So which AI is hardest mode for Campaign?

[vibrasphere]

Because I made it to mission 6 on Atreides with qBotBrutal and enemy didn't attack me once in any mission, maybe sent some troopers or a light vehicle here and there, but that's about it. I don't think it's working right.

The enemy never attacks, they only defend their base with their army. I just safely pump out an army and move in. It's absolutely not fun.

I was on official latest release 0.96.4, but now I will try out 0.96.5.a4.

edit: I did test SmartBot vs qBotBrutal on custom game and SmartBot won. Also qBotBrutal on custom game in your team just spams like 10+ harvesters. I don't know if this is right way of testing, I just want to enjoy campaign for all houses.

What is the best/most balanced or most challenging/hardest AI for campaign? It's 100% not qBotBrutal.

[vibrasphere]

Hi, I did more testing with F6 (skipping two minutes) and looks like attacks always start at 10:00 minutes. Is the in-game skip time feature adjusted to the game speed slider?

I also watched some YouTube videos such as this last Ordos mission against qBotBrutal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPQjI116VEc and looks like first attack also starts at ~10 minutes.

So maybe everything is OK, I might've was just been confused.

[Phil]

hey, if you change the settings, you need to start a new campaign. The settings do not get updated dynamicly. Maybe it helps. I figured that out by changing a lots settings and only the new campaign, had the new options activated.

[vibrasphere]

Oh okay. Thanks for response. I guess this is resolved.

[Stefan van der Wel]

Quantbot now attacks after taking damage from the player. This could be due to the carryall drop the ai makes on your base on different levels
https://sourceforge.net/projects/dunelegacy/files/dunelegacy/0.96.5alpha/dunelegacy-0.96.5alpha5-windows10-x64.zip/download

[Stefan van der Wel]

yeah i should probably change it but for tech level 8 it's a 12 minute wait. I should fix this to be something more like when contact is first made

if(gameMode == GameMode::Campaign){
    // Wait a while if it is a campaign game

    switch(currentGame->techLevel){
        case 6: {
            attackTimer = MILLI2CYCLES(540000);
        }break;

        case 7: {
            attackTimer = MILLI2CYCLES(600000);
        }break;

        case 8: {
            attackTimer = MILLI2CYCLES(720000);
        }break;

        default: {
            attackTimer = MILLI2CYCLES(480000);
        }

    }
}

[vibrasphere]

Hi, thanks for response. Any ideas when official stable release? Last update on official website is from 2016 :)

[Stefan van der Wel]

when i feel like doing it lol. hopefully in time for movie release :)

[Stefan van der Wel]

i released a version that attacks on contact. i tried some single player and even on medium its too hard for me! :( i need to get that campaign ai fixed