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Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)
Posted By: scarab	Date: 10/25/10 1:19 p.m.
In Response To: Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!) (Grunt Hammer) : More on-topic, I think the Noble NPCs should have BEEN MUCH MUCH BETTER AT : TAKING COVER!! You're "taking fire"?? Then GTFO and get behind a : rock, until your shields recharge! Definitely. It really blows away any suspension of disbelief when you always have to take cover and they can stand in the open complaining about the hits that they are taking. I feel that having story significant, therefore unkillable, allies is like duel wielding: you can try to come up with ways of mitigating the suck but the gameplay would be so much better if they were just removed altogether. I'm not sure why people wanted to play with a team of Spartans (because I could never see how the gameplay could be made to work) but I doubt that what we got was remotely like what people actually wanted (genuinely kick ass Spartan teammates). : Another problem is where the NPCs (including marines) INSIST on certain : stupid actions, like in that one mission with the missile 'hog. I want to : sit there and strafe the mine building, but Kat INSISTS on getting in and : driving. I have to shoot her and wait for her to slink off over to the : marines. Then the other marine insists on driving, and won't stop until I : *kill* him. And earlier in the mission, if you hop out for ammo or to : investigate something, everybody *instantly* gets out of the 'hog and take : their own sweet time about getting back in. Really, seriously, totally : irritating. How about using some of the unused buttons when you are gunning. [A] Toggles movement if the Hog is moving then [A] tells driver to stop, if he's stopped then [A] tells him to drive [Y] Toggles position Triggers an animation* that switches positions with the gunner or driver (depending on if you are gunning or driving) And the LAAG's handles could have a joystick on them that lets the gunner remotely direct the HOG without a driver or, if that's too good for people to accept, then it could display instructions on the instrument panel to let the driver know which direction to move in. I am thinking more in terms of fine positioning for gunning as opposed to driving the hog from the gunner's position. If there is a tree in the way then you could get the driver to move ten feet to the left, that kind of thing. *The animation would take two forms If someone in the passenger seat then he/she grabs the wheel and the gunner does a direct swap withe the driver on the move. If there is no passenger then the gunner takes that position and then grabs the wheel and scoots across as the driver moves back into the gunnery position.

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NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	General Battuta	10/24/10 12:41 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Cody Miller	10/24/10 12:44 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	General Battuta	10/24/10 12:46 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Leviathan	10/24/10 1:48 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Jillybean	10/24/10 4:05 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Cody Miller	10/24/10 4:13 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	General Battuta	10/24/10 4:13 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Cody Miller	10/24/10 4:19 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Grunt Hammer	10/24/10 3:32 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	scarab	10/25/10 1:19 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	scarab	10/25/10 1:29 p.m.
...Why isn't this at HRINC?	DHalo	10/24/10 1:07 p.m.
Re: ...Why isn't this at HRINC?	General Battuta	10/24/10 1:39 p.m.
Re: ...Why isn't this at HRINC?	GrimBrother One	10/24/10 2:17 p.m.
Ah never mind.	DHalo	10/24/10 1:10 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 1:36 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	General Battuta	10/24/10 1:40 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Leviathan	10/24/10 2:13 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 2:26 p.m.
Addendum	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 2:28 p.m.
Re: Addendum	Leviathan	10/24/10 2:44 p.m.
Re: Addendum	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 3:18 p.m.
Game Exchange Program	Leviathan	10/24/10 3:33 p.m.
Re: Game Exchange Program	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 4:49 p.m.
I support this.	IccaRa	10/24/10 4:13 p.m.
Emile + Romeo = Bunk	Jillybean	10/24/10 4:46 p.m.
Re: Emile + Romeo = Bunk	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 4:52 p.m.
Re: Emile + Romeo = Bunk	Jillybean	10/24/10 5:31 p.m.
Re: Emile + Romeo = Bunk	Bry	10/24/10 7:31 p.m.
Re: Emile + Romeo = Bunk	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 8:23 p.m.
Re: Emile + Romeo = Bunk	The Loot	10/24/10 8:43 p.m.
Re: Emile + Romeo = Bunk	Bry	10/24/10 8:51 p.m.
Re: I support this.	Beckx	10/24/10 7:43 p.m.
Re: I support this.	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 8:24 p.m.
Re: I support this.	Beckx	10/24/10 8:41 p.m.
Re: Addendum	Leviathan	10/24/10 3:30 p.m.
Re: Addendum	SonofMacPhisto	10/24/10 4:51 p.m.
NPC Dialogue	uberfoop	10/24/10 2:40 p.m.
Re: NPC Dialogue	Moorpheusl9	10/24/10 3:23 p.m.
Re: NPC Dialogue	General Battuta	10/24/10 3:27 p.m.
Re: NPC Dialogue	Moorpheusl9	10/24/10 3:30 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	TCKaos	10/24/10 5:30 p.m.
Re: NPC Design Critique (or, Kat vs. Alyx Vance!)	Kermit	10/24/10 5:32 p.m.
Re: dialogue is repetitive	kornman00	10/24/10 5:47 p.m.
I think my big problem	General Battuta	10/24/10 5:55 p.m.