I've been using the Starcrack 5.5, cheating version, Goose v4, and the various chinese "hard" versions posted on these forums.
I'm aware this is a beta, and all of these AIs are works in progress... but at the moment not a single one of them is even as good as the Easy AI from Starcraft/Broodwar. I guess what confuses me is that I keep seeing posts on here about how hard these AIs are (cheating versions, mostly) and I can't help but wonder if I'm doing something wrong.
I mean, I find it very hard to believe anyone who's played SC/BW before would ever lose even a 1v3 against any of these AIs; let alone a 1v1. Likewise, these AIs seem to be running at full capacity; some are hitting 500-600 APM at times and doubling my resources. Because of this, I'm fairly certain everything is running properly.
I guess my question is... have most of you just never played an RTS before, or am I somehow causing the AIs to malfunction (I've tried rushing them, letting them rush me, dragging the match out, etc... doesn't seem to matter)?
Props to the people coding these AIs, because I'm sure it's a lot of work and I have no doubt it will continue to improve... but at the moment it only took my five year old less than 10 games to start beating the cheating AIs 100% of the time. Just seems like I'm missing something because I can't believe anyone could ever be challenged by the current AIs, and yet I keep reading forum posts by people who are.
I'm aware this is a beta, and all of these AIs are works in progress... but at the moment not a single one of them is even as good as the Easy AI from Starcraft/Broodwar. I guess what confuses me is that I keep seeing posts on here about how hard these AIs are (cheating versions, mostly) and I can't help but wonder if I'm doing something wrong.
I mean, I find it very hard to believe anyone who's played SC/BW before would ever lose even a 1v3 against any of these AIs; let alone a 1v1. Likewise, these AIs seem to be running at full capacity; some are hitting 500-600 APM at times and doubling my resources. Because of this, I'm fairly certain everything is running properly.
I guess my question is... have most of you just never played an RTS before, or am I somehow causing the AIs to malfunction (I've tried rushing them, letting them rush me, dragging the match out, etc... doesn't seem to matter)?
Props to the people coding these AIs, because I'm sure it's a lot of work and I have no doubt it will continue to improve... but at the moment it only took my five year old less than 10 games to start beating the cheating AIs 100% of the time. Just seems like I'm missing something because I can't believe anyone could ever be challenged by the current AIs, and yet I keep reading forum posts by people who are.