Friday, November 19, 2021

Plarium not understanding the basics of RAID - Fire Knight Battle AI

It is now 2+ years the frustration continues with RAID's Fire Knight dungeon's AI with champions wasting powerful hits on the Fire Knight's shield instead of using skills with multiple hits.

What's worse is that it is such a primitive fix, but Plarium's 1500+ employees simply do not understand their own games and don't seem to listen to feedback from players. 

There are many champions we can give examples of - one of these is Rhazin Scarhide, a Legendary fusion champion which all players can attain.

Rhazin has a great 3-hit A1 which is perfect for smashing down Fire Knight's shield but his stronger A2 and A3 skills are 1-hitters which are absolutely wasted on the shield but very useful once the shield is down.

Plarium programmed the AI so stupidly that all the champions are doing all the wrong things in this dungeon. At some point they fixed specifically 1 champion (Coldheart) which is beyond stupid, because if you are spending the time to make a fix why would you do a dedicated fix for 1 champion instead of a much more simple overall AI rule which is both cheaper and easier to implement and will fix everything.

As shown on the picture below, the rule is very simple:

  • Set the rule for ALL champions without an exception.
  • WHEN FIRE KNIGHT SHIELD IS ON USE AMONG THE AVAILABLE SKILLS THE SKILL WITH THE HIGHEST NUMBER OF HITS.
  • If the champion has 2 or more available skills with the same number of hits use the “cheapest” skill, i.e.the skill with the lowest cooldown (such as A1 instead of A2 or A3).