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by kqr
1464 days ago
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It wasn't just about the play tester reaction. Other benefits of broadcasting: - Sometimes AI characters can't act on their knowledge in a way that is obvious to the player, so they might seem more dumb than they are. The fact that they can vocalise their knowledge even if they can't act on it makes it clear that they are more intelligent than they appear. - By vocalising their knowledge about the situation, fortuitous incidents will more easily appear like consequences of AI direction, even though they were not actually related. (Narrative bias in the human.) - Since the AI actually works with a shared mind, it can seem unnatural that each AI character knows what all the others are doing without any voice communication. |
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Isn't that an argument for simulation of the type citybound is doing, rather against it? Even the dumbest most "gamified" AIs can have that fault. E.g. think about the enemy AI in Far Cry.