The AI blatantly cheats

>Mortal Kombat 1, 2 and 3
>Street Fighter 2, 3, 4, V
>All of the Mario Kart games
>Racing games in general really

Fucking Total War

Dying Light
>You thought you hit me!?
>Ha ha, fooled ya! I just ducked and moved to the side!

It's a lil more than three games but I'll go with every game in the Mario Kart series minus 8/Deluxe

Literally any fighting game on the hardest difficulty.

Every racing game.
Many fighting games read your inputs after a certain difficulty.
Every Civilization game.

Capcom hold mechanic characters.... covers nearly three dozen

>AI in Shogun 2: FOTS reacts to your Naval Bombing the moment you call it

Warcraft 3
Age of Empires 2
AI in both games gets more resources than what it should have.
Mario Party AI has its luck turned to max, so I dunno if that counts as cheating specifically.

Literally every single Mario Kart
Halo 2 Jackals on legendary
Most card games

>kill an enemy with a gun
>has 3 rounds in inventory
>reload, same enemy can fire 400 rounds at you
I know it's done so you don't end up overgeared but it's one of the few game balancing mechanics that bothers me just a little.

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>Face a really strong boss
>He joins your party later
>He's shit now

>t. Captain Ginyu.

This
I understand why fighting games are like this but it's annoying that strategy games can't have better ai

Fuck this game.

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>Play GTA V
>Vehicles intentionally drive into you
Whoever thought of putting this in the game is a fucking retard

On mobile there was this Lovecraft card game where the AI had literally every counter card pick to yours. On Pc and Xbox Black Ops bots were aimbot tier which made 4 player FFA splitscreen all the more exciting

Every Mario Kart game.
Homeworld 2
C&C: Red Alert

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how does reshef cheats on you

civ

Do you mean charge characters?

As most people pointed out, RTS games. In SC, the AI players pretend to scout, even though they already know where you are.

>every game in the Mario Kart series

agreed. fuck rubber-band AI, I hate it. It punishes you for doing too well.

Pretty cool inputs you've got there dude, mind if I take a look?

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7 Horsemen of the Apocalypse

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Mount and fucking Blade Warband
I beat a lord's army of 300 blokes with 75 of mine.
The fucker escapes and then comes back 2 days later with an army of 400.

Only on highest difficulties tho.

>Play GTA V
>enemies can kill you standing still while you're driving/flying 150+ mph past them

I'll give you 3 genres
RTS
4X
Racing games

All of them have the AI cheat, unless on the lowest difficulties.

bullshit hands

X-Com Terror from the Deep
Also any of the early Civ games before Civ IV. The shit they get away with it is legit bullshit.

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>mash random buttons while doing attacks
>AI can't read shit

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>Only play grapplers in fighting games
>Singleplayer modes are absolute unfun and unfair bullshit because I can only land my grabs if the AI decides I'm allowed to
JUST LET ME FUCKING USE MY SPECIAL MOVES YOU CUNTS ITS NOT FUN ONLY GETTING TO USE BUTTONS

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There are racing games that don't cheat. At the very least, no rubberbanding. Most Wipeout games don't have it. A lot of ones on the N64 specifically didn't for some reason. Off Road Challenge, Top Gear Rally, Extreme G, Beetle Adventure Racing, San Francisco Rush 2049, AeroGauge...
They also tend to have groovy as fuck OSTs. I'll link a couple favorites.
youtu.be/tqIbq9HWH1I
youtu.be/ybJxNf0FxPo

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Halo 2
>Jackal with sniper rifle on Legendary difficulty, 100% headshots you and your bitch ass can't do anything about it
Souls franchise
>Not really the fault of the AI, but poor coding causes hits that literally shouldn't hit
Smash Bros. franchise
>Cruel Smash, Cruel Melee, etc. Designed to be cheating little shits

Soul Calibur VI input reading AI's

Not cheating but

>decide to play Dark Souls 2 again since it has been years
>get to Black Gulch
>remember slowly inch my way through destroying the 10 fucking million statues that shoot poison at you contantly
>kill the black hand things and snakes
>finally get half way through the area
>get NPC invasion
>get second NPC invasion
>all this before you even get to the second bonfire

I don't remember these fuckers being in the original Dark Souls 2. It must be some new shit from Scholar of the First Sin. Fucking hell.

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The hardest difficulty AI's in Perfect Dark multiplayer for the N64

>final challenge is just a straight horseshit battle against an aimbot that knows where you're at all the time

Basically any RPG or Strategy especially older ones cheats whether it's making decisions after your move or having unfair advantages, there are also probably a good number of Action and Adventure Games where the AI variant of a weapon or combat style is just objectively better than the player's.

WORMS
FUCKING WORMS

I never bothered with the challenges anyways. I used the two-controller trick to unlock all the stuff

Any strategy game the AI always gets free money

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>enemy is using a weapon
>can kill them and take it
>enemy is clearly wearing armor
>kill them
>can't take their armor

Fuck video games

Bruh, that was super annoying with the Imperial Palace guards in Oblivion.

Yeah, because you crippled him for life, asshole.

One of the trashest most piece of shit parts of mount and blade ever.

>you capture a fief
>must use your own soldiers to guard it
>AI lord captures a fief
>instantly fills it with 400 men the following day, while maintaining his own army size of 200

I finished them all but those last 5 are fucking annoying as hell.

