If you look around the 2.1 beta forum, you might find a comment or two about this. 
TL;DR: It's better than 2.0.
TL;DR: It's better than 2.0.
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You can find out for yourself later rather than relying on second hand opinions.
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This is my impression that I just wrote in another Thread :
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=253725&page=2&p=3946370#post3946370
This is my impression that I just wrote in another Thread :
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=253725&page=2&p=3946370#post3946370
Its much harder, but could be harder still.
The ship performances have been improved, but since the last 2 Beta builds the AI is essentially back to being clueless morons that do nothing but circle around the spot and spam weapons.
It's their new ship performance that makes the entirety of the challenge now, and make groups of NPC dangerous. But individually they're just as dumb as they were in 2.0 for the most part. There's even a thread in the 2.1 beta discussions about someone re-telling their planetary ship fight and they landed and took to their SRV and the NPC then proceeded to throw themselves at the ground upside down then fail to repeatedly figure out how to get away from the surface.
Real shame though, as at one point the AI was really making decent decisions and was showing versatile reactions to situations like changing what they do when:
* Their shields go down.
* Your shields go down.
* Both of you have shields down.
* Being attacked by multiple aggressors.
Higher ranked ships in faster or more agile ships would make efforts to get behind you and then stay behind you and when in danger boost away, larger ships would try to distance themselves if you were out turning them and they couldn't get you in weapons line of fire... but unless Frontier did a stealth patch to bring it back for the live build, all of that is gone now.
Now the AI is back to just flying in a set circle in ignorance of anything else, and even the death spiral has made a return where ships stop and spin around, and though some "Defenders of Frontier and patters of backs and distributing hugs" have tried to excuse all that as thrusters being at 0%, there's enough examples out there of NPC doing it even at 100% thrusters including during official Frontier streams after the AI nerf where they even made a sarcastic comment about "That's the improved AI we told you about", that such excuses for the existing AI are exactly that... excuses but with no actual basis, even Frontier have for all intents and purposes acknowledged the problem but not gave any commitment on when (or if) they'll address the over-nerf they rolled out.
But for now and until whenever Frontier decide to re-tackle AI and implement anything new live... The death spiral is back, AI that do nothing but fly in a circle are back and AI ship ramming because you got in the way of their set circular path are back. They just hit you harder and take more of a beating at higher ranks now.
It's their new ship performance that makes the entirety of the challenge now, and make groups of NPC dangerous. But individually they're just as dumb as they were in 2.0 for the most part. There's even a thread in the 2.1 beta discussions about someone re-telling their planetary ship fight and they landed and took to their SRV and the NPC then proceeded to throw themselves at the ground upside down then fail to repeatedly figure out how to get away from the surface.
Real shame though, as at one point the AI was really making decent decisions and was showing versatile reactions to situations like changing what they do when:
* Their shields go down.
* Your shields go down.
* Both of you have shields down.
* Being attacked by multiple aggressors.
Higher ranked ships in faster or more agile ships would make efforts to get behind you and then stay behind you and when in danger boost away, larger ships would try to distance themselves if you were out turning them and they couldn't get you in weapons line of fire... but unless Frontier did a stealth patch to bring it back for the live build, all of that is gone now.
Now the AI is back to just flying in a set circle in ignorance of anything else, and even the death spiral has made a return where ships stop and spin around, and though some "Defenders of Frontier and patters of backs and distributing hugs" have tried to excuse all that as thrusters being at 0%, there's enough examples out there of NPC doing it even at 100% thrusters including during official Frontier streams after the AI nerf where they even made a sarcastic comment about "That's the improved AI we told you about", that such excuses for the existing AI are exactly that... excuses but with no actual basis, even Frontier have for all intents and purposes acknowledged the problem but not gave any commitment on when (or if) they'll address the over-nerf they rolled out.
But for now and until whenever Frontier decide to re-tackle AI and implement anything new live... The death spiral is back, AI that do nothing but fly in a circle are back and AI ship ramming because you got in the way of their set circular path are back. They just hit you harder and take more of a beating at higher ranks now.
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AI discussion is now going on here: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=254585&p=3954011#post3954011
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