♠ Patch 4 — Better opponents

What is this about.Patch 3 gave you three difficulties and promised HARD would keep a scouting book on you and play near-perfect fundamentals. It did do those things to some extent, and it felt reasonably better during QA, even if always betting and folding to anything after remained profitable. So, then I coded the IAs anew and ran them through a headless harness. Thousands of hands and four blind IA playtesters also tried it... I could not make HARD measurably harder than NORMAL. What it mostly did was sand off the personalities out of the table until every seat played like the same competent stranger. So HARD comes off the menu until I can figure out a safe, fun, and reliable difficulty lever that keeps archetypes and personalities on the table.So: EASY — the classic AI you know. Unchan...