Some thoughts on the (bad) enemy design.

Ah the joys of having to adjust pitch and the volume to get it to load. Kids don't know they are born nowadays.

A lovely and flawless explanation if I do say so myself. People are still going to complain. I don't see the enemies being any different then past ME games.

I don't know what you guys were doing for the 17 minutes of the video, but if all you were doing was watching your squad I think you need to straighten your priorities. I doubt that even if they shipped it with this "broken AI" you would hardly notice as you would have to go out of your way to do so. The saddest part is that I know that everyone complaining on this thread will buy the game and play it to completion anyways. So if this criticism isn't enough to stop you from buying the game then I don't think it's important enough to rant about.

Coming from the one assuming this is the release product of MEA and that no tampering of the game was made for the purpose of advertising. I do know you will buy the game, everyone on these forums will buy the game so get off the pedestal. And no... no normal person when playing the game will purposely sit there and stare at the AI not playing it. The one complaint you have you are blowing way out of proportion acting like it is Total War: Rome II or something. Finally, you seem to have the thought in your head that opinions can't be wrong, which they can. If 17 minutes of not the final product will discourage you from buying the game then fine, have fun playing nothing then. 

Are you done? As much as my faith in humanity loves to be tested against people who complain about things and bring no compromises to any problems, or who speaks of allowing others to voice their mind but not doing it themselves I think it will simply ignore your attempt to derail the work of a talented team of people for a dedicated fan base. If you truly won't buy the game because of a couple nit picks on a few videos that are otherwise examples of a quality game then fine. Nobody loses anything from you missing out on a good experience.

Since they started catering to that crowd starting with DAI.  They should put more of the emphasis on story and characters, but it looks like more has gone into the combat this time around.  Lets hope it's not at the expense of story and character.  Though, I'm not very optimistic from what I have seen so far.

For a player to not notice bad AI, means that the player is equally as bad.

Judging from most ME3MP pugs, I'd say the AI is actually better than most players.

"Wahhhh wahhhh, someone has a complaint about the game I love, wahhhhh."
Stop crying like a bitch and start making sense. If you want a discussion, you will have to read and understand my points not just babble about whatever you feel like.

"You seem to believe that every word that comes out of your mouth is true" No, I don't. I gave my honest opinion on what I think about AI. It is backed by videos and by common sense if you have played previous mass effects and if you watched Andromeda videos. Everything I described, you can clearly see.  For example: you can clearly see that fiend is standing still on multiple occasions and not being agressive towards player. You can clearly see he's struggling with pathfinding when he goes back and forth. Same applies for enemy around cover. Those are just few examples. If you decide to ignore these, then I dont' know what to tell you man, you clearly are denying proof in order to prove your point. How much of a harder evidence can one give you? If your opinion is that it's not a big deal for you, you are ok with AI, that's perfectly fine, but don't insult opinion of others who don't think the same. Your arguing here is like arguing that various difficulties of different games. Some people are ok with normal difficulty, others are not, they want more. What's wrong with that?

"stop acting like people can't go up and read what you said." I most definetly hope they will, so they can see how butthurt you are.

"Your "facts" are nothing more than conjecture based on nothing of substance." Perfect example how you absolutely ignore whatever I say in order to prove your point. My facts are backed by the videos like I already mentioned above. If you choose to ignore proof, that's your problem.

"When you see something deserving of complaint, then you can." So what is deserving of complaint? Only the things that you feel bad about? I can only complain about same things as you, because otherwise I'm a troll, hater, entitled etc? Besides you're such a blind fanboy that you probably wouldn't complain even if they sold you bag of dicks.

"But they have shown nothing but a quality game in their trailers" This is as subjective as it can get. And since we are all human, we have different opinions and preferences. The fact that you can't accept idea that someone else doesn't like same thing that you like and that you're ready to insult and attack them for it is proving that you are huge ignorant moron.
And since I can already predict that you're going to reply with "You just did the same, you don't accept others opinion", because that's all you do, I will answer you in advance:
I accept others opinion. Just because I reply to you to correct you, doesn't mean I can't accept other opinions. I'm not correcting you on your opinion, I'm correcting you on BS you say that doesn't make sense, just like I'm doing now. I never went to other positive topics to start talking shit about someone, like you do. If I put a comment, I am writing on topic and giving my opinion about what topic is about. I never quote a person who is happy and writes good things about andromeda and say to them "you're wrong, the game sucks, your opinion is wrong blah blah" I never did that. Quote me on it, if you can, if you feel otherwise. I also put quite a few positive posts on the forum here. There are things I like about the game and things I don't like about it. So why can't I write what's the thing I don't like and why I don't like it? Because morons like you get triggered?

For the extra facepalm, answer the next question that you previously so conveniently avoided. I'm going to spice it up some more. Here goes: Have you ever gave a negative feedback, opinion or comment about the game or a movie in any shape of form (by text, by voice or any other means)?
Also: Have you ever watched a game or movie trailer and decided to not see a movie or not buy a game based on what you have seen, or that you will wait for reviews?

