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That's how I read it - an early point in the powerpont was that AI can be too good (for example go straight for the healer) so they wanted the AI to occasionally make mistakes, or get stubborn (keep targeting the guy in front). Just like a human might.

Zergs will be even better if there are Tier 4+ underground raids - with luck you'll be able to walk over the corpses in the lava.

Orwell was 30 years off. Good to see Soysauce and Chaos are doing their part to spread FUD on rerolled.

http://massively.joystiq.com/2013/08...lshare_twitter

http://aigamedev.com/insider/coverag...ides-takeaway/ Dave Mark slide on the right side (have to sign up to see - not worth it IMHO). Heavy, heavy into weighted randomness. Basically, the trick of Mark's AI in these slides is that it will not always do the same thing. It will often do the...

Did you mean gald you're not the only one checking out the gonewild subreddit or something else? I assumed every healthy straight male checks that. /derail I don't know how anyone makes money with porn these days with shit like that.

Watch that chart show up on Reddit in 2 hours. ;-)

They said that, but they also said raid sizes would be "smaller" only way (edit: I can think of) for the second to happen is through instancing.

From Dave Marks:

I thought you knew. There are some very limited instances in EQN - exactly where? They won't say, I am just guessing it is used for raid dungeons. The vast majority of content is persistent in-world (or non-persistent in-world if we're talking about the magic regenerating content) so isn't an...

Sure in the EQMac thread, IIRC. The action combat in EQN could be seen a long way off - so I don't understand the surprise some people had.

Two words. Instanced raids. Except for a few overworld competitive (single) raid mobs. They have said instancing is in game but have been coy about where it is.

Seems plausible I can see the tier 5 mace having the lightning proc like the stiv or wtf weapon is in lol. Hadn't really thought about mob abilities or hp. Who knows, I await the combat doc with unease.

The best(?) source is probably Dave Mark's page o' html crazy:http://www.intrinsicalgorithm.com/He's the Combat AI consultant for StoryBricks.

I don't know. I like the trinity because it enforces roles. The only combat I could see as better is if the combat AI was tweaked not to be naturalistic (wtf that means eqn as tf?) but instead tweaked to act like an actual non-dick dm to use kruegen's expression.

They are not talking about it yet.

Well we would challenge them too much since we know the game is currently smoke and mirrors. Easier to chat with redditors.

I don't mind the model, I don't like the armor. <thundercats>

I generally just check out the gone wild subreddit. Reddit is meh. I only read the eqnext subreddit because of the combat posts. Much better discussion here generally.

Does seem optimal for EQN.

1. Seems likely 2. Pulling is going to be interesting without standard agro mechanics... But yes they have to have monks.

Nah, either the Combat AI sucks and it's GW2 or the Combat AI is a mini-DM and it's fun and you need all roles to be successful (against the higher tier mobs).

I think we can be pretty sure that if the AI sucks (combat/npc) the game sucks, if the AI's great, the game will be fun. That said, I still don't know if I can play an action RPG for more than 6 months w/o carpal tunnel system even if it is fun ;-)

Sure but it's fun to theorycraft.

I'm am pretty sure kiting is not going to be an option, so you're going to need someone who can take hits.

I'll rate as plausible but unlikely. They seemed pretty set on world destructibility outside of towns and special areas; I'll buy them limiting destruction in raid/dungeon areas.

Basically you'll need (as a tank) to either Leash: With CC abilities: Stun, Hamstring, Mez or Wall abilities: IceWall Increase Threat (Hmerly example of Backstab - but backstab will be a weapon skill - so another high damage attack) Rescue: With Movement abilities: Shadow Step or...

Everyone should read the beginning of the reddit thread that he commented on so we're all on the same page: http://www.reddit.com/r/EQNext/comme...combat_in_eqn/ @Cinge with what their promising, execution is another matter. @Grumpus lol.

Vanguard wasn't SOE's fault (directly, though, yes, indirectly Smed could have given mo' money to Brad). DCUO was fine at release. PS2 was no VG by all accounts (anyone confirm? I didn't play it)>

McPherson has now chimed in on the reddit thread...

I just think closed is going to be hilarious. Like the VG beta, so much stuff is not going to work right, hopefully, unlike the VG beta, they fix it before it goes live...

Yeah, I think I'm gonna pass on going next year...

You say that like it's no biggee. The whole fucking issue is about centralization of information - AT&T has my metadata and I don't give a fuck because they're not going to do anything with it - the problem arises when the Government gets its hands on it and decides that I'm someone they want...

I think we'll have to wait for the beta. The combat doc that's coming will probably just repeat much of what's just been said. But I think after GW2 you're right to be skeptical.

You can't mid-combat.

This is where we disagree. Facing tough mobs/raid situation/whatever you'll need Warrior/Paladin/SK/ToughSOB. Ranger won't be able to go toe-to-toe in the dungeon. At the end of the day you're going to have multiple role loadouts based on whatever classes you've collected, if the Combat AI...

Both Ukerric and I have tried to tell people this but no one is listening: SOE is making tanks, healers/support, dps and CC classes so people can fufill roles and they'll need to fill roles to be successful if the Combat AI is what they claim. OTOH, the Combat AI could suck and we could turn...

They said you can't switch a class or change abilities in combat but that it would be "a snap/very easy" out of combat.

Already been done.