after about 10 hours of play, I have just about decided I dont like this
game. i mean, i love it… but at the same time i am starting to hate it,
for a few specific reasons… well, i guess just one reason really… AI
that is dumb as a box of rocks… not necessarily enemy ai, mind you… my
own crew’s ai, and friendly ship ai… specifically the combat ai…
the combat ai is just unbelievably stupid… for example, during the
mission where you attack a shipyard with the enterprise… an easy battle,
really, took no damage at all, had all the escorts destroyed and the
station disabled… pretty much just flying around it pounding it… i get
it within about two pixels of destroyed, and what do i see? the
enterprise… flying directly into the station at high speed. enterprise
goes boom, game over. i mean, WTF??
but that isnt the worse of it, by a long shot… the worst is my own ship
AI in combat… say i pick "close distance"… does the ship close? hell
no. half the time, it spins in place like it cant figure out what it is
supposed to be doing. in fact, anything short of "at will" nearly always
results in my ship doing nothing at all, with the speed rapidly (several
times a second) alternating between 0 and 9, back and forth, resulting in
no real movement of the ship… or, say i pick "fore attack" so i can
launch some torps… again, the ai freaks out, does mostly nothing. and
forget trying to effectively control ship facing…
now, granted, this can be overcome by directly controlling the ship
myself… and this is exactly what i have had to do at this point… but
that frankly just pisses me off… why? well, this is SUPPOSED to simulate
starship command… but when was the last time the captain in a star trek
episode had to fly the damn ship himself? i can see it now…
Picard: "lieutenant, close distance with the target."
Lieutenant: "aye, sir."
Picard: " NOW would be good. hello? uhm you might want to SHOOT them now…
oh hell, get up you freaking retard! ill fly this ship myself!"
yeah, like that happens. and this is NOT why i purchased this game. if i
wanted to fly a ship, id play freespace or something…
im going to give it a few more hours to see if it improves, if not i think
its going back to the store… i might get it again if they ever patch the
AI… sigh what a disappointment…
-Tim
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