The Daily Update at the Com

**Cheetah** · 07-10-2009, 23:19

I tend to agree with the "don't fix it if it ain't broken" crowd. I just do not see why you want to put time and effort into "fixing" something which works fine, when we all know that there are lot more pressing problems with the campaign AI and with the diplomacy.

**nafod** · 07-11-2009, 03:37

Of all the things to fix in this title, Naval battle balancing would be in the bottom tier of my list.

The land battle AI is dismal at best.

The strategic Black Knight AI prevents me from playing more than a few turns before quitting in disgust. Continually annihilating opponents with no fear of loss, and no chance at peace is only fun once.

And CA wants to ensure players use more frigates and sloops in Naval MP? Are you kidding?

However as I don't play MP I see this having minimal impact on the SP campaign as I doubt the AI will grasp the concepts.

**Lemur** · 07-11-2009, 05:00

Tried it tonight with the hotfix; someone's been twiddling with the AI, most definitely. Didn't play long enough to see the full scope, but things have changed.

**oz_wwjd** · 07-11-2009, 05:34

Personally I'd rather they fix the CTD bugs as in my past 3 games, I've had issues where the AI gets "stuck"or something taking it's turn,which makes the game unplayable,as you never get past that point. I'm using a pratically new computer,so it'shouldn't be an issue. also I've just found an annoying new featire,3 times in a row the gamr has crashed in the middle of a naval battle. So far I seem to be spending more time restarting my computer than actually playing the game..

**Sheogorath** · 07-11-2009, 07:02

Originally Posted by Lemur

Tried it tonight with the hotfix; someone's been twiddling with the AI, most definitely. Didn't play long enough to see the full scope, but things have changed.

Yup. The campaign AI seems to be back to it's old ways. I started a Russian campaign and the only DoWs I got were from Dagistan and Courland...Courland didn't like my buying Estonia off of Poland, apparently, and Dagistan was just Dagistan.

I do note, however, that once war is declared the AI is still not very willing to accept peace.

Anybody seen if they've fixed the alliance penalty yet?

**Slaists** · 07-11-2009, 08:48

Originally Posted by Lemur

Tried it tonight with the hotfix; someone's been twiddling with the AI, most definitely. Didn't play long enough to see the full scope, but things have changed.

Hmm... what hotfix? My steam still says, the latest update is from July 1st. I'm online, btw.

**Fisherking** · 07-11-2009, 10:03

Originally Posted by Slaists

Hmm... what hotfix? My steam still says, the latest update is from July 1st. I'm online, btw.

The last time I was on my version of the game was 1.3.1 build 1121.1890

that may or my not have changed, as they don’t document each tweak they do.

Some of these only take a few seconds to install but you may notice some differences while playing.

Steam usually only covers the major changes.

**Fisherking** · 07-11-2009, 12:00

Yes this is a double post but I just wanted to bring you attention to the fact that we do have a new build.

The new information on the start screen is:

v1.3.1 Build 1139.2308