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Competition cometh......NOT! lol

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Competition cometh......NOT! lol

from Elemental Forums

http://www.ageofwonders.com/aow3live/

While Triumph Studios did make some fair graphics they never mastered a challenging AI and thus their games of the Age series were mediocre at best. I played the entire series and seriously the 1st one was their best one except for the fact it had no random map generator thus one had to play the same crappy maps over n over. Shadow Magic had the random map generator but did away with about half of the AI opponents one could have and the maps were smaller and the AI total crap. Where they screwed up is with if you eliminate any main wizard on the map the ENTIRE faction was lost. That's totally stupid really. The AI never was good at building wizards towers that allowed them to come back, therefore games were over before they started because of the ease it was to eliminate them before they even thought about building a 2nd wizards tower.

It's another money grub at the series because of those who don't wish for a challenge who will buy it because it's part of the series and how much they loved stomping the ai. lol

I'll stick with FE because I KNOW Froggy will make the AI as best as it can be in the long term. Triumph will take their money and run just like they did with Age of Wonders:SM.

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Reply #26 from Elemental Forums Top

@fallenchar

 

i completely agree.

and aow had a nice MP option which wife and me played a lot...

Reply #27 from Elemental Forums Top

Quoting Heavenfall, reply 25
@Willie Sanderson Your opinion is worthless because you're comparing a 10 year old title to a state of the art AI. Comment when it has been released and patched for 6 months if you want to "compare" how AI is challenging.
End of Heavenfall's quote

 

The AOW3 devs have probably looked at Elemental's AI some, as they are also going to be doing multithreaded AI.  I asked this question on thir forums and got a response from the dev, after I pointed out AI was the weak point of the AOW series.

 

Whether they walk the walk instead of just talking the talk we'll see in a few months.  Fantasy AI is much, much harder than space game AI.  I can tell Brad's put a lot more effort into the FE AI, but the GalCiv 2 AI is still harder at the proper AI level.  FE AI is very good right now outside of some silly  oversights.

 

 

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