M28AI Devlog (v302)
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v230 Update
11 changes, including:- Cybran destroyers shouldn't try and kite enemies on land
- Changed M28's 'forced navy personality' approach for adaptive M28 on island start points so it only has a chance of applying (with a chance of an air personality, and a chance of the normal advaptive personality)
- Adjustments to how fatboy kites (including better detection of approaching enemies and changing when it runs from the enemy vs runs to the nearest rally point)
- Increased the number of engineers to be sent to dangerous zones to reclaim
Acknowledgements
- Vortex and Azraeel - 2 QUIET naval replays and comments
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v231 Update
20 changes, including:- Improvements to kiting logic (e.g. hoplites should attack a visible nearby enemy ACU instead of doing attack-move, so they stay slightly further away)
- Improved novax defence so more shields get built sooner, and shields get assisted when a novax is near and damaging them.
- Reworked how M28 decides where to place buildings, to offset all positions by 0.5 (which in theory means they should be built on the correct spot, since FAF for most buildings places them on the nearest .5 position, instead of the nearest integer).
- T1-T2 Radar should be more likely to be built
- Increased the amount of pre-emptive AA M28 shoudl get if it's worried the enemy might be thinking of sniping him
- Added support for FAF's new decapitation victory condition
Acknowledgements
- Sprouto and Balthazaar – Highlighting some buildings have a variable requiring a certain height variance to be buildable (hence why you can have a location that you can build a T2 pgen on, but not a Cybran T2 shield)
- Gauzi – Replay highlighting a bug if M28 is the hostile AI on UEF M1 and the player takes too long to kill the T1 radar (leading to the air factory upgrading before the objective is given to kill it, in turn meaning the map doesnt expand)
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v232 Update
11 changes, including:- Fixed a bug with gunships that meant they'd attack targets with far too much ground-AA
- Increased asf production when M28 lacks air control
- M28Easy should no longer go first bomber (and hover-bomb it)
- If M28 has several unupgraded ACUs near an enemy upgrading ACU they should consider charging in to kill it
Acknowledgements
- Radde - 3 replays against v231
- Lord Foog – replay where M28Easy went for a bomber rush.
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Hi there,
First of all, thanks for all the hard work on M28AI – it’s a great addition to the game (Can't play without it to be honest).I’ve encountered a recurring issue during my games where Ground and Air factories disappear after being upgraded to T2 or T3. This doesn’t just affect human players, but also the AI itself. Once the upgrade finishes, the factory vanishes completely and doesn’t complete the transition.
For now, I’ll stick with the previous version of the mod so I can play without issues. This post is just meant to inform you in case it hasn’t been reported yet.
Here's the log:
game_24956583_copy.log -
I have the same issue
(EDIT: Also thank you for the "engi" marker for AI engineer gifting, its awesome)
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Same here as well!
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@Raysor Thanks, this is due to a wider issue with the recent FAF hotfix rather than the latest M28 release, and I expect it'll be fixed shortly. The discord announcements section will likely be updated when the 'hotfix to the hotfix' is released:
https://discord.com/channels/197033481883222026/197078254681587712 -
v233 Update
11 changes, including:- Greater use of sniperbots to try and counter Sera and Cybran nano guncoms
- Aeon ACU should be more likely to get shield instead of RAS
- Engineers should no longer pause building a near-complete experimental when low on power (unless completely stalling E)
- Added a workaround for QUIET and LOUD for cases where cruisers dont have the anti-air category (which was leading to Aeon cruisers being considered to have almost no anti-air threat)
Acknowledgements
- Radde – 2 replays against 1.3 resource M28
- Vortex – several QUIET replays against v230 M28
v234 Hotfix
Removed some debug logs that could slow the game down - Thanks to Radde and Relent0r for the replay and noting the cause of the slowdown -
v235 Update
21 changes, all but 2 of which were based on a Radde replay:- Fixed a bug that prevented M28 upgrading a factory from T2 to T3 if its original T3 HQ was destroyed
- Asfs should be a bit more aggressive around enemy ground based AA if M28 has air control
- Ahwassas should micro to turn around faster when wanting to run from enemy air units, and use a more detailed longer range check for enemy air units
- Added new anti-fatboy micro where experimentals should move in a diagonal path when wanting to attack a fatboy
- Sniperbots should no longer be prioritised if the enemy has ravagers.
Acknowledgements
- Radde - replay where M28 1.4/1.0 was beaten on Xander Adaptive
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v236 Update
16 changes, including:- Various adjustments to selen logic so they should do a better job of running from enemies, and less likely to have 3+ covering the same mex
- Various adjustments to when a second T1 pgen is built, so if M28 has a t2 factory but no T2 engineer it should still try building multiple t1 pgens at once and as a higher priority than some other actions (if high on mass and low on energy).
- Subs should be more likely to target engineers building torp launchers (rather than the torp launcher being built)
- 5 QUIET specific changes per requests from Azraeel, making skirmishers be built less and MMLs and mobile arti be built more.
