# How often are YOU running into the "super lucky" opponents?

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**Category:** Gameplay Chat (PlayStation 4/Xbox One)\
**Created:** [February 14, 2017, 8:10pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-often-are-you-running-into-the-super-lucky-opponents/20082 "2017-02-14T20:10:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [February 17, 2017, 11:22pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/how-often-are-you-running-into-the-super-lucky-opponents/20082/51 "2017-02-17T23:22:50Z")

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> [@CONSOLE: 2.1.5 Patch Notes](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/console-2-1-5-patch-notes/16683/1):
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> AI and Defense Team Improvements
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> Defending teams can now be customized to better suit your preferred play style  
> All players can pick preferences for their Defense Team’s gem matches  
> Test your defense teams from the defense tab in the PvP menu  
> AI will pick more appropriate board matches according to 4 or 5 or a kind, mana which your team still requires, or to deny any opponents from gaining mana  
> AI Troop Spells should cast at more appropriate times

Here is the update from the 2.1.5 console patch notes. This update had a dramatic impact on the play of the AI, but as I’ve said elsewhere, by simultaneously introducing an AI upgrade AND customization, it makes it really hard to know whether what you’re seeing is the improvement in the base AI, or something to do with how the opposing player has tweaked their settings. Overall, these improvements tend to magnify the ‘good luck’ that the AI gets, since it is better able to take advantage of it than it used to be.

I think it is fairly well-acknowledged now (at least among the players) that there IS a difference between console AI (which is easily explained by the change log) _and the process that refreshes gems_ (which they have claimed should be the same on both systems, but which players who play both platforms generally seem to think is more streaky on the console version). This second difference is the one that causes more player rage among console players, at least in my house.

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