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You've got to be kidding me, right? Those "challenges" are NOT trying to teach me strategy, right? Not with phrases as philosophical as "[in chess] the loser is typically the one who is less strategically able", and "the greatest of warriors have always understood that the sword is equally important as the shield" and with such horrible AI, right? Because that would be the same as learning Greek literature with the members of KISS.
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1 - Yes, the AI sucks. But if it IS supposed to be bad, so you have to control the bots yourself, then at least make it so they won't line up to attack an enemy. With this, one of them will stand in the other's way, blocking its attacks.
2 - Making one of your bots ONLY attack the selected enemy bot instead of following it would be a LOT better.
3 - Make the Gold stuff you get at the end of Career better than the Kuron plating and Scream Shard component! After all, you worked your ass off to get them, and they're not so good.
4 - Make an extra arena after you finish Career, with an unlimited weight limit.
Do these, and this game will be greatest ever.
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finally did challenge 4... following tactics didn't work for me so I had to make sure they were constantly following my orders and not wandering around with standart AI. in the end, shield died and both sword and dragon had 1 hp. I was lucky enough that dragon's shot hit shield's dead corpse.
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This is how I did for challenge 4 (after 1000 times):
put shield on follow on sword. Then move just sword trying to form a triangle, possibly moving it in circles around dragon. In this way shield should be closer to dragon and get its fire. Another useful move is suddenly changing the direction of sword keeping shield between sword and dragon.
Thats the way I completed it, but it's still difficult.
I hope it helps, but that challenge ruins the game: making it so annoying it's not challenging, just frustrating.
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OMG! I finished challenge 4! Took me 1 hour 30 mins. What I did was have the shield follow the sword, then constantly running away from the enemy. Not straight away thoug, but in an angle, so the shield would be closer to the enemy, but not blocking my view. I also found it easier to move by making a few long moves rather than many short, because in the short time between having just finished a move and starting a new one the sword will move towards the enemy and get shot up.
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Career mode is very fun, but the challenges absolutely suck. Four is nearly impossible, and five/six will take many tries before even the most experienced player will get them. The AI just isn't good enough to allow for challenges like that. The controls are too sketchy to make tight movements, and as soon as bots complete an order they start doing whatever they want, and bots with no weapons have a tendency to run right where you don't need them.
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Wow, the AI in this game really makes things harder than it should. Really, it's game breaking. The only thing keeping me playing is the challenge.
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olifield_guru
For challenge 6 the key is to not have your medic shot. So what you do is have your medic follow the soldier who does battle with the commander. So long as your medic remains alive and can heal the soldier it's not that bad.
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Hmmmm, nice game. Almost 5 stars, but I have a big gripe. When I say to follow a bot, I mean to shoot him and NEVER anyone else unless it is absolutely impossible to shoot the followed bot. Rated 3 stars. It's that big a deal.
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The intelligence of the bots is inversely proportional to the amount of strategy needed to win a match. Still annoying.
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The graphics and stuff are good, but the AI is the worst I've ever seen. If it was better it could be 4 or 5 stars by me
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Finally beat challenge 4. Aside from luck you have to manage both bots. Keep your shield outside the minimum range of the dragon and keep your sword farther away than your shield but within shooting range. It's really helpful if you can get all three bots moving uniformly across the screen in that formation and you get about 2-3 good seconds of shooting without having to manage anything. I will say I had a little luck but used mostly skill and strategy I picked up on as I played to beat it.
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being able to create your own bots is fun, gets to easy when your guy heals... i put in a guy with the worst arrmor on the 8th lvl and he didnt die.. oh well. still love it
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I thought the AI was bad in the career mode... the robot you control in challenge mode seems to be actively trying to make you lose.
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I thought this game started off too hard and then got way too easy fast. Not a fan of the controls, but the strategy involved in building was decent.
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Mechanical Samadhi
Dude! You just completed the Mechanical Samadhi achievement in Bot Arena 3 and won the Mechanical Samadhi badge and 30 points!
GO ME! I ROX!
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good game too bad the AI sucks and the sheild bot doesnt do a very good job but building your own bots is kinda good 3/5
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meh.............Mechanical SamadhiDude! You just completed the Mechanical Samadhi achievement in Bot Arena 3 and won the Mechanical Samadhi badge and 30 points!
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i beat this game b4 the badges came out and apparently all my data is gone from my previous file so ive grown a deep hatred towards this game.
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Dude! You just completed the Mechanical Samadhi achievement in Bot Arena 3 and won the Mechanical Samadhi badge and 30 points!
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This game is just awesome, and makes great replay value. It's fun to go back with a killer weapon and destroy the easy people.
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Don't rely on follow commands, use the move commands. Great game, played it a long time ago, and it was still fun again for the badges.