Ever been let down by the A.I.?

[Anachronism]

Who else has a phobic avoidance complex when it comes to anything but the driver's seat on the Warthog?

Please don't remind me of the friendly AI in Halo. Especially considering how good the enemy AI was, the friendlies were just pitiful. The number of times I've been shot in the back by them, run over, or killed in some fashion or another is just ridiculous. More to the point, it never ceases to amaze me how, when you're shooting at the enemy, they decide to run directly in front of you so they can get a shot, and then complain that you shot them. If you didn't want to get shot, don't run in front of the guy who's shooting!

The worst is when they decide that, when you're fighting an enemy at close range, it would be a great idea to throw a grenade at the enemy to help you out, which almost always results in you dying. And don't even get me started on the Marines who use Needlers.

 

[headshotcatcher]

Oh, I have a genuine example.. Company of Heroes.

Biggest AI fail ever.. I ordered a sniper to take cover behind a formation of treelogs to snipe down an Panzerschreck-squad. He ignored all orders, stood in front of the logs, shot 3 bullets which all missed, and then the Panzersquad shot a missile right in my sniper's face..
Panzers can't even hit a tank close range, since the missiles will go retarded and fly towards the moon.

How's that for bullshit combined with worst A.I. ever?

Theres a thing called GAMEPLAY which makes the panzerschrecks miss, how much fun would it be if panzerschrecks would always hit everything in its range. Tanks would suck so badly. For the sniper thing, you probably didn't click right or the area behind the logs might have been impossible to get to.

 

[Christemo]

in L4D, that happens constantly.

 

[Thyunda]

The curse of stupefying A.I. stupidity is everywhere.

And the problem is, it strikes your allies without fail.

Who else has a phobic avoidance complex when it comes to anything but the driver's seat on the Warthog? Who else has screamed in impotent fury as a fellow zombie apocalypse survivor applies an immobilizing medkit to them as a Tank bears down on them. Who else has pumped shotgun rounds into Sheva Alomar's back because she insists on wielding her useless pistol?

I know these problems have struck me, and others out there.

So come one, come all, see who has the best A.S. (Artificial Stupidity) stories out there.

Impotent fury? =P

 

[rockingnic]

Oh, I have a genuine example.. Company of Heroes.

Biggest AI fail ever.. I ordered a sniper to take cover behind a formation of treelogs to snipe down an Panzerschreck-squad. He ignored all orders, stood in front of the logs, shot 3 bullets which all missed, and then the Panzersquad shot a missile right in my sniper's face..
Panzers can't even hit a tank close range, since the missiles will go retarded and fly towards the moon.

How's that for bullshit combined with worst A.I. ever?

CoH certainly has some AI problems that need straightening out, but it's usually nowhere near that bad.

Unreal Tournament 3, though, is probably the worst AI I've seen in a long time. In Warfare mode you'd often literally be better off without your allies than with them.
Epic really need to sort their shit out if Gears has AI problems too (I've yet to play it).

Is it me or did I get the only broken UT3? I mean the A.I., even on novice, will shoot you as soon as you get on your hover board (as long as they're in the area) and you get knocked down and then kill you, unless your lucky. And when the A.I. takes control of the tank, you enter the area and hope to god it doesn't see you or else you're gonna be dead from the first step you take in the area.
I like the A.I. in Killzone 2 except for one character... Rico... He can't do shit without dying, especially on the last mission. But the others is pretty amazing, mostly the enemy. If you spray they down with gunfire but don't kill the, they take cover. They even know when to team up against you by flanking you or just rushing you. Sure it's annoying but I think it's some o the most realistic enemy A.I. in a game.

 

[ZZoMBiE13]

http://ahcs.bungie.org/comics/44/

http://ahcs.bungie.org/comics/80/

That about sums it up.

 

[Uncompetative]

Well at least the enemy A.I. in the Halo games are great.


This is one of the reasons why I like the first Half-Life more than the second. Your squad in Half-Life 2 are even worse.

Wow. That is amazingly dumb AI. Kinda reminds me of this:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ravenous_Bugblatter_Beast_of_Traal#Ravenous_Bugblatter_Beast_of_Traal

 

[PlasticTree]

Pretty much in every escort quest, in every game that has those.

 

[Nemo from Utopia]

Fall out 3 has some annoying AI where characters offer to come with you and you spend most of your time trying to get them out of the way as they attempt to beat up a behemoth with their fists and block your firing line. they always seem to get stuck as well so i have to come back and lead them around a difficult rock.

 

[Cargando]

On CoD5, I have been killed so many times because my own allies have pushed me out of cover, into enemy gunfire.

 

[WeedWorm]

I think a better question is "Who hasnt been let down by the A.I.?"

Everyone has had some problem with the A.I. at one stage or another, unless youre playing some obscure game with the most advanced A.I. ever.

 

[ElArabDeMagnifico]

Tons of topics like these before but I use each new one to talk about the newest game I'm playing with awful A.I. - and that is:

Red Faction: Guerilla

Christ people! I thought the first Half-Life was praised and called "advanced" because the human's had a sense of self-preservation. However many years later into this new advanced generation and all my allies or all the civilians will run out in-front of my cars or pretend they aren't even there and will get squashed and suddenly "population demoralized" - oh woohoo, like they had any morale if they all want to die.

I was driving down the road and THE PEOPLE DRIVING IN AN ONCOMING CAR JUMPED OUT AND LANDED IN-FRONT OF MY CAR. WTF?! Why did they suddenly feel the urge to "OMG BAIL OUT" - it's like they were cruising for a suicide.

 

[Kajt]

I don't think I've ever encountered that bad A.I.

I do remember being annoyed with the Fallout 3 A.I. for standing out in the open and not taking cover when I spray them with bullets. Idiots.

This might be because I prefer playing shooters online.

 

[Julianking93]

I think I can speak for most people, Resident Evil 5. Fuck that ***** was annoying

 

[-Orpheus-]

RE5 most of the time. Help me with the boss? Help me with the boss please? Okay, I'll kill it on my own, you watch and occasionally get injured to waste my sprays. Thanks.

 

[Platinum117]

CALL OF DUTY 4

The Allied AI is sickeningly pathetic, they sit in cover doing nothing leaving you to move into the 3 way firing zone that could easily be covered by them but NOOO they don't even return fire, they jsut sit there like mindless idiots and let you do all the work (which for what is supposed to be a fauv-tactical shooter is fucking idiotic). They don't even draw enemy fire since all the enemy AI will shoot you and only you even if your entire sqaud is out in the open or trying to hiding behind a wooden fence with all of two beams covering them.

 

[jimduckie]

killzone 2 is one game with poor AI screaming for help is ok once but whining for it is a waste of energy so shut up , you don't help me when i'm dying , and mercs 2 is just as bad they sit around instead of helping and when they do help they act like ur doing them a favor, and finally there is GTA all the games in the series have one major fuck up, the cops only chase you and if a gang is shooting you and you shoot back in self defence the cops only chase you ,escort missions are bad for lacking AI and the games where the people in games where you can drive have a bad habit of stepping in front of you and ya run them down and you get shit for it like mercs2 that just drives me quackers

 

[Valkyira]

i think the ai in most stealth games is crappy. you hide in a little shadow and a guard is a cm away from you but cant see you.