{"id":4785,"date":"2011-04-04T11:34:08","date_gmt":"2011-04-04T18:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=4785"},"modified":"2011-04-04T05:57:26","modified_gmt":"2011-04-04T12:57:26","slug":"despite-accusations-of-impropriety-shogun-2-plays-honorably","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/04\/despite-accusations-of-impropriety-shogun-2-plays-honorably\/","title":{"rendered":"Despite accusations of impropriety, Shogun 2 plays honorably"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"4785\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shogun_2_plays_fair.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shogun_2_plays_fair.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Shogun_2_plays_fair\" width=\"600\" height=\"375\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shogun_2_plays_fair.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/Shogun_2_plays_fair-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can&#8217;t trust people who play videogames.  They see things that aren&#8217;t there.  Cheating AI, rigged die rolls, stacked decks.  Or, worse, smart AI where there is no such thing.  Piecemeal attacks are the AI probing your defenses!  Bad pathfinding is actually a feint, or maybe even an attempt to flank you!  Then they post these things on the internet.  Then it&#8217;s true, because the bar for something being true on the internet is pretty low.<\/p>\n<p>So when I heard in a few places that the AI in Shogun 2 spawns free armies in the fog of war, I didn&#8217;t really pay it much attention.  I&#8217;ve played a fair bit and I&#8217;ve never gotten the impression that was happening.  But more to the point, I couldn&#8217;t care less, because the AI provides exactly as much of a challenge as I want.  If that means spawning free armies in the fog of war, spawn away, Shogun 2.<\/p>\n<p>But it turns out no such thing is happening.  An unidentified developer from Creative Assembly <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.totalwar.com\/showthread.php\/13637-The-Campaign-AI-does-not-get-free-armies-now-sticky\">explains that the AI plays by the same basic rules as the player<\/a>.  But you can hardly blame people for being so flummoxed that Creative Assembly has made such a great game with a formidable AI.  I know how they feel.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Despite accusations of impropriety, Shogun 2 plays honorably - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2011\/04\/04\/despite-accusations-of-impropriety-shogun-2-plays-honorably\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Despite accusations of impropriety, Shogun 2 plays honorably - 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