has the AI been upgraded?

[alexti]

deccan said:
In Dom2's case, it's not just a question of "poor AI", but a question of the AI not being very fun to play against. The inability of the AI to really use any strategy other than throwing masses of low quality troops at you makes playing against it very boring.

It looks like a very good point. Even in GalCiv which probably has better AI than other games, AI needs large bonuses to compete with good player. However, GalCiv's AI plays much more like a human player, it plays differently for different races and its strategy is much less obvious, which makes it more interesting to play against. Dom2 is much more complex game, and, surprisingly, AI isn't too bad, with relatively mild bonuses it is doing decent job, but it follows a very simple plan which makes the best use of its bonuses. Unfortunately, it makes all games vs AI look alike.