Acknowledgements
- Radde - 2 mapgen replays against 134 (prompting the selen, power and naval adjustments)
- Azraeel - drafting the code for the requested changes
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v237 Update
19 changes, including:- Bombers should sometimes be sent on 'suicide runs' to target clumps of engineers assisting an enemy naval factory
- Engineers should be dropped off at far away ponds to build naval factories
- Increased the % advantage M28 wants in asfs before thinking he has air control (after seeing him lose an air fight comprehensively despite a 20% advantage in numbers)
- Shield boats should stay closer to the target so torp bombers are less likely to damage the unit being shielded
Acknowledgements
- Radde - 2 replays against v234 and suggesting bombers target naval engineers
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v238 Update
18 changes, including:- Refinements to what experimentals get built if a paragon has been built (fewer T3 arti, more rapid fire arti, more mobile experimentals)
- Air slots should delay getting t3 land
- Reduced M28's gunship anti-air thresholds for high values to reflect Czars struggling against asfs
- Mobile stealth should be built as a high priority to cover any non-stealth experimentals (while mobile stealth should also be built to some extent even if the enemy has built an omni radar, on larger maps)
Acknowledgements
- Radde - 6 more replays against v234 on a 'setons-like' mapgen
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v239 Update
20 changes, working through the last 6 of Radde's games vs M28 on a particular mapgen map:- Adjustments to engineers assisting/repairing an arti/game-ender unit (fixing a bug where sometimes they wouldnt pause when stalling mass, and having them receive new orders periodically rather than only once the experimental is constructed)
- Refinements to shield cycling logic and associated engineer construction so engineers are more likely to be sheltered by shields when constructing a game-ender, and shield cycling should try and re-align its cycling if disrupted by artillery
- Torpedo bombers should be better able to target ships that are on the shore-line (so bombs are less likely to hit the beach), and should try and over-kill cruisers if they have spare torp bombers
- Land units should treat nearby battleships as a threat when assessing whether to attack or retreat
- Fixed a bug that meant M28 wasn't properly taking into account PD in adjacent zones when deciding if it was safe to tele-snipe
Acknowledgements
- Radde - 6 2v2 replays against v234 M28 on a 'setons-like' mapgen (a series of games on the same mapgen map over a week that has accounted for more than 60 of the changes in v236-239)
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@maudlin27 Thank you very much for your hard work and dedication on creating this AI for us to enjoy. I am wondering if you can add the options to your AI to spawn with all the faction commander's like the mod All Factions mod by Uveso or if you can create a separate mod that gives us this ability for the M28AI mod to get all the commanders.
I would greatly appreciate it.
Thank You very much
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@sinhosie M28 is already compatible with the All Faction FAF BlackOps Nomads mod by Uveso - checked just now to make sure and it still spawns in all faction ACUs for M28 when the mod is enabled
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v240 Update
19 changes, including:
- 8 naval adjustments including making engineers more likely to assist naval factories
- 7 air adjustments, including building more asfs, having asfs shadow torpedo bombers more often, and having ahwassas synchronise their attacks to be less likely to simultaneously fire 2 bombs at the same unshielded target
- Delayed ACU upgrades on naval maps
- Fixed a bug recently introduced where M28 builds a paragon
Acknowledgements
- Radde - naval mapgen replay 4v4 against v235 M28
Trophy awards
- Radde and Microplastic - beating 1.4 resource v239 on a 15km land based mapgen
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Can we get the M28 to read all chat messages and respond accordingly?!
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@Nuggets No - while it might be possible to have M28 read chat messages (I'm not sure if it is or isn't possible), having it understand them would be difficult outside of basic keyword searches, and it wouldn't be possible to incorporate a large language model to make it actually understand and respond appropriately.
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v241 Update
25 changes, the most notable being new monkeylord kiting micro:- 12 land combat changes, including monkeylord kiting (instead of retreating it should use its bolter attack to kite the enemy if it is currently attacking the enemy with it or outranges the enemy with it), skirmisher units being more aggressive against enemies with no attack, and fixing some issues with megalith's retreaitng micro (that could lead to them retreating backwards when the enemy wasn't at the right angle to shoot)
- 7 changes to engineers and ecoing, including limiting the number of t3 mexes to be getting
- 2 ACU changes, including having ACUs run from enemy experimentals even if full share is enabled
- 1 Air change (transports shouldnt keep dropping a water zone with idle engineers)
- 3 other changes, including 1 QUIET specific change to reflect that t3.5 mexes are no longer more mass efficient than t3 mexes, and building more pre-emptive PD on smaller maps
Acknowledgements
- Radde - v235 2v2 replay against 1.4 resource M28 on Xander
- Nomander - For mentioning how the monkeylord can kite with its bolter attack
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v242 Update
26 changes, including:- 8 improvements/fixes to M28's early strat mex rush logic (including an issue causing the strat to get stuck and not move)
- 10 improvements to land combat, including having skirmishers retreat for less time if not faced with a dangerous enemy (meaning their effective dps is increased in such scenarios), increasing the scenarios where units consider attacking a nearby enemy mex, and improving some issues that were preventing units retreating from a nearby enemy fatboy
- 7 changes to engineers and buildings, including having T2 arti ignore enemies if their shots are firing into a cliff
Acknowledgements
- Radde - 3 Xander replays against v236 M28AI
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