I started a thread asking about this in Shadow Lords, but have since found out that the changes effect every mode, (I think), so I wanted to put this plea in the feedback section because, well, it’s not just Shadow Lords, plus it’s direct feedback and not a question. I also thought it might get more eyes in here.
Please change the difficulty for the AI back to what it was, or at least somewhere close. You want to keep the highest difficulty the way it is because some people love that kind of challenge? Go for it. I’m not here to ruin their fun.
But on lower, perhaps more casual levels, this AI is not fun to play against at all. Forgetting the near 100% use of optimal combos, tons of counter breakers, combo breakers and whiff punishes, which I don’t love, but fine, make them play smarter I guess, my main issue is that the reaction times are insane to the point of quarter munching arcade games from the 90’s.
I’ve had AI repeatedly throw me out of rekkas, poke me out of special moves, shadow counter on one hit moves and react simultaneously to my button presses FAR too many times, and this from medium level mimics on challenging. It only gets worse on hard, very hard and impossible.
Again, it’s not like I’m complaining because the computer is mimicking a good player, this isn’t a git gud scenario, I’m just not looking to learn how to cheese obnoxious AI for wins. That’s not fun to me, not in a game with such unique characters and deep move lists.
The AI is displaying inhuman reaction times and it makes playing something like Shadow Lords, where I’m now constantly having to spend buffs on characters, an extremely frustrating slog to the point where I’m actually losing interest in playing it.
I don’t mean to be a jerk here in saying that and I’m NOT threatening to leave or take my ball and go home or whatever, but I can tell you that after playing this AI for several hours, my interest in continuing Shadow Lords is starting to wane and I say that as someone that absolutely loves this mode (currently at 100% / 104%). So if EVERY mode now has AI like this? For me, that’s a huge problem.
If possible, I’d humbly ask that you let me know if this change was intended, why it was made, and if it would be possible to roll back, at least on lower difficulty levels.
TL/DR: The AI is too hard and too cheap/inhuman now. Please fix.