DW4XL - Wuzhang Plains, Aggressive AI CLEAR (Expert difficulty) - Huang Zhong

Описание: Aggressive AI on Expert difficulty CLEAR.
===== What is Aggressive AI? =====
A difficulty where a group of 5 privates is as scary as Lu Bu
Aggressive AI is a mod of DW4XL created by Michael ( ‪@MichaelMusou‬ )
AI becomes extremely aggressive.
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LET'S GO I DID IT! Huang Zhong and his Huang's bow lv20 is so OP

I love how this difficulty not only forces you to combat optimally, but also forces you to plan your decision optimally too. You cant "one-man-army" anymore; you're just an officer, a single soldier. One bad decision, you will find yourself having to fight multiple officers at once, which are IMPOSSIBLE to do alone.
This is like playing Dynasty Warriors 5 on Chaos difficulty; one mistake and you're dead. Also, the healing items are scarce. We need to kill an Elite Guard, which are limited and dangerous because they're always near an officer.

Special Thanks to MountainBro! ( ‪@mountainbro270‬ ) I wouldn't have come up with this Huang Zhong's build and strategy if I hadn't seen his video two days ago. I really love his funny videos. Please check his channel out!

Sorry for a lot of mistakes in this video. I had been retrying this for at least 100+ times. I was already desperate enough to get it done ;-;

(P.S. F*CK BOMBADIERS. You can see in the last part of the video where bombardiers just spam their bombs and screwed everyone. I swear good chunks of my attempts were DELETED because those bombs.)

Mods used:
Aggressive AI v2
No Subofficer Retreat
AI always uses their full musou attacks
Disable Turn Lock (e.g. you can turn around when attacking just like DW5)
Increase drawing distance
No interlacing patch
Increase max units rendered onscreen
High Level of Detail
Vertical Lines Fix
Message Box Upscaling Fix

Huang Zhong's build: Full Offensive
Ice Orb
Tiger Amulet
Wind Scroll
Power Rune
Speed Scroll
(+ Huang's Bow & Herbal Remedy from his lv11 weapon)

...Yes, NO Tortoise Amulet.

The reason that I ignore defense:
1. Offense is actually a better defense in this difficulty. (Or at least, in this stage.) I need Power Rune to defeat enemy FAST, or else our allies will die, and then Zhuge LIang will be swarmed by 7+ officers by the end game. Even with Power Rune, we will spend three times longer than usual to kill a group of soldiers.
2. If we get into crowds, we basically are dead anyway. Therefore, having Tortoise Amulet might not make a difference (I think?)

Also, we need Speed Scroll for his survival; we need to outrun everyone because we will retreat a lot.
... On a second thought, Speed Scroll can be optional; if we play optimally, we won't get into the situation where we need to run from enemies in close distance. However, in my opinion, it's extremely unlikely to play optimally all the time in this difficulty...

Huang Zhong's optimal gameplay:
1. Try to focus one enemy at a time. Finishing killing one enemy first is BETTER than chipping multiple enemies. You can see in the video that I always try to finish killing one soldier first whenever possible. It makes things MUCH easier for you and your allies. Most of the time, our role is to support our allies by chipping away enemy's health.
2. Huang Zhong's most powerful attack is his C3. Use it whenever possible! You want to maximize your damage output at any opportunity to maximize your firepower.
3. When your allies block your C3: In that situation, use his C6! Huang Zhong's C6 is another powerful long range attack. While it's far less powerful from his C3, his C3 counts as a bow attack, which won't reach an enemy if our allies stand in the way. Also, C6 has freezing chance (around 20-30%, I think(?)) which deal HUGE damage once triggered. This is especially useful for fighting a generic officer, since they cannot block C6.

Ideally, we want to always fight alongside our allies. However, if you have to get into the situation where you have to fight alone, then
1. ALWAYS fight from distance whenever possible. No matter how optimal you play, you're at the mercy of how the enemy troops move. You will always be at the risk when enemy take unexpected trajectory (e.g. appear from behind when you're in the middle of charge attack). Using his C3 and slowly chipped away the enemy's health.
However, If fighting from distance is not possible:
1. When facing small crowds (3-5 soldiers): Try to arrange the enemies on your front-right side, and then use C4. (You can see an example at 2:00 or 2:05 )
2. When faced large crowds: If they are in far distance, you can use his POWERFUL C3 to kill them. However, if you could not create a distance then.... GG. I had been in that situation at Zhuge Liang's altar in many attempts, and all of them are either 1) I ran out of healing, or 2) the fight prolongs enough for me to make a mistake and got swarmed to death. Hopefully, someone could come up with a strategy to counter this T_T

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