I’ve tried to adapt to it but it’s just got to change.

I think we’ve all noticed changes in the AI and how it feels in game. The recent change to this AI, I think it’s too much.
In places like AQ where I personally don’t have the resources to be getting KO’d at all really but the AI feels like I’m playing against another player at times.

1. Specials: defenders either don’t throw specials like at all unless it’s an sp3 or when you’re dashing into them so it’s undexable.

2. Intercepts: I get this especially when playing Hercules, the AI can light intercept me and proceed to just obliterate my health.

3.Recovery: the AI can now recover from specials / heavy attacks ridiculously fast so you end up being punished for something they should be punished for missing.

These are just a few of the problems I’ve been experiencing with the new AI and I don’t think it serves the purpose it’s there to serve as in some cases I feel like I’m playing another player. I have taken a long break from this game for about 11 months until I came back at around late December so these changes might be more gradual for the rest of you.

But surely im not the only one that feels this way?

Comments

Fantomaxop

Not the only one, i'm noticing frustrating decrease of AI recovery time as well.
This is especially noticeable with specials that create a lot of distance between attacker and defender, like with Sentinel's sp 1 or Korg one. Trying to punish them is now a gamble with a chance of getting parried for no reason

ProjecteX

Absolutely agree with both comments. It’s lead to me having to take much more risks when punishing missed heavies or take twice as long in most fights

Dr_Phant0m

Yesterday in battlegrounds I had to fight Hyperion with scorpion, I punished his sp1 successfully but when I attempted to throw my second hit he just broke out of my combo and sp1 me which made me lose 50% of my health. Wish I had screen recorded it

Chuck_Finley

Of the 3 - recovery is so overdone. Dexxing specials and trying to punish the defender is a coin flip. Honestly, half the time I am happy if I just hit into their block. Dexxing a special only to be hit with an intercept when you are trying to punish the defender is beyond absurd.

Give the attacker the same ability or knock it off. Our recovery time is not the same as the defender.

Bugmat78

The AI recovery time has been a joke for over a year. I recall a player posting a YouTube video on here where he knocked down storm X and she was back up before he had recovered from the heavy he knocked her down with, smh.

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BigBlueOx

Let me add to this list the recent trend of whiffing lights and mediums intentionally…. It’s even more fun when they work like King Groot or Luke Cage’s Sp1 and they get the ability to “electric slide” that whiff into my face.

DrZola

What I wonder is this: when the forums team says “there haven’t been any changes to the AI,” perhaps they mean they aren’t aware of any changes to the AI. Alternatively, perhaps they mean there haven’t been any specific changes to AI that weren’t made to the overall game in general.

Maintaining the position that the AI hasn’t changed in the face of the obvious undermines game team credibility. Recovery, noted above, is one area that defies explanation. I would also include the AI ability to shallow evade directly into a combo or Special. That kind of rapid fluidity hasn’t always been part of the game and, in light of recurring controls issues, isn’t easily replicable by the human player.

Dr. Zola

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Kabam Miike

Hey all,

Please remember to post these bug reports using the bug report template in the Bugs and Known Issues Forum. These are not "Changes" to the AI, and you can learn more about that and why you need to report these as individual bugs in our post here: https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/329945/why-is-it-so-hard-to-navigate-input-issues/p1