Enemy Attack Routines and Patterns

CastleBuilder

This is an elephant in the room that people haven't addressed yet, but I'm not afraid to stir the pot.

The enemy AI is MASSIVELY exploitable now, the enemies can be tricked into just attacking small one layer high walls. They no longer climb one brick height walls.

This youtuber whose Castle Story content I enjoy and followed pretty much has footage that highlights the problem.


As you can see he attempted to build the ever so classic slowing walls, and a small, dinky wall. The AI instead of demolishing the dinky wall he built, have instead obsessed over destroying his slowing walls brick, by brick, by brick while trying to dig into the cliff face. Right now it's perfectly viable to cheese the enemy AI and kite it towards a hive of archers and sentinel wards, then rebuild/repair the one brick high walls. All because the AI is now obsessed over killing one brick high "walls" if you can even call them that.

Please consider fixing this/rebalancing enemy AI over this issue. Last update I loved the game due to the difficulty spike, this update, not so much since now the enemy AI is just too predictable. Maybe it's just a coincidence both me and him encountered this odd behavior and it won't be be reproduced, so later today I will upload a save where I replicate this.

CastleBuilder

Here's two saves in the same map replicating the error, and now I know what triggers the erratic enemy AI behavior.

IT's not just a 1 high brick wall, but rather when you build slowing walls in a Meso-American pyramid style, which is the best I can describe it.

So basically something like this
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Where [] is a standard brick

CastleBuilder

Instead of crappy ascii art, have some crappy MS Paint art that better illustrates the problem and a screen cap of what's going on

Shatojon

Thank you, I'll forward this to our AI lead.

CastleBuilder

Thanks man, while I don't use slowing walls too often it is pretty annoying to see these guys get preoccupied on destroying them instead of searching for shorter paths to traverse whenever I decide to do so. I'm more of a grand entrance filled with towers and a long chokepoint that funnels enemies one by one sort of guy.