What is it with this game are devs purposely trying to put people off the game, so not only has kihuki been nerfed to almost useless after updating game he no longer uses kuzushi as his 1st move he now uses Kiai every single time, it really is getting harder to actually play this game @marianne can u please find out if this is going to be fixed as I am so close to quitting this game

To fix the first move issue, I would suggest a feature to let the player choose... just the 1st move. That way many different strategies can be deliberately planned. It would be cool to be able to do that. Just have a drop down on the monster skills screen to choose. If unset then it would default to standard ai control

Is not just Kihaku.

Patient Cyber used to be able to use Endemic Pathogens (AOE CD activate) before this update, now the priority of this skill is so low it will never be used by the AI over other skills unless everything other one is on cooldown.

Gakora used to use Lord of Beginnings, now it uses Fearlessness instead.

There are probably others but those are the ones I was able to see for sure.

Seriously, they are ACTIVELY making all these changes to make monsters perform worse on defense, while requiring players to do well in PVP defense to advance, and at the same time promoting that they are making changes to create a "smarter AI". Unbelievable week we are having.

@ibobs72 we really shouldn’t have to do that though the devs know what moves to programme 1st, i honestly think they must be doing it on purpose now just to troll us game is getting worse everyday.

its been asked

@Marianne-van-Es Thanks marianne

Ai is one of those things that I feel like is very hard to get right. For you either got crud Ai, or an Ai so good it makes fighting an utter pain. They just haven't found that balance yet. Honestly I would like an Ai that the players themselves can change in some way. I having the ability to give monsters skill commands that they can do when you're not using them.

Using Kihaku and Captain Copperbeard today, Kihaku possessed all three, so then Captain Copperbeard used his AOE stun on them while they were possessed. Yeah, that makes sense.

Every time SP changes the AI some things get better and other things get worse. It's endless.

I really wish they would either make it totally random again or let the players have more control over this.

Maybe let us prioritize skills for each monster.

Rank them 1-4 with 1 being the highest priority but still a chance to use the other skills. This way it's still somewhat random but most of us have a skill we like to use first almost every time and it would get used the most.

This way it forces us to utilize some strategy rather than relying on SP to get this right.

@GrnXnham I think that's probably related to it using skills as if it wasn't possessed. So when it is possessed it does stuff like that. Possession just changes who the skill is targeted too, not if it makes sense for him to actually uses it. Which I think should stay the case.

@MonstrousManiac my team wasn't possessed. The other team was. I was using the auto battle function in the dungeons.

Kihaku was on my team. He possessed the other team. Captain Copperbeard was on my team. His move was next. He used AOE stun on three possessed monsters (the other team)

A smart AI wouldn't use AOE stun on three possessed monsters. You completely lose the effects of the possession.

@callumarachnoid The team thanks you for bringing it up to their attention and they assure you its not for trolling purposes

No, not trolling!
We are working on it right now, we will inform you!

@GrnXnham You seriously need to understand it's an AI not a human.

You can't expect it not to do an AOE stun skill because it is a denial. Almost all the time the AI prefers a denial skill.

When I put Imigbo on auto it always uses his aoe possession.
Even with The Inheritor he uses his Release Violence which is an AOE possession.

Sometimes it is good that you Copperbeard uses his Aoe stun cuz who knows when ninaku will miss.

You don't really need to be so pissed of cuz it's a dungeon and dungeons are always easy.

@callumarachnoid I have no problem with you complaining about the AI.
But the part where you said that Kihaku is useless is most definitely WRONG. Try using skills that remove positive effects
Monsters like kihaku, xiron the ruby can still chain deny. Some of the monsters which remove positive effects are Crissandre, Demise,Rocigon, kihaku himself. But I wouldn't recommend it because it just spoils the fun from the game because this update just paved a way for strategic battles.

@leonardo719 That is why my post says ALMOST useless

@carlos any updates on Ai behaviour.

Ai behaviour seems to change a lot, not just with the latest update. It's a bit annoying (and expensive) to have to change skills on my monsters every time a change has been made, to ensure a monster still does on defence what I want them to do.

Going from mostly random to "predictable and we change it every week" is not an improvement.

So after more testing which people will tell u I hate to do kihuki is still using Kai as 1st move,@carlos do you know if this will be his preferred move from here on.

@callumarachnoid I can give you an update that extra turn monsters like voltaik gotten smarter(?) in the way that if you use evasion, or have an anticipation monster. They will not use extra turn skills period. Found this out with Gakora where after using "Lord of Beginings" Voltaik just recharged instead of wasting his stamina.