Incompetent AI Clans (hard mode)

18 votes

So playing through conquest on hard to try the new owl clan and I noticed AI clans are just dying/losing without any interaction with me. And these aren't always missions where thats normal. market places are stronger and wolves killed 2 factions. me vs 3 npc. I was attacked twice before the other clans essentially died to neutrals or starving.

So what I've noticed. AI clans build way too much military and then don't defend themselves against neutrals. Military will not move into the zone. With the abundance of military they may not have the food to support themselves or healers and over time they just die to neutrals.

something seemed to happen with owl patch that made hard mode trivial in conquest.

1. solo Conquest
2. Windows
3. DirectX
4. yes, I completed a conquest run and every single mission had bad AI

5 & 6 I can try to get a video of a game where this is happening, with seed.

Approved AI Suggested by: Todd (09 Dec, '23) • Upvoted: 19 Apr • Comments: 4

Comments: 4

12 Dec, '23
DarkICE09
I've noticed this happening on co-op conquest since the Owl Clan patch.
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12 Dec, '23
slate57
I only play single player mode. Most of the time I play a custom game usually Domination or Map Special. I use the Clan of the Horse 90% of the time. Since my purchase and download of the Owl DLC I have repeatedly experienced the following bugs/bad changes:

1. The enemy AI Clans are very passive in Extreme Mode. They sometimes starve to death due to no colony expansion. The game is boring as a result.
2. Random viking yells and calls for no game-play reason. It can literally scare you when it happens.
3. When directing a Villager/villagers to relocate (for any reason) to a friendly zone they sometimes run directly through adjacent enemy/hostile zones and get killed.
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17 Dec, '23
Chris
Same here. Multiplayer humans x ai. Every AI seems to behave like on easy or normal level. Noticed it since the winter/owl update as well
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19 Dec, '23
Robotto
We play on EXTREME and here are some things we've seen:

My friend was rushed by a warband of 15 and completely taken out of the game before 801 was over.
I have had 5 out of 6 enemy warchiefs and multiple units decolonize a vital tile that I needed and sit in that tile for the rest of the game making it nearly impossible for me to grow.
I have been attacked by three clans simultaneously, 2 separate tile mercenary attacks back-to-back, 4 myrkelfs, and it was either 4 wolves or 4 draugr at the same time. Mind you I was being raided but that green raven the entire game, but when all of these things happened at once I managed to survive with only 4 villagers left =) Still won that one.
I have been knocked out of a few of our conquest games (although I believe only when I was playing Lion),
With this being said, it seems like if the AI does knock one of us out it just stops right there as if the script is complete (this is not me complaining).