Team AI is a complete joke. Needs a LOT of polishing before release.

I think the guy playing in the IGN video specifically states that the version he is playing is an early one of the game and that would mean it is not the version of the game that just went gold. He also states that the Krogan fight at the video's end is easier than what BioWare claim the final version will be.

So...No one here has any idea about what the AI is actually like if, if, if, this was an early build. You are drawing a ton of conclusions based on a play-through a magazine guy did in a build that was a precursor to the final one. Try to relax. We'll know how it all shakes out on the 21st.

Doesn't look worse than ME2/3 and I didn't expect anything more. I mean after you aquire Garrus in ME2 he seems to have aquired a taste for catching rockets with his face.

Yeah, if you didn't bitch and moan about every tiny detail in a game that hasn't been released yet, I would pay attention.

Um, yeah, Mass Effect isn't XCOM or Dragon Age. It's never been squad-based. Most people brought squaddies for the banter and the powers they offer, not because they were crack shots that did half the work themselves. Shepard always did the vast majority of the heavy lifting in actual gameplay.

Well if that's the case then expect people to ignore or dismiss your criticism if you're going to treat them like that.

I didn't see anything that gave any indication the squad AI has gotten dumber since the trilogy. I think I'll live.

My personal preference is not to micro-manage my squadmates.
I can tell them where to take position and when to focus on particular foes.

Beyond that, whether they are tactical geniuses or meatshields, I'll adjust accordingly.

The game itself is 55GB. No one in their right mind would put out or even need a 55GB patch anytime soon.




A lot could happen in three weeks; hell, a lot can happen in a day with coding if you already know ahead of time what you need to address and what's actually causing issues. Three weeks is a decent amount of time. Had they delayed the game a month to April 21st, the same amount of time would've been taken to polish things up and the game would've gone gold March 16-21, they would've stopped development, and shoved the game out of the door for it to be pressed.


Sure, it may not be up to your expectations, but it'd be better than it would've been without the patch.

AI being stupid and standing out in the open is the name of the game; they did it in past Mass Effect games, they did it in Binary Domain, they did it in Army of Two, they did it in Resident Evil, they did in Gears of War. Any game with companions that are supposed to piggyback off of you or need to be controlled and managed by you always end up doing stupid shit unless you micromanage them with commands or AI routines--and even with those, they end up doing stupid shit.

What I saw was no worse than what I've been experiencing the past two months replaying the trilogy or playing Gears of War 4.

this comment is a bit on the strawnan.side. most of the people who are on the opposite side of this argument from you are making the point that bioware ai has always not been that great.

And its not just bioware games either. In roughly twenty years of gaming i can probably count on one finger the amount of games which had good companion/ squad ai and even that game is questionable because the companion in question couldn't die.


uh...no. The scene in question isn't even in the book.

Clearly, you have horrible taste if you hate the two best characters in Inquisition.

I never told Sera to fuck off, I just left her on the bench the entire game. If what we saw is typical of Peebee I may have to do the same to her. Couldn't really bring myself to boot her, we have such a small squad as it is.