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Can we get smarter Expert-level NPCs?
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MidniteOwl1913✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »i guess you dont play many matches with hlaalu against novice lolSeraphayel wrote: »What? Novice NPCs are an absolute joke to play against, they have no strategy at all and do the weirdest and dumbest moves (and I started playing ToT just 3 weeks ago).jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »You don't have to though? If you find that Experts are too strong, simply play Proficient or Novice NPCs. If all you really want to do is achieve a material goal like a lead then there's no reason to interact with Experts.katanagirl1 wrote: »jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »katanagirl1 wrote: »No thanks. I need to start doing these again for a lead and I don’t care to have to spend any more time than necessary to get the wins and turn in the quest.
I'm not asking for Novices to be made more challenging, only Experts. You can still get the same rewards from any difficulty, I just want Experts to live up to their rank.
I play the expert npcs.
Novice and Proficient NPCs are currently over-tuned, and from personal experience playing against Expert NPCs (at the moment) is the easiest way to win.
I've played against all levels and Novice/Proficient are the only ones to constantly spam patrons (Orgnum Spam) or try to force patron wins, which forces you to constantly have to play the patrons to avoid a silly defeat. I personally think that Expert are the easiest and that's what I choose to play.
they spam hlaalu over everything else and will never have any gold generation
if rahjiin is in play just throw a few bewilderments at them and they soon wont be able to much of anything because they never remove the bewilderments lol (if they get card removers, they remove the gold coin cards first lol)
Hmmm. Maybe I need to try playing Hlaalu/Red Eagle and see if I can get the NPC to self-destruct every match.
I posted a screenshot of an NPC doing exactly this a while ago. If you let them, they, will completely delete their entire deck:
It was actually part of the motivation for this thread. Expert-level NPCs should not be doing dumb stuff like this.
pretty sure all levels of the NPC will do this, ive seen a novice do this too
Yes, but I understand that there are a lot of people who don't want the difficulty to increase as it has for Novice in the recent patch, and so I'd be more than happy if they only improved Experts.
The "improvements" to the startegies was only supposed to be for the expert NPCs but somehow it was the novice NPCs that were changed. And not for the better.
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disky✭✭✭✭✭MidniteOwl1913 wrote: »jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »Necrotech_Master wrote: »i guess you dont play many matches with hlaalu against novice lolSeraphayel wrote: »What? Novice NPCs are an absolute joke to play against, they have no strategy at all and do the weirdest and dumbest moves (and I started playing ToT just 3 weeks ago).jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »You don't have to though? If you find that Experts are too strong, simply play Proficient or Novice NPCs. If all you really want to do is achieve a material goal like a lead then there's no reason to interact with Experts.katanagirl1 wrote: »jbarnhill1b14_ESO wrote: »katanagirl1 wrote: »No thanks. I need to start doing these again for a lead and I don’t care to have to spend any more time than necessary to get the wins and turn in the quest.
I'm not asking for Novices to be made more challenging, only Experts. You can still get the same rewards from any difficulty, I just want Experts to live up to their rank.
I play the expert npcs.
Novice and Proficient NPCs are currently over-tuned, and from personal experience playing against Expert NPCs (at the moment) is the easiest way to win.
I've played against all levels and Novice/Proficient are the only ones to constantly spam patrons (Orgnum Spam) or try to force patron wins, which forces you to constantly have to play the patrons to avoid a silly defeat. I personally think that Expert are the easiest and that's what I choose to play.
they spam hlaalu over everything else and will never have any gold generation
if rahjiin is in play just throw a few bewilderments at them and they soon wont be able to much of anything because they never remove the bewilderments lol (if they get card removers, they remove the gold coin cards first lol)
Hmmm. Maybe I need to try playing Hlaalu/Red Eagle and see if I can get the NPC to self-destruct every match.
I posted a screenshot of an NPC doing exactly this a while ago. If you let them, they, will completely delete their entire deck:
It was actually part of the motivation for this thread. Expert-level NPCs should not be doing dumb stuff like this.
pretty sure all levels of the NPC will do this, ive seen a novice do this too
Yes, but I understand that there are a lot of people who don't want the difficulty to increase as it has for Novice in the recent patch, and so I'd be more than happy if they only improved Experts.
The "improvements" to the startegies was only supposed to be for the expert NPCs but somehow it was the novice NPCs that were changed. And not for the better.
I understand, that has been explained a few times. Clearly it was a mistake and it should be fixed.0