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[razor436]

This really isn't criticism, more like mod testing

Anyways, I fel the game is a litlle more sluggish, Is that just my imagination?

Also, I played on hard and I won a take-and-hold victory. I was frustrated because the enemy did not seem to prioritize taking away my critical points.

Wtih 6 min countdown, I had 3 CPs (out of total of 3), the AI took one back. The tau AI seemed to thing the job was done and let the countdown continue.

Later on, I took back that CP so I had a total of 3. When the countdown hit about 30sec, then the AI decided to send out 2 squads to decap 2 CPs. He was too late in arriving. Despite the CPs were undefended.

So what I am getting at is that the AI did not give itself enough time to decap the CPs to stop the countdown. Also the tau AI had a chaos AI ally that did not bother to decap.

I think I attached the right file.

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[thudo]

Hmmm.. Doesn't sound like our AI (which is overly aggressive in taking points regardless of the game rules). What map was this? Was it 2vs2 T&H? What was the teams and who was the AI? Skill level? Sorry.. I am @ work presently so cannot view the replay.

As for sluggish.. again.. our fleet of testers never felt that.. you mean "game preformance" or "AI laziness"?

[razor436]

Sorry.. I am @ work presently so cannot view the replay.

Great to hear you are hard at work on skirmnish AI mod 2.1

The conditions were standard: Annihalate + take and hold+ control area
map: Mountain trails 2v2
AI: Hard

as for the slugishness, i meant game ran a little slower, but that was only a first impression. I'll get back to you on that after I tested it a little more and compared it to original DC.

[Malkor]

For the game running slower, it's possible your CPU is barely at the spec DoW originally requires and that tiny bit more the AI uses is pushing it. Turn off everything running in the background (especially virus scanners like Norton that eat tons of resources).

[razor436]

To Malkor:

I've got:
Pentium4 3.4GHz, 1GRAM, RADEON x850 256MB

I am running the game at max graphics settings, But I'll have to test this properly later.

[thudo]

Razor - yeaa thats my old computer I used to have. I expect DC to run slower on it since he has more gfx than even WA. Adding the Advanced AI intrduces more load for the CPU and thus more work for everything else. Makes sense - more lines of code - more the AI is doing. Might want to drop some grapihic settings and check nothing is running in your startup, services.. U defrag regularily?

[Malkor]

My athlon 2500 handles it just fine. Even with fraps recording.

[Duo]

athlon 64 3700+/2 gb of ram/7800GTX 512 handles it like i charm tho i did disable shadows because i think there pointless and drop my frames down to 8 in large battles :(