Enemy AI behaviours that piss you off

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BlackStar42

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kokirisoldier said:
Does "insta-locating" count? I'm getting pretty pissed that games give you the option to stealth your way though most of the game, but can't ever seem to pull it off right. How is it in Fall Out when i stealth-ed my way to a sniper position, took up scope on the super mutants I need to kill. Let 1 round out the barrel from 350+ meters from a south easterly origin...they instantly know my range-distance and direction! Then they come charging which totally defeats my 100 stealth, 96 lock pick.

That's not realistic at all.
Oh, someone else who hates this! I got round the problem the once by "sniping" with a Missile Launcher. One-shot kill on 3 Enclave Soldiers, with an Officer literally standing there like "...WTF just happened?!"
 

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BlackStar42 said:
kokirisoldier said:
Does "insta-locating" count? I'm getting pretty pissed that games give you the option to stealth your way though most of the game, but can't ever seem to pull it off right. How is it in Fall Out when i stealth-ed my way to a sniper position, took up scope on the super mutants I need to kill. Let 1 round out the barrel from 350+ meters from a south easterly origin...they instantly know my range-distance and direction! Then they come charging which totally defeats my 100 stealth, 96 lock pick.

That's not realistic at all.
Oh, someone else who hates this! I got round the problem the once by "sniping" with a Missile Launcher. One-shot kill on 3 Enclave Soldiers, with an Officer literally standing there like "...WTF just happened?!"
Nothing freaks me out more in Fall Out more than seeing [HIDDEN] go instantly to [DANGER]. especially when you have 100 points into stealth and a bonus's too!
 

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Worms: Reloaded, the ENTIRE AI, if you've ever played it you'll know what I mean.
This, this, this. oh god THIS. Bouncing a grenade of 4 surfaces and having it land on my face is not my idea of fun.

That, Sheva from RE5, no specific point, just her, in general, being stupid, all the time. Made me rage.

And recently, Civilization V, the AI is so bi-polar and a bit dim, declaring war after I've already kicked your arse twice is a very silly thing to do... And also, accusing my army of being "puny" after I kicked your arse isn't very nice :c.
 

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Most games with stealth elements (Bethesda seems to have a good hand in this), where you can leave a corpse out in the open, in a supposedly "secured" area, and no one questions it.

In some games they'll look at it, some (ie, Fallout 3) may even have the AI take items from the corpse, so it's not a case of "the AI is incapable of noticing corpses". Hell, Fallout 3/NV even has the mechanics in place for the player to move corpses around, so it's not like it could be there for any sort of reason...

Just bloody ridiculous! D=
 

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HA HAAA! You can't hide from me because, as the computer, I know exactly where you are at all times!
 

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I hate the AI in the new Medal of Honour. Since when have terrorists been better trained than the America's finest? Even on Easy, that game is hard.
 

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That one enemy in any side-scrolling beat-em-up' that does nothing but spam incredibly annoying projectile attacks at you while you're trying to kill something else.

Fuck you, thief from Castle Crashers!
Fuck you, White Ninja from Scott Pilgrim!
Fuck you, dude with a gun from Bayou Billy!


FUCK ALL OF YOU. RARRRRGH!
 

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The spawning in Horde on Gears of War 2 can be annoying. I was playing it on River the other day and was holding up in one of the two-storey houses with my friend. Near the end of the round we both when out to get ammo and ran into the last enemy (which was a Ticker) and it died. The round ended, we went back to the house (The furthest we went was halfway across the bridge and no further than the cars on the road) and by the time we got back the game spawned a Grinder and Mauler in there along with a second Mauler on the bridge.
 

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GamingAwesome1 said:
That one enemy in any side-scrolling beat-em-up' that does nothing but spam incredibly annoying projectile attacks at you while you're trying to kill something else.

Fuck you, thief from Castle Crashers!
Fuck you, White Ninja from Scott Pilgrim!
Fuck you, dude with a gun from Bayou Billy!


FUCK ALL OF YOU. RARRRRGH!
Oh God, those thieves. I HATE THEM! They always just surround you and shoot you with arrows and move when you move. On Insane difficulty when you beat them game any level involving them is Hellish.
 

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Sports Champions(PS Move) has a Dueling game mode. In the tournament game mode, everything is good until you get to the harder difficulty. Suddenly the AI learned how to jump over your low attacks. The player can't jump in that game...

They also have special moves that really hurt if you get hit by them. The player has no special moves...
 

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The krogan in ME2 and their strange inhibitions about charging despite that being their defining characteristic.

In ME1 the only thing that actually worried me in combat was 'krogan charging!'. I'll happily fight a colossus on foot just because I can, but when you can't see the krogan your squadmate is warning you about... that was fun.
 

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Jezzascmezza said:
Mr Pantomime said:
COD Black Ops. How come everyone else can run headfirst into gunfire, but when i even poke my head out, i get obliterated?
I know the feeling.
This happens to me so often on veteran.
Why don't my team-mates exploit their invincibility?

