Advanced AI Mod: Version History

Advanced AI Mod
for Zero Hour

Improved tactics.
Enhanced strategy.
Amassed aggression.
Stronger opponent.

10/7/04: Version v0.95:
Version 0.95 available for download now!

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The following Generals are modified by this mod:

Air Force

Super Weapon

Demolition

Nuclear

Infantry

Tank

Laser

Stealth

Toxin

Version History:

Beta 0.95

Newly improved Tank, Laser, Stealth, and Toxin Generals.

Numerous bug fixes for all of the other Generals.

Greatly improved AI all around.

Beta 0.7

All USA Generals:

Fixed stuck on 0% building bug which slowed the whole base-building process

USA Airforce General:
- Greatly reduced cheating amount while retaining most of the challenge factor
- Tweaked once more Aircraft priorities
- Added priority sets to other teams like comanches and humvees
- Improved general's powers aquisition
- Revamped Teams for playing with less cheat money
- Added smarter money management which improves rebuilding times and ensures it plays well with the money it has
- Auroras will once again blow your tech center up pretty much everytime
- General will stick men into humvees in order to make them more effective
- Fixed attack route bug causing unnecessary loss of raptors
- Reduced base defense build speed to compensate for lack of late game cheats
- Increased agressiveness two fold for some teams
- Improved Tech building capture handling (can get 2 at same time)
- Changed ObjectLists for more accurate target picking
- More comanche defenses
- Now selects Pathfinders as a General's Point and uses them

Beta 0.65
Improved China Nuclear General and fixed some bugs.

Revamped buildlist
Changed teams
Added aggressiveness
Streamlined base-building
Added missing upgrades, like mines
Changed attack groups

Beta 0.61
Although not a major update, features an improved aircraft AI and some bug fixes. Work on Stealth General is in progress.

USA Generals:
- Tweaked attack groups (note: Laser general not yet modified)
- Streamlined USA Generals base building order
Super Weapons General:
- Fixed bug where General would run out of money very quickly
- Reduced number of infantry made (it made too many)
Airforce General:
- Reduced cheating for this General (it doesn't need it as much as the other Generals do)
- Will build less stealth fighters and more Auroras
- Added TOW Missiles
Aircraft AI:
- Improved Aircraft AI greatly, especially for Aurora bombers
- Added priorities for the planes
- Planes have a nice priority choosing logic so they won't be hitting infantry when there's a juicy tank nearby

Beta 0.6
Fixed several major bugs and improved the Airforce General some more.

All Generals:
- Fixed bug where AI wouldn't build base up if it has more than 10k starting money
- Improved base designs
- Will build more concentricly around all defenses (back a little exposed but much more effective)
- Builds less construction units that are idle by late game
- Will rebuild more important structures more often
- Tweaked AI units' attacking AI (more aggressive but smarter in their aggression)
Airforce General:
- Fixed Airforce General bug where it built too many dozers
- Added forebase logic (will fill multiple firebases)
- Improved base building and expansion to supplies
- Other improvements including upgrade purchases and attack group tweaks
Demolition General:
- Now doesn't have 16 bikes sitting around in his base
- Added random attack wave timer for Demo General (no more timed 40 seconds between attacks)
Other
- Added smarter plane and demo bike priority for targets
- Improved Aurora behavior to make it more aggressive and smarter for both the USA generals (they will go for defenses/strategy center more)
- Added random Tech Center Timer to slow down building a bit and make it more random

Beta 0.5
A little bit of bit of work on the Airforce General was done (not yet a proper update just a little faster to build up). Concentrated mainly on improving the other Generals.

All Generals:
- Less cheat money in late game (less than the original AIs already)
- Improved base repairing
- Made AI units more aggressive
- Improved General's Point picking (minor changes)
- Improved logic for expanding to other supply piles
USA Generals:
- Will only have 2 chinooks (3 provides little advantage and clogs up when they all move to another pile)
China Generals:
- Removed Frenzy picking for now as the AI didn't use it (will pick Barrage instead)
Infantry General:
- Will build a lot more hackers and spread them around (a bit buggy as they sometimes send them too far)
- Improved bunkering logic
- Will build and upgrade mines, provided it had the funds
Demolition General:
- Will build Black Markets if it runs low on money
- Tweaked sneak attack group
- Will use more balanced attack groups
- Might launch a 3 way attack with artillery and tanks right after a Scud Storm, Sneak Attack and Anthrax bomb
- Fixed slow motion tunnel guards bug
- Improved tunnel guard/sneak assault groups
Airforce General:
- Builds base faster (no other improvements yet)
Superweapons General:
- Will buy the pathfinder science properly
- Fixed SWG not building units bug
- Better Firebase filling (it will start earlier and upgrade to Pathfinder once obtained)

Beta 0.4
Demo General completed. Minor updates to other generals completed as well.

Demo General Improvments:
- Same updates as other generals - builds faster, has better attack groups, etc.
- Will use sneak attack properly now (still a bit buggy)
Infantry General Improvments:
- Will now research patriotism properly
- Will now defend supply centers a bit better
- May attempt to create firestorms when using infernos
Other
- Added Super Weapon General pathfider usage
- Smart Resource Management System (Builds more factories if excess money, more stashes if money is low)
- Combined Weapons Assault Combos (Will try to combine General's powers, superweapons and attacks in a coordinated way)

Beta 0.3
Greatly improved the Infantry General, and made some changes to the Super Weapons General.

Infantry General Improvements:
- Will expand faster
- Will build more units
- Will attack more often
- Will hold nuke until it goes for attacking
- Quick resource expansion
- Builds more hackers
- Better upgrade logic
- Better defenses
- Will garrison a lot more buildings
- Better urban combat
- More vehicles will be built
- Uses artillery and ECM tanks
Improvements made to Super Weapons General:
- Still better Alpha code
- It will fill in those firebases!!
- Uses pathfinders if enemy is massing infantry

Beta 0.2
Vast improvements made on the Super Weapons Generals. Will be moving onto other Generals now.

More Improvements on the Super Weapons General:
- It will expand to other supply zones faster
- It will build mini bases near the supply piles
- Fixed suicide Alphas bug
- Added more attack groups
- Made it use the extra money it makes from expansion/mini bases
- Better defense response
- It *might* fill firebases (ive been working hard at that)
- Improved tech capture logic
- Increased the size of attack groups
- It will try to rebuild command center if destroyed
- Better active base defenses

Beta 0.1
First release. Has an upgraded Hard Super Weapons General.
It should be 2-4 times harder to beat than the normal one.

Improvements on Super Weapons General:
- Builds base up much faster
- More efficient resource management
- Builds bigger assault groups
- Uses a LOT more Aurora Alphas and uses them more effectively (not 100% yet)
- Builds less defenses where not needed (eg half the patriots by supply piles)
- Builds more defenses by base entrances
- Uses better tactics (Search & Destroy to make tomahawks, EMP patriots more effective)
- More agressive
- Rebuilds base faster
- Expands to resource areas more often
- Better late-game resource acquiring and survival