07-20-2011, 04:44 AM
Ok. First of all I don't think the M60 correlation was the best one you could make, in fact it makes little sense. First of all, the better guns in AC are usually the easier ones to use. Second of all, that's not how guns operate. M60 isn't straight up harder than other guns, it's just different. What you just said is the equivalent of saying "john doe played in college basketball for 4 years and is now ready for the national football league." It just doesn't work like that. You don't make your way up to the M60 if you're going to be using it, you start off with the M60 instead.
Second, playing against the supposed 'hardest' ai in the game will never get you prepared for any actual pvp tournament, regardless of how hard you think they are. All ai are static in their movements and playstyle, and humans are the exact opposite. It's like trying to say playing against, say, Super Zinaida, will make your lockbox control for the tournament next week near perfect, which it won't. In fact by the very same logic you'd think that anybody who's mastered their play against all of the game's most aggressive and mobile AI would have the best lockbox control at a tournament, when in reality it's the opposite-- they usually have the worst lockbox control because they're so used to that static behavior that they've fought against for all that time. The same can be said for purposefully limiting yourself and playing worse players, you still end up developing bad habits, and usually won't see it until you fight people as good as you USED to be.
The reality of it is, is that if you're taking say a 3 month break between tournaments and don't have the ability to train with anybody as good as yourself, you'd most likely be better off with a couple 5 minute sessions here and there vs AI or not playing at all, but NEVER better off by spending hours on end in extremely long training sessions trying to beat the game's 'strongest' AI as easily as you can. It has never ONCE worked that way.
Second, playing against the supposed 'hardest' ai in the game will never get you prepared for any actual pvp tournament, regardless of how hard you think they are. All ai are static in their movements and playstyle, and humans are the exact opposite. It's like trying to say playing against, say, Super Zinaida, will make your lockbox control for the tournament next week near perfect, which it won't. In fact by the very same logic you'd think that anybody who's mastered their play against all of the game's most aggressive and mobile AI would have the best lockbox control at a tournament, when in reality it's the opposite-- they usually have the worst lockbox control because they're so used to that static behavior that they've fought against for all that time. The same can be said for purposefully limiting yourself and playing worse players, you still end up developing bad habits, and usually won't see it until you fight people as good as you USED to be.
The reality of it is, is that if you're taking say a 3 month break between tournaments and don't have the ability to train with anybody as good as yourself, you'd most likely be better off with a couple 5 minute sessions here and there vs AI or not playing at all, but NEVER better off by spending hours on end in extremely long training sessions trying to beat the game's 'strongest' AI as easily as you can. It has never ONCE worked that way.
