Auxin
December 21st, 2013, 11:40
Hello!
To start off here's a cliche introduction: I played for my whole life and finally decided to register here. I've been lurking for a long time on and off and after my most recent return to Dungeon Keeper I discovered KeeperFX. It really is amazing, so thanks for your ongoing work Mefistotelis and whoever else has contributed to it. In all honesty I probably would no longer be playing the game (I find DOSBox etc unbearable) if your project didn't exist.
Anyway, to get to the issue I'm having the AI is just really terrible.. as in it feels like I'm playing against a person who has never played an RTS before. I'm not entirely sure if this is only related to KeeperFX but I remember the AI been harder to play against back in the day. After playing for a few weeks this is what I have noticed:
+ The AI refuses to train its minions for the majority of the game, particularly after it places a Workshop. This means that while I'm playing the game as intended, I am doing so for no purpose; all the AI minions are level 1-2 for essentially the whole game. It is present in the campaign, and this issue is exacerbated in '-1 player' mode as the AI don't start with experienced minions nor a lot of gold.
+ The AI refuses to place traps/doors despite having constructed loads of them.
+ The AI constantly blows all its gold on rooms and thus its creatures all leave (contributes to level 1-2 issue).
+ The AI doesn't seem to use spells, other than Lightning and sometimes Chicken in the campaign.
I'm sure there's more I could list but along with those above, if it's not just a problem for myself they have probably been reported already. If you aren't having this problem, please reply! I really want to play some Dungeon Keeper again and join the community, but right now I can't enjoy the game because I'm not sure that there is anything I can do about the AI.
Sorry if I sound like a cynical asshole or any synonymical description of that.
To start off here's a cliche introduction: I played for my whole life and finally decided to register here. I've been lurking for a long time on and off and after my most recent return to Dungeon Keeper I discovered KeeperFX. It really is amazing, so thanks for your ongoing work Mefistotelis and whoever else has contributed to it. In all honesty I probably would no longer be playing the game (I find DOSBox etc unbearable) if your project didn't exist.
Anyway, to get to the issue I'm having the AI is just really terrible.. as in it feels like I'm playing against a person who has never played an RTS before. I'm not entirely sure if this is only related to KeeperFX but I remember the AI been harder to play against back in the day. After playing for a few weeks this is what I have noticed:
+ The AI refuses to train its minions for the majority of the game, particularly after it places a Workshop. This means that while I'm playing the game as intended, I am doing so for no purpose; all the AI minions are level 1-2 for essentially the whole game. It is present in the campaign, and this issue is exacerbated in '-1 player' mode as the AI don't start with experienced minions nor a lot of gold.
+ The AI refuses to place traps/doors despite having constructed loads of them.
+ The AI constantly blows all its gold on rooms and thus its creatures all leave (contributes to level 1-2 issue).
+ The AI doesn't seem to use spells, other than Lightning and sometimes Chicken in the campaign.
I'm sure there's more I could list but along with those above, if it's not just a problem for myself they have probably been reported already. If you aren't having this problem, please reply! I really want to play some Dungeon Keeper again and join the community, but right now I can't enjoy the game because I'm not sure that there is anything I can do about the AI.
Sorry if I sound like a cynical asshole or any synonymical description of that.