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cmansurvives2
8 years ago

Enemy AI Making Some Battle Scenarios Impossible After Patch 1.2

Product: Star Wars Battlefront II
Platform:Microsoft XBOX One
What is your issue related to? General
Summarize your bug Tier 3 Onslaught Battle Scenarios are now virtually impossible thanks to Patch 1.2's braindead AI.
What is your gamertag/PSN ID/EA Account name? CMANsurvives2
How often does the bug occur? Every time (100%)
Can you tell us the date (MM/DD/YYYY) that you saw the bug? 03/03/2018
What time did you see the bug? (HH:MM AM/PM)
In what game mode did the bug occur? Arcade Mode
What is your time zone? PNT (MST) - GMT - 7:00
Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Play Tier 3 Battle Scenarios, more specifically "Hope Cannot Save Them" and "Embrace the Dark Side," as they are the best examples of this new painfully impossible AI.
What happens when the bug occurs? After the new AI update in Patch 1.2, many of the Tier 3 Onslaught Battle Scenarios, most notably "Hope Cannot Save Them" and "Embrace the Dark Side," have become virtually impossible to complete. Only a small fraction of all AI troops on the map will actually go towards the player, making it rare that the player will ever get to gain more time to add to the counter. Enemies will even run past the player when they are in plain sight, not even shooting even when you stand right in front of them. The new AI is constantly trying to find "snipe spots" to attack the player from, but this feature they're trying to pull off is buggy, and ends up with them just running across to the other side of the map. In fact, some of the AI do nothing at all. If one uses any ability that lets them look through walls, they will see that over half of the "Expert" AI is standing completely still, making no attempt to move, or even look in different directions.
What do you expect to see? Enemy AI actually attempting to attack the player instead of hiding and standing completely still on the other side of the map.
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The new Patch 1.2 "Expert" AI is incredibly braindead at this point. Enemies that stand completely still across the map without making an attempt to move or turn around are absolutely unacceptable in this sort of game. This will make getting the Smuggler outfit for Han Solo inaccessible for any players who didn't already have it before Patch 1.2. Other achievements will be inaccessible as well. The AI should go back to the way it was before Patch 1.2, or a new system must be implemented. It is incredibly frustrating having to deal with this when the challenges were actually somewhat possible before, albeit very difficult.

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  • Dacen_Thren's avatar
    Dacen_Thren
    8 years ago
    Yeah... I noticed the same thing. I haven't gotten around to do all the Tier 3 stuff before the patch, and now it's impossible for someone of my pathetic aiming skills to do the onslaught scenarios in the given time. Before, you could get lucky with the AI troopers running at you from around the map, but now they tend to stand completely still if they don't have line of sight to you, they no longer seem to be able to hear you. This makes many of the scenarios extremely hard, and some of them - at least at my skill level - completely impossible.
  • Alliecat7803's avatar
    Alliecat7803
    8 years ago

    Dang...it was bad enough getting that embrace the dark side with the old AI.  I tried this after seeing your report, and yeah...the new AI does not come towards you anywhere near fast enough to get the counter up.  I tried running around for a while before killing them, to see if they would kind of follow me and I could "round them up", so to speak, and that sort of worked, but once they were dead, the new AI that spawned in to take their place were nowhere near enough to me to get to them before time ran out.  So I hear your frustration.  

  • Anonymous's avatar
    Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    It's still entirely possible to complete. I tried Embrace the Dark Side after the patch when i saw someone else complaining about it. I completed it with mild difficulty in about 10 minutes. The trick is to use palpatine. Wait at the beginning where you spawn and you will always get at least 2-4 enemies running towards you every single time (i did it after patch remember) chain lightning these 4 and that should be an additional 12 seconds of time giving you a little over 30 seconds. Next step is to hunt down the rest in their castle spawn. After a little while of trying you should get a feel for the spawns and patterns and it'll be easier 

  • cmansurvives2's avatar
    cmansurvives2
    8 years ago
    Thanks, but, I tried that, and it didn't work. It's completely random. You have to get extremely lucky in order for all the ai to come at you. Also, you should be able to complete this challenge with any villain, not just Palpatine in a random situation. The AI needs to improve and even after Patch 2.0, it still has the problems it had in 1.2.

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