They can do this no problem. They learnt how to do it when making mercs. They made the mercs better then real players and eventually had to make then stupider because of the obvious problems that introduces.
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I can defeat any mob with X friends helping me. Until you limit X, you better hope the mob is worth defeating and will ONLY be defeated at a well-hypothesized time in your game's time table.
And if you limit X, you just designed an instance. Congrats, it's 2005 again.
And if you limit X, you just designed an instance. Congrats, it's 2005 again.
Lleauaric
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What if you bring x friends to crushbone and the AI creates a larger radius of detection for each player added, while a smaller group group could move with fewer adds.
As you fight your way to the king through wave after wave of attacking orcs who are alerted to your presence from the large group, the king reacts to the invasion of his town by triggering any number of defenses, triggering ambushes, fortifying his keep and increasing his personal bodyguard, and donning his battle armor
Meanwhile at another time, a small tight knit group works its way through the town, killing and moving with stealth. It gets to the king, waits for the right moment and then attacks, king utterly unprepared and without his retinue.
Obviously that works with a large boss mob in a town or city setting... Think Dain or Kael Drakkel raid.
Raids of boss mobs but more loner type might simply refuse the fight vs a large group. A dragon might fly away for example if the odds are too far out of whack. Large raid groups create noise and the larger the group, the farther away every mob in area can sense them from and react to the raid before the raid reacts to them.
I don't see any kind of good AI placing mobs in a room and leaving them there to,wait until someone comes along and kills them. They should be reacting to the environment as it changes.
As you fight your way to the king through wave after wave of attacking orcs who are alerted to your presence from the large group, the king reacts to the invasion of his town by triggering any number of defenses, triggering ambushes, fortifying his keep and increasing his personal bodyguard, and donning his battle armor
Meanwhile at another time, a small tight knit group works its way through the town, killing and moving with stealth. It gets to the king, waits for the right moment and then attacks, king utterly unprepared and without his retinue.
Obviously that works with a large boss mob in a town or city setting... Think Dain or Kael Drakkel raid.
Raids of boss mobs but more loner type might simply refuse the fight vs a large group. A dragon might fly away for example if the odds are too far out of whack. Large raid groups create noise and the larger the group, the farther away every mob in area can sense them from and react to the raid before the raid reacts to them.
I don't see any kind of good AI placing mobs in a room and leaving them there to,wait until someone comes along and kills them. They should be reacting to the environment as it changes.
Mughal
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Terry Michaels looks like he's got some ski-slopes under that button-down of his.
Quaid
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Sorry man... Just 3 replies in a row from 3 unique posters were picking at minor physical aesthetic and wardrobe preferences of a dude just doing his job... That he probably fucking hates.Just a shirt comment, calm down.
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I know you aren't saying this exactly, Couloir, but everyone bagging on SOE folks for not saying much: Given the level of nerd-rage over the things they have said, can you imagine what the blowback would be if they said something would be X and then they had to walk that back to Y? Shields would be splintered and forums would be broken in response. They were probably forced (although not completely unwillingly) out to start the PR campaign and got deluged with interest in a way that they probably didn't expect at this point. Now they have 100k neckbeards reading transcripts and swearing blood oaths if halflings' feet aren't hairy enough. Saying anything beyond bland generalities does these guys no good at this stage.
I can admit that I shouldn't dedicate a post criticizing the way a guy's shirt is worn. Next time I'll couple it with EQN criticism.Sorry man... Just 3 replies in a row from 3 unique posters were picking at minor physical aesthetic and wardrobe preferences of a dude just doing his job... That he probably fucking hates.
Needed to put a lid on it
I've yet to read anything from SOE that isn't a "hope to do" or "could potentially be" answer. These guys are digging a Grand Canyon sized hole for themselves and they're going to have a hell of a time climbing out of it.
As I've said a few time, their PR is absolutelyterrible.
As I've said a few time, their PR is absolutelyterrible.
Randin
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To move the video discussion onto the video's actual topic, I do hope that, if they make it into the game, ratongas will be a little moreratonga and a little less squirreltonga. They brought up skaven in the video, and I'd totally make a ratonga assassin as an alt if I could make him look like Deathmaster Snikch.
Quaid
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Randin
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