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Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?
Posted By: scarab	Date: 11/3/11 2:35 a.m.
In Response To: Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark? (Beckx) : Recall that AI in AoK consists of pathfinding and attacking. It's extremely : bare bones. It has to form and control squads and manage an economy and it does try different strategies when the old ones don't work. What I'm saying is that Bungie added squads and squad management to Halo. That may have been fairly new for an FPS but its bread and butter for a RTS. : General opinion on a game's AI will live or die based on two things: does it : do anything objectively braindead, and can it be easily exploited. Halo : falls down because friendly AI does the former. Games like Crysis and even : Gears fail on the latter. : As SoMP says, ME2 is surprisingly competent at both. The squad system works : and enemies don't get stuck or do predicably stupid things. However, : neither is asked to do anything particularly taxing; the ME level design : is a straightforward corridor shooter, even when it's visually outdoors. : Vastly different from the open nature of Halo, one of the few remaining : games (Mario, Dark Souls) where, for example, a cliff is actually a cliff, : a gaping maw into the abyss that can swallow friend and enemy alike. Yes I've never felt ashamed to be in the same company as my ME2 team mates. :-) : The more open your game, the more challenge you have designing AI. I think that Bungie exacerbate the problem by expecting the NPCs to live up to human roles. They ask them to play characters, be awesome Spartans, etc. They can't carry that weight. Maybe only Valve have managed that task.

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Halo AI: has it progressed? Where could it go?	scarab	11/1/11 7:16 a.m.
Re: Halo AI: has it progressed? Where could it go?	scarab	11/1/11 7:36 a.m.
Re: Halo AI: has it progressed? Where could it go?	davidfuchs	11/1/11 8:55 a.m.
Re: Halo AI: has it progressed? Where could it go?	scarab	11/1/11 10:07 a.m.
I thought of something	scarab	11/1/11 10:52 a.m.
That's actually pretty good!	ZackDark	11/1/11 8:14 p.m.
Re: I thought of something	Quirel	11/1/11 11:46 p.m.
Re: I thought of something	scarab	11/2/11 4:04 a.m.
Re: Halo AI: has it progressed? Where could it go?	General Vagueness	11/1/11 5:47 p.m.
Re: Halo AI: has it progressed? Where could it go?	Rockslider	11/3/11 5:20 p.m.
AI: What games currently set the benchmark? *NM*	Beckx	11/1/11 11:33 a.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	scarab	11/1/11 5:57 p.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	SonofMacPhisto	11/1/11 7:41 p.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	scarab	11/2/11 4:23 a.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	SonofMacPhisto	11/2/11 2:01 p.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	scarab	11/3/11 2:40 a.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	Beckx	11/2/11 2:24 p.m.
Re: AI: What games currently set the benchmark?	scarab	11/3/11 2:35 a.m.