Hermit Yoda on defense

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1341949" wrote:

"Bulldog1205;c-1341772" wrote:

"JohnnySteelAlpha;c-1341687" wrote:
Think about this though - do you want it working that way with the assumption that everyone else can / will copy this team and arena will become a perma-heal land of timeouts? I think the devs probably have it coded this way to avoid ridiculous time out teams (for all players) on D with a GK / Barriss / Yoda configuration. Just like they left SO coded to only use his OHKO move at 25% instead of 50% or Kylo to use his aoe rather than the OP stun / prot regen special...or how OP resistance AI doesn't target exposes becuase of infiniate TM loop. Also - Thrawn's AI is terrible for his leader. I think what they're doing here is giving you something OP on offense to attack and win / succeed with, but doesn't get to be too much on defense for other players attacking.

I obviously don’t know if they are intentionally doing this or not, but it is incredibly dumb if it was intentional. The defense is handicapped enough without intentionally making the AI dumber.

It's smart in some ways because they can create cool stuff without making it OP or breaking the game. The bad AI lets more people win and have fun. It's intentional 100%. Also, they can "force" the meta that people face by the AI programming. Kylo is the prime example - he would have been hard core meta for so long if he didn't use his AOE non-stop. A flip example is how they coded R2 - no one would use R2 if he used the aoe burn first instead of the smoke screen, but they wanted him to be meta on D so smokescreen got priority despite almost every other toon (kylo again for example) using their aoe special first if it's available. Another example here is how they coded CLS - he uses that CTA heal / prot regen non-stop and that's good. Team healers though, which is what that Yoda special is, no one is coded to use it in a situation where someone doesn't have health that is low. Is that optimal for Yoda, no - but you could also argue on D Barriss under a GK lead should still use her "heal" when at full health due to the team assist functionality.

I’m sorry, I just can’t understand this line of thinking. The AI acting stupid is never a good thing. Coding the game so inferior teams have a better shot against superior teams isn’t a positive. The AI should be coded to perform as optimally as possible. If they can’t do that, then they need to give us the ability to set parameters on defense ourself.