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Which guns and ships for Bots?

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Siracs:
I would asume that the bots will maybe change their behavior, shoot some guns better or worse. Learn maybe utility guns etc.

The development of the new bots for the adventure mode is in progress and I would be astonished, if there will be no backports in some way or another.

The numbers I found out testing, maybe change in the next builds of the game.

It's good bots are not planed to outperform humans.  ;D

HamsterIV:
Great job on the research.

Even though bots have a high hit rate with the Gatling gun they don't focus on shooting the hull, so many of those bullets are wasted against the balloon.  This can be somewhat negated by flying beneath the target so the hull represents a greater percentage of the target area. Likewise you can force the AI to target the balloon with carronade by flying above the enemy's hull.

When flying with just AI, I try and take fool proof weapons like the manticore, banshee, or flamethower. This way it doesn't matter what you it or how you time hull breaks. Ideally I try and get one player to be gunner and leave the AI to repair duty. I am pretty sure muse programmed the AI to perform sub optimally to encourage social play.

Kamoba:
AI light carronade shooting was fixed recently, so that the AI prioritises balloon, so a light carronade is now useable by AI, though often times a player will pop a balloon faster, its not as bad as it was.
However with this change also came a.change in the AI Gatling behavior, an ai shooting Gatling will sometimes try to disable components (Main engine, turning engines etc) if the ship os steady and the shot os good, which means longer time before hull break, a real pain when flying a gat banshee squid and holding positions on enemy blind spots..

Personally I have most effective AI use on Squid with a rear mine launcher or flare to keep them shooting the front and side guns.

AI make terrible ranged gunners, they have a max distance for targeting, so you can have a mercury and a target at 1k distance and the AI will not shoot, thus making sniping ineffective.

So although they can do some stuff, for diverse gameplay real players still hold trumps, its better to get a crew of humans. :)

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