New AIPs in IA and MPI

[wug]

Hi guys!  There are now 5 levels of difficulty (ranging from "easy" to "insane") + stock 1.3 AIPs.  Thanks to GSH for fixing many, many AIP-related bugs.

Watch as the AI uses the bomber like it's going out of style, or play "count the Maulers" as they ravage your base.

Yes, the AI does scrap cheat on the harder difficulty levels, but it should be "smarter" than before.  Oh well, that's what you get without DLL magic.

Cheers!  Yeehaw!

[Saloei]

in EXTRA OPTIONS i see HUMAN RECYCLER with IA: Stock repair units and IA: EMPTIES + AUTOMATIC REPAIR and AI: EMPTIES + STOCK REPAIR UNIT. what is this?

[Spawn]

You can change what recycler you use in IA like you can in mpi.

[Saloei]

is there a way to play against CPU AI in multiplayer maps? what i mean is Me against CPU AI in multiplayer map. i recall Route66 mod allowed you to do such a thing. it was the most hectic gameplay ive experienced. there are many multiplyaer maps and few IAction maps.

[Spawn]

You could copy the maps from addon/missions/multiplayer to addon/missions/instant though it might give you a duplicate assets error after.

[Axeminister]

Yes, it's called MPI, use these maps to play against ai. And G66 isn't a mod, it's a mappack.

[Spawn]

It is a mod, just like ZST is, only it is completely compatiable with standard gameplay.

[mrtwosheds]

It might be that im just a bit soft or something, but I suspect the ai scrap cheat may need turning down just a little bit on the first mpi aip.
Playing alone on the default aip option, the player is very quickly faced with a "Unending convoy" of assault tanks, rocket tanks or whatever, that take down GT's faster than they can be built.

[wug]

Eh?  The stock 1.3 AIPs doesn't use scrap cheat, if that's what you mean.  It's the same as was in 1.3 PB2.  The bug fixes probably makes it work better, but nothing has really changed.

Only the hardest 3 AIP sets use scrap cheat, and were intended for multiple players vs. the AI.

Better get in more practice, methinks.

[llulla]

Do these levels of difficulty affect the AIPs skill and aggressivity i.e. a Sabre in Default level is less skilled or aggressive than in Extreme setting?

[Commando]

AIPs don't affect ai intellenge on the unit level.  AIPs only determine what the ai builds.  I don't believe you can specify the ai skill level in AI, only MPI do you have control over those settings.

[llulla]

What about the, sometimes huge, skill difference between my AI units and Computer AI units ( always talking of Instant Action)? Now, with 1.3 my units act like "sleeping beauties" and react only when is too late. Set a tank to guard an Extractor and you will notice it immediately.
Even when I order direct attack my units are easily  ripped to pieces from equivalent Computer AI in one-to-one combat .

[Raven]

Set a tank to guard an Extractor and you will notice it immediately.

I noticed that the other day, it's very good, I like that

[llulla]

What exactly did you like Raven? I was saying that your Scav maybe half blown away while the guarding unit awakes to to take some action... . That is somehow weird behavior.

[Raven]

Really? I told some scouts to defend an extractor (literally selected them and pointed to the ext and pressed space) and they attacked anything in sight/radar range/engage range thingy without fail. How wierd is that? Though it was g66... The friendly AI skill level was set on max, thats probably what did it.

If that is the case then maybe someone should check that out...Use some of that AI code in 1.3?
I don't *do* AI so I can't say I know what I'm talking about