Pathfinding and the A.I's

Orrion14·2/19/2015, 6:23:19 AM·0 votes·661 views

Now, I know people are going to critique me with "oh, you're just clicking wrong"- that is just not the case here. There are millions of times I have right-clicked slightly to the right or left behind a turret, and instead of, you know, going to that exact spot, I start to dart in the opposite direction only to do a 160-degree turn and head in the direction I had clicked.

Normally, that would be no problem for me, as I could deal with it if there were no consequences... but there are. I've died five times to that really, really cheap control bug(?) and have raged at it more than I have at Dark Souls because it EXISTS... and it's the only way to move your character at all. AT ALL. Note, this applies to PvP too, sadly.

My second issue is with the AI bots. They seem to have reduced CD, as well as massive HP Regen out of anyone's Line of Sight. It's topped with the fact they seem to have an infinite LoS, so god help you if you come across an A.I. Lux, because even if you should be logically out of Line of Sight of her, she uses her long-range Ultimate skill to get a kill, with you left WTFing about it.

Moreso, I have noticed with Annie bot that her Ultimate (Tibbers) has a cooldown that's shorter than Yasuo's Ultimate, which is 55 seconds. Now, a human playing as her has a locked 100 second cooldown to that skill, reduced minorly by CD-reduction items. From testing, the lowest cooldown I could get was 55 seconds... which is exactly what the bots have.

I can deal with the fact they have a gold advantage, as they never touch their jungle enemies, but I find it REALLY cheap when I die to Cait's Ultimate when she just used it 25 seconds ago. Sure, it's just one large bullet that has homing... but you can't avoid it save for a really well-timed Flash, which they also seem to be able to spam as I fought Ezreal. Yes, I know he has a teleport skill, but that has a unique animation to it. He literally used Flash two times in a row, followed up with Heal, and THEN used his teleport to get away from me and my 1500-crits.

I didn't set this to Nightmare in DOOM, so the AI has no right to be so cheap and cheat in their fighting. I know they're bots, but come on. This should not be a rage game, nor this type of game if they can cheat like so, since it ruins balance... which is what this game is/was based upon.

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