Battle AI Blog

[antisocialmunky]

That's some good insight. Never thought about that happening but I guess those are the risks you take when you hire a specialist like that. Maybe NTW will have some of the bugs worked out...

I do disagree about the 'canned reactions' part. All game AIs use a deductive process to narrow down a set of possible actions to a single action that the AI has been scripted to do. It doesn't make them up as they go. I guess if you had some sort of crazy evolutionary algorithm for an adaptive AI like everyone wants to see it would be different but ETW is just as canned as everything else.

At the end of the day, I rather see CA produce a game as great as they market it than another total failure of a game.