But I'm still going to have to go ahead and say the survivors that need rescuing in Dead Rising.
"How can you not avoid that huge pack of zombies??"
Frustration to the freaking max.
I get annoyed in DR2, when the survivors can simply push their way through a crowd of zombies, while I have to beat my way through them. Then again, I always just give them shotguns and they cover me


Erecting a Sentry said:
Mr Pantomime said:
COD Black Ops. How come everyone else can run headfirst into gunfire, but when i even poke my head out, i get obliterated?
I agree with this. Also no AI really bugged me except the infinite spawning grenade spamming bastards that inhabited WaW. Also the reason I quoted this is to point out how in online multiplayer people can take on more than one enemies and win. This NEVER happens for me, it bugs the shit out me and I never get godamn kill-streaks. What I hated about MW2 was all these high kill streaks roaming the air space and the best I got at MOST was the Harrier strike which always did fuck all for me
Highest killstreak ive ever gotten was 5. All the other times, either someones sneaks up behind me, or come round the corner as soon as im out of ammo. OR, i try tomahawk them and that give them a huge advantage

Grimlock Fett said:
Mr Pantomime said:
COD Black Ops. How come everyone else can run headfirst into gunfire, but when i even poke my head out, i get obliterated?
On veteran EVERYONE is a sniper regardless of their weapon! Except your AI squad who are all retard babies!
I dont see why they all aim at me though. I sit behind guys, they get completely ignored, and I get shot. im sure i have a target on my head or something.
 

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that end boss in super smash bro. brawl. One hit kill + unavoidable attack = anger.

Also, the cougars in red dead redemption. I was doing a mission where you must go to a town, but are being attacked by gunmen on horses, but then I see a cougar running at me and I completely ignore the gunmen and go straight for the cougar.

Since when were cougars more dangerous than several armed men?
 

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In the first Bad Company game, the single player was almost ruined by the Eagle eyed AI.

Sneaking was simply not an option in that game.
 

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Mcupobob said:
When the AI pull resources and soldiers out of its ass just when your about to beat them. Or when you finally have repelled their attacks and they just keep sending in constant waves. Pisses me right off(been playing a lot of RTS lately).

I wish game developers would instead invest their time into making smarter AI instead of cheaper enemies. When I turn up the difficulty in a game I would rather have a smarter opponent instead of one who just happens to take longer to take down or pulls bullshit moves out of their ass.
Thats the same problem i'm facing( i'm an RTS fanatic) when playing Red Alert 3 against a brutal Ai instead of making it smarter they just made its ore collectors collect 3 times as much as mine and their superweapon seems to do more damage than mine and they never need to scout because they can see everything on the map and that pisses me off constantly along with really bad pathfinding for my units because EA couldn't be bothered with more tuning and polishing the game.

Oh and also making the Ai actually think rather than become godlike!.
 

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Enemy spellcasters that can spam magic attacks without needing to bother about spell cooldowns, or running out of magic points.

But I guess that isn't bad A.I., it's bad programming.
 

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Vykrel said:
marine drivers in halo, as well as elites and their super juking skills

all enemies in call of duty and their ability to have perfect snap-on aim

rubberbanding drivers in most racing games

hunters in prototype willing to chase you to the ends of the earth so they can kill you

and many many more
YES!!!!!!!! Those FUCKING hunters in FUCKING prototype with their FUCKIN super FUCKING paralysing stunlock FUCKTARD attacks that give you no FUCKING chance to FUCKING regenerate your health, and instantly FUCKING disrupt the healing animation... Sorry rant over... Ok not quite one second (THAT GODDAMN BLOODY LEVEL WTH THE INFINITELY SPAWNING HUNTERS AND THE HUGE THING BOSS MONSTER WHICH U SCARE FROM UNDERGROUND WHICH SHOOTS THOSE FUCKING GLOWING BALLS OF EVIL DEATH AND WANK AT YOU AND WHEN UR NOT DODGING THEM U HAVE 50 HUNTERS ON UR ASS NOT LETTING YOU HEAL! by the way u win that one by getting into the tanks :p)
Rant over for sure now... sorry.
And this isn't really AI more stupid character development but erm, you know when ur AI partner says "I'll stay here and cover the rear" and you groan coz u just know he means "I'm gunna stay here with ALL our allies and send you on a solo mission to teh ends of the earth and back through hordes of slavering mutants in a dark basement before rendeazvouing at teh top of mount death for pick up because our pilot is a pussy who considers one kid with no legs shouting 'bang' at the helicopter to be 'heavy Hostile Ground Fire' Oh and you have a time limit because we're at bingo fuel."
Sorry second rant over :p
 

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I hate it when you die in games like Call of Duty, you fall to the ground dead, but the enemies still go up to you and shoot you. That pisses me off. It really adds insult to injury.