SWtoR "groundbreaking AI" - stolen from LotRO's boars!

[Adalas]

Games programming must be really down the drain to call this "AI".

[Jesterofthedead]

Haha, nice. We can actually make any mob behave this way that we want, not just boars. There's a "delay aggro" script that we attach to monsters we want to threaten before they attack. That script controls the length of the delay as well as any animations/sound the monster performs during this 'threaten' action.

That is a pretty fancy illustration though.

Raskolnikov? Huzzah! *side eye* Thanks for wrecking my day. I've already been berating myself for years about how I always pick up Crime and Punishment or even Brothers Karamazov to re-read (I first read them when I was oh, 12-ish so I daresay a lot was beyond me) from my book shelves, read intently, put down and am somehow unable to resume. Such as it is, I was ruminating about Dostoyevsky yesterday and worrying that I might be a hipster.

What I'm trying to say is, nice forum name.

[Raskolnikov]

What I'm trying to say is, nice forum name.

Thank ya. My forum name on the Isengard forums used to be Randall McMurphy, but people got confused because they didn't know Raskolnikov was the same person.

[auximenes]

My forum name on the Isengard forums used to be Randall McMurphy

/reported...

[KainXI]

Thank ya. My forum name on the Isengard forums used to be Randall McMurphy, but people got confused because they didn't know Raskolnikov was the same person.

Sorry, disclosing your participation in Isengard is strictly prohibited. Turn in your ID badge and report to the front door.

[Raskolnikov]

Sorry, disclosing your participation in Isengard is strictly prohibited. Turn in your ID badge and report to the front door.

Fantastic! More time for games!

[BerensBane]

Fantastic! More time for games!

How bout fun and games. Why game if its not fun?

[Jesterofthedead]

Thank ya. My forum name on the Isengard forums used to be Randall McMurphy, but people got confused because they didn't know Raskolnikov was the same person.

Cuckoo's Nest?!!???!!! Wait a minute...what? You know what's interesting...lot of folks don't know that the book's POV is Chief's. Love that stuff...anyway...hrm. You are a person of taste, methinks. Also-data suggests that you, too, are perilously close to hipsterdom. Well, I'm off to go buy some goods from American Apparel...

[Malicyn416]

I came across this five-page hands-on review of SWtoR from E3.

One whole page of the five is devoted to gushing over SWtoR's AI behavior, and one of the main elements they swooned over gave me a good chuckle:



There is also a handy diagram to illustrate this cutting edge innovation in advanced MMO AI:

I thought to myself, "Gee, the stupid boars in LotRO have been doing that for a couple years..."



(It's still a good review, BTW, if you're interested in SWtoR)

Not to point out the obvious here.

TOR is based on proximity with an increased chance to agro as you get closer. LOTRO is based on a proximity with agro if you are not out of that radius in a certain timelimit. I agree they are similar but not quite the same, boars don't attack you if you run right over them as long as you are out of range in a certain time. TOR's if you get close they will be "alerted" and if you get closer they will attack, regardless of timer, from what I have read.

Im not saying your wrong, im sure they probably got the idea from LOTRO but they put a slight spin on it by combining both proximity based agro and timer based warnings. I wouldn't call it ground breaking but it is an improvement on the old systems of mob agro.

[Rainyman]

Im not saying your wrong, im sure they probably got the idea from LOTRO but they put a slight spin on it by combining both proximity based agro and timer based warnings. I wouldn't call it ground breaking but it is an improvement on the old systems of mob agro.

I wouldn't call it an improvement. Maybe a gimmick...