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Originally posted by Magness:
Also, are you using the computer AI to control your party in combat or have you turned it off and are you controlling every member of your party yourself. IMHO, most experienced players turn OFF the computer's party AI and control their party's actions in combat themself.
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The biggest problem is remembering to turn it off when you've just reloaded a game after a battle *cough* didn't go as well as planned *cough*
, because the AI is turned on by default when a game is loaded. I can't count how many times I reloaded, sent my hidden scout back into the battle area and got trashed because the AI was on, and she started shooting ranged weapons before the rest of the party was correctly placed.
Turning off AI is essential (the scripts are OK, but not very deep or detailed strategically), as long as you remember to pay attention to whether it's on or off. And of course, if you don't have the AI on, you have to pause a lot to issue orders manually-- especially when things go south. For instance, the Neo-Orog gets out of the Entangle with a lucky saving throw and comes after the Wizard who just hit it with a Magic Missile....yes, you're going to have to pause and give that Wizard instructions to RUN!!!! instead of cast whatever you had planned, and possibly instruct a tank to block and attack the Neo-Orog until it gets p.o.'d and gives up chasing the Wiz (who is running in circles around the party trying to get behind the tank) in order to beat up the Pally who is smacking it with a sword/mace/axe/spear/etc-- at which point the Wiz can go back to spellcasting. That sort of thing. It's a huge amount of fun, really, no joke.
One thing I like about IWD2 is that it is (mostly) very good about indicating who is attacking who (on both sides), so you do have the opportunity to save a character who has wandered into harm's way.
[ 11-05-2003, 06:13 AM: Message edited by: motub ]