We all know the answer to these questions, which obviously wrecks your whole argument.

"You need to start being more civil and not taking things you read on the internet so seriously. I will take the high ground here and say I'm sorry if I was too crude in my argument and didn't mean to offend anybody. But this shade-throwing is childish."
Coming from a guy who couldn't accept the fact that someonone else doesn't share you opinion on enemy AI, so decides to call him entitled, hater and whatnot. But, sure, I'm all for civil discussion.

"Because you not being reasonable the moment I tried to argue for the game, you immediately went off for no good reason, even though nothing I said was directly pointed towards you. Then you continued to degrade this argument."
You didn't quote me directly, but you were obviously adressing everyone who said bad things on enemy AI, which includes me. Do I have to pm everyone in this topic, so we gather together as a group to reply to you? You adressed a group of people, which I am a part of, so I replied. I don't know why you think I'm not allowed to comment on your post.


"Except those videos aren't enough, they aren't the final game and what was shown wasn't even that bad. You... are... blowing... them...out... of ...proportion."
Just because you say so, they are not enough? They are certainly enough for us to discuss. What the hell is the puprose of these forums if not discuss? Go tell those people over there who complain about the story and about Andromeda Initiative program, before playing the game. And we all know how nit picky can people get over the story in Bioware games.
Bioware is putting out videos not because they are bored, but because it's marketing and because potential customers need something to judge the game on, so they can justify spending 60 bucks in advance. Also, you won't hear any developer saying: We don't want our fans to discuss our videos. They most certainly are happy for fans to be so involved and compassionate about the game and want to discuss their work and give feedback. If the goal of these videos was not for customers to judge them, then there would be no marketing, because it would make no sense. Why watch the video if I'm gonna buy stuff while not knowing a single thing about it?
Idk under what rock you're living under, but people tend to check out most of the products before they buy, especially if it's costly. 60 bucks is quite some money. Your idea that we shouldn't judge the game before release is nonsense. Who will buy a product, if they can't get some info on it first? And who the hell will buy a product if the info they get doesn't convince them it's worth buying? And don't start with "it's clearly a quality product" again. You should know this is purely subjective and there is no point debating that. It's my money and I will decide what is worth my money and what the fuck I like and don't like.

"Something that is actually game breaking or even noticeable would be complaint worthy. Not the nitpicks that can be taken from these videos."
Idk how many more times I will have to say this to you, but here I'll try 5x: Combat is not nitpicking. Combat is not nitpicking. Combat is not nitpicking. Combat is not nitpicking. Combat is not nitpicking. Got it? If you don't care about combat, that's ok, it might be nit picking for you, but for others is not. Combat is a large part of the game. If enemy has bad AI and doesn't provide you with challenge, it makes whole combat not fun. (again, for some people) What is good story good for, if it has plot holes? What is a large team of squaddmates good for, if they are shallow characters and are boring? What is a huge map good for if it's empty etc etc (and before you get triggered, I'm not saying andromeda will have these issues, I just wanted to make examples. That's how it works with combat and AI.

"This doesn't "wreck" anything. The basis of my argument was that the evidence that you used for your side wasn't solid enough."
It's a fucking video, one of the most reliable sources for proof. What the hell man? Like I already said in one of my posts, I'm happy to be proven wrong by Bioware, until then, AI looks ridiculous and I explained why in details. If you fancy retarded AI that can't decide if they should attack you or not, great for you, but I don't. There are MULTIPLE videos of Andromeda showing this off. There are millions of videos and you can even experience it yourself that shows ME3 combat, so you can make comparisons like I did and what I mentioned about ME3. I compared melee. In ME3 if you were running towards a target to melee it, it wasn't free kill, most enemies fought back, they used melee too (geth, cerberus, reapers). In Andromeda, we see on MULTIPLE occasions that player run straight towards enemy and kill it and enemy did nothing, in some cases didn't even fight back at all! You call this not solid enough? There can't be any more clear proof. That is just one tiny example of enemy AI. Do you really expect Bioware to rewrite the whole AI script in few days to fix this problem?
And for the hundreth time, because I know you need it, AI behaviour will very likely not change on higher difficulty. They will just get stat boosts and maybe get more aggressive. They won't sudennly learn how to properly dodge (did you see any dodging from ranged attacks btw, like they did in ME3!), how to properly take cover and not bounce back and forth, how to melee etc..

"You're the only one who has thrown insults." From a guy who called me entitled little cuss. Ok.

EDIT: If you want to be civil, you will have to learn to respect opinions of others. I only reply to you and argue points where you are trying to say that I am unreasonable to have an opinion that I have (about enemy AI) or that there is no real proof or that AI is not bad or whatever. I'm arguing that and trying to prove my point. I'm certainly not shitting on your opinion. Like I said few times already, I'm fine with you thinking AI is no problem FOR YOU, but I'm not fine when you're trying to say AI is not problem FOR ME.