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Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-08-09T01:23:21+02:00

Hi,

Can you please post your log from the LOUD installation into a reply post? If possible, please post it in the thread 'LOUD AI & Game Speed Improvement Project', as there are already allot of posts in there that might be applicable, and it is monitored more frequently.

Once we have the log posted, we can take a look if there are any installation issues.

Thanks!

Statistics: Posted by HTKatzmarek — 09 Aug 2017, 01:23

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-08-08T23:28:05+02:00

Hello

Just installed LOUD AI Project

I added LOUD AIx AI players with my friend and me's lan game but when the game starts there's no ai player on the map, whats going on?

Statistics: Posted by premier69 — 08 Aug 2017, 23:28

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-06-11T20:46:23+02:00

BTW, you might want to look at the thread Sprouto mentioned above, as this thread was really on regarding the stream, and there's allot more information in the other thread.

Statistics: Posted by HTKatzmarek — 11 Jun 2017, 20:46

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-06-11T20:45:20+02:00

We would love to integrate this into FAF. I've worked on it some, but didn't have allot of success. I would need someone from the FAF team to work with me on integrating this mod into FAF, as I don't know FAF well enough and I've just been spinning my wheels so far.

So far, it doesn't appear anyone from FAF has the time to give me the help needed. I'm hopeful that sometime in the future this may change.

Statistics: Posted by HTKatzmarek — 11 Jun 2017, 20:45

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-06-10T12:50:07+02:00

I wish work afforded me more time to play. I get to play at work more than home (but no connection). First couple test runs on Setons against 9 AIs, I held my own variously for 1-2 hours, but eventually succumbed to the coordinated attacks and eventually either nukes or Mavor. I managed to kill 4-5 of them, but at that point I was at a disadvantage with sprawl and not enough Nuke Def & shields to protect assets.

The transport swarms are killed, you make massed AA to try to counter and they send 2-3 sets from different players almost at same time, plus their fighters swarm and cover. Much more like playing a live opponent.

On the maps, call it a gripe, at least on Setons the altered resource locations for the core base are spread kind of wide making it difficult to effectively protect the 4 core mex from roving lab packs. Fairly forces extra defensive expenditures and at least versus that many AIs, that was probably my downfall as they were not forced to invest those resources except for the closer ones I could harass early as well (ie AIs on far side of map were free to engineer my doom as the closer AIs would prevent any long range attack to impede their progress). All in all very realistic in that, I'd have to try other maps as to whether their starting spots are more defensible va larger number of opponents.

A question I did have, are you looking to integrate this into FAF as an option?

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 10 Jun 2017, 12:50

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-06-09T07:20:32+02:00

Glad to hear from you Saxxon.

I really encourage you to share your LOUD experiences - both good and bad. So far, we've gotten some really excellent feedback from quite a few sources, and it all helps. There are some very helpful comments on our other thread (including some helpful gameplay hints) at this link;

viewtopic.php?f=41&t=14136

Come join us there -- and as always, if you'd like to talk directly to the LOUD team, or play a few games with others against the LOUD AI (not usually PvP), drop me a PM and I'll forward the details to our Teamspeak server.

Statistics: Posted by Sprouto — 09 Jun 2017, 07:20

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-06-09T07:10:39+02:00

Tried the mod, definitely makes it a different game. The challenges compared to original are many, the increased costs, HPs and reduced damage on some units make the tactics very different. The AI is much more aggressive in an intelligent manner. I did watch a replay though, with non-cheating Ai it still seems to build out faster than I as a player can manage, ie I had 3rd mex up and they had 4 or 5 up (maybe due to the instant nature of orders from AI but I'd pause the game to issue orders and there was still a significant build lead for the AI opponents.

Statistics: Posted by Saxxon — 09 Jun 2017, 07:10

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-05-19T07:14:55+02:00

Optimization entirely.

Statistics: Posted by Sprouto — 19 May 2017, 07:14

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-05-19T05:57:11+02:00

So question, the AI performance changes, did you make changes for multi-threading? or are they still single core and heavily optimized?

Statistics: Posted by cryptworks — 19 May 2017, 05:57

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-03-19T03:54:40+02:00

Stream for tonight. same time.
Attempt #2

Statistics: Posted by aaxlleex — 19 Mar 2017, 03:54

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-03-18T03:48:05+02:00

New twitch stream tonight at 10pm eastern for the LOUD AI Project.

Statistics: Posted by aaxlleex — 18 Mar 2017, 03:48

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-03-06T12:37:58+02:00

Thanks for your replies guys. I was wondering if you were being an AI by sending mouse clicks through automation, which sounded really ambitious and interesting.

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 06 Mar 2017, 12:37

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-03-05T19:29:18+02:00

Yes, only the SCFA game updater/switcher uses AutoIt. It's not used in the game, as everything is written in lua. AutoIt is a scripting language that has some very powerful programming capabilities, especially for file checking and manipulation, and I wrote the updater program in AutoIt.

You can download the AutoIt programming language, and the SciTE editor that it uses here:
https://www.autoitscript.com/site/

Statistics: Posted by HTKatzmarek — 05 Mar 2017, 19:29

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-03-05T10:27:20+02:00

HTKatzmarek could give you the full story of how he uses AutoIT. It's not used by any of the game code, but is used by the LOUD installer/updater program.

Statistics: Posted by Sprouto — 05 Mar 2017, 10:27

Re: LOUD AI Project - Twitch Stream Q&A tonite

2017-03-05T10:02:04+02:00

Could you please explain what AutoIT is doing in this project? Sounds interesting

Statistics: Posted by nine2 — 05 Mar 2017, 10:02