They are fixing this in butterlord
Enemies draw from the same pool of soldiers you do.

Nice one, made me chuckle.
Yeah, bullshit like that made M&B: W annoying yet endearing.
That's good to hear desu

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Any fighter

Any Dante boss fight in DMC 4
any RTS game on highest difficulty

Will constant recruiting lower village prosperity?

Why do seemingly all strategy games do this? Is there some inherent issue with bot players that makes them unable to be made "smarter" on harder difficulties? Why can't they just be made to be more precise in army composition and tactics?

Why do they just essentially get cheats to be more difficult for the player?

>Skyrim
>bandit charging straight for you
>shoot arrow/spell at him
>he zigzag strafes around your projectile while maintaining perfect forward momentum like a fucking DBZ character with a higher powerlevel

>pokemon
>doing battle [facility]
>team has a common weakness to [type]
>game will send out teams full of just that type
I've actually been able to play this one to my advantage in the past, 3/4 of my doubles team was very vulnerable to ice so the game kept throwing bulky water types with blizzard at me, so I built my team around countering it while having a type disadvantage and as a result the battle subway got easier in the higher levels because it was trying so hard to send out things that I should be weak against.

Hotline Miami 2, specifically on Hard Mode where the enemies are full aimbots.
Jedi Knight 2: Jedi Outcast, during the first fight with Desann, he has god mode on and cannot be defeated.
Skyrim, Miraak has no shout cooldown.

Most NPC invaders in Dark Souls 2 read your input to roll on the frame your attacks would connect every single time, have high poise despite visibly wearing low or no poise armor, and have huge resistances against all forms of non-physical damage.

Mario Kart, especially newer ones

The in TFTD doesn't cheat, the ayy lmaos just have ridiculously overtuned stats and the maps are designed to be bullshit hard to deal with.

One of the biggest issues with AI in strategy games is that they typically aren't good at micro. All you need to do is realize how shitty the pathfinding can be in some RTS games and realize that the same AI is responsible for controlling the AI's army.
What the AI is good at is macroing, because it's very easy for developers to give them a set build order and for the AI to carry it out perfectly.

This is the reason why most RTS games simply let the AI cheat by giving it more resources at the start of the game. If a player does a very early rush in an RTS, the game almost entirely boils down to micro over macro. By giving the AI a massive advantage at the start of the game, this prevents the player from just rushing them to death because the AI will simply be too strong, even if the player has much better micro.

Yeah those two chucklefucks are added with SOTFS
They go down easy though, but then again, everything dies like a chump to big boy STR builds since you can easily mow down mobs with your wide swings and big dick smashes
ultra great hammer class weapons are especially busted since many of them have 2hR2's that down or stagger most standard foes on hit, this is part of the reason why 3 made it so you have to do a full charge R2 to get knockdowns or knockback now

>>>Skyrim
>>bandit charging straight for you
>>shoot arrow/spell at him
>>he zigzag strafes around your projectile while maintaining perfect forward momentum like a fucking DBZ character with a higher powerlevel
You can do that too. Most people just don't because they a ton of shit weighing them down while bandits only carry that one set of armor and whatever weapon they're using.

>Skyrim
More like
>Try using magic
>Can cast spells for maybe 2 or 3 seconds before running out of mana
>Tickles the enemy for 1 or 2 damage
>Takes a full minute to regenerate my mana

>Enemy uses magic
>Has an absolutely ginormous mana pool
>Even if you use poison to drain their mana to 0, they regenerate it back in literally less than a second
>Can cast hitstun laser beams from across the map that instantly kill you
>All of this is happening despite the fact that they are using the same magic that you are, it's just that their magic damage scales while yours can't

It's only an issue on higher difficulties, but still.

RC pro am
final fantasy tactics advanced (i'll explain this if needed)
most mario karts.

This fucking bitch

>[facility]
they didn't call it hax tower for no reason.even if you hacked in a wonderguard spiritomb, it would start sending out only mons with immunity nullifiers.

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Someone said that the pokemon don't even exist until the trainer sends them out the first time, meaning it can counterpick even in the middle of a battle.

>mfw Giant Club and Stone Ring

Who want pancakes?

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I think I read somewhere where 6 is the only AI in the series where it doesn't do that.

>Pure Pazaak...

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when I want big dick smash at gamestart I just savescum petrified something until I get Demon Greathammer then put all levels into STR until I can 2h it

>>The AI blatantly cheats
>it's still piss easy to beat the hardest AI
Hello Civ 6

that wouldn't suprise me at all, I've seen some serious bullshit coming out of that fucking tower back in the day.

Now that is some funny shit. I never had any patience for any battle facility except to try it out, because I variably by the 5th or 6th battle I can already see the blatant bullshit.

>be mage in skyrim
>summon 2 dremona lords
>wait
>this is every single combat scenario unless they can somehow unbind the lords in which case I have to hit their asses with a summoned sword that does 5 damage per hit due to never being upgraded.
>even if they can desummon the lords can usually kill them if I keep summoning

Yeah, I ended up with a strategy of basically leading Sultan Hakim to cities and convincing him to start the siege. When we inevitably won, he'd pull a modest garrison out of his ass, supplement his numbers with freed prisoners, and then we'd continue on to the next city.

this is a beautiful thing in F-Zero X because the physics still apply and they often suicide

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