[mod] 8-alpha AI difficulty testing

[bonifarz]

Hello fellow racers.

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[*] AI levels: The AI is significantly stronger now, so much that we actually had to make it easier, since we were struggling to beat the AI on hard. [...]

Happy testing

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Just completed story mode doing only gold challenges and had plenty of fun [...]. Most challenges were easily beaten in the first try. I see there is a wonderful new array of AI settings in the config file, so it should be easy and convenient to test the full potential of the AI... which I will try soon

Self explanatory - not my art, see license.txt

STKmod.8alpha.AI.test.zip

Some trivial modifications for a tougher game difficulty

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If there are no licensing issues with this, I would like to share the trivial modifications I made for testing the difficulty of the new AI. The"unleashed AI" feels just fine to me, even though it can get frustrating to catch up after a major driving mistake. Also, I love to play at twice the top speed, for which the AI indeed is much harder to defeat in most tracks. I hope this is straight forward to use and will keep those busy who are looking for a tough challenge. Usage instructions are in the zip. The contained AI settings are as simple as this:

{l Code}: {l Select All Code}

        <hard   time-full-steer="0.1"
                straight-length-for-zipper="35"
                use-slipstream="true"
                disable-slipstream-usage="false"
                false-start-probability="0.0"
                min-start-delay="0.15" max-start-delay="0.20"
                nitro-usage="all"
                non-random-item-usage="true"
                collect-avoid-items="true"
                handle-bomb="true"
                speed-cap="0:1.0"
                max-item-angle="0.7" max-item-angle-high-speed="0.3"
                bad-item-closeness="6"
                collect-item-probability="0:1.0"
                rb-skid-probability="0:1.0"
                skidding-threshold="2.0"
                />


Have fun everyone!

[Ludsky]

The challenges are not difficult in hard mode for me

should be left as is or add an expert level or is even harder ^ ^ but would not count challenges.

Level :
1 - Easy
2 - Medium
3 - Hard
4 - Expert

[Arthur]

If there are no licensing issues with this, I would like to share the trivial modifications I made for testing the difficulty of the new AI.

Not at all. Just remember that all experiments are done at own risk, and later on we will need to find a way to lock settings down a bit for online highscores and multiplayer. What will be done precisely is still to be determined, but for single player you can do pretty much whatever you want with the game.