| > Why is it that we aren't seeing the bot approach to AI implanted into single player games? Why aren't we facing opponents who have their own missions/agendas in single player games, who are bound to the same controls/restrictions/exploits as yourself? It is hard to put difficulty curves on those kind of AI, and they often are implemented to use full scale path searching to find objectives, so in games with larger maps they would either need to blind to things in the distance or consume excessive processing power. I remember the Skarr in the original Unreal would be hunting the Nali until you came around and they would attack you. Their behaviors were amazing at the time (and honestly, they still are better than 99% of game AI) in that they would dodge, feign death, hide in cover, and act as packs when in groups to fight you. They were also distinctly harder at the time than almost any other AI opponent. So much so that I remember a tremendous amount of complaining that their AI was too good. > I want AI that wants to do something, like another player would, that isn't concerned with me in particular, that has it's own goals/rewards instead of just fighting me or spouting dialogue at me. The problem with this is that not enough people would pay for the complex AI. Game are about profit motive, and sadly making sophisticated artificial worlds of intelligent bots doesn't bring home the bacon. It is absolutely possible, especially in an MMO kind of setting, since you can just throw more CPU cores to do all the complex logic for whatever fancy AI your NPCs are using, but nobody seems interested. |