[gregor]

But he was correct on many things. let's say for example C&C:
you start off with a few footsoldiers and MCV. you start building your base. but hey the computer already has the base and all upgrades, yet he decides to send only a fraction of an army to attack you possibly even only his footsoldiers instead of tanks and all. is that intelligence? no. i am sure that is just made to make the game more interesting. because otherwise you would loose immediatelly.


As for more strategic, turnbased games - i haven't seen a good one yet. but then again i haven't played much of the new startegy games. yet i think the built in idiocy is still present - i.e. no attacking human untill human is strong enough to defend and even then - no full scale, risky, suicidal attack.

as for bots in HL mods and others - i don't know much about programming but i was a tester. and no they don't cheat when they give you a headshot, they just calculate it more acuratelly. they calculate better how to counter the recoil and also their reaction time is better. they dont' need a wall hack to do it.
how do i know this? because we gave them same parameters as a human would have (to their weapons, recoil...) but the result was that they were godlike when you faced them and the only way to kill them was to shoot them in the back. they managed to calculate the parameters much faster then you and to counter the recoil of rifles and pistols. so the only way to make the game interesting was to make them more dumb - slower reaction rate, high rate of fire and artificially made recoil and misses.

now that's not cheating. it's a fact that computer calculate faster then humans. otherwise we wouldn't be using them at all.


why would marketing guys be "against" multipalyer? personally, in this time, i believe that single player should be made good, so you can train there while multiplayer is to play with some intelligent opponet that is actually a person. not to mention that multiplayer can bring in quite a lot of money, especially if subscription in involved (e.g WoW).