Managing that AI Progress number is a fine art, requiring you to really pick your targets, rather than go all out and relentlessly expand into each and every system. Each little thing that pisses the AI off lights up as a status message, letting you know quite how much anger it's causing. One of the brilliant things about AI War is quite how clear it makes everything you're doing. Fail, and the AI will just get a little bit more pissed off with that smudge we call the human race and it might decide to lash out.Ĭome into my web of ship boosts, said the human to the AI. If you save them before the insurrection is over, you'll get a nice bonus, and it'll count down the AI Progress a little. There's even a bunch of special events you can switch on and off, like human colonies rebelling against the AI control.
There are so many variables, in fact, that you'll be able to find a configuration that compliments you, regardless of how you like to play your strategy games. With the game's two expansions, the number of different variations of AI type is around 40, each with their own unique use of items and ship types. You can have it creating beachheads in your systems before it moves on with the offensive. You can set it to be overly aggressive, perhaps sacrificing the safety of its systems to take you out.
Not only can you set a specific difficulty value, but there are also AI 'personalities'. And this is on the default difficulty, of which there are near infinite permutations.
It knows when you're on the back foot, where you're weak, where to strike to really screw with your things. Precise raids like that, along with the sudden, worst-timing-possible raids, let you know that the AI knows what it's doing. In a game called AI War, you might expect it, but having a competent opponent one who isn't just sending wave after wave against you is wonderfully refreshing. And I'm so very grateful that's the case.
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