive long pot success percentage. O'sullivan plays quickly and scores quickly. Mark Allen has fluctuating form. Ebdon plays slow, dead slow.
Pity the game doesn't allow for this to be included in the game play. It would certainly help immersion.