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Subject: AI's Are Stupid

Not in the intelligence meaning(though that's true as well), but in fighting.

Every single weapon cache in the game has dead NPCs around it. I can only think of three(3) caches with multiple factions of bodies.

1. AotCR - Cavern with Bridge - Dozen Marines & Hunter
2. Two Betrayals - Third Pulse Generator Ledge - Camo Elites & Flood
3. The Maw - Camo Elites & Flood - behind blast door near Sentinel/Flood spawn

I'm fairly certain that these are all of them, thus proving that if you(the player) are not around, they are all incredibly stupid.

  • 07.18.2008 3:04 PM PDT
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Yes, because they just stand there and get killed when your not there. They also won't drive a Warthog.

[Edited on 07.18.2008 7:50 PM PDT]

  • 07.18.2008 7:49 PM PDT
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AI's when not in the presence of the MC do seem to lack any survival instinct! Case in point: I was playing SC the other day and had managed to get the warthog and a marine up onto the interior of the island. I took it up there specifically to use the chain gun (with or without my marine) to long distance target shoot at the grunts and jackals around the downed pelican. After de-activating the security system I came back up and for giggles decided to stand on top of the chain gun and pepper away with my pistol. As the jackals lobbed charged shots back up at me some of them would hit the marine manning the gun (I would jump up just before the shot would hit). He would gasp or moan or do whatever complaining dialogue the marines do when they get hit by plasma BUT WOULD NOT FIRE BACK! I know he could see them milling around down there because before I decided to stand on top of the gun, I manned it to make sure he had lines of sight to fire back. When I got bored taking half the jackals out (the other half is out of line of sight for where you can get the warthog) I pushed/meleed the warthog off the edge down to the island. The marine got thrown from the hog at the end, but survived. I watched him slowly start to shuffle his right towards the remaining jackals. Anything with eyes would have seen what was in front of it, 3 jackals perched behind their shields, just waiting to pounce, BUT NO! He just keeps walking until they all open fire, and he crumples to the ground without even firing a shot in their direction. To add insult to injury I tossed a Plasma toward him, got it close enough to launch his body in their direction and sent them scattering. What a moron!

  • 07.19.2008 7:53 AM PDT

Loose talk is noose talk.

Play on legendary... again. You'll notice that the Covie AI are smarter than you but your marines are dumber than crap.

  • 07.19.2008 9:34 AM PDT

Those battles are almost certainly not simulated before the player arrives, but rather part of the scenery.

True AI stupidity can be witnessed by letting a marine drive the warthog for you.

Marine: Oh look. A cliff!
MC: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo...

  • 07.19.2008 5:52 PM PDT

Posted by: The jeffers
Those battles are almost certainly not simulated before the player arrives, but rather part of the scenery.
SSShhhh! Dunt tell anyone!

True AI stupidity can be witnessed by letting a marine drive the warthog for you.

Marine: Oh look. A cliff!
MC: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOooooooooooooooooooooo...
Marines dunt drive Warthogs. I do. Anytime I drive at the end of Halo 3, I drive off the edge and get out at the end and let them fall.

  • 07.19.2008 7:38 PM PDT

I always offer fair game and usually allow some "extermination" of my teammates. I think that anyone should be able to play Halo or any other game they please.

I have a question about the marines. How come you see them with almost every weapon BUT the rocket launcher? You see the flood with it but no marines. Oh,and leave your marines behind one of the doors on T&R with a group of covenant. They get killed,and the covenant disappear...
And learn to spell!!!!!!!!!!

[Edited on 07.24.2008 3:00 PM PDT]

  • 07.24.2008 2:59 PM PDT

I know how to spell, silly!

You dunt see Marines with RLs because their AI isn't good enough, as it would be known as "The Friendly Fire Massacre Gun".

  • 07.24.2008 4:50 PM PDT

Marine:AAAAAAhhhhhhh!
Master Chief:What the skull is going on?!

[Edited on 07.24.2008 6:17 PM PDT]

  • 07.24.2008 6:16 PM PDT

I hate it so much when they throw frags at me instead of at the Covenant. I mean, they're smart enough to not shoot me (usually), why are grenades such a problem. Seriously, the scariest thing to me in CE is hearing a Marine yell "Frag Out!"

It makes me head for cover no matter what.

  • 07.25.2008 4:49 AM PDT
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Posted by: Legendary Halo
Yes, because they just stand there and get killed when your not there. They also won't drive a Warthog.


STUPID MARINES!!!

  • 07.25.2008 5:56 AM PDT
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Yeah, hearing frag out is pretty scary. I usually wait a split second and then jump so I'm as far up as I can be from the explosion as I can be, as trying to run away from it also puts me on top of the nade. Usually you know, either way, you just die. Hahaha.

Marines in ghosts... that's a bad one there. Crouch walk everywhere, and do whatever you can to keep the rest of the platoon away from the guy in the ghost so you don't lose Sarge or any other men... at least you can kick them out when you get close enough... when you don't die...

Nonetheless, I always save as many as I can.

  • 07.25.2008 12:59 PM PDT
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I always hated the marine AI in every halo game, the gunner can't shoot straight, I got betrayed all the time by grenades they should have been aiming at the enemy.

It would probably be more usefull to just have the Warthog fire straight ahead and just point the Warthog where you want to fire LOL.

  • 07.26.2008 3:48 PM PDT
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yea there dumb but you left out the fact they cant drive

  • 07.26.2008 3:53 PM PDT

Posted by: NYY 4 life
yea there dumb but you left out the fact they cant drive
That's not the point; my point, is that they dunt fight back when you're not there!

  • 07.27.2008 2:41 PM PDT