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The AI has been modified again!? What I’ve noticed...
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Many people have observed and reported the same AI changes. It is as close to a fact as we can get without actually looking at the source code ourselves. Changes have been made in the past without the Kabaam representitives being aware of it. There have been enough cases of Kabaam being less than straightforward with us enough to justify our mistrust. I do not personally agree with the ideas that they are doing this on purpose, but I also do not believe that they are being completely honest with us, whether deliberately or by a breakdown in communication. If they make a declaration and we observe something different, then we should speak up about it. No one here except the official Kabaam representitives can truly speak on the company’s behalf. Any forum member making a statement speaks only for themselves.
Honestly, the way some people are going into multiple threads and passing off their own ideas as facts about the game and the company is bordering on trolling. It may not technically violate the forum rules, but it is there all the same. It is another fact many of us have observed. Every time someone makes a thread to complain about an aspect of the game they don’t like, whether justified or not, someone is there to tell them that the game is working as intended. It’s filling up these threads and driving them off topic. It never changes anything anyway.
The AI is different. 3 years of muscle memory doesn’t change overnight.
Thank you, same thing I've been saying my game play didn't change so if im doing the same command and getting different result then obviously its not me, but that 7000 post person either work for kabbam or get a kick out of talking nonsense, i do programming for a living so he must know more than me when it comes to game and how a program operates
So everyone’s observations are conspiracy theories?
Right after 12.0 when facing AI 5k rating above
We can not connect specials after 5 hit combo.
We can no longer parry right after a 5 hit combo.
AI can double dash forward thus bypassing our evade.
AI can block mid combo.
AI can immediately attack after getting hit by a combo or special.
AI can block or attack right after performing specials or heavy.
AI can move forward during heavy extending the range.
AI can do an immediate heavy (we have to hold down first)
Some of these have been “fixed”, but explain to me how does one update have 8 “bugs” all at one time? And all pertaining to AI behavior? And only the leg twitchy AI have all these “bugs”?
So you admit that you have no idea what you're talking about and just spewing your theory as fact? Awesome!
you're right , there's a possibility that the game is just not functioning as they intended which happens all the time, i'm just surprise with so many people having the same issue kabbam hasn't came out and say " hey guys we've came to the understanding that many of you is having issues with game play , although we did nothing to change the AI or command on our end we will look into whats going wrong and try to fix it as soon as possible, your input means a lot to us and as a team we hope to have this issue resolve as soon as possible, thanks for your patients and together we can work to make the game play experience even better" . I would take that better than "Under investigation " there's things that's been under investigation since last year.
Rather than arguing and waving our proverbial phalli around and getting angry about something we clearly know very little about, we should, as a previous post suggests, be asking ourselves what questions should we be asking the forums mods, so they can do their thing with the game/development team (or whatever the team is called) to get the answers we need.
So why not kick off with a recurring theme in this thread:
Dear Kabam, my opponent in all game modes seems to be evading (dodging back, not spiderman evading) a lot more than I previous have experienced. Has anything changed with the game that could be causing this?
We all want a game that runs well and doesn't leave us feeling cheated, and short of everyone stopping spending money in protest, being constructive and open to encourage Kabam to do the same is probably the least stressful way of achieving that.
[edited a typo].
I agree. Too much focus on jargon rather than intent.
Building on my earlier post:
The response could have been to (for instance) evade incoming attacks all along, but the recovery was long enough that you would be punching them before the ai would implement it. It would be a lot easier if Kabam just said exactly what changed and said what they do to make the contest difficulty appropriate. To discount everyone’s experience by saying “ai doesn’t get changed without notice. Conspiracy theories to say anything else” or when users say something’s different perhaps it’s ai or block timing replying with some super specific thing that you didn’t do rather than saying what you did do. That’s the tactic my little boy uses to try and get out of trouble and it doesn’t work.
It's just like iRobot. Pretty soon the AI is going to force us to stay in our homes for our own safety.
Stop thinking in such narrow minded ways. All your talk is predefined and resistant to change.
Example:
"They're not altering the AI cause the developer said so and because the developer said so it must be true. Case closed".
"Because the developer is right, any other ideas is by definition a conspiracy theory. Look up the definition of conspiracy.".
"The developer is right and you're all conspiracy nuts" is basically your whole take on this ad nauseam.
It's 2-bit thinking man. Stop it. Slapping together a few incoherent ideas and passing it off as critical thinking doesn't do you or anyone else any good.
My thinking is neither incoherent, critical, narrow-minded, or resistant to change. What isn't doing any good is continuing to maintain the assertion that they're altering the AI and deceiving us. You've been campaigning that for weeks, if not months now. You're not the only one of course. It's conspiracy, plain and simple. No questions, rational debate, objective observations, just accusations and confirmation bias. If conversations stated observations, they would be a great deal more productive. There's no useful discussion in being adamant that they are not being honest.
The AI does things much differently than a year ago. This is based on objective recorded data and it's undisputed.
Therefore...SOMETHING HAS CHANGED....and we want to know what.
We've asked questions many times and Kabam has repeatedly said that nothing has been changed.
What Kabam says is the opposite of what's actually happening in-game.
Aren’t you getting bored with parry, combo, parry, combo, parry, combo, special and round and round and round we go?
Disagree, harder content should come in the form of harder quests, not changing the baseline way the AI fights. Its like changing the rules as you go. No one liked that kid on the playground. I dont think this is on purpose, but these bugs/changes suck.
Sorry, my comment wasn't showing up on Mobile and I thought it disappeared. Disregard the double response.
It’s your right to disagree but tell me one thing, why wouldn’t they change the way AI fights? This game is always evolving and it’s about time we see something new in the way they’re moving, fighting... Or you don’t like to change your routine that much?
Of course the bugs should be fixed and they should make things transparent with fight mechanics changes, and not really in a clear way, just a simple statement that AI movements will change every now and then. It’s quite simple actually, you adapt after a while, they change it, you get surprised now and then, you adapt again, they change it again... It should be like that if you ask me. Again, bugs aside, imo nothing has changed in what you can do with your champ, they just changed the way you have to approach every fight now and for me that’s actually interesting 😉
http://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/comment/91622
So combat mechanics ARE being overhauled!