I'm surprised no one said KZ2. Many people on this site hate it, but on elite difficulty, its the BEST AI I've ever seen. No COD BS where they make them have pinpoint accuracy and have increased damage either.
Best enemy AI.
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Call of Pripyat probably wins my "Wildlife AI" award if there was one. Dogs hunting mutants together, or bigger mutants chasing small rats, or mutants attacking dogs attacking stalkers. It all just flows so well and is 100% unscripted events.RuralGamer said:
I never really notice the AI in games unless it's bad. I tend to think very tactically about my encounters, so most of the standard flanking, bait and switch, those sort of tactics never really catch me off guard. Basically, if an AI is above a certain point I won't really notice its contribution to the gaming experience. If the AI is retarded and repeatedly charges my shwatgun blasts, then I start to go "hey, wait a minute."
My favorite idiotic AIs (kept this way intentionally to keep gameplay at a reasonable difficulty) come from stealth games like SC and Arkham Asylum. "Let's split up." Yeah. Look what happened last time you tried that.
My favorite idiotic AIs (kept this way intentionally to keep gameplay at a reasonable difficulty) come from stealth games like SC and Arkham Asylum. "Let's split up." Yeah. Look what happened last time you tried that.
Sid Meyer's Alpha Centauri.
I swear the whole game is based around AI; Miriam is almost always a threat, but once or twice of the few hundred times I played, she was actually cool with me. Santiago was one of the other ones that often annoyed me but sometimes she's really cool. Too bad you can't play it on Win7.
I swear the whole game is based around AI; Miriam is almost always a threat, but once or twice of the few hundred times I played, she was actually cool with me. Santiago was one of the other ones that often annoyed me but sometimes she's really cool. Too bad you can't play it on Win7.
What comes to mind when you ask that is that i've never played a game other than Stalker where the enemy would actually try to silently sneak up behind me to rip my ears off.
SHODAN.
...Oh, wait, I think I misinterpreted the question.
Back-up joke answer: Oblivion.
Serious answer: Total War: Shogun II. Maybe other games do have better AI, but in an RTS, the tactics they use are much more visible than in, say, a shooter, and it's damn good. It's like the computer AI at work in chess. It will outsmart your ass.
...Oh, wait, I think I misinterpreted the question.
Back-up joke answer: Oblivion.
Serious answer: Total War: Shogun II. Maybe other games do have better AI, but in an RTS, the tactics they use are much more visible than in, say, a shooter, and it's damn good. It's like the computer AI at work in chess. It will outsmart your ass.
What exactly qualifies as the best artificial intelligence? The most realistic? The most difficult? The funnest or fairest to play against?
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On a more on-topic note, I think the question is a little hard to address from any angle. Is the "best" the most intelligent one that always makes the right choices and executes them extremely well? We call those maphackers and aimbots. Is it the most organically-executed one, an AI that is pseudo-intelligent? Those can be terrific for many games, though they still wouldn't make sense in a game like Doom, whose very level design is constructed entirely around the simple AI behavior. At the very least, we need to consider "best" extremely contextually, and even then there are such large qualitative differences that "best" is kind of vague. I suppose the enemy AI that I personally like the most is that of Halo 1, and while it's somewhat sketchy, I think it works wonders within that gameplay.
Really? Human Revolution? I once hid behind a box in an otherwise empty room when a guard was shooting at me and he apparently forgot that I was there... ("I´ve lost him!")M-E-D The Poet said:
They DO play fair, they just have inhuman reflexes and aim.HeatproofShAdOw said:Veteran bots use hacks... seriously, look at one of your killcams, you'll see the bot aiming at you through whatever wall or such is between you and the bot and open fire a millisecond after it's seen you. It isn't fairbrainslurper said:
There actually is a lot more to them then just "aim at any character then they can see", but it all happens so fast that you can't tell. They actually do adapt to different areas of the map and stay with teammates, but all raising the difficulty does is increase reaction time and ability to combat recoil, plus the ability to dropshot and knife.mrdude2010 said:
I remember going into that game all sure of myself as a strategy gamer and my god did it out-smart me. Thank you for reminding me of the game though, I need a challenge.RandV80 said:
While simplistic the AI in Age of Empires 2 sometimes surprised me. Once on a three Civ three Island map the AI well zerg rushed the other one, and proceeded to come at me from 5 directions at once.
Worst AI? Well CoD MW 4 gets my nomination. I've never seen a real battle BUT I think it's pretty stupid to keep charging out a door where 20... make that 21 of your buddies died. On each side of the coin too.
But that's my opinion.
It's really good.superstringz said:
Its by far not the most complicated or best of A.I. out there, but these particular creatures in DeadSpace 2 had a very nice A.I. system I admired.
The Creature: Stalker
Link for more info
http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Stalker
These beasts are tactical and fun. Some looking around corners to see if its safe to attack, some intentionally trying to distract you. Meanwhile the others would try flank you and literally charge and head butt you into the ground. They are great fun, amazing tactics I wish to see in more games. Funny enough, I would love to see them in the game Stalker
The Creature: Stalker
Link for more info
http://deadspace.wikia.com/wiki/Stalker
These beasts are tactical and fun. Some looking around corners to see if its safe to attack, some intentionally trying to distract you. Meanwhile the others would try flank you and literally charge and head butt you into the ground. They are great fun, amazing tactics I wish to see in more games. Funny enough, I would love to see them in the game Stalker
Let me run you through a situation that I played through recently: I'm going for a victory by conquest against a race of psychopathic machines called the Yor Collective, because it eventually became apparent that seeking an alliance with them was akin to presenting a box of chocolates to the funnel cloud of a tornado. So I gave up trying to bribe them while they were still content with allowing me to occupy space, and instead used the funds to construct a line of space stations along the connecting borders of our territories, as a forward post for an attack fleet and a line of defense in case they reacted poorly to being invaded.superstringz said:
So I constructed a fleet, and relations between our two civilizations began to deteriorate, because I wasn't giving them money anymore for them to blow other people up with. When I launch the attack, I have three good-sized groups of ships that I'm using as the main focus of my attack. For reference, earlier in the game, two similarly sized fleets of my ships were able to reduce one of the largest empires in the galaxy to this game's equivilant of Luxembourg.
However, when I started landing troops on the planets near our borders, I discovered that my soldiers began dying more often than is expected of a healthy population. This was because the amount of defending soldiers on the planets were much higher than they should have been. However, some scouting ships I had sent forward discovered that the troop levels on the planets farther inwards were normal- and there was a transport ship bringing more troops to the outer planets. By the time I actually got some of my troops to the inner planets, the Yor had realized what's what and had sent their main fleet to intercept me.
In short, they realized what I was up to and bolstered their defenses for the invasion, even before I had sent any warships near them. The Yor realized that this weeks money shipment wasn't lost in the mail after all, saw me putting up a picket fence, then put two and two together and decided to set up their own Maginot line. But they also realized that setting fleets to guard their borders would be spreading themselves thin, so they decided to take the initial losses and repel me from whatever direction I decided to attack.
In shorter, Galactic Civilizations is not merely smart. It is probably self-aware, and it is probably mad that I'm typing this instead of playing some more. So send help if I ever stop posting.
