I 100% agree that all 3 levels of the AI are worse in the beta branch. I reverted to the stable branch for the time being. I figure that the devs heard the complaints that blocking was too hard. Not only does the ai not block very often they pause between attacks. This is good for newer player or players that don’t want to spent time getting good at blocking. They just need to change the difficulty of the different ai settings so all types of players are appropriately challenged because right now the ai is too easy for me and I never played warband.
Again this is using a sledgehammer when a scalpel is needed. That is - if you hear complaints about AI blocking too well -finely calibrate it -dont just turn it all the way down! Personally i was really happy to have such formidable AI -6 untrained peasants with sickles are still gonna F up a lone armored man. I like how all encounters were now dangerous if you dont use your brain. In previous titles -if you were high leveled and armored -low level troops could swarm you and barely hurt you -thats just not real life.
Things like this make me lose faith on TW. We had a pretty functional infantry AI and they have just released a broken and dumbest AI I have seen despite of many people reporting the issue. Pretty disappointed with this, thank you for ignoring us.